EQUUS PRESS

16/12/2025

Happy delivery day to Tobias Ryan’s GLANTZ, our final release of 2025. Here captured joining the autumn harvest…
DM us for free review e-copies it interested!

16/12/2025

15/12/2025

Forthcoming in late January 2026 is LUNGFISH, by Louis Armand

LUNGFISH is a multi-layered work of docufiction, weaving myth, memory & true crime into a sprawling narrative of Australia & its shadows. From Terra Nullius to Pine Gap & beyond, LUNGFISH questions how stories are told & who owns them. At once intimate & epic, it is a novel about love & survival, lament & reclamation, & the ways in which the forces of history brutalise the present.

Here's a sneak preview of the book cover.
Pre-publication review e-copies available upon demand.

11/12/2025

For our local Prague-based readers: the entire in-print Equus catalogue is now available at the appositely-named Knihkupectví Franze Kafky, aka Franz Kafka Bookshop, at 14 Široká Prague 1, right in the heart of Prague's heart!
Look for them right above English Klíma & Nezval, right below Poe & Lovecraft, and next to the complete Joyce!

Knihy nakladatelství Equus Press jsou nyní k mání v Knihkupectví Franze Kafky v Široké ulici, v samém srdci Matičky měst.
Najdete je hned nad anglickým Klímou a Nezvalem, pod Poem a Lovecraftem, and hned vedle úplného vydání Joyce!

01/12/2025

Happy publication day to our autumn release no. 3:
GLANTZ, by Tobias Ryan!

Set against a backdrop of shoddy bars, shoddier streets, and shoddier still society in slow collapse, Glantz traces the movements (and stasis) of its eponymous anti-hero: a figure perpetually on the verge of speech, prayer, and confession, yet caught in a spiral of waiting, repetition, and failed transcendence. In this book, Tobias Ryan delivers a claustrophobic study of inertia, conscience, and the paralytic rituals of everyday life – a novel of failed routines and the stubborn residue of memory.

The novel unfolds as a series of minor scenes—meals half-eaten, prayers unspoken, notebooks left blank—where nothing seems to happen, and yet where history, violence, and memory seep into every silence. Glantz tests the novel form at its limits, interrogating how narrative itself falters when confronted with lives lived under the sign of exhaustion. Ryan’s prose clings to the observational intensity of Robbe-Grillet while steeped in the noirish atmospherics of Equus Press: lives lived in suspension between catastrophe and paralysis. Glantz’s syntax performs its subject: recursive, hesitant, attuned to the granular detail of a man staring into his own hands for meaning.—David Vichnar

In reading Glantz, one feels oneself transported into a painting by De Chirico: bright yet airless, streaked with shadows much bigger than they ought to be, adorned in ways that estrange us from all our creature comforts.—Benjamin Libman

This is an expressionism-adjacent headzone that a lot of Anglophone writers can’t bear to stay in. Ryan is a far more adept, uneasily-at-ease cartographer. He’s ‘one of the clear-eyed among us,’ as the barman in Glantz puts it – ‘those who can see in the dark.’—Tim MacGabhann

The quiet horror of existence runs through this unsettling and beautifully restrained novel; Tobias Ryan turns silence into revelation, every omission charged with meaning.—Fernando Sdrigotti

Ryan’s debut novel is a spare and haunting study of a man learning how to live inside an absence he’s made his own.—Christina Tudor-Sideri

Print copies ready for order via LULU.
Review e-copies available on demand.

by Tobias Ryan ISBN 978-1-7394310-7-5. 1st edition. Paperback. 168 pages. Publication date: 1 December 2025. Order the paperback edition via Lulu (€12.00 [EU-friendly!]). Set against a backdrop of …

28/11/2025

Annonce du vendredi noir:

Louis Armand’s A TOMB IN H-SECTION now (again) available from Shakespeare & Sons in the comic book section downstairs, snuggled in-between Batman and Joker.

