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“Susannah Rickards conjures with the peculiar truths of different human lives, and creates stories which are wry, compassionate, moving and often very funny.” — Emma Darwin

In Hot Kitchen Snow, multiple award-winning author Susannah Rickards creates characters you care about from the first sentence. [...]

Nathan Hoks reads the stunning poem ‘Mouth of Clouds’ from his Crashaw Prize winning collection, Reveilles, which is out NOW.

Re-imagining a tempered surrealism for the twenty-first century, Nathan Hoks’ Reveilles moves from the landscape of dreams into a beautiful reality. These restless, death-tinged poems keep asking, “Why do I suddenly feel so sentient?” [...]

“Jonty Tiplady’s is the least guarded and most engaging voice I’ve heard in years, and Zam Bonk Dip is, at the very least, as funny as poetry gets.” — Peter Manson

Zam Bonk Dip

Jonty Tiplady’s prizewinning first collection is a must read for anyone keeping up with contemporary poetry. Awarded the [...]

“A poetry for those who delight in linguistic fireworks, dizzy-making holes in the path. Mastery of the recherché word. You don’t believe they exist but they do, they’re history. Keep your Google by your side and you’ll be all right.” — Peter Riley

The [...]

The Source of the Sound traces the journeys of exiles in search of home. The collection is littered with the mise-en-scène of being lost: motel rooms, alcohol abuse, prostitution … Yet, in each story there is some elemental contact with light and sound, the product of the characters’ [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]