Revolution has torn through the land, leaving society teetering on a knife edge. A young artist finds himself holed up at the City Hotel with his mother, where he must sing for his supper. In the face… Read more →

We’re delighted to say that Renard won this year’s Alison Morrison Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award at the Independent Publishing Awards. More information can be found on the IPG’s website here.… Read more →

Part of Renard’s Christmas Card Classics series, 25% of the RRP of each book sold goes to Three Peas. This year, instead of a Christmas card, why not send a book? ‘One Christmas was so much like anoth… Read more →

Jane Austen, one of the nation’s most beloved authors, whose face adorns our currency, surely needs no introduction, but while many are familiar with her groundbreaking novels, few have come across th… Read more →

First published in 1925, and frequently compared to T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, A Fool i’ the Forest is a modernist’s poetic expression of his ongoing struggles with overcoming the trauma of military… Read more →

George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vo… Read more →

Sharing what he’s learnt during half a century’s creative work, John Greening gives us an insight into the life of a poet, playwright, editor, reviewer, teacher and performer. Eminently readable, amus… Read more →

Dated the 14th of December 1908, A Letter to a Hindu was a letter written by Leo Tolstoy to Tarak Nath Das, a Bengali revolutionary and scholar, in response to a request for support for India’s separa… Read more →

‘So long as you and you and you, venerable and ancient representatives of Sappho, Shakespeare and Shelley, are aged precisely twenty-three and propose… to spend the next fifty years of your lives in w… Read more →

A tale of two Alices, in this decadent Gothic tale the young Alice Oke finds herself captivated by the tale of her namesake seventeenth-​century ancestor, who was involved in a scandalous affair. Surr… Read more →

A Quarter Dead and Half Alive is a beautifully crafted, wide-ranging collection that lingers on the intersection of humanity and the environment. Foregrounding ageing parents and new family members ar… Read more →

In October 1928 Virginia Woolf was asked to deliver speeches at Newnham and Girton Colleges on the subject of ‘Women and Fiction’; she spoke about her conviction that ‘a woman must have money and a ro… Read more →

For many years the victim of smear campaigns by notable male writers, and dismissed as being merely ‘the mother of Mary Shelley’, Mary Wollstonecraft has claimed her rightful title as one of the found… Read more →

‘Sylvia would have liked him vastly better without his gun; she could not understand why he killed the very birds he seemed to like so much.’ A tale for our times, ‘A White Heron’ follows Sylvia, a yo… Read more →

A Year in Review January 2022 It’s a new year, but we’re just taking a moment to look at the great books we’ve published in 2021 – you’ll find a selection of our favourites below, with one book a mont… Read more →

A Year in Review January 2022 It’s a new year, but we’re just taking a moment to look at the great books we’ve published in 2021 – you’ll find a selection of our favourites below, with one book a mont… Read more →

A.W. Earl is a poet, novelist and storyteller. They studied English Literature with Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia and hold an MA in Medieval and Early Modern Textual Cultures. They… Read more →

Abhainn Connolly is a queer and trans poet that splits their time between the Pacific Northwest of the USA and Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland. Their work can be found in Oxford Poetry, Poetry Ireland Re… Read more →

Winner of the HP Sustainability Award 2024 Winner of the Alison Morrison Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award 2024 Winner of the Ola Gotkowska Young Independent Publisher Award 2023 Small Press of th… Read more →

Hay Press was established in 1996 in the Welsh Borders. In the hands of its authors Peter Burden and Simon Mundy, for quarter of a century it has published commercial fiction and poetry, with a specia… Read more →

Adam Clayton-Lambe is a performer and writer from Manchester. After graduating from the University of York with a degree in English, he moved to London to pursue a master’s in Musical Theatre at Mount… Read more →

Gian-Luca has a rocky start in life, his mother dying in childbirth, his father unknown, and he is sent to grow up with his grandparents amongst an Italian immigrant community on Old Compton Street. H… Read more →

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Alex Critoph is a playwright and producer, who has produced plays and had her work performed at VAULT Festival, Theatre503, Arcola, The Finborough and Southwark Playhouse. She founded the ONCOMM nomin… Read more →

Born in Chester, Alex Humphreys grew up in Flintshire in Wales. After studying music at Cardiff University, she joined the office of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, before moving into broadcastin… Read more →

Jessie’s life is sorted. More than. So when her friends hear that Queer Eye is finally coming to London, they lie about her perfect life in order to get her a spot on her favourite TV show. However, a… Read more →

House clearances, charity shops, jumble sales and skips… The significance of everyday possessions, heightened by absence… If objects could talk of the dead, what would they say? Taking in its sights ‘… Read more →

After the death of her steady, constraining husband, Catherine discovers that grief can be a liberation. With her adult children appalled by her sudden transformations, and a strangely familiar presen… Read more →

Allie Bullivant is a writer whose work could be (but so far hasn’t been) described as the ginger lovechild of Mary Oliver and the Coen Brothers. Her writing has been featured in The Critic, The Cardif… Read more →

Hope’s leaving her home town up north for the bright lights of London. It’s going to be mind-blowing. Attractive Hinge dates, mature new friends… A job at a dinosaur-themed bar? Hell. Yes. Several mon… Read more →

Alyson Smith works as an administrator in a Nursing Home in Newcastle upon Tyne. Alongside this she has recently completed an MA in Creative Writing though the Open University, and is working on her f… Read more →

‘If you look closely you can still see some tear splotches on these pages, here and there.’ Following the death of his wife, Miles, an academic and hypochondriac suffering from acute anxiety, finds hi… Read more →

‘If you look closely you can still see some tear splotches on these pages, here and there.’ Following the death of his wife, Miles, an academic and hypochondriac suffering from acute anxiety, finds hi… Read more →

Ann Morgan is an author, speaker and editor based in Folkestone. Ann’s writing has been published widely, including in the Guardian, Independent and Financial Times, and by the BBC. In 2012, she set h… Read more →

Emma Zadow is an actor, playwright and screenwriter from Norfolk. She trained at Rose Bruford College as an actor, and her plays have been performed at the Arcola, the Old Red Lion Theatre, Camden Fri… Read more →

Iain Hood was born in Glasgow and grew up in the seaside town of Ayr. He attended the University of Glasgow and Jordanhill College, and later worked in education in Glasgow and the west country. He at… Read more →

Iain Hood was born in Glasgow and grew up in the seaside town of Ayr. He attended the University of Glasgow and Jordanhill College, and later worked in education in Glasgow and the west country. He at… Read more →

Jade Leaf Willetts is a writer from Llanbradach in South Wales. He writes about extraordinary characters in ordinary worlds and has a penchant for unreliable narrators. The Green Indian Problem is his… Read more →

A writer from the west of Ireland, Miriam Burke’s short stories have been widely published in anthologies and journals, including The Manchester Review, Litro Magazine, Fairlight Shorts, The Honest Ul… Read more →

Nadia Kabir Barb is a British Bangladeshi writer and journalist whose work has been published in international literary journals and anthologies. She was longlisted for the 2021 Bridport Prize Peggy C… Read more →

Reshma Ruia is an award-winning author and poet. Her first novel was described in the Sunday Times as ‘a gem of straight-faced comedy’. She has published a poetry collection and a short story collecti… Read more →

In 1881, three writers and rights activists, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Matilda Joslyn Gage, came together to publish the first volume in their groundbreaking History of Woman Suffra… Read more →

Andrew Crowther is not only the Secretary of the W.S. Gilbert Society, author of the major biography Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan, and the undisputed authority on the life and works of W.S. Gilbert… Read more →

Andy Christopher Miller is a widely published poet, author and psychologist. A winner of the Yeovil Poetry Prize, Andy has also served as an Honorary Professor at the Universities of both Nottingham a… Read more →

Anita Goveas is British-Asian, London-based and fuelled by strong coffee and paneer jalfrezi. She was first published in the London Short Story Prize Anthology 2016, and most recently by West Trestle… Read more →

Ann Morgan is an author, speaker and editor based in Folkestone. Ann’s writing has been published widely, including in the Guardian, Independent and Financial Times, and by the BBC. In 2012, she set h… Read more →

Anna Dallaire was born in Montreal, Canada, and moved to the UK in 2007. She loves reading and the power of words. She is now a student at Plymouth University in her final year of a Bachelor degree in… Read more →

Anna Vaught is an English teacher, Creative Writing teacher, mentor, editor and author of several books, including Saving Lucia, Famished, Ravished and These Envoys of Beauty. Her short creative works… Read more →

Anne Marie Wells is an award-winning queer poet, playwright and memoirist navigating the world with a chronic illness. She is the author of Survived By, Happy Iceland and Mother, (v) and is an accompl… Read more →

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  Support Renard’s publishing with an annual subscription, and you’ll get: – A free RENARD PRESS tote bag – A first edition of each book, in advance of its official publication date – A 20% disco… Read more →

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Aphra Behn (c.1640–89), or Astrea, was a poet, author and playwright, and is often cited as being one of the leading lights of the Restoration period. She is remembered today as being one of the first… Read more →

Arinze Chiemenam is a graduate of English and Literary Studies from Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University. He is a young Nigerian poet, writer and storyteller who believes that literary works should… Read more →

William Morris is perhaps best known today for the beautiful textile designs he created under the banner of Morris & Co, which continue to decorate homes around the globe. As one of the leading li… Read more →

‘Eventually, she spoke. If you don’t laugh, you’ll cry, she said, as she did neither.’ The fifth poetry collection from an award-winning poet, As if it Meant Something is a startlingly beautiful, wide… Read more →

Clément asks me how [the story] begins. I tell him: with your death. Against the backdrop of seaside idyll Marseille, our unnamed narrator recounts the tale of his life from seventeen to nineteen, cen… Read more →

Jane Austen, one of the nation’s most beloved authors, whose face adorns our currency, surely needs no introduction, but while many are familiar with her groundbreaking novels, few have come across th… Read more →

Contemporary authors Luke Adamson Charlotte Anne Tilley Miriam Burke Miles Beard Natasha Bell Erin Clark Vanessa Clegg Alex Critoph Adam Clayton-Lambe Steve Denehan Rose Diell Philippa Dawson Hilary D… Read more →

Benjamin Bussey Thatcher (1809–40), an outspoken proponent of antislavery, was best known for his memoir of Phillis Wheatley.

Baptiste Thery-Guilbert was born in 1999 in Marseille and was raised primarily by women. His schooling was chaotic, and his job security was practically non-existent. He escaped this by sheer luck. Ro… Read more →

Baroness Emmuska Orczy (1865–1947) was a novelist and playwright, best known for her Scarlet Pimpernel novels, which paint Sir Percy Blakeney as an escape artist that saves French aristocrats from the… Read more →

Bars Fight, a ballad telling the tale of an ambush by Native Americans on two families in 1746 in a Massachusetts meadow, is the oldest known work by an African-American author. Passed on orally until… Read more →

“The Golden Threshold” has been added to your basket. View basket Have a gift card? Click here to enter your gift card number Apply the gift card code in the following field Apply Gift Car… Read more →

Bee Rowlatt is the author of the award-winning travelogue In Search of Mary, co-author of the bestselling Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad and contributor to Virago’s Fifty Shades of Feminism. Bee… Read more →

Bek is a keen writer currently undergoing an English Literature with Creative Writing BA at Newcastle University. Her work is often inspired by the ‘Others’ of society, which she explores through writ… Read more →

Benedict Hangiriza’s works are published or upcoming in Tint Journal, Bacopa Literary Review, Afritondo, Spare Parts Lit, Swim Press, The Kalahari Review and Writers Space Africa. He lives in Kampala,… Read more →

Bethany E. Qualls is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Davis, where she teaches literature and writing courses. She’s spent the past two decades in a variety of writing and editorial… Read more →

Set between the Black Hills of South Dakota in 1973 and East Coast suburbia in 1968, Black Hills picks out a stark portrait of intricate familial relationships, and how dark events in the past must be… Read more →

Black History Month is a time to look backwards, but also forwards to future possibilities. Against the backdrop of the Black Lives Matter protests this year, we felt it was important that Renard incl… Read more →

Black History Month is a time to look backwards, but also forwards to future possibilities. Against the backdrop of the Black Lives Matter protests this year, we felt it was important that Renard incl… Read more →

What happened, nobody saw, but everybody knew… Why should blood on the floor make anyone mad against automobiles and telephones and desks. Why. This is what happened.’ Written in 1933, immediately fol… Read more →

