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Stairwell Books: Based in York, tales from all over. A book for everyone! YA/Children’s books, novels, genre fic, nonfiction, history, poetry & story collections: a book for everyone. Delighted STRIKE shortlisted for Forward Prize 2024.
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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-...
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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November 8, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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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
November 8, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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WE LOVE TO SEE IT.

STILL FEED YOUR NEIGHBORS THOUGH.
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BREAKING: The USDA tells states funds will be made available later today to pay November SNAP benefits in full.
November 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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“Distrust all those in whom the urge to punish is strong.” - Goethe
November 8, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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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.
November 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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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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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
November 7, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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What a great @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social !! Take a peek inside Solstice (and Equinox, Book 1) via Look Inside! on our website: www.stairwellbooks.co.uk/product/sols...
November 6, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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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

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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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October 17, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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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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@worldfantasy2025.bsky.social begins a week today. My first WFC as a published horror/fantasy writer and i cannot wait. There for the duration and very privileged to be both reading and included on this panel. New novel dropping in April 2026. ‘To Those from Below’ @stairwellbooks.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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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
November 6, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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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...
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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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October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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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"?
October 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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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
September 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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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
September 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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The Equinox is not what it seems...!
With @ruthaylett.bsky.social from @stairwellbooks.bsky.social #writing #book
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Equinox
Helen and Malcolm independently stumble upon interlocking pieces of a multi-faceted conspiracy, concerning the Fundamental Forces (F2) plant on the Moor. It’s soon clear that deeper, perhaps …
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September 22, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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And then comes the Solstice...
With @ruthaylett.bsky.social from @stairwellbooks.bsky.social #writing #book
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Solstice
Helen and her cousin Malcolm are reluctantly thrown together again to combat a multi-dimensional conspiracy, involving love and drugs and quantum futures. As the solstice approaches, they must coop…
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September 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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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?
September 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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September 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Come if you can!

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Edge-Lit 11 | Derby QUAD
View our latest event: Edge-Lit 11. See what the available times are for this event.
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September 8, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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New review out for Blackbird's Song and A Fistful of Ashes, published by Stairwell Books!
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Check it out at: www.northernbooks.org
Home | Northern Books
Northern Books - Looking at the Northern publishing industry through the lens of our best books.
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August 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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#FF Give some ❤️ and a follow to these publications in the lit community:
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August 2, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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okay this brightened up my day by at least a thousandfold
September 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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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
July 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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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.
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July 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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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.
peepaltreepress.bsky.social Peepal Tree Press @peepaltreepress.bsky.social · Jul 17
Coming 25 September 2025: The House in Bacolet by David Lambert

Hugh and Julia want to ‘get involved’ in the life of their new island home in Tobago — little suspecting how much the past horrors of slavery, and their best intentions, will impact their lives.

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July 31, 2025 at 12:05 PM