Based in Hexam Northumberland, the publishing company Bloodaxe Books specialises in what kind of literature?
"documents the media reaction to the film. Neil Astley was awarded an honorary D.Litt by Newcastle University in 1995 for his work with Bloodaxe Books. In 2000 Bloodaxe received funding from the Millennium Festival and the National Lottery through Arts Council England for an educational initiative to build a stronger awareness of 20th century poetry. This involved the publication of Edna Longley’s ""Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry from Britain and Ireland"" and ""Strong Words: modern poets on modern poetry"". In 2001 Jo Shapcott gave the first of the Newcastle/Bloodaxe poetry lectures at Newcastle University. Several other poets have since"
"from home while doing postgraduate research and other jobs, until it could pay him a wage seven years later. In 1982, Bloodaxe's first annual funding was secured from Northern Arts, bringing Simon Thirsk on board as co-director of the newly constituted Bloodaxe Books Ltd and giving the imprint a sounder business base. Two years later he moved the press into its first office, in the Exchange Buildings on Newcastle's Quayside. Bloodaxe is currently based in Hexham, Northumberland. As Bloodaxe's sole editor and managing director, Astley has published over a thousand books by over 400 writers, and edits, produces and typesets"
"collections and anthologies of translated poetry from France, Russia, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia in particular), alongside books by new and established poets from all parts of Britain and Ireland, the latter ranging from modernists Basil Bunting and J.H. Prynne to performance poets John Agard and Benjamin Zephaniah. He has sought to open up publishing opportunities for women poets, ""not because they are women poets but because they are outstanding writers by any standard. For many years Bloodaxe has been unusual in having a poetry list which is 50:50 male: female"",and being ""responsive to the changing literatures of Britain and of"
"Neil Astley Neil Astley, Hon. FRSL (born 12 May 1953) is an English publisher, editor and writer. He is best known as the founder of the poetry publishing house Bloodaxe Books. Astley was born in Portchester, Hampshire, and grew up in nearby Fareham. He was educated at Price's School, Fareham (1964–71), the Alliance Française, Paris (1972), and Newcastle University (1975–78 and 1979–81). From 1972 to 1975 he worked in Leicester, Colchester, London, Paris and Australia, as a journalist, in publishing (Yale University Press), and as a press officer for Warner Brothers’ magazine division and for Lyons Maid ice cream. In"
"all the press's annual output of around 30 new titles a year. Bloodaxe won the Northern Electric Arts Award in 1989 and the ""Sunday Times"" Small Publisher of the Year Award in 1990. In 1995 Astley was given an honorary D.Litt by Newcastle University, where he has been a Visiting Fellow at its School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics since 2000. This has involved publishing the series of annual Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures given at the university. Astley's stated aim has been to achieve editorial breadth and balance by publishing what he believes to be the best of many different"
"Maxwell, Sean O'Brien, Jo Shapcott and Pauline Stainer, many of whom are still published by his firm. Bloodaxe has attracted poets from other commercial poetry lists, including Philip Gross and Susan Wicks from Faber, Selima Hill and Peter Reading from Chatto, R. S. Thomas from Macmillan, Ken Smith from Cape, Adrian Mitchell from Allison & Busby, Brendan Kennelly from a variety of Irish presses, and seven poets from the distinguished poetry list discontinued by Oxford University Press in 1999: Fleur Adcock, Moniza Alvi, Roy Fisher, Carole Satyamurti, Penelope Shuttle, Anne Stevenson and George Szirtes. Philip Gross and George Szirtes went"
"Sean O'Brien's ""The Deregulated Muse"" (1998), ""Strong Words"" (edited by W.N. Herbert and Matthew Hollis, 2000) and Deryn Rees-Jones's ""Modern Women Poets"" (2005). As editor at Bloodaxe for over 30 years Astley has been credited with ""revolutionising"" and democratising poetry publishing in Britain. Praised for his ""omnivorous inclusiveness"", he has given readers ""as wide a range as possible of contemporary poetry by all kinds of writers"", in so doing bringing more readers to contemporary poetry. This involved overturning an earlier bias favouring Oxbridge-educated male writers from south-east England, and publishing leading poets from America, the Caribbean and Europe (including many"
