Prototype
@prototypepubs.bsky.social
London-based independent publisher of fiction, poetry, anthologies & interdisciplinary projects, committed to championing the work of new voices in free-form contemporary literature.
https://prototypepublishing.co.uk/
https://prototypepublishing.co.uk/
To mark #NationalPoetryDay we’re having a flash sale, with 40% off all poetry titles in our catalogue until midnight on Sunday.
Just enter the code npd25 on checkout.
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Just enter the code npd25 on checkout.
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October 2, 2025 at 9:44 AM
To mark #NationalPoetryDay we’re having a flash sale, with 40% off all poetry titles in our catalogue until midnight on Sunday.
Just enter the code npd25 on checkout.
prototypepublishing.co.uk/shop/type-1-...
Just enter the code npd25 on checkout.
prototypepublishing.co.uk/shop/type-1-...
To celebrate the publication of Mr Outside, Caleb Klaces will be touring the UK, with dates confirmed in London, Edinburgh, York and Manchester, and more venues to be added soon.
We very much hope you can join us at one of these events:
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We very much hope you can join us at one of these events:
prototypepublishing.co.uk/2025/09/24/c...
September 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
To celebrate the publication of Mr Outside, Caleb Klaces will be touring the UK, with dates confirmed in London, Edinburgh, York and Manchester, and more venues to be added soon.
We very much hope you can join us at one of these events:
prototypepublishing.co.uk/2025/09/24/c...
We very much hope you can join us at one of these events:
prototypepublishing.co.uk/2025/09/24/c...
On 15 Oct, Sulaiman Addonia will be at Bàrd Books with journalist/writer Gary Younge, sharing their perspectives on London, writing, Sudan, the experiences of refugees, & more.
It's going to be a brilliant evening.
Tickets £5, redeemable against a book:
www.wearebardbooks.co.uk/event-detail...
It's going to be a brilliant evening.
Tickets £5, redeemable against a book:
www.wearebardbooks.co.uk/event-detail...
September 11, 2025 at 8:19 AM
On 15 Oct, Sulaiman Addonia will be at Bàrd Books with journalist/writer Gary Younge, sharing their perspectives on London, writing, Sudan, the experiences of refugees, & more.
It's going to be a brilliant evening.
Tickets £5, redeemable against a book:
www.wearebardbooks.co.uk/event-detail...
It's going to be a brilliant evening.
Tickets £5, redeemable against a book:
www.wearebardbooks.co.uk/event-detail...
We’re excited to be co-hosting a special event at The Broadway Bookshop as part of their 20th anniversary celebrations, with Chloe Aridjis, whose story and essay collection, Dialogue with a Somnambulist, we published in 2021.
Thurs 9 Oct, 7–9pm
RSVP: [email protected]
Thurs 9 Oct, 7–9pm
RSVP: [email protected]
September 9, 2025 at 8:35 AM
We’re excited to be co-hosting a special event at The Broadway Bookshop as part of their 20th anniversary celebrations, with Chloe Aridjis, whose story and essay collection, Dialogue with a Somnambulist, we published in 2021.
Thurs 9 Oct, 7–9pm
RSVP: [email protected]
Thurs 9 Oct, 7–9pm
RSVP: [email protected]
We’re delighted to announce the second leg of UK events to mark the recent publication of @jencalleja.bsky.social’s translator memoir Fair.
10 Sept: Brick Lane Bookshop
2 Oct: Voce Books
8 Oct: Collected Books
16 Oct: Veranda Books
Details/tickets here: prototypepublishing.co.uk/2025/09/03/j...
10 Sept: Brick Lane Bookshop
2 Oct: Voce Books
8 Oct: Collected Books
16 Oct: Veranda Books
Details/tickets here: prototypepublishing.co.uk/2025/09/03/j...
September 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
We’re delighted to announce the second leg of UK events to mark the recent publication of @jencalleja.bsky.social’s translator memoir Fair.
10 Sept: Brick Lane Bookshop
2 Oct: Voce Books
8 Oct: Collected Books
16 Oct: Veranda Books
Details/tickets here: prototypepublishing.co.uk/2025/09/03/j...
10 Sept: Brick Lane Bookshop
2 Oct: Voce Books
8 Oct: Collected Books
16 Oct: Veranda Books
Details/tickets here: prototypepublishing.co.uk/2025/09/03/j...
You can order the collection with a discount of 30% in our summer sale with the code SUMMER30.
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August 8, 2025 at 12:40 PM
You can order the collection with a discount of 30% in our summer sale with the code SUMMER30.
prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/rock...
prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/rock...
Winner of the 2023 Danish Critics Prize, and shortlisted for numerous others.
