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Publisher: Chapeltown Books
ISBN: 978-1-910542-23-1 (paperbook) 978-1-910542-24-8 (Kindle)
Where is home? Renate Edler loves to visit her grandmother in the house on Schellberg Street. She often meets up with her friend Hani Gödde who lives nearby. This year, though, it is not to be.
Just a few weeks after a night when synagogues are burned and businesses owned by Jews are looted, Renate finds out a terrible secret about her family. At a time when the world is at war and the horrors of the Holocaust are slowly becoming apparent, Renate has to leave behind her home and her friends, and become somebody she never thought she could be.
The house on Schellberg Street needs to stay strong. Will it and those who work in it be strong enough? Will Renate ever feel at home again? And what of those left behind?
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Publisher: Chapeltown Books
ISBN: 978-1-910542-33-0 (paperbook) 978-1-910542-34-7 (Kindle)
Clara will not be daunted. Her life will not end when her beloved husband dies too young. She will become a second mother to the young children who live away from home in order to visit a rather special school. When life becomes desperate for a particular class of disabled children growing up in Nazi Germany she takes a few risks. Is her ultimate faith in the goodness of human beings a fatal flaw that leads to her tragedy, or is her story actually one of hope?
Clara’s Story is the second book in the Schellberg Cycle, a collection of novels inspired by a collection of photocopied old letters that arrived at a small cottage in Wales in 1979. Renate James, née Edler, Clara’s granddaughter, began to recognise the names of the girls she had been at school with.
The letters give us first-hand insights into what life was like growing up in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s. Renate used to tell the story of a school for disabled children that defied the Nazi regime.
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Publisher: Chapeltown Books
ISBN: 978-1-910542-10-1 (paperbook) 978-1-910542-11-8 (Kindle)
These stories were written one a day throughout January 2013. They were originally published on a blog called Gill’s January Stones. In fact, they were published in reverse order. The first one you read here, When Physics Got Sick, was the last one to be written and originally published on 31 January 2016.
Sometimes the stories would come right at the beginning of the day. Sometimes they would take a while longer.
Do they have a theme? Not really, though the idea of ‘stones’ is one of turning them over slowly on the beach until we find the right one. It’s not a bad time of year, anyway, right at the beginning in January, as the New Year starts and the days slowly become longer.
There was no strict word count. Each story is as long as it needs to be. It had to be finished, though, by midnight of that day.
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Publisher: Chapeltown Books
ISBN: 978-1-910542-35-4 (paperbook) 978-1-910542-36-1 (Kindle)
There are 140 stories, each 140 words long. Each story was inspired by the first picture I saw when I opened my Twitter feed on that day. The dates are preserved and give an indication of how long it has taken to produce this and turn it into a book.
These stories are created to be varied, thought-provoking, laughter-producing and tear-jerking.
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