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.
You can buy our books from all good and useful bookstores worldwide, and direct from this website.
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.
Of Cats and Elfins: Short Tales and Fantasies
To be published on 20 January: Of Cats and Elfins collects the rest of Sylvia Townsend Warner’s short fantasy fiction together in a companion volume for her Kingdoms of Elfin. Four more dark stories of the amoral Elfin kingdoms, the tale of the bicycling dryad who sold corsets, and her extraordinary modern fables of The Cat’s Cradle Book, unpublished since 1960. Let us lure you inside …
Gift Cards
We are delighted to be able to offer our gift cards – perfect presents for every reader. More details.
Do you write science fiction & fantasy?
1-4 July 2020: We’re running a sff writing retreat in Malvern, facilitated by Una McCormack and Helen Marshall. Join us!
