winter 2016 - spring 2017 The North is Coming!

The Northern Fiction Alliance is a new publishing collective With support from Arts led by Manchester-based Council England, the four Comma Press, alongside publishers will represent Leeds’s , While Comma, Dead Ink, And their authors’ rights to Liverpool’s Dead Ink, and Other Stories, and Peepal Tree international markets, Sheffield’s And Other Stories. formed the initial Alliance, attending book fairs across the Bringing together the best other independent publishers world, including Frankfurt, new titles on offer, the project in the North have since been , Book Expo America, is devised to showcase the included. This catalogue and Sharjah, among others. diversity, creativity and features the books of The alliance will also produce spirit of risk-taking that sets Saraband, Bluemoose Books, sample translations and a Northern publishers apart. Tilted Axis Press and Mayfly digital portfolio for each of Press, and as the project the authors. Core Presses ...... page 02 progresses we plan to extend the alliance even further. And Other Stories ...... pages 03 - 09 Comma Press...... pages 10 - 16 www.northernfictionalliance.com Dead Ink ...... pages 17 - 23 Peepal Tree Press...... pages 24 - 29

More from the North ...... pages 30 - 31

Bluemoose Books ...... page 32 Mayfly Press...... page 33 Saraband ...... page 34 Tilted Axis ...... page 35 1 core presses andotherstories.org @stefantobler [email protected] Publisher Stefan Tobler @andothertweets Ávila Laurel. shortlistedPrize Juan Tomás Independent Foreign Fiction shortlisted Helen DeWitt and forPrize Fiction Comic Villalobos, Wodehouse Award shortlisted Juan Pablo Guardian Levy, shortlisted Deborah Booker Yuriwinner Herrera, Man TranslatedBest Award Book list in2011,authors include with aselect writers. Launched and English-language thebest including many translations contemporary writing, inworld-classthe best And Stories Other publishes First Book Portuguese, French &Spanish. Nassar. He reads inGerman, A Cup of Rage by Raduan International longlisted Prize and theManLispector Booker Água Viva by Clarice Translation shortlisted Prize the Oxford-Weidenfeld his translations include translator; aliterary is also magazine’s Rising Stars. He onenamed of TheBookseller Inin English. 2012hewas not published being books out of frustration at thegreat founded And Stories Other Publisher Stefan Tobler and other stories ‘Joanna Walsh’s haunting • Set up the #readwomen and unforgettable stories hashtag on twitter and enact a literal vertigo ‘Joanna Walsh is fast writes intelligently on becoming one of our most gender and women's — the feeling that if I important writers.’ writing. fall I will fall not toward The much-awaited fiction the earth but into BOOK follow-up to Vertigo, this - Deborah Levy VERTIGO 2017 collection of stories cements space — by probing the Joanna Walsh’s reputation as • Admired by influential, spaces between things... [AS YET UNTITLED] JOANNA WALSH one of the sharpest writers innovative writers, e.g. Chris Vertigo is an original and This is a woman as a mother, Kraus ( ) and of this century. Wearing her I Love Dick breathtaking book.’ daughter, wife, spectator, Deborah Levy (Swimming learning lightly, Walsh has lover, mistress. Observer the ability to make us see the Home). • A perfect follow-up or and commentator. Actor and - Chris Kraus, world afresh and, while all pairing for Vertigo, this book reactor. Dressed up bright as author of I Love Dick the stories work on their own compliments Vertigo’s more a child or submerged in the merits, the reader will see that painful mood and shows grey elegance of Paris, she BIO Walsh has read the world. another side to her writing. • These heart-felt stories deftly shifts readily between roles, Joanna Walsh’s writing has It is in ‘Like A Fish Needs weave human experiences of countries, and languages. appeared in Granta, Best • Fluent speaker of French A…’ - perhaps the funniest, love and loss into even more Skilled and successful, she European Fiction 2015, and reader of world literatures. most freewheeling story on • Full of the same wit and conceptual pieces. controls how much she cares. Best British Short Stories cycling (and Freud and and observation as Vertigo, Yet as every new woman 2014 and elsewhere. She is and . . .) - that you will read here Joanna Walsh lets her emerges and every new the fiction editor at3:AM shenanigans worthy of Flann hair down and has a lot of story is told, each with a and created the O’Brien. Meanwhile, in Magazine fun – as do the readers. Rights Available UK Pub Date sharper, more deadpan, more Twitter hashtag #readwomen, Rights Available UK Pub Date ‘Worlds from the Word’s End’, World, except September 2017 aching simplicity, the calm heralded by the New World, except March 2016 she conjures up a country in surfaces of Joanna Walsh’s as ‘a rallying English. which the use of words falls English. York Times • Full of the intelligence Samples are available shatter, pulling us cry for equal treatment Samples Available out of fashion – something Vertigo and elegance of style that is Entire text in English. deep into the panic that for women writers’. On Original Language Full text in English and that will never happen building Walsh an international Original Language underlies everyday life. twitter she is @badaude. English one story in Spanish. wherever Walsh is read. reputation. English 4 5 ‘Raymond Carver once • Short Story • A novel approach to wrote about loving Phenomenon: Author was ‘A wonderful, wonder-full everything that increases terminal illness: focuses on back-to-back finalist and debut collection.’ NOW AND AT how families cope and how me. This book increased DON'T TRY winner of 2012 and 2013 dispersed family members me. It is fearless and Costa Short Story Award. - Adam Marek, author of Instruction Manual for Swallowing THE HOUR OF draw together. luminous and full of grace; it travels to the THIS AT HOME • Winner of Best Short Story edge of death and finds OUR DEATH • Book of interest on aging, life there. Its attention Collection at the 2015 Saboteur death & mourning, like The to the particulars of love ANGELA READMAN Awards, shortlisted for the 2016 SUSANA MOREIRA MARQUES Year of Magical Thinking by - between the ones who Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Didion, and non-fiction books will go and the ones they about people and place, such as will leave - is something Londoners by Craig Taylor. close to sublime.’ BIO • Stories with real heart, Angela Readman’s stories humor and imagination, with - Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams have appeared in a number of a real gift for evoking life and BIO A girl who repeatedly anthologies and magazines, relationships in a working- Accompanying a palliative Susana Moreira Marques is halves her boyfriend; a winning awards such as the class families future. care team, Moreira Marques a writer and journalist living chip-shop waitress who Inskpill Magazine Short travelled to Trás-os-Montes in in Lisbon. Between 2005 and turns into Elvis; a family of Story Competition and half-deserted rural Portugal. 2010 she lived in London, Rights Available Original Language conceptual artists who truly the National Flash Fiction UK Pub Date In this book she gathers the working at the BBC. Her World except Portuguese live their art. Every story Competition. In 2012 she was Rights Available World except English. May 2015 voices and stories of those journalism has won several Portuguese, English, packs its share of explosive shortlisted for the Costa Short French. UK Pub Date affected by terminal cancer. prizes, including the 2012 September 2015 material, often with a side Story Award for ‘Don’t Try Original Language UNESCO 'Human Rights This at Home’ – an award she Samples are available Blending the immediacy of Rights Sold of magic. If Angela Carter is English and Integration' Journalism Entire text in English, oral history with the sensibility World French to Samples are available Readman’s fairy godmother, would go on to win in 2013 Entire text in English, samples in Italian and of philosophical reportage, Award (Portugal). Now Claire do Serro at does that make Patti Smith with the story ‘The Keeper and at the Hour of our Portuguese and of the Jackalopes’. Readman German. Moreira Marques’ book speaks Editions du Sous-sol French. Sample in her wicked stepsister? Don’t about death in a fresh way. Death is her first book. (Seuil) German. say you weren’t warned. is also a published poet. 6 7 ‘‘In the place I was born, you grew up and you were ‘Here a delightfully presented with the facts of life: candid, deceptively THE stories set in stone, restrictions BY NIGHT THE sober narrative voice long established. If custom weaves brief histories GURUGU dictated something, then that MOUNTAIN • A word-of-mouth of a collective existence something was fixed, nobody favourite among readers. shaped by living on the could touch it or change it. BURNS PLEDGE This was because, deep down, shores of a sea that does JUAN TOMÁS ÁVILA LAUREL • 2015 Independent Foreign not (or will not?) provide JUAN TOMÁS ÁVILA LAUREL nobody really knew where Fiction Prize shortlist. sufficient sustenance..’ things got decided. So you couldn’t talk about them. - Helen Oyeyemi This is the way that so many • Distinctive oral storytelling African things, all of them in By Night the Mountain BIO On Mount Gurugu, style - with refugees telling fact, are left unsaid. But the Burns recounts the narrator’s Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel • The Financial Times' overlooking the Spanish each other their stories by childhood on a remote island was born in 1966 in Translated Book of the Year enclave of Melilla on the candlelight. story of a continent emptying off the West African coast, Equatorial Guinea. itself in order to go to another By 2014. North African coast, living with his mysterious Night the Mountain Burns desperate migrants gather • Book of interest to one has to be told..’’ grandfather, several mothers is based on his memories before attempting to scale the readers wanting to hear and no fathers. We learn of a of growing up on the Rights Available UK Pub Date city’s walls and gain asylum a more nuanced take dark chapter in the island’s remote island of Annobón. World except English November 2014 on European soil. 