We were chuffed that Hilary Taylor took the runner-up award at last week’s New Angle Prize, and that four of the six shortlisted books – by @robertashton.bsky.social, @katharineq.bsky.social & Amanda Addison – are now published by us or our sister company @wiltonsquare.bsky.social. Full story ⤵️

A very funny, very charming book with lots of madcap adventures which becomes a book about modern Britain in its diversity, and that’s what I love about it’ Fantastic to hear @stuartmaconie.bsky.social so keen on Rowan McCabe’s The Door-to-Door Poet on Loose Ends www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Congratulations to Hilary Taylor, runner-up in the New Angle Prize with her Norfolk-set literary thriller Sea Defences (and of course to the winner Ian Collins for his deservedly acclaimed biography of Ronald Blythe)

It was great to hear Gaby Roslin so enthusiastic about Rowan McCabe and his book The Door-to-Door Poet on BBC Local Radio’s The Make a Difference Show last week. It’s a very nice interview. Listen from 2:18 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

It’s not often we say here’s an entire radio programme dedicated to a book we’ve just published, but the latest episode of Secret North East on BBC Radio Newcastle is just that: Anna Foster talks to Rowan McCabe about his memoir The Door-to-Door Poet bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

‘A heartfelt, platonic love story develops between the Young Man and the Old Man as they navigate their complicated lives and find a connection. This is an intelligent exploration of masculinity in the 21st century’ George Harrison’s debut novel Season reviewed in the Observer (link ⤵️)

Out now in all formats, and endorsed by @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social

The Door-to-Door Poet, out today, is ‘a funny, self-aware chronicle of the year Rowan McCabe spent in pursuit of a madly brilliant project’, says NARC. magazine. Read more about that project in their interview with Rowan here narcmagazine.com/interview-ro...

Happy publication day to Rowan McCabe, whose book The Door-to-Door Poet – a joyful and thoughtful portrayal of a very unusual mission and the many and varied voices that make up a nation – is out today. (1/3)

Happy publication day to Rowan McCabe, whose book The Door-to-Door Poet – a joyful and thoughtful portrayal of a very unusual mission and the many and varied voices that make up a nation – is out today. (1/3)

When RowanMcCabe told a police officer neighbour he was planning to knock on doors at Byker Wall and offer to write poems for free, she advised him to take pepper spray and not carry valuables. The reality was very different, as he explains in today’s Guardian (1/3)

I'll be at #IpswichBookFestival talking about my prize-listed novel, #TheLowRoad @eyebooks.bsky.social, based on a true story from my East Anglian hometown. It tells the story of a Norfolk girl transported to Australia as a convict and is a tale of love, grief, betrayal - and solidarity. #Convicts

‘As the line between disaster and salvation becomes increasingly complex and blurred, the pages of the novel turn into an adventurous, adrenaline-filled diary. Original and overwhelming’ Another rave review of the Italian edition of Polly Clark’s new novel Ocean, this one in Corriere della Sera

‘With a nonconformist heroine at the helm, OCEAN [is] a gripping, epic and tragic journey, a wild and incredible adventure in the solitude of the sea, in search of what it means to heal.’ A great review of the Italian edition of Polly Clark’s novel in La Repubblica

Tomorrow we publish the paperback edition of Flint, Joanne Bourne’s deeply personal love letter to the magical stone that has fuelled three million years of human development. Order it direct from us for the next week and save 30%. Link ⤵️

The paperback edition of Season, George Harrison’s acclaimed debut novel about two men – one young, the other old – who occupy adjacent seats in an unnamed football stadium, is out now. Order it directly from us in the next week and save 30%. Link ⤵️

I was on BBC radio talking about my book. Follow the link to listen, or better still, buy a copy and see what we're talking about

Yesterday @richardhwrote.bsky.social was @cazzamartin.bsky.social’s guest on her BBC Radio Gloucestershire/Wiltshire/Bristol breakfast show talking about the groomer and rapist he meet in the 90s at a Swindon LGBT organisation – the story he tells in his book I’m Fine www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I'm so glad I have a publisher like @eyebooks.bsky.social to get my work and story out in the world like this.

A great showing in yesterday’s Telegraph magazine for @richardhwrote.bsky.social’s powerful story of being groomed and raped as a child by a man he met at a lesbian and gay support charity – a story he tells in full in his compelling memoir I’m Fine ⤵️

My story in The Telegraph Magazine. Mark Smith has written a brilliant piece about safeguarding. Thank you Mark. Read it in today's edition of @telegraphnews.bsky.social or Google "I'm Fine" and get a copy of my memoir from all good outlets

‘Every so often a book comes along that articulates exactly what our country needs. This is one. Essential reading,’ says new Green Party leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social of @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social’s Change Everything. The new edition is out on 18 September

Our paperback edition of @katharineq.bsky.social’s gripping historical novel The Low Road is back from the printers. It’s out on 6 November and before that it’s a finalist for the New Angle Prize, whose winner is announced on 25 September. We’re so proud to have it on our list shorturl.at/NCTgM

Our second title is C.M. Kosemen’s cult work of sci-fi/futurology, All Tomorrows. It first appeared online nearly 20 years ago and has built up a huge fanbase in that time, but it has never before appeared in print in English. We publish it on 9 November ⤵️ www.thebookseller.com/rights/wilto...

Our first title is the new edition of Change Everything by @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social. @zackpolanski.bsky.social, who has just been elected @greenparty.org.uk leader, says of it: ‘Every so often, a book comes along that articulates exactly what our country needs. This is one. Essential reading.’

It's my birthday 🎉 To make my day special buy my book, especially from independent bookshops. When I visited @realmagicbooks.bsky.social I had such a nice time it was hard to leave. Here's a link to help support them while supporting me 😁😘 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/i-m-...

