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We are excited to share with you the titles for 2021 we’ve announced in previous weeks, including five new novels, a short story collection and the latest addition to our ‘How to…’ Modern Living series. In February we published David and Ameena, the masterful debut novel from Ami Rao. It follows David and Ameena as they navigat

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Our short story of the week is a story about curiosity by Amy Slack. Amy Slack is a writer and editor from the north-east of England. After studying for an English degree in Belfast, she now lives and works in London, where she gently reminds people that there is life beyond the M25. She is currently studying part-time for a Creative W

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Our short story of the week is a story about migration by Kate Novak. Kate Novak is a feminist, immigrant, vegan cat lady. She writes about what she considers important: being an outsider, speaking from the margins, representing a minority perspective. She teaches American literature and writing. She is passionately anti-anthropocentri

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Our short story of the week is a story about prejudice by Vineetha Mokkil. Vineetha Mokkil is the author of the short story collection A Happy Place and Other Stories (HarperCollins, 2014). She received an honourable mention in the Anton Chekhov Prize for Very Short Fiction 2020. She was shortlisted for the Bath Flash Award in 2018 a

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Nathan Burton is the designer behind the cover of David and Ameena. We’ve talked to him about his path into graphic designing and his creative process. How did you get into the arts and what led you to book design? I did a degree course in graphic design at the University of Northumbria in Newcastle which had a very strong illustratio

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Our short story of the week is a story about desire by Alex Pickett. Alex Pickett was born in South Wales and moved to Dorset during his childhood. He has a lifelong passion for all things creative, including writing, painting and illustration. Alex holds a degree in psychology, specialising in the science of reading, and works as a pr

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Our short story of the week is a story about loneliness by Jane Copland. Jane Copland is from Wellington, New Zealand. After spending her early years almost entirely underwater, she broke a national record in the 200m breaststroke at eighteen and moved to Pullman, Washington to take up a swimming scholarship at Washington State Univers

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Ami Rao's debut novel, David and Ameena, is published by Fairlight Books on 4 February 2021. This modern romance picks apart the lives of two people, David, an American-Jewish jazz musician, and Ameena, a British-Pakistani artist. As they navigate their relationship, their ambitions and the city they love, David and Ameena discover the ex

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