Beaker is an old nickname. It belongs to David Collins, and it seemed the right name for a small press run from a garden shed in Heywood, Lancashire. Beaker Books publishes stories rooted in the north of England: its moors and mill towns, its rivers and reservoirs, and the people history forgot to write down. Many of the places in our books are real. You can read about them in the evening and walk to them the next morning.