Bibliothèque des Refusés

Bibliothèque des Refusés is the imprint of independent author and scholar Susan Maxwell, who writes literary/slipstream and fantasy fiction.  She has published four novels and a collection of short stories, and her work has appeared in magazines and anthologies.

The fantasy novel 'Good Red Herring' was published in 2014 by Little Island; Maxwell published her subsequent books independently. She has served on fiction and non-fiction juries for the British Fantasy Awards, and reviews for the British Science Fiction Association and for Inis, the magazine of Children’s Books Ireland.

An archivist by profession, Maxwell has worked in Ireland, the UK, and the Netherlands, holding a PhD from Northumbria University and writing non-fiction on themes related to archives and literature, most recently with a chapter in 'Literature, the Gothic and the Reconstruction of History: The Past as Nightmare' (Routledge: 2025).