Did you hear the one about the loathsome colleague, the shooting-stick and the unmentionable orifice? No? Then check out Liam Hughes’ moving, insightful and often hilarious medical memoir Bodily Fluids, out today.

Happy publication day to Liam Hughes, whose extraordinary medical memoir mixes gross-out comedy, intense humanity and incisive analysis of what’s wrong with today’s NHS. Bodily Fluids will entertain, move and answer the questions of anyone who has ever been in hospital.

‘This visceral true story was at once so moving that I wanted to put it down and process its contents, but equally so gripping that I couldn’t stop reading. A testament to the author’s inner strength, this is honest storytelling at its finest’ @attitudemag.bsky.social on Richard Hall’s I’m Fine

English-born Tim Bird landed in Finland by accident more than 40 years ago and has been there ever since. His book Happy Land explores why this Nordic land is regularly voted the world’s happiest country. It’s out now

Our Non Fiction Book of the Month for January 2026 is Happy Land: Forty Years in the 'the world's happiest country' by Tim Bird @eyebooks.bsky.social This uplifting read offers a great January escape and a personal and insightful perspective on Finland from an accidental expat.

‘The jokes flash and scatter like sparks from a firework, with merry sideswipes at pet-inclusive language and a PM desperate for popularity. Each page is studded with one-liners’ @churchtimes.bsky.social on @anthonygardnera.bsky.social’s All God’s Creatures. Full review ⤵️

‘George Harrison admits that the unnamed team in his book Season is a fictionalised version of @canaries.co.uk. The 29-year-old said the novel - shortlisted for the Nero Book Award for Debut Fiction - was born out of his own experiences of supporting the Canaries’ (full story ⤵️)

Can I also just point out there are two small indie publishers shortlisted amongst the big names with their big authors, us and @eyebooks.bsky.social

Massive congratulations to George Harrison, whose debut novel Season is shortlisted today for the #nerobookawards. It’s a warm, gentle tale about fandom and unlikely friendship in the stands of a Premier League football stadium. We’re overjoyed that it’s getting this recognition

The Low Road, @katharineq.bsky.social’s prize-listed historical novel about two impoverished female lovers transported to Australia for petty crimes, is a bargain price this week on ebook. Link in next post ⤵️

‘This amiable satire has been described as a war on woke, but it’s actually more Waugh, with a posh old-fashioned vibe and beautifully written. The plot’s quite complex but Gardner is wonderful at milieu. Great fun’ The Daily Mail on @anthonygardnera.bsky.social’s ALL GOD’S CREATURES

‘RowanMcCabe is the first and only door-to-door poet. His new memoir, peppered throughout with his warm and delightful poetry, displays the best of human connection and compassion.’ A lovely review from the Poetry Book Society

School counsellor @francesmckendrick.bsky.social turned her experience of talking to troubled teenagers into a gripping novel with a compelling mystery at its core. It’s a major achievement to be so relevant and so entertaining at the same time, as @neilmackay.bsky.social noted in the Herald y’day

‘Words Fail Me is essential reading for every parent and anyone who cares about the mental health crisis affecting young people today. It’s not only socially important, it’s a damn good read’ Ace coverage for @francesmckendrick.bsky.social & her debut novel from @neilmackay.bsky.social in the Herald

What was life like for the poor and powerless in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars? In this episode of the Explaining History podcast, @KatharineQ, author of The Low Road, talks about poverty, power and punishment in Georgian Britain podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

Happy publication day to @katharineq.bsky.social, whose novel The Low Road, about two young female lovers transported to Australia for trivial crimes in Georgian times, is out in paperback today. Shortlisted for the New Angle Prize, it’s all the more moving because it’s based on a true story

Happy publication day to @cmkosemen.bsky.social, whose extraordinary book All Tomorrows is officially out today, in the first-ever print edition in English. This has been a long time coming but we hope it has been worth the wait for all the book’s supporters and fans (1/3)

It’s publication day for The Low Road with @eyebooks.bsky.social, a story about love, friendship and redemption. Based on a true story, it moves from East Anglia, to London to colonial Australia. Available in all good bookshops and libraries. #sapphicbooks #historicalfiction #empire #TheLowRoad

