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 Peepal Tree Press, 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 London, 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 And Other Stories publishes Publisher Stefan Tobler the best in world-class founded And Other Stories contemporary writing, out of frustration at the great including many translations books not being published and the best English-language in English. In 2012 he was writers. Launched with a select named one of The Bookseller list in 2011, authors include magazine’s Rising Stars. He @andothertweets Best Translated Book Award is also a literary translator; winner Yuri Herrera, Man his translations include Stefan Tobler Booker shortlisted Deborah the Oxford-Weidenfeld Publisher Levy, Guardian First Book Translation Prize shortlisted [email protected] Award shortlisted Juan Pablo Água Viva by Clarice @stefantobler Villalobos, Wodehouse Lispector and the Man Booker Prize for Comic Fiction International Prize longlisted shortlisted Helen DeWitt and andotherstories.org A Cup of Rage by Raduan Independent Foreign Fiction Nassar. He reads in German, Prize shortlisted Juan Tomás Portuguese, French & Spanish. Ávila Laurel. core core presses and other 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.