"Battleaxe (novel) Note: This book is also called ""The Wayfarer Redemption"" (which confusingly is also the name of the second series). Battleaxe by Australian fantasy author Sara Douglass, is the first novel in the Axis Trilogy. This first book revolves around Axis, Battleaxe of the Axe-Wielders, and Faraday, daughter of Earl Isend of Skarabost. Their lives are forever changed by a prophecy, and by meeting each other. The first characters introduced are two unnamed women in mortal peril, one who is pregnant and one who has just given birth. The pregnant one is trying desperately to reach shelter during a"
"other countries"", so that in 2010 it was possible for a leading Black British writer, Bernardine Evaristo, to observe that ""a single imprint, Bloodaxe Books, publishes nearly all the poets not with specialist black and Asian imprints, while several other prominent UK poetry publishers do not publish any black or Asian poets from Britain"". Astley has been called ""the UK's leading anthologist"", best known for ""Staying Alive: real poems for unreal times"" (2002), Britain's biggest selling anthology of contemporary poetry since publication, one of several books he has published aimed at broadening the readership of contemporary poetry and re-igniting the"
"from Bloodaxe Books, ""Two Countries"" (2014), includes some of these poems. She has been involved in many collaborations with other artists and musicians. In 2000 she worked with composer Alistair Anderson on the musical ""Tam Lin"". Most recently she has collaborated with digital composer Peter Zinovieff on ""Horse"" (2011, about the 3,000-year-old Uffington White Horse), and ""Edge"" (2013, a poem in four moons for the Centre for Life planetarium, Newcastle). Katrina Porteous Katrina Porteous (born 1960 in Aberdeen) is a Scottish poet, historian and broadcaster. Her particular interests include the inshore fishing community of the Northumberland coast, and the cultural"
"Lion of Mistra"" (Heron 2015) ""By Blood Divided"" (Quercus 2017) A fifth novel was published in August 2018. It is separate from the Mistra Chronicles and concerns events in Greece during 1824. ""A World on Fire"" (Quercus 2018) James Heneage James Heneage (born 31 October 1957) is a British historical fiction writer, and the co-founder of the Ottakar’s bookshop chain and the Chalke Valley History Festival. Heneage was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards where he served a short-service commission from 1978 to 1982. Between 1982 and 1987 he worked in advertising, finishing as an Account Director for Ogilvy and Mather."
"the 2015 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards. Haston was born in London, England and graduated in 1980 with a master's degree in English Literature from Emmanuel College, Cambridge University. A career in finance has been augmented in recent years by writing. Haston published his debut novel Blood and Doves in October 2012, followed almost contemporaneously by Rising of a Dead Moon (first published October 2012, re-written and published in final form October 2013), and Echo and the Magical Whispers (September 2013). Haston has a spartan writing style that often requires the reader to provide linkages within the story line and characterisation"
"done by Carl Lundgren of 60's psychedelic album-cover fame and Christos Achilleos for UK-only editions. Horseclans Horseclans is a science fiction series by Robert Adams, set in a North America that had been thrown back to a medieval level by a full-scale nuclear war. The books mainly concern the doings of the ""Horseclans"", a nomadic people originating from the ""Sea of Grass""—the Great Plains from present-day southern Canada to central Texas, and from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains, post-apocalyptically. The Horseclansmen were portrayed as fierce, noble and often gifted with telepathy, which came in handy for their dealings"
"kinds of poetry: ""The only positive discrimination I have exercised has been in favour of literary quality,"" which has involved commissioning several anthologies designed to redress imbalances in the availability of writing by women or minorities, including Jeni Couzyn's ""Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Women Poets"" (1985), E. A. Markham's ""Hinterland: Caribbean Poetry from the West Indies and Britain"" (1989), Deryn Rees-Jones's ""Modern Women Poets"" (2005), published as the companion anthology to a critical study, ""Consorting with Angels"" (2005), Jeet Thayil's ""Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets"" (2008), ""Out of Bounds: British Black & Asian Poets"" (ed. Jackie Kay, James Procter"
"books. As well as the Bucks/Oxon area and the village of Washford, Somerset where Cleeve Abbey is situated, several books are set in parts of Sussex, Wales, Lancashire, the English Lake District and Scotland. Naturally these are not always depicted exactly as their real counterparts; Oxenham was writing fiction, and if she could move an abbey nearly 200 miles for her purposes, surely changing a few names and telescoping or stretching distances was also well within her remit. Abbey Series The Abbey Series of British novels by Elsie J. Oxenham comprises 38 titles which were published between 1914 and 1959."
