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Really enjoying Paris Fantastique short stories by @nicholasroyle - strange/everyday, often witty, often set in Paris locations I know. Recommended! @Confingo

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to Five Different Stories About One Thing by @ElizabethBaines, with images by Laura Scott – the seventh in our series of collaborations between writers and artists. Available here for the special price of £7 (+ p&p) till midnight: confingopublishing.uk

On the Ramblings today for #ReadIndies, a stunning short story collection by @nicholasroyle from @Confingo "Paris Fantastique" - so good! More here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/02/25/i-l…

Featured today on Creative Writing at Leicester: brilliant author Elizabeth Baines and her new short story cycle "Five Different Stories About One Thing": …eativewritingatleicester.blogspot.com/2026/01/elizab… @Confingo @ElizabethBaines @WordFactoryUK @crystalclearjt @EverybodyReview

The 7th book in our series of collaborations between writers and artists will be published on 26 March. Five Different Stories About One Thing by @ElizabethBaines features 5 brand new stories with accompanying images by Laura Scott. Available to pre-order: confingopublishing.uk/shop

‘“The Hands” moves from the slightly mysterious to the downright sinister’ - Anna Aslanyan reviews Paris Fantastique by @nicholasroyle for @TheTLS

Many thanks to @HannahKateish for her generous and insightful review of my collection ‘Sightings’ @Confingo on Hannah’s Bookshelf this weekend.

‘Royle is a genius at blending the ordinary with the eerie’ - thank you Lisa Tuttle and @guardian for including Paris Fantastique by Nicholas Royle in their December review roundup of the best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror. theguardian.com/books/2025/dec…

‘There are stories of great tenderness alongside others which have the macabre strain of Roald Dahl’s adult stories’ – Imogen Tomlinson reviews Sightings by David Bevan (with images by Maya Sharp). substack.com/home/post/p-18…

Thank you to Jonathan Coe (The Proof of My Innocence) for selecting Paris Fantastique by Nicholas Royle for the Observer’s ‘Writers recommend: the best books of 2025’ feature: 'Nicholas Royle is one of the great unsung heroes of modern literature...' observer.co.uk/culture/books/…

Join us this Thursday for the launch of Paris Fantastique by Nicholas Royle, the final volume in his city-based story collections. Date: 13 November. Time: 7 p.m. – 8.30 p.m. Venue: Pizza Express, Corn Exchange, Manchester. Free entry but RSVP. confingopublishing.uk/event-list

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to Paris Fantastique by Nicholas Royle, the third and final volume in his series of story collections inspired by cities in which he has lived. Fourteen stories, including eleven that are brand new. Available for £9.50 (plus p&p): confingopublishing.uk/shop

‘I stand there, as still as a fixed camera, for four minutes, as long as the equivalent shot in the film’ – Michael Haneke’s Films Ranked, from Paris Fantastique, the final volume in Nicholas Royle's city-based story collections. Out 6 November. confingopublishing.uk/shop

CŌNFINGŌMAGAZINE – ISSUE 24. John Saul reviews Herscht 07769 by László Krasznahorkai and Imogen Tomlinson discusses the controversial posthumous publication of Notes to John by Joan Didion. Plus stories, poems and photography. Available for £7 plus p&p: confingopublishing.uk/shop

Confingo 24 features fiction by @LucyThynne, Nathan Bailey, Lee Ashworth, Rose Lennard, @cliffmcnish; poetry by Lauren McLean, Stephanie Staab, Jake Reynolds; reviews by John Saul, @I_M_Tomlinson; photography by David Chlebicki. Available for £7 plus p&p: confingopublishing.uk/product-page/c…

Thanks to all who came to the launch of The Garden by Maya Sharp on Wednesday evening. Thanks, too, to @nicholasroyle for chairing it and to the Saul Hay gallery for hosting it. We hope everyone enjoyed it as much as we did.

Tonight! join us at the Saul Hay gallery for the launch of Maya Sharp's debut novel, The Garden. Maya will discuss the novel and her interest in folklore with the writer and publisher Nicholas Royle. 7.30 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. Free entry/wine/juice but RSVP: confingopublishing.uk/event-list

Happy publication day to The Garden, the eagerly anticipated debut novel from Maya Sharp – “A truly evocative book”; “The Garden is not merely read; it takes root. Once it blooms inside you, it will not let go.” Available from our online shop for £7 (plus p&p).

A week tonight - join us at the Saul Hay gallery for the launch of Maya Sharp's debut novel, The Garden. Maya will discuss the novel and her interest in folklore with the writer and publisher Nicholas Royle. 7.30 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. Free entry/wine but RSVP: confingopublishing.uk/event-list

BIG NEWS for book lovers! Sat, 27th Sept | Manchester Central Library Meet indie northern publishers & discover unique titles! Get your publication questions answered at our 'chatty table' with Liverpool Literary Agency and Children's Book Agency North. Plus! The Fly on the Wall Press Publishing Training Academy launches here! Join us: fly-on-the-wall-press.eventcube.io/events/87204/n…