Simon Mundy’s Selected Poems is a monumental collection that brings together work published in five collections, across five decades, including the critically acclaimed By Fax to Alice Springs and Mor… Read more →

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Bram Stoker (1847–1912) is best remembered today for Dracula, which is now considered one of the foremost examples of Gothic literature. Stoker wrote prolifically – both in his role on the staff of Th… Read more →

Posted by the Fatal Compact Preservation Committee on 26th August 2022 In 1955 Eugene Goossens, the director of the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music, commissioned a piece to open the new… Read more →

In a year that has seen wars raging, the news cycle leaves little to raise hopes of unity, trust and empathy. Acts of violence committed in the name of – or against – communities and cultures are on t… Read more →

Building Bridges: Poetry Bridging Communities Following the success of the New Beginnings project in 2021, the Spectrum project in 2022 and the Kinship project in 2023, Building Bridges seeks to conti… Read more →

Burhan Sönmez is a Kurdish prize-winning novelist from Turkey. He is the President of PEN International and the author of five novels: North, Sins & Innocents, Istanbul Istanbul, Labyrinth and Stone a… Read more →

By Fax to Alice Springs was Simon Mundy’s second book of poems, including work from 1987 to 1995. As the title implies, the poems were written all over the world – North Carolina to Italy, Moravia to… Read more →

Originally from Malvern, C.M. Rosier studied Ancient History and Archaeology at the University of Birmingham before moving on to become a book promoter for many wonderful publishers. Now living in Sta… Read more →

Cameron Rew has moved back home to Liverpool after working as cabin crew for British Airways during his twenties. During worldwide travel, he loved witnessing the undulations of different cultures, dr… Read more →

Caoimhe Matthews was born and raised in Dundalk, Ireland, but unfortunately currently lives in the UK. She gets excited when she sees squirrels, even though she sees them every day. She’s always worri… Read more →

Carolann North is a poet, editor and researcher from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her work has been published by Poetry Jukebox, The Bangor Literary Journal and Wine Cellar Press, among others. She has… Read more →

Caroline Bracken is an Irish poet living in Dublin. Her poems have been published in Poetry Wales, Poetry News (Poetry Society UK), New England Review, the Irish Times, The North, Poetry Jukebox, Gutt… Read more →

Please find our latest catalogue below. Click here to download (right click, ‘Save target as…’ or ‘Download file as…’). If you’d like us to send you a copy of our catalogues, just drop us a line at in… Read more →

Jane Austen, one of the nation’s most beloved authors, whose face adorns our currency, surely needs no introduction, but while many are familiar with her groundbreaking novels, few have come across he… Read more →

Catherine Roxburgh Carswell (1879–1946) was a Scottish author, biographer and journalist, and one of the few women associated with the Scottish Renaissance. She was the author of two novels that highl… Read more →

Catherine Edmunds is a writer, portrait artist and professional violinist. Her published works include two poetry collections, five novels and a Holocaust memoir, as well as numerous short stories and… Read more →

Catherine Mayer is a bestselling author and award-winning journalist, the former Europe editor of TIME magazine and the co-founder of the Women’s Equality Party and Primadonna Festival. Widowed at the… Read more →

After being homeless in her teens, Cathy Bryant worked as a life model, shoe-shop assistant, civil servant and childminder. When she became too disabled to work full-time, Cathy started submitting wri… Read more →

Chalice Am Bergris lives in London and loves poached eggs and cheese, but not together. She is mentally and physically disabled, but also considers not living next-door to Waitrose a disability. She s… Read more →

‘“Symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in girls and those assigned female at birth are often seen as character flaws.” Great.’ Pip is forever arriving late (including on stage), losing… Read more →

Charles Bulmer Maude (1848–1927) was an Anglican priest and friend of Saki, who collaborated on his only full-length play ‘The Watched Pot’.

Charlotte Anne Tilley is an award-winning actor, writer and producer. She trained at LAMDA and, since then, has been creating tragicomic theatre that combines quick-witted comic characters with grippi… Read more →

Charlotte Brontë (1816–55) was an English novelist and poet, best known for her groundbreaking Gothic novel Jane Eyre. Born in Yorkshire to an Irish Anglican rector, she was the eldest of the survivin… Read more →

Charlotte Mew (1869–1928) was a renowned English poet of the Modernist era. Born in Bloomsbury to an architect, Mew grew up in near poverty, and her early years were tainted by the death of three of h… Read more →

Charlotte is an archivist and writer from West Yorkshire. She won second place in Bangor Literary Journal’s Forty Words Competition 2021 and in Lucent Dreaming’s Poetry Competition 2021, was shortlist… Read more →

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) was an American writer and lecturer known for her humanist and feminist writing. She is best known today for her seminal short story The Yellow Wallpaper, a bliste… Read more →

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Chiwenite Onyekwelu is Nigerian, and is light-hearted. His poems have appeared in The Adroit Journal, Chestnut Review, America Magazine, Gutter Magazine, Rough Cut and elsewhere. He was a runner-up fo… Read more →

Chosen Grow Not in Each Other’s ShadowAn anthology of Queer and Trans Writing About the Project Renard Press x t’ART Press are really excited to invite submissions from Queer and Trans writers for our… Read more →

Christian Ward is a UK-based writer. Recent work has appeared in Wild Greens, One Hand Clapping, Eskimo Pie, Literary Yard and many other publications. While he writes mostly poetry, he occasionally d… Read more →

Welcome to Christmas at Renard! Scroll down for stocking fillers, 20% off contemporary titles and Christmas Card Classics. Treat yourself or a loved one with 20% off our six-monthly or annual subscrip… Read more →

They’re back! Following the success of Renard’s Christmas Card Classics series over the years, we’re pleased to announce more new titles: Willa Cather’s The Burglar’s Christmas, Washington Irving’s Th… Read more →

Clare Colvin is a novelist, short-story writer, opera critic and journalist. She is author of three novels, The Mirror Makers, A Fatal Season and Masque of the Gonzagas. As a journalist she has edited… Read more →

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Clemence Housman (1861–1955) was an author and illustrator, perhaps eclipsed in fame by her brothers A.E. Housman and Laurence Housman, best remembered today as an activist in the women’s suffrage mov… Read more →

In Compass Light we cross landscapes, unravelling time, discovering how change and journeys become a celebration of a life. Poems move through the points of the compass and across sacred sites, explor… Read more →

Connor Johnston is a poet and writer currently undertaking an MPhil in English Studies at Wolfson College, Cambridge. He is studying Victorian queerness in particular, and has an interest in writing b… Read more →

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Poets have grappled with the vexed question of what constitutes Englishness since time immemorial, and the poetry of the past century has seen perhaps some of the biggest evolutions in national identi… Read more →

How can I know if you are now alive? I echo thought, but cannot feel the beat. Debates around artificial intelligence continue to rage, with large-language models considered at best an irritant, or, i… Read more →

Writing about the near future is risky. It’s like trying to predict what’s around the next corner. You might get it right or you might be surprised. Either way, it won’t be long before everyone can se… Read more →

Edie finds the world around her increasingly difficult to comprehend. Words are no longer at her beck and call, old friends won’t mind their own business and workmen have appeared in the neighbouring… Read more →

Edie finds the world around her increasingly difficult to comprehend. Words are no longer at her beck and call, old friends won’t mind their own business and workmen have appeared in the neighbouring… Read more →

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) is one of the best-known English authors of the twentieth century, remembered today for his novels, in particular Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love (1… Read more →

Damon Runyon (1880–1946) was an American journalist and short-story writer, best remembered today for his short stories, especially ‘The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown’ and ‘Blood Pressure’, which formed t… Read more →

Damon Young is a winner of the Alzheimer’s Society Poetry Prize. He has also been shortlisted for the Wells Festival of Literature Poetry Prize, The Robert Graves Poetry Prize, The Brian Dempsey Memor… Read more →

Dana Mills is an author, dancer and activist. Her most recent book is Rosa Luxemburg (2020), following the success of Dance and Politics: Moving Beyond Boundaries (2016). It’s especially depressing to… Read more →

Part of Renard’s Christmas Card Classics series, 25% of the RRP of each book sold goes to Three Peas. This year, instead of a Christmas card, why not send a book? First published in 1938, Dancing Dan’… Read more →

Dr Daniele Nunziata is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Oxford. He specialises in postcolonial and world literatures, and teaches at St Anne’s College and the Oxford Prospects and G… Read more →

Born in north London, Daphne started reading poetry as a moon-struck teenager. She grew up in Kent, where her botanist father enjoyed growing trees from seed. Subsequently she worked in two wonderfull… Read more →

We don’t like companies having too much information about us, either, so we’ve detailed the sort of information we might have on you in our Privacy Policy here – in brief, we will only have your detai… Read more →

Dave Wynne-Jones has an MA in Creative Writing, taught poetry for twenty years, has climbed all the 4,000-metre mountains of the Alps and has had two non-fiction books on mountaineering published, as… Read more →

David Bottomley is a poet, playwright and librettist originally from Whitby. He was shortlisted for the Nick Darke Award for his play, Waterton’s Wild Menagerie. He performed in his one-man show, Mess… Read more →

David Hensley is a poet, writer and brand consultant. Originally from Liverpool, he has lived and worked in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East, but is now more prosaically based in Tunbridge Wel… Read more →

Deborah Finding is a queer feminist writer from the UK with a background in academia and activism. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in fourteen poems, The Friday Poem, Ink Drinkers Poet… Read more →

Deborah Gaudin is a Pantheist poet, living on the Welsh Marches, whose connection to the land informs her outlook and writing. Her love of poetry began at an early age, listening to her father recite… Read more →

‘Your pipe is drawing sweetly, the sofa cushions are soft underneath you, the fire is well alight, the air is warm and stagnant. In these blissful circumstances, what is it that you want to read about… Read more →

Diane Samuels is a playwright whose career spans thirty years. Her play Kindertransport was the winner of the Verity Bargate and Meyer Whitworth awards (1993/94), and has been performed in London’s We… Read more →

Born in Australia, Dianne McPhelim lives in beautiful rural Ireland. Having recently graduated with a BA in Writing and Literature from ATU Sligo, she is currently studying for an MA in Modern Literat… Read more →

Diego Jourdan Pereira writes, illustrates and packages trade books for general audiences – including story books for young readers, adult colouring books and puzzle books for seniors – while also tran… Read more →

Growing up in the heart of London’s immigrant Italian community, Michael Volpe always felt disconnected from the UK, the country of his birth. He felt different to his friends, had alternative cultura… Read more →

What inspired you to write Do I Bark Like a Dog? I had this nagging, gnawing feeling of not ‘belonging’ for as long as I can remember, but while I always identified as an Italian, I never really saw m… Read more →

Growing up in the heart of London’s immigrant Italian community, Michael Volpe always felt disconnected from the UK, the country of his birth. He felt different to his friends, had alternative cultura… Read more →

The poetry of Dylan Thomas has long been heralded as amongst the greatest of the Modern period, and along with his play, Under Milk Wood, his books are amongst the best-loved works in the literary can… Read more →

Dr Anna (Katie) Sagal has been teaching eighteenth-century British literature and writing to undergraduates for the past decade and has quite often convinced her students to read Fantomina, much to th… Read more →

Dr Chris Laoutaris is a biographer, historian, poet, Shakespeare scholar and Associate Professor at The Shakespeare Institute (University of Birmingham), in Shakespeare’s birthplace of Stratford-Upon-… Read more →

Dracula, Bram Stoker’s 1897 Gothic vampire story, needs no introduction – a perennial on syllabuses and screens alike, generations have been enchanted and enthralled by the Count from Transylvania. Bu… Read more →

Dylan Marlais Thomas (1914–53) was a Welsh writer, best known for his 1954 play set in the fictional Welsh town of Llareggub, Under Milk Wood, and for his poetry – in particular ‘Do Not Go Gentle into… Read more →

Part of Renard’s raison d’être is to make reading accessible in whichever way people like to enjoy their books. While we remain resolutely committed to books in their traditional papery form, we also… Read more →

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–49) was an American writer, poet and critic who is considered one of the most important figures in Gothic fiction. Often remembered chiefly for his supernatural and horror short… Read more →

Elisabeth-Rae Reynolds is a proud activist for human rights and an aspiring actor and writer from London. After studying both Science and Art & Design at New City College, she then went on to stud… Read more →

Eliza Fowler Haywood (c.1693–1756), was a writer, actress and publisher. Largely neglected for two hundred years, Haywood attracted a surge of interest in the 1980s, and is now understood to be one of… Read more →

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) was a writer and activist who was pivotal in the women’s suffrage movement in America. She is best remembered today for the six-volume encyclopaedia series she produ… Read more →

Elizabeth Train-Brown is a twice-shortlisted Poet of the Year whose debut collection, salmacis: becoming not quite a woman, was published by Renard Press in 2022. Using Greek myth as metaphor for gend… Read more →

Elizabeth Vandiver edited Richard Aldington’s Exile and Other Poems with Viven Whelpton and A Fool i’ the Forest with Michael Copp.