Proof my book launch party was a success... A very rare photo of me smiling 😁 Thank you @bertsbooks.bsky.social for hosting an amazing night 🍾🙌🍾🙌 I believe they still have signed copies, get them while the ink is still drying be bertsbooks.co.uk/product/im-f...

Yes I use my second checked bag as a bookcase. (Get it? Suitcase/bookcase) This is the dangerous side of visiting so many bookshops on this trip. Now the agony of deciding which to read first when I finally get home. Any suggestions?

Am going to be appearing as the home team at the Hastings Book Festival with the brilliant @william1shaw.bsky.social (Brighton) on 21st Sept to talk all things criminal. Might reveal some clues to what Tommy Wildeblood is going to get up to next. Come along! www.hastingsbookfest.org/events/a-wal...

Happy birthday to the great Dorothy Parker, born in 1893 but still causing good trouble in my novel Dead Writers in Rehab, disrupting riotous group therapy sessions with Coleridge, Hemingway, Hunter S. Thompson and many other deceased literary substance abusers. www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1785...

I’m Fine, the compelling memoir by @richardhwrote.bsky.social, tells a harrowing tale, so we were delighted to see Richard in such good spirits last night at his launch at @bertsbooks.bsky.social in Swindon (where the memoir is set). eye-books.com/books/im-fine

30% off to celebrate publication day. If you've been thinking of buying my book but haven't yet, now's your chance 😁

Today we publish I’m Fine, @richardhwrote.bsky.social’s unnerving but compellingly readable account of the year in his childhood when the attention of older men went to his head, with devastating consequences for the rest of his life. One of those men is now serving 22 years in prison (1/4)

We’re just catching up with Paul Ross’s with our author James Longley on @talksport.com‬ the other night, discussing @corbytown.bsky.social, @thisislcfc.bsky.social and James’ rehabilitation and success after a prison stretch. From 2’37 talksport.com/play/talkspo...

Hey you! Do you like queer Dickensian stories of grand and gritty adventure in pre-Victorian Britain? Poorhouses and moors, and transport to Australia—and two heroines who fall madly in love:

Next month we publish The Door-to-Door Poet, Rowan McCabe’s warm, honest, funny account of knocking on strangers’ doors and writing poetry for them. It’s ‘a cracking idea, well executed’ says Ben Aitken. Pre-order details here eye-books.com/books/the-do...

In September we publish The Door-to-Door Poet, RowanMcCabe’s joyful and thoughtful portrayal of his unusual mission to write verse for strangers. Pre-order it online from Waterstones using the code SUMMER25 and you get 25% off shorturl.at/yHchl

This is such a moving novel, and this is a huge bargain...

In November we publish Anthony Gardner’s satirical caper All God’s Creatures, described by Nicholas Coleridge as ‘hilarious, joyous and astute’. Pre-order it online from Waterstones using the code SUMMER25 and you get 25% off shorturl.at/rFNi0

Next month we publish I’m Fine, @richardhwrote.bsky.social’s moving memoir of the year in his childhood when he fled anti-gay bullies only to end up in the hands of a ruthless predator. Pre-order it online from Waterstones using the code SUMMER25 and you get 25% off shorturl.at/rAfK7

In September we publish the paperback edition of Season, George Harrison’s ‘clever, heartfelt debut’ (Mail on Sunday) about two men in adjacent sseats at a football stadium. Pre-order it online from Waterstones using the code SUMMER25 and you get 25% off shorturl.at/wn5az

In September we publish the paperback edition of Joanne Bourne’s Flint, described by the Daily Telegraph as ‘a very British love-letter to the beauty of flint’. Pre-order it online from Waterstones using the code SUMMER25 and you get 25% off shorturl.at/ZkrC3

In November we publish the paperback edition of @katharineq.bsky.social’s powerful historical novel The Low Road, currently on the shortlist for the New Angle Prize. Pre-order it online from Waterstones using the code SUMMER25 and you get 25% off shorturl.at/zUUyu

‘Another ripping yarn from Jules Mountain, and an even more epic adventure. It’s like he took his Everest adventure and squared it,’ says Paul Ross on @talksport.com‬ of the madcap heli antics in Arctic Insanity. ‘It’s brilliant. I urge you to get hold of a copy’ 02:26–02:39 talk.tv/play/talkrad...

Very nice coverage in the @guernseypress.com of Jules Mountain’s daredevil quest to fly a light helicopter on the 4,300-mile polar route from Montreal to the Channel Islands, as recounted in his new book Arctic Insanity www.eye-books.com/books/arctic...

In 2024, a 62-year-old former gay youth charity worker was jailed for 22 years after being found guilty of repeatedly raping a boy under the age of 16. That boy was @richardhwrote.bsky.social. I’m Fine is his story and we publish it next month (1/2) www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/2531302...

‘To anyone else, it would have sounded insane. The five-seater aircraft was designed to carry golf clubs, not fly thousands of miles across the harshest and coldest landscape on Earth’ @express.co.uk meets madcap helicopter adventurer Jules Mountain www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2079...

‘A rollercoaster of a read, Ocean is a powerful page-turner with a series of sensational twists,’ says Claudia Connell of Polly Clark’s wonderful new novel in WI Life

Many thanks to Market Harborough Waterstones for hosting a launch party for James Longley’s compelling prison-to-riches memoir Power Through last night. The book tells a tough story but it’s also about triumph over adversity and the mood was suitably exuberant www.eye-books.com/books/power-...

Hugely chuffed, grateful (and relieved) to share the news that my novel, The Low Road, will be published as a paperback and e-book by @eyebooks.bsky.social this year, following the collapse of my former publisher, Unbound. I love the new cover too! www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article... #EyeBooks