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The Method and Other Stories

The characters in this award-winning debut collection are very good at losing things: children, lovers, hope, the plot. They discover the past is not a place easily escaped from, as it pursues them with startling, sometimes horrifying, consequences. Provocative and bold, these stories will get under [...]

Introducing Ryan, and his collection Tomorrow, We Will Live Here

Plain spoken narrators as diverse as the America they inhabit – a pastor’s son, the lonely night nurse and fat boy – are all ill at ease. Through road kill, September 11th and death row characters address their own bitter faults with noir-like [...]

Day 2 – Andrew Pidoux

Andrew Pidoux has published poems in the anthologies First Pressings (Faber and Faber) and New Writing 10 (Picador) and stories in two Doctor Who collections for Big Finish. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 1999 and was a Crashaw Prize winner in 2009. Year of the Lion is [...]

In November we are releasing all of the Crashaw and Scott Prize winning titles. To celebrate we will be holding a  Crashaw and Scott Prize launch event on 11th November. Every day we will be featuring an author on the blog to introduce their work.

The Crashaw Prize is an international annual prize for [...]

The Birth Machine will be launched in Manchester at Waterstone’s 91 Deansgate M3 2BW on Wednesday 27th October 2010, 7pm. £3.00 (redeemable against purchase of the book)

There will be  a second launch in London on Wednesday 10th November at Blackwell, 100 Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0JG Tel 020 7292 5100 Free. All are [...]

Chris Agee, the Editor of Irish Pages (http://www.irishpages.org/), has joined Salt as the editor for Ireland, opening a new office of the literary business in Belfast. He will be responsible for developing a new programme of four to six Irish titles a year from April 2011. The business will operate under the imprint, [...]

TEN poetry anthology introducing 10 black and Asian poets Editors: Bernardine Evaristo & Daljit Nagra (Bloodaxe Books, 2010)

‘This moving, challenging and inspiring new anthology introduces ten sparkling new talents who demonstrate the richness, energy and confidence of the poetic voice in our multicultural country. It is a joyful and important [...]

Psycho Poetica at the Southbank Sunday 24th October 4 p.m.

To mark the 50th anniversary of Hitchcock’s Psycho, poet Simon Barraclough devised a poetic homage, slicing the film into 12 sections and allotting them randomly to 12 acclaimed poets. Each wrote a poem in response to their section and a new poetic version [...]

THURSDAY 18th NOVEMBER BLACKWELL BOOKSHOP, 53-62 SOUTH BRIDGE, EDINBURGH 6:30 p.m.

Join us to celebrate the publication of Ryan van Winkle’s first collection of poetry!

There will be a free after party with live music, dancing and some readings.

Bands are:

Jed Milroy & Hailey Beavis

Billy Liar

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The Black Diamond Express

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Here’s a small selection of what’s coming up this winter:

November and December titles

Leaving Eden Liane Strauss

Leaving Eden takes up the themes of Milton’s Paradise Lost and Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience with a decidedly twenty-first century female slant. The stories it tells and the characters it invents present a powerful [...]