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Hauptbahnhof

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:10:00 +0200

Out now: Joanna Walsh’s HAUPTBAHNHOF - A story of waiting, watching, and

remembering, in Berlin’s hectic station… [Buy it here!]

“I know what you are thinking.

But it is possible to sleep on the station. If you don’t look like a tramp, if you change your clothes with reasonable regularity, above all if you look like you are waiting for someone.

I have perfected the waiting look.”

[Cover by Christiana Spens]

We had a great night at Stoke Newington Literary Festival with...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 12:05:01 +0200

We had a great night at Stoke Newington Literary Festival with Influx Press, Galley Beggar Press, and many other lovely people… Here are a few pictures of Adam Biles reading from “Grey Cats” and other nice moments.

New titles!

Mon, 27 May 2013 17:15:42 +0200

Hot off the press: “Hauptbahnhof” by Joanna Walsh and “The Famous Ice-Cream Run” by Joseph Ridgwell…

RECENT EVENTS: Panel Discussion at the University of Kent, and...

Sat, 25 May 2013 12:26:00 +0200

RECENT EVENTS: Panel Discussion at the University of Kent, and launch of ‘Death of a Ladies’ Man’

Stoke Newington Literary Festival

Tue, 14 May 2013 11:35:15 +0200

Join us on the weekend of June 9th for the Independent Publishing Showcase at Stoke Newington Literary Festival - with our friends at Influx Press and Galley Beggars Press. Adam Biles will be reading, and Christiana Spens joining Sam Jordison, Kit Caless and Gary Budden for a Q&A on, “the nature of independent publishing: positives, pitfalls, how to get started and what lies in the future for the book industry.” There will be drinks afterwards nearby…

Photo

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:29:00 +0200

Paperback Writers....

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:20:00 +0200

“Grey Cats” by Adam Biles and “Death of a Ladies’ Man” by Christiana Spens are out in paperback! Buy your copy here:

SHOPPING

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 12:38:29 +0200

Our paperbacks are now available to buy exclusively from the Galley Beggars Store. You can pre-order Adam Biles’ “Grey Cats”, and Christiana Spens’ “Death of a Ladies’ Man” (which will be dispatched by their release date, April 14th) - and Lee Rourke’s poetry collection, “Varroa Destructor” is available now!

All our e-books and chapbooks are also available here.

Yrsa Daley-Ward’s brilliant ‘Emergency...

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:34:00 +0100

Yrsa Daley-Ward’s brilliant ‘Emergency Warning’…

Released

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:34:00 +0100

Lee Rourke’s debut collection of poetry, VARROA DESTRUCTOR, is on sale today! Buy the paperback from The Galley Beggars Bookstore…

About the Book:

Each of the poems in VARROA DESTRUCTOR occupies the space found in between poetry and prose, and more specifically: poetry and the ‘poetic’. Relayed via a series of events, observations and analyses, these purposely reconstructed poems repeat a signal of everyday, humdrum decay. In detailing the minutiae of the working day - and in particular the modern, working office - ‘Varroa Destructor’ scrutinises those nondescript moments that ordinarily pass us by, revealing a culmination of events which may form the real substance of our daily lives.

Playfully weaving into these poems riffs, thoughts and repsonses to the works of (among others) Francis Ponge, Wallace Stevens, and Jacques Derrida, alongside personal accounts of family illness, and tapping into the blurred realities of technological living, Lee Rourke manages to create a contemporary collection which at once feels strikingly modern, vital and moving - something that is knowingly haunted by ‘poetry’ itself.

“VARROA DESTRUCTOR taps the pressures of technology, boredom and isolation in the city. Restless, neurotic and thoroughly modern, Rourke’s poems are little bullets of urban living. If you’re not careful, they’ll stick in your throat.”

(Tom Chivers)

Quietus Review

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 11:57:00 +0100

Kit Caless gets under the skin of Lee Rourke’s inaugural poetry collection and his beautification of boredom…

Read the review here…

Lee Rourke

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:40:00 +0100

… Is interviewed here in “Totally Dublin”. His book VARROA DESTRUCTOR is out soon in paperback!

On Snakes Mini-Book Out Now

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 13:38:00 +0100

You can buy Yrsa Daley-Ward’s short story, “On Snakes” (from the short story collection “On Snakes & Other Stories”) here from the Galley Beggars Shop for just £3.50, including P&P.

[The ebook version of the whole collection is here]

Future Titles...

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 07:17:00 +0100

(Or the covers, anyway): All these stories are also available in PAR AVION, available on ebook from Amazon and the Galley Beggars Shop. Out in individual print form later this year…

Illustrations by Christiana Spens

Guest List [How to go Bankrupt in NYC]

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 19:38:00 +0100

Buy our first chapbook / zine, “Guest List” in the Galley Beggars Store today…

“A short story about ways of losing it in the big city – both financially and socially -”Guest List [How to Go Bankrupt in NYC] is the first in a series of chapbooks / zines published by 3:AM Press. Illustration also by the author.”

"Grey Cats" Giveaway

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 13:17:54 +0100

In association with The Next Best Book Blog, we’re giving away copies of “Grey Cats” by Adam Biles to ten lucky people… For more details on entering, click here.

Galley Beggar Bookshop

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:35:00 +0100

You can now buy our titles at the Galley Beggar Bookshop…

Chapbooks / Zines...

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:56:00 +0100

Our first chapbook / zines are available from the Galley Beggars’ Shop tomorrow….

A short story about ways of losing it in the big city - both financially and socially - “Guest List [How to Go Bankrupt in NYC]” by C. Spens is the first in a series of chapbooks / zines published by 3:AM Press. Illustration also by the author.

Released!

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:14:00 +0100

“On Snakes & Other Stories” by Yrsa Daley-Ward is out now on 3:AM Press. Available in the UK here, in the USA here, in France, here, in Germany here, Italy here, Spain here, and Japan here.

From a destructive encounter with a lover’s long-lost sister in “On Snakes”, to a delirious but inevitably doomed night in Manchester in “This Blue, Blue Air,” and from a relationship between family members in bloom (but not for long) in “The Way That Things Feel”, to reflections on personal value in “Love and Money” - Yrsa Daley-Ward’s collection of short stories is a lively and entertaining debut. With a clear, confident voice and a comforting and often poignant intimacy, her stories are a series of adventures with fascinating characters and emotionally charged unpredictability.

*Cover design by Will Stewart (www.designbyws.com)

N.B. A limited edition series of chapbooks will follow soon…

Par Avion - Out Now!

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:17:00 +0100

Volume 1 of our new travel journal, PAR AVION, is released…

From a romantic encounter in Cuba to a night train heading from Berlin to Paris, and from buying alcohol (with difficulty) in India, to navigating the social etiquette of the Arabian Peninsula, the travel stories collected in the first volume of PAR AVION inspire exploration of the world off the beaten track, challenging barriers and boundaries, both physical and social. With work from authors Francine Elena, Adam Biles, Sara Grady, Anna Aslanyan, Joseph Ridgwell, Chris McKeon, Raoul Colvile, Jamie Otsa, Kirill Kobrin, Dylan Trigg, Joanna Walsh and edited by Christiana Spens.

Buy in the UK here, the USA here, France here, Germany here, Italy here, Japan here, and Spain here…

Photograph taken in Le Marais, Paris, Summer 2012 by Christiana Spens

Graphic Design by Will Stewart - www.designbyws.com