Forthcoming titles from Valley Press

A useful list for authors and onlookers

(This list was last updated 17th June 2025.)

Titles are listed here in order of production priority, based on 1) when the author signed their contract, and 2) when they submitted their final typescript ready for editing. How it then works is: when I sit down at my desk each week, I see if there’s anything I can personally do to advance the first project listed, and if not, move on to the second, then third, and so on.

As a result, the main audience for this list will probably be the authors named below, checking where they stand in the queue – but I hope it might be of interest to bookshops and readers too! If you’d like more information on a particular forthcoming title, please get in touch with Valley Press here. For details of our finished and published books, head to our online shop. Thanks for your support!

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• The Northern Gravy Anthology of Fiction, ed. Nick Jones – short stories, paperback

• The Northern Gravy Anthology for Children, ed. Jonny Syer – poetry/short stories, paperback

• The Northern Gravy Anthology of Poetry, ed. Ralph Dartford – poetry, paperback

• Amy White, Walking for Her – travel/self-help, hardback

• John Farquhar, I Leant Upon a Copper Pipe: Warrington Poems – poetry, paperback

• Zack Rogow, The Kama Sutra for Senior Citizens – poetry, paperback

• Helen Burke, Today the Birds Will Sing – poetry, paperback (reissue)

• Anne Caldwell, The Language of Now – poetry, paperback

• Maithreyi Hughes, Skinny Dipping in Tiger Country – poetry, paperback

• Rosie Driffill, Matchsticks in Berlin – poetry pamphlet, paperback

• Nora Chassler, The Noracular Abject – essay, paperback

• Gina Challen, Outside in the Night – short stories, paperback

• Katy Mahon, Cry – poetry pamphlet, paperback

• Zoë Green, Charm – poetry, paperback

• Nancy Anne Miller, Missing Hurricanes – poetry, paperback

• Patrick Lodge, There You Are – poetry, paperback

• Trevor Jones, Hopeland – lyrics and more, hardback

• Susan Furber, What Other Years Have Done – literary fiction, paperback

• Hilary Elder, Here I Am Hello World – children’s poetry, paperback

• Mark Blayney, This is Not a Pipe – poetry, paperback

• Jo Reed, A Soho Sequence – poetry, paperback