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Voce Books

Independent bookshop in Digbeth, Birmingham, specialising in indie presses.
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01/08/2026

🗣️ VOCE BOOKS OF THE MONTH, JULY 2026

📚 EVENT HORIZON by Balsam Karam trans. from Swedish 🇸🇪 by Saskia Vogel for Fitzcarraldo Editions (not pictured - currently out-of-stock)

📚 DIGBETH STORIES by Floodgate Press SUBS CLOSED

📚 BAIT by Eugenia Ladra trans. from SPANISH 🇪🇸 by pub. by Daunt Books Publishing

📚 MY DREADFUL BODY by trans. from 🇷🇺 by Lisa C. Hayden, pub. by Linden Editions

📚 TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, trans. from Mandarin Chinese 🇨🇳 by Lin King for And Other Stories Publishing

📚 A BEAST SLINKS TOWARDS BEIJING by Alice Evelyn Yang 杨爱丽丝 for Dead Ink Books

📚 HELM by Sarah Hall for Faber Books

📚 ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME IV by Solvej B***e, trans. from Danish 🇩🇰 by Sophia Hersi-Smith & Jennifer Russell, for Faber Books

📚 THE RETURN OF THE 90S: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE PRESENT by Madeline Lane-McKinley & Sean O'Brien for Pluto Press

📚 TRAV by for zero.books

30/07/2026

🗣 VOCE BOOK OF THE WEEK

📚 CLOWNS: AN ANTHOLOGY, edited by MICHELLE TEA, pub. by CIPHER PRESS

✒️ ‘… A blogging dog sitter cringes out on celebrity, Slinkys, and self-promotion. A poet experiences the clowny vulnerability of falling in love. Drunk Muppets ponder the uselessness of art. A transitioning drag queen muses on being “the crazy one, the one who doesn’t give a f**k.”

In this anthology of poetry, fiction, screenplay, and more, writers explore and explode the archetype of the CLOWN in all of its humiliating, earnest, magical, subversive glory. From fiction that reveals the humanity beneath the smeared greasepaint to psychedelic autofiction to poetry that exposes normal folk for the sickening anomalies they are, CLOWNS will get under your skin until it liberates your own inner clown, be it a smart-ass or trickster, sad sack or buffoon.

With work from Maz Murray, Sophie Robinson, Grace Byron, Andrea Lawlor, Megan Milks, Nicole J. Georges, Jake Hall, Vivek Shraya, and other holy fools...’

📚 CLOWNS: AN ANTHOLOGY is now in stock at Voce Books, priced £14.99

22/07/2026

🗣 VOCE BOOK OF THE WEEK

📚 THE RETURN OF THE 90S: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE PRESENT by MADELINE LANE-MCKINLEY & SEAN O’BRIEN, pub. by PLUTO PRESS

✒️ ‘…The 1990s were a cultural watershed, marking a turning point in popular music, television, cinema, literature and fashion. Nestled between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the 9/11 attacks, the decade witnessed the ‘end of history’ and the birth of the internet, the consolidation of neoliberalism, and a political urgency embodied by the anti-globalisation movement. Now in the rearview mirror, this pivotal decade appears as a time to be reckoned with, its history yet to be written, and we have only begun to come to terms with its lasting significance.
This anthology dives into the contemporary fascination with the ’90s. Plotting a playful course between sociology and cultural studies on the one hand, and giddy nostalgia on the other, the book charts decisive developments of the decade to fully apprehend its resonances today.

Covering everything from ‘girl power,’ Star Trek and hip-hop, to q***r cinema, anarchist counterculture and the erotic thriller, The Return of the ’90s excavates key moments in ’90s culture and uncovers its multiple reckonings in the present...’

📚 THE RETURN OF THE 90S is now in stock at Voce Books, priced £19.99

12/07/2026

🗣️ BIRMINGHAM WE LOVE YOU, BUT YOU’RE BRINGING US DOWN…

📚 It’s been a busy week at Voce, & for the most part a joyful one. But you can never entirely rest here in Digbeth…

👀 Please take a look at our statement on the possibility of the Warehouse building that houses Voce disappearing in 2030 & add your voice at the link in bio while there’s still time to rethink.

09/07/2026

🗣 VOCE BOOK OF THE WEEK

📚 BAIT by EUGENIA LADRA, trans. from SPANISH by MIRIAM TOBIN, pub. by DAUNT BOOKS

✒️ ‘…It was an afternoon at the beginning of that summer.

Marga is about to turn thirteen. Whiling away muggy afternoons in the small fisherman’s town of Paso Chico, she watches her favourite soap on TV and waits for something, anything, to happen.

Almost like an apparition, Recio arrives: disrupting the silence of siesta and revealing the strange, twisted dynamics of the town’s inhabitants.

