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Hypatia Publications is a Cornwall based small press of academic, social history and reference books with many duplicate rare books from The Hypatia Trust collection.
From 2019 to 2022 Linda Cleary curated a Literary Fiction department for Hypatia Publications of which there have been four releases; the fourth and final publication of the curation, Whistling Jack, was released in May 2022.
Scroll down to discover the titles. You can purchase them online here, with free delivery in the UK, or download e-books or audiobooks on available titles. You can also purchase hard copies at our ‘Women in Word’ bookshop at 54 Chapel St, Penzance.
Whistling Jack
Whistling Jack
by Josephine Gardiner
£13.99 (includes UK p&p)
ISBN: 978-1-872229-80-5
Print length: 410 pages (paperback)
Published by Hypatia Publications
Free postage within the UK
Whistling Jack - a debut novel by Cornwall based writer Josephine Gardiner
'A beguiling mystery, and a haunting, beautifully written exploration of friendship, regret and a past that simply won't let go.' NICOLA UPSON
Cornwall, summer 1976: eleven-year-old Sally Martins and her new friends - Tracy Pender, Victor Jordan and Kerenza Nankervis - are in retreat from the adult world, spending days and nights at an abandoned house on the subtropical landslip known as the Fall. When they discover the body of a young girl, for various reasons, they do not report it.
Six years later as questions about the dead girl resurface in the local community and the teenagers, as they now are, face an inevitable reckoning, Sally starts reading the journal of James Prideaux, an impoverished curate, who two hundred years earlier witnessed the landslip at the Fall and whose lover’s daughter, Eliza Tabb, went missing the same day.
The crises, though apart by two centuries, echo each other and examine how a moral error in childhood can dictate choices over a lifetime, raising tensions between faith, self-deception, memory and myth. Both stories show that inaction – being the ‘innocent bystander’ – has consequences.
“The point is to be where we aren’t meant to be, and see things no one else sees. And when we leave, nobody knows we were ever there.”
'When you bury your head in the sand, things come back to haunt you. Whistling Jack is a phenomenal read - highly recommended. I loved it.' JACKIE MALTON - Retired Detective Chief Inspector and the inspiration for the TV drama Prime Suspect.
eBooks & Audiobooks
Invisible Borders
Linda Cleary
Invisible Borders, New Women's Writing from Cornwall is a collection of poetry and prose from 23 new and established voices responding to the theme of: The agenda of maps, the sense of exploration, personal and emotional inner landscapes and journeys, body as map, borders, stopping points (and absence of them).
Featuring the work of: Jacky Garratt, Vivienne Tregenza, Benigale Richards, Laura Sennen, Lucia Johns, Mary Charnley, Faye Wilson, Diana Dixon, Jude Brickhill, Rupam Baoni, Vicki Morley, Mary Oliver, Lou Sarabadzic, Katrina Naomi, Penelope Shuttle, Abigail Elizabeth Ottley, Alice Kavounas, Pascale Petit, Natasha Carthew, Katherine Stansfield, Linda Cleary, Lesley Hale and Ella Frears.
For the eBook or audiobook versions of Invisible Borders, simply click on the book images to take you to Glassboxx website where you can buy and download.
Born Between Crosses
Natasha Carthew
Born Between Crosses by Natasha Carthew is an incisive intersection of working class and nature writing. The lived experiences of women cleaners, care assistants, farm workers, factory workers, housewives and housemaids rendered here in Carthew’s vivid writing reveal what it really means to ‘get by’.
For the eBook, simply click on the book image to take you to Glassboxx website where you can buy and download.
chronicles of entering my body
Rupam Baoni
chronicles of entering my body is a collection of astonishingly sublime work that lets the reader into quiet intimacies whilst revelling in a poetic expansion of natural force.
These thirty poems erupt and dance into our consciousness, sequenced within five chapters – each with one of the author's own paintings at its mouth.
The title poem, also represented as a chapter title, comes to us with its remarkable lines and questions such as: 'I’m made of fire now and you’re wind; but still, tell me the chronicles of your entering my body, tell me how your entering is silent as non-entering in all its entirety'. Such profound and philosophical inquiries continue through the collection along with explorations of the body and the natural world. One's journey through the work brings encounters with love, death, tightrope walkers, the vulnerability of flesh, dementia, dialogues with trees, the bonds between mothers and daughters, Beethoven's symphonies, prayers to the earth and more.
Rupam Baoni is a poet of eloquent power, delivering her potency into your hands.
For the eBook, simply click on the book image to take you to Glassboxx website where you can buy and download.
King Arthur's Wood
King Arthur's Wood is a children's book written and illustrated by Elizabeth Stanhope Forbes. It was first printed in 1904 with a limited print-run of 350 copies. This wonderful Arthurian fairy tale has been carefully digitised, and converted into an interactive book so that children young and old may enjoy this magical story once again.
It is exclusively available on iPad through the iBookstore and contains scanned pages to preserve the original layout and typeface. Smaller illustrations can be tapped to view full screen, and there is an extra, interactive, gallery of illustrations at the end of the book for you to explore and enjoy.