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Firefly Press
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Independent publisher of quality fiction for children & teens. WINNER Branford Boase first children’s novel Award, Yoto Carnegie Medal, Wales Book of the Year

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🌟We're signing off for the Holidays! 🖋️

Wishing all our Firefly friends a very merry festive season, and a huge thank you for all your support in 2025, and beyond. See you in 2026! 📅🎆

With all best wishes,
Penny, Ben, Hayley, Lucy, Becka, Grace and Amy
(The Firefly Team) xx
December 24, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Day 18 #greatchildrensbooksadventcalendar from Annie Everall OBE

Feather by Manon Stefan Ros published by @fireflypress.bsky.social
December 20, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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📣BOOKSELLERS
📣EDUCATORS
📣LIBRARIANS
📣REVIEWERS

Need something to dive into over the festive period? We've got something for everyone currently available to request on @netgalley.bsky.social

👉️https://www.netgalley.com/pub/fireflypress

(Get those requests in asap before the festive break! ✨️)
December 19, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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📕✨️ COVER REVEAL ✨️📕

From author of #SummerReadingChallenge favourite, #MyNameisRiver

#ENTANGLED by @emmarea8.bsky.social
Coming 2nd April 2026

🇮🇹🎨

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December 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Confused by cricket? Gobsmacked by googlies? 🤔

With England charging into the third Ashes test, what better time to inspire the next generation with #CrackingCricket by @robinbennettauthor.bsky.social - part of our hilarious and informative #StupendousSports series. Also available in Australia 🏏
December 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Well done @fireflypress.bsky.social - we look forward to re-stocking one of our all time best sellers!
December 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Some good news to carry us all into the weekend. The Mab is back! The collection of short Welsh myths and legends, re-told for young readers, has been rescued from the Unbound bin fire by @fireflypress.bsky.social and will be back on bookshelves very soon! #KidLit #KidLitUK
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ICYMI: More than 1,500 copies of The MAB, a children’s title edited by authors Matt Brown and Eloise Williams, have been rescued by Welsh indie publisher Firefly Press, following Boundless collapse 👇 #BookSky
Firefly Press snaps up Welsh children’s book The MAB following Boundless collapse
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December 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Day 10 #greatchildrensbookadventcalendar from Annie Everall OBE brings some amazing poetry collections @otterbarrybooks.bsky.social @macmillanpubusa.bsky.social @fireflypress.bsky.social @bloomsburybooks.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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🌟COVER REVEAL🌟

#Wonderland from #PatienceAgbabi is a YA verse novel, and a celebration of Northern Soul music and culture in 1980s north Wales.

🎨 Cover designed in-house

📚️ HITTING BOOKSHOPS 14 MAY 2026 📚️

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#NorthernSoul #ColwynBayPier #WiganCasino #1980s #UKYA #80sYA
December 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Watch Out Girl! A masterful YA novel from #PatienceAgbabi is coming next May. 🎶

And You Didn't Say a Word but we have a gorgeous cover to share with you! Tune in to @fireflypress socials next Weds 👀📗

#Wonderland #UKYA #NorthernSoul #ColwynBay
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November 30, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Because @fireflypress.bsky.social are the best publisher they are ignoring Bleak Friday and instead donating £1 for each book sold through their website to a homelessness charity for the rest of this year
November 28, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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84% of parents and carers believe sharing stories gives children the best start.

Help every child unwrap the #MagicOfBooks this Christmas – donate today ✨ https://bit.ly/4rk76Am
A boy reads to his mum and pet dog sitting on a bed. In the background there is snow falling outside the window.
November 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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We are so proud to support the #NationalYearofReading2026 with @literacy-trust.bsky.social, and look forward to meeting with them this afternoon in Cardiff! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

If you're into it, read into it. Go All In. 📚️

#GoAllIn2026
November 21, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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TONIGHT!!
November 21, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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I'm very much looking forward to this event, next Friday.
November 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Delighted to be part of this important project with the Wales Children's Book of the Year winner #AHistoryofmyWeird / #HanesfyHynodrwydd by #ChloeHeuch, adapted by #MaredLlwyd
POST FROM BOOKS COUNCIL OF WALES We are sending over 49,000 free books to schools across the country this term, as part of the Rhyngom scheme funded by Welsh Government and Adnodd. Rhyngom is a three-year, £810,000 project to publish more reading books for pleasure that celebrate and promote diversity, for children and young people. Since it started in 2022, the project has supported the creation of brand-new original books in both Welsh and English, as well as the adaptation of English-language books into Welsh, to create books that reflect more of our stories, people and communities. In the image: Delyth Ifan from the Books Council of Wales, Emyr George from Adnodd and Rebecca Wilson, author of The Winter Festival. #Rhyngom
November 14, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Join us for a #DarkNightsareforReading soiree at
#AddymanBooks in #HayonWye with 3 writers from 3 indie Welsh presses:⁠
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@clairefayers.bsky.social @fireflypress.bsky.social

@mariellisdunning.bsky.social @honnopress.bsky.social

#CarysShannon @parthianbooks.bsky.social
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See you there? 🌙📚⁠
November 12, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Today we're hosting an interview with Gatlin Perrin, author of DIRK JONES IS NOT THE CHOSEN ONE

@fireflypress.bsky.social @gatlinperrin.bsky.social #UKYASpotlight #UKYA

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Author Interview: DIRK JONES IS NOT THE CHOSEN ONE by Gatlin Perrin
An interview with Gatlin Perrin, author of DIRK JONES IS NOT THE CHOSEN ONE
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November 10, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Here's a complete list of all the children's and YA authors featured on our website. schoolreadinglist.co.uk/featured-aut... #kidlit #ukedchat
Children's authors featured on the School Reading List
A list of all the children's authors featured in our recommended fiction and nonfiction reading lists for children aged 3-16.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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So, who's going to win???

The Faithful or #TheTraitors?

Comment your guess on this post before 9pm tonight, 6/11/25, and we'll pick a random winner from those correct to win #LieorDie and #LieorDieBloodMoon by #AJClack

UK only.

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#CelebrityTraitors
November 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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"a hugely enjoyable and original story" 5⭐ for our NEW Book of the Week, DIRK JONES IS NOT THE CHOSEN ONE by Gatlin Perrin @fireflypress.bsky.social #KidLit booksforkeeps.co.uk/review/dirk-...
November 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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If you like your stories ghostly, scary, supernatural and steeped in legend & folklore, then The Red Gloves by Catherine Fisher is the collection for you. @fireflypress.bsky.social
Here’s my review for @justimaginecentre.bsky.social
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October 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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It's #Halloween!⁠
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Here are some more our of fave spooky reads... 👻⁠
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#DeloresMackenzie has always been able to see the ghostly overstayers that haunt the Old Town. But this Hallowe'en will she be strong enough to defeat those intent on destroying her?⁠
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October 31, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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We're counting down to #Halloween with some spooky reads... 👻⁠

Beware the bloodstained man who tries to stop the coach... something is not right at #CraterLake activity centre. Then, at night, things get much stranger... it's a school trip straight from your nightmares! #JenniferKillick
October 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Strange Tales: Journey into an uncanny world where invisible beings move among us; skeletons dance, animals speak and luck, spells, fear and fortune are not to be treated lightly!

✍️ Signed copies: fireflypress.co.uk/books/strang...

@bouncemarketing.bsky.social #Halloween #CalanGaeaf
October 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM