
Double Dutch
The Inbetweeners meets Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, D.R. Fenner and Jacqueline Haigh’s debut comedy crime is based on true events and the
March 23, 2025
Foreshore is set to publish the debut novel by award winning poet Marie Anne Arreola after an exclusive submission.
Phil M. Shirley, publisher-in-chief at Foreshore, acquired world rights to Sparks of the Liberating Spirit who Trapped Us back in Woodstock by Marie Anne, the debut novel from the highly acclaimed Mexican poet, following an exclusive submission from the author.
The new book is a magical realism novel debut novel that draws on the supernatural and is inspired by WILDSOUND’s Festival selection of Marie Anne’s winning poem Woodstock, a visually evocative tale that captures the haunting beauty of memory, and the delicate machinery of human connection—where sometimes, the only way to fix what’s broken is to embrace the imperfection of the present.
Jonathan, a 38-year-old man adrift in the unresolved corners of his life, returns to Woodstock for his grandfather’s funeral, where he receives a set of instructions from his ghost—
March 22, 2025
The English bestselling children’s author Michael Lawrence has signed a two book deal with Foreshore Publishing.
Lawrence is the author of over forty books for children and young adults. Many of his books have been published internationally and translated into more than twenty languages. One of them – Young Dracula – was adapted for television, eventually becoming a TV series.
The Huntingdonshire -born writer’s most popular books are the Jiggy McCue novels – including The Killer Underpants, The Toilet of Doom, The Meanest Genie and The Iron, the Switch and the Broom Cupboard – the The Aldous Lexicon trilogy (A Crack in the Line, Small Eternities and The Underwood See) and Juby’s Rook.
Foreshore will publish the first new Lawrence title, an adult general fiction novel titled The Godawful Misfortunes of Samson O’Christ with the RiverRun imprint
The brilliant new memoir from Emma Culshaw Bell – AS SEEN ON CHANNEL 4’S NARROW ESCAPES!
“Funny and full of heart. Emma is a born storyteller.” THE BOOK CLUB
Life was plain sailing for businesswoman Emma Culshaw Bell. She had it all. Top job in the world of designer kitchens. Bulging bank account. Happy marriage. Million pound house in the country. Loving family. Then her life hit the rocks. Divorce. Death of her closest friend. Financial problems. And a life-changing childhood secret she thought she’d never have to share.
THE DARKNESS SEETHED, INVISIBLE AND UNTOUCHABLE, LIKE GOD. EVEN IN MY BLINDNESS, THERE WAS MOVEMENT. THE SHADOWS THEMSELVES HAD SHADOWS, HANGING, AS WE WERE, IN BETWEEN THAT ENDLESS BLACK PIT AND ENDLESS BLACK SKY, SEWN TOGETHER WITH AN ENDLESS HORIZON. I COULD SENSE THEM NOW. IN THIS ABYSS, THE DARKEST CRANNIES – BOTH THOSE YOUR EYES SEE OR THOSE IN YOUR MIND – WERE MADE BRIGHT. AND NOW I SAW WHY THE MIND HIDES CERTAIN TERRORS IN THOSE CREVICES.
A superb work of fiction.
The Book ClubCompletely Convincing and deeply scary.
Writer’s ForumThe epidemic known as the Fade has reduced humankind to a handful of communities of desperate survivors – weary from pulling bland food from the ground to stave off unnecessary famine and the relentless disease that drives many to suicide. In the commune of Pitch, Marly faces a stark reality.
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The Inbetweeners meets Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, D.R. Fenner and Jacqueline Haigh’s debut comedy crime is based on true events and the
A sharp satire of the teaching industry, Josie Lee Star’s literary gem, The Dale chronicles the petty grievances, romantic entanglements,
In Goodbye Me, George Tabakov delivers an immersive and emotionally resonant debut novel. This profoundly moving narrative explores the transformative
Q&A: Bertie Beeching on his dystopian novel Dreamer’s Grid, an imaginative and surprisingly plausible narrative set in a post-apocalyptic world