Pre-Orders

Our books currently available for pre-order, all with a 25% pre-order discount.

Spin of the Triangle : Stephanie Carty

Spin of the Triangle tackles an important and difficult subject in a very skilful way. We are introduced to the different women who take part in a baby-trafficking business. They are all vulnerable and have lived lives where they have been exploited in many different ways. Stephanie Carty shows the characters in the novella convincingly occupying each of the three roles in the victim, persecutor and rescuer triangle at different times. In the end, we see that it may be possible for them to step out of moving around this triangle and have a different life. I was impressed by the individual stories in different POVs. All aspects of the baby-trafficking business are covered, from the young girls manipulated to give up their babies, the grief of those who regret their choices, the office manager deadening her feelings with alcohol, the lies told about the babies’ origins. And in the background, the men who control it all.
— Jude Higgins, judge of the 2025 Bath Novella-in-Flash Award. Author of Clearly Defined Clouds.

Paperback ISBN 978-1-915247-74-2; 133mm x 203mm; 76pp

£11.99 GBP

Release Date: 6 July 2025
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The Lives of the Dead : Fiona McKay

The Lives of the Dead is a timeless and poignant novella that tracks one woman’s journey through the dark wood of marriage and motherhood. Told through a cleverly woven narrative that includes internet searches and reimagined fairy tales with a feminist twist, this deeply resonant and compelling story explores the agency afforded to women through themes of power, expectation and sacrifice. Skilfully crafted with language that radiates heart and yearning, Fiona McKay proves an incomparable and essential voice in fiction.
— Sara Hills, author of The Evolution of Birds (Best Short Story Collection, Saboteur Awards, 2022)

Newly married Kate is in an unequal relationship. Her husband holds a firm grip on their future, his hand literally holding tight on her wrist, causing small bruise marks – a motif through the novella. The interior focus shows Kate’s sometimes guilty struggles about motherhood and competing desires very well. The author has structured the novella brilliantly with Kate’s journey to self-realisation interspersed with re-visioned fairy tales. The fairy tales offer great depth to how the story unfolds and invite many reads to get their full impact.
— Jude Higgins, Judge Bath Novella in Flash Competition 2025

Kate lives a constrained life with her husband, John. Tracking the beginnings of their marriage and her initiation into motherhood, the text is interspersed with exquisite fairy tale re-tellings, which amplify and illuminate the ‘everyday’ story. The prose is lush and lyrical, Kate’s emotional landscape expertly rendered. An exemplary novella-in-flash from Fiona McKay, showcasing what can be achieved in the genre.
— Gearóidín Nic Cárthaigh, author of Geansaithe Móra (An Post Irish Language Fiction Book of the Year, 2024)

Paperback ISBN 978-1-915247-72-8; 133mm x 203mm; 116pp

£11.99 GBP

Release Date: 6 July 2025
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In the Dark Eyes of the Rabbit : Debra A Daniel

Debra Daniel perfectly captures what it is like to be a twelve-year-old girl in a particular place and time, while also touching upon the universality of that precious age between childhood and teenager. Interspersed throughout In the Dark Eyes of the Rabbit is advice on how to live from Retta’s mother, father, and grandmother, bringing to mind Jamaica Kencaid’s “Girl.” But it is Retta herself whose voice rings loudest as she is “lost to the wonderment of life and love and dying and secrets and truths and how people sink and how they float…”
— Ann Hood, NY Times Best Selling Author of The Stolen Child and The Book that Matters Most

“Debra Daniel has a rare knack for combining depth and humour, substance and charm. In the Dark Eyes of the Rabbit is at once a tender depiction of the dynamics of a family, a vivid coming-of-age narrative, an unforgettable portrayal of a grandmother, and an astute study of fracture and repair within relationships. It’s warm and funny and poignant — I immediately wanted to read it again.”
— Michael Loveday author of Unlocking the Novella-in-Flash and Three Men on the Edge

“I loved this novella-in-flash on many levels. I liked its close focus on the life of a family in the USA in the 1960s and how they navigate day-to-day situations. I liked the POV, in the strong and believable voice of a twelve year old girl and the way she thinks about her family and relates to them. The adults are flawed but believable — a fearful grandmother who makes doom-laden remarks and has many strange habits, a self-preoccupied mother, a father who spends much time away from the home and an aunt who reveals family secrets. The novella is moving, and also has humour — a great combination. The use of the rabbit motif threading through, adds a further depth. In the end, the family, in crisis, does pull together.”
— Jude Higgins, author of Clearly Defined Clouds and founder of the Bath Novella-in-Flash Award

Paperback ISBN 978-1-915247-70-4; 133mm x 203mm; 132pp

£11.99 GBP

Release Date: 6 July 2025
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