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Stairwell Books @stairwellbooks.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Delighted with The Vanity Project of Fr Brendan Coglan by Judith Oliver! I'm not religious but this is a cracking read: if you ARE a person of faith, you will feel seen. A young priest suffers a crisis of faith when he hears an appalling Confession. Now what? www.stairwellbooks.co.uk/product/the-...

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The Vanity Project of Father Brendan Coglan

Due December 2025 A universal tale about honour, justice, and forgiveness, this novel explores the burdens of confession and the agonies of a priest who tries to right the wrongs of his supplicants…

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Stairwell Books @stairwellbooks.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Love books? Want to support small presses AND see fresh titles? Join us in York at St Crux on Saturday 6 Dec. Peek inside many titles via Look Inside: www.stairwellbooks.co.uk/books/ #FantasticBooksPublishing #YorkBookFair2025 #SFFH #Childrens #YA #Crime #Poetry #NonFic #York #Books

Golden-themed image of an open book with sparkles. Text: York Christmas Book Fair. Celebrate stories this Christmas! St Crux Hall, York. Saturday 6 Dec 10am to 4pm. FREE ENTRY. Meet award-winning local authors, discover great new reads and find the perfect holiday gifts for all the family. Fantastic Books Publishing and Stairwell Books

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 07/11/2025

WE LOVE TO SEE IT. STILL FEED YOUR NEIGHBORS THOUGH.

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Stairwell Books @stairwellbooks.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

“Distrust all those in whom the urge to punish is strong.” - Goethe

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

This has not gotten much attention, but it should. Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE. Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.

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Stairwell Books @stairwellbooks.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

What a great launch!! Excellent support sets from Tanya Parker, Fiona Timothy & Laurence Tilley, and of course Richard dazzled us twice. Bluebird Bakery aka Rise is a lovely, inviting ACCESSIBLE York venue - highly recommended! #poetrycommunity #booklaunch

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Andrew Crowther @andrewcrowther.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I don't know how many of my followers have read my dystopian novel "Down to Earth" 👇, but just in case it wasn't clear, the King of High Hants is Nigel Farage. @stairwellbooks.bsky.social blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

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Down to Earth

New schoolteacher Jenny Threadneedle has lived for almost as long as she can remember in High Hants, an enclosed idealised Little England. A cautionary tale abo

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Stairwell Books @stairwellbooks.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Gareth was amaaaaazing. Stairwell gushed like a fangrrrl at meeting Joe Hill. Ali Sparkes seemed to be everywhere at once. 4 other Stairwell authors helped run stall. Exhausting, exhilarating, fun. Join us at EasterCon '26 in Brum! @susiewilliamson.bsky.social @ruthaylett.bsky.social

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Stairwell Books @stairwellbooks.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

VERY last minute reminder! TONIGHT! Join Stairwell Books for the York launch of poetry collection, Village Fox, by Richard Cave. Richard will read w support from Fiona Timothy, Laurence Tilley, Tanya Parker. Music! Books! Possibly baked goods for purchase! Bluebird Bakery 201 Acomb Road YO24 4HD

Image shows book cover, a serene village drawn in various blues with a fox walking down the village path. The flyer says what's in the post, and adds: Richard Cave's long-awaited first collection offers poems whimsical to environmentally-aware to, dare we say it, of "Dylanesque" power and beauty. From the stark horror of Aberfan to the marking of past lives and loves, to the joy of re-learning your child after they've found themselves, all with that touch of Welsh cadence. Richard's poems are tales told gently, pragmatically, but with great love for his fellow humans.
for info: www.stairwellbooks.co.uk

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Stairwell Books @stairwellbooks.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

So pleased for Paul Lynch! What an amazing, horrifying, & one hopes INSTRUCTIVE book on fascism. Yes, pay attention, Amerikkka. It is stunning. Un-put-downable. Read pages via the Look Inside feature here: www.stairwellbooks.co.uk/product/a-mi... www.bishopsstortfordindependent.co.uk/whats-on/tea...

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Teacher’s novel about Nazi Göring is horrifying lesson from history for Stortford students

Paul Lynch, who attended and taught at St Mary’s Catholic School for 15 years, returned to the secondary to discuss his book, A Mind Prone to Evil.

