Handheld Press sells remarkable and wonderful stories from the past and the present. We publish the novels that we can’t put down, and the stories we want to give to our friends as presents. Handheld Press books are beautiful objects, designed and laid out with care.
Handheld Classics present forgotten fiction and authors who need to be rediscovered, with introductions by experts and astonishingly useful notes.
Handheld Research tells stories from scholarly research, in plain English.
Handheld Modern brings you excellent modern fiction and non-fiction from living authors.
The Exile Waiting
Out latest title is our edition of Vonda N McIntyre’s first novel, about an enclosed city on a post-apocalyptic Earth, riven by greed and corruption. Our edition includes a bonus rediscovered short story about the origins of the pseudosibs, and an Afterword by New York Times best-selling author and 2019 FantasyCon Guest of Honour Una McCormack.
Gift Cards
We are delighted to be able to offer our gift cards – perfect presents for every reader. More details.
Bristol bonanza
26 October: Handheld Press will have a book stall at BristolCon, and will have plenty of copies of our new edition of Vonda N McIntyre’s The Exile Waiting and Women’s Weird, edited by Melissa Edmundson.
