Out-Spoken Press is a London-based independent publisher of poetry and critical writing. Founded in 2015 by poet and editor Anthony Anaxagorou, the Press was shortlisted for the British Book Awards’ Small Publisher of the Year in 2024, 2025 and 2026 and for the Michael Marks Publisher Award in 2024.… →
Secta Publishing is a new independent publisher. It was set up as a counterweight to the big publishing houses. We specialize in the kind of diverse books and authors who otherwise might not get out there. Such as ethnic, LGBTQ+, physically challenged or neurodivergent. We believe that everyone shou… →
Stella works miracles. Literally. She heals the sick and the paralysed. The Vatican is overjoyed—imagine, a real saint in the 21st century, and in Georgia, the heart of the American South. The only hitch? Her method: she heals the people she sleeps with in her motorhome. And she sleeps with a lot of… →
On an early autumn morning in 1988, on the outskirts of an Algerian city on the edge of the desert, a shepherd stumbles upon the lifeless body of Zakia Zaghouani, the stunning nightclub singer at the Sahara Hotel. Suspicion immediately falls on her lover, who is thrown into prison. The incompetent I… →
On the wintry Tuscan coast, the wealthy elite retreat to their lavish holiday homes. But the season turns sinister when a couple vanishes from a locked villa, and the body of a disreputable count washes ashore, bludgeoned to death. . “Doyens of the Italian detective story, Fruttero and Lucentini, of… →
A masterful psychological mystery novel about the unbearable weight of maternal love, and the silences that shape a nation. In the quiet aftermath of Split’s tourist season, the city is shaken by the brutal murder of 17-year-old Viktorija. As the investigation unfolds, suspicion falls on Mario, a wi… →
Ten Poets Lose Themselves in the Land of the Fae
The goblin men are here again, with their shrill repeated cry: “Come buy, come buy!” And the pixies, the pooka, the gnomes and naiads, the boggarts and brownies – European folklore fizzes with tales of wicked and winsome creatures of the woods. And while in many ways their power has waned – what is… →
Ten Poets Do Their Bit for the Secret Service
Poets are, as a matter of fact, natural spies. Nondescript in appearance, they’re quick, ever-watchful, and shifty in their skins. Practised at fleeing, and at giving pursuit. Likely to reach for a pen that fires a dart. Likely, too, to cross each other’s paths in out-of-the-way places, and exchange… →
In Malaysia, a young girl discovers the seeds of friendship turning into love. A ghostly aunt causes more trouble than she’s worth, and a sea-monster yearns for her poolside home. Family secrets confound two widows in Northumberland, and a third turns to the sea for comfort. The stories in Subjuncti… →
Working-class writers are disappearing. Since 1970, the number of writers from working-class backgrounds has more than halved, while 80% of journalists now come from privileged households. As the cost of living rises and opportunities shrink, writing risks becoming the preserve of the wealthy — with… →