M2M Books

13/06/2026

Thank you for subscribing to the Margin to Margin Books journal. You are a member of a select group; praps a little too select. As you know, the mission is to persuade UK publishing (and writers) t…

08/06/2026

📖 Want to be drawn into a different kind of story? Read ‘Love and Happiness’ – we think it’s brilliant, and we’re not the only ones…

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Order at your favourite bookshop
eBook/Kindle edition available

06/06/2026

05/06/2026

📣 Submissions Call
Most submissions we receive are well-written, carefully researched, lovingly rendered, and addressed, without the author quite realising it, to the wrong reader for us. This is the most common reason M2M rejects a manuscript. Not craft, not form, not subject matter. But the imagined reader.
Before writing a word, think hard about who that reader is. If your manuscript addresses a reader from a community marginalised in UK publishing, we want to read it.
Read the full post, then submit ⬇️

I read all submissions; every single one. What is noticeable, when going through these manuscripts, is that a substantial number are (for our appetite) addressed to the wrong reader. The author has…

04/06/2026

Broadcast BBC Sounds - Friday 6:30pm
with Gareth James

The Aberystwyth Book Club, featured on BBC Radio Wales, is attending Hay Festival 2026 to discuss “The Hill in the Dark Grove” by Liam Higginson. This atmospheric folk horror novel is s…

01/06/2026

Harriet Bush grows up in white middle-class Cheshire knowing almost nothing about where she came from. Not your typical adoption narrative.

Love and Happiness – available from your favourite bookshop or order online with free UK postage — use code FREEPOST at checkout. 🔗 m2mbooks.com/our-books/

eBook/Kindle edition available.

01/06/2026

🎤 Tonight. Irie's Spoken Word Open Mic. It’s the 1st Monday of the month so Bank Vault and our mic will be open from 7pm for poetry and prose.
The perfect uplifting vibe to kick off the new week and the new month. Share your work or just listen to Aber’s newest and finest writers.

1 New Street, Aberystwyth. Free Entry.

31/05/2026

Masaka Madeda is walking the Malindi coast:

"Sometimes, it's not the beauty of a place that's beautiful; it's the people. It's the people."

‘I Zig and I Zag’ is Masaka’s 100-page epic and the poetry anthology curated around it. Available from your favourite bookshop or order online with free UK postage — use code FREEPOST at checkout. 🔗 m2mbooks.com/our-books/

eBook/Kindle edition available.

29/05/2026

☀️I went to the Hay Festival last weekend for a welcome payday. Came back with a question I've been asking myself since.

After the panel discussion I walked the site. Did the maths. The crowd, once you subtract the staff and the artists, was so uniformly white that I genuinely expect the 2026 Reform Party conference will be more ethnically diverse.

I've written about why. About what the Hay bookshop tells us. About the difference between a book about the Black experience and a book for Black readers. About why that difference is the whole point of M2M Books ⬇️

For a payday, apparently. Last Sunday, I was a Black person at the Hay Festival, there for a payday – a book-review panel in the BBC Marquee. Finished, checked out the site, did a little maths as I…