Book of the Month
Lives the Sea Had Left
The Collected Poems of Ted Walker
Read and be astonished. With vivid images drawn from nature, the sounds of the sea, and a keen eye for human behaviour, Ted Walker gives voice to feelings you recognise but cannot quite put into words.
Published 20 October 2026 · Paperback and hardback
“This magisterial edition, long overdue, gives Ted Walker what he has deserved for so long.”Dr Oliver Tearle, Loughborough University
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Fiction
Novels by Ed Walker
The second Alex Martin novel, set largely in Estonia during its break from the USSR.
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Brighton and London, late 1980s: a group of activists find their situation spiralling out of control.
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Literature in translation and history
Voices from the radical tradition
First English translations and new editions from Weimar and revolutionary Germany, most introduced and translated by Ed Walker.
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What motivates me
Fiction that informs and (sometimes) enrages, but never preaches
Only two criteria really matter: the work makes us think, and it is a bloody good read.
Ed Walker, publisher
RedLines Press publishes new fiction, literature in translation and poetry in the tradition of socially engaged writing: books like A Kestrel for a Knave, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and B. Traven’s The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
Oskar Maria Graf belongs to that same tradition. The two novels translated here, We Are Prisoners and Anton Sittinger, offer a radical inside view of Weimar Germany. Such literature can take any form, but it should never be propaganda.
From the blog
Latest writing
20 September 2026
Forget the solitary antihero. Ed Walker on noir where groups, not lone heroes, drive the story.
8 December 2024
Graf on the middle-class complacency that let fascism rise in Weimar Germany.
9 September 2024
A review of DDC Morgan’s 1949 speedway noir, Blood & Cinders.
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