We established Oblique House in 2024 to publish poetry, art and architecture. Our first publication, an anthology of contemporary poetry titled Lineage, came out in April 2025. Titles in progress for 2026 include four poetry pamphlets, a second poetry anthology, a critical publication about performa… →
Road Song Books is an independent small press based in North Devon. As far as we know, we are the only one in the area that isn’t a ‘pay to play’ publisher. We started up in June 2025, and so far we have two books but many more planned. We don’t charge authors to work with us, we are royalty-based w… →
Llofrudd Llyn Llwydiarth – The lake Llwydiarth Killer
Ychydig wythnosau cyn cychwyn yr Ail Ryfel Byd mae heddwch pentref gwledig Penmynydd yn Ynys Môn yn cael ei chwalu gan ddiflaniad merch leol. Mae bys amheuaeth yn troi at un o’r dynion lleol ond cred D.I. John fod grymoedd llawer tywyllach ar droed. A few weeks before the outbreak of the Second Wo… →
‘The Old Divide’: A History of Sectarianism in Scotland
Sectarianism has been a blight on modern Scotland. Today, it is blamed on the lower orders, particularly football fans. Sectarianism like other forms of racism, however, originates at the top of society and travels down the ladder. It is intertwined with Scotland’s role in subjugating Ireland and be… →
Somewhere Cold: A Year Living in the Arctic
In 1989, Irish doctor Geraldine Osborne, her artist husband Danny, and their three young children—ages five, two, and one—embarked on an extraordinary adventure: to spend a year living in one of the most isolated parts of the world, the tiny Inuit settlement of Grise Fiord, over a thousand kilometre… →
Last Girl In: Kerry-Ann Fights to Stay in the Game
“A true celebration of British Caribbean culture, friendship and family. ..characters like Kerry-Ann are so powerful in promoting change.” The Reading Zone Book Reviews Kerry-Ann loves cricket – of course she does – her Jamaican grandpa taught her to play as soon as she could hold a bat! Whenever s… →
Stage Fright…Spooky Short Stories
What is lurking beneath the stage? Who emerges from the shadows, when the audience has gone home? Naughty schoolboys, Dan and Jas are about to find out, when they stumble into a rundown theatre and get talking to the old man at the Box Office …These spine tingling stories are all set in the same s… →
“A tour de force of accurate history and epic adventure scenes: this is a really great book” – The School Run, book reviews for teachers and parents Bron is an enslaved Saxon boy. He works hard for his master – the lazy village blacksmith – but he never gets enough food and the jibes from the non-en… →
What is going on in the school library? When Col sees something that definitely doesn’t look human hiding among the shelves, he thinks it must be his imagination (or his love of all things Space-related) getting the better of him. But his classmate Alicia is not so sure – and she’s determined to get… →
The Fantastic Electric Mash-Up Machines
“The cartoon-style drawings, large print and off-white paper make the book particularly accessible for emergent and struggling readers, in the style of the Barrington Stoke dyslexia-friendly series.” The School Reading List * “Do not try to cheat. You will be caught!” * That’s the ever-so-friendly m… →