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 Flower.

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.

One morning in November 1940, two men meet on New Jersey dock. One, haggard and haunted, says he’s waiting for 75 refugees from Hitler’s Germany. Every day he comes, and every day he leaves—alone.

Over a drink in a nearby bar, he relates the story of his imprisonment in a pre-war Nazi concentration camp. Of the SS commandant who separated out all the Jewish inmates and set about a deliberate program to kill them one by one, by torture, beatings, or suicide. Until the day when one inmate found himself faced with a decision: was vengeance, as it says in the Torah, a matter for God alone?

Written in 1943 and never before translated into English, Vengeance is Mine [German title: Mein ist die Rache] is the first work of fiction to predict the Nazi’s final solution, their program to exterminate the Jews. Its story is short, stunning, and unforgettable: a 20th century masterpiece.

“When you read it, the world fades into darkness ... and that's how it should be." Max Brod

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.

Following their discharge from hospital, Mirrorstage follows its narrator on a road trip through the grey, liminal landscapes of modern Britain. As they pass graffitied bus shelters, construction sites and flooded motorways, factories and high-rises, the narrator’s internal and external journeys begin to converge, leading them down paths they have been trying to avoid: the mental illness and substance use that led them to the inpatient ward, the uneasy balance of their own gender identity, their troubled relationship with their estranged father, the perils and pleasures of the queer scene, and the shame that has haunted them throughout their life.

Woven around the psychoanalytic concept of its title, Mirrorstage is an experimental fable exploring the boundaries of selfhood and literary forms, told in fragments of prose and verse that are equal parts heartbreaking, sexy, and witty.

Cipher Press is an independent publisher of queer fiction and non-fiction. Their aim is to amplify queer voices and to champion LGBTQIA+ writers in the UK and beyond.

They want to publish authors who are creating a new literary canon by disrupting existing narratives and retelling them in new ways. They want to publish the many different stories that make up their community, and they want to make those stories accessible to everyone.

They’re entirely queer-owned and -run because they want the publishing industry to be more inclusive at every level. They have over a decade’s worth of bookselling, publishing, and editorial experience under their belts. They still don’t often see the kind of books they want to see on shelves, and they’d like to change that by finding authors who excite them and by publishing books that they love.

They’re especially keen to publish those who are further marginalised within their own community: people of colour, working class, trans and gender non-conforming authors.

Growing up in Pakistan, Annie experiences the death of her mother, goes to college in Karachi, falls in love with a singer in a band, marries the wrong man, and all her life has visions and illnesses no doctor can explain. She comes to believe that external events can cause disruptions in the body, and episodes from other times and places are interwoven with Annie’s narrative.

CB editions publishes short fiction, poetry, translations and other work which‘might otherwise fall through the cracks between the big publishers’ (The Guardian). The first four books were published in 2007. CB editions titles have won prizes for fiction, poetry and translation, and have been shortlisted for many other awards.

A darkly comic coming-of-age story from Cairo’s shadowy alleys and smoky rooftops.

When a seventeen-year-old flees his abusive father to chase his dream of becoming a writer, he lands in a crumbling Cairo apartment with a chain-smoking landlady and her explosive son. What follows is a whirlwind of survival, misfits, late-night monologues, and the thin line between truth and fiction.

The Completely True Tales of Um Mimi and Sharawi the Adulterer is a sharp, hilarious, and deeply moving translated Arabic novel that lays bare the intimate lives of Cairo’s underclass in the 1990s. Originally published in Arabic and now longlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, this cult favourite by Belal Fadl—one of Egypt’s most daring satirists—appears in English for the first time.

With biting humor and emotional depth, Fadl paints an unforgettable portrait of youth, class, and art in a decaying city, where love and betrayal are traded as fast as cigarettes. Translator Osama Hammad expertly captures the novel’s crackling wit, energy, and bruised tenderness.

For fans of Mohamed Choukri and Khairy Shalaby, this translated Arabic novel blends satire and sincerity in equal measure.

Founded in 2017, DarArab is a U.K.-based, independent publisher. In addition to publishing some of the finest voices in modern Arabic literature, DarArab is also committed to translating contemporary literary fiction, autobiography and poetry for English readers around the world, with a particular interest in unexplored topics that elucidate, challenge/change perceptions, and open dialogue between the Arab world and an English-speaking readership. 

DarArab’s mission is rooted in reviving Arabic literary and intellectual heritage by making significant works widely accessible while also supporting the endeavours of talented contemporary Arab writers. 

Furthermore, DarArab facilitates the sharing of art and knowledge with English readers through translation to build bridges of cultural understanding and promote intellectual fluidity between the East and the West. They strongly believe through sharing and storytelling, we can emphasise our similarities and develop an appreciation of our differences.

The Tunnels is a suburban science fantasy ghost story featuring gangsters, magicians, avenging clowns, occult boot fairs, spectral staircases, ancient scrolls, chilling incantations and tables that defy the laws of reality, alongside lashings of banoffee pie, seditionary cupcakes, cider brewed by an anarchist collective, mind-blowing curry and discount egg slicers.

It is both a doomed love story and a hymn to community, with just a tiny bit of revolution stirred in for good measure.

Secret Name Books is a new publishing imprint based in London.

We aim to publish exciting, unusual voices in urban fantasy and speculative fiction.

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.

Told as a series of journal entries that move backwards in time, How Do People Stay The Same follows the life of Patrick Boyd – from the present-day contentment of family life and back to a darker, lonelier childhood.

How Do People Stay The Same lays all of Patrick’s experience before us, with the challenges of work, housing and all the other pinpricks of existence jostling with his complex inner world.

It reveals a fragile man ground down by the world around him–but who might just be able to change and might just have the hope of a brighter future.

Featuring the exquisite prose and lacerating wit that readers loved so much in All My Precious Madness, How Do People Stay The Same is also a deeply tender project – an exploration of family, childhood, love, and the personal bonds that tie us together.

Galley Beggar Press is an independent publisher committed to publishing daring, innovative fiction and narrative non-fiction. Founded in 2012, they are particularly keen to support writers of great literary talent writing outside the norm, who push the boundaries of form and language.

London, in a not-too-distant future. The city is being swallowed into the ground, the rich are still getting richer, and Waiters do the jobs you don’t have time for. They queue for your concert tickets, stay in for your deliveries and stir your risotto.

Step into the shoes of an unnamed Waiter who has no recollection of who they were before their role at the Company. Now select your next job and decide whether to peek into the client’s luggage, and if you’ll risk losing work credits by helping a tired woman with her shopping. Balance your humanity with your job security at every turn, and manage your creeping desire to understand who you once were, and who you might become. You’ll want to crawl as close as possible to the edge of the maw without falling into its depths.

With 11 different endings and countless journeys towards them, The Waiter creates a labyrinthine world of possibilities and parallel worlds which combine to explore queer longing, consumerism and agency in a city and a psyche on the brink of collapse.

The Emma Press is an independent publishing house specialising in poetry, short fiction, essays and children’s books. It was founded by Emma Dai’an Wright in Winnersh, Berkshire, in 2012 and is now based in Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham, UK.