18/11/2025

Come in we are open!
When & where: For the next three days, from 10 am till 5:30 pm, as part of the Humanities Week, we’ll be running a bookstand at the Main Bldg of the Faculty of Arts.
On offer: titles from Equus Press, Litteraria Pragensia Books, Alienist Magazine, VLAK Magazine & PMF Prague Microfestival, all at major discounts…

Pojďte dál, máme otevřeno!
Kde a kdy: Po další tři dny vždy od 10:00 do 17:30 budeme mít v provozu knižní stánek jako součást týdne humanitních věd na hlavní budově FF UK.
Nabídka: tituly z nakladatelství Equus Press, Litteraria Pragensia Books, Alienist Magazine, VLAK Magazine a PMF Prague Microfestival, všechny ve výrazné slevě.

14/11/2025

Looking forward to our early-December release of Tobias Ryan's first novel, GLANTZ.

For everyone's weekend enjoyment, here's an Equus blurb, a sneak preview of its cover, designed by Yanina Spizzirri, and a link to a recent 3AM magazine "appreciation" article by Tim MacGabhann below.

In GLANTZ, Tobias Ryan delivers a claustrophobic study of inertia, conscience, and the paralytic rituals of everyday life.
Set against a backdrop of shoddy bars, shoddier streets, and a shoddiest society in slow collapse, GLANTZ traces the movements (and stasis) of its eponymous anti-hero: a figure perpetually on the verge of speech, prayer, and confession, yet caught in a spiral of waiting, repetition, and failed transcendence. Ryan’s prose cleaves to the observational intensity of Robbe-Grillet while steeped in the noirish atmospherics of Equus Press: lives lived in suspension, in the interstices between catastrophe and routine. The novel unfolds as a series of minor scenes—meals half-eaten, prayers unspoken, notebooks left blank—where nothing seems to happen, and yet where history, violence, and memory seep into every silence. GLANTZ tests the novel form at its limits, interrogating how narrative itself falters when confronted with lives lived under the sign of exhaustion. Its syntax performs its subject: recursive, hesitant, attuned to the granular detail of a man staring into his own hands for meaning. A book of uncanny prescience, GLANTZ mirrors our own moment of crisis and stasis. It is a novel of failed routines and the stubborn residue of memory, confirming Tobias Ryan as a crucial new voice in the Equus Press constellation of poetics.

https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/glantz-an-appreciation/

04/11/2025

👉🏻IN MEMORIAM: PHILLIP O'NEIL (1965—2025)👈🏻

We are deeply saddened to share the news of the passing of Phillip O’Neil, author of MENTAL SHRAPNEL (2020), a singular literary voice of uncompromising intelligence, wit, and poetic ferocity.

Phillip’s work was always driven by a restless curiosity and a refusal of easy solace — his was a writing alive to chaos, fracture, and fragile beauty.

Those of us who had the privilege to work with him knew his generosity of spirit, his sardonic humour, and his commitment to the craft of language as resistance and revelation.

At the time of his death, Phillip was working on a new manuscript, PAINTING EYES ON CHAOS — a haunting and urgent continuation of his lifelong project to find coherence in fragmentation. Equus Press are committed to work with his collaborators and hope to bring this final work into print in the near future.

We are planning a celebratory literary gathering in his honour later this autumn, bringing together readers, friends, and fellow writers to remember, read, and celebrate his words. Details to follow soon.

Phillip’s loss is immeasurable, but so is the reach of his voice. His work, as ever, remains the truest memorial.

🕯Rest in peace, Phillip.🕯

—Equus Press Team

31/10/2025

We are OPEN! The micro book fair at this year’s PMF Prague Microfestival has something to offer everyone: apart from Equus titles, there’s Litteraria Pragensia Books, Alienist Books, VLAK Magazine: Contemporary Poetics & the Arts, and also books from our fellow travellers: 11/11, Inside the Castle, Sweat Drenched Press, Erratum, Corona/Samizdat, and more! This weekend only at Hybernská!

23/10/2025

Two new Equus titles by Ansgar Alen & Michael Rowland, hot from the press, lying in wait for their launch at PMF Prague Microfestival!

20/10/2025

Ansgar Allen’s Jonathan Martin ready to strike (a match) again—in just 10 days at this year’s PMF Prague Microfestival!