Our authors_
We are proud to represent a diverse range of authors writing across a range of genres.
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![Black and white portrait of Alan Bilton, wearing a collared shirt and sweater, looking at the camera with a slight smile against a dark background.]()
Alan Bilton
Alan Bilton is the author of three novels, The End of the Yellow House, The Sleepwalkers’ Ball and The Known and Unknown Sea, as well as a collection of short stories, Anywhere Out of the World. He has also written books on silent film, contemporary fiction, and the 1920s. At Dawn, Two Nightingales is his fourth novel
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![Portrait of Jane Fraser wearing a black shirt and a silver necklace, looking directly at the camera, standing against a textured dark gray background.]()
Jane Fraser
Jane Fraser lives, works and writes fiction in a house facing the sea in the Gower peninsula. She is the author of the novel, Advent, winner of the Society of Authors’ Paul Torday Memorial Prize 2022, and two collections of short stories, The South Westerlies and Connective Tissue. Her short fiction has been broadcast by BBC Radio 4 as part of its Short Works series. Jane is a Hay Festival Writer at Work and has an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing from Swansea University. Weights and Measures is her second novel.
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![Portrait of Carole Hailey wearing a pink floral blouse, standing in front of a weathered wooden fence and brick wall.]()
Carole Hailey
After years of failing to write in the middle of the night, Carole Hailey abandoned a lucrative career as a lawyer to become an impoverished novelist. She subsequently accumulated an MA in Creative Writing from Goldsmiths and a PhD from Swansea University. Carole was shortlisted for the International Bridport Prize Peggy Chapman-Andrews First Novel Award 2020 and is a London Library Emerging Writer 2020/21. The Book of Jem is her first novel.
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![Portrait of Carolyn Lewis wearing an orange sweater and white collared shirt, standing in front of a bookshelf filled with books.]()
Carolyn Lewis
Writing since she was eight years old, Carolyn is the author of two novels: Missing, Nancy and Time, Again, together with a collection of prize-winning short stories: Some Sort of Twilight. She is a creative writing tutor and has published two text books based on her teaching methods, one for short story writers and one for novelists. Carolyn has an MPhil in Creative Writing from the University of South Wales and has a PhD in Creative Writing from Swansea University.
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![Portrait of Edward Matthews standing outdoors near the coast on a cloudy day, wearing a brown jacket with a shearling collar.]()
Edward Matthews
Edward Matthews is a writer and educator based in San Diego, California. He earned his Ph.D. in Creative Writing from Swansea University in 2020. He has read and published widely on the topic of reimagining space along the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, focusing on San Diego and Tijuana. Border Memories is his first novel.
Our publications_
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![Book cover for "At Dawn, Two Nightingales" by Alan Bilton, featuring a colorful, painted puppet-like face with prominent nose, lips, and eye, set against a forest background.]()
At Dawn, Two Nightingales – Alan Bilton
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.
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![Cover of a book titled 'The End of the Yellow House' by Alan Bilton, featuring an old, abandoned, snow-covered building with broken windows and a leaning utility pole in the foreground.]()
The End of the Yellow House – Alan Bilton
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.
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Weights and Measures – Jane Fraser
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…
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![Book cover of 'The Book of Jem' by Carole Hailey featuring a silhouette of a woman with tree and wind turbine images layered within her profile.]()
The Book of Jem – Carole Hailey
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.
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Time, Again – Carolyn Lewis
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.
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![Book cover featuring a foggy pier with a house, the title "Some Sort of Twilight" by Carolyn Lewis, and a pink "W" logo.]()
Some Sort of Twilight – Carolyn Lewis
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.
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![Book cover for 'Border Memories' by Edward Matthews, featuring a landscape of mountains under a pink and purple sunset sky with a full moon.]()
Border Memories – Edward Matthews
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.
