Apparently, it’s eight years since we published City Baby. Eight years! Where did the time go? (note: that’s a rhetorical question, please don’t come back at us with some astrophysical explanation we can’t begin to understand. Thanks). It went on…
Bank holiday Monday afternoon, and we’ve finally got time to write a quick blog about last Wednesday evening. We spent it on Zoom, enjoying a conversation between writers Kit de Waal, Lisa Blower, and our own Emma Purshouse as they…
One feature of the past year – for obvious reasons – has been the migration of live literature events to an online platform. It’s been a necessary response to the situation we’ve found ourselves in, and while we’re all looking…
Starting on Monday 26th April, Stay At Home Lit Fest is putting on a fantastic programme of literary events, all of them online, and all of them free to access. As the name suggests, this means that you can engage…
It’s often the case that one change begets another. Earlier this year we finally had the Ignite website redesigned (and it’s a thing of beauty, isn’t it?) a long overdue development which dovetailed so wonderfully with the publication of our…
Pop the champagne! Or throw it an extra stick! This week marked the official publication of Emma Purshouse’s novel ‘Dogged’, which is now out there sniffing lampposts and marking its territory in the big bad world of contemporary literature. What…
It’s always a bit of a risk and an adventure, publishing a new book, especially when we’ve spent the past year living through ‘unprecedented times’. But when we read the manuscript of ‘Dogged’ by Emma Purshouse, we knew it was…
It’s been a very long time coming, but the Ignite website has had a makeover. A comprehensive one. Chances are, if you’re here reading this blog, that you’ve noticed already. We’ve dragged it screaming and kicking into the 21st century,…
Over the weekend, two of our Ignite authors brought their work to Wolverhampton Literature Festival, and showed that it’s possible to share the magic of great writing and engage an audience even in an online event. One day, people, all…
One of life’s realities – along with death, and taxes – is that Am**on is the first port of call for a lot of folk when it comes to buying books. Yes, there’s been a heartening rise in the number…