As a cargo ship waits on the viscous river of this hot, humid town, a sea of mud and secrets is unleashed, love and violence colliding as generational traumas and age-old superstitions come to the fore. Haunting and wry, Eugenia Ladra’s debut is an elemental fever dream of burning desire and coming of age....’

📚 BAIT is now in stock at Voce Books, priced £10.99

05/07/2026

🗣️ VOCE BOOKS OF THE MONTH, JUNE 2026

📚 LOVE IN EXILE by .faye for Penguin Books

📚 THE WAY THE WATER HELD ME by Dr Catherine Redford for The Emma Press

📚 BREAD ALONE: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE RUN OUT OF WORKING-CLASS WRITERS? by Indie Novella

📚 EVENT HORIZON by Balsam Karam trans. from Swedish 🇸🇪 by Saskia Vogel for Fitzcarraldo Editions

📚 AFTERNOON DRINKING by Alan Beard for Floodgate Press SUBS CLOSED

📚 HELM by Sarah Hall for Faber Books

📚 CATHEDRALS by Claudia Piñeiro trans. from Spanish 🇪🇸 by for Charco Press

📚 UNPAID: THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF WAGE THEFT by for Verso Books

📚 TRAV by for zero.books

📚 UPRISING by for Canongate

25/06/2026

🗣️ PUBLICATION DATE MEET & GREET WITH VOCE WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE, TAYLOR BURNS - 3PM TILL 6PM, TUESDAY 30TH JUNE

📚 Join us at Voce Books on Tuesday 30th June as we throw open our doors & raise a glass to our current Writer-in-Residence on the publication day of his bold & brave Birmingham-set debut TRAV.

‘TRAV, thirteen, is trying to come to terms with the death of his father. Jay, Trav’s best friend, is tasked with going through a decade’s worth of writing that Trav wrote after finding his father dead. Stella, Trav’s mother, is trying to keep it together for her son while dealing with irreparable fallout in her adopted family.

Together, they try to make sense of grief and its druggy comedown, and what happens when cursed destinies intersect. Powered by the prose, the rhythm and technique, of accent, sociolect, and place, this novel is working-class but not council-estate chic, grim but not grey, and blessed with a slangy Birmingham vernacular not readily found in modern fiction…’

✍️ Drop by the shop & pick up your signed copy of a book described by acclaimed writer as a ‘raw, luminous portrait of growing up & grief’ & help us celebrate the emergence of a major new writing talent…

🎟️ Please note: books pre-ordered for Taylor’s event The Night Owl on Wednesday 8th July at also be available to collect in person.

🙏 We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday 30th June…

19/06/2026

🗣 VOCE BOOK OF THE WEEK

📚 THE END OF EVERYTHING by M. JOHN HARRISON, pub. by SERPENT’S TAIL

✒️ ‘…Phillip Tennent makes his living at the tideline, collecting artefacts that wash up from the Channel. It’s been years since the crisis changed everything, but its exact nature remains obscure. Government barely functions, the seas are full of new creatures, Europe has been mislaid. It feels like the end.

Now Phillip has fished out of the water an object he can’t keep. A creature that keeps changing. An artefact he must take inland, before it destroys everything he thinks he knows.

‘The End of Everything’ is a slyly satirical and unsettling post-apocalyptic adventure into the limits of human understanding from the peerless master of contemporary fiction...’

📚 THE END OF EVERYTHING is now in stock at Voce Books, priced £16.99

13/06/2026

📚 Great to be back at the National Writers Conference with the incredible team Writing West Midlands

The foyer is buzzing with activity & & are already bagging up books for eager readers.

Voce HQ is closed today while it’s all hands to the pump over at Birmingham Uni, but we’ll be back for usual Sunday hours tomorrow so you can get your fix of translated & radical indie lit then…

Enjoy the ☀️ this weekend, & if you’re at the conference today, do pop by the Voce stall to say hello & peruse the wares…

11/06/2026

🗣 VOCE BOOK OF THE WEEK

📚 BLACK COUNTRY TYPE II by TOM HICKS, pub. by THE MODERNIST

✒️ ‘…Black Country Type II is the new instalment in Hicks’ ongoing exploration of the post-industrial landscape of the Black Country. In this series of images he applies his unique aesthetic, focusing on words, typography, handmade lettering and signs. He also photographs ‘types’ of architectural features, objects and the post-industrial landscape of the area.

For Hicks, photography is “a medium that allows me to synthesise a wide range of interests, including architecture, design, typography, art, popular culture and history”. Known for his trademark compositional style, he relies on direct sunlight to illuminate his subject matter. His work also demonstrates a keen eye for the humour and the surreal in everyday life. This new volume will appeal to designers, architects, artists, students, the quietly mischievous, and anyone with an interest in photography of the contemporary urban environment...’

📚 BLACK COUNTRY TYPE II is now in stock at Voce Books, priced £40

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