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The Man Who Sat on the Wrong Bench
Literary Fiction · Eleanor Whitcombe
A quiet work of literary fiction about chance, observation, and the fragile line between anonymity and consequence. A small, ordinary moment unfolds into a subtle examination of isolation and human connection.
The cover was deliberately restrained, a painted English landscape, an empty bench, and typography that stays out of the way. Restraint of that kind is a design decision, not an absence of one, and it was carried through the interior layout as well.
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The Man Who Sat on the Wrong Bench completed Britannia’s full editorial and production pathway: structural assessment, developmental and line editing, proofreading, cover design, typesetting, ISBN allocation and retail metadata configuration. Eleanor Whitcombe retains 100% of the rights in the work.
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