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5/31/2026 Scottish inspiration Loch Duich seen from Mam Ratagan. The ArtPix/Arcane team has been away to North West Scotland for a much-needed change and has come back invigorated and inspired!
Do keep an eye on our Instagram page for updates @arcanepub  Screengrab @ Patrick Gale's Instagram post We are really chuffed to announce that the lovely Trevilley Exchange Library at Trevilley, Cornwall, is now back up and running and features one copy of each of Miss Gish's novels I Am a Muse and The Book of Thoth!
Trevilley is "the westernmost rose garden in the country" and is home to author Patrick Gale and sculptor Aidan Hicks. Miss Gish's first novel I Am a Muse will fit right in, as it's about a (dead) painter and sculptor and is mostly set in Cornwall! The Arcane Team is now off on a road trip to Northern Scotland! We will be back at the end of May with hopefully some news about our past and future books as well as developing ventures... Watch this space and check our instagram @arcanepub regularly for up-to-date news! 4/28/2026 A very slow start to spring 2026... Colmer's Hill, seen from nearby Quarry Hill. Arcane is taking a break for a little trip North of the border...
Back at the end of May! For regular updates, go to our Instagram page HERE.  We will be in London this Saturday 11th April (Matt ArtPix will have a stall and there will be items from the Arcane Publishing stock there!) for our first Go East Vintage event. We're going to trial a few of their venues and hope to become regular traders with them if it all goes well.
I will bring some art posters, ephemera and quite a lot of paperbacks, including Penguin books, thrillers, detective and sci-fi books. See you there! 3/12/2026 Spring 2026... HW Fincham, a bookshop in Bloomsbury, circa 1926/1927 Just when we were about to post the list of events we will be attending this Spring, the war in the Middle East has thrown a doubt over all the events we've booked, so we will have to wait and see...
Please keep an eye out on our INSTAGRAM PAGE for updates! More news soon... 1/27/2026 2026 is go! We've had a slow start to 2026, but things are finally moving in the right direction! For the past week, we've been opening boxes and checking our shelves to do an audit of the pre-loved, vintage and rare books in our stock and organise everything a little bit more. We need to decide how and where to sell our stock as there is no question of opening a brick-and-mortar shop in the near future, even though it is really what we'd like to do eventually... Online and markets look like the solution we might go for, but we are going to take our time as we want to do this as professionally as possible. We'll need to get a card payment solution for markets and get some promo items done (the Arcane Publishing designer, @mattartpix, is sadly sans computer at the moment!) 2026 will also hopefully the year we bring Miss Gish's third novel The Right Place to life. Work is restarting on draft 1 next Monday!
Whilst foraging in one of the stock cupboard, we came across those handmade promo cards we made back in 2013 to promote the publication of I Am a Muse... They were never used in the end as we wanted to appear a bit more professional than those handmade cards suggested... But now that we've found them again, we thought we might as well use them!
So we'll be dropping them in book boxes in the area and beyond together with copies of I Am a Muse and The Book of Thoth - once the weather has improved, of course! We hope to have more news very soon! In the meantime, keep checking our Instagram page for all updates!  We will be with @mattartpix on his stall at the @thelazyflea in Chiswick, London, next Sunday 4t January! We will have a few books (including a box full of £5 books - stock to get rid of!), some beautiful fashion books and prints as well as ephemera. This is always a packed event, so let's see how many people venture out on what promises to be a cold post-holiday Sunday! 📍 Chiswick Town Hall 📅 Sunday 4th January ⏰ Early bird £4 (10:30–11:30) ⏰ General £2 (11:30–4) 🐾 Please note: no dogs allowed at the venue. It's the last few days of 2025 and we are not completely up and running yet!
But we already have a first event lined up in London and we hope that it will be the first of many! Loads of plans afoot ... We will proceed slowly but surely..,. We will be using this website and the more often in 2026, so watch this space! In the meantime, keep checking the Instagram page @arcanepub 12/18/2025 We'll be back in 2026! We have had a very busy 2025, but it wasn't about book writing or selling...
We can now announce that we will be back in 2026 as we develop our bookselling business! I will be using this blog and that on the Arcane Publishing website more in the future as I don't think soial media is working. So watch this space, things will start moving from the end of January onwards! In the meantime, please check Instagram on @arcanepub 10/11/2025 Intermission Yet another intermission...
The writing/publishing side of Arcane Publishing has been on a hiatus for the past five years as we decide how best to move forward with Arcane Publishing. Sadly, publishing another indie title doesn't really make sense these days. In 2026, we will be concentrating on our pre-loved, vintage and rare books. The time is just not right at the moment (see this article in the publishing industry magazine The Bookseller). We are more active on our Instagram page HERE at the moment, so please go and have a look-see!  free stock photo by Geoffrey Whiteway We haven't posted on here for a long time, but finally, we are back! A lot has happened during out time away from the Arcane Publishing website - if you wish to get more up-to-date news though, then please follow our INSTAGRAM PAGE HERE. We try and post as regularly as possible! We are just coming back to Arcane Publishing properly this week, and we have started thinking about the next few months. All activity on the writing/publishing side of Arcane has been paused for the time being. We have decided to give priority to the development of the pre-loved, vintage and rare books side of Arcane. This winter, we will be working on developing our online bookshop which we hope to launch in early 2026. In the meantime, Arcane will be appearing with Matt ArtPix at two events this September with a small stock of books (see our Instagram for details!). These are two events we have done before and they are truly brilliant. We can't wait to be back in London and Brighton! We will be updating this website regularly over the next few months leading to the launch of the online shop (probably an Etsy shop in the first instance). Also pop to Miss Gish's website for some updates on her writing progress.   |
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