The Bedevilments by John Gay has been out for a month now, and early reactions have been coming in. One Goodreads reviewer said they picked it up for the cover and the premise, but stayed for the writ...

Published 3rd March 2027 Where do you find the music that doesn’t fit? Spiders and Flies is a dream journey through the Dutch underground music scene of the noughties and twenty-tens. Drawing in lett...

Imagine a night of speed dating except the people selling themselves are the newest authors on the scene. JOIN US for the latest edition of a monthly night celebrating debut authors. Meet the faces be...

Intercontinental Literary Agency (ILA) has acquired The Marsh Agency in a deal signed on 8th September 2026.

Patrick Radden Keefe, Ben Macintyre and the Guardian’s Charlotte Higgins are among the 13 authors selected for the nonfiction award

A man in a room

The Bedevilments is a novella about addiction, sex and anonymity.

Last week I was chatting to Paul Handley, chief guru and bookworm of all he surveys at Bearded Badger Books.

As promised earlier......

A new €3 EU tariff for small parcels introduced to tackle the influx of cheap Chinese imports could have potentially disastrous consequences for publishers already facing “thin” profit margins and pos...

Stu Hennigan and Heidi James discuss Stu's brilliant first novel, Keshed, published by Ortac Press in 2025. This podcast is an edited recording of the live event. Stu Hennigan is a writer, poet, ...

In the derelict shell of what was once his family home, a dying man surveys the wreckage of his former life and drinks himself senseless, haunted by the chain of events that led him there. Dark, compl...