August Bank Holiday,
00:01 Saturday 24th August through to 23:59 Monday 26th August BST
with this single-use-per-customer code
KKNLMB22OSSL
That’s an ‘O’ not a zero. If you don’t use the code, you won’t get the discount.
There is also free postage in the UK at the moment. We will start charging postage soon – basically the next time we print a catalogue, which is likely to be September/October, so you might want to order before that happens.
Enjoy!
We thought we’d give a bit more warning of this sale than the last one, to give you a chance to decide what you fancy and remember to place an order… Don’t try yet!
August Bank Holiday,
00:01 Saturday 24th August through to 23:59 Monday 26th August BST
10% off all physical books
with this single-use-per-customer code
KKNLMB22OSSL
That’s an ‘O’ not a zero. If you don’t use the code, you won’t get the discount.
There is also free postage in the UK at the moment. We will start charging postage soon – basically the next time we print a catalogue, which is likely to be September/October, so you might want to order before that happens.
Enjoy!
To celebrate LGBT history month we are publishing Jeremy Dixon‘s In Retail on the 7th February.
These poems were written on the back of till rolls and smuggled off the shop floor of a well-known pharmacy in Jeremy’s socks. They chart the absurdities of being a member of staff in retail (most of us have been there at some point), and the cultural take that being a queer poet gives to the experience.
00/13
the in-store radio is on a major seventies kick
after an advert for Snoxin anti-wrinkle serum
You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) startsreplaying a dark corner of the youth club
where I dance by myself to Sylvester
unable to resist that immaculate beatcompelled to leave the false safety
of a line of canvas chairs
failing to see what is apparentto everyone else
watching mepunched the length of the pool table
Jeremy is launching the book in his local village hall on the outskirts of Cardiff. The very village hall where THAT youth club was held.
There’s progress for you.
Further events in Cardiff 7th March and Bristol 1st June
To mark LGBT history month we are giving you the opportunity to buy our other LGBT titles for half price when you buy In Retail. (Mosaic of Air is already half price so there’s just a small further reduction there)
In Retail + Outcome (photographic portraits by Tom Dingley)
In Retail + Mosaic of Air (short stories by Cherry Potts)
In Retail + The Dowry Blade (Fantasy Novel by Cherry Potts)
In Retail + A Gift of Rivers (Poetry by Kate Foley)
In Retail + Foraging (Poetry by Joy Howard)
In Retail + The Don’t Touch Garden (Poetry by Kate Foley)
All three of our #WomenVote100 titles on offer for one day only, to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the first female vote going into an actual ballot box on 14th December 1918
We/She Liars League stories by Women,
Five by Five, short stories by Katy Darby, Joan Taylor-Rowan, Cassandra Passarelli, Sarah James and Helen Morris,
Vindication Poems from Sarah James, Sarah Lawson, Elinor Brooks, Jill Sharp and Anne Macaulay
Normal price £28.97 still post free in UK – you have until I get to the computer tomorrow morning!
To celebrate Coming Out Day and the anniversary of publication of Tom Dingley’s photographic portraits Outcome we have a special offer of £5 off until Midnight tonight. head over to the shop to take advantage of this offer.
And a reminder that the last remaining SIGNED copy is up for grabs on our crowd fund
Free Books available to Libraries (our first 5 titles available free to bona fide libraries – you just pay for delivery get in touch)
London Lies ISBN: 978-1-909208-00-1 In collaboration with Liars’ League, featuring unlikely tales set in London.
Stations: Short Stories Inspired by the Overground Line ISBN: 978-1-909208-01-8 A story for every station from New Cross, Crystal Palace, and West Croydon at the Southern extremes of the East London line all the way to Highbury & Islington.
Lovers’ Lies ISBN: 978-1-909208-02-5 A second collaboration with Liars’ League, bringing the freshness, wit, imagination and passion of their authors to stories of love.
Weird Lies ISBN: 978-1-909208-10-0 WINNER of the Saboteur2014 Best Anthology Award. A third Liars’ League collaboration – more than twenty stories varying in style from tales not out of place in One Thousand and One Nights to the completely bemusing.
Mosaic of Air Cherry Potts ISBN: 978-1-909208-03-2 FANTASY/SCI-FI/ CONTEMPORARY
Sixteen short stories from a lesbian perspective.
We’ve always received a great deal of support from libraries, (Lewisham, Kensington & Chelsea and Greenwich in particular) helping us with venues for readings and more high profile events, like the Solstice Shorts Festival which has been hosted by Better Libraries in Greenwich for three years now, and our Anniversary party being held at Manor House Library in Lewisham (managed by V22), and want to return the compliment. Our only stipulations are that the library pays for the delivery, and that books go into stock, and aren’t sold to raise funds. That way we both benefit, as our authors will receive Public Lending Rights fees.
