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31/05/2024

🎉LAUNCH DAY!🎉

📖Happy publication day to As It Was in the Beginning by Gertrude Trevelyan. After being out of print for 90 years (!) this incredible tour-de-force of stream of consciousness writing is now republished and available for today’s readers to enjoy.

Taking place within the four walls of a nursing home private room, the book manages to encompass the entire span of one woman’s life. As Millicent, Lady Chesborough lays dying, her thoughts run backwards, through her romantic relationships and attempts to define herself, to her childhood and earliest memories.

Gertrude Eileen Trevelyan was born in Bath in 1903. She came to fame as the first woman to win the Newdigate Prize for best undergraduate poem at Oxford in 1927. Starting with Appius and Virginia in 1932, she published eight novels, her last being Trance by Appointment in 1939. Her novels Two Thousand Million Man-Power and William’s Wife have been reissued in the Recovered Books series from Boiler House Press – and today As It Was in the Beginning is joining them!

Order your copy here: https://www.boilerhouse.press/product-page/as-it-was-in-the-beginning

22/05/2024

🎉BIG NEWS!🎉

📖To celebrate the recent publication of Shadows of Reality: A Catalogue of W.G. Sebald’s Photographic Materials and what would have been Sebald’s 80th birthday, there will be a reading of his work by writers, contributors to the book, his friends, and colleagues at the National Centre for Writing on Wednesday the 12th of June.

🎞️The readings will be accompanied by images and photographs that chronicle the places, people, and events that shaped his writing life. Also featuring archive recordings, the event will be an opportunity to explore and re-explore some of Sebald’s creative preoccupations, and his tireless and wide-ranging fascination with photography.

🎟️ Get your tickets here: https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/events/w-g-sebald-shadows-of-reality/

Doors open at 6pm for a 6.30pm start. You can either order your copy of the book here: https://www.boilerhouse.press/product-page/shadows-of-reality or pick one up at the event!

29/03/2024

🚀LAUNCH DAY!🚀

Mortal Leap by MacDonald Harris is officially PUBLISHED!

❓What does it mean to abandon one life completely and step into another in midstream? To launch yourself fraudulently into a marriage, a house, a way of life, all utterly new and unfamiliar? And what do you do when someone from your old life shows up?

Mortal Leap may remind some readers of that of Don Draper in the TV series Mad Men. Indeed, it is a likely, largely forgotten, inspiration: a Don Draper before the Don Draper who wasn't Don Draper was (and wasn't) Don Draper.

🔗Get your copy here: https://www.boilerhouse.press/product-page/mortal-leap-by-macdonald-harris

06/03/2024

🚨EVENT ALERT!🚨

📖We’re very excited to share that NEXT MONDAY there will be an event to discuss William’s Wife, which has just been co-published as a fantastic audiobook with !

🗣Join Rachel H**e, Alice Jolly, Brad Bigelow, Leigh Wilson, and Catherine Bailey as they discuss the novel and the wider world of Gertrude Trevelyan.

The event will be taking place on Zoom at 6PM GMT on Monday 11th March. Link here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/williams-wife-by-gertrude-trevelyan-tickets-852838100717?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

Link to audiobook: https://www.spiracleaudiobooks.com/audiobooks/williams-wife

29/02/2024

🚨COVER REVEAL!🚨

🎉Today we’re sharing the beautiful cover of an upcoming book in our Recovered Books series. Mortal Leap by MacDonald Harris is publishing on the 29th of March!

🌊A merchant seaman is the sole survivor when his ship is sunk in a battle in the South Pacific. Badly burned, he is stripped of every shred of identity and cast into the sea, naked, faceless, nameless. Rescued and lying in a Pearl Harbor hospital, he is mistakenly identified as the missing Lt. Ben Davenant by Davenant's wife. In the moment, the man decides to go along, to take on Davenant's identity, to return with her to California and take on his life.

Mortal Leap may remind some readers of the story of Don Draper in the TV series Mad Men. Decades before Mad Men, MacDonald Harris created a story that we all know but have never heard before. Out of print for decades, Mortal Leap has become a rare and coveted cult classic, the few remaining copies passed along from reader to reader. Now, Boiler House Press's Recovered Books series makes this remarkable book available again.

📖Pre-order here: https://www.boilerhouse.press/product-page/mortal-leap-by-macdonald-harris

30/01/2024

✍️ ‘Howles’s book is indeed a lost gem – a Nevada novel that gets everything right.’