‘Girlbeast is a fever dream of a novel that put a knot in my stomach. A provocative, vulgar and tender fable about the uneasy ruin of girlhood.’ – Lucy Rose
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(3/3)
‘Girlbeast is a fever dream of a novel that put a knot in my stomach. A provocative, vulgar and tender fable about the uneasy ruin of girlhood.’ – Lucy Rose
prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/girl...
(3/3)
July 17, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Winner of the 2023 Danish Critics Prize, and shortlisted for numerous others.
‘Girlbeast is a fever dream of a novel that put a knot in my stomach. A provocative, vulgar and tender fable about the uneasy ruin of girlhood.’ – Lucy Rose
prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/girl...
(3/3)
‘Girlbeast is a fever dream of a novel that put a knot in my stomach. A provocative, vulgar and tender fable about the uneasy ruin of girlhood.’ – Lucy Rose
prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/girl...
(3/3)
In a world that fetishises girlhood, it asks whether a girl be blamed for internalising the roles imposed upon her? Can she wield her youth as power in a system designed to render her powerless?
Brave, provocative & unflinching, Girlbeast is a gripping, vital novel.
(2/3)
Brave, provocative & unflinching, Girlbeast is a gripping, vital novel.
(2/3)
July 17, 2025 at 8:42 AM
In a world that fetishises girlhood, it asks whether a girl be blamed for internalising the roles imposed upon her? Can she wield her youth as power in a system designed to render her powerless?
Brave, provocative & unflinching, Girlbeast is a gripping, vital novel.
(2/3)
Brave, provocative & unflinching, Girlbeast is a gripping, vital novel.
(2/3)
Girlbeast by Cecilie Lind, translated by Hazel Evans, publishes today.
Highly acclaimed in Denmark, Girlbeast is a fearless, unsettling, poetic novel in which power shifts unpredictably, and desire and coercion become indistinguishable.
prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/girl...
(1/3)
Highly acclaimed in Denmark, Girlbeast is a fearless, unsettling, poetic novel in which power shifts unpredictably, and desire and coercion become indistinguishable.
prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/girl...
(1/3)
July 17, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Girlbeast by Cecilie Lind, translated by Hazel Evans, publishes today.
Highly acclaimed in Denmark, Girlbeast is a fearless, unsettling, poetic novel in which power shifts unpredictably, and desire and coercion become indistinguishable.
prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/girl...
(1/3)
Highly acclaimed in Denmark, Girlbeast is a fearless, unsettling, poetic novel in which power shifts unpredictably, and desire and coercion become indistinguishable.
prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/girl...
(1/3)
On Sunday evening, from 6pm, there will be free readings curated by Eve Esfandiari-Denney and Thea McLachlan, with Ghayath Almadhoun, Brodie Crellin, Imogen Cassels, Will Harris and K Patrick.
July 11, 2025 at 8:03 AM
On Sunday evening, from 6pm, there will be free readings curated by Eve Esfandiari-Denney and Thea McLachlan, with Ghayath Almadhoun, Brodie Crellin, Imogen Cassels, Will Harris and K Patrick.
We are so looking forward to Stems next weekend, a new book fair curated & hosted by our author Helen Marten at her studio in Haggerston (55 Laburnum Street, London E2 8BD). The fair is free & open to all, and so many of our favourite publishers will be there.
July 11, 2025 at 8:03 AM
We are so looking forward to Stems next weekend, a new book fair curated & hosted by our author Helen Marten at her studio in Haggerston (55 Laburnum Street, London E2 8BD). The fair is free & open to all, and so many of our favourite publishers will be there.
We have three events coming up this week with both Lina and Saskia: at Tenderbooks in London tonight, East Bristol Books in Bristol on Thursday, and West Cork Literary Festival on Saturday.
July 9, 2025 at 8:49 AM
We have three events coming up this week with both Lina and Saskia: at Tenderbooks in London tonight, East Bristol Books in Bristol on Thursday, and West Cork Literary Festival on Saturday.
Interspersed with black-and-white photographs, and written with the same unashamed and unfiltered honesty that defines Scheynius’s photography, Diary of an Ending is an intimate hybrid of memoir and autofiction, a meditation on the passage of time and the transformative power of creativity.
July 9, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Interspersed with black-and-white photographs, and written with the same unashamed and unfiltered honesty that defines Scheynius’s photography, Diary of an Ending is an intimate hybrid of memoir and autofiction, a meditation on the passage of time and the transformative power of creativity.
... with reflective essays written in English five years on, exploring ideas about art and photography, sex and passion, the act of diary-making, destructive relationships, motherhood and home.
