Two new chapbooks – ‘When the Door Closed, It Was Dark’ by Alison Moore and ‘Black Country’ by Joel Lane – were launched on Sunday 28 March and are now available to buy. Each is A5 size, 16pp, full-colour card cover (photographic illustrations by Conrad Williams and Trav28), b&w inside. Both are limited editions. There are 200 of the Alison Moore and 300 of the Joel Lane. All copies are numbered and signed by the author.

Alison Moore, born in Manchester in 1971, has published stories in magazines and competition anthologies. In 2009 she was shortlisted for the inaugural Manchester Fiction Prize worth £10,000. She lives near Leicester.

James Lasdun, novelist, short story writer and past winner of the National Short Story Prize, writes: ‘Alison Moore tells a gripping story of sexual power and powerlessness…’

Joel Lane is the author of two novels, three short story collections, a novella and two volumes of poetry. He has edited two anthologies of short stories. Born in Exeter in 1963, he lives in Birmingham.

‘Joel Lane writes about how the past is constructed by the future… Uneasy, passionate, never bitter,’ writes M John Harrison, author of ten novels and five short story collections.

Both titles cost £3 each + 30p postage for one chapbook, 50p for two. To order, please email the publisher, Nicholas Royle, on nicholasroyle@mac.com

The photograph shows Alison Moore and Joel Lane flanked by Tom Fletcher (left) and Michael Marshall Smith (right).

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