Leamington Books is a publisher based in Scotland from writer Peter Burnett. Peter is author of ten books, and since February 2020 has concentrated on building a successful publishing company. Leamington Books' current list profiles both alternative and mainstream writers; Lesley Storm, poet and performer; Jim Ferguson, dissenter and one of Scotland's favourite working class voices; as well as republishing the works of Scottish literary figurehead, John Herdman. Specialising in fiction, non-fiction, Gothic fiction; "counter-fiction" in our Pierpont imprint; and new poetry from Scotland.
Lesley Storm's debut collection is a passionate and intimate look at love, as well as the difficulties and triumphs of being a transgender woman, in what has come to be a highly divisive and politicised sphere.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Crux is a multifaceted work focused on gender, love, eugenics and marriage within the sphere of a female boarding home for men. First published in 1910, The Crux explores themes of self-preservation and disease hysteria through the life of Vivian - an innocent woman who falls for the doomed, disease-afflicted Morton.
Written entirely in East coast Scots A Working Class State of Mind, the debut book by Colin Burnett, brings the everyday reality and language of life in Scotland to the surface.
John Herdman's masterpiece of the modern Scottish Gothic appears in print, e-book and audio book with a new introduction from the author. Black humour and even blacker lives collide in a tale of love and murder on an old Borders family estate.