The River Only Flows One Way is the third album by Liverpool songwriter Luke O’Hanlon — a career-best collection of intimate, lo-fi meditations on grief, addiction, love, memory, and identity.

Written and recorded over two years, the album features no collaborators: every instrument, every lyric, every sound is O’Hanlon’s alone. The result is raw, honest, and hauntingly beautiful — drawing inspiration from artists like John Darnielle, Phoebe Bridgers, Jeffrey Lewis, and MJ Lenderman.

These are songs about ghosts, water, aging, dislocation, and belief. About how we change, and how we don’t.

Mannequin

Cold Black Stone

The River Only Flows One Way

Stevie

my dear friend

sung by Wong Jun Yi
written & prod. by leonny o.
dedicated to my sydney girls

sydney girls (ft. Wong Jun Yi)

useless and lost

Sixteen Stars
by MAROL

Age sixteen, stars in my ceiling
Barefoot hearts and tangled feelings
Streetlight talks with borrowed smoke
Dreams too big for teenage hopes
Back when love was just a maybe
And the night sky felt like safety

I thought I’d have it figured out by now
Felt grown-up with a broken vow
Learning to lie with a charming grin
Skipping class just to chase the wind
But we all believed in some great escape
Before the cracks began to take shape

But it was good then, wasn’t it?
With our foolish grit and counterfeit wit
Campfires, crushes, secrets we kept
Old guitars, and dreams we wept
We didn’t know what pain would cost
We just ran before we ever got lost

Now I wake up in a stranger’s skin
Same name, but not the boy I’ve been
My heart broke at forty-two, in silence
After years of smiling through the violence
We grow, we bend, but damn we bleed
Still chasing what we’ll never need

What’s the point of building walls?
Why climb when we’re bound to fall?
We fill our rooms with empty things
Trade our time for golden rings
And every step just circles back
To questions we still can’t unpack

Raised on VHS and vinyl pops
Now I’m ghostin’ jobs and dreams that flop
Grew up too fast, but too late to matter
Truth hit harder than a Twitter chatter
Why I restart when I crash? Who knows?
But I burn through life like my highs and lows
Tryna make sense in a senseless spin
Where the start and end feel paper-thin

Sixteen Stars

Rolling Hills vibes

Escape to Cornwall this summer with the latest heart-warming and uplifting novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Fern Britton! 

 Set by the wild Atlantic coast of Cornwall comes a story about finding home in the most unlikely places.

Cordelia Jago has lost everything. Her mother, her father, her career, her husband and her best friend, her trust. All she has left is a legacy she never expected – and would never have wanted.

Wilder Hoo – The Wild House – is a crumbling Cornish Manor House which she hates, full of unhappy memories for her. It is falling down to the brink of ruin.

Determined to sell-up and forget the past forever, she begins to spruce up its echoing rooms – but the house seems to speak to her and to pull her back to happier times in Cornwall.

With the help of the locals, Cordelia breathes new life into the home, But will she find a way to heal her heart too?

A Cornish Legacy, By Fern Britton, Read by Fern Britton

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