The Handheld Diaries

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We published 48 books in seven years to recover forgotten fiction and lost authors. This is how we did it.

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About Kate Macdonald

Writer. Recovering publisher. Literary historian. Editor. Describer of relics and organiser of meetings, mover of words and harbourer of conversation fragments that grow into stories. From NE Scotland, now living in mid-west England. Mixed accent.

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