"What is a book but a letter from a writer to a reader?"
EnvelopeBooks is a generalist micro-publisher—a postal service of the mind. We select manuscripts from every corner of the mental map, brand them with our stunning, trademark envelope covers, then make sure they reach enthusiastic readers. We welcome submissions. To deliver your story widely and safely, email us: you'll be impressed. Here's some background information to read.
MARGUERITE POLAND
A SIN OF OMISSION
PUBLICATION DATE 5 MAY 2022
A raw, compelling novel about a young black preacher in the 1870-80s, trained by the Anglican Church in England, then sent back to Cape Colony to face unresolved issues with his family and people, the condescension of church leaders towards their own native pastors, and That Woman—seen once in a photograph and never forgotten.
WILLIAM KEELING
BELLE NASH AND THE BATH SOUFFLÉ
PUBLICATION DATE 3 MARCH 2022
When a soufflé fails to rise, friends try to find out why and uncover a web of corruption that spreads throughout Bath's legal system. Set in the early 1830s, this comic gay historical novel exposes the bigotry of the times but also introduces a new literary and moral hero—Belle Nash, city councillor and bachelor. About time!
ROBERT DUDLEY BEST
MY MODERN MOVEMENT
PUBLICATION DATE 4 NOVEMBER 2021
A contemporary account of the battle between advanced tastes and democratic principle during Britain's first dalliance with the Modern Movement. Narrated by England's leading lighting designer, the owner of Best & Lloyd, once the world's largest light manufacturing company. Introduction by Pevsner biographer Stephen Games.
BRIAN VERITY
WHY MY WIFE HAD TO DIE
PUBLICATION DATE 3 MARCH 2022
Brian Verity married the nurse who had cared for him after his breakdown following the break-up of his previous marriage. It was a loving relationship. Then he started to notice that his wife's physical and mental abilities were deteriorating, just as those of her mother and siblings had. In growing panic, he decided they needed a plan.
GEORGE TOMAZIU
SPY ARTIST PRISONER
PUBLICATION DATE 3 MARCH 2022
During WW2, Romania gave Hitler massive military aid and George Tomaziu wasn't surprised to be put in prison and abused for spying on German troop movements for the UK. But when Romania went Socialist after the war, he thought he'd be redeemed. He wasn't. He was treated worse.
KIRBY PORTER
FRANCES CREIGHTON: FOUND AND LOST
PUBLICATION DATE 4 NOVEMBER 2021
After the death of his girlfriend in England, Michael Roberts seeks comfort in memories of his first love back in Northern Ireland, only to find that those memories are elusive and painful and that he must solve the mystery of why he has suppressed so much. A Belfast "Normal People".
ROBERT MULLEN
MUSTARD SEED ITINERARY
PUBLICATION DATE 14 OCTOBER 2021
JANINA DAVID
THE HOPEFUL TRAVELLER
PUBLICATION DATE 2 SEPTEMBER 2021
ROBERT BEST
FROM BEDALES TO THE BOCHE
THE IRONIES OF AN EDWARDIAN CHILDHOOD
No one expected that a generation that had befriended Germany in the 1900s would be eagerly fighting it in the 1910s. In this extraordinary memoir, one of Britain's most important industrial designers tracks his career from the progressive idealism of his school days at Bedales to his passionate enlistment into the Royal Flying Corps.
JONATHAN LAWLEY
A ROAD TO EXTINCTION
CAN PALAEOLITHIC AFRICANS SURVIVE IN THE ANDAMAN ISLANDS?
The Jarawa tribe wants nothing to do with modern civilisation, but modern civilisation doesn't care. Tourists travel each day along the Andaman Trunk Road in the hope of seeing these naked pygmy hunters in what is now India's human safari park. Jonathan Lawley goes back to the colony his grandfather used to run to see how bad things are.
MICHAEL HOLMAN
POSTMARK AFRICA
HALF A CENTURY AS A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
Eye-witness reports over 50 years on the state of sub-Saharan Africa, written for the Financial Times and other media, by the FT's former Africa Editor, providing rare insights into the continent's post-independence successes and set-back. Revealing, relevant and highly readable. Alexander McCall Smith says: "Profound observations on very page."