The book was published in February 2026 by @renardpress.com

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Note on Anna’s teaching books and forthcoming teaching platform

I hope you’ll be there! I’m so glad that the multiple award-winning indie @renardpress.com understood my mission with these teaching books and has taken on publication of three more after The Elixir. The best thing for me was to create my own ecosystem for my nonfiction work and a stable platform 💙📚

Looking forward to tomorrow's Indie Press Fair... 🧡

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"Tales of Love, Madness and Death" by Horacio Quiroga Short stories from a Uruguayan who spent much of his life in Argentina, dying of prostate cancer in 1937. He wrote plays and poems and at ...

Another classic writer unearthed by @renardpress.com
My review of Horacio Quiroga's collection of short stories in a new translation: bit.ly/4cg82A1

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Please join me for this special Alternative Book Fair *Plus* event on Thursday, April 16th, at 6.30pm: Human Writes: Exploring the Challenges of Writing and Promoting Books in the Age of AI and Social Media. The panel includes acclaimed authors Winnie M. Li and Luke Jennings. 🧵

🙏 Lovely review! A joy to read, dear K!

“How can we know the dancer from the dance?” #thetower #yeats #readingirelandmonth26 Amongst the pile of possible choices for Reading Ireland Month lurked a slim volume of poetry: “The Tower” by W.B. Yeats. He’s a poet I’m not aware of having ever read befor…

My final review of the month is for #ReadingIrelandMonth26 and in it I explore the poetry of #Yeats @renardpress.com - kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/03/27/h...

The Alchemy (2023) and The Elixir (October, 2026) side by side - and by the autumn of 2029, the five book series will be complete
The Alchemy
The Elixir
The Tincture
The Ember
The Grimoire
All from the exemplary @renardpress.com

Out this October
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Delighted to unveil the 2nd title in the gentle writers’ guides series by @bookwormvaught.bsky.social 🌟

Head this way for more no-holds-barred honesty on the industry, actionable tips while safeguarding well-being and plenty of no-nonsense advice.

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Making plans for the weekend? May we suggest joining us this Saturday for @indiepressnetwork.bsky.social's Poetry Salon at the glorious Keats House Museum along with @arachnepress.bsky.social @renardpress.com @goatstarbooks.bsky.social and four divine poets 👀👇. Info and booking here: bit.ly/47a4KLT

Cover of Saltburn. A seal sits under a beach umbrella.

Saltburn by Drew Gummerson. A collection of overlapping short stories set in a fictionalised version of Saltburn-by-the-Sea, featuring mermaids, a foetus museum, and a psychic piece of ass, among other bizarre elements. Yes, this book is surreal, but it's also a biting commentary on capitalism, war & homophobia. At its heart is the outsider, a boy who doesn't fit in, sometimes because of his sexuality, sometimes because he turns into a girl at midnight. It has some very bleak moments but also parts that made me laugh out loud. A great read if you enjoy the bizarre, and aren't squeamish about gay sex (which there's a LOT of).

Profound and perverse, this collection of stories is set in a fictionalised Saltburn. Told with deadpan sincerity, these interconnected tales shift between playful and obscene and include - a gift shop owner exposing a scam involving seaside rock and kidnapped women, a boy developing psychic abilities after preserving an accidentally-bitten-off piece of ass and a rebellious son of the glove manufacturer who falls in love with a deep-sea diver. .

Six short stories set in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, North Yorkshire, a few miles from Redcar, not far from Middlesbrough. Themes of poverty, grief, sexuality, sexual discovery...echoes of Bukowski, Hunter S. Thompson, and Burroughs, but set on the shores of the United Kingdom. There's a bit of the ordinary madness of Magnus Mills thrown in there as well. This is a brilliantly bizarre book, just like one of Drew Gummerson's other novels Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel that I read a couple of years ago. It's hilarious, innovative, the attention to detail is unreal and the imaginativeness unrivalled - beginning with a young boy's chaotic life as he grapples with his mother's eccentricity and the rest of the town's madness. Difficult to sum it up in a few paragraphs, one of those you have to experience. Talented writer and definitely recommend.

Happy 1st Birthday to my short story collection Saltburn!

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love talking about poetry? IPN Poetry Salon is for you. Join us, @renardpress.com @goatstarbooks.bsky.social & @inkandescentuk.bsky.social @nathanevansarts.bsky.social aj akoto @ruthirwin.bsky.social & gabriel moreno reading poems keats house Sat21Mar 2pm. £6-10 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/indie-pres...

And we’re off! Delighted to have a stand at the extraordinary London Book Fair this year thanks to @artscouncilengland.bsky.social & @inpressbooks.bsky.social - and sharing with some incredible other indie presses and friends from @indiepressnetwork.bsky.social 🙌

We’re utterly delighted to introduce the long-awaited new translation (by Diego Jourdan Pereira) of groundbreaking Uruguayan author Horacio Quiroga’s first short-story collection, Tales of Love, Madness and Death, first published in 1917.

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And look what Leicester Libraries have shared on Instagram. ☺️. Me as Dennis the Menace on #WorldBookDay supporting National Year of Reading.

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Signed and ready to go! Lovely to see ‘Truth or Dare’ finding its way to more readers! @renardpress #shortstorywriter #shortstorycollection #writing #writingcommunity #awriterslife

Signed and ready to go! Lovely to see ‘Truth or Dare’ finding its way to more readers! @renardpress.com

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We are delighted to be sharing the good, good news that we have joined the @indiepressnetwork.bsky.social; working with and showing solidarity to all the other wonderful indie publishers who are involved. Huge thanks to Will Dady @renardpress.com for facilitating this move. #Happydays

Glad you’ve been enjoying - and happy belated birthday!

Cover of Japanese Fairy Tales by Yei Theodora Ozaki, featuring a stylised Japanese scene of a house by a bridge with mountains and a large red sun in the background

Japanese Fairy Tales by Yei Theodora Ozaki

More of my daily folk tale reading. Good to see that it’s not just European fairy tales that can have rambling and fragmented plots. Some gems though and great illustrations. This beautiful edition by my friends at @renardpress.com was a birthday present

Join us and other IPN publisers at @keatshouse1925.bsky.social Sat21Mar 2pm for IPN #Poetry Salon feat. #AJAkoto #GabrielMoreno #RuthIrwin @nathanevansarts.bsky.social @renardpress.com @goatstarbooks.bsky.social @inkandescentuk.bsky.social
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"All the Days I Did Not Live" by Anna Vaught The trope of the husband who controls the wife, so she has a less than fulfilled life, is now so common it has become a genre. It has a long...

Just completed 'All the Days I did not Live' by @bookwormvaught.bsky.social published by @renardpress.com An interesting and gently lyrical read.

My review: bit.ly/4tQjrNT

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A picture of Anna Vaught’s latest book called “All The Days I Did Not Live”. Its cover is beautiful. Leaves and branches in shades of green with pale yellow pears hanging on a black background. The title and author name is in a box of pale green top right

I have my subscription book from Renard Press! It’s a beautifully produced, gorgeous looking book and it’s signed. I look forward to reading it soon.

“I have measured out my life in used books…” #renardpress #readindies One indie press which needs no introduction here on the Ramblings is Renard Press. I’ve been a huge fan of their books for years and am happy to support them via monthly subscription. The ran…

On the blog today, another #readindies review - this time, of a marvellous book exploring poetry and the writing life from @renardpress.com by #johngreening - more here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/i...