A home for authors that matter. Publishing books that increase our understanding of the world and the people within it. @EyeAndLightning Group

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Joined September 2025
What does freedom look like when the world you’ve escaped into has its own walls? Recent releases: John Healy’s The Glass Cage, a fierce memoir of fame, class and reinvention, and Ecstatic, a lyrical dystopian novel about dance, resistance and a city under curfew.
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What does it mean to be British and who gets to decide? In Everyone Everywhere, Lucas Fothergill brings together powerful interviews and untold histories to explore the lives and experiences of Britain’s mixed-race communities and what belonging means across generations.
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How much do you really know about what goes on underneath The Archers? 🌾📻 In Underneath the Archers, Graham Harvey, one of the programme’s longest-serving scriptwriters, takes us behind the scenes of Ambridge, drawing on 30+ years and more than 600 episodes.
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From the Great Flood to the Grundy family farm, discover the stories behind some of the programme’s most memorable moments. What’s your favourite Archers storyline? zurl.co/hXCO8
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What happens when you finally escape one world, only to discover you’re trapped in another?
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In The Glass Cage, John Healy revisits the years after The Grass Arena, when literary success and fragile sobriety pull him into publishing, publicity and a world of middle-class expectations. A memoir about fame, class, reinvention and the invisible cages we carry with us.
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Moving between West Belfast, County Monaghan and San Francisco, this haunting novel explores art and war, ambition and authenticity, love and destruction. #Monaghan #TimothyOGrady #IrishFiction #LiteraryFiction
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Three men. Three very different lives. And a past that cannot be escaped. Featuring drawings by Anthony Lott. ‘Beautiful and complex’ – Annie Proulx zurl.co/HSxnf
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Forbidden romance? ✓ Enemies to lovers? ✓ A mysterious captive with a secret past? ✓ Medieval knights? ✓ A love that could bring kingdoms crashing down? ✓ In The Scottish Boy, young knight Harry de Lyon is given a Scottish captive as his squire.
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But Iain is hiding secrets, and Harry is falling for the one person he should never love. Alex de Campi’s historical romance is packed with passion, intrigue and dangerous loyalties. zurl.co/1d9dR
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We’re delighted that The Ayatollah’s Gaze by Majid Parsa, published by Wilton Square Books, has been longlisted for the Polari Prize First Book Prize 2026! 🌈📚 A powerful, funny and eye-opening memoir of growing up gay in Iran.
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A murdered woman. A message from the killer. An estranged mother and daughter forced to confront the past.
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In The Sufi Storyteller, Faiqa Mansab brings together murder mystery, family secrets and the rich traditions of Sufi storytelling as Layla and Mira search for answers that could save them both. zurl.co/CfSb3
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🎙️ Author Mario Theodorou, creator of the Felix Grey Mysteries, joined The London History Podcast to explore Edwardian London in 1904: a city of political intrigue, royal secrets and social change. zurl.co/kU35e #HistoricalFiction #LondonHistory
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Looking for something a little darker this autumn? 🍂💀 This Party’s Dead by Erica Buist takes readers around the world’s death festivals, exploring how different cultures face mortality with grief, humour, ritual and celebration. Poignant, curious and often hilarious.
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🎙️ Jim Phillips, author of 108 Psychopaths and Me, recently joined the UK True Crime Podcast for a bonus episode. He shares how a successful business with his best friend unravelled into a shocking web of lies, fake contracts and deception.
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An incredible story of trust and betrayal. 🎧 Tune in! zurl.co/j5k4T #TrueCrime
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