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Andrius Lengvinas writes about how mortgages and long-term debt quietly change behaviour – the work people take, the risks they stop taking, and the lives they build around the payments.

After more than fifteen years in property, construction and business, and more than thirty mortgages by forty, he wrote the book he wishes he had read before signing the first one. Most people look at the rate and the monthly figure. Silent Debt is about the cost that never appears on the statement.

Silent Debt: How Mortgages Shape Decisions, Risk, and the Lives We Build is a #1 Best Seller in Financing Mortgages on Amazon UK. It has also reached #1 in Mortgages, Real Estate Investments, and Buying & Selling Homes on Amazon US Kindle.

This is not a guide to getting rich from property. It is part memoir, part explanation: what happens after you sign, and why so many people feel uneasy long before any document is completed.

Andrius is an independent author based in Bishop’s Stortford. Silent Debt is available in paperback, ebook and audiobook.

andriuslengvinas.com

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Invergarven Press is the imprint of Ayrshire-based literary translator, performance poet, publisher and bard Jim MacCool. Jim will be promoting his fresh rendition of Geoffrey Chaucer’s ‘Parliament of Fowls’. Jim has an extensive selection of illustrated verse. His latest collection, ‘Soundings’, will be available, and can be signed by Jim himself.

Cleland Smith is the author of Pictish historical fantasy ‘Black Doe’ and the science fiction novel ‘Sequela’. ‘Black Doe’, is a bloody tale of motherhood, identity and fate, steeped in folklore and tragedy, and set against the backdrop of the 2nd century Scottish Highlands:

“A killer who dreams another’s dreams. A mother whose secret will sire a nightmare.

The Black Doe assassins are legends, shadows who never leave a target alive, but when Bridei is sent to end the threat of a rising warlord, she is stabbed with her own knife, crucified, and left to die. If she is to fulfil her mission, retrieve her stolen memories, and earn her fee, she must live, and she must kill.

Tisiphone’s sons are raised on tales of the Black Does and tales of Rome. They carry great potential: the blood of Cruithne, which grants them the chance to become chieftain, married with that of the mighty Roman general, Agricola. Yet as the invaders encroach ever further north, Tisi finds herself keeping a deadly secret, and what was once a blessing may soon become a curse.

Each woman will do anything to protect what’s hers. Come Bealltainn, there’ll be blood on the bracken.”

“A harsh, evocative vision of Celtic lands where memory, violence, and myth shape every destiny.” – Kirkus Reviews (recommended review)

“Hauntingly beautiful, an exceptional book.” – Anna Smith Spark, author of the Empires of Dust trilogy

The Roaring Lion Newcastle is a fiercely independent publishing house amplifying subversive, sharp, and necessary voices in contemporary literature and culture. We publish work that disrupts, questions, and refuses the quiet.

Our team is small, radical, and fuelled by care and craft.

Mediterranean Publishing is the storyteller’s home. Since 2019, we’ve been the quiet force behind hundreds of authors—shaping raw manuscripts into polished works of courage, culture, and consequence. From a child’s first picture book to a scholar’s definitive thesis, we believe every story deserves the integrity of traditional craft and the reach of modern strategy.