The UKA Press
Encyclopedia
The UKA Press is an independent small publisher based in the United Kingdom
. Since its launch in January 2004, it has published poetry
, novels, short story
collections and nonfiction titles. The UKA Press is independent and publishes its own list.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
. Since its launch in January 2004, it has published poetry
Poetry
Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
, novels, short story
Short story
A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...
collections and nonfiction titles. The UKA Press is independent and publishes its own list.
Aims
The UKA Press state that their aim is to "focus on the appealing qualities and significance of a project, as well as the literary and artistic merits of the writing, rather than immediate commercial potential." The UKA Press is partly funded by voluntary subscriptions.Authors
- Judith WillsJudith WillsJudith Wills is a British author, food and health journalist, magazine editor and columnist. She was born in Oxfordshire, the youngest child of a telephone salesman and an ex-primary schoolteacher and was educated at the Oxford College of Technology...
, author of The Diet Detective, The Green Food Bible, Keith MoonKeith MoonKeith John Moon was an English musician, best known for being the drummer of the English rock group The Who. He gained acclaim for his exuberant and innovative drumming style, and notoriety for his eccentric and often self-destructive behaviour, earning him the nickname "Moon the Loon". Moon...
Stole my Lipstick (published by UKA Press) and many other titles. - Kevin BrownlowKevin BrownlowKevin Brownlow is a filmmaker, film historian, television documentary-maker, author, and Academy Award recipient. Brownlow is best known for his work documenting the history of the silent era. Brownlow became interested in silent film at the age of eleven. This interest grew into a career spent...
, director of It Happened HereIt Happened HereIt Happened Here is a 1966 British film, directed by Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo. It is set in an alternate history in which Nazi Germany successfully invades and occupies the United Kingdom during World War II.-Setting:...
and WinstanleyWinstanley (film)Winstanley is the title of a film made in 1975 in the UK by Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo, based on the 1961 David Caute novel Comrade Jacob....
; author of The Parade's Gone By, How It Happened Here (published by UKA Press) Winstanley: Warts and All (published by UKA Press)The Search for Charlie ChaplinCharlie ChaplinSir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I...
(published by UKA Press and based on the filmFilmA film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
Unknown ChaplinUnknown ChaplinUnknown Chaplin is an acclaimed three-part 1983 British television documentary about the career and the methods of the film luminary Charles Chaplin using previously unseen film for illustration....
); many other films (including Unknown ChaplinUnknown ChaplinUnknown Chaplin is an acclaimed three-part 1983 British television documentary about the career and the methods of the film luminary Charles Chaplin using previously unseen film for illustration....
(1983) in collaboration with film historian David GillDavid Gill (film historian)David Ian Gill was born in Papua New Guinea, the son of Cecil Gill, a missionary doctor. His uncle was the sculptor Eric Gill. The family returned to England in 1933 where Gill attended the Belmont Abbey School, Hereford...
) and books. - Peter HopkinsonPeter HopkinsonPeter Richard Gunton Hopkinson was a British film-maker and director. A Second World War combat cameraman, and documentary director, reporter and writer, he also worked at Denham Studios in the heyday of British cinema. He was a member of The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration...
http://ukapress.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=102(1920-2007), film director; author of Split Focus and Screen of Change (published by UKA Press, with an introduction by Kevin BrownlowKevin BrownlowKevin Brownlow is a filmmaker, film historian, television documentary-maker, author, and Academy Award recipient. Brownlow is best known for his work documenting the history of the silent era. Brownlow became interested in silent film at the age of eleven. This interest grew into a career spent...
) - Anoop ChandolaAnoop ChandolaAnoop Chandola , is an American linguist-anthropologist, originally from Pauri India, where he was raised in a priestly Brahmin family.He was educated at the Christian Messmore Intermediate College of Pauri...
(The DharmaDharmaDharma means Law or Natural Law and is a concept of central importance in Indian philosophy and religion. In the context of Hinduism, it refers to one's personal obligations, calling and duties, and a Hindu's dharma is affected by the person's age, caste, class, occupation, and gender...
Videos of Lust: Mysteries of Indian Religions) - Simon Leigh (Wild Women)
- Tara Hanks (The Mmm Girl: Marilyn MonroeMarilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, model and showgirl who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s....
, by herself) - Stanley SalmonsStanley SalmonsStanley Salmons was born in Lower Clapton, east London, and was educated at St. Marylebone Grammar School. Awarded a Royal Scholarship, he attended Imperial College London, from which he graduated in Physics and went on to gain a D.I.C...
, (Footprints in the Ash: A PompeiiPompeiiThe city of Pompeii is a partially buried Roman town-city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania, in the territory of the comune of Pompei. Along with Herculaneum, Pompeii was destroyed and completely buried during a long catastrophic eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius spanning...
Mystery)http://www.stanleysalmons.com/Footprints.htm - Tom Saunders (Brother, What Strange Place is This)
- Ian Hocking (Deja Vu)
- Theron Montgomery (The Procession)
- Sheldon GoldfarbSheldon GoldfarbSheldon Goldfarb is a Canadian author and independent scholar who grew up in Montreal and attended McGill University, where he worked for the McGill Daily student newspaper and obtained a bachelor of arts degree in history.-Career:...
(Remember, Remember) - Andrew Fish (Erasmus Hobart and the Golden Arrow)
- Julian Simpson (WiganWiganWigan is a town in Greater Manchester, England. It stands on the River Douglas, south-west of Bolton, north of Warrington and west-northwest of Manchester. Wigan is the largest settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and is its administrative centre. The town of Wigan had a total...
is Wonderful)
Reviews and awards
- Judith Wills reviewed by Tony PrinceTony PrinceTony Prince is a British radio disc jockey and businessman, remembered for programmes on Radio Caroline and Radio Luxembourg in the 1960s and 1970s....
