Manderley Press

With huge thanks to @financialtimes.com for featuring our forthcoming book Woman Alive in their #htsi section - as introduced by Graham Norton and illustrated by the fabulous @tomgauld.bsky.social
This book will be published next weekend on #internationalwomensday

Some things belong in pairs 💛🖤

Matching bookmarks… a “must” for all our editions. Here is our matching #helenehanff bookmark duo #booksky

A quick note about subscriptions! They are the life blood of bijou indie publishing and this is a massive thank you to all those of you who subscribed to the 6 x Manderley Press books for 2026. I’ve been happily preparing these signed tote bags to include with the first 2 x titles 👜📚🤩

Endpapers of joy!
Brand new bookish goodness on the horizon, illustrated to perfection by @tomgauld.bsky.social
- Woman Alive by Susan Ertz
#booksky #newbook

“I’m not extraordinary, it’s the things that happen to me that are extraordinary!”
- Helene Hanff

I cannot wait for our brand new “extraordinary” edition of Helene’s autobiography Underfoot in Show Business. Not long now!

#booksky #helenehanff

This book was inspired by real events - the rescue of a prize dairy cow (Venus) from under the noses of Nazi occupiers, all set on the remote Channel Island of Sark. Appointment with Venus - bonkers but brilliant!
#booksky #sark #ww2

The best kind of gifts 🤣

Huzzah they arrived! I hope your daughter enjoys the reads! 💕📚⚡️

💜 did you miss our news?!
💜 we are beyond thrilled to announce that Graham Norton has written the introduction to our forthcoming dystopian novel Woman Alive by Susan Ertz.
💜 and it’s illustrated by @tomgauld.bsky.social
Pre-orders are open manderleypress.com
#booksky #grahamnorton

Any questions just shout! 🙏📚💕

Have you ever wondered what a hardback book looks like without pages!? Here are our two latest titles, book n@ked, so to speak! #booksky #publishing

We’ve so enjoyed bringing Underfoot in Show Business back into print - and can’t get Oklahoma! out of our heads now!

It really is! I wonder if it’s time for a new adaptation for screen?!?

We’ve rediscovered a long out of print book by Helene Hanff - Underfoot in Show Business. To celebrate our new edition we have found a few vintage copies of the title that made Hanff a literary sensation! Of course - 84 Charing Cross Road
manderleypress.com/shop/p/84ccr

776 Mary Shelley in Bath (with Fiona Sampson) | My Last Book wit… As fans of the novel know, Frankenstein began with a flash of insight during an ill-fated holiday near Geneva in the summer of 1816, when the young woman then known…

“The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine.”
– Mary Shelley

@jackewilson.bsky.social talks to poet and biographer Fiona Sampson (In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl who Wrote Frankenstein) about the new book Mary Shelley in Bath.
#books #literature @manderleypress.bsky.social

Thank you! We are over the moon (!) with this design by Alice Pattullo (who is also a northerner) - it tells the story of the book inside!

“The Moon Is Making is superior in technical skill and dramatic power. Miss Jameson is a writer worth watching…”
- The New York Times, 1938
manderleypress.com/shop/p/moonismaking
#booksky #northernclassic #whitby

I love this feedback! I was the same when I first found the book in the library! I can’t wait to read more of her work… 📚🫶🙏

What would you do if you were the last woman alive?
This forgotten classic, written 90 years ago but set in 1985, imagines what might transpire, from a feminist perspective…
Woman Alive by Susan Ertz
manderleypress.com/shop/p/womanalive
#booksky #dystopiantiction
#feministclassic

Oooh thanks for your order! 📚🙏🫶

Last min Valentine’s inspo anyone?
#manderleypress #booksky #valentinesday

We wanted to stand out from the tote bag crowd, so we commissioned Alice Pattullo to illustrate our #Manderley bag and loved her design so much that we asked her to sign some! So a free signed tote bag is now included in every Manderley Press subscription… #booksky

Coming soon!

A Lost Classic Reborn: Susan Ertz’s Woman Alive Returns to the Spotlight

Once sidelined in literary history, our new edition of this curious sci-fi dystopian novel is now poised to reclaim its place as a landmark work

Pre-order here! manderleypress.com/shop/p/womanalive

#booksky

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
- Virginia Woolf
#shelfie #booksky #manderleypress

Love is in the air at Manderley Press! Thanks for all your support - February is a tricky month for indie businesses but all your orders have put a spring in my publishing step! Happy Valentines Day, in advance! #booksky #valentinesday

I’m chasing away the February blues by arranging books according to the colour of their spines, and then deciding which shades of cloth to choose for next year’s range of titles #bookskk

When January feels like Christmas… Today’s orders include the box set of all five Manderley Press children’s books, which I have wrapped here in gift paper to match the endpapers of our Rosemary Sutcliff kids novel set in Tudor London - The Armourer’s House. Roll on February! 🎁 #booksky

Let me know if you fancy a copy of our edition of Washington Square - I aimed to make it as enjoyable as possible for the modern reader with an intro by James uber fan Colm Tóibín and a beautiful new cover by Brooklyn-based illustrator Rose Wong. There’s a copy here with you name on it!

Such a powerfully emotional book and series. Amazing that it still evokes such strong memories over thirty years later!