"at the 2015 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards. Paul Haston Paul Haston is a writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He writes novels, short stories and screenplays across several genres including literary fiction, historical fiction and young adult. Novels include Rising of a Dead Moon, Blood and Doves and Echo and the Magical Whispers. Rising of a Dead Moon, published in 2013, is an historical fiction set against the backdrop of 19th Century Indian Indenture. An advocate for protecting elephants, Haston's book Echo and the Magical Whispers was written to raise awareness of poaching of elephants for their ivory. The"
"Ryan and heavyweight boxer Ron Lyle, and a comprehensive history of Yorkshire football. Scratching Shed Publishing Ltd are the current sponsors of the Northern Premier Cricket League annual Dream Teams. Scratching Shed Publishing Scratching Shed Publishing Limited is an independent British publishing house founded in May 2008 by co-directors Phil Caplan and Tony Hannan, two freelance authors and journalists based in the North of England. Uniquely among publishers, the company, based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, aims to produce high-quality books that are primarily inspired by aspects of northern English culture. Scratching Shed Publishing Limited is responsible for the critically acclaimed"
"launched its second fiction imprint, Flux Books. The company publishes a wide offering of non-fiction books by such noted authors as Scott Cunningham, Michael Newton, Donald Michael Kraig, Richard Webster, Karen Mehringer, and Mark A. Michaels & Patricia Johnson. Authors for its fiction lines include Maggie Stiefvater, Simone Elkeles, Laurie Faria Stolarz, Kirstin Cronn-Mills, Amanda Grace (a pen-name for author Mandy Hubbard), Kelsey Sutton, A.S. King, and Nick James. Llewellyn Worldwide Llewellyn Worldwide (formerly Llewellyn Publications) is a New Age publisher, currently based in Woodbury, Minnesota. Llewellyn's mission is to ""serve the trade and consumers worldwide with options and tools"
"reasonable of realistic fiction."" Bloodtide (novel) Bloodtide is a youth-fiction novel by Melvin Burgess, first published by Andersen Press Limited in 1999. It is based upon the first part of the Icelandic ""Volsunga Saga"". It received positive reviews from ""The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews"", and ""Publishers Weekly"", and was followed in 2007 by a sequel, ""Bloodsong"". This is the first in the series of two novels based in this universe. The book deals with two warring gangs, named the Volsons and the Connors. Each controls a large portion of London, since the city was blockaded from the outside world. Val, head"
"regional literature genre, which are set in the borderlands of Sussex and Kent. Other writers from Sussex include Maureen Duffy and Hammond Innes. In addition there are writers, who while they were not born in Sussex had a strong connection. This includes William Blake and Alfred Tennyson. Sussex has been home to four winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature: Rudyard Kipling spent much of his life in Sussex, living in Rottingdean and later at Burwash. Irishman W.B. Yeats spent three winters living with American poet Ezra Pound at Colemans Hatch in the Ashdown Forest and towards the end of"
"2016 ran a bookshop on London's Gloucester Road. The magazine offices are based in London. Slightly Foxed Slightly Foxed is a British quarterly literary magazine. Its primary focus is books and book culture. 2016 saw the publication of its fiftieth issue. Notable authors to have written for the magazine include Penelope Lively, Richard Mabey, Diana Athill, Ronald Blythe and Robert Macfarlane. Instead of books currently marketed by big publishers, ""Slightly Foxed"" tends to examine older and more obscure titles. The title, ""Slightly Foxed"" refers to a description of a book's physical quality, commonly used in the second-hand book trade. As"
