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Clare Reddaway's debut novel Dancing in the Shallows is our 19th Fairlight Modern. This gorgeous debut follows Isla Wintergreen as she discovers more about her family and generational inheritance all connected through her family's relationship to water. Read on to learn more about Clare's writing process and to read an exclusive extract o

We are happy to announce that we will be publishing American author Jennifer Love’s biting contemporary novel Please Fear Me in September 2024. Please Fear Me is a literary novel following two young homeless girls, Smidge and Violet, on their trek through the U.S. in search of belonging. As they develop a performance which will allow

Each week, we pick a short fiction piece from our Fairlight Shorts archives to feature as our story of the week. This week, we’ve chosen a story about family by Sarah Hills. Sarah Hills was brought up in the south of England but migrated north as an adult and found herself living in Leeds. Sarah’s short stories have been publish

Each week, we pick a short fiction piece from our Fairlight Shorts archives to feature as our story of the week. This week, we’ve chosen a story about acceptance by Sarah Jones. Sarah Jones is a Northern Irish writer, based in Oxford. She started writing as a teenager, publishing stories on the social networking site Bebo for her fri

Each week, we pick a short fiction piece from our Fairlight Shorts archives to feature as our story of the week. This week, we’ve chosen a story about loss by Cecilia Dolan. Cecilia Dolan is a Creative Writing student at her local university and she has prospects of attending a London university next Fall. Cecilia has been making

Each week, we pick a short fiction piece from our Fairlight Shorts archives to feature as our story of the week. This week, we’ve chosen a story about loneliness by Sienna Black. Sienna Black is a young writer from the UK currently studying English at the University of Cambridge. Her poem ‘Measurements’ was longlisted for the You

Each week, we pick a short fiction piece from our Fairlight Shorts archives to feature as our story of the week. This week, we’ve chosen a story about communication by Sophie Moran. Sophie Moran is from Dublin and has been living in Berlin for five years. She has had three short stories published with Fairlight Books and Constellate

Each week, we pick a short fiction piece from our Fairlight Shorts archives to feature as our story of the week. This week, we’ve chosen a story about affairs by Ruby Gaffney. Ruby Gaffney is 24 and from London. She studied English at Oxford and then Edinburgh. She currently works in education and writes in her free time. Ruby start