Ella Dane-Liebesny is a student from London. She is currently finishing her Bachelor degree in Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, where she is President of Girton Poetry… Read more →

Elle Echendu is a high-school senior from Massachusetts. They run a magazine called Blackademics, where she discusses the Black community’s contribution to academia.

Ellie is delighted to be now thrice(!) published with Renard Press, and thanks them very much for rewarding her jumbly thoughts. Ohana (the Hawaiian term for ‘family’) has become increasingly importan… Read more →

‘What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all full of weakness and errors; let us forgive each other our follies, it is the first law of nature.’ Voltaire was one of the sharpest… Read more →

Charlotte Brontë, one of the best known and widely read novelists of the nineteenth century, surely needs no introduction, her Gothic masterpiece Jane Eyre appearing on curricula and book lovers’ shel… Read more →

Emma Zadow is an actor, playwright and screenwriter from Norfolk. She trained at Rose Bruford College as an actor, and her plays have been performed at the Arcola, the Old Red Lion Theatre, Camden Fri… Read more →

“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words” — Robert Frost Our book, Way to the West, began life in late October 2020 when we managed to grab a week’s holiday in… Read more →

Engaged, W.S. Gilbert’s most popular stage work after the comic operas he produced in collaboration with Arthur Sullivan, is a farcical comedy that has long lived in the literary shadows – although wi… Read more →

George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vo… Read more →

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, wa… Read more →

Erin Gannon is a poet, singer and biker chick. Her practice meanders between verse, music and performance. She has been published in Honest Ulsterman, Gutter Magazine, the BMF’s Rider Magazine and els… Read more →

Jane Austen, one of the nation’s most beloved authors, whose face adorns our currency, surely needs no introduction, but while many are familiar with her groundbreaking novels, few have come across th… Read more →

Forthcoming events Nothing to see at the moment… but things are in the works, so check back soon! Past events Indie Press Network Inaugural Salon at Keats House, 22 March 2025, Keats House, Hampstead,… Read more →

‘There’s only control, control of ourselves and others. And you have to decide what part you play in that control.’ Cast your eye over the comfortable north London home of a family of high ideals, rad… Read more →

Ewa Gerald Onyebuchi is a Nigerian writer of Igbo descent. His writings – short stories and poems – aim at addressing topics related to  the body, sexuality and feminism, with Africa as the focal poin… Read more →

Born in Belarus, Ewgeniya Lyras gained a Master’s degree in Business Administration in Prague, Czech Republic, and studied fashion design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London.… Read more →

In 2020, for the first time in centuries, heavy red curtains swept closed on stages across the West End; all theatres were closed. Two actors, keenly feeling the loss of their theatre homes, turned to… Read more →

First published in 1923, Exile and Other Poems is an important, poignant collection from one of the foremost Imagist war poets. Penned after witnessing the horrors of the frontline during the First Wo… Read more →

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896–1940) was an American writer, best known for the vast array of short stories and novels he wrote about the Jazz Age – most notably The Great Gatsby, considered by ma… Read more →

Fadairo Tesleem is a Nigeria poet who writes from Ilorin, Kwara State. Tesleem is an alumnus of the Olongo Africa Poetry workshop and a member of the Hilltop Arts Foundation in Kwara. His poems are pu… Read more →

Fantomina, or, Love in a Maze is a novella by Eliza Haywood which charts an unnamed female protagonist’s pursuit of the charming, shallow Beauplaisir. Dealing with major themes such as identity, class… Read more →

I live in the EU and want to order books. Can I? Yes, you can… but Brexit, the gift that keeps on giving, means there are VAT implications. More information here. If you’re as confused as we are, pl… Read more →

Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (1898–1936) was a Spanish poet, playwright and theatre director. Widely associated with the Generation of ’27 and the artists who dwelt in the same c… Read more →

Based in the quiet suburb of Chafford Hundred, Thurrock, Fedora Mensah is an avid reader with a love for foreign films and a weakness for indulging in too much chocolate for her own good. When she is… Read more →

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A café in Brussels that puts people at their ease – artists with European politicians, their assistants and tousled intellectuals with bar staff, twenty-somethings in need of a job with thirty-somethi… Read more →

The Café Franck in Brussels’ Place Flagey puts people at their ease – artists with European politicians and their assistants, tousled intellectuals with bar staff, twenty-somethings in need of a job w… Read more →

The Café Franck in Brussels’ Place Flagey puts people at their ease – artists with European politicians and their assistants, tousled intellectuals with bar staff, twenty-somethings in need of a job w… Read more →

It starts as bloating, a hard curvature in my gut that won’t go away. I wonder if it’s my period, but it isn’t the right time. The cramps come slowly at first, like a rising tide, and then grow shorte… Read more →

‘Take care. The consequences of an act are often much more numerous and important than people have any idea of.’ Today W.S. Gilbert is best known for the comic operas he produced in collaboration with… Read more →

Although sadly neglected in English translation, George Sand was a monumentally important novelist of nineteenth-century France, and her works were better known in her day than those of Victor Hugo. F… Read more →

Frankie will be twenty-four by the time this book is published, which is one year from twenty-five, which is halfway to fifty. Whilst they mainly write poetry, they do write both fiction and script on… Read more →

Stephen Leacock is an unjustly neglected master of the short-story genre, once considered the best-known humorist in the world. Although he was a prolific writer, producing about fifty novels, biograp… Read more →

Alice hasn’t been home for a while – for seven years, in fact. But when her little sister Lo tries to take her own life, she has to return to the life she left behind. The change of scenery from Londo… Read more →

Alice hasn’t been home for a while – for seven years, in fact. But when her little sister Lo tries to take her own life, she has to return to the life she left behind. The change of scenery from Londo… Read more →

In over twenty poetry collections since 1982, John Greening has explored subjects as varied as Egypt, Captain Scott, WWI, classical music, Ben Jonson and Heathrow airport, but he has kept returning to… Read more →

Two hundred years ago Shelley and his companion Edward Williams sailed their boat Ariel out of the Gulf of Spezia towards Livorno and were never seen alive again. It is quite easy to see how they made… Read more →

Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a Russian novelist, short-story writer and essayist who had an immense and lasting impact on twentieth-century fiction, tackling areas that delve into the human psyche in the tr… Read more →

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) was an English writer, philosopher and literary critic.

Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1342–1400) was a poet. Although he wrote widely, he is remembered today for The Canterbury Tales (c.1387–1400) a cycle of linked tales told by a group of pilgrims. He is often cons… Read more →

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) was Nobel Prize-winning writer, political activist and critic. One of the most important writers of the twentieth century, he has been described as ‘second only to Shak… Read more →

Mary Ann Evans (1819–80), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist and translator. The author of many novels which are considered key to the Engli… Read more →

Born Eric Arthur Blair (1903–1950), George Orwell was an English journalist, writer and critic. Orwell devoted his life to working against extremism, and in his description of how authoritarian regime… Read more →

Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil, better known by her nom de plume George Sand (1804–76), was a French novelist and woman of letters. In her lifetime one of the most popular writers in Europe… Read more →

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) was an American writer, poet and playwright. She moved to France in 1903, where she lived with her partner Alice B. Toklas and set up a famous literary salon frequented by l… Read more →

Getting into publishing is famously difficult – but it’s so worth it! If we have any vacancies, we will post them here. We’ve compiled the following list of resources for those looking for their first… Read more →

Gina Goldhammer studied English and Creative Writing at Syracuse University, has a master’s degree in literature from Harvard, and after graduation worked briefly on Wall Street and at US News & W… Read more →

Ginger has loved poetry ever since discovering Dr Seuss’s Yertle the Turtle in childhood. She adores reading, writing, listening to and performing poetry and prose and was delighted to enrol on an Eng… Read more →

In 1953 a man wrote a play about waiting. In 1988 he sued five women for trying to perform it. It’s 2022 and we’re still waiting. Since Samuel Beckett’s ground-breaking Waiting for Godot first hit the… Read more →

Without spoiling it too much, I hope, Godot Is a Woman centres around a frustrated acting troupe trying to get permission to perform Beckett’s masterpiece. Dare I ask, what was the original inspiratio… Read more →

Gothic Fiction Offer ends Monday 1st November AuthorTitlePublication datePriceDescendingAscending The Yellow WallpaperCharlotte Perkins Gilman£7.69 BUY NOW Dracula’s GuestBram Stoker… Read more →

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First published in 1928, Federico García Lorca’s collection of Gypsy Ballads (Romancero gitano) marked his first major publication, and the beginning of his rise to fame. Depicting life in his native… Read more →

H.G. Wells (1866–1946) was a prolific writer best known for his genre-defining science-fiction novels, in particular The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man and The Time Machine. A socialist and a me… Read more →

Hannah grew up in Southampton, and then went on to study Religion and Theology in Bristol. She spends much of her time writing sapphic fantasy stories, though poetry was her first love. She was previo… Read more →

Hannah Snell (1723–1792) was an Englishwoman known for the acts described in The Female Soldier, or, The Surprising Life and Adventures of Hannah Snell: her husband, James Summes, a Dutch seaman, aban… Read more →

Relatively little is known about Hannah Snell; the only reason we know anything at all about her is down to the stories she told about her time as a soldier – most notably to Robert Walker, a London p… Read more →

Hans Christian Andersen (1805–75) was a Danish author, best remembered for his fairy tales, in particular the enduringly popular story of ‘The Little Mermaid’.

1 2 3 4 Latest titles → Making It Home Simon Mundy £8.75 BUY NOW Silent Movements Simon Mundy £8.79 BUY NOW Stupid Stories for Tough Times Andrew Crowther £8.79 BUY NOW By Fax to Ali… Read more →

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AuthorTitlePublication datePriceDescendingAscending Making It HomeSimon Mundy£8.75 BUY NOW Silent MovementsSimon Mundy£8.79 BUY NOW Stupid Stories for Tough TimesAndrew Crowther£8.79… Read more →

Heather Rodgers is an Ancient and Mediaeval History student at the University of Birmingham, and has previously been a runner-up in the 2018 Worcestershire Young Poet Laureate competition. She is keen… Read more →

William Scammell had only been writing poetry for twenty years when he died, just as he entered his sixties, yet – despite a series of publishing misfortunes – he left behind nine collections, and was… Read more →

Born and raised in a German coal-mining town, Heinrich studied modern languages and literature in Munich, Toronto and the USSR. After some sturm and drang years involving faraway continents, old vans… Read more →

In the county of Wiltshire, there are thirteen white horses carved on the chalk uplands. In Her Winter Song we find ourselves transported to a Wiltshire long past, surrounded by a host of characters t… Read more →

Van Jennings, a sociology student, and his two friends, Terry Nicholson and Jeff Margrave, set out one day to explore an uncharted area said to be home to a colony consisting entirely of women. Their… Read more →

Hilary Davies is poet, former Chair of the Poetry Society, a Hawthornden fellow, and an Eric Gregory Award Winner. She was Royal Literary Fund Fellow at King’s College, London 2012–16 and at the Briti… Read more →

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Latest titles → Bars Fight Lucy Terry Prince £2.75 Original price was: £2.75.£1.10Current price is: £1.10. BUY NOW The Burglar’s Christmas Willa Cather… Read more →

Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza (1878–1937) was a Uruguayan writer and poet who gained notoriety through short stories depicting the tragedy of survival, mental illness and the destruction of wild,… Read more →

First delivered as a speech to schoolgirls in Kent in 1926, this enchanting short essay by the towering Modernist writer Virginia Woolf celebrates the importance of the written word. With a measured b… Read more →

To celebrate the release of Elizabeth Train-Brown’s poetry collection, Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman we’ve pulled together some instructions for making an origami swan. Why? Well you may ask! P… Read more →

Iain Hood was born in Glasgow and grew up in the seaside town of Ayr. He attended the University of Glasgow and Jordanhill College, and later worked in education in Glasgow and the west country. He at… Read more →

Ian is poet-in-residence for The Academy of Urbanism and Barnsley FC. He presents The Verb every week on BBC Radio 3 and he’s a regular on BBC Breakfast, Coast, Pick of the Week, You & Yours, Last… Read more →