"on to win the T. S. Eliot Prize with Bloodaxe collections, as did Jen Hadfield from Shetland, with her second collection. He has also sought to redress the neglect of marginalised poets, publishing important collected editions of writers such as Martin Bell (1988), James Wright (1992), Basil Bunting (2000), Barry MacSweeney (2003), Martin Carter (2006), Arun Kolatkar (2010), A.S.J. Tessimond (2010), Bernard Spencer (2011) and Richard Murphy (2013), as well as a seminal readers' edition of Edward Thomas: ""The Annotated Collected Poems"" (2008) edited by Edna Longley. In 2014, his ten-year search to find and republish the poet Rosemary Tonks,"
"""City Limits"" magazine. Her collections ""Nantucket and the Angel"" and ""Lintel"" were both shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Poems from these collections are included in her Bloodaxe retrospective ""How the Bicycle Shone: New & Selected Poems"" (2007), which draws on six published books plus a new collection, ""Wolf Light"", and was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. Her latest collection is ""indwelling"". She has also published ""Berthing: A Poetry Workbook"" (NEC/Virago, 1991), and was co-editor of ""The New British Poetry"" (Paladin, 1988). From 2001 to 2003 she held a Royal Literary Fund Fellowship at Newcastle and Leeds Universities. She"
"Bloodtide (novel) Bloodtide is a youth-fiction novel by Melvin Burgess, first published by Andersen Press Limited in 1999. It is based upon the first part of the Icelandic ""Volsunga Saga"". It received positive reviews from ""The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews"", and ""Publishers Weekly"", and was followed in 2007 by a sequel, ""Bloodsong"". This is the first in the series of two novels based in this universe. The book deals with two warring gangs, named the Volsons and the Connors. Each controls a large portion of London, since the city was blockaded from the outside world. Val, head of the Volsons, wishes"
"Myriad Editions Myriad Editions is an independent UK publishing house based in Brighton, Sussex, specialising in topical atlases, graphic non-fiction and original fiction, whose output also encompasses graphic novels that span a variety of genres, including memoir and life writing, as well political non-fiction. With its stated aim being ""to showcase new writers and artists, build fresh audiences for their work, and establish a literary niche against the mainstream"", Myriad has built a reputation for discovering and nurturing award-winning authors, such as Jonathan Kemp, Elizabeth Haynes, Lesley Thomson, Darryl Cunningham, and Natasha Soobramanien. The publisher and managing director is Candida"
"James Heneage James Heneage (born 31 October 1957) is a British historical fiction writer, and the co-founder of the Ottakar’s bookshop chain and the Chalke Valley History Festival. Heneage was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards where he served a short-service commission from 1978 to 1982. Between 1982 and 1987 he worked in advertising, finishing as an Account Director for Ogilvy and Mather. In 1987, he founded the bookshop chain Ottakar’s which was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1998 and grew to a chain of 142 branches, employing some 2,500 people. Despite Heneage and others attempting a management buyout,"
"""The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen"", ""Pantheon"", and ""Puppet-land/Power-kill"". Violence (role-playing game) Violence: The Role-Playing Game of Egregious and Repulsive Bloodshed is a short, 32-page role-playing game written by Greg Costikyan under the pseudonym ""Designer X"" and published by Hogshead Publishing in 1999 as part of its ""New Style"" line of games. ""Violence"" is a satire of conventional dungeon-bashing games, set in a contemporary metropolis where player characters dash from room to room killing the occupants and stealing their belongings. In a style reminiscent of ""Mad"", it is relentlessly user-hostile, taking time out to insult the reader wherever possible (it"
