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Your fourth print run of A Marvellous Party, the printers told us when we placed our order with them, will be delivered on Friday 5th August. We’re very happy to say they were as good as their word, and a…

Whenever we publish a book, it’s with the intention of doing the best we can, in every way. We want our authors to enjoy working with us, to see their manuscript in print and for it to be something they…

Over the past few months we’ve watched energy bills, petrol prices, and food costs rising dramatically. It’s affecting everybody. Last week, our blundering idiot of a prime minister responded to the story of a pensioner riding buses all day to…

One year ago today, on 6th April 2021, we offically published ‘Dogged’. It’s the debut novel from Emma Purshouse – Wolverhampton’s first poet laureate and recent 3rd prize winner in the National Poetry Competition (with over 16,700 entries!) – and it’s really…

Yesterday morning, a palletload of boxes containing the second print run of Emma Purshouse’s novel Dogged arrived at Ignite Villas. Huge thanks from us to everyone who’s bought a copy already – selling out the first print run in just twelve…

One year ago, at Wolverhampton Literature Festival 2021, we launched ‘Dogged’, the debut novel from performance poet and writer Emma Purshouse. The book wasn’t officially published until the start of April, but the printers had sent it along and the…

We’ve always held that Brexit was a really, really, really bad idea. Nothing that’s happened since has suggested we were wrong, and there’s been plenty of evidence – truck queues, supply chain issues, labour shortages – to show that the sunlit…

The last couple of years have been difficult for everyone* and we’ve really missed being able to get out and about to promote our books, and – above all – to meet people. Which is why we’re delighted, overjoyed, and…

Happy New Year, folks! We haven’t a clue what it’ll bring – though today’s sunshine and blue skies are incredibly welcome, and (we hope) a reminder of brighter days to come. For all of us*. Thank you to everyone who…

It’s that time of year again. The days are short, the sun has set by tea-time, and the Xmas book-buying rush is almost over. Soon we’ll be putting our feet up, cracking open a bottle of something suitably decadent, making…