Ida Husted Harper (1851–1931) was a writer and activist who was pivotal in the women’s suffrage movement in America. She is best remembered today for taking up the editorship of volume four of the six… Read more →

Ieva Dapkevicius is a poet and biochemist from the Azores, Portugal, born into a Lithuanian-Portuguese family in 1998. Her first book was published at the age of nine (The Golden Horse, a children’s f… Read more →

Ilisha Thiru Purcell is a poet based in and from Newcastle upon Tyne. Ilisha is one of the three poets in the inaugural cohort of the Poets of Colour Incubator, and is a Young Creative Associate with… Read more →

In 1878 Gustave Flaubert looked on in horror as his publisher picked up a manuscript from the mysterious stage actress Sarah Bernhardt and published it in place of a new edition of his latest work, an… Read more →

Exponentially increasing levels of unemployment and simmering racial tension in Moss Side, inner Manchester, exploded into mass riots on the 8th of July 1981, following the siege of a police station.… Read more →

Exponentially increasing levels of unemployment and simmering racial tension in Moss Side, inner Manchester, exploded into mass riots on the 8th of July 1981, following the siege of a police station.… Read more →

‘Miranda slept in the orchard, lying in a long chair beneath the apple tree. Her book had fallen into the grass, and her finger still seemed to point… as if she had fallen asleep just there.’ First pu… Read more →

Inga Piotrowska is a Polish poet currently living in Manchester. Her first poetry book was published in Poland in 2018, and she was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize in 2023. Her English poetry was c… Read more →

George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vo… Read more →

We are usually able to offer inspection copies to UK institutions; due to rights restrictions some books are not available in other territories. Please use the form below to file your request, and we… Read more →

Inspirational Women from History AuthorTitlePublication datePriceDescendingAscending Bars FightLucy Terry Prince£2.75 Original price was: £2.75.£1.10Current price is: £1.10. BU… Read more →

Where are you Robin, in the rain? Do you know that it is Solstice – That the light is coming? A profound collection that explores Nature and the magic of the in-between, Interlude considers how humans… Read more →

We are IOSS compliant We are now IOSS compliant, which means that if you’re ordering from the EU you will see the tax listed on the checkout page, and your order will be delivered with the duties paid… Read more →

A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER Our subscribers are a vital part of what we do – put simply, in these difficult times, they help us to keep the lights on! Since you’ve made it to this page, I’m assuming tha… Read more →

Genocide. Climate collapse. Culture Wars. Physical War. The global picture in these Roaring Twenties can leave little to inspire and uplift, and rhetoric is rife aiming to stoke fires of hate and dist… Read more →

Interwoven: Poetry Celebrating Connectedness Following the success of the New Beginnings project in 2021, the Spectrum project in 2022, the Kinship project in 2023 and Building Bridges in 2024, the In… Read more →

Published during the heyday of fascism in Europe, It Can’t Happen Here is a chilling cautionary tale by one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century, which is still startlingly releva… Read more →

Ivy Raff is the author of What Remains / Qué queda (bilingual English/Spanish edition forthcoming 2023), winner of the Alberola International Poetry Prize, and Rooted and Reduced to Dust (forthcoming… Read more →

J.L. James studied Creative Arts at university before later training to become a nurse. During the pandemic she rekindled her passion for creative writing and began entering poetry competitions. Since… Read more →

Jack Michael Stacey is a graduate of the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts. His first play was shortlisted for Soho Theatre’s Verity Bargate Award, and he was the runner-up for the Sir Alec Guinness A… Read more →

Jade Leaf Willetts is a writer from Llanbradach, a strange, beautiful village in South Wales. He writes about extraordinary characters in ordinary worlds and has a penchant for unreliable narrators. T… Read more →

James Eno is the author of several novels.

Jane Austen (1775–1817) is one of the best known English novelists of all time. She is best remembered today for her novels critiquing the upper classes, in particular Sense and Sensibility, Pride and… Read more →

Jane Burn is an award-winning, working-class, pansexual, autistic poet, artist, parent and essayist. Her essays have appeared in New Defences of Poetry, The Friday Poem, Un/Natural Showcase for D/deaf… Read more →

Long, long ago in Japan there lived an old man and his wife. The old man was a good, kind-hearted, hard-working old fellow … First published in 1903, Japanese Fairy Tales is a classic compendium of Ja… Read more →

Jasmine Kaur is a queer writer/artist born in Moga, Punjab, and raised in too many places to name here. She likes to surround herself with stories and poetics in any medium, including audio, video, st… Read more →

Jayant Kashyap, a poet, essayist, translator and artist, has published two pamphlets and a zine, Water. His work appears in POETRY, Magma, Poetry Wales and elsewhere.

Jazz McCoull is a non-binary writer born and based in the north of England. Their work primarily examines themes of identity, embodiment and transformation through a lens of nature and spirituality. T… Read more →

Jean Gillespie is a visual artist and poet. She was brought up in a rural mining village in West Lothian, near the iconic Forth Rail Bridge. Jean started writing in 2020 during lockdown and has contin… Read more →

Jenna Pashley Smith is a writer and poet from the Midwestern United States. Her essays, short stories, and poems have appeared in Kaleidoscope, The Annals of Internal Medicine, Eastern Iowa Review, Th… Read more →

Since retiring from a career as an international adoption and fostering specialist, Jennifer Cousins has volunteered as a therapeutic counsellor with newly arrived asylum seekers. She has been deeply… Read more →

Jenny Mitchell is a winner of the Poetry Book Awards 2021 and joint winner of the Geoff Stevens Memorial Prize 2019. Her poems have been widely published and have won numerous competitions, most recen… Read more →

Jess Skyleson is a queer, autistic former aerospace engineer who began writing poetry after being diagnosed with stage-four cancer at the age of thirty-nine.  Currently in remission, they’re now explo… Read more →

Jessica Appleby was born in England and works as a Learning Support Assistant. She has a passion for writing fantasy novels and poetry. Obsessed with books and singing, she has been previously publish… Read more →

Originally from Darlington, Jessica studied Law at Newcastle University, focusing on public international law and human rights. After graduating, Jessica moved to London to work in the charity sector,… Read more →

Jessica Oakwood is anthologised in Spectrum.

Born and raised in London, Jessie Lee is a British-Chinese writer with a particular focus on experimental format and identity. She graduated from the University of Leeds with a BA in English and Compa… Read more →

Unfortunately we don’t have any vacancies at the moment, and we’re not able to take on any interns or students on work experience in the immediate future. For those looking to start out in publishing,… Read more →

John Gallas is an Aotearoa Poet, presently living in Leicestershire. He is published mostly by Carcanet, as well as by Five Leaves, Indigo Dreams, Cold Hub (NZ), New Walk Editions, SLG Press, Cerasus… Read more →

John Greening is recipient of several major prizes and a Cholmondeley Award. Beyond the many collections represented in The Interpretation of Owls: Selected Poems 1977–2022 (ed. Gardner), he has produ… Read more →

John Greening is the author of over twenty collections of poetry, most recently The Interpretation of Owls: Selected Poems 1977–2022. His essays on poetry are collected in Vapour Trails and A High Cal… Read more →

Julia Copus is a poet, biographer and children’s writer. Girlhood (Faber 2019) was winner of America’s Derek Walcott Prize for best poetry collection by a non-US citizen. Other awards include the Forw… Read more →

Junyi Chew currently resides on the outer edge of Leeds, having previously lived in Mexico, Brazil and Spain, and grown up in Kent in a Malaysian-Chinese family. She often explores liminal spaces in h… Read more →

Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and artist, best remembered for The Prophet, one of the best-selling books of all time. 

Karin Molde feels at home in Germany, Ireland and Tanzania. She is a teacher of German and English, and has been published in magazines like The Honest Ulsterman, Light Journal for Photography and Poe… Read more →

Karl Heinrich Marx (1818–83) was a German philosopher, historian and revolutionary. He is best remembered today for The Communist Manifesto and his four-volume Das Kapital. Friedrich Engels (1820–95)… Read more →

Kat Dixon writes about relationships, social justice and queer identity. You can find her poetry in The Rialto, Perverse, Butcher’s Dog, Queerlings, Mslexia, fourteen poems and ReCreation Anthology. S… Read more →

Kate studied Fine Art at Oxford Brookes University and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Graduating in 1992, she moved back to her native London, where for a time she slipped into the world… Read more →

Kathleen Mansfield Murry (1888–1923), known as Katherine Mansfield, was a New Zealand writer and literary critic, and an important figure in the Modernist movement. Although she wrote poetry as well,… Read more →

Kathryn was born and raised in east London by her loving working-class family. Despite struggling at school, she enjoys writing short stories and poems, and believes everyone should be able to express… Read more →

Kay Saunders is a young woman from the Cotswolds who has been writing creatively her whole life. A core source of her inspiration has come from her experiences as someone within the LGBT+ community, w… Read more →

Kerry Ryan lives in Folkestone in a house she loves with views of the English Channel. She writes poetry, plays and prose and is the contributing editor of So Long as You Write. Her writing has been f… Read more →

First published in 1921 as part of her ground-breaking short-story collection Monday or Tuesday, Kew Gardens follows the thoughts of a set of characters walking past a flower bed in the royal botanic… Read more →

Concepts of belonging and community have constantly evolving definitions, and have been at the centre of fierce debate in recent years. The first twenty-three years of the new millennium have seen a r… Read more →

Kinship Following the success of the New Beginnings project in 2021 and Spectrum project in 2022, the Kinship project seeks to continue celebrating identity through poetry. We want the resulting antho… Read more →

A trail-blazing writer of great repute in her day, but now unjustly neglected, Baroness Emmuska Orczy’s name was synonymous with the mystery genre in the early twentieth century, particularly for her… Read more →

Lana Silver is originally from London, but fell in love with Wales, and now lives in Cardiff with her other half and their pets (‘the fellas’). She has been writing and performing poetry since she was… Read more →

Laura Chouette published her first poetry collection When Dusk Falls in 2020. She was born in Austria and discovered her passion for writing in early childhood years. Later, she found her love for the… Read more →

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828–1910) is one of the highest-regarded writers of all time. His bibliography is vast, and many of his works run to huge extents – particularly his well-read novels;… Read more →

Jane Austen, one of the nation’s most beloved authors, whose face adorns our currency, surely needs no introduction, but while many are familiar with her groundbreaking novels, few have come across he… Read more →

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From the Publisher 25/02/2022 8.51am In the words of George Orwell, ‘Writers are persecuted in Russia… any attack on intellectual liberty, and on the concept of objective truth, threatens in the long… Read more →

In order to support her career as a poet, Lizzy Lister plays live soundtracks to silent films with the band Wurlitza and rents out Victorian railway carriages to holiday-makers in the Cornish village… Read more →

LJ is a poet and bookseller from London. She has a first-class degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Liverpool, and was a songwriter before focusing on poetry. She is passio… Read more →

Lloyd McDonagh and Salvatore Scarpa met whilst training at East 15 Acting School. Since graduating, they’ve been building their careers in the film and theatre industry, from performing in the West En… Read more →

London Theatre Week 2021 This year a lot of us are able to get back into theatres up and down the land, and London Theatre Week is in full swing. To celebrate, we’ve rounded up the drama in our list –… Read more →

Jane Austen, one of the nation’s most beloved authors, whose face adorns our currency, surely needs no introduction, but while many are familiar with her groundbreaking novels, and despite lending its… Read more →

Lucy Beckley is a writer, wanderer and wonderer. She can often be found trailing after her children on the beach, taking a moment to catch her breath, soak up the sunshine and find the beauty and joy… Read more →

Lucy Terry Prince (c.1730–1821) was taken to America as a slave, but her husband bought her her freedom in 1756. Bars Fight was her only work.

