Fingerprint Editions is an independent small press for readers who love women writers who defy definition to tell stories in their own ways. Inspired by Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press, we publish both our own work and the work of others who share our commitment to creative freedom.
We publish fiction, non-fiction, and poetry for adults written by women who leave traces within their readers. We are agnostic on length, form and genre while caring deeply about quality, diversity and relevance. We believe those who write from the margins, out of step with trend and who defy classification, have most to share. Hence, the covers of our books are red: the colour of vibrancy, danger and courage. As Virgina Woolf set up Hogarth Press, we publish our own works as well as those of other women writers.
Every author’s work carries their fingerprint - the DNA of their life experience, trace elements of their worldview. Every reader adds their fingerprint to the pages, making each story their own.
Featured Publications
Mistress Pieces
An experimental exploration of madness and love
The crash of her husband’s foot through the bedroom door shatters the narrator. Each broken part of the body and mind takes on a voice, expressing itself through ‘Mistress Pieces’, words scrawled on walls and odd scraps of paper, in search of healing damage ‘half a century in the making’. Framed within a queer love story, Mistress Pieces celebrates madness and its influence on contemporary political and personal relationships, encouraging us to embrace chaos as we seek a new paradigm for living.
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“Raw, uplifting and refusing definition”
Dark Star
Dark Star is a first novel of impressive calibre (Time Magazine, 1929)
Born under a dark star, Nancy Pringle, never knew her father’s identity, and was abandoned by her mother. The novel follows Nancy as she navigates adolescence and adulthood, while encountering society’s marginalised in her search both for her father and her self.
Under Lorna Moon’s forensic gaze, small community life's conventions and hypocrisies are examined in minute and wry detail. And through Nancy’s growing understanding of her own desire, Moon is able to analyse female sexuality at a time when to do so was revolutionary. ‘It is revolting to me’, Moon wrote in a letter, ‘that in a civilised world a woman’s virtue rests entirely upon her hymen.’* With Dark Star, Moon works through her outrage.
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“It is the inside of a woman written from the inside”
The Rest is Silence
What happened to the most famous missing person in British History
The Rest is Silence follows the story of Muriel Mead, an introspective schoolgirl who disappears from a village lane on the eve of World War II.
Was she a victim or simply a young woman determined to live on her own terms?
Told across companion narratives, The Rest is Silence presents the radically different accounts of two women bound to Muriel by memory, longing, and loss. As each narrator searches for answers, their stories reveal not a neat singular truth but a fractured mosaic—coloured by their own convictions about choice, possibility, and the nature of knowing.
The Rest is Silence offers a thoughtfully crafted meditation about the stories we tell, the silences we keep, and what it means to live out of step with the mainstream.
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