,ex - Radio LuxembourgRadio Luxembourg (English)Radio Luxembourg is a commercial broadcaster in many languages from the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. It is nowadays known in most non-English languages as RTL ....
DJ, now DMC, Chris Charlesworth, Melody MakerMelody MakerMelody Maker, published in the United Kingdom, was, according to its publisher IPC Media, the world's oldest weekly music newspaper. It was founded in 1926 as a magazine targeted at musicians; in 2000 it was merged into "long-standing rival" New Musical Express.-1950s–1960s:Originally the Melody...
, Omnibus Rock Press, The Daily Mail (serialised), Candis magazine and Women's Weekly Magazine. - Anoop Chandola, "The Dharma Videos of Lust" 2009 Finalist in the US "National Indie Excellence Awards" http://www.indieexcellence.com/indie-results-2009.php in the multicultural fiction category.
- Anoop Chandola, "The Dharma Videos of Lust" reviewed by Arup Chakraborty, Hindustan TimesHindustan TimesHindustan Times is an Indian English-language daily newspaper founded in 1924 with roots in the Indian independence movement of the period ....
, The Arizona Daily Star; Ellen Tanner MarshEllen Tanner MarshEllen Tanner Marsh is an author from Charleston, South Carolina.Marsh has written eleven novels, three of which - Reap the Savage Wind, Wrap Me in Splendor, and Sable - were listed on the New York Times paperback bestseller list....
, New York Times ; Michael Witzel, the Wales Professor of SanskritSanskritSanskrit , is a historical Indo-Aryan language and the primary liturgical language of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.Buddhism: besides Pali, see Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Today, it is listed as one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is an official language of the state of Uttarakhand...
and Indian Studies, Harvard UniversityHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country... - Simon Leigh, autobiographical novel (http://www.bcsupernet.com/users/ascent/wildwomen.htm "Wild Women" reviewed by Paul QuarringtonPaul QuarringtonPaul Lewis Quarrington was a Canadian novelist, playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, musician and educator.-Background:...
, Canadian writerWriterA writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
and filmmaker, and Miles KingtonMiles KingtonMiles Beresford Kington was a British journalist, musician and broadcaster.-Early life :...
http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists_a_l/miles_kington of The IndependentThe IndependentThe Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily...
. - Sheldon Goldfarb, (Alma Mater Society of the University of British ColumbiaAlma Mater Society of the University of British ColumbiaThe Alma Mater Society is the student society of UBC Vancouver and represents more than 48,000 students at UBC's Vancouver campus and the affiliated colleges. The AMS also operates student services, student owned businesses, faculty constituencies, resource groups and clubs...
) "Remember, Remember" http://crimewriterscanada.com/cwc/pages/sgoldfarb.html http://www.abcbookworld.com/?state=view_author&author_id=8143 short listed by the Crime Writers of Canada for http://crimewriterscanada.com/cwc/pages/awards.html 2006 Arthur Ellis Award http://www.famouscanadians.net/books/awards/arthurellis/juvenile.php in the category of Best Juvenile novel in Canada. - Hilary Lloyd, "A Necessary Killing" reviewed by Kate LongKate LongKate Long, author of the number one bestselling novel The Bad Mother's Handbook lives in Whitchurch in Shropshire, UK.She was raised in Lancashire in a small village half-way between Wigan and Bolton. At 18 she left home to study English at Bristol University, where she gained a First, and then ...
2005 The TimesThe TimesThe Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
'New Star of Fiction' - Alexandria Szeman, UKA Press author of "Naked with Glasses", "Love in the Time of Dinosaurs", and "Where Lightning Strikes: Poems of the HolocaustThe HolocaustThe Holocaust , also known as the Shoah , was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews and millions of others during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi...
" . Ms Szeman is author of "The Kommandant's Mistress" http://www.arcadepub.com/Book/index.cfm?GCOI=55970100980070&fa=reviews (a novel), winner of the University of RochesterUniversity of RochesterThe University of Rochester is a private, nonsectarian, research university in Rochester, New York, United States. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees. The university has six schools and various interdisciplinary programs.The...
's Kafka Prize http://www.franzkafka-soc.cz/index.php?lang=en&action=view&page=xcenafkafky for "best book of prose fiction by an American woman" (1994); chosen as a New York Times Book Review' http://topics.nytimes.com/top/features/books/bookreviews/index.html?offset=90&query=BOOK%20TRADE&field=des&match=exact "Top 100 Book of the Year", The New York Times Book Review. Ms Szeman was winner of the Centennial Review Poetry Prize. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/new_centennial_review - Ian Hocking, "Deja Vu"; reviewed by Jon Courtenay GrimwoodJon Courtenay GrimwoodJon Courtenay Grimwood is a British science fiction and fantasy author.He was born in Valletta, Malta, grew up in Britain, Southeast Asia and Norway in the 1960s and 1970s. He studied at Kingston College, then worked in publishing and as a freelance writer for magazines and newspapers including The...
in The GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format... - Theron Montgomery, "The Procession', reviewed by Sena Jeter Naslund.
- Judy Walker, "Frankie", reviewed by G.P. Taylor http://www.gptaylor.info/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,188, author of ShadowmancerShadowmancerShadowmancer is a fantasy novel by Graham Taylor , first published privately in 2002. It is a Christian allegory in the form of a fantasy adventure, akin to C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia. Taylor wrote the book to counteract what he saw as a rise in atheist propaganda in children's books...
and the Mariah Mundi http://www.gptaylor.info/content/view/53/183 series.