Ryan Vance Books

Exploring themes of loneliness, love, and transformation, this collection presents a series of fables featuring diverse characters, including a restaurant critic and a frustrated middle-manager. Each story delves into unique experiences, from telepathic connections to surreal urban landscapes. The narratives celebrate queer identities and find beauty in the mundane, crafting unexpected treasures from life's detritus while embracing the complexities of existence and the search for connection in a chaotic world.

Queering the Map of Glasgow was inspired by the community generated mapping project Queering the Map. Knight Errant Press took this idea home through stories that chart the fictional, real and liminal spaces and moments lost in the folds of the map. This is a map unlike any other: adding detail and fable it is neither complete nor fixed, it is a fold in the world. And a queer one at that.12 authors explore queer Glasgow through short stories, poetry and an essay in this small collection. The first publication of the Wicked Wee Bks imprint.

From the Amazons to the Ukraine conflict, women have always been on the front line of war: this is their surprising and heroic history.