Chief Inspector Gorski returns … In the unremarkable French town of Saint-Louis, a mysterious stranger stalks the streets; an elderly woman believes her son is planning to do away with her; a prominent manufacturer drops dead. Between visits to the town’s hostelries, Chief Inspector Georges Gorski… →
Archaeolgist Tamara Enjoys siting and contemplating among the small standing stones near Hadrian’s wall – a peaceful spot to get away from the pressure of her PhD. That is until she’s accosted by a silver-haired woman and her life is turned upside down..… →
Kae Bahar is a writer and filmmaker. He grew up in Kurdistan under the regime of Saddam Hussein and was arrested and tortured by the secret police at the age of fourteen. With his family’s help, he managed to escape to Italy to avoid a second arrest and possible death. Once in Europe, he worked as a… →
When a career criminal claims he saw a basement gallery full of gory crime scene photographs on his last job, DS Mark “Heck’ Heckenburg is sceptical. But Some of the details are too familiar to ignore. A raid turn up nothing, so the higher-ups insist Heck drop it, but his instincts are telling him t… →
Erin Clark is a poet and priest based in east London. Her fiction, poetry, reviews and essays have appeared in journals in the UK, USA and Canada. Her first poetry collection, Whom Sea Left Behind, was published in 2023, followed by There’s No Pluto in this Suite in 2024. A queer writer who grew up… →
‘A rollicking adventure story with a glorious, Bondesque glamour… Gloria Fontaine is the thinking woman’s James Bond. Left me totally wanting to be a spy!’ — Anne Hamilton, author of The Almost Truth When disgraced journalist Dolly Fontaine discovers that her mother, the seventies film star Gloria F… →
The Good, the Bad and the Gringo
‘Kae Bahar’s protagonist, Merywan, is one of the most remarkable in contemporary fiction. Persecuted and abused as a ‘boygirl’ in Kurdistan, his personal trials are soon subsumed in a titanic war for independence, the only light in the darkness his correspondence with his hero Clint Eastwood, who he… →
Stephen Howard (he/him) is an English novelist and short story writer from Manchester, now living in Cheshire with his wife, Rachel, and their daughter, Flo. An English Literature and Creative Writing graduate from the Open University, his work has been published by Lost Boys Press, The No Sleep Pod… →
This House Isn’t Haunted But We Are
A couple mourning the loss of their young daughter take up an opportunity to renovate a rural cottage on the remote North Yorkshire Moors. However, they can’t process their grief as increasingly eerie events unfold. Is it their daughter haunting them or something else?… →
Saqi Books is a leading independent publishing house of trade and academic books on the Middle East and North Africa. Founded in London in 1983, but with its roots in Lebanon, Saqi’s publishing programme has led to a rigorous reassessment of Arab cultural heritage. Saqi has been at the forefront of… →