Lucy Zhang writes, codes and watches anime. Her work has appeared in The Molotov Cocktail, Interzone, Hayden’s Ferry Review and elsewhere. She has had two chapbooks published in 2022, Hollowed and Abs… Read more →

Luke is an actor, writer, director, co-founder of JLA Productions and Artistic Director of The Bridge House Theatre. He made his professional stage debut aged nine, his television debut at sixteen, an… Read more →

Lynne lives in Didsbury, Manchester. Her poems have been published in anthologies and magazines including PN Review, Stand and Acumen. Her fundamental fascination is what makes people tick: how they a… Read more →

M.A. Dubbs is an award-winning Mexican-American and LGBT poet from Indiana. For over a decade, Dubbs has published writing in magazines and anthologies across the globe. She is the author of the chapb… Read more →

The processes that drive modern politics in Europe have deep and complex origins. Patterns of migration, invasion and dominance, formed over several thousand years, still determine Europe’s cultural l… Read more →

Mariyam Karolia is a deaf poet and storyteller from Bradford. Recently selected by the Genesis Foundation as a 2023 Emerging Writer, she has been shortlisted a number of times for poetry and short sto… Read more →

Martha Grogan is a writer from the Isle of Wight. They’re in their final year at the University of Kent, studying literature, creative writing and journalism. They live in Canterbury with their housem… Read more →

Martin Bennett lives in Rome where he teaches and contributes occasional articles to Wanted in Rome. He was the 2015 winner of the John Dryden Translation prize.

Martins Deep is an Urhobo poet based in Zaria. He is a photographer and digital artist, and is currently a student at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. He has pieces published or forthcoming in Magma Po… Read more →

Mary Collier (c.1688–1762) was an English poet and labourer. Born in Midhurst, West Sussex to poor parents, she was educated at home, and went on to become a washerwoman, brewer and manual labourer. S… Read more →

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) was an English novelist, remembered for her 1818 Gothic novel Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She was the daughter of writer and philosopher Mar… Read more →

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–97) was an immensely important writer, often considered a founder of feminist thought. Although she wrote various novels, treatises and travel books, Wollstonecraft is best r… Read more →

Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826–98) was a writer and activist who was pivotal in the women’s suffrage movement in America. She is best remembered today for the six-volume encyclopaedia series she produced i… Read more →

Matt Leonard is a practitioner psychologist, with a particular interest in supporting LGBTQ+ youth. Being a LGBTQ+ youth himself once (albeit a long time ago), his poetry builds on his own experiences… Read more →

Matthew Arnold (1822–88) was an English poet, critic and cultural commentator best remembered today for his poem ‘Dover Beach’. He was also a school inspector, and an early proponent for state schools… Read more →

May Sinclair (Mary Amelia St Clair, 1863–1946) was a popular British novelist, essayist, literary critic and poet. She was an active suffragist, and wrote pamphlets for the Woman Writers’ Suffrage Lea… Read more →

Maya Chessman is an illustrator living in Norwich, making work that is detailed and story-led, often inspired by nature and folklore. As well as creating commissioned work for editorial and publishing… Read more →

Author Harry is divorced, depressed, out of contract and unsure what she wants to do with the rest of her life. She invents a character Natalie – a braver, bolder version of herself – whom she begins… Read more →

Mea Andrews is a writer from Georgia, who currently resides in Hong Kong. She has just finished her MFA from Lindenwood University, and is only recently back on the publishing scene. You can find her… Read more →

Melissa is originally from Liverpool and now lives in Glasgow. They draw inspiration from existing authentically as themselves and using this to embrace those who feel they cannot be visible just now.… Read more →

Mia Jasmine Rhodes, also known as Ginger, is a nineteen-year-old writer, poet, aspiring surrealist filmmaker and Art History student. She can often be found reading novels with unlikeable female prota… Read more →

Michael Copp edited Richard Aldington’s A Fool i’ the Forest with Elizabeth Vandiver.

Michael Volpe O.B.E. is a writer and opera company leader best known for founding Opera Holland Park. Born to an Italian immigrant family in London, Michael attended Woolverstone Hall school, where he… Read more →

Michèle Clement is a retired Consultant Dermatologist with two amazing sons and daughters-in-law and four wonderful grandchildren. She lives with her Civil Partner, Stephanie, and a naughty black Cock… Read more →

Miles Beard lives in Edinburgh and teaches at the Open University in Scotland. Educated in the US and UK, he has degrees in music and literature and previously taught English and Creative Writing in T… Read more →

Millicent Fawcett (1847–1929) was an English writer and activist who was pivotal in the women’s suffrage movement in the United Kingdom, leading the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS… Read more →

A writer from the west of Ireland, Miriam Burke’s short stories have been widely published in anthologies and journals, including The Manchester Review, Litro Magazine, Fairlight Shorts, The Honest Ul… Read more →

‘Sometimes men are kissing. Men are sometimes kissing and sometimes drinking. Men are sometimes kissing one another…’ One of the foremost writers of the twentieth century, Gertrude Stein was marked fo… Read more →

Molly J. Evans is an 18-year-old poet from South Wales. She is soon to be a student of English Language and Literature at Balliol College, Oxford. She is a keen photographer, writer and musician, and… Read more →

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  Support Renard’s publishing with a monthly subscription, and you’ll get: – A free RENARD PRESS tote bag – A first edition of each book, in advance of its official publication date – A 20% disco… Read more →

  Support Renard’s publishing with a monthly subscription, and you’ll get: – A free RENARD PRESS tote bag – A first edition of each book, in advance of its official publication date – A 20% disco… Read more →

  Support Renard’s publishing with a monthly subscription, and you’ll get: – A free RENARD PRESS tote bag – A first edition of each book, in advance of its official publication date – A 20% disco… Read more →

First published in 1925, set ‘one Wednesday in mid-June’, Mrs Dalloway charts the lives of several characters across a day in London. While Clarissa Dalloway goes about preparing for a high-society pa… Read more →

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The countdown to the millennium has begun, and people are losing their heads. A so-called Y2K expert gives a presentation to Scotland’s eccentric Tech Laird T.S. Mole’s entourage in Edinburgh, and soo… Read more →

The countdown to the millennium has begun, and people are losing their heads. A so-called Y2K expert gives a presentation to Scotland’s eccentric Tech Laird T.S. Mole’s entourage in Edinburgh, and soo… Read more →

Nadeem Zaman is the author of the novels In the Time of the Others, a nominee for the 2019 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, Culture Shocks, and a collection of stories Up in the Main House and Ot… Read more →

Nadia Kabir Barb is a British Bangladeshi writer and journalist. Her work has been published in international literary journals and anthologies including Wasafiri, The Missing Slate, Open Road Review,… Read more →

Naoise Gale is a poet from West Yorkshire who writes about mental illness and addiction. She was runner-up in the AUB International Poetry Prize 2023, and first-prize winner of the Ledbury Poetry Comp… Read more →

Naomi Dean grew up on a farm in Minnesota. She has taught English and Spanish in Brooklyn, New York and Palo Alto, California. She currently teaches English as a Second Language to students at a publi… Read more →

Naomi Madlock is an exhausted poet and private tutor from Bristol. Her work has appeared in Razz, UEA MA Poetry Anthology and Agapanthus Collective. At the University of Exeter, she won the Gamini Sal… Read more →

Natasha Bell is an author and researcher. Her novels This Nowhere Place (2021) and His Perfect Wife (2018) are published by Penguin. She lived and studied in York and Chicago in her twenties, then mov… Read more →

Neshma is an aspiring writer and film director. She is ethnically Assyrian Iraqi, grew up in Germany and lives in London. Her creative work explores themes of cultural identity, language and grief.

‘I’d try anything that promised to free me from the prison of my body and its memories.’ A mysterious suicide pandemic sweeps the world, leaving nations reeling, pointing fingers. Losing her parents t… Read more →

Watch on YouTube or read below… Alternative Now At the edge of art, extinction and technology, we rediscover what it means to be human. A conversation on reality, transgression, and evolution. When ev… Read more →

New Beginnings is a poetry collection with a difference – resulting from an international competition seeking to find those whose voices were silenced in 2020, the resulting anthology forms a celebrat… Read more →

New Beginnings Over the last year we’ve been living in a suspended state of fear and confusion, and we are all fed up. Political discourse has been toxic, relationships strained, and it feels as thoug… Read more →

Here you will find all of the media resources we currently have available. Please use the links below to find what you need – if there’s anything you need which isn’t listed below, the relevant contac… Read more →

Ngoi Hui Chien is a Malaysian who will soon pursue a PhD in English literature at Victoria University of Wellington. He also holds an MA in the same subject from the University of Leeds. His research… Read more →

London born, Hackney based writer Niam narrates his experience of class, race and loss through his novels, scripts and poetry. Themes of failure, growing up in inner London and the existential dread o… Read more →

Nightmare Abbey is a novella by Thomas Love Peacock, first published in 1818, widely considered to be Peacock’s most enduringly popular work. The narrative centres on Christopher Glowry, a miserly wid… Read more →

Nisha Bhakoo has three poetry collections published: You Found a Beating Heart (The Onslaught Press, 2016), Black & White Dream (Broken Sleep Books, 2018) and Spectral Forest (The Onslaught Press,… Read more →

Nnadi Samuel holds a BA in English and Literature from the University of Benin. His micro-chapbook Nature Knows a Little About Slave Trade will be published in 2023. Nnadi has three times been named B… Read more →

Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan is a speculative writer of Izzi, Abakaliki ancestry. He is a medical laboratory science student, and his poetry has been nominated for the Forward Prize, the Pushcart Prize… Read more →

William Sydney Porter (1862–1910), better known as O. Henry, was an American writer best known for his short stories, especially ‘The Gift of the Magi’. An early master of the genre, his work became s… Read more →

Octavia Hill (1838–1912) was an English social reformer who campaigned for the improvement of housing and access to public spaces. In this capacity she is widely credited with a leading role in preven… Read more →

‘So let’s build the tension – everybody put your hands on your legs and give us a drum roll please! Stamp your feet! Here we go!’ It’s the final performance of a Cinderella panto in a moth-eaten, regi… Read more →

1999. Lucy is in labour. She’s just been handed a document to sign and her sense of self is beginning to deteriorate. 2024. Claire is an art student. Her latest panic attack means her art course could… Read more →

Olaudah Equiano (c.1745–97) was a writer and abolitionist. Born in the Kingdom of Benin (now southern Nigeria), he was enslaved and taken to America, where he was put to work in several positions, inc… Read more →

‘Novels, one would have thought, would have been devoted to influenza, epic poems to typhoid, odes to pneumonia, lyrics to toothache. But no – with a few exceptions… literature does its best to mainta… Read more →

George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vo… Read more →

Alice is becoming more and more forgetful. Her daughter Mandy is always on hand to help out, but is starting to feel the strain. One day a long-forgotten photograph stirs a memory and lures Alice back… Read more →

What is your babysitter doing when you’re not there? Fifteen-year-old Ashleigh is clever and charming, all too ready to rush to the rescue of parents in need of relief, and she soon becomes the neighb… Read more →

Many musical and theatrical traditions walk the very narrow path between the sublime and the ridiculous, but perhaps none more so than opera, which, while maintaining an elegant reputation, makes a sh… Read more →

First published in 1688, Oroonoko, or, The Royal Slave is a short, politically charged novella by the Restoration playwright – and spy – Aphra Behn, and is arguably one of the founding texts of the no… Read more →

George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vo… Read more →

Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854–1900) was an author, poet and one of the best-known playwrights in the English canon. His private life is widely discussed, since his sexuality and relations… Read more →

Today best remembered as one of the three original founders of the National Trust, Octavia Hill was a pioneering social reformer whose work saw education and housing conditions improved for London’s p… Read more →

Overcomer Ibiteye is a poet and writer from Nigeria. Her works have been published in anthologies and magazines including Land Luck Review, Iskanchi and others. She was a finalist in the 2021 African… Read more →

Oyinmiebi Youdeowei, better known as Miebi, is a fifteen-year-old Nigerian-born writer. She was raised in south-east England and has always loved expressing her creativity in different ways. She recen… Read more →

Oz is a resolutely European poet, whose work has been widely published in international journals and anthologies. He has published quite a few full collections and chapbooks, including Learning to Hav… Read more →

Ozzy Welch is a student at King Edward VI College at Stourbridge, and rediscovered a love of poetry through their English Literature A-level. Their poetry explores queer culture, intimacy and the blur… Read more →

Why are so many children investing in alcohol, pornography and guns? What does your bank really do with your money? Are you a Pension Gangster, and if you are, how can you get out of the game? Tim Ewi… Read more →

The debut poetry collection from a talented, fresh-voiced poet, People: Unfinished Poems is a lyrical, thought-provoking and moving selection that observes and enjoys the beauty and strangeness of peo… Read more →

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Born in the village of Haydock, formerly in West Lancashire, Peter is the second eldest of four children born to working-class parents Leslie and Shirley Hill. After an eight-year hiatus, Peter began… Read more →

Peter Kent is the author and illustrator of almost thirty books. After a short spell at art school, he honed his illustration technique as a history teacher, bringing eras to life on the blackboard. H… Read more →