Our first take-up for this offer has come from Merton Libraries and the books are packed and ready to go!
As part of our fifth anniversary celebrations (8th Sept! Party!) we have reduced the price of our first 5 books to £5.
bookshops – we’ve set up with our distributors NBNi that you can get these books at trade discount to sell for £5 too!
To Celebrate our 5th Anniversary (8th September 2017) we are offering the first five books we published FREE TO BONA FIDE UK LIBRARIES or BOOK CHARITIES
London Lies ISBN: 978-1-909208-00-1 CONTEMPORARY
Our first Liars’ League showcase, featuring unlikely tales set in London.
Stations: Short Stories Inspired by the Overground Line
ISBN: 978-1-909208-01-8 CONTEMPORARY
A story for every station from New Cross, Crystal Palace, and West Croydon at the Southern extremes of the East London line all the way to Highbury & Islington.
Lovers’ Lies ISBN: 978-1-909208-02-5 CONTEMPORARY
Our second collaboration with Liars’ League, bringing the freshness, wit, imagination and passion of their authors to stories of love.
Weird Lies ISBN: 978-1-909208-10-0 SCI-FI/FANTASY
WINNER of the Saboteur2014 Best Anthology Award
Our third Liars’ League collaboration – more than twenty stories varying in style from tales not out of place in One Thousand and One Nights to the completely bemusing.
Mosaic of Air Cherry Potts ISBN: 978-1-909208-03-2
FANTASY/SCI-FI/ CONTEMPORARY
Sixteen short stories from a lesbian perspective.
If you’ve not tried our work before here’s your chance to explore.
Libraries just pay delivery, charities completely free contact us
Other special offers on back-list titles direct from us for the duration of the celebrations. explore the shop
All paid for books ordered direct sent post free within the UK!
These offers only to bona fide libraries and book charities. There are other special offers available to everyone else… explore the shop
Arachne Press is Celebrating our 5th Anniversary
Come to the FREE Party
Tickets for the party: eventbrite
Friday 8th September 2017 6.30-9.30pm
Readings of Poetry & Stories from (almost definitely)
Carolyn Eden (aka Carrie Cohen), Liam Hogan, Cherry Potts, Katy Darby, Kate Foley, Jeremy Dixon plus others
and Live Music from
Ian Kennedy & Sarah Lloyd
Summer All Year Long
Manor House Library
34 Old Road
SE13 5SY
in the Garden if fine, else Indoors
Refreshments Available for a Modest Donation
Books on Sale – special offers
Tickets for the party: eventbrite
PLUS
We will be Touring a Retrospective Selection of Stories & Poems until December 2017
Starting at Archway With Words festival on 27th September at Archway Library.
If you would like to invite us to your bookshop, library, festival, live lit night, college, or school, get in touch
Special Offers on Books bought direct from our website (our first 5 titles at £5 each, plus other reductions)
Free Books available to Libraries (our first 5 titles available free to bona fide libraries – you just pay for delivery get in touch)
A three-year plan of new publications including new poetry collections from Jeremy Dixon, Kate Foley, Cathy Bryant
The remaining YA titles on the Brook Storyteller series from Ghillian Potts
A women only anthology in collaboration with Liars League to celebrate the anniversary of women getting the vote.
An anthology to commemorate the ending of WWI, provisionally entitled An Outbreak of Peace.
Possibles
a Story Sessions anthology – stories and poems by people who have taken part in Story Sessions who we haven’t already published.
A 5 poet anthology – exact inclusions to be confirmed, but people we have only so far published in anthologies
A 5 author story anthology – exact inclusions to be confirmed, but people we have only so far published in anthologies
Plus others including novels, still in consideration.
The next 3 Solstice Shorts Festivals will be: Dusk 21st December 2017, Dawn 21st December 2018 and Time & Tide 21st December 2019 (this one will be all day as it falls at the weekend)
Of course, none of this (apart from the party and the tour) will happen unless we get some funding, or you lot buy an awful lot of books! So you can guess what we will be up to for the next couple of months.
Traditionally the sale happens in January. Well, we decided to have a February sale instead.
You can now purchase a copy of Lovers’ Lies, post free in the UK for £5 through our SHOP until Valentine’s Day, Saturday 14th February.
For the rest of February you can buy a set of Liars’ League titles, London Lies, Lovers’ Lies and (award Winning) Weird Lies for £26 (normally £29.97) again, post free in the UK.
And until they’ve gone, you can buy a Solstice Shorts T-shirt for £5 we have at least 2 in every size, but once they’ve gone, they’ve gone.
