We publish two kinds of books. Handheld Classics (fabulous forgotten fiction and lost authors), and Handheld Research (amazing stories about forgotten lives, in plain English). Browse our books by author, or by category.
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Handheld Press has a special interest in recovering women’s history, LGBTQ+ lives, and lives lived with physical impairments. We are based in a small village outside Bath, halfway up a hill, where the deer munch the roses and hot-air balloons float overhead at dawn.
From the Abyss
now published!
D K Broster was one of the great British historical novelists of the twentieth century, but her Weird fiction has long been forgotten. She wrote some of the most impressive supernatural short stories to be published between the wars. Melissa Edmundson has curated a selection of Broster’s best and most terrifying work.

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