Our mission
We are not numbers. We are not cogs. We are not pixels. The Real Press is dedicated to publishing books, in all genres, that points beyond the present technocracy that reduces human beings to one-dimensional machines.
We aim, in a small way, to publish books which we really believe in – whether they are works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry or anything else. It is dedicated to human beings, as they really are, uncategorisable, imaginative, spiritual . . .
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Leaves the world to darkness
A novel by David Boyle, published April 2007.
The beginnings of centuries have always been periods when fairy stories were popular, but mostly for children. Leaves the world to darkness dares an adult novel that have fairies – or rumours of fairies – at its heart. Also a missing poem, a crumbling home, a secret passage, and the answer to a question about love.