‘This arresting novel takes pot-shots at pandering politicians, vacuous academics and zealous activists policing a new orthodoxy of supposed tolerance through violent threats. The main strands are brought together with a very clever flourish’ The Tablet on ALL GOD’S CREATURES

All God’s Creatures by @anthonygardnera.bsky.social, which we publish today, is a joyous satirical caper. Among the things it lampoons is the growth of AI. But it’s almost as if our new AI overlords have taken this personally. If you search the Amazon page on Google, here’s what you get:

We had a wonderful time launching @anthonygardnera.bsky.social’s clever, funny, hugely readable satire All God’s Creatures at a jam-packed @dauntbooks.bsky.social last night. The novel is officially out tomorrow. Obviously we’re biased but we highly recommend it

Religious zealots, art fraudsters, Russian spies and animals at the communion rail. @anthonygardnera.bsky.social’s madcap satirical caper All God’s Creatures, poking subtle fun at the real world in crazy times, is out this week

Absolutely! "All Tomorrows" is a fascinating exploration of evolution and humanity's future. As it says, "The future is a canvas, and we are the artists." 🎨 What do you think of its unique take on evolution?

This week we publish the paperback edition of @talkingbottom.bsky.social, a homage to the Rik Mayall / Adrian Edmondson sitcom. It’s written by @paultanter.bsky.social, Mat Brooks and Angela Pearson, founders of the podcast of the same name. The full story from @chortle.bsky.social is below ⤵️

‘An uplifting, hilarious, smart and edgy dissection of our bizarre capacity to imagine passing fashions as cornerstone philosophies to live by. A wonderfully enjoyable tonic.’ @irishexaminer.bsky.social on @anthonygardnera.bsky.social’s All God’s Creatures, out this week

If you've read my book "Local: A Search for Nearby Nature and Wildness", please could you help nudge me up to 400 reviews on Amazon? It only takes 30 seconds to do. Thank you! www.amazon.co.uk/Local-Search...

‘In the early 1980s, a household of lesbian feminists establish a women-only commune in an ancient Californian redwood forest. Of course there is conflict, but there’s also warmth and a sincere desire to overcome the patriarchy.’ Gaia Media on @lindarosewood.bsky.social’s novel A Circle Outside

‘Balances a madcap sense of intrigue with added satirical laughs galore. There are plenty of narrative plates to keep spinning here but @anthonygardnera.bsky.social pulls it off with aplomb’ A lovely first review for All God’s Creatures, from @thecrackmagazine.bsky.social

Next week we publish Unriddling the World, an anthology of 50 traditional stories from around the world put together by the celebrated performer Hugh Lupton, the founder of the Company of Storytellers and a professional storyteller since 1981. Link to order in next post ⤵️

‘Balances a madcap sense of intrigue with added satirical laughs galore. There are plenty of narrative plates to keep spinning here but @anthonygardnera.bsky.social pulls it off with aplomb’ A lovely first review for All God’s Creatures, from @thecrackmagazine.bsky.social

Two Eye Books authors, George Harrison and Jim Cockin, are finalists in the East Anglian Book Awards: one with a heartfelt debut novel about bonding on the football terrace, the other with a chiller ghost story for kids @writerscentre.bsky.social #EABA www.eye-books.com/news/two-lig...

Congratulations also to Jim Cockin, whose story Ghost Tide, a stirring spine-chiller set on a remote part of the Suffolk coast, is shortlisted in the children’s book category of the East Anglian Book Awards @writerscentre.bsky.social #EABA

Congratulations to George Harrison, whose novel Season – a heartfelt portrait of male bonding in the football stands – is shortlisted in the debut novel category of the East Anglian Book Awards @writerscentre.bsky.social #EABA

Another beautiful review. This one leaving me a little lost for words 😢

In January we publish Happy Land, in which longtime Helsinki resident Tim Bird looks at why Finland keeps getting named as the happiest country in the world. It’s a very entertaining read and you can pre-order now from Waterstones to get 25% off (link ⤵️)

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 ⤵️