These are new guys on the block - at least they are to me, maybe other WWers are more up to date - but look worth a try with a literaryish novel, and I think they also take some poetry and non-fiction.

From their website:

http://www.almabooks.co.uk/About/about.html

Tipped by The Bookseller as one to watch in 2006, Alma Books was set up in October 2005 by Alessandro Gallenzi and Elisabetta Minervini, the founders of Hesperus Press. Publishing between twenty to thirty titles a year, mainly in the field of contemporary literary fiction, Alma takes sixty per cent of its titles from English-language originals, while the rest are translations from other European languages. Alma will also publish a handful of non-fiction titles each year.
Alma is Spanish for 'soul', a well-chosen name for a company that regards a book as an aesthetic artefact rather than as a mass-produced commodity. The company's whole emphasis lies on quality over quantity, all the way from choosing projects for publication to creating the physical look and feel of the books. Alma works closely and intimately with authors to develop the best possible finished scripts, and displays a commitment to the kind of professional editing, copy-editing and proofreading that is dying out elsewhere.

Nice one, Emma. I'll ask them for an interview.

Thanks, Emma. They look interesting.
Tony

They do, don't they. They remind me slightly of Snowbooks, not in their list or style, but in being a start-up who know what they're doing...

Anna, if you want to flatter them, say that you came across them because they've got an author - Mike Stocks - shortlisted for the Goss First Novel Award, for White Man Falling.

Emma

Wow, I used to work with Mike Stocks. That's great news.

Luisa