Our year of travel through books!
Each title will take you to another country - if not several!
Why Subscribe?
- Receive 25% off all our titles this year, with goodies!
- You will also receive a brand new limited edition tote bag and a year long subscription to our Substack worth £50 (weekly interviews, industry insiders, stories and writing tips).
You will receive the following titles 2 weeks before their publication!
12th January Janice Warman and ‘These are the things we have lost’. Poetry Collection. £11.99
24th March - 'Erased' by Miha Mazzini. Political Thriller, Translated from Slovenian £12.99
1st June - 'Da' by Arathi Menon. Literary Fiction/Contemporary, Novel. £11.99
7th July - 'Woman, Mapped', A Rebecca Swift Anthology, Poetry and Essays £12.99
28th August - 'The Whispering Jacarandas' by Zahirra Dayal. Literary Fiction/Contemporary Novel. £12.99
1st September - 'The Angel of St Piran' by John Ironmonger. Contemporary Climate Adventure Novel, Hardback. £18.99
1st October - 'Ice Flower Herborium' by Dzena Andersone. Psychological thriller, translated from Latvian £12.99
2nd December - 'Nice Things' by Rue Baldry, Short Story Collection £11.99
Blurbs...
1. These are the Things we Have Lost by Janice Warman - Poetry Collection
In her debut poetry collection, These Are the Things We Have Lost, Janice Warman chronicles a journey from her South African childhood to the landscapes of motherhood with unflinching honesty. From pregnancy 'high on hormones and Pellegrino', to second weddings, these poems capture intimate moments of love and loss.
2. Erased by Miha Mazzini - Novel, Translated from the Slovene
When a “software error” erases Zala from the system, she discovers that officially, she and her newborn don’t exist. As Zala fights desperately to prove her existence, and her child from adoption, she uncovers the Kafkaesque reality of Slovenia’s system — one that erased 25,671 citizens on February 26, 1992. A chilling thriller about bureaucracy as violence, and one mother’s battle against the state.
3. Da by Arathi Menon - Novel
This is a story of love between a father and a son.
13-year-old Ved is a sweet, inquisitive boy living in a world where love must hide in plain sight.
His adoptive father, Da, is his entire universe — fiercely loving, fiercely protective, harbouring a secret that could destroy them both: Da is gay at a time when Section 377 makes homosexuality a crime.
Set in an Indian metropolis in 2013, Da is a tender story of a boy caught between devotion and fear, chronicling the everyday courage it takes to love someone the world refuses to accept.
4. Woman, Mapped - Poetry and Essays
Foreword by Hollie McNish
To live as a woman is so often a political act. This powerful anthology maps the journey of becoming a woman — the joys, the pain, and the defining moments that shape us. From girlhood to ageing, twelve distinctive writers speak honestly to what it means to be seen in our own voices, on our own terms.
Curated by acclaimed poet and critic Jennifer Wong, 'Woman, Mapped' reflects the breadth of lived experience across identities, cultures, and generations.
5. The Whispering Jacarandas by Zahirra Dayal, Novel
The Whispering Jacarandas is a haunting debut that unfolds in the charged aftermath of Zimbabwe’s independence. In the leafy suburb of Belvedere, sisters Zaynah and Amira grow up within the shelter of a close-knit Indian community, until one night of violence shatters their childhood and drives an unspoken rift between them.
As the sisters navigate adolescence under the shadow of silence, their paths diverge: one drawn inward into secrecy, the other seeking escape in rebellion. Against a backdrop of political upheaval and simmering racial tensions, they must confront the weight of trauma, the fragility of identity, and the unbreakable, yet fractured, threads of sisterhood.
Lyrical and devastating, The Whispering Jacarandas evokes the beauty and resilience of its namesake blooms while exploring how love, loyalty, and the search for belonging endure in even the harshest of landscapes.
6. 'The Angel of St Piran' by John Ironmonger. Contemporary Climate Adventure Novel, Hardback.
“NOT ALL OF THIS IS TRUE. But some surely is. Most of it, I hope.”
When five super-rich trophy hunters descend upon a remote African forest seeking chimpanzee trophies, they underestimate their greatest obstacle: Angel Restorick, a passionate young researcher who has developed a remarkable ability to communicate with the apes she studies. As the hunters close in, Angel must use her unique bond with the chimpanzee community to outsmart the predators.
From the quaint shores of a Cornish village to the lush jungles of Tanzania and back again, this gripping tale weaves together themes of conservation, connection, and courage against ruthless exploitation.
Award-winning author John Ironmonger, acclaimed for international bestseller "Not Forgetting the Whale" and "The Wager and the Bear," delivers a powerful narrative that challenges our understanding of humanity's place in the natural world—and the true meaning of intelligence and compassion across species.
7. 'Ice Flower Herborium' by Dzena Andersone. Psychological thriller, translated from Latvian
In a snowy Latvian town where secrets freeze deeper than the ground, policeman Vincent discovers a human hand, sparking a chain of revelations the community is desperate to hide.
As he investigates a missing teacher, Vincent becomes entangled in the tragic life of Jen, a troubled young man raised in violence and silence. Their stories collide when Vincent uncovers a devastating link between Jen’s past and his own.
Dark, atmospheric, and psychologically gripping, Ice, Flower, Herbarium explores guilt, inherited trauma, and the perilous cost of truth in a town built on buried sins.
8. 'Nice Things' by Rue Baldry, Short Story Collection
A Black plasterer working in an affluent home participates in increasingly bold acts of intimate rebellion with a seemingly mute Polish carpenter. A mother attempts to grocery shop while processing her son's mental health crisis, her mundane task transformed into an odyssey of grief and uncertainty. And in a triptych spanning decades, three people face the humiliation and danger of simply needing to use a bathroom in societies determined to deny them that basic right.
These stories examine class, race, gender, and sexuality through the lens of physical spaces and who is allowed to occupy them.
