Dead Ink Starter Set Bundle

Dead Ink Starter Pack

Four novels. No filler. This is the best possible introduction to what Dead Ink does.

These are books that don't behave themselves. They're formally bold, emotionally ferocious, and wholly original. They were published because we believed in them. If you're new to Dead Ink, this is where we'd tell you to start.

The Doloriad — Missouri Williams

Winner of the 2023 Republic of Consciousness Prize. In the ruins of the world, a family descended from incest clings to existence under the iron rule of their Matriarch, who dreams of starting humanity over. Gothic and strange, moving and disquieting, The Doloriad stares down humanity's unbreakable commitment to life for better or worse. There is nothing else like it.

Exit Management — Naomi Booth

Pushed onwards by the poison of ambition and haunted by losses from the past, three characters are drawn together in a catastrophe of endings. A story of class, desire, and what we're willing to do to escape the lives we came from. An unnerving dissection of class, xenophobia and compassion.

Monstrilio — Gerardo Sámano Córdova

After her son dies, a grieving mother cuts out a piece of his lung and nurtures it into something carnivorous and alive. A meditation on grief, acceptance, and the monstrous sides of love and loyalty. Told across four acts, from Mexico City to Brooklyn to Berlin. Devastating, darkly funny, and completely startlingly original.

Above Us the Sea — Ania Card

An ode to the tangled remains of lost loves and the imprints left by grieving souls, yearning for connection. After a tragedy tears apart a love triangle in Wales, Toni escapes to London — caught between who she was and who she's trying to become. A story of aching and emerging, intimacy and distance.

Four books in One bundle. Save £10.

Buy separately and you'd pay £42.96. The starter pack brings them together at £32.96 The best way to understand what Dead Ink publishes is to read it.