The Clapton Press

The Clapton Press is an independent publisher based in London E5, established in 2018.

Spanish Civil War

Although its publication list is not restricted to any particular theme, The Clapton Press has a strong interest in Spain and Latin America. This is reflected in the Memories of Spain series of previously unpublished or out of print memoirs, written mainly by English-speaking individuals with direct experience of living in Spain during the 1930s. They engaged in a variety of occupations, as journalists, nurses, volunteer fighters and stretcher bearers with the International Brigades. Authors include Esmond Romilly, Inez Pearn, Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell, Kate Mangan, F G Tinker jr, Arturo Barea and Frida Stewart. Many of these publications have been produced in collaboration with leading historians specialising in modern Spanish history and, in particular, the Second Republic and the Spanish Civil War, as well as other related historical research. Contributors include Paul Preston, Angela Jackson, Richard Baxell, Soledad Fox Maura, Jim Jump, William Chislett and Boris Volodarsky.

Argentina & Uruguay

The Press is also developing a series of previously untranslated works from Argentina and Uruguay, with the support of ''Programa Sur'' and ''IDA''.

Cuba

The Press has recently published ''Wild Green Oranges'' by Bob Baldock, an autobiographical novel based on the author's experiences fighting in Cuba in 1958 alongside Fidel Castro and Che Guevara.

Publications

Memories of Spain

* ''Hotel in Spain'' and ''Hotel in Flight'' by Nancy Johnstone (two separate volumes).
* ''Behind the Spanish Barricades'' by John Langdon-Davies with a prologue by Paul Preston.
* ''Never More Alive: Inside the Spanish Republic'' by Kate Mangan, with a preface by Paul Preston.
* ''The Good Comrade: Memoirs of Jan Kurzke'', with a preface by Richard Baxell.
* ''Firing a Shot For Freedom'' by Frida Stewart, with a foreword by Angela Jackson.
* ''In Place of Splendour'' by Constancia de la Mora, with a preface by Soledad Fox Maura.
* '' Some Still Live'' by F G Tinker jr.
* ''Struggle for the Spanish Soul and Spain in the Post War World'', by Arturo & Ilsa Barea, with a preface by William Chislett.
* ''My House in Málaga'' by Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell.
* ''British Women and the Spanish Civil War'' by Angela Jackson (2020 edition).
* ''The Fighter Fell in Love'' by James R Jump, with a foreword by Paul Preston and a preface by Jack Jones.
* ''Boadilla'' by Esmond Romilly.
* ''Spanish Portrait'' by Elizabeth Lake.
* ''Single to Spain & Escape from Disaster'' by Keith Scott Watson.
* ''Hampshire Heroes'' by Alan Lloyd.
* ''The Tilting Planet'' poems by David Marsh.

Tales from Argentina and Uruguay

* ''Brutal Tales'' by Ernesto Herrera (English translation).
* ''The Yocci Well'' by Juana Manuela Gorriti (English translation).
* ''Our Native Land'' by Juana Manuela Gorriti (English translation).
* ''La tierra natal'' by Juana Manuela Gorriti (Original Spanish version).
* ''Oasis en la vida'' by Juana Manuela Gorriti (Original Spanish version).
* ''Los misterios del Plata'' by Juana Manso de Noronha (Original Spanish version).

General List

* ''The Gap Year (El año de Gracia)'' by Cristina Fernández Cubas (English translation).
* ''Wild Green Oranges'' by Bob Baldock.
* ''Yerma'' by Federico García Lorca (English translation).
* ''Marguerite Reilly'' by Elizabeth Lake.Marguerite Reilly
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* ''Love Struck: Five Centuries of Romantic Verse'', ed. George Lake.
* ''The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere and a Few Other Poems'' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

References

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British companies established in 2018
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