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Home›Blog›5-Star Books in Five Words – #SmallPressBigStories

5-Star Books in Five Words – #SmallPressBigStories

By The Fantasy Hive
November 16, 2022
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5-Star Books in Five Words

This is an occasional feature on the Hive which is one of our favourites, so we decided to bring it back for Runalong Womble‘s celebration of Small Presses! If you missed Jonathan’s incredible directory of Small Presses, or our appreciation post of our favourite presses, Womble is spear-heading a month-long celebration of presses which don’t fall under the Big 5 umbrella – #SmallPressGreatReads.

In this post, our contributors are going to recommend some of their favourite books published by small presses – using only five words!


 

Nils

Rebellion

Titan Books

Homicidal Vanished
sociopath murderous
with magician
pet strikes
dinosaur! again!

Beth

God of Gnomes (God Core) by Demi Harper

Portal Books

Titan Books

Heartwarming Sumptuous
Lit-RPG Xianxia,
with Magic
fox Mystery &
squirrels TEA

 

Gray

Wraithmarked

Wraithmarked

Oops, Fantasy
absorbed Gladiators
the ascend
Wraith to
King! Thrones

 

Hil

Silver Sun Books

Solaris

Vampire Oldest
murder corpse =
mystery the
in best
Oxford date

 

Lucy

Rebellion

Cassiopeia Contemporary

Titan Books

Why Aliens Watership
is come Down,
the and but
Oak disrupt with
gone? hierarchy murder

 

Asha

Louise Walters Books

Rebellion

Macfarlane Lantern Press

Smart, Kiki’s Sixteen
queer, Elven wintry
unusual Death fairy
urban Priest tale
fantasy Service retellings

 

Wizard’s Tower Press

Women's Weird: Strange Stories by Women, 1890-1940, edited by Melissa Edmundson

Handheld Press

Old-fashioned Forgotten
boarding classics
school – of
ON spooky
MARS stories

Jonathan

Unsung Stories

Galley Beggar Press

The Rift by Nina Allan

Titan Books

Mushrooms, Dead Lost
pregnant God sister
men under returns –
and the or
stories! mud not?

 

Peter Owen Publishers

Luna Press

Frozen What’s
world video
or and
deranged what’s
nightmare? real?

 


 

A huge thank you to our amazing contributors for all your recommendations!

What Small Press reads are your favourite? Comment below!

 

 

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