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Barbican Press is an independent publishing house launched in 2013 by Martin J. Goodman for "innovative novels that are just too edgy for the mainstream but allow people to break all bounds and find a unique voice." [1]

Martin J. Goodman is an English journalist and writer.

Its titles include Kate Horsley's The Monster's Wife, shortlisted for Scottish First Book of the Year 2014., [2] Brian W. Lavery's The Headscarf Revolutionaries, [3] and DD Johnston's The Secret Baby Room.

Kate Horsley is the author of two novels, The American Girl and The Monster’s Wife. Most of her short and long fiction, including The American Girl, has been within the crime fiction genre, although her début novel, The Monster’s Wife, is historical gothic fiction. Horsley is a co-editor of crime fiction review site crimeculture.com.

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Michael Darren David Johnston, known as D.D. Johnston, is a Scottish political novelist. He attended university in Edinburgh and currently lives in Cheltenham, England. The left-wing British newspaper the Morning Star called him "one of this country’s most principled socialist novelists" and "also one of the most versatile and talented around."

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References

  1. Ann Morgan, "Find Yourself on a Creative Writing Course", The Guardian , 10 November 2014. Accessed 25 May 2015.
  2. Alistair Munro, "Kate Horsley 'found Frankenstein's bride in Orkney'", The Scotsman , 19 October 2014. Accessed 25 May 2015.
  3. "The Headscarf Revolutionaries: Four 'extraordinary' Hull women who battled misogyny to win trawler safety battle". Hull Daily Mail. Retrieved 3 June 2015.