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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Just a reminder that if your local independent bookstore doesn’t have the book you want in stock, they can usually order it in for collection within 24-48 hrs.

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Dark Peak Books and Gifts @darkpeakbooks.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

It’s Good Friday! Bring on the long weekend. We’re open today and closed on Monday. Come down and see us!

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Dark Peak Books and Gifts @darkpeakbooks.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Book and Bottle tonight! Come and join us at Harvey Leonard’s to discuss James by Percival Everett. We’ll also be celebrating six years of this magnificent collaboration between the book shop and Harvey Leonard’s, two of Glossop’s finest indie establishments. There may be cake! All welcome!

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Dark Peak Books and Gifts @darkpeakbooks.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Coming up! Abigail Dean in conversation with Beth Underdown for the publication of Abigail’s new novel, The Death of Us. Join us at the Partington Theatre Club Room on 17th April for book chat, Q&A and a signing. The bar will be open too. Tickets available here: darkpeakbooks.co.uk/event/abigai...

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Bluetrix Books @bluetrixbooks.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Women's History Month – March 13 Jigonhsasee, 12th century, one of the founders of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy

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Susie M @wrathofgodherself.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Do you fancy some fancy mice?

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Dark Peak Books and Gifts @darkpeakbooks.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Tonight! Tickets still available, grab yours now!

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

The best time to shift spending away from Amazon is right now. The next best time is tomorrow. If you're first reaction to the action is "Why should I boycott Amazon?" I implore you, take a few minutes to find some answers. Because the answers are there. And you have other options.

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

#WorldBookDay 📚 "She walks among the tombs" 🪦 'A Picture Book for Little Children' • 1812 📚 #History

The image is an old-style black-and-white illustration showing a woman walking near a balustrade. She reaches out towards a tree with one hand, while an urn on a pedestal stands nearby.

Below the image, the text reads:

"She walks among the tombs."

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TechnicallyRon @technicallyron.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

"What's your #WorldBookDay costume?" "Hemingway" "You're just drunk at 10am" "correct"

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Dark Peak Books and Gifts @darkpeakbooks.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Happy World Book Day to all who celebrate! We’ve got the World Book Day books in stock so bring your tokens down after school or at the weekend! If this year’s books don’t appeal, you can use your token for £1 off any other children’s book. Vouchers valid until 23rd March, see you all soon!

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Dark Peak Books and Gifts @darkpeakbooks.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Event! We’ve got Patrick Joyce, author of Remembering Peasants, coming to Glossop’s. Victoria Hall on 13th March to discuss his book and answer audience questions followed by a signing. Tickets £12 with a copy of the book or £5. Free drink on arrival. Get yours here: www.darkpeakbooks.co.uk/events

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

i know people are coming here for catharsis and that's fine but when you are done screaming please pick something you can do that will help people and do it. you don't accomplish anything by rolling around in the fear all day

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

This description of evacuating a literary archive from Kharkiv after the Russian invasion could be straight out of @richove.bsky.social's Burning the Books

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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 10/02/2025

My statement on the arrest and detention of Mahmoud Muna and Ahmad Muna:

The Israeli authorities must release Mahmoud Muna and Ahmad Muna immediately. There is no justification for their arrest or continued detention. The charges against them are fabricated and malicious, and the manner of their arrest – an undercover raid on a reputable bookselling business established more than forty years ago, followed by handcuffing and many hours of interrogation and detention – is reprehensible. This illegitimate act marks yet another escalation in the suppression by Israeli authorities of the rights and freedoms of the people of Jerusalem.

The world has seen the nature of regimes that arrest and imprison booksellers before. The fact that my government in the UK, among others, persists in supporting, defending, encouraging and arming such a regime continues to be a source of profound shock and dismay. The time is long past for Britain and the international community to reassess its backing for Israel, and to condition any future support on the active and immediate dismantling of structures of oppressive control.

I am proud to call Mahmoud and Ahmad friends. Both have been a source of strength and professional support to me, and Mahmoud and I have worked together, travelled together and shared a stage together before public audiences over many years. I have nothing but respect and admiration for the work they do in preserving, promoting and championing Palestinian literary culture in Jerusalem. Criminalising booksellers has no place in a democracy.

In solidarity with Mahmoud Muna, Ahmad Muna and their families and supporters, I call on the Israeli authorities to release them immediately.

Matthew Teller
10 February 2025, 14:00 UTC

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Dark Peak Books and Gifts @darkpeakbooks.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

This is horrifying. We call for the immediate release of our fellow booksellers Mahmoud and Ahmad.

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Dark Peak Books and Gifts @darkpeakbooks.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Roll up for our first book signing of the year! Glossop’s own Dan Hanks will be here on Saturday 1st February from 1-2pm to sign copies of his new book ‘The Way Up Is Death’. Come down and say hello to Dan. You can secure a copy in advance here: www.darkpeakbooks.co.uk/product/the-way-up-is-death/

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The Way Up Is Death by Dan Hanks - signed copy

Secure your copy of Dan Hanks' new book, The Way Up Is Death. Dan will be in store signing copies on Saturday 1st February. If you would like a specific dedication in your copy, please email details t...

