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We’re delighted to be starting 2021 by welcoming a new author – our seventh – to the Ignite Books roster. People up and down the country will know Emma Purshouse as an accomplished performance poet, presenter of the episode of…

From us to each and every one of you. Thanks to everyone who’s supported us by buying one (or more) of our books in this most challenging of years. Thanks to the independent bookshops who continue to do everything they…

September 2020, and Royal Mail have decided to hike – by a considerable amount – the cost of sending parcels by airmail. They’ve also re-jigged the geography of the world, into the bargain. The USA, which was in World Zone…

It seems that one thing that’s happened through lockdown – at least as far as Ignite Books is concerned – is that people have been buying more e-books than they were previously. We’ve certainly seen a notable spike in sales.…

You may be aware that the UK government has now removed the VAT levy from e-books. This welcome (some might say, overdue) move means that buying a digital copy of any Ignite publication is now better value than ever. With…

May 1st. And today our latest publication – the sixth book of poems by performance poet Steve Pottinger – is officially out in the world. Yes, we’ve had copies with us since early March, but this was always the date…

We don’t usually write blogs about newspaper articles, but…. yesterday, Dave Simpson, music editor of The Guardian, posted a truly wonderful piece about the impact of Clay Records on the second wave of UK punk. Those of you who know…

Life has changed since we last sat down to write a blog. Then, the biggest problem in the Ignite world was that our latest publication – the new book of poems by Steve Pottinger – had arrived a day later…

OK, so things didn’t quite go to plan, in that the new book of poems by Steve Pottinger arrived on Tuesday morning last week rather than Monday, which meant he didn’t have copies with him for his Brighton and London…

… in that you wait ages for some kind of news from us, and there seems to be nothing but tumbleweed. Then, out of nowhere, there’s stuff coming at you from all angles. Last week, the news that we’re putting…