July 9, 2025 at 8:49 AM
... with reflective essays written in English five years on, exploring ideas about art and photography, sex and passion, the act of diary-making, destructive relationships, motherhood and home.
Diary of an Ending, the 1st prose work by renowned photographer Lina Scheynius, publishes today.
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Blurring the boundaries between diary & essay, it explores the break-up of a relationship, combining extracts from Scheynius’s diary (tr. Saskia Vogel)...
prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/diar...
Blurring the boundaries between diary & essay, it explores the break-up of a relationship, combining extracts from Scheynius’s diary (tr. Saskia Vogel)...
July 9, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Diary of an Ending, the 1st prose work by renowned photographer Lina Scheynius, publishes today.
prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/diar...
Blurring the boundaries between diary & essay, it explores the break-up of a relationship, combining extracts from Scheynius’s diary (tr. Saskia Vogel)...
prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/diar...
Blurring the boundaries between diary & essay, it explores the break-up of a relationship, combining extracts from Scheynius’s diary (tr. Saskia Vogel)...
Told through a striking combination of text and image, Klaces’ distilled novel explores the stories we tell about our lives, intimacy in crisis, and the fragile line between reality and delusion.
You can pre-order it here: prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/mr-o...
You can pre-order it here: prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/mr-o...
July 3, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Told through a striking combination of text and image, Klaces’ distilled novel explores the stories we tell about our lives, intimacy in crisis, and the fragile line between reality and delusion.
You can pre-order it here: prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/mr-o...
You can pre-order it here: prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/mr-o...
Coming soon: Mr Outside by Caleb Klaces (Oct 2025)
We are extremely excited to announce that we will soon be publishing the 2nd novel by Caleb Klaces, following his acclaimed debut Fatherhood, the 1st novel Prototype ever published.
Proof copies are here; email admin[at]prototypepublishing.co.uk.
We are extremely excited to announce that we will soon be publishing the 2nd novel by Caleb Klaces, following his acclaimed debut Fatherhood, the 1st novel Prototype ever published.
Proof copies are here; email admin[at]prototypepublishing.co.uk.
July 3, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Coming soon: Mr Outside by Caleb Klaces (Oct 2025)
We are extremely excited to announce that we will soon be publishing the 2nd novel by Caleb Klaces, following his acclaimed debut Fatherhood, the 1st novel Prototype ever published.
Proof copies are here; email admin[at]prototypepublishing.co.uk.
We are extremely excited to announce that we will soon be publishing the 2nd novel by Caleb Klaces, following his acclaimed debut Fatherhood, the 1st novel Prototype ever published.
Proof copies are here; email admin[at]prototypepublishing.co.uk.
The Uncorrected Independent Publishers Fair at the Peckham Pelican today!
11-6
Books and cold drinks; what more could you need?
11-6
Books and cold drinks; what more could you need?
June 21, 2025 at 10:05 AM
The Uncorrected Independent Publishers Fair at the Peckham Pelican today!
11-6
Books and cold drinks; what more could you need?
11-6
Books and cold drinks; what more could you need?
The Uncorrected Independent Publishers' Fair returns this Saturday to the Peckham Pelican, with a wonderful group of indie publishers & great line-up of readers.
Come & hang out, have a cold drink, browse the stalls, chat to the publishers, & catch the readings at 2pm.
thetangerinepress.com/TUIPF/
Come & hang out, have a cold drink, browse the stalls, chat to the publishers, & catch the readings at 2pm.
thetangerinepress.com/TUIPF/
June 19, 2025 at 8:56 AM
The Uncorrected Independent Publishers' Fair returns this Saturday to the Peckham Pelican, with a wonderful group of indie publishers & great line-up of readers.
Come & hang out, have a cold drink, browse the stalls, chat to the publishers, & catch the readings at 2pm.
thetangerinepress.com/TUIPF/
Come & hang out, have a cold drink, browse the stalls, chat to the publishers, & catch the readings at 2pm.
thetangerinepress.com/TUIPF/
It's 1 year this month since we published Sulaiman Addonia's The Seers. The audiobook, co-published with @spiracleaudiobooks.bsky.social, can be downloaded for free til Sunday!
Free downloads are limited, so be quick!
Enter code PROTOTYPE-100 on checkout
www.spiracleaudiobooks.com/audiobooks/t...
Free downloads are limited, so be quick!
Enter code PROTOTYPE-100 on checkout
www.spiracleaudiobooks.com/audiobooks/t...
June 18, 2025 at 9:25 AM
It's 1 year this month since we published Sulaiman Addonia's The Seers. The audiobook, co-published with @spiracleaudiobooks.bsky.social, can be downloaded for free til Sunday!
Free downloads are limited, so be quick!