📖No More Giants has been reviewed in the Las Vegas Review of Books!

🔗Link to the full review: https://lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/fiction-14/
🔗Order your copy here: https://www.boilerhouse.press/product-page/no-more-giants-by-by-joaquina-ballard-howles

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12/12/2023

📸 We’re sharing a very special photo today – a photo of the hands of Joaquina Ballard Howles holding No More Giants 57 years after it was first published.

The Boiler House Press edition came out last month as part of our Recovered Books series, which aims to do three things:

1️⃣To bring forgotten and often difficult to find books back into print for a new generation to enjoy.
2️⃣To introduce readers and researchers to these under-appreciated writers and encourage them to expand their notions of canon.
3️⃣To present exquisitely designed books that are - above all - exciting and interesting to read.

Credit to Geoff Howles for this wonderful photo.

11/12/2023

🥳Celebrate the 12th month for $12!🥳

For December only, you can get one of our favourite Recovered Books, Stella Benson's extremely odd, extremely postmodern Pull Devil, Pull Baker, for just $12.🪢 Exclusively at AsterismBooks.com.

🔗Get your copy here: https://asterismbooks.com/product/pull-devil-pull-baker-stella-benson

05/12/2023

🎉Celebrate the 12th month for $12!🎉

📚For December only, you can get one of our favourite Recovered Books, Tess Slesinger's terrific short story collection Time: The Present, for just $12. Exclusively at AsterismBooks.com.⏰

🔗Get your copy here: https://asterismbooks.com/product/time-the-present-selected-stories-tess-slesinger

04/12/2023

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30/11/2023

It’s a very exciting day here at Boiler House Press because it’s the publication day for not one, not two, not three, but FOUR books!

As well as two new additions to our Beyond Criticism series (which we posted about earlier), we’re also celebrating the publication of two incredible new titles in our Recovered Books series – No More Giants and Time Stood Still!

🏜🐴No More Giants is a a gripping story of a young woman growing up in the harsh setting of a Nevada ranch in the 1940s. Reminiscent of the work of Joan Didion and Sylvia Plath, Howles’s prose pierces the myths of the American cowboy with a sharp feminist sensibility and reveals the bleakness, the violence, and the beauty of life in the remote hi

⏰A masterpiece of humanism, Time Stood Still recounts Paul Cohen-Portheim's years of internment in England as an enemy alien during World War One. The book is a passionate but balanced argument against internment and its inherently dehumanizing effects.

We can’t wait for you to have these wonderful titles on your bookshelves and for them to be enjoyed by a new readership.

Want some books? Of course you do!
You can order No More Giants here: https://www.boilerhouse.press/product-page/no-more-giants-by-by-joaquina-ballard-howles..and Time Stood Still here: https://www.boilerhouse.press/product-page/time-stood-still-by-paul-cohen-portheim

30/11/2023

❕It’s PUBLICATION DAY for Kate Bolton Bonnici’s debut book A True & Just Record!

🪄 In this new addition to our Beyond Criticism series, Kate Bolton Bonnici weaves together archival materials from the English witch trials, 20th- century poets and philosophers, and her own family. It’s a truly wonderful book that shows how criticism can be literary, poetic, and beautiful!

🔗Get your copy here: https://www.boilerhouse.press/product-page/a-true-just-record-by-kate-bolton-bonnici

30/11/2023

Good morning! And what a good morning it is, specifically because today is PUBLICATION DAY for A. V. Marraccini’s wonderful book We the Parasites!

🎨In her debut book, A. V. Marraccini explores how we inhabit works of art, and how our sense of longing informs and changes our relationship to them. Intertwining fig wasps, Updike, Genet, Twombly, Rilke, jewel heists, and a vividly rendered panoply of histories and myths from classical antiquity, We the Parasites both tells a strange love story and makes a slantwise argument about reading with the body, and what it ultimately means to know, and to want.

