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Murder, passion, memories, joy, romance. You will find all these themes and many others in the first anthology of the Greenwich Creative Writing Group. This anthology was created by local writers and their tutors who joined together to create a 'handmade' collection of short stories, poems, flash fictions and short prose. This confident collection has something for everyone in its diverse pieces: the lyricism of 'Albert'; the strongly patterned refrains of 'Moroccan Heist'; the dark humour of 'The Box', which begins, "it was the kind of evening that would be perfect for murder"; the spirit of historic Greenwich in 'The Blacksmith's Daughter' with its links to Lady Hamilton and Admiral Nelson; the unexpected shocking ending of 'Newsagent'. Several of the pieces explore the intensity of relationships: convent life in 'Breaking of the Bread'; sibling antagonism in 'Little Cub'; a daughter whose mirror reveals so much in 'Father'; the emotional journey of new love in 'Paris Dance'.