ARCANE PUBLISHING is a small independent publishing imprint created primarily to publish novels by Carya Gish.
We love telling stories and we have a passion for beautiful books!
We have published two novels and are working on a third one now, with two more stories taking shape...
If you would like to know more about them, please go to their individual pages on the menu at the top of the page and/or check Carya Gish's WEBSITE.
You can read reviews and features about our first novel, I Am a Muse, HERE.
Follow us on Facebook and on Instagram @arcanepub (please note that our twitter account is now deactivated)
We love telling stories and we have a passion for beautiful books!
We have published two novels and are working on a third one now, with two more stories taking shape...
If you would like to know more about them, please go to their individual pages on the menu at the top of the page and/or check Carya Gish's WEBSITE.
You can read reviews and features about our first novel, I Am a Muse, HERE.
Follow us on Facebook and on Instagram @arcanepub (please note that our twitter account is now deactivated)
UPDATE 03/06/2022:
Look! An event!
We are delighted to announce our first event since the beginning of the pandemic!
It's something a little bit different for us... An event for children to try and encourage an early love for words and reading... After all, Miss Gish is a teacher!
We will have a stall at WORD PLAY in Exeter... We will be selling some lovely pre-loved and vintage children's books and of course, we'll have a few copies of Miss Gish's novels, I Am a Muse and The Book of Thoth for the grown-ups!
Keep an eye on our BLOG and EVENTS pages as we will add some pictures and details of the stock we'll take over the next few weeks!
Look! An event!
We are delighted to announce our first event since the beginning of the pandemic!
It's something a little bit different for us... An event for children to try and encourage an early love for words and reading... After all, Miss Gish is a teacher!
We will have a stall at WORD PLAY in Exeter... We will be selling some lovely pre-loved and vintage children's books and of course, we'll have a few copies of Miss Gish's novels, I Am a Muse and The Book of Thoth for the grown-ups!
Keep an eye on our BLOG and EVENTS pages as we will add some pictures and details of the stock we'll take over the next few weeks!
THE ONLINE ARCANE SHOP is still closed. We are planning on opening a new online bookshop for our published novels and our vintage/pre-loved and rare books in 2023.
We are still on track to publish The Right Place, our third publication, in late autumn 2023.
In the meantime, we have some pre-loved books in the unit we share with Matt ArtPix at The Customs House, West Bay, Dorset.
Arcane Publishing has an online shop HERE. Activity has been suspended on this account until we open our new online shop!
We also attend events where we sell our new and vintage, rare and pre-loved books.
See our EVENTS PAGE for more details.
We are still on track to publish The Right Place, our third publication, in late autumn 2023.
In the meantime, we have some pre-loved books in the unit we share with Matt ArtPix at The Customs House, West Bay, Dorset.
Arcane Publishing has an online shop HERE. Activity has been suspended on this account until we open our new online shop!
We also attend events where we sell our new and vintage, rare and pre-loved books.
See our EVENTS PAGE for more details.
OUR BOOKS
I Am a Muse
Published in 2014.
Set in Shoreditch in London and Cornwall, I Am a Muse is a novel about art, inspiration, ageing, choice, free will, loss, passion, insanity, the multiplicity of the self; it also deals with different types of claustrophobia (both psychological and physical).
Published in 2014.
Set in Shoreditch in London and Cornwall, I Am a Muse is a novel about art, inspiration, ageing, choice, free will, loss, passion, insanity, the multiplicity of the self; it also deals with different types of claustrophobia (both psychological and physical).
The Book of Thoth
Published in January 2015.
The Book of Thoth is inspired by the classic genre of the Gothic novel with a few added twists. It is character and story-led and written in a highly visual style. It is mostly set in 1925 and features time travel, Shakespearean actors, alchemy, curses, Egyptian gods and princesses, ghosts and flappers…
Published in January 2015.
The Book of Thoth is inspired by the classic genre of the Gothic novel with a few added twists. It is character and story-led and written in a highly visual style. It is mostly set in 1925 and features time travel, Shakespearean actors, alchemy, curses, Egyptian gods and princesses, ghosts and flappers…
Our current projectS:
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The Right Place
Publication date: Late 2023 This is Arcane Publishing’s next publication and is set in Dorset. It is inspired by PJ Harvey’s song The Wind, by the book Secret Places of West Dorset by Louise Hodgson and by the landscape, history and legends of the county. The cover artwork, which represents St Catherine’s chapel in Abbotsbury, is by local artist Sam Cannon. The novel even has a playlist! |
Hell Lane, A Barton Stacey mystery
Pub date: TBC
When London detective Barton Stacey is called to the West Country to solve a strange mystery, is he really ready to face the dark secrets he is about to uncover, hidden in the deepest holloways of the English countryside?
Hell Lane is a tribute to Agatha Christie's detectives and Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. It will be a fun "rural noir" story with a retro feel, complete with a glamorous actress, an author plagued with writer's block and a suitably gloomy vicarage among other things...
Pub date: TBC
When London detective Barton Stacey is called to the West Country to solve a strange mystery, is he really ready to face the dark secrets he is about to uncover, hidden in the deepest holloways of the English countryside?
Hell Lane is a tribute to Agatha Christie's detectives and Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. It will be a fun "rural noir" story with a retro feel, complete with a glamorous actress, an author plagued with writer's block and a suitably gloomy vicarage among other things...
pre-loved, vintage and rare books
Arcane Publishing also sells pre-loved, vintage and rare books and ephemera.
We have a great stock of books about music, cinema, music-hall, theatre, general popular culture, history and social history, fashion, beauty... A lot of them are hard-to-find volumes!
We also have some lovely vintage novels by well-known and not-so-well-known authors, as well as a selection of French language vintage, antique and more contemporary books...
We have a great stock of books about music, cinema, music-hall, theatre, general popular culture, history and social history, fashion, beauty... A lot of them are hard-to-find volumes!
We also have some lovely vintage novels by well-known and not-so-well-known authors, as well as a selection of French language vintage, antique and more contemporary books...
You can contact us at the following address: contact@arcanepublishing.net
we attend and organise events!
London: Winter Tales, 2018!
On 17th February 2018, Oil54 and Arcane Publishing organised LONDON: WINTER TALES - THE WITCHING HOUR !
This was the follow-up to our first (and dare we say sold out) event in February 2016 (see below).
We had a fabulous cast of writers and musicians! So if you wish to join us, go to the event's page HERE to read more about what we have in store for you!
You can read a review of the event HERE .
All the "official" pictures by SteveK Photography are HERE.
More events to be announced soon! Keep an eye on the events page!
On 17th February 2018, Oil54 and Arcane Publishing organised LONDON: WINTER TALES - THE WITCHING HOUR !
This was the follow-up to our first (and dare we say sold out) event in February 2016 (see below).
We had a fabulous cast of writers and musicians! So if you wish to join us, go to the event's page HERE to read more about what we have in store for you!
You can read a review of the event HERE .
All the "official" pictures by SteveK Photography are HERE.
More events to be announced soon! Keep an eye on the events page!
On 27th February 2016, we co-organised and hosted our first evening of poetry, literature and music in London in association with Oil54.
Find all the necessary details, a great review and a link to the interview booklet featuring all the artists on our events page HERE.
Find all the necessary details, a great review and a link to the interview booklet featuring all the artists on our events page HERE.