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Dark Peak Books and Gifts @darkpeakbooks.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Useful info here if you have a Microsoft 365 subscription. We just checked ours and they indeed has increased our renewal price without informing us. Check yours too if you don’t want to or don’t need to use their AI.

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Dark Peak Books and Gifts @darkpeakbooks.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Our Book & Bottle book of the month for January is Wild Houses by Colin Barrett. I’ve brought it on a long weekend in Anglesey with the intention of smashing the whole thing in. Haven’t even looked at the first page yet. Plenty of time though. Copies in the shop if you want one!

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Who Advertises On @whoadvertiseson.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Reading a physical book bought from a local independent store is an act of resistance in 2025. Apple, Meta, and Amazon all desperately need your screen time. Start denying them some of it.

Woman reading a red book. Source: https://pixabay.com/photos/people-woman-girl-reading-book-2593394/

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

A helpful gift shopping algorithm that I made for @theguardian.com a couple of years ago.

A very complex diagram which begins with the question "Do you need a a gift for someone" but, despite many questions and choices, always suggests either giving a book or buying a book for yourself, or gets in a huff and says "I give up!".

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Leeds' amazing #queer bookshop has been robbed, pls help by buying some stuff from their website if you're able to. Great people and fab place, hate to see this. RT's appreciated. 📚🏳️‍🌈📚🏳️‍🌈📚🏳️‍🌈📚🏳️‍🌈📚 thebookishtype.co.uk?srsltid=AfmB...

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The Bookish Type - Independent Queer Bookshop in Leeds

Established in 2019, The Bookish Type is an independent LGBTIQA+ bookshop at 58 Merrion Centre, LS2 8NG. Open Tuesday to Saturday, 10-6.

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Lish McBride @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

The people who say that, “kids don’t read anymore” have no concept of the GRIP manga has on my son’s elementary school. Librarian can’t keep them on the shelves. The kids who can buy them pass them around like bottles of moonshine during prohibition. It’s GLORIOUS.

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Dark Peak Books and Gifts @darkpeakbooks.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

For December’s Book & Bottle we’ve chosen Run to the Western Shore by Tim Pears. Copies available in the shop or via our website now. It won’t take long to read over the festive period and you can come join us on Mon 6th Jan for our first book club of 2025. New year, new books, new you!

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SF Said @whatsfsaid.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Why read books? Because reading opens minds & hearts. It helps us imagine different lives and different worlds; it can help us build a better world. So please keep reading books with kids, and encouraging them to read. There is nothing more important. #literacy #books #reading

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Dark Peak Books and Gifts @darkpeakbooks.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Christmas shopping in Glossop! Late opening til 7pm on Thurs 5th, 12th & 19th December alongside a load of your fave indie retailers in town. Come enjoy fizz, festive treats & 10% off your purchases during our extended hours. Download a map of participating retailers here: www.tinyurl.com/2pjf7hv9

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Dark Peak Books and Gifts @darkpeakbooks.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I remember when Black Friday in the UK meant the last Friday before Christmas when everyone would go out after work and get smashed - town was a no go. We don’t celebrate Thanksgiving here so I don’t understand why we’ve imported this from the USA. Anyway, buy book from us if you want to.

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Canongate @canongate.co.uk · 25/11/2024

What's interesting about this trend for book marketing AI companies—who secure £Xmil in seed funding, get a write-up in the Bookseller, and will now wither away, leaving only a slime trail of AI generated goop across the surface of culture—is mainly what it says about capital’s engagement with books

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Dark Peak Books and Gifts @darkpeakbooks.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

We’re running our Christmas book campaign again this year. Purchase a children’s book from us for a 35% discount and we’ll match donations. Glossopdale Foodbank will gift wrap and deliver them to local families in need. Campaign ends Sat 21st Dec.

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Mary @maryruthie.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

"How we stand here is important, how we breathe." Canadian writer Madeleine Thien donated the entirety of her $25,000 Writers' Trust of Canada prize to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, Lebanese Red Cross and the Woodcock Fund.

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Dark Peak Books and Gifts @darkpeakbooks.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

We’ve got an author signing coming up this Saturday! James Ellson will be in the shop from 11am - 12.30pm signing copies of his fourth novel in the DCI Rick Castle series, Base Line. Come and say hello!

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Dark Peak Books and Gifts @darkpeakbooks.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The Magician’s Nephew is my favourite. Have enjoyed reading it to my son and doing lots of dodgy cockney accents.

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Dark Peak Books and Gifts @darkpeakbooks.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Oh and just because no new social media account is complete without a picture of a cat or a dog, here’s my lovely girl Rachael inspecting my wine while we snuggle with the electric blanket.

A funny faced tuxedo cat sniffing a glass of red wine while she sits on a brown electric blanket.

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Dark Peak Books and Gifts @darkpeakbooks.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Just discovered today that a new book is due next July from the incredible @laurasrobinson.bsky.social. TOO EXCITING!!

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Dark Peak Books and Gifts @darkpeakbooks.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Whatever they’re reading, if they’re enjoying it let them read it!

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Dark Peak Books and Gifts @darkpeakbooks.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Hello Bluesky! We’ve just joined and we’re happy to be here. Follow us for brilliant bookshop news and stuff.

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