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19/06/2025
A name from the past today to celebrate – ***r icon Radcylffe (John) Hall, best remembered for the groundbreaking long-banned book The Well of Loneliness. 👩❤️👩
Adam’s Breed, first published in 1926 to great acclaim, takes us to the streets of Soho, amongst the Italian community there, and we follow Gian-Luca as he comes to terms with his dual heritage and learns to love. Long out of print, never more relevant. (Fun fact: Hall was going to call the book Food, but was warned off, in case people mistook it for a cookbook. But reader, you will be licking your lips!)
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16/06/2025
This we’re delighted to reintroduce you to Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman by .
Here’s a taster of this brilliant collection 🤩
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As recounted by the Roman poet Ovid, a young nymph, Salmacis, one day spied Hermaphroditus bathing; consumed with passion, she entered the water and, begging the gods to allow them to stay together, the two became one – part man, part woman.
An Eclectic Pagan, for Elizabeth Ovid’s fables are more than fiction, and form a framework for exploring identity. Drawing on the rich mythological history associated with the tale of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus, and re-examining the tale through the lens of metaphor, Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman is a stirringly relatable and powerful exploration of gender, love and identity.
this is my lake salmacis, and i am the wild nymph
with a hollow in her belly and nothing between her legs
13/06/2025
Such a pleasure to read this gloriously thoughtful and inspiring write-up of ’s forthcoming book, Relearning to Read, in today – hearty thanks to the wonderful for the inclusion and generous words 🙏📚
11/06/2025
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Delighted to celebrate the Wednesday in mid-June that Mrs Dalloway went to buy the flowers – and this year marks 100 since first publication!
There have been many editions in the intervening years, but delighted to introduce ours, resplendent in gold foil. May your day be shiny and literary! 🤩
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‘Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself… In people’s eyes, in the swing, tramp and trudge; in the bellow and the uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June.’
10/06/2025
Delighted to announce the open call to Interwoven: poetry celebrating connectedness.
Genocide. Climate collapse. Culture Wars. Physical War. The global picture in these Roaring Twenties can leave little to inspire and uplift, and rhetoric is rife aiming to stoke fires of hate and distrust. But poetry – like many art forms, but perhaps more so than any other – is universal, and has real power to unite.
Raise your voice! Free to enter, and we’re looking forward to reading your work.
Judged by veteran judges and all-round superhumans , , &
It’s been a real pleasure having the company of eagle-eyed and bubbly since Feb – you might not have been any the wiser, but she’s been quietly prying typos from pages in the background, all while juggling an MLitt in Publishing and being bookseller extraordinaire . If you’ve got any of these books on your desk, you’ve benefited from her steady attention – so here’s a foxy Friday night send-off to Elleni and the years of books to come! 🙌🤩
06/06/2025
‘What do you think of when you think of q***rness?… Ukraine, this is a love letter to you.’ 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
This month we’re celebrating by shining a spotlight on the writers in our list. Today we’re delighted to reintroduce you to this brilliant, powerful, fierce, moving anthology of ***r writers, edited by , creating a record of Q***r Ukraine. ❤️
You can read an extract (‘look inside’) and buy via our site - and proceeds go to q***r Ukrainian charities, so your reading is doing the world of good. 📚
‘This anthology is not only a platform for sharing our experiences, it is an archive of our existence and a testament to our permanence. We hope it will contribute to the visibility of q***r Ukrainians and inspire more works like it to be produced in the coming years. It’s time for us to tell our stories on our own terms – and for you, dear reader, to listen and stand in solidarity with us.’
05/06/2025
This we’re celebrating the q***r writers and stories in our list – and are taking a day out from spotlighting the brilliant contemporary writers today to highlight a classic title we’ve recently released:
A new collection of ground-breaking short q***r stories by towering Modernist and q***r icon Gertrude Stein… including the first known use of the term ‘gay’ in the way we know and love – and oh how gay they were. 🙌🏳️🌈
It’s , and what better time than to celebrate some of the q***r writers and stories in our list! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
First out of the door, one of the first novels we published – delighted to reintroduce you to by …
Set in the valleys of South Wales at the tail end of Thatcher’s Britain, The Green Indian Problem is the story of Green, a seven year-old with intelligence beyond his years – an ordinary boy with an extraordinary problem: everyone thinks he’s a girl.
You can start reading (look inside) and buy the book via the link below – and a snapshot of the Thatcher chapter in pic.
In the words of the brilliant , this is ‘A small and perfectly formed novel… Everyone who was born in the wrong body should read this, but more importantly, everyone who wasn’t should read it too.’ 👌❤️
From the luscious Italian countryside to the windswept coast of Ireland. Immerse yourself in the exquisitely crafted prose of this weeks best literary fiction.
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Welcome to Renard Press – a brand-new independent publisher, launched in April 2020. Covering both classic and contemporary titles, Renard publishes fiction and non-fiction, theatre and poetry; the emphasis is on good writing, properly edited, and our books can be found in convenient modern formats – in a world increasingly lived online – as well as in beautifully designed and well-produced editions. We've outlined what we stand for in our About section, and you can find out more about us there!
A Note from the Publisher
I’m thrilled to be writing this note – Renard Press is, as we boldly claim, a “fresh face” in independent publishing, for we’re launching this month; we are positively bristling with excitement, and we can’t wait to publish our first few books (more news on that front to follow, so keep an eye on our News section). At the same time, the publishing house doesn’t feel completely “new”, in that it is the culmination of years of experience and hard work, and the foundations weren’t laid overnight.
So on to the books: by way of a nod to one of the greatest pioneers in independent publishing – and one of my heroes – we’ll be starting off our classics list with A Room of One’s Own, which is a profound work I think everyone should read at some point. From there on, we’ve got the next eleven titles picked out, which consist of some lesser-known works by literary giants, as well as some by undeservedly forgotten authors.
On the literary note, we’re also thrilled to be able to launch a subscription service – where you can sign up to receive a copy of every book we publish, in advance of the publication date. We’ll throw in a few goodies, too, to sweeten the deal, so we hope we can tempt you there!
In an effort to be the change we want to see in publishing, we’re keeping the gender balance of our authors… well, balanced – and to demonstrate our commitment to this, we’ve set up a counter to make sure we’re on track. Renard is proud to be a q***r-led publisher, and we look forward to fleshing out the literary classics canon – and to building on it with newly commissioned titles – with underrepresented voices from across the globe.
