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THE BOY ON THE TRAIN IS OUT NOW!! 🧑🏻‍💻🏭🚅​Silently, digitally, a boy takes apart your family. What would you do to save e...
07/10/2025

THE BOY ON THE TRAIN IS OUT NOW!! 🧑🏻‍💻🏭🚅
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Silently, digitally, a boy takes apart your family. What would you do to save everything?
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Tom’s a regular teenager – sullen, anxious, super-smart, feeling safe within his bedroom and wedded to his screen.
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On a packed train, a London commodities trader gets under his skin.
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The trader’s got a fine wife, two kids, a yappy dog, big house, annual bonus. Tom hacks him. The trader’s hardware becomes stuffed with dangerous, damaging images. Call it collateral damage.
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Hacking is what Tom does. He’s got control of the keyboards of key players in the fossil fuel industry. If he doesn’t bring down the grid, who will?
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Roads and trainlines lead the main players to a violent confrontation in the brutalist surrounds of London’s Barbican Centre. Government agents work to prevent a global blackout. Tom’s set to save the planet.
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Who will win?
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THE BOY ON THE TRAIN is now available worldwide in paperback and eBook formats! 📕
👉 https://barbicanpress.com/book/the-boy-on-the-train
🌍 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Boy-Train-Martin-Goodman/dp/1917352077
🌎 https://www.amazon.com/Boy-Train-Martin-Goodman/dp/1917352077
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“Sinuously written, subtly subversive: will keep you on the edge of your (train) seat”
– Beatrice Hitchman
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THE BOY ON THE TRAIN will release on 7th October! 🥳 It is available for early access on NetGalley for one more week. Tak...
24/07/2025

THE BOY ON THE TRAIN will release on 7th October! 🥳

It is available for early access on NetGalley for one more week. Take a look at what people have been saying about it so far! 👀📕

Silently, digitally, a boy takes apart your family... 🫥

This Gen Z eco-thriller follows Tom, a teenage hacker with a vendetta against the fossil fuel industry. When an obnoxious commodities trader gets under his skin on a busy London train, Tom hacks him and takes control of his life. Soon, the trader is fighting to clear his name and save his family. Meanwhile, determined to bring down the grid, Tom finds himself wanted by MI5. This game of cat and mouse reaches a violent climax in the brutalist setting of London's Barbican Centre. But who will emerge victorious? 👨‍💻🌐🌳

👉 Read it now on NetGalley (catalog/book/671166) and leave a review! Or, pre-order your copy from your favourite bookstore. See link in bio for more info. 🔗

BRILLIANT BLUE IS OUT NOW!! 🏘️💙☁️​A Barbican First debut from Karen Stevens​A remarkable debut collection with character...
19/06/2025

BRILLIANT BLUE IS OUT NOW!! 🏘️💙☁️
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A Barbican First debut from Karen Stevens
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A remarkable debut collection with characters as rich, complex, dark and ambitious as any you will find in fiction.
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Welcome to the infamous Duncock Estate. Nestled on the South English coast, it is a place where identity matters; where people hold down jobs and do their best. Where taboos are broken, adultery is committed, and problems can’t be wished away. But even tragedy can be tinged with fragile hopes and humour.
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Let Karen Stevens lead you into areas where few writers dare to tread.
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BRILLIANT BLUE is available in paperback and eBook formats. Get your copy now! 📘
👉 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Brilliant-Blue-Karen-Stevens/dp/1917352050
👉 https://barbicanpress.com/book/brilliant-blue
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“Bold, beautiful and ebullient, it fizzes with life and dazzles with sheer power and intelligence”
– Alison MacLeod
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“Perfectly constructed, wonderfully written stories”
– Suzanne Joinson
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“Moving and powerful. This is such an important book.”
– Ed Hogan
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Miranda Miller in Conversation at Barbican Fest​Join us online for an interview with author Miranda Miller as she discus...
17/06/2025

Miranda Miller in Conversation at Barbican Fest
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Join us online for an interview with author Miranda Miller as she discusses her latest book When I Was with fellow author and publisher Martin Goodman. Get to know Miranda as she talks about venturing into autofiction, basing characters on real people and exploring her memories in this moving tale of childhood set in 1950s London. Miranda will read from her book and there will be an opportunity to ask your questions.
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💻 This event is free and will take place via Zoom.
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📅 Thu 26th June @ 6pm BST (UTC+1)
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🎟️ Book your free tickets now!
👉 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/miranda-miller-in-conversation-at-barbican-fest-tickets-1406293434519
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Introducing Karen Stevens at Barbican Fest​Join us online for an interview with debut author Karen Stevens as she discus...
17/06/2025