🔗We’re so excited for you to get your hands on this brilliant title. Order your copy here: https://www.boilerhouse.press/product-page/we-the-parasites-by-a-v-marraccini

24/11/2023

Have a read of this glowing review of Time Stood Still by Paul Cohen-Portheim…

And if that, for some reason, wasn’t enough to encourage you to pre-order a copy of this exceptional book, here are a couple more wonderful reviews from when the book was first published:

✍️‘A more reasonable, sane, impartial, moderate, and unbiased view of the situation could hardly be conceived. I was really moved by this book, and I can scarcely recommend it too highly. Its sense of humour and its thumbnail sketches of the remarkable characters whom Mr. Cohen-Portheim encountered among his fellow prisoners make it as readable and as entertaining as a novel: more readable and more entertaining, to my mind, because it is all true.’
– Vita Sackville-West, The Listener, 27 May 1931

✍️‘A book that in its calm reticence, restraint, and understanding deserves to rank with the greatest classics of the World War.’
– Atlanta Constitution, 5 June 1932

What are you waiting for? Pre-order your copy here: https://www.boilerhouse.press/product-page/time-stood-still-by-paul-cohen-portheim
and book tickets to the virtual book launch, which is taking place on Tuesday 5th December, here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/756998110727?aff=oddtdtcreator

22/11/2023

📖🚀BOOK LAUNCH!📖🚀

🗣On Tuesday 5th December, Andrea Pitzer and Dr. Panikos Panayi will discuss the latest release in the Recovered Books series from Boiler House Press – 'Time Stood Still', Paul Cohen-Portheim's memoir of his internment in England as an enemy alien during World War One.

This discussion will be taking place on Zoom and will be moderated by Brad Bigelow, editor of the Recovered Books series and of the NeglectedBooks.com website.

🎟You can get your free tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-time-stood-still-by-paul-cohen-portheim-tickets-756998110727?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

📖... and you can pre-order your copy of this fantastic new title here: https://www.boilerhouse.press/product-page/time-stood-still-by-paul-cohen-portheim

20/11/2023

📖🚀The launch event for Kate Bolton Bonnici’s new book, A True & Just Record, is taking place THIS SATURDAY at 7PM GMT! The event will be hosted by Julia Lee (associate professor of English at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and author of Biting the Hand). There will be an introduction by Katharine Craik, Oxford Brookes University, as well as a reading by the author!

Hecate-like, A True & Just Record invites us to the crossroads of poetry, feminist rhetorics, and early modern studies. Kate Bolton Bonnici weaves together the English witch trials, poets and philosophers, and her own family. With fury and care, haunted by absences, these poems — all also forms of experimental scholarship — interrogate, disrupt, and play.

Kate Bolton Bonnici’s debut collection, Night Burial, won the 2020 Colorado Prize for Poetry. Her work has been published in a range of journals including The Georgia Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Exemplaria, and CounterText. A former lawyer, Kate is now an assistant professor of English at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California.

This event will be taking place on Zoom!

🎟BOOK YOUR TICKETS here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-a-true-just-record-by-kate-bolton-bonnici-tickets-737937289297?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

📖and order your copy of the book here: https://www.boilerhouse.press/product-page/a-true-just-record-by-kate-bolton-bonnici

19/10/2023

There’s a fantastic new piece about Out of Earth on the PELTA blog! Follow the link below to read Sophie and Laura’s reflections on the process of translating Sheyla Smanioto's incredible novel Out of Earth (first published as Desesterro).

https://hellopeltablog.wordpress.com/2023/10/17/on-violence-to-our-language-translating-out-of-earth/

You can order your copy of this powerful, formally experimental novel here: https://www.boilerhouse.press/product-page/out-of-earth-by-sheyla-smanioto

29/09/2023

‼️PUBLICATION DAY‼️

William’s Wife by Gertrude Trevelyan is publishing today!

When Jane marries the elderly grocer William Chirp, she thinks she has moved up into the comfort of middle class. Instead, she discovers that William exerts a control over her life that forces her to live like a prisoner. His tight-fistedness and suspicions so affect Jane that even after his death, she finds herself trapped in a penny-pinching paranoia and resorts to scavenging for food out of garbage bins and taking her silverware with her everywhere in a shopping bag.

Both William’s Wife and To Test The Joy: Selected Poetry and Prose by Genevieve Taggard offer relevant and exceptional writing from authors unfairly or unfortunately forgotten. Keep your eyes peeled for upcoming posts about our Recovered Books series, as well as more information about these new titles!

