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Watermark Press is the home of original, innovative, and proudly individual prose, seeking out unique voices, distinctive visions, and dazzlingly imaginative worlds. It specialises in the publication of literary fiction, unconstrained by genre, convention, or cliché. We believe that books should be beautiful objects in their own right, and Watermark Press is committed to eye-catching design, singular conception, and the highest of production values.

Bohemia in the Eighteenth Century. At Dawn, Two Nightingales is rumoured to be the most dangerous poem in the world, its haunted verses said to be invested with mysterious, supernatural powers. Now a ragbag bunch of bandits, criminals, censors and brigands are all hunting for it in an uproarious adventure that is part quest, part comic opera, and part unexpected ghost story. 

Central Russia, 1919, a sanatorium cut off by the chaos of the Russian civil war. The murder of the chief doctor sets in motion a nightmarish series of events involving mysterious experiments, the secret police, the Tsar’s double, possessed cats and the overwhelming madness of war, in this fantastical historical novel.

An unhurried historical novel that ends as surprisingly for the characters as the reader. It follows an outwardly ordinary family, during the early days of World War II, exploring inner lives of fear, passion, and hope. They live in almost suspended animation, waiting for an end to the months of the so-called ’phoney war.’ None of them are prepared for the real war when it begins…

In the aftermath of catastrophic religious wars, God has been banned. A young woman – Jem – arrives in the isolated village of Underhill, announcing that not only does God exist, but It has sent her to deliver an apocalyptic message. As the prophesied apocalypse draws near, Jem’s divisive message eventually threatens the very existence of Underhill.

Sensitively observed and poignantly written, Time, Again explores the eternal conflict between youth and age, parents and children, enduring ambition and the passing of time with both wit and empathy. Time, Again thoughtfully examines the choices and challenges faced by all women in all stages of their lives.

These twelve stories are of people unsure of their place in the world. The stories combine pathos, humour and wisdom to explore how the ordinary can be strange, heartbreaking or comic, illuminating the inner lives of people who feel in some way they’re on the edge of their own lives.

Why live one life, when you could live a thousand?
Sol works for a start-up that traffics in the underground memory trade—harvesting memories from donors in Mexico and implanting them in Americans.