Enter code PROTOTYPE-100 on checkout
www.spiracleaudiobooks.com/audiobooks/t...
Free downloads are limited, so be quick!
Enter code PROTOTYPE-100 on checkout
www.spiracleaudiobooks.com/audiobooks/t...
In the words of H. Gareth Gavin, ‘Pleasure Beach does for neon lycra cycling shorts, Nik Naks, and acid trips what Ulysses did for lemon soap: it kaleidoscopes the everyday in a way that remakes the world’
We love this book, and had so much fun launching it in Blackpool and London two years ago.
We love this book, and had so much fun launching it in Blackpool and London two years ago.
June 16, 2025 at 9:51 AM
In the words of H. Gareth Gavin, ‘Pleasure Beach does for neon lycra cycling shorts, Nik Naks, and acid trips what Ulysses did for lemon soap: it kaleidoscopes the everyday in a way that remakes the world’
We love this book, and had so much fun launching it in Blackpool and London two years ago.
We love this book, and had so much fun launching it in Blackpool and London two years ago.
Happy Bloomsday & happy 2-year anniversary to @helenpalmer.pharmsky.app's Pleasure Beach!
Set on 16 June 1999, the novel follows the interconnecting journeys & thoughts of 3 young women over the course of 24 hrs/18 chptrs structured the same way as Ulysses.
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Set on 16 June 1999, the novel follows the interconnecting journeys & thoughts of 3 young women over the course of 24 hrs/18 chptrs structured the same way as Ulysses.
prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/plea...
June 16, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Happy Bloomsday & happy 2-year anniversary to @helenpalmer.pharmsky.app's Pleasure Beach!
Set on 16 June 1999, the novel follows the interconnecting journeys & thoughts of 3 young women over the course of 24 hrs/18 chptrs structured the same way as Ulysses.
prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/plea...
Set on 16 June 1999, the novel follows the interconnecting journeys & thoughts of 3 young women over the course of 24 hrs/18 chptrs structured the same way as Ulysses.
prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/plea...
Special event on Monday (16 June) with prototype author Caleb Klaces discussing dementia and storytelling in relation to his brilliant forthcoming novel Mr Outside.
Full details and tickets at psychoanalysis.org.uk/civicrm/even...
Full details and tickets at psychoanalysis.org.uk/civicrm/even...
June 13, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Special event on Monday (16 June) with prototype author Caleb Klaces discussing dementia and storytelling in relation to his brilliant forthcoming novel Mr Outside.
Full details and tickets at psychoanalysis.org.uk/civicrm/even...
Full details and tickets at psychoanalysis.org.uk/civicrm/even...
We are excited to be taking part in a new book fair curated/hosted by our friend & author Helen Marten at her studio in Hackney.
STEMS is taking place on Sat 19 & Sun 20 July, 11–6pm, with readings on Sunday eve from Ghayath Almadhoun, Brodie Crellin, Imogen Cassels, Will Harris and K Patrick. 🔥
STEMS is taking place on Sat 19 & Sun 20 July, 11–6pm, with readings on Sunday eve from Ghayath Almadhoun, Brodie Crellin, Imogen Cassels, Will Harris and K Patrick. 🔥
June 4, 2025 at 10:46 AM
We are excited to be taking part in a new book fair curated/hosted by our friend & author Helen Marten at her studio in Hackney.
STEMS is taking place on Sat 19 & Sun 20 July, 11–6pm, with readings on Sunday eve from Ghayath Almadhoun, Brodie Crellin, Imogen Cassels, Will Harris and K Patrick. 🔥
STEMS is taking place on Sat 19 & Sun 20 July, 11–6pm, with readings on Sunday eve from Ghayath Almadhoun, Brodie Crellin, Imogen Cassels, Will Harris and K Patrick. 🔥
Happy publication day to @jencalleja.bsky.social, whose "audacious, polemical, essential" memoir FAIR: The Life-Art of Translation is out now.
We are incredibly proud to publish Jen's work, across forms and genres, and cannot wait for people to read this book.
pic: @jorgeantonystride.bsky.social
We are incredibly proud to publish Jen's work, across forms and genres, and cannot wait for people to read this book.
pic: @jorgeantonystride.bsky.social
May 29, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Happy publication day to @jencalleja.bsky.social, whose "audacious, polemical, essential" memoir FAIR: The Life-Art of Translation is out now.
We are incredibly proud to publish Jen's work, across forms and genres, and cannot wait for people to read this book.
pic: @jorgeantonystride.bsky.social
We are incredibly proud to publish Jen's work, across forms and genres, and cannot wait for people to read this book.
pic: @jorgeantonystride.bsky.social