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Dedicated see Comma as the literary to promoting new writing, equivalent of Factory Records’, ‘Perhaps the greatest writer of Arabic Fiction and with an emphasis on the and in 2012 The New alive.’ short story from the UK and Statesman named Comma as IRAQ @CommaPress beyond, it is committed to one of the 'Top Six Publishers - Praise for Hassan Blasim a spirit of risk-taking and Outside of London'. from Ra Page challenging publishing, free of + 100 the commercial pressures on Comma has had considerable Managing Editor and CEO Edited by HASSAN BLASIM [email protected] mainstream houses. success in the rights market, writer Hassan Blasim. selling the 2014 Independent Iraq + 100 poses a question to (+44) 7792564747 Edited and featuring In April 2012, Comma became Foreign Fiction Prize winner ten Iraqi writers: what might • new work by the 2014 • Iraq constantly in the world one of the Arts Council's Hassan Blasim into over 22 your country look like in the Independent Foreign news as factions engage in Becky Harrison new National Portfolio different languages. Comma year 2103 – a century after Fiction Prize winner, Iraqi bloody warfare to control its Engagement Manager Organisations (NPOs). formed the Northern Fiction the disastrous American- [email protected] Established in 2005, Comma Alliance in 2016, showcasing and British-led invasion, • 10 contemporary Iraqi www.commapress.co.uk has gone from strength and assisting publishers in and 87 years down the line • All specially commissioned writers are asked the question: to strength, producing Northern England to sell their from its current, nightmarish stories set in the year 2103, 100 what does your home city look award winning authors and rights and gain international battle for survival? 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Diaa Jubaili & Khalid Kaki Arabic 11 comma comma press ‘Refugee Tales is a wonderful way of REFUGEE re-humanising some of PROTEST! the most vulnerable and STORIES OF TALES demonised people on the planet’ RESISTANCE Edited by ANNA PINCUS & • Historical fiction from Poets and novelists - Shami Chakrabarti DAVID HERD. Various authors. • a grassroots perspective. retell the real stories of Edited by RA PAGE Authors write short stories anonymous refugees, Whether we acknowledge it When does a riot become inspired by moments of held in the UK under • The authors' stories are followed or not, Europe’s refugee crisis a revolution? 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From the experience of Britain’s policy BIO Peasants Revolt to Greenham of indefinite immigration Featuring Patience Agbabi, Common, and from the UK Pub date detention. Presenting their Jade Amoli-Jackson, Chris Rights Available UK Pub Date Battle of Cable Street to the BIO Rights Available March 2017 accounts anonymously, as Cleave, Stephen Collis, World, all Languages. 23 June 2016 Poll Tax riots, by following Featuring Sara Maitland, World, all Languages. modern day counterparts Inua Ellams, Abdulrazak fictional characters caught Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Sandra Samples are available to the pilgrims’ stories in Gurnah, David Herd, Marina Rights Sold Samples are available up in the momentum of Alland, David Constantine, Rights Sold Seven story sampler is Chaucer’s Canterbury Lewycka, Avaes Mohammad, None Entire text in English. these non-fictional moments, Francesca Rhydderich, Joanna N/A available, in English. Tales, this book offers rare, Hubert Moore, Ali Smith, these stories offer rare Quinn, Jacob Ross, Stuart intimate glimpses into Dragan Todorovic, Carol Original Language insights into protests from a Evers, Martyn Bedford, Original Language otherwise untold suffering. Watts & Michael Zand. English live, street-level perspective. Kit de Waal, Kate Clanchy. English 12 13 ‘Exceptionally good 'Masterful... pregnant writing; 15 shards of IN ANOTHER with fluctuating shrapnel that will take interpretations and JEBEL your head off.’ COUNTRY: concealed motives.’ • Interlinked collection - The Irish Times - The Guardian of short stories set in and MARRA SELECTED STORIES • Featuring stories from around a humanitarian aid across Constantine’s 4 centre during the 2004/5 MICHELLE GREEN DAVID CONSTANTINE short story collections. Darfur Crisis in Sudan. • Constantine has won the Frank O’Connor Short Story Former aid worker, Michelle • Shortlisted for the Best • Oscar nominated and Prize and the BBC National Green retells the story of the • Short stories informed Short Story Collection in both award-winning film45 YEARS Short Story Award for his 2004 war in Darfur, Sudan. by real life experience of the Saboteur Awards and the The stories of David based on the title story of this short stories. from 15 different perspectives, collection, ‘In Another the author as aid worker in Polari First Book Prize. Constantine are unlike any capturing by turns the Darfur. other. His characters possess Country’. brutal indifference of the you instantly, making you • Constantine internationally recognised as a master of the government war machine, see the world as they do – • 'Serious, thought-provoking, short story form. the terrible scars inflicted on memorable' – The Guardian. sometimes as exiles, driven BIO individuals caught in its path, BIO into isolation by convictions Born in Salford in 1944, David and the complex melting Michelle Green is a British- that even they don’t fully Constantine worked for thirty pot of experiences that Canadian writer, who has understand; sometimes as years as a university teacher Rights Available Original Language World, all languages, constitutes any relief effort. appeared at numerous Rights Available UK Pub Date carriers of an unspoken but of German language and English except for German Though fictional, these stories World, all Languages. 12th March 2015 unbearable weight. Tokens literature. He has published festivals and live events and North American. UK Pub Date reach beyond the myths so across the UK and beyond. of the past, or future, haunt several volumes of poetry, 4 26th August 2015 Rights Sold Samples are available often used to simplify this Michelle has written for Constantine’s characters, but short story collections and Rights Sold Entire text in English. crisis and offer moving, Literature Across Frontiers, N/A the landscapes that produce 2 novels. He lives in Oxford North American Samples are available firsthand insights into a Short Fiction Journal, and them also offer salvation, where he edited Modern (Biblioasis) Entire text in English. tragedy that disappeared from a number of short story Original Language places of refuge or small Poetry in Translation with German Language our headlines all too quickly. and poetry anthologies. Arabic treasures to take solace in. his wife Helen (until 2011). (Verlag Antje Kunstmann) 14 15 Publishing the underground. Dead Ink is a small, ambitious ‘The Drone Eats with and experimental literary Me is a devastating publisher based in Liverpool. THE contemporary war Supported by Arts Council England, we’re focused on journal. This is what war developing the careers of new DRONE is like in the 21st century and emerging authors. – the voice of a civilian EATS WITH ME in the onslaught of drone @DeadInkBooks Set up in 2011, Dead Ink’s aim warfare, a voice we have has always been to take literary never heard before.’ Nathan Connolly risks and challenge the status ATEF ABU SAIF Publishing Director quo. We believe that there are • Foreword by Noam - Michael Ondaatje [email protected] brilliant authors out there Chomsky. During the 2014 Israeli who may not yet be known or bombardment of the Gaza www.deadinkbooks.com commercially viable. We see Strip, one of the most • From the editor of Comma’s it as Dead Ink’s job to bring moving voices to emerge The Book of Gaza. • Shortlisted for the MEMO the most challenging and from the conflict was that Palestine Book Award. bold new writing out from the of Atef Abu Saif. His eye- underground and present it witness accounts (published to our audience in the most in The Guardian, The New BIO beautiful way possible. Rights Available York Times, and elsewhere) Atef Abu Saif was born in Original Language World, all languages offered a rare window into Jabalia refugee camp in the English the conflict for Western Gaza Strip in 1973. He is except German and UK Pub Date readers. Atef’s complete the author of five novels, North American. 23 July 2015 diaries of the war allow us including A Suspended Life to witness the full extent of (2014), which was shortlisted Rights Sold Samples are available the atrocities from the most for the 2015 International North American Entire text in English. humble of perspectives: that Prize for Arab Fiction (IPAF). (Beacon Press) of a young father, fearing He is the author of two German Language for his family’s safety. collections of short stories. (Unionverlag) 16 dead ink dead ‘This is a gem of a novel • A classic folie a deux that highlights the THE NIGHT exploring the transmission of THE creative importance of power, manipulation and fury small publishers.’ via technology. VISITORS - Word Riot BIO WAVE • Collaboratively written JENN ASHWORTH Jenn Ashworth’s first novel, LOCHLAN BLOOM & RICHARD V. HIRST between two authors as an A Kind of Intimacy, was epistolary exchange of emails. Two women connected by the published in 2009 and won Three intertwined narratives notorious Gosforth Massacre a Betty Trask Award. On the play out as the stories of μ, of 1917, a murder case famous publication of her second, an isolated loner, DOWN, • An uncanny horror of The debut novel from among true-crime fans and Cold Light (Sceptre, 2011) a depressed publisher, and • urban legends, technology Lochlan Bloom. • A book that defies categorisation internet sleuths, strike up an she was featured on the and family history. David Bohm, a real-life email conversation and begin BBC’s The Culture Show as quantum theoretician in an uneasy investigation into one of the UK’s twelve best post-war São Paulo, become • Longlisted for • A genuinely original novel that their mutual ancestor Hattie new writers. Her third novel • Part of Dead Ink’s New entangled. The Guardian’s Not combines prose, screenplay and Soak, a silent film star who The Friday Gospels (2013) Horrors series, exploring the The Booker Prize. real-life quantum-theoretician, fled the scene of the crime. is published by Sceptre. terrors of the 21st century. The closer each of these trails David Bohm. She lives in Lancashire and leads to the dark centre of The Night Visitors explores teaches Creative Writing the world, the more reality BIO ghosts, obsession and at Lancaster University. Rights Available UK Pub Date disintegrates. Dualities of Lochlan Bloom is a London inherited evil. ln this certainty and doubt, hope Rights Available UK Pub Date All translation and July 2016 based writer who has novella, the technology Richard V. Hirst is a writer and fear, and reason and written for BBC Radio, Litro All translation and July 2016 North America. that connects us becomes based in Manchester. His Samples Available nonsense drag each of the Magazine, Porcelain Film, North America. the conduit of un-expiated writing has appeared in The Entire text in English. characters struggling into an IronBox Films, EIU, H+ Samples Available evil in a story told entirely Big Issue, The Guardian and Original Language absurd, labyrinthine world Magazine and Palladium Original Language Entire text in English. via an exchange of emails. Time Out, among others. English of seemingly infinite regress. Magazine, amongst others. English 18 19 EVERY THE FOX IS A SHAPES OF ‘Gallon’s at his best when he RABID FOX DOGS' EYES writes about people and places • The second novel from HARRY GALLON Harry Gallon. and things. The Shapes of Dogs’ HARRY GALLON Eyes succeeds when there is Robert didn’t mean to kill no pretence, just descriptions his brother. But he did insist • A unique examination of on driving to their uncle’s toxic-masculinity and the male of life as lived. Gallon is a keen funeral. 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31 the north more from more THE LESS ‘A hard-hitting crime thriller centred around THAN PERFECT a bail hostel Newcastle upon Tyne that • Winner of the Northern LEGEND OF HARD explores a turbulent and Crime Competition in 2015. DONNA CREOSOTE transformative time in the city’s history.’ WIRED • First crime novel from an DAN MICKLETHWAITE KATHLEEN MCKAY established author. Donna Crick-Oakley walks • Short listed for The Guardian’s Not The Booker Prize 2016. on six inches of stories every • Modern urban fairy tale. day. She may live on the top BIO • Explores the justice system floor of a tower block but September 1996. Charlie Kathleen McKay was born and shines a light on the lives she still pads her walls and • Dan Micklethwaite is works in the local bail hostel in Liverpool, the middle of the people who fall through a prize winning short story where, exhausted and made the cracks. floor with books to shut the Rights Available UK Pub Date child of seven to a mother real world further out. Or do writer. cynical by the job, she expects who worked in a factory and World. 27th July 2016 they only shut her in? Armed the worst of everyone. 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English [email protected] 32 33 THE ‘Moving, poetic and quietly provocative.’ CURIOSITY - The Independent • Translated from the CABINET • The Curiosity Cabinet • Beautiful literary Bengali by Arunava Sinha. has been serialised on BBC historical romance written PANTY CATHERINE CZERKAWSKA radio and shortlisted for by a well-established the Dundee International author with a strong SANGEETA BANDYOPADHYAY • Author credited with being Book Prize. track record in fiction, 'the woman who reintroduced dramatisations and radio A woman arrives alone in hardcore sexuality into Bengali adaptations. Kolkata, taking refuge in a literature'. • The story, setting and dual deserted apartment while • Described as “India's Ferrante”. timeframe will appeal to fans of • Complements two other she waits to undergo an the Outlander series. novels set during the same unspecified surgery.In this disorienting city, everything period (The Jewel and The BIO • A surreal portrait of seems new and strange: the Physic Garden). Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay contemporary Kolkata. pavement-dwellers outside is the author of Panty. She her block, the collective has published nine novels BIO displays of religiosity, the and over fifty short stories Rights Available UK Pub Date Catherine Czerkawska is power cuts and alarming acts since her controversial debut Rights Available UK Pub Date World. 10th November 2016 A modern love story in a multi-award-winning of arson. Her sense of identity Shankini. 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