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Stairwell Books @stairwellbooks.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

@wearejames.bsky.social Hello, who do we contact to ensure we don't fall afoul of copyright laws, and remain ethical, with a character in an upcoming book thinking of the lyrics to "Sit Down"?

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Stairwell Books @stairwellbooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

In or near Manchester UK? Love to read? TOMORROW, Free, Northern Publishers' Fair, at the glorious Central Library, with at least 14 presses & a massive range of genres. FUN! Plus, meet agents! Bring Qs! #books #manchester #library #YA #ChildrensBooks #SciFi #Poetry #PoliticalWriting

Poster with orange background and logos of 14 publishers and two literary agencies. Northern Publishers' Fair, Saturday 27 September, Manchester Central Library, 11am to 3.30pm.
Text: New for this Autumn networking edition!
The chatty table: Agents Emma Layfield (Children's Book North Agency) and Clare Coombes (Liverpool Literary Agency) will be on hand to chat to any aspiring/established authors with publication journey questions! Emma also happy to chat to any children's book illustrators.
Grab a Fly on the Wall Press goodie bag; a limited edition tote: 'Reading is Resistance', with two free mystery books and bookish goodies!
Publishers attending currently include:
Fly on the Wall Press
Manchester University Press
Spilt Ink Magazine
Confingo Publishing
Peepal Tree Press
Vertebrate (Adventure) Publishing
Carcanet
Stairwell Books
Saraband
Northodox
Flapjack Press

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Stairwell Books @stairwellbooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

In or near Mancs? THIS SATURDAY: the return of Northern Publishers Book fair! Free! Mancs central library, 27 Sept 11-3.30pm. This time: chat with agents! Founded & organised by amazing Bella of @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social!

Poster with orange background and logos of 13 publishers and two literary agencies. Northern Publishers' Fair, Saturday 27 September, Manchester Central Library, 11am to 3.30pm. Text:

New for this Autumn networking edition! The chatty table:
Agents Emma Layfield (Children's Book North Agency) and Clare Coombes (Liverpool Literary Agency) will be on hand to chat to any aspiring/established authors with publication journey questions! Emma also happy to chat to any children's book illustrators.
Grab a Fly on the Wall Press goodie bag; a limited edition tote: 'Reading is Resistance', with two free mystery books and bookish goodies!
Publishers attending currently include:
Fly on the Wall Press
Manchester University Press
Spilt Ink Magazine
Confingo Publishing
Peepal Tree Press
Vertebrate (Adventure) Publishing
Carcanet
Stairwell Books
Saraband
Northodox
Flapjack Press

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Stairwell Books @stairwellbooks.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

A poem i wrote ages ago. Poem in ALT. Image shows the twin blue beams that shine up from where the Twin Towers once stood.

Poem rendered as Jpg to squeeze all those extra words onto a Blue Sky post.

poem:

Blue Search Lights

As ever
twin beams of electric blue shine to a heaven
that may not notice.
Here in England it is 1 pm, there, still 8 am,
thus nearly an hour before the first plane.

In the time-loop playing in our heads,
the doomed are still stopping for coffee,
kissing spouses and children off to their day,
or, if early to work, checking post and emails,
dropping pastry crumbs onto paperwork;
running over to-do lists.
They do not know.

Once 9, and then 10 am have come, and gone, again,
we resume the cycle of year onto year;
the grainy footage ends,
the dead are reburied, revaporized, remembered.

And tonight, the blue beams will ply the sky,
a child’s flashlight trying to reach the moon,
signal a god,
to motivate a giant hand to offer comfort, vow to care.
In the darkness, what else is there
but a flashlight’s tepid warmth?

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Northern Books @northernbooksblog.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

New review out for Blackbird's Song and A Fistful of Ashes, published by Stairwell Books! @stairwellbooks.bsky.social Check it out at: www.northernbooks.org

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Home | Northern Books

Northern Books - Looking at the Northern publishing industry through the lens of our best books.

