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      • Valhalla
        Fiction
        September 2020

        Valhalla

        by Alan Robert Clark

        May of Teck, only daughter of a noble family fallen from grace, has been selected to marry the troublesome Prince Eddy, heir to the British throne. Submitting to the wishes of Queen Victoria and under pressure from her family, young May agrees. But just as a spark of love and devotion arises between the young couple, Prince Eddy dies of influenza. To her horror, May discovers she is to be married to the brother, Georgie, instead, a cold and domineering man. But what can she do?   From the author of The Prince of Mirrors comes this gripping account of the life of Queen Mary, one of the most formidable queens of Britain.

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      • The Piano Room
        Fiction
        October 2021

        The Piano Room

        by Clio Velentza

        A gothic retelling of the myth of Faust, set in Hungary in the 1970s and 1990s   Eighteen-year-old Sandor Esterhazy, rich and entitled, is descended from a long line of talented pianists, but he has no intention of following in their footsteps. One afternoon, in a fit of pique, he calls up the devil, using an old book of magic spells, and offers to exchange his soul for a life free to choose his own destiny.   Afterwards Sandor laughs it off as a joke, but that night he sees the shape of a man approaching the house. He is dragging someone – or something – behind him through the snow. Sandor goes down to the piano room. The devil has delivered a bare-foot young man who Sandor instantly recognises. But what is this creature? And what exactly is to be done with him?

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      • The Woodcock
        Fiction
        May 2021

        The Woodcock

        by Richard Smyth

        It’s 1920s England, and the coastal town of Gravely is finally enjoying a fragile peace after the Great War. John Lowell, a naturalist who writes articles on the flora and fauna of the shoreline, and his wife Harriet lead a simple life, basking in their love for each other and enjoying the company of John’s visiting old school friend, David. But when an American whaler arrives in town with his beautiful red-haired daughters, boasting of his plans to build a pier and pleasure-grounds a mile out to sea, unexpected tensions and temptations arise.   As secrets multiply, Harriet, John and David must each ask themselves, what price is to be paid for pleasure?

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      • David and Ameena
        Fiction
        February 2021

        David and Ameena

        by Ami Rao

        Modern-day New York, a subway train. David, an American-Jewish jazz musician, torn between his dreams and his parents’ expectations, sees a woman across the carriage. Ameena, a British-Pakistani artist who left Manchester to escape the pressure from her conservative family, sees David.   When a moment of sublime beauty occurs unexpectedly, the two connect, moved by their shared experience. From this flows a love that it appears will triumph above all. But as David and Ameena navigate their relationship, their ambitions and the city they love, they discover the external world is not so easy to keep at bay.   Ami Rao’s masterful debut novel picks apart the lives of two people, stripping them of their collective identities and, in doing so, facing up to the challenge of today: can love give us the freedom to accept our differences?

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      • Dreaming in Quantum and Other Stories
        Fiction
        June 2021

        Dreaming in Quantum and Other Stories

        by Lynda Clark

        Contains ‘Ghillie’s Mum’ – shortlisted for the 2019 BBC National Short Story Award, 2020 ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award and regional winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Europe and Canada.   From the award-winning short story author, Lynda Clark, comes this debut collection of sixteen stories, all written in Lynda’s darkly humorous style and playing on themes of multiple realities and dystopian futures.   In ‘My Invisible Wife’, a man is learning how to live with a gradually disappearing wife. In ‘Dreaming in Quantum’, there’s a murder to be solved with echoes through different dimensions only accessible in dreams. In ‘Ghillie’s Mum’, a shape-shifting mother needs to decide whether to compromise and stay in her human form or lose her son. And in ‘Blanks’, people are paying to create clones of themselves so they’ll never die.

