NEW RELEASE! The Boom of the Bittern
Andrew Smith’s first novel, Edith’s War, won a gold medal at the Independent Publishers’ Book Awards, U.S.A. His short fiction has been included in the Journey Prize Anthology and shortlisted for the CBC Literary Awards, many of this stories appear in an anthology of his work: Sightseeing, Selected Stories. His travel writing has garnered a Western Magazine Award. He has published two non-fiction books: Strangers in the Garden, the secret lives of our favorite flowers and Highlights, an illustrated history of cannabis (co-author). Smith’s second novel, The Speech, was published by Urbane Publications, U.K. to critical acclaim. His third novel, set in 2011 London, is titled The Paparazzo and the Pop Star, and has been long listed for the 2023 Cheshire Novel Prize, U.K. His most recent novel, The Boom of the Bittern, published in June 2026, is set in nineteenth-century England and Canada.