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Shearsman Books was founded shortly after Shearsman magazine in 1982, in order to offer collections to authors involved with the magazine. The press geared up substantially with a shift to print-on-demand publishing for most titles in 2003. In 2004 we published 18 new titles, 24 more in 2005, 23 in 2006, 42 in 2007, and we have 60 or so planned for 2008. The total in 2009 will be somewhat less than this — we will probably revert to around 40 titles per annum. Download a complete stocklist or catalogues for 2005, 2006 and 2007 by clicking "Download Catalog" from the download buttons to your left – these will take you to an intermediate page with details of the brochures available from this site, which also has the draft catalogue for 2008. The complete 2007 programme is also available online by clicking the year in the menu to the left, and 90% of the 2008 programme is likewise available for inspection. Samplers from most of the 2006 and 2007 titles are likewise accessible from the "year" pages in the menu to your left. Further samplers will be added shortly and, in due course, all of our publications will have them except where copyright restrictions prevent it.
In addition, we make e-chapbooks available for free download from this site. At the moment eighteen are available; further e-books will be added later in 2008.