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Publishers V-Z

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Tunis Press

Tunis Press

An A-Z directory of publishers that I know of, linked to an information page with addresses, websites and other contact information. If you know of any that I’ve missed could you please let me know by emailing me.

Once I’ve made a page for the publisher on this website the name will link to that page with all contact details on it.

  1. V. Press: website
  2. Vagabond Voices: website
  3. Valley Press: website
  4. Vane Women Press: website
  5. Vanguard Editions: website
  6. Velocity Press
  7. Ventorros Press: website
  8. Verso Books
  9. Vertebrate Publishing: website
  10. Verve Poetry Press: website
  11. Verve Books: website
  12. VF Press: website
  13. Victorina Press: website
  14. Vineland Publishing: twitter
  15. Viper Books: website
  16. Virtual Zine: website
  17. Visual Verse: website
  18. The Voidery Aperture: website
  19. Vraeyda Literary: website
  20. Vulpine Press: website
  21. Wade Hudson
  22. Wales Art Review: website
  23. Walker Books: website
  24. walking-books.com: website
  25. Ward River Press: website
  26. Ward Wood Publishing: website
  27. Wasafari Magazine: website
  28. Watermark Press: website
  29. Watkins Publishing: website
  30. The Waywiser Press: website
  31. Weatherglass Books: website
  32. The Wee Book Company
  33. Welbeck Publishing Group: website
  34. The Well Review: website
  35. Welsh Football Magazine
  36. What On Earth Publishing: website
  37. The White Review: website
  38. Whittrick Press: website
  39. The Wild Geese Press: website
  40. Wild Hunt Books: website
  41. Wild Pressed Books: website
  42. Wild Seed Magazine: website
  43. Wild Things Publishing: website
  44. Wild Wolf Publishing: website
  45. Wildness: website
  46. The Willowherb Review: website
  47. winamop.com: website
  48. The Winnow Magazine: website
  49. Witcherley Books: website
  50. Wizard’s Tower Press: website
  51. World Editions: website
  52. Wormwood: website
  53. Worple Press: website
  54. Wrecking Ball Press: website
  55. Writeresque: website
  56. Wundor Editions: website
  57. Wyldblood Press: website
  58. Y Lolfa: website
  59. Yaffle Press: website
  60. Yew Tree Press: website
  61. Ylva Publishing
  62. Yolk Publishing: website
  63. YoYo Books: website
  64. Zed Books: website
  65. ZenoPress
  66. Zimzalla: website
  67. Zsa Zsa Publishing: website
  68. ZunTold Publishing: website
  69. Zymurgy Publishing

Publishers S-U

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Tunis Press

Tunis Press

An A-Z directory of publishers that I know of, linked to an information page with addresses, websites and other contact information. If you know of any that I’ve missed could you please let me know by emailing me.

Once I’ve made a page for the publisher on this website the name will link to that page with all contact details on it.

