Galley Beggar Press: 41 books

Beginning in the early 1990s, Randall is a satirical alternative history of the heady years of Cool Britannia and the emergence of the Young British Artists. It asks what would have happened if Damien Hirst had never arrived? If someone else had become the most notorious and influential young British...

CJ is Joe's only friend. So Joe isn't happy when Death visits CJ's house. Tony O'Neill once more digs down into the dirt and brings up gems.

A new story from our first ever Singles Club author, Michael Stewart, in which, God has some explaining to do. You'd think that a conversation in front of a live audience would be the perfect place to do it. But He thinks otherwise...

“A work of enormous scope and ambition from a writer who combines style, wit… and a rare sense of the ridiculousness of the human condition. Incomparable.” (Alex Pheby, Wellcome Book Prize-shortlisted author of Playthings) Forbidden Line, the debut novel by Paul Stanbridge, is a monster....

At the age of twenty, the novelist Denton Welch suffered a cycling accident that left him partially paralyzed; the injuries that he sustained were to leave him in almost constant pain for the rest of his life, as well as bestowing upon him the spinal tuberculosis that would kill him at the age of...

"This is one of the most abnormal books of all time, and also one of the best... No home is complete without this magnificent book." Dan Rhodes Join the King of Rock and Roll as he wreaks crazy havoc with the Memphis Mafia, murders huge numbers of groupies, destroys televisions, sabotages...

"You know, sometimes I wake up and for a few moments I think I am teenager again. Sometimes I feel like I am a young man and all the people who have died are still here, and I have my whole life ahead of me. Then I remember." A haunting novella from Benjamin Myers about two old brothers,...

Chosen by The Observer as a Fiction Pick for 2016 and described as a ‘scintillating novel of ideas’, Feeding Time is a debut like no other: a blast of rage against the dying of the light. Dot is losing the will to live. Tristan is sick of emptying bedpans. Cornish spends entire days barricaded...

An imitation of a story. What does that mean? Well, this short spiky narration from Heidi James will tell you. This is a book that talks directly to you... Although, it seems, the 'you' of the narrative may not want to listen. More's the pity, because there's something very important going on here. Something you have to read...

A sharp, angry, but brilliantly controlled look into exploitation and how it feels to be exploited. It shows the pain behind luxury. And it's got some damn good descriptions of fur farming...

This beautifully realised story of teenage angst, parental angst, step-parental angst and getting things into proportion is the first story we're releasing by Jon Fortgang. We want him to write a novel and we want to publish it and if you buy this story, you might just help encourage him. What's more,...

'Imagine sleeping in it,' said Johnny. He leaned forward. 'Imagine lighting a fire, and killing a deer and roasting it there. We could skin it and gut it and salt it. We could live there.' His eyes widened. 'Let's do it. Let's spend the night there. It'll be amazing.' The Bunker is our second release...

"We grew up in households where food was important. We grew up in households where the kitchen was the centre of our universes. The main family thoroughfare happened in our kitchens." ‘The Time Machine’ is a new novella about food and grief by award-winning author Nikesh Shukla. It tells...

Knotweed grows fast and grows strong. Helena has something growing in her too. Which is just part of the reason she can't live in Hackney any more...