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There’s plenty going on at Ignite Villas at the moment. For the next few weeks our author Dave Barbarossa is out drumming with Adam & The Ants on the Dirk Wears White Sox reprise tour. Any of you going to…

Ever since we published City Baby we’ve been acutely aware that for fans of GBH who live on the other side of the world, getting their hands on a physical copy of the book can be prohibitively expensive (if they…

Every now and then it’s good to take a bit of time off. To walk away from the office and the laptop and the emails, switch off your phone, and cut yourself free. And that’s what Ignite is doing for…

One of the great things about books is that everyone has an opinion on them. What one person loves, another can’t abide. (Someone out there likes Fifty Shades Of Grey, for starters). But anyone who – even for a moment…

Xmas is coming. Which means you’ll be assailed* from dawn till dusk (and beyond) by a tsunami of adverts promising to make your life full and lustrous and wonderful, to keep you slim and your teeth perfect and your partner…

Every now and then, something catches you on the hop. And like the Spanish Inquisition in Monty Python’s famous sketch, it’s always unexpected. Truth is, we hadn’t seen last Friday coming. Or at least we had, but we weren’t expecting…

That title’s not entirely accurate. It should, really, read more good news. Because following on from the great reviews of City Baby on the Louder Than War website and in Sidewalk magazine, we’ve now had two more, in Record Collector…

That’s what Louder Than War said about City Baby. They said a lot more, too. In fact, we were tempted to type the whole review out here, word for word*. They called it fascinating, uplifting, a heartening tale of survival,…

Sometimes it does you no harm at all to stop work, step back from the coalface and take a look at what you’ve achieved. This week Ignite Books is four years old. We started out with the vague idea that…

At the time of writing there’s just under four weeks till our latest book City Baby is officially published. Hard to believe it’s still under the radar, seeing as we’ve been talking about it all summer, and people have been…