FOLK (2025)

A story of friendship, fidelity and finding your path 

Available now via Velocity Press︎︎︎

“Folk draws you persuasively and powerfully into the middle 1990s, offering new insights into the freedoms offered by illegal raves and radical youth clubs, told through the lens of an overthinking teenage boy and his friends. I loved it.”

Emma Warren, author of Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through The Dancefloor

“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

An earlier draft of FOLK was longlisted for the 2023 McKitterick Prize, awarded annually by the British Society of Authors for a first novel by an author aged 40 or over.

Ravers, circa 1994
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