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      • Erringby
        Fiction
        June 2021

        Erringby

        by Gill Darling

        Christopher is waiting expectantly for life to begin. Orphaned as a young child, he recoils from his adoptive parents’ mundane existence, drawn instead to the bohemian world of his Uncle Col and Col’s charismatic wife Marianne. After Christopher’s adoptive mother suffers a breakdown, he is sent to stay at Erringby, Marianne’s rambling family mansion,where, immersed in her hedonistic lifestyle, he becomes increasingly obsessed with his aunt.   One particularly debauched summer in 1986, the eighteen-year-old Christopher wakes to find himself in bed with Marianne. But what happened? And who is his sudden mysterious benefactor? As Christopher grapples with the ramifications of that night and questions his own identity, he, Marianne and Col find their lives spiralling out of control.   Unfolding against the changing cultural landscape of the seventies, eighties and nineties, Erringby is a captivating coming-of-age novel with echoes of Great Expectations.

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      • A Father's Discourse
        Fiction
        October 2021

        A Father's Discourse

        by Ami Rao

        It takes him two hours to tell the story… the story of a fourteen-year old girl… the story of his daughter. His daughter who died.   When a girl dies in a car accident, returning home from school, her father is left to deal with his grief. Sent home from work for the crime of showing his emotions in front of strangers, he and his wife cannot bring themselves to utter their unspoken thoughts of guilt and blame. Alienated from the world and, to some degree, his own mind, and with his marriage slowly collapsing, the man starts to consider his grief.   With her beautiful and lyrical prose style, Ami Rao experiments with language to explore grief, one of the most complex of human emotions. Inspired by the essays of Barthes, this fragmented and philosophical novella is deeply moving.

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      • Broadwater
        Fiction
        September 2020

        Broadwater

        by Jac Shreeves-Lee

        A collection of edgy urban stories centered on Broadwater Farm.   Welcome to Broadwater Farm. Where post-war dreams of concrete utopia ended in riots, violence and sub-standard housing. With evocative language and raw storytelling, Tottenham-born Jac Shreeves-Lee gives voice to the people of Broadwater, one of the most talked-about housing estates in Britain.   In a collection of fourteen short stories, she compassionately portrays its shared sense of community. A community with a rich cultural heritage, comprising over forty nationalities, generations old.

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      • Blue Postcards
        Fiction
        July 2021

        Blue Postcards

        by Douglas Bruton

        Once there was a street in Paris and it was called the Street of Tailors. This was years back, in the blue mists of memory.   Now it’s the 1950s and Henri is the last tailor on the street. With meticulous precision he takes the measurements of men and notes them down in his leather-bound ledger. He draws on the cloth with a blue chalk, cuts the pieces and sews them together. When the suit is done, Henri adds a finishing touch: a blue Tekhelet thread hidden in the trousers somewhere, for luck. One day, the renowned French artist Yves Klein walks into the shop, and orders a suit.   Set in Paris, this atmospheric tale delicately intertwines three connected narratives and timelines, interspersed with observations of the colour blue. It is a meditation on truth and lies, memory and time and thought. It is a leap of the imagination, a leap into the void.

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      • The Fairlight Book of Short Stories
        Fiction
        October 2020

        The Fairlight Book of Short Stories

        Volume 1

        by Various Authors

        The best of modern-day short story writing.   From flash fiction to mini-novelette, Fairlight presents twenty-four of its best short stories from some of the world’s most talented new and emerging English language writers. Chosen from work sent to Fairlight over several years by writers around the globe, this anthology celebrates the art of the short story form: a vehicle with the power to delight, entertain or instantly transport the reader to another state, another world, another emotion.   Twenty-four stories by twenty-four writers, featuring various award-winning short story authors including Judith Wilson (winner of the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition, the London Short Story Prize, and shortlisted for Colm Toibin International Short Story Award) and Adam Trodd (winner of Benedict Kiely Short Story Competition, and shortlisted for the Cúirt New Writing Prize, Over The Edge New Writer Of The Year and the Bath Flash Fiction Award) along with Women’s Prize-longlisted author Sophie van Llewyn.

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