FOLK
Velocity Press
(2025)

A bittersweet coming-of-age tale of friendship, fidelity and finding your own path, available from the UK based publisher Velocity Press and all good bookstores this summer. 

Preorder your copy before 15 April 2025 and get your name listed at the back︎︎︎


Longlisted for the 2023 McKitterick Prize, awarded by British Society of Authors for a first novel by a writer aged 40+.





Reviews for FOLK
“Evocative, funny and bittersweet. Macbeth crafts a rave folk tale brimming with Shane Meadows levels of small town Englishness. Full of dodgy situations, crumbling ideals, first love and finding magic in the mundane, all set to the rising pulse of free rave culture drawing ever closer.”

- Paul Hanford, author of Coming To Berlin: Global Journeys into an Electronic Music & Club Culture Capital


“All hail Stef Macbeth - I've been a fan since I read his first word. His inevitable move into fiction is 20 years overdue.”

- Emily Hill, author of Bad Romance and Love In Late Capitalism