WEATHERGLASS SUBSCRIPTION - Holiday Season OFFER
Buy a subscription to Weatherglass and receive your choice of one of our first nine books free.
Each year a Weatherglass subscription gets you 3 novels before publication date. In addition, you'll receive previews of upcoming publications, new writing, invitations to all our events, both live and virtual, a free paid subscription to our Substack, and you will have opportunities to interact with our authors and the wider team.
Supporting us directly like this is hugely helpful in our mission of finding and publishing fiction of outstanding quality - so an additional subscriber benefit is our eternal gratitude. Thank you.
See below 2024 titles
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Amma by Saraid de Silva
1951, Singapore. Ten-year-old Josephina kills her abuser.
This trauma becomes the defining moment in the lives of Josephina, her daughter Sithera, and her granddaughter Annie.
The effects cascade through generations as Annie sets out across the world to discover what happened to fracture family.
Set in Sri Lanka, Singapore, New Zealand, Australia and London, AMMA is a novel about family, displacement, secrets, and how the past lives with us forever.
Written in sensuous, vivid prose, Amma is a story of the rich history and unknown future of the Sri Lankan diaspora - and of one family desperately trying to find peace.
For lovers of: Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things, Kamila Shamsie’s Home Front, Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss
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The Pages of the Sea by Anne Hawk
The Windrush story by those left behind.
Wheeler is six, her mother has gone to England to find work, and she is left with her two sisters, three cousins and two aunts. She couldn’t feel more alone.
It feels like a new world, and one in which she has to grow up fast. But she doesn’t want to. She wants her mother to send for her as promised.
Everyone tells her just to wait. But for how long? She feels increasingly under threat and begins to realise there is no one looking out for her.
No novel comes as close to the experience of childhood as this exploration of what it’s like be left behind in a world you think you know.
At Weatherglass we believe we have found a future classic. It reminded us of To Kill a Mockingbird in its simplicity of expression, its honest about what children really know about the world, and Wheeler is every bit as charming, funny and engaging as Scout.
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Winner of our inaugural Novella Prize, chosen by Ali Smith