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 Instagram @arcanepub
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 Instagram @arcanepub
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 2025!
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.
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 April 2013.
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 April 2013.
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: Spring 2026 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...
It will also be a tribute to one of my favourite things - classic cinema!
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...
It will also be a tribute to one of my favourite things - classic cinema!
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...
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.
