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We are happy to announce that we will be publishing American author Jennifer Love’s biting debut 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 them t

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Allan Radcliffe is the author of The Old Haunts, a new addition to the Fairlight Moderns publishing on 14 September 2023. The Old Haunts follows Jamie as he reflects on his closeted adolescence after the loss of both of his parents. Read this interview with Allan Radcliffe to find out more, and to see an exclusive sneak peek of The Old Ha

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Nod Ghosh is the author of The Two-Tailed Snake, a new addition to the Fairlight Moderns publishing on 14 September 2023. The Two-Tailed Snake is a novella in flash exploring partition in India through the naïve eyes of 14 year old Joya. Read this interview with Nod to find out more, and to see an exclusive sneak peek of The Two-Tailed S

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Douglas Bruton is the author of With or Without Angels, a hybrid and innovative short novel that responds through fiction to The New World, the final artwork by the late artist Alan Smith – which is in turn a response to an eighteenth-century fresco, Giandomenico Tiepolo’s Il Mondo Nuovo. With sparkling, dreamlike prose, Bruton weave

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Winter Short Story Submissions As the nights draw in and the weather turns cooler, we’re all set to embrace autumn, put on some cosy knitwear and curl up with a good book. But it won’t be long before autumn turns to winter, bringing with it a month of winter-themed stories! In December, instead of our usual short stories, we publi

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Jenna Warren is the author of The Moon and Stars, a warm and witty novel loosely inspired by The Phantom of the Opera and Cyrano de Bergerac, publishing on 20 October 2022. Matthew Capes is a classical tenor with a magnificent voice, but struggles with chronic stage fright. When his old singing partner Angela offers him the chance to p

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Joanne Stubbs is the author of The Fish, an engaging literary cli-fi set in the near future as climate change causes unexpected changes, publishing on 06 October 2022. Across the globe, people are getting used to an ever-changing climate – but they are not the only ones adapting. As sea creatures abandon the oceans to live on land, can

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Sarah Jane Butler is the author of Starling, a beautifully written novel about our connection to the world  – and people – around us, publishing on 29 September 2022. All Starling has ever known is a nomadic existence, travelling in a converted van with Mar, her strong-willed mother. But one morning, without explanation, Mar leaves

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Joanna Campbell is the author of Instructions for the Working Day, a pacy novel focused on betrayal and freedom, publishing on 31 August 2022. Neil Fischer has inherited a village – his father’s former hometown of Marschwald in East Germany, left to deteriorate for decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Neil is determined to resto

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Deborah Jenkins is the author of Braver, an uplifting story about community and kindness, publishing on 30 June 2022. Struggling with OCD and anxiety, Hazel isolates herself from others and sticks to rigid routines in order to cope with everyday life. But when she forms an unlikely friendship with Virginia, a church minister, she begins t

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