Manderley Press publishes Sutcliff novel

Manderley Press has announced it will be publishing The Armourer’s House by Rosemary Sutcliff in February 2022.

The recently launched indie press publishes forgotten or out-of-print books inspired by buildings, houses, places or landmarks and has just reprinted its first title, Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Sutcliff’s children’s book is set in Tudor London and includes references to Whitehall, Greenwich, London Bridge, Chelsea, Westminster and Blackfriars, while other chapters mention King Henry VIII’s warship the "Mary Rose", as well as Henry’s wives, Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn.

The new Manderley Press edition will be introduced by Mudlarking (Bloomsbury) author Lara Maiklem. Graphic novelist Isabel Greenberg designed the front cover.  

Maiklem said: “While the city that has grown up along the river’s course has changed beyond recognition, this smell, along with the twice daily tides, is London’s only constant. It is a smell as recognisable today as it would have been 600 years ago. It is the smell of time itself.”