Introduction by Chris Wright In his 1981 essay, Escaping from Belfast, V.S. Pritchett wrote at length about a forgotten Ulster writer by...

Introduction by Fiona McKay Many years ago, when I was in school, we had an anthology of short stories, Exploring English 1. It was my...

Introduction by Luca Serra I believe certain pieces of fiction find you when you most need it. This was the case for me with White Nights. I read it in 2014, shortly after relocating from Italy to Edinburgh, finding myself immersed in a new world, a world I recognised from Google images and numerous viewings of the movie Trainspotting yet felt wholly unfamiliar. Sitting on a bench in Princess Street Gardens – knowing I was reading the words of an author who had lived 200 year

Introduction by Rebekah King A young woman, demurely dressed, is looking wistfully away from the viewer at a sinister figure who holds...

Introduction by Stu Hennigan This is a real curio; a collection of free verse poems in which over two hundred people who have lived and...

Pre-orders are now open for The Poet & the Echo before its launch on 12th September. Touching and powerful stories written in response to...

Introduction by Russ Litten I first read Winesburg, Ohio in my late teens. I had fallen in love with American Literature - Raymond Carver...

Introduction by Elsa Court Willa Cather began publishing stories in her student years and continued until the end of her life. While many...

Summer holidays are approaching and we're buying books we'll pack for the beach... The big literary journals will open their submission...

Introduction by Naomi Wood What an exquisite fantasist is the woman at the heart of Maupassant’s gloriously unfair short story ‘The...

Introduction by Hannah Clark A Cross Line, the opening story in George Egerton’s (1859 – 1945) collection, Keynote (1898), is an...

Introduction by RZ Baschir I came across the Alma Classics edition of Three Drops of Blood in one of those secondhand book boxes outside...

Introduction by Camille U. Adams As a child, since I was three years old, I’ve read almost any storybook of which I can get a hold....

Introduction by Brittany Terwilliger I’ve always cited “The Age of Innocence” as one of my favorite books, and it surprised me to...

Introduction by Sara Lippmann I knew I wanted to pick a story by Isaac Babel. Born in Odessa, celebrated as one of the most vital Soviet...

Introduction by Mike Fox Written in three weeks in a Paris hotel when Mansfield was desperately ill, The Fly is a story about death, the...

We love parties, us. We got a bit of a reputation for our launch dos last year but we're only publishing one book this year - so we've...

Introduction by Gemma Seltzer I highly recommend George Eliot’s first story ‘The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton’ (1857)....

Introduction by Mark A Radcliffe On the face of it, ‘Door In The Wall’ by H G Wells, first published in 1911, is a story about the...

Introduction by Adam Farrer I came to The Signalman late. Just last year in fact, while researching short ghost stories. I’d rashly...