Gloria has a learning disability. She's nineteen, and there's nothing to do except wander the local parks, look for friendship and keep out of trouble - or go round Jack's. Jack needs Gloria's company, but he's unpredictable and angry at the world. After an act of violence, their friendship has to end. Now Gloria's on her own. But when she hears Jack's out of prison, her whole world is turned upside-down. Heart-breaking and beautiful, Gloria Don't Speak is an insightful portrait of a woman dealing with vulnerability, violence - and the desire for connection.

Weatherglass Books is an independent press founded by Neil Griffiths (novelist and founder of The Republic of Foundation) and Damian Lanigan (novelist and playwright).

Weatherglass was founded on a shared love of Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Blue Flower and a shared fear that it wouldn’t find a publisher today.

Weatherglass Books wants to clear a space for the next The Blue Flowe

In the derelict shell of what was once his family home, a dying man surveys the wreckage of his former life and drinks himself senseless, haunted by the chain of events that led him there.

Dark, complex, and visceral, Keshed is an unflinching character study exploring class, belonging, fatherhood, and conflicting ideals of modern masculinity.

At heart, it’s the story of a relationship struggling to cope with the impossible pressures of raising a child under late-stage capitalism; but it’s also a love letter to the working-class North, from the grinding poverty of Thatcher’s ’80s to the present day.

Oratc are a press particularly interested in writing on music, film, art and pop culture at the moment. Writing that blends art and culture with social science is especially desirable.

It's London in 2001. The lives of two strangers, Dora and Susan become connected via a 1950s movie resulting in collective time-travel through film fictions, dreams, and hallucinatory realities. The result? A series of sonic events leading to the birth of an unknown species...

Drawing on historical female mythologies including The Legend of St Ursula, the Immaculate Conception, and ancient mother cults, The Discreet Dash is the debut novel of acclaimed visual artist Georgina Starr.

Co-edited by Rachel Cattle and Mireille Fauchon, JOAN is a publishing project for contemporary writing.

Founded by Rachel Cattle and John Hughes in 2020, they are a small press and only publish a few titles a year, but are always excited to hear from new artists and writers.

It is 1935 and a small boy is found in a mine in what is known as the Belgian Congo. It is a time of ferment; nefarious forces are at play. Against this backdrop, the boy’s discovery draws the attention of men of distinction across the globe – scientists, politicians and army men. Soon enough a race begins to bring the boy into safe custody. After a tortuous journey by train through the continent of Africa, the boy travels by ship to New York, where he is taken into the care of the United States Army. From here our diminutive hero will become swept up in a narrative not of his own making, a narrative that will lead him into the heart of one of the most devastating events of the twentieth century.

Audacious in its conceit, thrillingly readable and profoundly humane, Little Boy is a novel of science and politics, of men and war, of compassion and becoming. In prose of baffled grace, it weaves a path through some of the darkest moments in our collective history -- moments all too depressingly reminiscent of the here and now. Its ending will leave you, like its protagonist, suspended in mid-air, stunned by the awful things that men have put forth into the world.

Boiler House Press is a publisher of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and everything in-between.
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They are based at the University of East Anglia, home of the world-renowned Creative Writing MA, and a centre for creative-critical writing studies.
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They are passionate about writing that breaks a mould; that surprises; that plays with-and-between the creative and the critical. They want to open and excite your mind. They believe words have the power to change things. 

When Detective Sean Hastings is asked to investigate the disappearance of Character, he enters the First Trans Commune in Sim World, a virtual reality cult community imagineered by transfluencer Kevin, and bankrolled by a mysterious tech company, VSI.

Haunted by the death of his cis gayguy college bestie and their shared diasporic dilemmas, Taylor, VSI’s token QTPOC face, sees potential in Kevin’s ability to Release trauma into the virtual world. Meanwhile, Casey, Sean’s ex, hopes Releasing will cure their Long Plague. Then femme fatale Mitchelle reappears. And the plot twists.

A pulpy neo-noir romp through the anxiously assimilated transmasculine id, Jaw Filler asks: who is VSI, and what do they really want? Can you be your own dad? And if Character’s mind is trapped in Sim World, then where is his body?

Envisaged as the third iteration of the spirit of Lola Montez (Lola, Maria, Mario), Montez Press was formed in 2012. We have since commissioned and published experimental work by artists, writers and thinkers with a focus on queer and intersectional feminist practices through the lens of artists’ writing. We are committed to curiosity, questioning established methods and systems, and engaging in open conversation and dialogue. Our methods are deeply collaborative. We seek to support unexpected creators, including those who may not receive institutional support due to social and economic systemic prejudices. We commit to a rigorous editorial process in our effort to produce work that takes risks and surprises and challenges the reader.

Founded in 2008, Peirene have been a key player in the thriving UK independent publishing scene for over a decade, publishing books from 25 countries and 20 different languages. Traditionally a publisher of European novellas in translation, they now publish writing from all over the world and are expanding their list to publish literary fiction of all shapes and sizes. Their books are regularly listed for significant UK literary and translation prizes, including the International Booker Prize, and in 2023 they won the Dublin Literary Award with their book Marzahn, Mon Amour by Katja Oskamp, translated from German by Jo Heinrich.

In this collection of interconnected stories set in Hong Kong where each home is furnished with its own demons, hallucinations lurk just beyond the stress-induced cracks of daily life.

As generations phase through concrete halls, echoes of children’s fighting fish rivalries and games of demonic possession linger while their older selves fight to keep a roof over their heads and argue about preparing the dead for the afterlife.

Some obsessively excavate old memories, while others attempt to rise above the claustrophobia – but when the elevator starts breeding new delusions, who can tell where the boundaries between paranoia and paranormal lie?

Sinoist Books is a publisher of diverse narratives from Sinophone communities around the world, from mainland China to diaspora writers. They publish modern classics from some of the best known authors within China, as well as up-and-coming novelists emerging onto the global literary scene for the first time. They publish literary fiction, genre-bending historical and crime fiction, as well as a small range of children’s literature.

Their books confront the omissions of historical narratives, precarity in a rapidly changing world, and contradictions within questions of culture and identity. In doing so, they believe the books provide a window onto global issues through the perspective of the other, while revealing the vibrancy of contemporary Sinophone literature. Their books can be shocking, hilarious or tragic, but they always defy expectations.