{"title":"Simon Wroe","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"here-comes-trouble","title":"Here Comes Trouble","description":"\u003cp\u003eA STORY FOR OUR TROUBLED TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eEllis Dau dreams of the West. But he is growing up in Kyrzbekistan, a secretive nation where revolution barely makes the news. A country where the newspapers peddle outright lies, and larger-than-life characters make promises they can't keep.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eFollowing his expulsion from school, Ellis is sent to work with his father. His father is editor of The Chronicle, the last bastion of free speech in their strange, strange land. And it is under threat.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAs Ellis navigates his collapsing, blacked-out city - and his feelings for the local oligarch's daughter - he realises that some things are worth fighting for. But can he save his family and the newspaper fuelled only by youth, grain spirit and unrequited love?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47263834636582,"sku":"9781474604956","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/28cff363-cf6f-4ada-948a-3ddc2fc5db91.jpg?v=1701086623"},{"product_id":"ghost-month","title":"Ghost Month","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Poignant, thought-provoking and very funny' JOANNA CANNON\u003cbr\u003e'Darkly comic and deeply felt' GRACE FLAHIVE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFull of wit, heart and charm,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGhost Month\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003easks a timeless question: do we only value life when we are reminded that it will end?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePerhaps you've already noticed little things, strange details. A shadow not attached to anything. A face in a window which might be a trick of the light. They come at dusk. Today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvery September, the spirits of the dead return before vanishing four weeks later in a puff of green ash.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe haunting has become a holiday - part Christmas, part Halloween, full of annual reckonings with the past. The ghosts aren't real in any way that can hurt you, so it's hard to tell the silent spectres from ashen commuters: they linger on train platforms, they crowd buses, they take up space on your sofa. The proper term these days is 'people without pulses'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis year, four strangers prepare for a visit from their dearly departed. The season forces them to confront all the things that haunt them, not just their dead. As suppressed truths emerge from the shadows, each of them will end Ghost Month changed in ways they never imagined.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHappy Haunting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cu\u003eReaders loved\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cu\u003eGhost Month\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cu\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Eerie and tender, playful and profound, it lingers like a whisper long after the final page'\u003cbr\u003e'Astounding . . . This is a book is going to stay with me for a very long time to come'\u003cbr\u003e'Brilliant! A touching story of helping one another through life and death'\u003cbr\u003e'Atmospheric and beautifully written, it's haunting in more ways than one'\u003cbr\u003e'I genuinely didn't want to put it down'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57349262279029,"sku":"978-0571394708","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/e6c570c5-5c3c-40f2-8512-02bbc23a3947.jpg?v=1783689280"}],"url":"https:\/\/goldsborobooks.surf\/collections\/simon-wroe.oembed","provider":"Goldsboro Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}