This is a showcase for a lesbian literary talent. The stories cover science fiction and contemporary realism, as well as a range of modern-day reversals of traditional myths. They feature piratical dykespace pilots, outwardly het office workers, etiquette among royalty, and inordinary dyke bars.

'Tales Told Before Cockrow' is a collection of ten short stories by a famously skilled lesbian author.

Part of our #WomenVote100 celebration - a showcase for poets who Arachne Press have published singly in anthologies, giving a wider perspective on their writing. Featuring Sarah James, Sarah Lawson, Jill Sharp, Elinor Brooks, Adrienne Silcock and Anne Macaulay.

A fantasy epic of the strength and limitations of love and loyalty: between friends, lovers, kin, strangers- and enemies. Nine years after the near obliteration of her clan in an ill conceived raid, Brede, a plains' nomad, is living unwillingly in the marshes. The sudden ending of a decades long drought, brings with it many changes; rumour has it that the rain was bought at the price of a King's head, and the sword needed for such a sacrifice is missing.Change comes for Brede in the arrival of Tegan, a wounded mercenary.Brede's discovery, first of the Dowry Blade and a stolen horse, and then of Tegan's history, sets in train a journey to the capital in search of a missing sister and lead to an unexpected role in the Queen's household, and a powerful lover.