Hello and welcome!
époque press is an independent publisher based between Brighton and Dublin established to promote and represent the very best in new literary talent.
Through a combination of our main publishing imprint and our online ezine we aim to bring inspirational and thought provoking work to a wider audience.
Our main imprint is seeking out new voices, authors who are producing high-quality literary fiction and who are looking for a partner to help realise their ambitions. Our commitment is to fully consider all submissions on literary merit alone and to provide a personal response.
Our ezine will showcase a combination of the written word, visual and aural art forms, bringing together artists working in different mediums to encourage and inspire new perspectives on specific themes.
For details of how to submit your work to us for consideration please follow the submissions guidelines and for all other enquiries please email info@epoquepress.com
Hello and welcome!
époque press is an independent publisher based between Brighton and Dublin established to promote and represent the very best in new literary talent.
Through a combination of our main publishing imprint and our online ezine we aim to bring inspirational and thought provoking work to a wider audience.
Our main imprint is seeking out new voices, authors who are producing high-quality literary fiction and who are looking for a partner to help realise their ambitions. Our commitment is to fully consider all submissions on literary merit alone and to provide a personal response.
Our ezine will showcase a combination of the written word, visual and aural art forms, bringing together artists working in different mediums to encourage and inspire new perspectives on specific themes.
For details of how to submit your work to us for consideration please follow the submissions guidelines and for all other enquiries please email info@epoquepress.com
époque press
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Meadowlands Dawn
Imprisoned by the apartheid regime in South Africa, Verity Saunders endures the daily degradation of her incarceration whilst coming to terms with the disappearance of her activist lover, Tariq Randeree.
Meadowlands Dawn is inspired by the author's own experience as a political prisoner in apartheid South Africa during the 1980s. It explores the desires and indignities of the human heart and deals with the impact of radicalisation and its aftermath.
‘A thoughtful, generous fiction about the ever-unfinished business of South Africa’s past.’
Jonny Steinberg – author of Winnie & Nelson
‘What happens when you revisit your first love, and your first great loss? What happens when this loving and losing took place during the iconic, epic struggle for justice in Apartheid South Africa? What is true, what can be trusted? Who is what they seem? In this debut novel Jo Beall puts the aptly named Verity – a white South African young women in love – at the pounding heart of the struggle. There is no sugar-coating the raw, slimy, visceral nature of torture, interrogation, age, sex and death. But in a narrative where to be able to wash, and to wake up free, there is a search for the cleansing of a truth which could be lived with, which could reconcile the self, on all sides of the Apartheid struggle. In Meadowlands Dawn no one is a hero. Everyone their own partial warrior. And the quest for a reconciling truth that can release from the captivities of the past, is thrilling.’
Alison Phipps – Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies and UNESCO Chair, University of Glasgow, author of Call and No Response: 30 Prayers in Genocidal Times (2024)
