Freight Books is a new imprint focused on publishing high quality fiction for an English speaking readership. We are committed to publishing work by established writers, brilliant debuts, short story collections, forgotten classics, occasional novels-in-translation and, from time to time, poetry collections. As with our sister publication, Gutter. Freight also has its own blog, which can be found here. Launch of Iain Maloneys Silma Hill at the Rio Cafe. Launch of Jim Carruths Killochries.

An offshoot of the literary magazine, has made itself a publisher to watch with its careful selection of debut writers, many of whom have gone on to award-winning, bidding-war status. They published the first books by IMPAC-winner Kevin Barry. Irish Book of the Year-winner Mary Costello and Guardian First Book Award-winner Colin Barrett. That I picked it up.

Memoirs of a horror movie addict. Who is Dora the Explorer, Anyway? February 24, 2015. Last night while reorganizing this blog I came across a draft of the following post, which I wrote about a year ago when I was living a somewhat isolated life near Frankfurt, Germany.