Philippa Dawson is a queer and neurodivergent writer, producer and performer, known for The Rebirthing Club (Aesthetica Festival, BAFTA) and her various appearances on stages/screens in both London an… Read more →

In 1773, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral became the first book of poetry by an African-American author to be published. At the tender age of seven, Phillis had been brought to Massachus… Read more →

Phillis Wheatley (1753–84) was the first African American to publish a book of poetry. Taking her name from the slave ship, The Phillis, that brought her to Massachusetts and the well-to-do Wheatley f… Read more →

What was it that got you through the Covid-19 pandemic? For some it was long walks; others turned to home baking. For millions it was video games, a booming industry which exploded in popularity over… Read more →

I turned to video games in 2020 to help me forget about the outside, pandemic-ravaged world. As a journalist in a busy newsroom in Cardiff, we kept working throughout, but I suddenly found myself feel… Read more →

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Renard Press is proud to publish a series of poetry anthologies that provide a platform for voices from across the globe, with a particular eye on those who feel they have not been traditionally well… Read more →

George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vo… Read more →

George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vo… Read more →

The poetry of Dylan Thomas has long been heralded as amongst the greatest of the Modern period, and along with his play, Under Milk Wood, his books are amongst the best-loved works in the literary can… Read more →

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Priyanka Kelly Burns is a storyteller at heart. Kelly (as she is affectionately known), is in Law School in the South West of England, where she currently resides. She is proudly South African: born i… Read more →

Against the backdrop of brutal invasion, it is much easier for right-wing figures to target marginalised groups, and during wartime the queer community is exceedingly vulnerable to persecution, scapeg… Read more →

Rachel Burns lives on the outskirts of Durham. She has a poetry pamphlet in print, A Girl in a Blue Dress. She came second in the Julian Lennon Prize for Poetry and was longlisted in the National Poet… Read more →

Radclyffe Hall (1880–1943) was an avant-garde English writer, best known for the novel The Well of Loneliness, an early portrayal of lesbianism in literature, which was banned upon publication, despit… Read more →

Raina Muriithi is a young adult who writes about the unheard black experience. She grew up in Cambridgeshire for most of her life, apart from six years spent living in Tanzania. She is fluent in both … Read more →

Rayne Affonso lives in Trinidad and Tobago, where she is double-majoring in Spanish and English Literature at the University of the West Indies. Her work has been published in Pilcrow & Dagger, Th… Read more →

Not everyone has access to books, and sometimes playing it forward can make all the difference. We’re proud to be partnering with Bookbanks, a charity that brings books to foodbanks. You can find out… Read more →

Rebel Queers is a group of queer activists who work to reclaim their right to the city of Kyiv. They do not define themselves by being against anything, but rather by honouring queer people and realis… Read more →

Climate collapse. Culture wars. Physical wars. The global picture in these Roaring Twenties can leave little to inspire and uplift, and rhetoric is rife aiming to stoke fires of hate and distrust. But… Read more →

Regeneration: Poetry Exploring the Environment Following the success of the New Beginnings project in 2021, the Spectrum project in 2022, the Kinship project in 2023, Building Bridges in 2024 and the… Read more →

If, like us, you think our Regeneration project is really important, we’d love your help! If you’re able to, please do consider sponsoring the project. We’ll add your name to a special ‘thanks’ page i… Read more →

If, like us, you think our Regeneration project is really important, we’d love your help! If you’re able to, please do consider sponsoring the project. We’ll add your name to a special ‘thanks’ page i… Read more →

If, like us, you think our Regeneration project is really important, we’d love your help! If you’re able to, please do consider sponsoring the project. We’ll add your name to a special ‘thanks’ page i… Read more →

If, like us, you think our Regeneration project is really important, we’d love your help! If you’re able to, please do consider sponsoring the project. We’ll add your name to a special ‘thanks’ page i… Read more →

Relearning to Read: Adventures in Not-Knowing invites you to turn the way you read upside down and see what falls out. Drawing on an approach to reading developed over more than a decade of interactio… Read more →

Relearning to Read: Adventures in Not-Knowing invites you to turn the way you read upside down and see what falls out. Drawing on an approach to reading developed over more than a decade of interactio… Read more →

British South Asian poetry is flourishing, but it is still not being amply reflected in mainstream publishing. The Third Space project was conceived by award winning artist and poet, Suman Gujral, and… Read more →

Renard Press is thrilled to announce that it has made its first acquisition: Iain Hood’s debut novel, This Good Book. As reported in the Bookseller, the Publisher said: ‘I’m absolutely delighted to be… Read more →

Renard Press is pleased to announce that it has acquired world rights to the timely, haunting novel about love, betrayal and belonging by Reshma Ruia, Still Lives. Synopsis: The glow of my cigarette p… Read more →

Renard Press is pleased to announce that it has acquired world rights to the timely poetry collection by Simon Mundy, Waiting for Music, featuring poems written for a wide variety of works as varied a… Read more →

Renard Press is thrilled to announce that it has acquired the haunting debut play by Emma Zadow, Fridge. Set against the background of rural Norfolk, Fridge centres on the dysfunctional relationship b… Read more →

Renard Press is pleased to announce that it has acquired world rights to the debut novel by Jade Leaf Willetts, The Green Indian Problem, a story about a young boy who the world thinks is a girl. Syno… Read more →

RENARD PRESS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2024 January 2025 It’s a new year, but we’re just taking a moment to look at the great books we’ve published in 2024 – you’ll find a selection of our favourites below, w… Read more →

RENARD PRESS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2025 January 2026 50% off books of the year It’s a new year, but we’re just taking a moment to look at the great books we’ve published in 2025 – you’ll find a selection… Read more →

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AuthorTitlePublication datePriceDescendingAscending A Letter to a HinduLeo Tolstoy£5.50 BUY NOW Politics and the English LanguageGeorge Orwell£5.50 BUY NOW Politics vs. LiteratureGeorge Or… Read more →

In 2025 Renard turns five years old, and this volume celebrates the first half-decade of its operation. A Renard Press Edition, this anthology is a special numbered limited-edition of the Publisher’s… Read more →

We’re delighted to say that Renard’s publisher, Will Dady, won this year’s Ola Gotkowska Young Publisher of the Year Award (2023) at the Independent Publishing Awards. More information can be found on… Read more →

Renee Emerson is the author of the poetry collections Keeping Me Still, Threshing Floor and Church Ladies, the chapbook The Commonplace Misfortunes of Everyday Plants and the middle grade novel Why Si… Read more →

Reshma Ruia is an award-winning author and poet. She has a PhD and Master’s in Creative Writing from Manchester University, as well as a Bachelor and Master’s from the London School of Economics. Her… Read more →

If, in the very unlikely event you receive a damaged item in the post, we will replace it free of charge to you – please contact us within a calendar month of the dispatch notification with your order… Read more →

Richard Aldington (1892–1962) was an English writer and war poet associated with the Imagist movement, and his fifty-year writing career covered poetry, fiction, literary criticism and biography. Aldi… Read more →

Launched in June 2020, Renard Press is a publisher of classic and contemporary fiction, non-fiction, theatre and poetry. Our raison d’être is simple: we publish good writing, properly edited. We hope… Read more →

Roisín Harkin is a mother of four young children, originally from the Inishowen Peninsula in Co. Donegal, Ireland, and now living in Solihull, West Midlands. An arts graduate of the University of Ulst… Read more →

Rosalie Alston grew up in the Essex countryside, and now lives in Bristol, where she enjoys the community poetry scene, which is diverse and vibrant, with so many supportive poets. She has had poems p… Read more →

Rose Cook is a poet based in the South West. She co-founded the popular Devon poetry and performance forum One Night Stanza, as well as a poetry performance group Dangerous Cardigans. She has worked a… Read more →

Rose Diell was born and raised in London but her heritage stems from various places beyond the British Isles. A lover of language in all its forms, she speaks French, Italian and Arabic, and has lived… Read more →

Rosie Gliddon was born and raised in Chelmsford, Essex, and now lives in London, where she has resided for the last few years. After studying English Literature at College in Southend-on-Sea, Rosie we… Read more →

Rush is twenty-two years old and studies English at the University of St Andrews. They have two dogs. They are deeply fond of Old English poetry and Midwestern American poetry and Midwestern horror.

Ruth Irwin is a writer, teacher and poet from the south-east of England. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Goldsmith’s, University of London. Following a diagnosis of ADHD, much of Ruth’s poetry… Read more →

S.C. Flynn was born in a small town in Australia of Irish origin and now lives in Dublin. His poetry has been published in over 100 journals and magazines around the world. The Colour of Extinction is… Read more →

The life of fifteenth-century heroine Joan of Arc is the stuff of legend, and her cruel death (burnt at the stake aged just nineteen) led to her being declared a martyr, granting her an extraordinary… Read more →

Hector Hugh Munro (1870–1916), known by his nom de plume, Saki, whose humorous writings are amongst the best known in the English literary canon, is widely considered to be a master of the short-story… Read more →

Saki’s Cats rounds up the tales about cats, big and small, by the undisputed master of the short story. ‘Tobermory’, one of Saki’s most famous pieces, demonstrates the danger that would ensue from gra… Read more →

The undisputed master of the short story, Saki’s name is synonymous with brilliant writing that satirises Edwardian Society, and his plays were no exception. In his only full-length play, ‘The Watched… Read more →

As recounted by the Roman poet Ovid, a young nymph, Salmacis, one day spied Hermaphroditus bathing; consumed with passion, she entered the water and, begging the gods to allow them to stay together, t… Read more →

Salmacis came from a fascination with Greek myth – both as a religion and an ancient history. These are just a few of the stories that inspired some of the poems in this collection. Daphne and Apollo,… Read more →

Salomé, the haunting one-act tragedy that marks Wilde’s first great success in the theatre, retells the Biblical story in which the stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas demands the head of John… Read more →

May the residents of the real Saltburn-by-the-Sea and neighbouring towns forgive my mermaids, my nuclear power stations, my foetus museums and so on and so on. They were written with love. Welcome to… Read more →

Sam Honeybone is an eighteen-year-old musician and poet from Doncaster, South Yorkshire. He is a first-year classics student at Jesus College, Oxford, and was inspired to write poetry having studied t… Read more →

Sam Szanto lives in Durham. She is a poetry and prose writer, and an editor at The Afterpast Review. Her collaborative pamphlet, Splashing Pink was recently published by Hedgehog Press, and is a Poetr… Read more →

Samah Alnuaimi was born in Iraq. Unfortunately, during the Iraq War she had to leave because it was no longer safe. Her family moved to Syria, and from there to England, where they settled in Bradford… Read more →

Sarah Bernhardt (c.1844–1923) was a French stage actress whose career was followed by the public with extraordinary interest. As a writer Bernhardt is best known for her memoirs, although her short no… Read more →

Dr Sarah Creel is the Lead Academic Writing Instructor and Director of the Research Communication Certificate in the Graduate School at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Sarah has over 13 years… Read more →

Sarah Hemings is a poet and chartered librarian from Bristol. Her debut pamphlet, Night after Night in the Quiet House, was published on National Poetry Day 2022. She has won First Prize in the Glouce… Read more →

Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909) was an American novelist and short-story writer whose ‘local colour’ works remain amongst the most important for detailing life in the American countryside. Best known to… Read more →

Sarojini Naidu (1879–1949) was an Indian activist and politician, who is notable for being the first Governor of United Provinces after India became independent. In her lifetime she was also a success… Read more →

Renard Kicks off Playscripts Series with Emma Zadow Renard Press is thrilled to announce that it has acquired the haunting debut play by Emma Zadow, Fridge. Set against the background of rural Norfolk… Read more →

Seeking the Spoils is a fast-moving thriller from James Eno that contrasts the raw beauty of Scotland with the machinations of the European Parliament. Young MEP Seona Mackenzie and New York Times jou… Read more →

You followed me in And you crackle alive… Could call you By my name now you look like the first man. I fashion you into him. I make you my weapon. Feeling deadly? With London serving as the backdrop f… Read more →

The Caribbean island of St James in the 1980s should have been paradise. Instead the post-independence rulers turned it into a perverted and corrupt private fiefdom. The US would not act because its G… Read more →

Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941) was an American novelist and short story writer, best remembered for his short-story collection Winesburg, Ohio.