You can order your copies of these incredible books NOW by following these links:

William's Wife: https://www.boilerhouse.press/product-page/william-s-wife-by-gertrude-trevelyan

To Test the Joy: https://www.boilerhouse.press/product-page/to-test-the-joy-selected-poetry-and-prose-by-genevieve-taggard

29/09/2023

🎉PUBLICATION DAY!🎉
To Test The Joy: Selected Poetry and Prose by Genevieve Taggard is finally here! We couldn’t be more excited to be publishing this incredible Recovered Books title.

To Test the Joy collects the best of Genevieve Taggard’s poetry, fiction, memoirs, and criticism, providing a superb overview of her remarkable life and career. The book weaves Taggard’s poetry and prose with critical commentary by Anne Hammond that leads the reader through Taggard’s life.

Genevieve Taggard is recognized as one of the finest American poets of the 20th century. Her work appears in every major anthology of American poetry. Yet this is the first comprehensive collection of her work ever to appear.

Order your copy today: https://www.boilerhouse.press/product-page/to-test-the-joy-selected-poetry-and-prose-by-genevieve-taggard

11/09/2023

🎉The second event for Sheyla Smanioto's incredible novel Out of Earth, translated by Sophie Rebecca Lewis and Laura Garmeson, took place last Wednesday at Daunt Books in Hampstead! Many thanks to Sabba Khan and Daunt Books Hampstead for these wonderful photos.

If you haven’t already got your copy, you can order Out of Earth through the link in our bio, or by heading over to the Boiler House Press site.

11/08/2023

🎟HAVE YOU GOT YOUR TICKETS FOR THE OUT OF EARTH EVENT YET?🎟

An Out of Earth event is taking place at Review Bookshop in London THIS COMING TUESDAY!

Sophie Lewis and Laura Garmeson, the translators of the fantastic Brazilian novel Out of Earth by Sheyla Smanioto, will be talking to author and memoirist Sam Mills, with poet and DJ Tice Cin reading from her afterword for the book. Tickets are £5 (redeemable against a copy of the book on the night) and there will also be drinks to enjoy during the discussion.🍷🍻

Follow the link below to get your tickets (or you can click on the link in our bio!):

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/out-of-earth-sophie-lewis-laura-garmeson-and-sam-mills-feat-tice-cin-tickets-676755462807

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25/07/2023

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21/06/2023

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31/05/2023

Available TODAY from the Recovered Books series from
Boiler House Press.

The Sanity Inspectors by Friedrich Deich:
The Catch-22 of N**i Germany.

Order your copy today:
https://boilerhouse.press/product-page/the-sanity-inspe
ctors-by-friedrich-deich

31/05/2023

Available TODAY!

Quarry by Jane White

A powerful and unsettling novel that examines the capacity for violence and evil in ordinary people. The Scotsman called it "The most frightening novel of the year." Out of print since 1967 and brought back for today's readers by Boiler House Press.

Order your copy today:
https://www.boilerhouse.press/produc.../quarry-by-jane-white

25/05/2023

Coming 31 May from the Recovered Books series at Boiler House Press:
Quarry by Jane White

A powerful and unsettling novel that examines the capacity for violence and evil in ordinary people. The Scotsman called it "The most frightening novel of the year." Out of print since 1967 and brought back for today's readers by Boiler House Press.

Available for pre-order now:
https://www.boilerhouse.press/produc.../quarry-by-jane-white

12/05/2023

As announced recently in our newsletter, we are extremely pleased and proud that Shadows of Reality will be publishing this September.

This has been a long journey and a huge labour of love for us and we're beyond excited to be able to finally share with you this fantastic news. It is available now for pre-order from our online store.

Order direct from us now and you'll be the first to receive the book when we take delivery from the printer.

https://www.boilerhouse.press/product-page/shadows-of-reality

11/05/2023

Coming 31 May from the Recovered Books series at Boiler House Press:
Quarry by Jane White
A powerful and unsettling novel that examines the capacity for violence and evil in ordinary people. The Scotsman called it "The most frightening novel of the year." Out of print since 1967 and brought back for today's readers by Boiler House Press.
Available for pre-order now:
https://www.boilerhouse.press/produc.../quarry-by-jane-white

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Boiler House Press

Boiler House Press is a new publisher of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and everything in-between.

We are part of UEA Publishing Project, based at the University of East Anglia, home of the world-renowned Creative Writing MA, and a burgeoning world centre for creative-critical writing studies.

‘The first building on the Plain and perhaps the most immediately striking for the visitor is the Boiler House…’ – Michael Sanderson, The History of the University of East Anglia