Introducing Karen Stevens at Barbican Fest
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Join us online for an interview with debut author Karen Stevens as she discusses her book "Brilliant Blue" with fellow authors and publishers Martin Goodman and Maggie Hamand. Get to know Karen as she talks about the writing process and what inspired this vivid collection of stories. Karen will read from her book and there will be an opportunity to ask your questions.
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💻 This event is free and will take place via Zoom.
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📅 Mon 23rd June @ 6pm BST (UTC+1)
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🎟️ Book your free tickets now!
👉 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/karen-stevens-in-conversation-at-barbican-fest-tickets-1394552968469
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THE DEVIL'S HORSEWHIP IS OUT NOW!! 🐍👁️🌿​A Barbican First debut from Damion O. Spencer ​A startlingly fine novel-in-stori...
15/05/2025

THE DEVIL'S HORSEWHIP IS OUT NOW!! 🐍👁️🌿
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A Barbican First debut from Damion O. Spencer
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A startlingly fine novel-in-stories about Caribbean folklore, superstitions and legends surrounding death.
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At the pinnacle of the pandemic – a year already punctuated with daily funeral processions – a Jamaican expat gets an envelope covered in red writing from his doctor. It sends him into a mad tumble between bad omen days and fever dream nights until all that he thinks about is that bitter day in the Jamaican White River Valley, where he and other teenagers escaped a double-cutlass-wielding madman out for blood. But death is not one to give up easily. The years are not long enough, neither is fleeing across continents too far for death’s spite and all the worse duppies not to come knocking.
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Who will cheat death a second time?
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A Christian woman who decides to sleep with an obeah man’s monkey. The man with the answer to whether Haitian voodoo is stronger than obeah. A woman who knows how to mourn a dead baby. Or the ones who know how to trap a rolling calf, outrun a three-foot horse, and battle a Chinese duppy and win.
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If you’re superstitious or wary of those who are, come read these sticky tales spun in barbwire.
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THE DEVIL'S HORSEWHIP is now available worldwide in paperback and eBook formats! 🌍📔
👉 https://barbicanpress.com/book/the-devils-horsewhip
👉 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Devils-Horsewhip-Damion-Spencer/dp/1917352026
👉 https://www.amazon.com/Devils-Horsewhip-Damion-Spencer/dp/1917352026
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“A brilliant, enthralling read. Damion Spencer is a voice to look out for.”
– Irenosen Okojie
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“Damion Spencer is a fresh new voice in Caribbean fiction. He weaves compelling tales with impactful characters in this imaginative debut.”
– Sharma Taylor
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“Damion Spencer writes vividly and with spectacular voice, creating a life writing piece that thrills.”
– Wasafiri on 'Death Comes in Threes'
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15/04/2025

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A TRAIL OF BLOOD ON THE SNOW IS OUT NOW!! 🌨️🩸👤​A BARBICAN FIRST DEBUT FROM SAM LEE​​“He remembers me. He remembers the s...
15/04/2025

A TRAIL OF BLOOD ON THE SNOW IS OUT NOW!! 🌨️🩸👤
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A BARBICAN FIRST DEBUT FROM SAM LEE
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“He remembers me. He remembers the screaming and the blood on the snow. He remembers everything, I can tell.”
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Rex is 41. Halfway to death and no happier for it. Any promise of a better life got stifled decades ago, when Rex was a limping school kid and Max was the school bully.
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Then, a chance encounter. Max standing smug and handsome at a gas station with his oh-so-perfect family.
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Rex secretly follows them home. Watches them. Thinks about his own miserable life. What Max did to him, and how a real man would claim revenge.
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Rex acts. Is this the making of a monster, or the breaking of a man?
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A TRAIL OF BLOOD ON THE SNOW is now available worldwide in paperback and eBook formats! 🌍📕
👉 https://barbicanpress.com/book/a-trail-of-blood-on-the-snow
👉 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trail-Blood-Snow-Sam-Lee/dp/1909954284
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“Wow! An extraordinary work of fiction from a writer who truly understands the darkness at the centre of the human condition. A true must-read.”
– David Mark, author of the DS McAVOY SERIES
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“This is a striking debut that provocatively addresses a variety of issues while not forgetting the key imperative of the crime novel: to keep accumulating levels of tension. It’s written with authority and persuasiveness.”
– Barry Forshaw, Crime Time
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“I couldn’t stop reading it. It’s compulsive. I’m terrifically impressed.”
– Maggie Hamand, author of CREATIVE WRITING FOR DUMMIES
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📢 LATITUDES IS OUT NOW!! 🏔️🏝️🌊​​From an unparalleled life of extreme encounters with the natural world, award-winning wr...
25/03/2025

