Eye Books
@EyeAndLightning
Publishing non-fiction as Eye and fiction as Lightning. Regional winner, Small Press of the Year at the British Book Awards 2022
Happy publication day to @MsPollyClark, whose third novel Ocean is out today. A tale of trauma, obsession and marital strife in a yacht on the high seas, it’s intense, startling, dramatic and at times very funny. May God bless all who sail in her. eye-books.com/books/ocean
‘Another ripping yarn from Jules Mountain, and an even more epic adventure. It’s like he took his Everest adventure and squared it,’ says @paulross about the madcap antics of Arctic Insanity. ‘It’s brilliant. I urge you to get hold of a copy’ 02:26–02:39 talk.tv/play/talkradio…
The first press article about my upcoming memoir
In 2024, a 62-year-old former gay youth charity worker was jailed for 22 years after being found guilty of repeatedly raping a boy under the age of 16. That boy was @RichardHwrote. I’m Fine is his story and we publish it next month 1/2 swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/25313025.…
Next month we publish I’m Fine, @RichardHwrote’s moving memoir of the year in his childhood when he fled anti-gay bullies only to end up in the hands of a ruthless predator. Pre-order it online from Waterstones using the code SUMMER25 and you get 25% off shorturl.at/rAfK7
In September we publish the paperback edition of Season, @GHarrisonWriter’s ‘clever, heartfelt debut’ (Mail on Sunday) about two men in adjacent sseats at a football stadium. Pre-order it online from Waterstones using the code SUMMER25 and you get 25% off shorturl.at/wn5az
Definitely worth a read
In November we publish the paperback edition of @KatharineQ’s powerful historical novel The Low Road, currently on the shortlist for the @PrizeNewAngle. Pre-order it online from Waterstones using the code SUMMER25 and you get 25% off shorturl.at/zUUyu
In September we publish the paperback edition of Joanne Bourne’s Flint, described by the Daily Telegraph as ‘a very British love-letter to the beauty of flint’. Pre-order it online from Waterstones using the code SUMMER25 and you get 25% off shorturl.at/ZkrC3
Season is out in paperback with @EyeAndLightning in under two months! Pre-order now from Waterstones and you'll be able to enjoy football's biggest bargain since Teemu Pukki on a free transfer.
Thrilled to be in conversation with Abigail Dean at this year’s @edbookfest! Love, Loss & the Aftermath – we’ll explore survival & the healing power of story through her new novel THE DEATH OF US and my own OCEAN. 🗓️Tue 19 Aug 11:30 - 12:30 🎟️Tickets & more info in first reply
In November we publish the paperback edition of @KatharineQ’s powerful historical novel The Low Road, currently on the shortlist for the @PrizeNewAngle. Pre-order it online from Waterstones using the code SUMMER25 and you get 25% off shorturl.at/zUUyu
New from @EyeAndLightning 'I'm Fine' by @RichardHwrote A true story of trust, betrayal and exploitation. available to pre-order from @bertsbooks 📖 sample to peek inside and share jellybooks.com/cloud_reader/e…
Here’s Northants businessman and @corbytownfc co-owner James Longley telling his prison-to-riches story to @BernieKeith100 on @BBCNorthampton (from 43mins to 56.30). Read the full story in James’ memoir Power Through bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…
On @marbellagiles' Let's Talk from 10.00CET, Neil Lanham with 'I Bid You Farewell: The Life of an Auctioneer', @tjparfitt - editor of @SpainMMG, and Jules Mountain on 'Arctic Insanity: 4,300 miles over the polar ice cap by helicopter' (@EyeAndLightning)
Very nice coverage in the @GuernseyPress of Jules Mountain’s daredevil quest to fly a light helicopter on the 4,300-mile polar route from Montreal to the Channel Islands, as recounted in his new book Arctic Insanity eye-books.com/books/arctic-i…
OCEANO, the gorgeous Italian translation of OCEAN is coming. 27.8.25. "I remembered how much I loved him... and how helpless my love was in the face of the sea." UK Edition out now from @EyeAndLightning
I read this in one sitting. This book is terrifying…and terrifyingly good. @MsPollyClark
OK, just finished and it's gone straight into my holiday pal's hands. I promise you Polly's not paying me for saying these things, but I've not reacted to a novel like this in years. An absolute blinder.
Full disclosure: I know @MsPollyClark. But seriously. This novel. Christ. We stayed on the beach an extra hour so I could get nearer to finishing it as my holiday pal wants to read it after hearing my varied howls, laughs, sobs, 'eesh' and outbursts of 'Jesus christ!' 😅IT'S SO…
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OK, just finished and it's gone straight into my holiday pal's hands. I promise you Polly's not paying me for saying these things, but I've not reacted to a novel like this in years. An absolute blinder.
On Let's Talk with @marbellagiles from 10.00CET, Jules Mountain with 'Arctic Insanity: 4,300 miles over the polar ice cap by helicopter' (@EyeAndLightning), and Michael Senker, aka @Silverfox1949xx, aka #InternationalManOfMisery