The shelf

Books we helped into the world

Every title below is owned outright by its author. We supplied the craft; they kept the copyright, the imprint and the royalties.

Literary fiction

The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

Marianne Ellis

Nine weeks from final draft to launch. Still reprinting four years on.

Memoir

Flight of the Albatross

Peter Hollingworth

A flying career told at 30,000 feet and sea level.

Historical

The Matchless Patchless Bullet

R. J. Kenward

Complex figure setting, index and 62 archive plates.

Poetry

Away From Home

Sian Bevan

Verse setting where every line break survived the reflow.

Biography

Anita's Diary

Lewis Grant

Deposited with all six legal deposit libraries.

Children's

The Little Foundling

Cora Whitfield

Full-colour fixed-layout digital plus hardback gift edition.

Romance

Save the Last Dance

Denise Farr

Twelve-week launch campaign, 3,100 copies in quarter one.

Non-fiction

Knowledge of Love and Healing

Dr Amara Sen

Academic distribution into library supply chains.

“They found forty-one continuity errors I'd read past a hundred times.”

Peter Hollingworth

“The cover is the reason people pick it up. That's not an exaggeration, it's the sales data.”

Denise Farr

“I own everything. That still feels remarkable to say.”

Sian Bevan

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