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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

okay this brightened up my day by at least a thousandfold

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Peepal Tree Press @peepaltreepress.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

We have just signed two amazing new poetry books for 2026! These are returning members of the Peepal Tree family, so we know you'll all be pleased to see their latest work: * Riddled by Tanya Shirley * Before the Rain by Christine Craig

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Bocas Lit Fest @bocaslitfest.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Thanks to all who joined us at The Writers Centre for a lovely evening with @amandasmythstories.bsky.social, author of Look at You, who discussed her new novel-in-stories with Shivanee Ramlochan. More at: facebook.com/share/p/15wa... #bocas2025 @novelniche.bsky.social @peepaltreepress.bsky.social

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Stairwell Books @stairwellbooks.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

This sounds brilliant AND important. You want to help? Admit we are awash in (unasked for, yet very real) privilege. Europeans & upstart Americans benefited from the horrors of enslavement. Admit it! Hey we just gotta Change The World, eh.

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Ruth Aylett @ruthaylett.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Love and drugs and quantum physics in the Scottish Highlands and Islands - Solstice, from @stairwellbooks.bsky.social Stairwell Books! #WritingCommunity www.stairwellbooks.co.uk/product/sols...

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Stairwell Books @stairwellbooks.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Okay he miiiiight be dodgy but he's a heckuva writer. If you start Down to Earth, you won't be able to put it down til it's done.

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Stairwell Books @stairwellbooks.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Mission: Find Mum by Jo Somerset, and lauded by many (including *THE* Jackie Kay!), has been shortlisted for The Rubery YA Book Award! CONGRATS, Jo! Art by @dtreacher.bsky.social!

Colourful book cover for Middle Grade fiction, Mission: Find Mum, written by Jo Somerset and illustrated by Dawn Treacher. Cover shows two children, a taller girl and a shorter child, walking along a rocky beach. Seagulls fly overhead, and a large ferry or other boat is off in the distance.

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Dawn Treacher @dtreacher.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

A great teaser chapter by our talented group member @evabielbyauthor.bsky.social up on the blog today. www.evabielby.co.uk/single-post/...

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Stairwell Books @stairwellbooks.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Awwwww. Everyone just wants to be loved.

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Dawn Treacher @dtreacher.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

A zoom interview this morning for a Peterborough school podcast discussing Lost In Time and Pandemonium Of Parrots. Sharing the love of books. @tinytreebooks.bsky.social @stairwellbooks.bsky.social #kidslit #books #reading

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Stairwell Books @stairwellbooks.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

In or near Burnley this Saturday? Join us at Burnley Words Festival #Writing #publishing Write That Novel Now with @garethwoodwrites.bsky.social. The Authors Stage, Burnley Mechanics, Burnley. Sat 17 May 2025 1:00PM. Click link for further info & for tickets! www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/bur...

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 13/04/2025

Helene created legit climate refugees. Like one of my best friends is one. Conditions in rural Western NC were no longer livable, & she’d fought it out for months deep in mutual aid getting resources to people & helping with the stranded & missing, but the area is destroyed & she moved to Kentucky.

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Dr Carrie Etter @carrieetter.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Watch this space! Our first call for poetry chapbook submissions from UK authors is coming soon!

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Stairwell Books @stairwellbooks.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

@carrieetter.bsky.social Good morning (lol for me; I'm temporarily in Trumpistan): we're receiving tons of mss. Not necessarily global majority. We're now looking at 2026/2027 publishing schedule! Lots of great poets. Too many mss; not enough time. Many from female/NB.

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Jasmine Crockett @jasmineforus.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The fact that everything around us is burning to the ground & some people still have no clue that they voted for the arsonist or are complicit in the arson is absolutely mind boggling. People are ok with it so long as the black woman isn’t their President 🤯. America, we have a problem!

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Yes, the stock market may be tanking and our national security apparatus has never been more vulnerable and we're on the verge of both economic collapse and war, but it was all worth it to keep pronouns out of email signatures.

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Stairwell Books @stairwellbooks.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Stairwell tends to (TRIES TO) avoid political posts but: this is true. Stairwell began in the US in 2005 & we're mighty sorry abt the pending collapse of The American Experiment. We're hopeful sane US residents can rescue the nation, but pragmatic. All humans are related. One species. #LoveEachOther

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Now this is a sport I could get behind!

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Stairwell Books @stairwellbooks.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

We adore this event. We've met brilliant authors, excellent publishing colleagues, & brought unique amazing books direct to the public. ALL the publishers at this Fair are worth a look. Join us!

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Stairwell Books @stairwellbooks.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Good!! Stop stealing everyone's history!

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