Hello! Over the next few months we will gradually upload more content onto this website. Meanwhile, a quick way to get a sense of what we publish is to click here and type 'Old Street' in the 'Publisher' field, then 'Search Now'. Or try the link to our 'Trade Entrance' in the column on the left, where you'll find some downloadable content.

And see below for a sample of our recent and forthcoming releases.

Click 'Play' to listen to Gerard Stembridge talking on the John Murray Show about his stunning new novel spanning the 1970s, THE EFFECT OF HER.

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News from Old Street

20/5/13 1st UK review of Gerry Stembridge's THE EFFECT OF HER in The Times: 'This rich, magisterial novel is a portrait of Ireland during the tumultuous Seventies'. Click here to read more.

11/05/13 'M.H. Baylis introduces the London borough of Tottenham to crime fiction, and it performs extremely well... fast-moving, committed and very entertaining.' That was Marcel Berlins in The Times, on A DEATH AT THE PALACE.

27/04/13 'A richly enjoyable novel' says the Independent about 
A DEATH AT THE PALACE. Click here to read the review.

26/04/13 Another great review for A DEATH AT THE PALACE, the Tottenham-set thriller by MH Baylis, in tomorrow's Guardian (and online now, here...)

08/03/13 MH Baylis's brilliant new Tottenham thriller, A DEATH AT THE PALACE (publishing on Tuesday next week) has 'a special authenticity' says the Daily Mail. See here for the full review.

16/01/13 Announcing an exciting new acquisition: Fallen Glory: Ripping Tales from the Ruins by Jamie Crawford, which will tell the fascinating biographies of 25 buildings that  were once great but now no longer exist, from the Ziggurat of Eridu (perhaps the first city in the world) to the Twin Towers of New York, via the Bastille and many others.

09/08/12 Gerard Stembridge's Unspoken is 'a masterpiece of storytelling', says this review.

26/7/12 A couple of terrific  early reviews for Ryan O'Neill's The Weight of a Human Heart, just published. The Independent deemed it 'joyfully original' and 'a brilliant collection' (see here), while We love this book ... well ... loved this book (see here).

18/05/12 Wonderful early review of Wojciech Jagielski's The Night Wanderers in the Evening Standard. Click here to read.

10/02/12 Congratulations to Mike Nicol, author of The Revenge Trilogy, the first volume of which, Payback, has just been published in Germany and raced to the number one spot in the DIE ZEIT bestseller lists.

04/11/11 Boyd Tonkin of the Independent reckons OBLIVION by Héctor Abad 'deserves classic status'. Full review here.

25/08/2011 To coincide with its 'Not the Booker Prize' shortlisting, we've decided to experiment with a special 'Trust' edition of Jude in London. See here for details...

01/07/2011 Possibly the best review yet of UNSPOKEN by Gerard Stembridge in today's Daily Mail. Thank you John Harding!

28/06/2011 UNSPOKEN, Gerard Stembridge's marvellous novel of 1960s Ireland, has been warmly welcomed by the reviewers. See here for a digest...

26/06/2011 The Sunday Times today featured THE ASK by Sam Lipsyte as one of their summer read recommendations -- for the second year running. Somebody there must have excellent taste...

30/04/2011 Finished copies of Catherine Deveney's scintillating psychological thriller KISS THE BULLET have arrived. Pub date 31st May...

05/04/2011 Mike Nicol, author of BLACK HEART, third in 'The Revenge Trilogy', was recently interviewed by the BBC World Service's Harriet Gilbert for The Strand. Click here to hear the full interview: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00fz294. A fascinating insight into South African society and literature...

16/03/2011 A  belated bit of crowing about The Guardian's review of THE ASK two or three weeks ago, which ends: 'One of the funniest and most straight-out brilliant novels of the last few years'.

05/03/2011 Mike Nicol's BLACK HEART has a brilliant review by Marcel Berlins in The Times today. Sample quote: 'Compelling . . . terrific dialogue, and Nicol’s Cape Town is cool, dangerous, full of humour and very far from its touristy image . . . Black Heart paints a vivid portrait of the moral confusion of post-apartheid society. If Deon Meyer is still the king of South African crime fiction, Mike Nicol is a clear heir apparent, not too far behind.'

Newly 'rebranded' editions of David Downing's terrific series of WW2 espionage thrillers have just reached the shops. The series tracks Anglo-American journalist and Berlin resident John Russell's experiences through the war. Downing has been compared to Alan Furst, John Le Carré and Robert Harris. Click here to buy ZOO STATION, first in the series.

Sam Lipsyte's THE ASK set critics' hearts a-fluttering in June last year when we published the Trade Paperback. The considerably less expensive (and more orange) mass market pb is in shops now. Click here if you'd like to, etc.