  1. Sable: website
  2. Sacristy Press: website
  3. Sad Press: website
  4. Salad Pages: website
  5. Salamander Street: website
  6. Salariya Book Co.: website
  7. Salmon Poetry: website
  8. Salt: website
  9. Salò Press: website
  10. Salomé: website
  11. Salon of the Refused: website
  12. Sandstone Press: website
  13. Sans. Press: website
  14. Sapere Books: website
  15. Saqi Books: website
  16. Saraband Books: website
  17. Sarasvati: website
  18. Sassify Press: website
  19. Scallywag Press: website
  20. Scene Alba: website
  21. Scimitar Edge Publishing: website
  22. Scoop: website
  23. The Scores: website
  24. Scotland Street Press
  25. Scottish Mountaineering Press: website
  26. Scratch Books: website
  27. Scratching Shed Publishing Ltd: website
  28. Scribe Publications: website
  29. Scrittura Magazine: website
  30. Sea Lion Press: website
  31. Search Press Books: website
  32. Seaside Gothic: website
  33. Self Made Hero: website
  34. The Selkie: website
  35. The Selkie Press: website
  36. Sentinel Literary Quarterly: website
  37. September Publishing: website
  38. Seren Books: website
  39. Serif Books: website
  40. Serpentine Books: website
  41. Set Margins’ Books: website
  42. Seven Arches Publishing: website
  43. Seven Stories Press: website
  44. Seventh Quarry Press: website
  45. Severn House: website
  46. Shade 7 Publishing: website
  47. The Shadow Booth: website
  48. Shared Press: website
  49. Sharpe Books: website
  50. Shearsman Books: website
  51. Sheldrake Press: website
  52. Shin Publications: website
  53. Shoestring Press: website
  54. Shooter Literary Magazine: website
  55. Shoreline of Infinity: website
  56. Short Books: website
  57. Short Fiction: website
  58. Shrine Bell: website
  59. Side Real Books: website
  60. Sidekick Books: website
  61. Sídhe Press: website
  62. Signal 8 Press: website
  63. Silhouette Press: website
  64. Silkworms Ink: website
  65. Silver Press: website
  66. Silvertail Press: website
  67. Sine Wave Peak: website
  68. Singing Apple Press: website
  69. Sinister Horror Company: website
  70. Sinoist Press: website
  71. Siren Press: website
  72. Sixth Element: website
  73. Skein Press: website
  74. The Skinny: website
  75. Skylight 47: website
  76. Skylight Press: website
  77. Slashic Horror Press: website
  78. Slightly Foxed Magazine: website
  79. Sloth and Envy Press
  80. Small Beer Press: website
  81. small leaf press: website
  82. SmashBear publishing: website
  83. Smithereens Literary Magazine: website
  84. Smithereens Press: website
  85. Smokestack Books: website
  86. Smooth|Doorstop Books: website
  87. Snow Lit Rev: website
  88. Snowbooks: website
  89. Soaring Penguin Press: website
  90. Solaris: website
  91. Somesuch Stories: website
  92. Soor Ploom Press: website
  93. Soundings: website
  94. Soundswrite Press: website
  95. South Bank Poetry: website
  96. South Poetry Magazine: website
  97. South Side Stories: website
  98. Southward Editions: website
  99. Souvenir Press: facebook
  100. Space Cat Press: website
  101. SPAM Zine: website
  102. Spark Young Writers Magazine: website
  103. Speculative Books: website
  104. Spelk: website
  105. Spellbinder: website
  106. SpellBound books: website
  107. Spelt Magazine: website
  108. Spinner Publications: website
  109. Splice: website
  110. Spondylux Press
  111. Spontaneity: website
  112. Squaw Pies: website
  113. SRL Publishing: website
  114. SST Publications: website
  115. Stairwell Books: website
  116. Stelliform Press: website
  117. Stand Poetry Magazine
  118. Stepaway Magazine: website
  119. Stewed Rhubarb Press: website
  120. Stinging Fly: website
  121. Stirling Publishing: website
  122. Stone Skin Press: website
  123. Stonewood Press: website
  124. The Stony Thursday Poetry Book: website
  125. Storgy: website
  126. Storm Publishing: website
  127. Storyhouse Publishing
  128. The Strand Magazine: website
  129. Strange Attractor Press: website
  130. Strange Region: website
  131. Stranger Press: website
  132. Strangers Press: website
  133. Streetcake Magazine: website
  134. Strix: website
  135. Strong Words Magazine: website
  136. Structo Magazine and Press: website
  137. Stryvling Press: website
  138. Suburban Witchcraft Magazine: website
  139. Sugarlump Publishing: website
  140. Summerhill Books: website
  141. Swan Isle Press: website
  142. Swan River Press: website
  143. Sweet Cherry: website
  144. Swift Press: twitter
  145. Sylph Editions: website
  146. SYZ Books: website
  147. Taff Vale Press: twitter
  148. Tales from the Forest: website
  149. Tall-Lighthouse: website
  150. Tangent Books: website
  151. The Tangerine: website
  152. Tangerine Press: website
  153. Taproot Press: website
  154. Tapsalteerie: website
  155. Tarquin Group: website
  156. Tartarus Press: website
  157. Tate Publishing: website
  158. Team Angelica: website
  159. Tears in the Fence: website
  160. Telos Publishing Ltd: website
  161. Tempest Books: website
  162. Templar Poetry: website
  163. Tenebris Books: website
  164. Tenement Press: website
  165. thezine71: twitter
  166. thi wurd: website
  167. Thimble Literary Magazine: website
  168. Thin Ice Press: website
  169. This and That Zine: website
  170. Thistle Publishing: website
  171. A Thousand Yellow Daisies: website
  172. ThunderPoint Publishing: website
  173. Tilia Publishing UK: website
  174. Tilted Axis: website
  175. Tindal Street: website
  176. Tiny Ghost Press: website
  177. Tiny Owl Publishing: website
  178. Tiny Tree Books
  179. Tippermuir Books: website
  180. Tír na nÓg: website
  181. Tirgearr Publishing: website
  182. Titan Books: website
  183. Token Books: website
  184. Toothgrinder Press: website
  185. The Toy Press: website
  186. Tramp Press: website
  187. Trigger Publishing: website
  188. Tripwire Magazine: website
  189. Troika Books: website
  190. Troy Books
  191. TTA Press: website
  192. Tuba Press: twitter
  193. Turas Press: website
  194. Twenty Seven: website
  195. Two Rivers Press: website
  196. Tyger Tyger Magazine: website
  197. Tyne Bridge Publishing: facebook
  198. UCLAN Publishing
  199. UKAuthors/UKAPress: website
  200. Under the Radar: website
  201. Undertow Publications: website
  202. Uniformbooks: website
  203. Universal Octopus: website
  204. The University of Chicago Press: website
  205. Unsung Stories: website
  206. Unthank Books: website
  207. UpLit Press: website
  208. Urbane Publications: website

