{"title":"Books by Iain S. Thomas","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781524860448","title":"The Truth of You","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis is the truth of you.\u003cbr\u003eBecause you are all I see.\u003cbr\u003eBecause you are all I breathe.\u003cbr\u003eBecause when I cannot find you, I am lost.\u003cbr\u003eBecause when I’m with you, I am found.\u003cbr\u003eBecause you have the fire of the universe in you, and sometimes you forget.\u003cbr\u003eSo this book is here to remind you.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDear You,\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eI want you to know that I see you.  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eI want you to know that even if no one else does, even if you are a ghost in this bookshop, or just the static floating across the screen of your computer, wherever you’re reading this, I see you.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eI see you in the dark and I see you in the grey. I see you as a story, as words I have spoken or may yet speak. Maybe only in a memory or a dream.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eI see your hands and your arms and your body and your legs and your face and I see what you have been and what you will be. I see you and in looking at you, I want you to know that whoever you’ve had to be to survive all this, I will not look away.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eI want you to know that there’s a space inside this book for you.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSo if you have the time and the inclination, you can sit here with me, just for a while.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAnd perhaps between us, we can see everything that matters.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e-pleasefindthis","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43204606492850,"sku":"9781524860448","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781524860448_216fdd89-5ce2-4e3c-a7f5-16af18c9f189.jpg?v=1786022060"},{"product_id":"9781449495206","title":"Every Word You Cannot Say","description":"\u003cb\u003e*May this book find the person it needs to. May they find every word they were looking for.*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e**I know you don’t want to talk sometimes. Sometimes because it hurts and sometimes because you’re just not supposed to talk about what you want to talk about. Sometimes it can be hard to say, “this is beautiful,” when no one else can see what you see. Or, “Here, this is where the pain is.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut some part of you knows, the truth about the words you cannot say is that they only hurt until you say them. They only hurt until the person who needs to hear them, hears them.  Because we are human, and the closest we’ve ever come to showing each other who we really are, and how we love, is with words.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo I’m going to try to say to you here, what I wish you’d say to me too. Please.\u003cbr\u003eListen. We can change things.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHere.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43206141247666,"sku":"9781449495206","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781449495206_25df7d98-b3dc-4930-959e-83e772fd4b34.jpg?v=1786020603"},{"product_id":"9781524893804","title":"The Heart of You","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn the third and final installment of the Souls Trilogy, acclaimed poet Iain S. Thomas explores what hope feels like after despair.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollowing on his bestselling collections, \u003ci\u003eThe Truth of You\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e The Secret of You\u003c\/i\u003e, Thomas’s latest volume of over two-hundred poems examines how we find the faith to carry on when everything has been stripped away and all that remains is the core of who we are.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Enhanced by dramatic ink illustrations in his signature style, \u003ci\u003eThe Heart of You\u003c\/i\u003e explores fear, bravery, intimacy, what we keep, and what we leave behind.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56302484455797,"sku":"9781524893804","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781524893804_e36fd026-0b70-4d24-ac68-efa347b60b42.jpg?v=1786022424"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-iain-s-thomas.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}