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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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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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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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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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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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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.
July 2, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Delighted to again participate in this vibrant northern-based independent book fest!
Saturday 26 April FREE!
#IndiePress #Novels #Poetry #YA
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Poster for the Northern Publishers' Fair, taking place on Saturday 26th April 2025 from 11am to 3:30pm at Manchester Central Library. The background is orange with bold white and green text. The poster features logos of participating publishers, including: Fly on the Wall Press, Harper North, Northodox Press, Incline Press, Peepal Tree Press, Nightjar Press, Confingo Publishing/Greenhouse Books, Comma Press, Stairwell Books, UCLan Publishing, Flapjack Press, Sinoist Books, Manchester University Press, Written Off Publishing, and Saraband.
April 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Woo hoo! Stairwell will be at at Chorlton Library Manchester on 24 April with a panel of authors who've written everything from Middle Grade adventure, to historical fic, to NHS memoirs from Drs, Nurses, etc, to Memoirs of a Dominatrix! ECLECTIC eh? 6-7pm. FREE!! Readings, chats, book deals!
Colorful cover of Mission: Find Mum, written by Jo Somerset, showing two children, an older girl and young lad, walking on a beach with seagulls above. Described as "Beautiful, gripping, unpredictable adventure". Cover art for Tales from the Medicine Cabinet: Funny and Poignant stories from medical professionals, edited by Mark P Henderson. Shows a white GP lab coat n a solid wooden coat hook with a stethoscope draped over the top of the lab coat. Cover art for Mistress: Memoirs of a dominatrix, by Lucina White. This cover is VERY red. Red background, w handcuffs near the top, and two very very spiky high heels, shiny black, but we can glimpse red interiors.
March 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Final 4 Days of BookMas!

Sunlit Pool of the Finished Image, David Hill: a feminist reclamation of a notorious 19thC painting. Longlisted, Bridport'23

We're celebrating #Jolabokaflod with Buy 3 Get 1 Free! #History #fiction
Free delivery w/in York Outer RingRoad now til Dec25! Please order by 23rd
Shows 10 book covers of recent and/or highlighted books. Russian revolution of 1903-5, Romans in York, Buffalo Bill's trip to Hull, UK.
December 20, 2024 at 5:55 PM
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Final 4 Days of BookMas!

Sci-fi / Fantasy / Horror

At Night, White Bracken by Gareth Wood: Compared to Stephen King, endorsed by Ramsey Campbell!

Stairwell Books celebrate #Jolabokaflod: Buy 3 Get 1 Free! #scififantasy

Free delivery w/in York Outer RingRoad now til Dec 25! Pls order by Dec 23.
Shows covers of 10 highlighted or recent sci-fi, fantasy, horror books published by York-based Stairwell Books.
December 20, 2024 at 5:49 PM
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Book sales! The Final 4 Days of BookMas!

#Poetry
2024 poetry book of our year: STRIKE by Sarah Wimbush – Shortlisted, 2024 Forward Prize, best collection

Stairwell Books is having #Jolabokaflod! Buy 3 Get 1 Free!

Free delivery within the York Outer RingRoad now til Dec 25! Please order by 23 Dec
Book covers to 8 poetry collections. We have over 60 active titles
December 20, 2024 at 5:43 PM