The Living Mountain

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Nan Shepherd. Canongate Books. (176p) ISBN: 9781786897350. Nature Writing, read 18/06/18, Paperback ★★★★☆

The Living Mountain

The Living Mountain

I’ve had The Living Mountain sitting on my shelf for about five years now and for some reason just never got around to reading it, but now that I read a lot of children’s books I always like to read a more serious book as a sort of ‘palette cleanser’.

On starting I was astounded that the introduction for the special edition was almost as long as the book itself, but what a wonderful introduction.

Once I got into the book proper, Nan Shepherd’s writing was so mesmerising I didn’t want to put it down, she transported me into the mountains as no other book about the mountains has done previously.

The strength of her imagery and her obvious passion for the mountains made the whole of her world come alive for me.

Though Nan Shepherd is placed firmly in her time, the timeless nature of the Cairngorms are exemplified by her prose and imagery.

This is a classic of travel, nature and mountaineering and deservedly so and I am glad that I finally got around to reading it and not just having it on the shelf as some sort of trophy book.

Wrestliana

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Toby Litt. Galley Beggar Press. (260p) ISBN: 9781910296899. Memoir, read 18/06/18, Paperback ★★★★☆

Wrestliana

Wrestliana

Wrestliana is a complicated book, on the surface it is a biography of Toby Litt’s great-great-grandfather William Litt, but it is also an exploration of his relationship with his own father, his sons, and representations of masculinity.

I was lucky enough to receive this from Galley Beggar Press to read and I really appreciate the chance as Toby’s writing is clear and impelling.

William Litt was a champion Cumberland and Westmoreland Wrestling athlete and writer and this book follows his life around the wrestling circuit and further abroad.

It is the joining of these two modern day extremes, ‘Jock’ and ‘Nerd’ that Toby explores, both in William’s life and his own.

Positing that William’s era was possibly the beginning of separation of body and mind as distinct social personas, body and mind was commonly combined. But with the rise of educational specialism and professional sports they became irrevocably sundered.

A really great read written with understanding and passion.

Murder Most Unladylike

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Robin Stevens. Penguin. (352p) ISBN: 9780141369761. Middle Grade, read 21/02/18, Paperback ★★★★☆

Murder Most Unladylike

Murder Most Unladylike

Just before Christmas (a couple of years back) we found out that Robin Stevens was coming to one of our local schools to talk to the pupils about her books and writing mysteries, have to say I jumped at the chance to organise something to support the schools librarian and the school (but also to meet Robin 😉 ).

Robin was kind enough to give me a few of her lovely US editions of the series, Murder is Bad Manners being the US name for Murder Most Unladylike, and they are such beautiful editions too, strikingly different art from the UK editions, reminiscent of the 30s John Buchan/Agatha Christie covers.

In this first book, Daisy and Hazel seem to be ironing out the kinks in their relationship whilst trying to discover who murdered their teacher, Miss Bell.

This involves following various clues, red herrings and threads to their conclusion, and in the tradition of all good murder mysteries the reveal is surprising but follows from the clues sprinkled throughout the book.

The pace was well-judged, moving along quickly enough to keep a reader interested but not so quick as to lose the thread of the plot, Hazel is a wonderful narrator in the style of a Watsonesque sidekick, but with a bit more personality than that much maligned assistant.

In Praise of the Garrulous

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Allan Cameron. Vagabond Voices. (208p) ISBN: 9781908251244. Language, read 07/12/14, Paperback ★★★★☆

In Praise of the Garrulous

In Praise of the Garrulous

A wonderfully, garrulous account of language and its development, but also a warning on where our language could go if we aren’t careful.

Love of words, sounds and the full gamut of the English language is sung out loud here, and that song is a rallying cry for those who also love the language as much.

Slang and common-tongue is not ridiculed but seen as a dark slope that can limit the use of words and expression by ‘streamlining’ our speech and thought processes.

As an object I found In Praise of the Garrulous desirable, with a great cover and french folds that holds information and images.

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