Books published by The New Menard Press

In her essay, On Being Ill Virginia Woolf asks whether illness should not receive more literary attention, taking its place alongside the recurring themes of "love, battle and jealousy". In this collaborative volume, authors, translators and illustrators have come together to represent past, present and future thinking about illness.

The Credit is an opera in verse, without music. The first Act recites the story of Hugo, a successful product of Jesuit education. Act two begins with the reported death of Hugo in Venice. Act three: the action moves onto the hill-town of Cioccolato where Hugo owns a bean factory.