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Founded in Newark, Nottinghamshire in 2023, Another Small Press is listening for outside voices & reading unique writing, to present these small volumes across a range of genres and categories, both fiction and non-fiction.
Another Small Press is the vision of two Newark writers, Adrian Bean & Martin Costello, to create a new model for physical and virtual publishing; one that combines the dynamic and lean production processes of new technologies whilst holding true to the aesthetic and quality of traditional paperback publishing. Beginning with a small group of invited authors who are contributing the first volumes to the catalogue, ASP will broaden both their author reach and the writing offer to encompass the most interesting in modern writing.
Stylish print for new writing
Coming In 2026
Historical Fiction
AVAILABLE NOW – historical researcher Adrian Bean reveals a new collection of found stories previously hidden away for more than 70 years at a remote Canadian farm. An anonymous writer explores life on a British air base during World War Two.
Dark, poignant, introspective and chilling.
Contemporary Fiction
AVAILABLE NOW – repentant absurdist Martin Costello returns with adventures into the darker side of encounters with despair: here transient male partners overwhelmed by meaninglessness exist only in savage expressions of coercion and cruelty.
A sobering examination of personal dystopias.
Poetry
COMING SOON – Kath Fox returns with a second volume following her popular debut collection, Three Fields And A River, published in 2025 by Another Small Press.
Humane and generous, laced with a lilting longing for the past, she describes people and places with tranquility and gentleness, without flinching from the emotional truths she uncovers.
ISBN 978-0-9957127-2-0
122 pages, £7.99 print version
ISBN 978-1-0667494-0-9
79 pages, £7.99 print version
Latest releases
Anthology
A deadpan and sometimes deathly dark collection of short stories by Linda Cooper. Always understated but full of unexpected bite, these tales of modern living cut to the bone.
The quiet terrors, the unexpected joys, the sheer inconveniences of life are set against a backdrop of wry humour & sharp observation.
Poetry
Kath Fox writes her poetry at the dining room table as family life ebbs and flows around her and inevitably influences the themes of her poems.
Humane and generous, laced with a lilting longing for the past, she describes people and places with tranquility and gentleness, without flinching from the emotional truths she uncovers.
Anthology
A Victorian businessman thinks he’s got away with murder. A modern-day troll mourns the passing of a traditional way of life. A dancer regrets choosing not to trip up her partner at the ceilidh.
From medieval Newark to present day Italy, these stories have a common theme of choices not made, paths not taken.
ISBN 978-0-9957127-6-8
142 pages, £8.99 print version
ISBN 978-0-9957127-7-5
62 pages, £7.99 print version
ISBN 978-0-9957127-8-2
101 pages, £7.99 print version
The Catalogue
Contemporary Fiction
Eight picaresque ballads of life in the East Midlands – and sometimes beyond – by mild mannered anarchist & writer Martin Costello.
The story the author had always been trying to write is not included in this collection but happily is now complete after 22 years of editing.
ISBN 978-0-9957127-0-6
101 pages, £7.99 print version
Historical Fiction
A recently-discovered treasure trove of war stories, written by an anonymous bomber pilot and handed over to historical researcher Adrian Bean to see the light of day after more than 70 years hidden away in a box of momentos.
Dark, poignant, introspective and chilling.
ISBN 978-0-9957127-1-3
119 pages, £7.99 print version
Biography
What happens when life seems to present us with an overload of impossibilities? How do we cling on as we slowly lose our grasp on life itself?
A deeply personal, brutally honest account of mental health issues and painful events that impacted the author’s life over a long period of time.
ISBN 978-0-9957127-3-7
178 pages, £9.99 print version
Poetry
In a Classical Greek comedy by Aristophanes, cuckoos were challenged by the gods to build a city in the clouds. Ever since, the phrase has been a reference to impossible plans, unrealistic schemes and crazy dreams.
Every page turn is an encounter with a new joy, and old friend, a common foe.
ISBN 978-0-9957127-4-4
228 pages, out of print
Biography
A short conversation about the death of a relative in the war started the author on a journey that would obsess him for nearly two years. Who was this relative – how did he die, and why?
Sometimes funny, often disturbing, always honest, What Happened is a book about loss and acceptance.
ISBN 978-0-9957127-5-1
355 pages, £9.99 print version
Anthology
A deadpan and sometimes deathly dark collection of short stories by Linda Cooper. Always understated but full of unexpected bite, these tales of modern living cut to the bone.
The quiet terrors, the unexpected joys, the sheer inconveniences of life are set against a backdrop of wry humour & sharp observation.
ISBN 978-0-9957127-6-8
142 pages, £8.99 print version
Poetry
Kath Fox writes her poetry at the dining room table as family life ebbs and flows around her and inevitably influences the themes of her poems.
Humane and generous, laced with a lilting longing for the past, she describes people and places with tranquility and gentleness, without flinching from the emotional truths she uncovers.
ISBN 978-0-9957127-7-5
62 pages, £7.99 print version
Anthology
A Victorian businessman thinks he’s got away with murder. A modern-day troll mourns the passing of a traditional way of life. A dancer regrets choosing not to trip up her partner at the ceilidh.
From medieval Newark to present day Italy, these stories have a common theme of choices not made, paths not taken.
ISBN 978-0-9957127-8-2
101 pages, £7.99 print version