Eye Books

A small, vibrant indie publishing non-fiction as Eye and fiction as Lightning. Regional winner, Small Press of the Year at the British Book Awards 2022

We are a vibrant and ambitious independent publisher: the long-established Eye Books for non-fiction and the newer Lightning Books imprint for fiction

20/02/2026

‘It’s a novel about le****ns trying to create a utopian community on women’s land. They’re separatists, they’re witches, they’re into alternative spiritualities. There are lots of rituals and group s*x and quite a lot of fighting. It’s a brilliant book and everybody should buy it’ Kathleen Stock, The Le***an Project

19/02/2026

Our two finalists at the East Anglian Book Awards the other day: a newly shorn George Harrison, author Season (up for best debut novel), and Jim Cockin, who triumphed in the kids’ category with his Suffolk poltergeist yarn Ghost Tide 👏🎉🍾

05/02/2026

Happy publication day to Liam Hughes, whose extraordinary medical memoir – a mixture of gross-out comedy, intense humanity and incisive analysis of what’s wrong with today’s NHS – is out today. Bodily Fluids has already hit the Amazon bestseller charts. We can’t wait for it find the large audience it so richly deserves.

03/02/2026

‘This visceral read, a true story about the abuse of the author by his counsellor, was at once so moving that I wanted to put it down and process its contents, but equally so gripping that I couldn’t stop reading. Telling the tale of the coming-out years of a vulnerable teenager, narrator Richard Hall not only has to navigate the challenges of a tense family home and bullying at school, but in his liberation is manipulated and exploited by the q***r men around him who are supposed to offer him community. A testament to the author’s inner strength, this is honest storytelling at its finest.’ Attitude Magazine

26/01/2026

‘Within the first few pages we encounter a consultant lying on the hospital floor, emitting the eponymous fluids from both ends of his gastrointestinal tract; a new father who faints at the sight of his offspring emerging, cracks his head and dies; and a handy guide to bleeding. If this sounds like grim reading, it’s not, because Hughes narrates it all with wit and warmth, interspersing human stories with sober reflection on what the medical profession has become, and what’s wrong with the NHS today’

19/01/2026

English-born Tim Bird landed in Finland by accident more than 40 years ago and has been there ever since. His book Happy Land explores why this Nordic land is regularly voted the world’s happiest country. It’s out now.

08/01/2026

Happy publication day to Tim Bird, whose book Happy Land is out today. He has spent the last 40 years in Finland, regularly named the world’s happiest country. In this entertaining and informative portrait, he looks at what the Finns can teach the rest of us.

05/12/2025

‘The jokes flash and scatter like sparks from a firework, with merry sideswipes at pet-inclusive language and a prime minister desperate for popularity. Each page is studded with one-liners...’ A lovely review of Anthony Gardner’s All God’s Creatures in Church Times. Link to full review in comments

20/11/2025

Massive congratulations to George Harrison, whose debut novel Season is shortlisted today for the Nero Book Awards. It’s a warm, gentle tale about fandom and unlikely friendship in the stands of a Premier League football stadium. We’re overjoyed that it’s getting this recognition.

18/11/2025

The Low Road, Katharine Quarmby’s prize-listed historical novel about two impoverished female lovers transported to Australia for petty crimes, is a bargain price this week on ebook. Link in first comment.

14/11/2025

‘This amiable satire has been described as a war on woke, but it’s actually more Waugh, with a posh old-fashioned vibe and beautifully written. The plot’s quite complex but Gardner is wonderful at milieu. Great fun’ The Daily Mail on Anthony Gardner’s All God’s Creatures. Full review in comments.

10/11/2025

‘Rowan McCabe is the first and only door-to-door poet. His new memoir, peppered throughout with his warm and delightful poetry, displays the best of human connection and compassion’ Poetry Book Society

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