Bold Works by Bold Women
We publish fiction, non-fiction, and poetry for adults. We are agnostic on length, form and genre while caring deeply about quality, diversity and relevance. We believe those who write from the margins, out of step with trend and who defy classification, have most to share. Hence, the covers of our books are red: the colour of blood, of vibrancy, danger and courage.
Every author’s work carries their fingerprint - the DNA of their life experience, trace elements of their worldview. Every reader adds their fingerprint to the pages making each story their own.
Featured Publications
Mistress Pieces
An experimental exploration of madness and love
The crash of her husband’s foot through the bedroom door shatters the author. Each broken part of the body and mind takes on a voice, expressing itself through ‘Mistress Pieces’, words scrawled on walls and odd scraps of paper, in search of healing damage ‘half a century in the making’. Framed within a queer love story, Mistress Pieces celebrates madness and its influence on contemporary political and personal relationships, encouraging us to embrace chaos as we seek a new paradigm for living.
“Raw, uplifting and refusing definition”
Dark Star
Dark Star is a first novel of impressive calibre. (Time Magazine, June 10, 1929)
Born under a dark star, Nancy Pringle, never knew who her father was, and is abandoned by her mother. The novel follows Nancy as she navigates adolescence and adulthood, while encountering society’s marginalised in her search both for her father’s identity and her own.
Under Lorna Moon’s forensic gaze, small community life's conventions, mores, and hypocrisies are examined in minute and often wry detail. And through Nancy’s growing understanding of her own desire, Moon is able to analyse female sexuality at a time when to do so was revolutionary. ‘It is revolting to me’, Moon wrote in a letter, ‘that in a civilised world a woman’s virtue rests entirely upon her hymen.’* With Dark Star, Moon works through her outrage.
“Dark Star is a ‘sincere effort to show what the men in a woman’s life bring to her, and take from her … It is the inside of a woman written from the inside.”
-Lorna Moon (cited by Dr Glenda Norquay)
Forthcoming Publications
The Rest is Silence follows the life of introverted schoolgirl Muriel Mead, who disappears from a village lane on the eve of World War II. However, Muriel's story is more complicated and unexpected than initially believed.