📢 LATITUDES IS OUT NOW!! 🏔️🏝️🌊
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From an unparalleled life of extreme encounters with the natural world, award-winning writer of fiction and nature writing Jean McNeil brings us keen insights on how to respond to a changing planet.
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We are obsessed with human stories. What happens if we shift focus and bond with the non-human?
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Relating thirty years of living in and writing about some of the world’s last remaining wild places, LATITUDES is a thrilling and thought-provoking exploration of a changing planet. At once memoir, journal and travelogue of Earth’s wildernesses, LATITUDES ranges across the Antarctic, the Arctic, the savannahs and deserts of Africa, the Southern and Atlantic oceans and the boreal forests of Canada.
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LATITUDES is a powerful, innovative book of creative non-fiction that tracks one writer’s life-long experience of reckoning with an epoch of heat and an age of dramatic ecological loss. It shows us the importance of listening to the living world that is speaking to us, if we open ourselves to hear its voice.
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LATITUDES is now available worldwide in paperback and eBook formats! Get your copy now! 📘
👉 https://barbicanpress.com/book/latitudes
🌍 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Latitudes-Encounters-Changing-Jean-McNeil/dp/190995411X
🌎 https://www.amazon.com/Latitudes-Encounters-Changing-Jean-McNeil/dp/190995411X
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“McNeil’s deeply felt observations offer a transporting, thought-provoking lens on nature. It’s captivating stuff.”
– Publishers Weekly

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“Meditative and sumptuous… LATITUDES is a rich, textured portrait of the natural world and a plaintive reflection on the destruction of climate change.”
– * Foreword Reviews
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“Full of lived experience, this book ponders the question of our own animal relationship with the planet.”
– Julia Bell, author of MASSIVE and HYMNAL
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“Her shimmering prose brings into sharp focus the beauty of the remote places where we can glimpse – and sometimes hear – what our planet was like before us.”
– Margie Orford
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📢 WHEN I WAS IS OUT NOW!! 💂👧🏻🏡​When it comes to memoir, Miranda Miller is an incorrigible novelist.​1953. Viola is three...
21/03/2025

📢 WHEN I WAS IS OUT NOW!! 💂👧🏻🏡
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When it comes to memoir, Miranda Miller is an incorrigible novelist.
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1953. Viola is three. The young Queen of England is being crowned on a television in the corner of the room. Tubby little Viola gazes out at the party guests in this fancy London house, already alert to human drama.
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This is a genteel family in gentle crisis as they have to move from a large house to a tiny flat. Viola’s Anglo-Indian mother hoped for much more from life, while her father gets involved in ghosting the memoir of a chorus girl who married a millionaire. Viola burrows into the adventures of storybooks and battles her three older brothers for attention. A decade passes, and Viola finds friendship and danger among the old and the young. 1950s London with its bomb sites, air raid shelters and attitudes to gender, race, class and s*x is vividly present. WHEN I WAS provides a delicious, memorable portrait of the writer as a young girl.
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WHEN I WAS is now available in paperback and eBook formats! Get your copy now! 📙
👉 https://barbicanpress.com/book/when-i-was
👉 https://www.amazon.co.uk/When-I-Was-Miranda-Miller/dp/191735200X
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“I found it utterly compelling and could not put it down. I wouldn't have missed this experience for the world. I'm enriched by it.”
– Carolyn Polizzotto, author of POMEGRANATE SEASON
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“Miller’s fictions are lit by the dark flicker of a strong and original imagination”
– Hilary Mantel
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