March 2013

Announcing the Galley Beggar Book Club

Our quest to give value and pleasure to our readers continues!

Galley Beggar Assistant Editor Rory Hill has now produced some top quality book club notes for our titles. These all include plot summaries, discussion points, author biographies, and resources for further exploration. They'll help you think about our books in new ways - and talk about them in new ways. And they're fun. And interesting. And free. So grab them now:

A new collection from Lee Rourke

Exciting news! 3:AM Press have just released a new collection of poems from the renowned Lee Rourke - and they're available in the store now.

Here's what people are saying:

Varroa Destructor taps the pressures of technology, boredom and isolation in the city. Restless, neurotic and thoroughly modern, Rourke's poems are little bullets of urban living. If you're not careful, they'll stick in your throat. -- Tom Chivers

Wedlock - George Egerton

In a frenzy of excitement, testing electronic publishing to the limits, as well as our poor little typing fingers and brains, we have very quickly put together a wonderful little package for International Women's Day. A reformatted version of a classic story with an all new introduction, biography end notes and some crazy essays slagging it off.

The cover of 'Wedlock' by George Egerton.

Authorial wisdom

It's Simon Crump's birthday today. He's been celebrating by posting awful jokes on twitter and facebook. Sample:

I just walked down a street where the houses were numbered 64K, 128K, 512K and 1MB. Now, that was a trip down memory lane.

But also, he provided this pearl of wisdom:

She sells sea shells by the sea shore?

That strikes me as a pretty rubbish business idea to be honest.