George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vo… Read more →

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Silent Faces Theatre (Cordelia Stevenson, Josie Underwood and Jack Wakely) have been making seriously silly theatre since 2015. Combining their unique style of physical theatre, clowning, mime and new… Read more →

Silent Movements brings all Simon Mundy’s experience in politics and the music business together. Set in 1980 at the end of the Cold War, it tells the story of a Soviet violinist being helped by a you… Read more →

One of the most famous novelists in the English literary canon, the likes of Middlemarch and Silas Marner are household names, but Eliot’s essays are often overlooked. This collection brings together… Read more →

Simon Jackson has had more than twenty plays performed, and was British Gas Young Playwright of the Year when he was still a young playwright. His poetry is published internationally, and he has won s… Read more →

Simon Mundy studied drama at university, but soon veered towards writing poetry and reviews, and at 23 he found himself a music critic and arts journalist. A champion of the arts, he has served as Dir… Read more →

Harry Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951) was an American writer and playwright who, in 1930, became the first US writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is best remembered for his novels Main Stre… Read more →

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Kavi Naidu is a great poet in the tradition of Wordsworth and Shelley (well, he thinks so, anyway). Pompous, sentimental and hell-bent on finding literary fame and romantic glory, he is catapulted fro… Read more →

Sophie is a trans femme poet and essayist based in Cambridge and London. She hatched in 2021. She loves partying and reading and is a bit of a polymath, writing about literature, world history, ethics… Read more →

Sophie Sparham is a poet and writer from Derby. She has written commissions for BBC Radio 4, The V&A and The People’s History Museum. She co-hosts Word Wise, which won best spoken-word night at th… Read more →

Sora Li Anders was born and raised in Guam, a US territory in the Pacific Ocean. Since writing her first couplet declaring an undying love for pizza at age five, she has been a prolific author of vary… Read more →

In this exclusive, Iain Hood and Renard Press surreptitiously brought Dame Muriel Spark and Jean Cocteau together to discuss their roles in My Book of Revelations. And they almost do. SPARK Hello, Jea… Read more →

The concept of identity – be it class, gender, sexuality, national, institutional, or anything else we define ourselves by – has gone through radical change over the past half-century, and the idea of… Read more →

Spectrum The Roaring Twenties are off to a troubled start, and although 2022 is a different world in many ways to the beginning of the pandemic – thankfully the majority of us are not in lockdown any… Read more →

Srishti Jain is an Indian poet and medical writer based in Sydney. Her poems are forthcoming in the 2023 Ros Spencer and The Aleph Review anthologies. Her work has previously been published in various… Read more →

Stephen P.H. Butler Leacock (1869–1944) was a teacher, writer and one of the best-known humorists in the English-speaking world in the early twentieth century. Although he was a prolific writer, publi… Read more →

Steve Baggs is a poet and writer who was born in Deal in Kent and now lives in Canterbury. He has been published in several poetry magazines and is putting together his first collection of poetry. He… Read more →

Steve Denehan lives in Kildare in Ireland with his wife Eimear and daughter Robin. He is the author of two chapbooks and four poetry collections. Winner of the Anthony Cronin Poetry Award and twice wi… Read more →

‘The glow of my cigarette picks out a dark shape lying on the ground. I bend down to take a closer look. It’s a dead sparrow. I wondered if I had become that bird, disoriented and lost.’ Young, handso… Read more →

What inspired Still Lives Home and displacement are twin motifs that run through Still Lives. The novel is a multi-cultural family saga about betrayal, love and belonging. The, protagonist, PK Malik,… Read more →

In Stone Children Britain’s love – and usage – of the Continent is laid bare. A couple eat their way through France and are overcome by greed; an ashes-scattering goes terribly wrong; a house is haunt… Read more →

Sometimes I feel my life is like a series of short stories. The stories I gathered over the years for my short-story collection for Hay at Renard Press range widely in subject, but are connected throu… Read more →

Originally from Prescot, a village just outside Liverpool, Stuart has studied Applied Linguistics and History, and is just a few more biros away from completing a PhD in history. He teaches aspiring a… Read more →

In Stupid Stories for Tough Times a woodland spirit causes havoc in suburbia; a wayward uncle causes suspicion in the family; a ferocious troll seeks a friend; and Churchill’s statue goes walkabout in… Read more →

The best writing advice I know is attributed to Somerset Maugham. ‘There are three rules for the writing of a novel,’ he explained to a student. ‘Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.’ I’ve alway… Read more →

24th April 2026: We’re currently on a hiatus in submissions while we catch up on reading. We hope to reopen in a few months, and shall update the website with an expected opening date when we can. In… Read more →

A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER Our subscribers are a vital part of what we do – put simply, in these difficult times, they help us to keep the lights on! Since you’ve made it to this page, I’m assuming tha… Read more →

Suman Gujral’s history as a child of refugees and immigrants underlies her practice. Her parents were forcibly displaced by the 1947 Partition of India. It was during her MA that she came to understan… Read more →

Summer Reading It’s officially summer, and to celebrate we’re offering you 50% off all of our contemporary fiction, poetry and non-fiction. Whether you’re jetting off or relaxing at home, travel the w… Read more →

RENARD PRESS is proud to work with a range of companies that represent quality and independence in their field. Information on those we work with is below. If you would like to contact us regarding a… Read more →

Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) was a writer and activist who was pivotal in the women’s suffrage movement in America. She is best remembered today for the six-volume encyclopaedia series she produced in… Read more →

Susan Cartwright-Smith is a writer, workshop leader and illustrator from Carlisle. She has made costumes for Manchester Royal Exchange, English National Opera and ACT Youth Theatre, Carlisle, and fabr… Read more →

Susanna Centlivre (c.1670–1723) was a wildly successful playwright, actress and poet. Her play The Busybody was an overnight success on the London stage, and remained one of the few comedies in the co… Read more →

Susannah Mary Paull was the translator of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Fir Tree.

RENARD PRESS feels strongly that, in 2026, we cannot ignore our impact on the planet, so the following are the biggest areas we feel need addressing in the industry – and this, our promise to our read… Read more →

An extraordinary writer whose work has long been woefully neglected in English translation, Quiroga’s tales – and the life of the writer behind them – are a fever dream of morbidity and horror. Freque… Read more →

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The Alchemy is a robust, frank and loving guide to an often opaque industry. As well as offering tips on working in gentle increments and re-imagining what productivity and the work of writing look li… Read more →

The Alchemy is about writing a book – a work of fiction of whatever kind – when you thought you could not. It is a book for everyone, but with a particular eye on those who are tired and lacking in co… Read more →

← Back to The Alchemy Throughout the pages of The Alchemy there are resources – including permissions cards and lists of questions. Here is where you will find these – they’re completely open acc… Read more →

← Back to The Alchemy At various places in The Alchemy I ask you to let me know how you got on, to get back to me with feedback. Here’s where you do so! Please fill in this quick Google form, and… Read more →

Jumping into the midst of a journey, in Prelude we find the Burnell family in a cart, removing their lives from town to a house in the Wellington countryside. Isolated but enduring, the family become… Read more →

‘That fiction is a lady, and a lady who has somehow got herself in to trouble, is a thought that must often have struck her admirers.’ Penned in 1927 but first published posthumously in The Moment and… Read more →

‘I am fond of paintings, furniture, tapestry, houses and flowers and even vegetables and fruit trees. I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.’ First published in 1933 at the height… Read more →

‘“What?” said the reverend gent, “Dance through my hours of leisure? Smoke? Bathe myself with scent? Play croquet? Oh, with pleasure!”’ Today W.S. Gilbert is best known for the comic operas he produce… Read more →

Part of Renard’s Christmas Card Classics series, 25% of the RRP of each book sold goes to Three Peas. This year, instead of a Christmas card, why not send a book? He drew a long sigh of rich content.… Read more →

The Busybody is the most popular comedy by the eighteenth-century playwright Susanna Centlivre. The play centres on two couples trying to form a relationship against the wills of their guardians, and… Read more →

First published in 1922, The Camomile opens with Ellen and her brother Ronald living under the strict oversight of their religious aunt in Glasgow. Her confidence bolstered, having spent three years s… Read more →

A group of pilgrims assembles at the Tabard Inn in Southwark and sets out for the shrine of Thomas à Becket in Canterbury. Along the way they tell tales to one another, painting pictures of their vari… Read more →

Part of Renard’s Christmas Card Classics series, 25% of the RRP of each book sold goes to Three Peas. This year, instead of a Christmas card, why not send a book? We were ushered into this banqueting… Read more →

Under a sky the colour of extinction you choose your own conclusion. The Earth might have already done so… and ten thousand years of civilisation will shrink to an unrepeated moment. The Colour of Ext… Read more →

WRITING THE WORLD AFTER US When I began writing The Colour of Extinction, I was trying to understand what it means to live in a world where the future has already started without us. The book grew out… Read more →

Working men of all countries, unite! First published in 1848, The Communist Manifesto is one of the most influential pieces of writing of all time. Written by two leading German philosophers whose nam… Read more →

Jane Austen, one of the nation’s most beloved authors, whose face adorns our currency, surely needs no introduction, but while many are familiar with her groundbreaking novels, few have come across th… Read more →

It is estimated that there are around 10 million carers in the UK alone – unpaid people who look after someone who needs help because of their illness, frailty, disability, mental health problem or ad… Read more →

It is estimated that there are around 10 million carers in the UK alone – unpaid people who look after someone who needs help because of their illness, frailty, disability, mental health problem or ad… Read more →

William Morris is perhaps best known today for the beautiful textile designs he created under the banner of Morris & Co, which continue to decorate homes around the globe. As one of the leading li… Read more →

This series of Dylan Thomas’s work, beautifully designed in handsome new livery, seeks to introduce a new generation of readers to the great writer’s work. Under Milk Wood ‘To begin at the beginning:… Read more →

The Elixir follows The Alchemy, a robust, frank and loving guide to an often opaque industry. As well as offering tips on working in gentle increments and re-imagining what productivity and the work o… Read more →

I wrote a story of the Resurrection, where Jesus gets up and feels very sick about everything, and can’t stand the old crowd any more… ‘I am risen!’ First published in 1929, The Escaped Cock – or, as… Read more →

Hannah Snell’s story begins with tragedy. In 1744 she married James Summs, a Dutch seaman. Soon after their marriage she fell pregnant, and Summs abandoned her and the child, who died just a year late… Read more →

Part of Renard’s Christmas Card Classics series, 25% of the RRP of each book sold goes to Three Peas. This year, instead of a Christmas card, why not send a book? First published in 1844, The Fir Tree… Read more →

Stories surrounding the legendary King Arthur have been told since time immemorial, and every generation has a new take on the tale. The Fragile Land approaches the legend from a radical angle, settin… Read more →

Part of Renard’s Christmas Card Classics series, 25% of the RRP of each book sold goes to Three Peas. This year, instead of a Christmas card, why not send a book? First published in 1905, O. Henry’s m… Read more →

An important name in India’s history, Sarojini Naidu was the first Governor of the United Provinces after India declared its independence, and she was a key figure in Gandhi’s movement. Although her l… Read more →

Set in the valleys of South Wales at the tail end of Thatcher’s Britain, The Green Indian Problem is the story of Green, a seven year-old with intelligence beyond his years – an ordinary boy with an e… Read more →

I started writing The Green Indian Problem with the intention that it would feature a teenage protagonist, but the voice of Green (otherwise known as Jade Waters) came to me like a gift, seemingly ful… Read more →

Jane Austen, one of the nation’s most beloved authors, whose face adorns our currency, surely needs no introduction, but while many are familiar with her groundbreaking novels, few have come across he… Read more →

The Importance of Being Earnest is perhaps Oscar Wilde’s most popular play – since its first performance in 1895, it has seen countless productions and three film adaptations, and, in the words of the… Read more →

Better remembered today for his ground-breaking anti-ageing novel and dramatic masterpieces, still today Oscar Wilde is a name inseparable from the Aestheticism movement. But while many will have Wild… Read more →

‘We inherit the lineage we’re all born into, with its history and its contradictions, with the very beautiful and the very ugly, neither of which we can have a hand in being able to change.’ The famil… Read more →

The Idea for The Inheritors Spring 2021. Lockdown still in effect. I was teaching remotely, my classroom my laptop screen. One of the classes I was teaching that semester was Introduction to Literatur… Read more →

One of the earliest known published works written by an African author, The Interesting Narrative was a groundbreaking memoir that helped pave the way for the abolition of slavery. In it, Equiano desc… Read more →

Taking its name from the illuminated medieval prayer book form, The Midwife’s Book of Hours takes us on an adventure through the art galleries, palaces and churches of Europe and beyond, and restores… Read more →

While the legacy of Mary Shelley as the creator of Frankenstein has shown no sign of waning, and her name is synonymous with the roots of the science-fiction genre, few have read her other novellas, a… Read more →

George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vo… Read more →

First published in 1923, The Prophet is a collection of twenty-six poetic fables that centre around the prophet Al Mustafa, who, boarding a boat in the city of Orphalese, where he has lived for many y… Read more →

In the old back streets o’ Pimlico On the docks at Monte Video At the Ring o’ Bells on Plymouth Hoe He’m arter me now wheerever I go… Charlotte Mew, a Modernist poet who in her day was considered one… Read more →

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping… In The Raven, Poe’s poetic masterpiece, a distraught lover is visited by a mysterious bird, which does nothing but repeat ‘Nevermore’ aga… Read more →

Give yourself or a friend the gift of reading – and let them choose what they want to read!