"of fiction, which includes romance, historical fiction, paranormal, supernatural and horror. The fiction list includes Nora Roberts and her alter-ego, J.D. Robb, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Christine Feehan and Julia Quinn, and new British authors such as Rosamund Lupton and Carolyn Jess-Cooke. In 2014, Little, Brown acquired independent publisher Constable and Robinson, and soon merged Piatkus with the Constable and Robinson imprints to form Piatkus Constable Robinson (PCR). Another Constable and Robinson imprint, Corsair, publishes literary fiction and non-fiction separately from PCR. In 2015, Ursula Doyle (formerly Associate Publisher of Virago) announced a new imprint, Fleet. Fleet's launch titles in 2016 include"
"to engage with a post-Brexit Britain was ""Rabbitman"" by Michael Paraskos (published 9 March 2017). ""Rabbitman"" is a dark comic fantasy in which the events that lead to the election of a right-wing populist American president, and Britain's vote to leave the European Union, were the result of a series of Faustian pacts with the Devil. As a result, ""Rabbitman"" is set partly in a post-Brexit Britain in which society has collapsed and people are dependent on European Union food aid. Mark Billingham's ""Love Like Blood"" (published 1 June 2017) is a crime thriller in which Brexit sees a rise"
"Literary Detectives, or ""LiteraTecs"", who deal with all literature-related crimes. The Crimean War is a cold conflict with both sides at a stalemate but too stubborn to call for peace. A peace movement in Britain is gaining popularity. Meanwhile, Goliath has been contracted to create a plasma rifle codenamed ""STONK"" to overpower the Russians. The weapon should be capable of destroying a tank with a single blast. Goliath promises that STONK will soon be standard issue to the British military. The plot revolves around Thursday Next, a single, thirty-six-year-old woman who is a veteran of the Crimean War and a"
"and Britain's vote to leave the European Union, were the result of a series of [[Faustian]] pacts with the [[Devil]]. As a result, ""Rabbitman"" is set partly in a post-Brexit Britain in which society has collapsed and people are dependent on European Union food aid. Mark Billingham's ""Love Like Blood"" (published 1 June 2017) is a crime thriller in which Brexit sees a rise in xenophobic hate crime. In the novel ""The Remains of the Way"" (published 6 June 2017), [[David Boyle (author)|David Boyle]] imagines Brexit was a conspiracy led by a forgotten government [[quango]], still working away in [[Whitehall]],"
"Council Writer’s Award, and was shortlisted for the Sanlam Prize. People of mixed racial heritage are defined in ""Bloodlines"" in terms of their interrogatory relationship to the past. They “know history isn’t straight”, a meandering motif which is reprised archaeologically in the riverine locale of Boehmer’s fourth novel. ""Nile Baby"" (2008) is a story of migrancy grounded within a carefully drawn English suburban pastoral, where the unearthing of a Nubian skeleton in a Roman grave testifies to the ancient but unacknowledged legacy of Africans in Europe. The narrative revolves around two children who “liberate” a century-old foetus preserved in the"
"as he carries an original Christian value system of his youth alongside the commitment of blood feud and blood brotherhood of Norse paganism. Blood Feud (novel) Blood Feud is a historical novel for children written by Rosemary Sutcliff and published in 1976. It begins in 10th Century England, and tells the tale of an orphaned child of a Celtic father and Saxon mother, who is caught up with the Vikings and ultimately journeys all the way to Constantinople via the Dnieper trading route. The plot is driven by the acceptance of a blood feud commitment, and the struggles of a"