Soul Bay Press reading in Eastbourne

Come and join Matthew & Howard reading from their critically acclaimed debut novels. Also the music of the Cajun Dawgs and some poetry from Andy Franks' soon to be published collection 'Scratched in the stars, Sprawled on the sand'.

The Underground
Eastbourne Central Library
Opposite the Station

Tuesday 9th December 2008
Admission free!

Matthew Loukes reading ESTRELLA DAMN

Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Time: 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Waterstones Covent Garden
Street: 9-13 Garrick Street
City/Town: London, United Kingdom

All welcome to join Matthew listen to some of the book, drink some beers, have a nice evening and go home refreshed!

Books on Sale Now!

Our two new Soul Bay Novels out now! Go to our website at http://www.soulbaypress.com/stuff.htm and just snap them up!

Soul Bay Press - Estrella Damn

Soul Bay Press are delighted to announce the launch of the 1st two books under the Soul Bay Imprint on 21st July 2008.

Estrella Damn by Matthew Loukes

"Slim Gunter tries to help people. People like Estrella Woolf. They have too much money, too few scruples and attract trouble like a night-bus.

When Slim investigates the theft of a Tibetan artefact he doesn't expect to get more out of it than enough money to pay the rent and settle the tab in the off licence.

What he actually gets is a case involving strong drugs, rats in hats, bad policemen, Maltese crooks, pornography, a trip to the seaside, and murder.

Big Eddie Scarborough, academic Barclay Lloyd and Slim's sweetheart Lady join forces to find out what is really going on. But nobody's telling the truth and everyone has something to hide, including Slim. "

Soul Bay Press - Marine Boy

Soul Bay Press are delighted to announce that Monday 21st July will see the release of the first two books under the Soul Bay imprint.

Marine Boy by Howard Cunnell

'Not since Brighton Rock has a south-coast town and its people been portrayed so vividly and
compellingly.'
Kester Aspden, author of The Hounding of David Oluwale

'Writing as beautiful as it is fierce. A luminous coming-of-age story, tender and terrifying by turns...
a truly impressive debut.'
Jane Yeh, author of Marabou


A novel in the tradition of S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders and Kem Nunn's Tapping the Source. Summer in the sun-washed beachlands of the south coast of England. Sixteen-year-old Kim wants nothing more than to be tough like his wild and fearless brother Scott, the leader of a gang of skinheads fighting for control of the local drug trade. Kim’s tough young girlfriend Dawn is also a skinhead, whose father is the reclusive biker and drug dealer Dug. Kim is captured in a midnight raid on Dug's seaside hideout. What happens next will change the lives of Kim and Scott forever.

Here we come...