In 1940 the Second World War continued to rage, and atrocities wreaked around the globe made international waves. Wells, a socialist and prominent political thinker as well as a first-rate novelist, s… Read more →

The Rover, or, The Banished Cavaliers is the most popular play by the Restoration playwright (and spy) Aphra Behn, first performed in 1677. Although Behn’s work as a spy for Charles II came to a sudde… Read more →

Jane Austen, one of the nation’s most beloved authors, whose face adorns our currency, surely needs no introduction, but while many are familiar with her groundbreaking novels, few have come across th… Read more →

First published in 1928, The Tower was Yeats’s first collection published after receiving the Nobel Prize in 1923, and it is perhaps the major work that most cemented his reputation as one of the fore… Read more →

‘Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has – he’s nothing more or less… Read more →

Jane Austen, one of the nation’s most beloved authors, whose face adorns our currency, surely needs no introduction, but while many are familiar with her groundbreaking novels, few have come across th… Read more →

The Housman family produced a dynasty of talented writers and artists, and Clemence, whose name has unfairly fallen into obscurity, produced novels that drew praise from the leading luminaries of the… Read more →

The Westminster Alice is a collection of humorous vignettes by Saki, first published in the Westminster Gazette in 1902, which form a political pastiche of the Alice books by Lewis Carroll, featuring… Read more →

Eighteenth-century poetry was dominated by men of education and wealth, and bookcases sagged under the weight of volumes by Swift, Johnson and Pope. When Stephen Duck’s The Thresher’s Labour was publi… Read more →

In 1892 a furious Charlotte Perkins Gilman put pen to paper and created the avant-garde feminist work The Yellow Wallpaper as a warning – in this haunting Gothic tale, a woman is confined to a room an… Read more →

A listless aristocrat, Lord Jones, finds himself in London during the Blitz, attending to insurance matters. A zebra and her foal, having escaped from the London Zoo during a bombing, cross his path,… Read more →

Thea Smiley is a Suffolk-based poet. Her poems have been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and Live Canon Collection competition, longlisted in the Rialto Nature and Place competition, commended in t… Read more →

If you want to get back to the beginning you must fast forward to the end. I press play, drop into the solar system à la Holst, somewhere beyond the asteroid belt, rocketing ever further out. The poem… Read more →

Nature has not been my cure. It has been my inspiration, teacher and companion. I am not better, but I have never been alone. These Envoys of Beauty is a carefully crafted compendium of essays in whic… Read more →

British South Asian poetry is flourishing throughout the UK, but it is still not being amply reflected in mainstream publishing. The Third Space project was conceived by award winning artist and poet,… Read more →

‘Sometimes I wonder, if I had known that it was going to take me fourteen years to paint this painting of the Crucifixion with Douglas as Jesus, and what it would take for me to paint this painting, w… Read more →

The Pavarotti’s Story Part 1 At some point in the 80s, I’m thinking 1985 or 1986 here, when MacLeod and I were both still at the Art School, she caught my eye and I sidled up to her in the Mac library… Read more →

‘Sometimes I wonder, if I had known that it was going to take me fourteen years to paint this painting of the Crucifixion with Douglas as Jesus, and what it would take for me to paint this painting, w… Read more →

Have you ever wondered how far animals can communicate, if the sea can hear and if the landscape bears pain and loss? Our questions may be legion. Why was The Ark of the Covenant lodged, for a while,… Read more →

Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) was a poet and author. He was a prolific writer, mainly of satirical works, and many critics believe that he and Percy Bysshe Shelley influenced one another’s works, si… Read more →

In 1928 Virginia Woolf gave two speeches at Newnham and Girton Colleges on the subject of ‘Women and Fiction’ – speeches which went on to become A Room of One’s Own, one of the most important feminist… Read more →

‘You see that Anna led an arduous and troubled life… Her face was worn, her cheeks were thin, her mouth drawn and firm, and her light blue eyes were very bright. Sometimes they were full of lightning… Read more →

Alongside his career in finance, Tim Ewins performed stand-up comedy for eight years. He also had a very brief acting stint (he’s in the film Bronson, somewhere in the background) before turning to wr… Read more →

Tim Kiely is a criminal barrister and poet based in London. His work has been published in a number of outlets, including Fly on the Wall, Under the Radar, South Bank Poetry and Magma, and has appeare… Read more →

Onstage at a Las Vegas convention, Elo Ó hAllmhuráin, a world-famous tech magnate, demonstrates a time machine, catapulting himself and journalist Dory Silver into the distant future. Stranded and des… Read more →

Onstage at a Las Vegas convention, Elo Ó hAllmhuráin, a world-famous tech magnate, demonstrates a time machine, catapulting himself and journalist Dory Silver into the distant future. Stranded and des… Read more →

Described by Virginia Woolf herself as ‘easily the best of my books’, and by her husband Leonard as a ‘masterpiece’, To the Lighthouse, first published in 1927, is one of the milestones of Modernism.… Read more →

Tom Chachewitz (also published as Tom Stockley) is a queer punk poet living and working across south-west England. A self-taught writer and performer, they cut their teeth on DIY punk gigs and communi… Read more →

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Here you will find all of the trade resources we currently have available. Please use the links below to find what you need – if there’s anything you need which isn’t listed below, please get in touch… Read more →

Trask Roberts is a writer, translator and teacher based in Northeast Ohio, where he teaches in the French and translation programs at Kent State University. Prior to this position, he was a visiting s… Read more →

Best known today for his critical pronouncements, Matthew Arnold has still not received his due as a wonderfully moving poet, and only one of his poems, ‘Dover Beach’, is remembered by most – although… Read more →

‘Right now, someone else’s life was in his hands. He couldn’t say whether it was a few seconds or minutes that they both stood staring at each other, but he had never been so scared in his life.’ In T… Read more →

A question I am often asked is why I chose to become a writer, especially given my background in economics, the health and development sector and nearly eighteen years in journalism. Why step off a we… Read more →

Falling into the trap of writing commercially successful literary fiction, sure to alienate literary critics of yore, May Sinclair’s reputation has been unfairly diminished in recent years – although… Read more →

‘To begin at the beginning: It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent…’ Commissioned for the BBC for radio, Dylan Thomas’s masterpiece, Under M… Read more →

Utsuk Upreti is a recent graduate from St Xavier’s College, Maitighar whose heart has always been captivated by the magic of storytelling. According to his mother, as a child, he would often be found… Read more →

Vally Miller is a landscape artist who has exhibited her work in the UK and in Europe. Over the last forty years she has taught drawing and watercolour painting to adults and children.

Vanessa Clegg trained in Fine Art Painting. She later studied Theatre Design in London, where she worked in animation, theatre and film. A frequent exhibitor at the RWA, she won First Prize at the 202… Read more →

Long before Shakespeare’s name was synonymous with the stage he built a name as a poet, and Venus and Adonis was likely the first work to be published by the same quill that gave the world Macbeth, Ro… Read more →

Vernon Lee (the pseudonym of Violet Paget, 1856–1935) was a French-born British writer known for her ground-breaking supernatural fiction and theories on psychological aesthetics. Living openly in a s… Read more →

Born and raised in India, Vijaya Venkatesan went to university in the UK. She has an LL.M in International Law from Cambridge University and has spent her professional life in the public sector. She h… Read more →

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was a Modernist writer, widely considered to be one of the most important of the twentieth century. She and her husband Leonard bought a hand-printing press in 1917, and the… Read more →

Viven Whelpton edited Richard Aldington’s Exile and Other Poems with Elizabeth Vandiver.

Voirrey is an active feminist, socialist and Quaker. She lives in Cornwall with her husband, close to their three sons, who live in Cornwall and Devon. It is wild, there, in so many ways – close to th… Read more →

François-Marie Arouet (1694–1778), known as Voltaire, was a French writer, philosopher and satirist. Best remembered today for his novella Candide, or The Optimist (1759), he is one of the best known… Read more →

William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and is widely considered to be one of the foremost figures of twentieth-century literature. A prolific writer, he was awarded… Read more →

William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911) was a dramatist, poet, author, illustrator and librettist. Although he was a prolific writer, producing around 75 plays and dramatic works, he is best known today… Read more →

Waiting for Music is the fifth collection of poetry from the acclaimed writer Simon Mundy. A great champion of the arts, his relationships with musicians, visual artists and dancers are the main drivi… Read more →

Insofar as a poetry collection is ‘about’ anything, what is Waiting for Music about? A collection is of course, just that: the accumulation of poems written over a certain period of time – in this cas… Read more →

When Maggie Byrne attends the retirement dinner of her old music teacher at the convent school she attended, she discovers she has more in common with the founding nun, Cornelia Connelly, than she pre… Read more →

Washington Irving (1783–1859) was an American writer, best known for his short stories Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, both of which first appeared in his collection The Sketch Book of… Read more →

Way to the West is a glorious collection resulting from a collaboration between disciplines of art. Featuring twenty-five beautiful full-page watercolours alongside accompanying poems, its focus is on… Read more →

Welcome to RENARD PRESS – a brand-new independent publisher, launched in June 2020. Covering both classic and contemporary titles, Renard publishes fiction and non-fiction, theatre and poetry; the emp… Read more →

Was it pure chance that he had run into her so soon? Philip had never believed in destiny, and his father had believed in nothing but his own genius. And yet… From the moment recent Oxford graduate Ph… Read more →

Was it pure chance that he had run into her so soon? Philip had never believed in destiny, and his father had believed in nothing but his own genius. And yet… From the moment recent Oxford graduate Ph… Read more →

‘Why, one thanks some people for being alive at the same time with one; I thank you for having met me, for my being able to remember you all my life!’ Over the span of four soft, blissful nights, a lo… Read more →

George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vo… Read more →

Willa Cather (1873–1947) was an American writer, best known for her novels depicting frontier life, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark and My Ántonia. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 19… Read more →

Born in Govan, Glasgow, William moved south to look for work in 1974, and found himself working in a factory, where he remained for forty-five years. Since retiring in 2019, he spends his days gardeni… Read more →

William Morris (1834–96) was a British designer, poet, artist, publisher and novelist, best known today for the immensely popular Morris & Co he established and designed for. A dedicated socialist… Read more →

A renowned poet and literary critic, William Scammell lived for many years in Wordsworth’s Lake District and regularly wrote about the area, but he was originally from the south coast, had travelled w… Read more →

William Shakespeare (c.1564–1616) is widely considered one of the greatest writers of all time in the English language, and the impact of his work is without parallel. Best known for his plays, which… Read more →

‘If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.’ One of the most prolific and respected playwrights of the twentieth century, Bernard Shaw’s legacy shows no signs o… Read more →

‘If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.’ One of the most prolific and respected playwrights of the twentieth century, Bernard Shaw’s legacy shows no signs o… Read more →

‘I couldn’t sleep that night; our conversation was like a trapped bird flying around inside my head. The next morning, I texted to say I wouldn’t be coming back. I lied about having to return to my co… Read more →

What is your collection Women and Love about? The stories in my collection are about women from very diverse backgrounds, and the stories examine how the women deal with the challenges of many differe… Read more →

A Year in Review January 2023 It’s a new year, but we’re just taking a moment to look at the great books we’ve published in 2022 – you’ll find a selection of our favourites below, with one book a mont… Read more →

A Year in Review January 2024 It’s a new year, but we’re just taking a moment to look at the great books we’ve published in 2023 – you’ll find a selection of our favourites below, with one book a mont… Read more →

Yei Theodora Ozaki (1870–1932) was a Japanese translator of short stories and fairy tales. Ozaki was born in London to Baron Saburō Ozaki (1842–1918) and an English woman, Bathia Catherine Morrison (1… Read more →