Elspeth Latimer
On a summer’s day, a tiny baby vanishes. The mystery is never solved, leaving a young mother lost in grief. Twenty-one years later, ex-police detective Dan Hennessy finds himself desperate for answers.
Daryl Fraser
Four generations of fishermen make their lives by the sea. Daryl Fraser’s debut is populated with dynamic characters and incredible historical depth
JM Burgoyne
A striking and unforgettable meditation on free-will, love, and the lengths we’ll go to avoid pain.
Cat Woodward
A love letter to Norwich, haunted by the spectral hellhound Black Shuck, following rivers towards the waves of the rising tides returning to claim the land.
Christopher Bigsby
Can some truths ever be captured? The poems in this book are in part prompted by Lee Miller’s photography, but also include the personal, the fanciful, and a response to the natural world.
Sally-Anne Lomas
When Pen Flowers climbs out of her bedroom window in the middle of the night to dance in the empty streets, she sets off a chain of events that will change everything.
Sally-Anne Lomas
The bold and brilliant second part in the On Fire trilogy, sees Pen Flowers angry - and she wants to change the world through dance
Alaric Mark Lewis
Take a road trip with Edward Bradington as he travels across the USA to visit the house he grew up in and find the man he might once have been
Sarah Bower
A swirling mystery in which mathematical proof is always just out of reach. Blows the spy thriller genre to pieces and creates a feminist masterpiece from the rubble.
Heather Richardson
Originally stitched into the fabric of a dress, A Dress For Kathleen is an astonishing fragmentary celebration of a girl whose life was cut tragically short aged just 14.
Elizabeth Lewis Williams
A visit to the frozen underworld, and an exploration of how we find a place for ourselves in this vast and often unforgiving world we call home.
A gripping story, full of honesty, energy, heartache and joy. I love this book.’
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We are thrilled that Silver Harvest has been shortlisted for Best Debut Novel at the East Anglian Book Awards. Now in their eighteenth year, the awards are presented by the National Centre for Writing, in Read more
We’re thrilled to bring Deception Island to Great Yarmouth Minster this September as part of the brilliant Festival of the Sea. 1-8 September 2024Great Yarmouth MinsterTickets from £5-6.50 About Deception Island ‘Utterly amazing, immersive, revelatory’ Read more
Story Machine is delighted to announce the launch of You Are a Writer, a series of creative writing guides written specifically with and for writers who struggle to access existing opportunities. You Are a Writer will champion everyday creativity and expand access to high quality writing education.