New publisher FICTION DIRECT has launched its first two novels.

Lettersgait by Sally Evans follows Sally’s Wildgoose as a long book about writers, this time a successful Victorian woman novelist and her descendants as their lives spin out through the twentieth century and beyond.

“absorbing.” Eileen Carney Hulme

Morelle Smith’s Beyond the Lion Gate is a powerfully engaging novel about young Europeans working in Albania in the 1990s and how they come to terms with the shifting sands of their relationships.

“the writing is beautiful.” Tom Chivers

Both books are available on the FICTION DIRECT website.

Both Sally and Morelle were featured in Robin Lloyd-Jones’ anthology, Autumn Voices: Scottish Writers over 70 talk about creativity in later life, published in 2018.