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In Praise of Book Publishers
It is the small, independent publishers that deserve our praise as well as our concern, for in today’s world, they are the ones most in jeopardy. Read more »
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Travelling Companion
Alison Bacon
It’s sometimes suggested we should buy from publishers like this simply because they are ‘a good thing’ and by doing so we preserve their place in the big bad publishing world, but although this is an attractive proposition, I only buy what I think I will like, regardless of publisher, and in this case was persuaded by Sally Zigmond’s positive reviews Read more »
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Small is Beautiful
Sally Zigmond
When the books arrived, I spent a lot of time contemplating their look and feel. Each book looks totally different in design and concept. The texts are clean and crisp with no errors and bloopers that one often gets with small publishers. Read more »
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Hema Marchela
Indian writer, Hema Macherla is a born story teller. Her debut novel, Breeze From The River Manjeera, has won a swathe of awards Read more »
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Olukemi Amala.
UK born Nigerian writer, Olukemi Amala, lives in Scotland. She defines herself as a critical thinker and writer who occupies a space on the margins of life Read more »
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Blue Eyes
Set in Gandhi’s volatile India, the story opens with Anjali, aged eighteen, about to be burnt alive on her husband’s funeral pyre – the conventional widow’s fate. After a dramatic escape, things go badly wrong and she embarks on an extraordinary, often terrifying, journey of discovery. Read more »
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White Lies
By 1950, Kenya was on the verge of one of the bloodiest wars of decolonisation fought in Britain’s twentieth century empire.’ Britain’s Gulag. Eve is dutifully typing her father’s dictated memoirs of his time as a soldier in WWII and in Nairobi during the Mau Mau uprising. Read more »
Under an Emerald Sky
Two babies are born five minutes apart in a UK hospital.
Immersed in her rich Nigerian heritage, Yewande grows up able to hear her ancestors’ voices – a double edged sword that heightens her spiritual awareness, but alienates her sister and brings horrifying revelations about her family’s past. Read more »
The Missing
In the spring of 1958, journalist Frances Daye is persuaded to follow the trail of yet another woman thought to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia. While she searches for Ania through the avenues and boulevards of Paris, she is haunted by memories of her past and begins a poignant tale of her own. T Read more »
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The Device, The Devil and Me
Lauren Walker has been keeping one hell of secret: she thinks she is possessed by the Devil. Fear of discovery forces her to wear the mask of a model citizen with strict, self-imposed rules. In her twenties, she succumbs to the pressure of living so many lies and finds release in self-harm and bulimia. Read more »
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Breeze from The River Manjeera
Breeze from the River Manjeera tells the story of the engaging Neela who arrives in England as a bride for the brutal Ajay. The life that awaits Neela is a far cry from her hopes and expectations. Treated worse than a servant by her in-laws, and unwanted by her husband, she finally escapes in search of independence and freedom. Read more »
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Childhood’s Hill
A bitter-sweet, turn-of-the-century memoir about the Seventh Daughter, a child blessed with strange powers and an almost pagan reverence for nature, growing up in Edinburgh and the countryside of Midlothian. Read more »
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Two authors in search of an audience
E. E. Smith and Lynn Michell share their experiences of the writing process. . . Read more »
There are novels and memoirs that simply slide into the current literary zeitgeist as if into an oiled made-to-measure space. Think Mr Grey and Anna. A perfect fit. It struck many nerves in many places. Not that Linen Press is yearning for for one of those. Read more »
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Lynn Michell’s “Shooting Stars” launches on the River Thames
There’s a chance nautical theme to our 2013 publications. In October we publish Maureen Freely’s Sailing Through Byzantium, and on May 29th Lynn Michell & Stefan Gregory’s Shooting Stars launches, appropriately, from a sailing club on the Thames. Come and join us! Read more »