ManganPress Woodbridge, Suffolk · established 2011
We publish short fiction, essays and poetry — eight books a year, because that is how many three people can read properly, edit properly and sew properly.
Every title is section-sewn, printed on paper we choose by name, and bound in cloth in the room where it was edited. Nothing is perfect-bound and nothing is reprinted in a hurry.
The Salt Line
A woman returns to the estuary where her brother drowned, and finds the water has moved.
Novella · 94 pages
£14.00September 2026978-1-9999999-4-1A Short History of Weather
Nine essays on forecasting, farming, grief and the English habit of talking about the sky.
Essays · 248 pages
£15.00October 2026978-1-9999999-5-8Bellringer
A first collection about sound, inheritance, and the churches of a childhood spent between two countries.
Poetry · 78 pages
£12.00November 2026978-1-9999999-6-5
Still in print from Spring 2026
The full listNightschool
Hal Everline
Eleven stories set in the lit rooms of a further education college between eight and ten at night.
Short fiction · 204 pages
£14.00March 2026978-1-9999999-1-0Cold Frame
Marguerite Dunn
A fourth collection, written across two winters in a borrowed garden.
Poetry · 86 pages
£12.00April 2026978-1-9999999-2-7Ledger of Small Repairs
Seven essays on mending: shoes, marriages, cathedrals, and a 1974 Bedford van.
Essays · 232 pages
£15.00May 2026978-1-9999999-3-4
A note on how they are made
Mangan Press was founded in 2011 above a framer's shop in Woodbridge, with one title, a borrowed guillotine and a sewing frame bought at a house clearance for eleven pounds. We have grown since then, but not much, and on purpose.
Everything we publish is section-sewn, so it opens flat and stays open. We specify the paper by name and we pay for the good stuff, because a book you can read in one hand at two in the morning is worth more than a book that photographs well. Our covers are commissioned as artwork, not assembled from stock.
We are three people. We answer our own email.
The press in figures
- 8Titles a year
- 47Books in print
- 2011Founded in Woodbridge
- 3People
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Eight books a year, posted the week they are bound, at a fifth off the shop price. Tell us three books you loved this year and we will point you at one of ours.