Latest releases and pre-orders
THE 2023/24 GALLEY BEGGAR PRESS SHORT STORY PRIZE
Happy publication to our newest release, Adam Biles and Beasts of England
“A timely and worthy successor to Animal Farm.” —The Observer
“In Beasts of England, Adam Biles has updated and retooled Animal Farm for today, and in this clever, resourceful and at times painful novel, the risk pays off.” —The Guardian
“In its portrait of maximal duplicity, Beasts of England is as much of our time as Animal Farm was of its.” —New Statesman
“Impressive… Fun… Orwell is one of the great writers of fear, but where Animal Farm works by suggestion… Biles’s novel puts everything on show, and in doing so stops the reader several times through its sheer brutality.” —The Telegraph
Read an extract here | Listen to Adam on bbc open book here | buy a copy of beasTs of england here
other recent titles
The Book of Desire, by Meena Kandasamy
“Breath-taking… Electric… This classic, singing so freely of love and desire, has finally found the right translator – a poet who burns with as much fire as the ancients did.” —The Financial Times
“Transcendent. … One of the most startling treats among January’s releases is The Book of Desire, Meena Kandasamy’s Tamil ode to female love and desire.” —The Independent
“Precise and passionate… beautiful and resonant… No reader will find themselves left out of [The Book of Desire’s] fundamental language of yearning.” —The Irish Times
read meena’s interview in the irish times here | read meena’s top 10 love poems in the guardian here
read an extract here | buy a copy here
A WRITER’S DIARY, by toby litt
“A hugely readable achievement.” —The Guardian
“A deeply moving treatise on life, death, parenthood and the function of writing.” —The Observer
“An extraordinary record of life’s minitiae… a treasury of wisdom about the writing life.” —The Spectator
“Not quite a notebook, not quite a diary, not quite a novel... a rich and risky book. Brilliant.” —The Irish Times
