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Blatant self-promotion alert! Oh please fuck off with that.......

New thing here collating all the blurbs for the book, pre-order etc.

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Flower Factory | Ortac Press Flower Factory: A Fairy TaleBy Richard Foster Freedom of Movement wasn’t always an alien concept to the British. Flower Factory tells of an English seasonal worker going to live and work in the Nethe...

(And it’s TELLS ME, that typo’s bugging me and here’s the link) www.ortacpress.com/product-page...

A copy of Flower Factory by Richard Foster, held in front of book shelves.

My publisher, the mighty @ortacpress.bsky.social tell me that the royalty advance on my first book Flower Factory is paid off. Now I can earn hard coin/good screw on it. Learn about the odd combo of raving and tulips in NL, anno 2000. Print, online, please consider buying one? Thank you, Richard xx

Keshed Check out Keshed - In the derelict shell of what was once his family home, a dying man surveys the wreckage of his former life and drinks himself senseless, haunted by the chain of events that led him...

Keshed finally available for preorder via @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social if anyone's after a copy. Out 12th Feb. Can't see any endorsements on here but there are tons in my pinned post and loads more on my tl from folk like Robin Ince, Mark Bowles, Wendy Erskine etc 🖤🙏

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Preordering now and highly recommended.

Stu’s writing is incandescent, a word I’d rarely use for many other living writers I’ve read.

Detour | Ortac Press Detour: Photography as Antidepressant Therapyby Abele Navin PUBLISHED 02/10/25 Coming soon from Pendle Press & Ortac Press—a collaborative publication between two small indie publishers. 'I couldn...

Today we publish Detour by Abele Navin.

Co-published with Pendle Press, this beautiful Tokyo-set photobook is a powerful exploration of bipolar disorder through images and prose.

You can order a copy of the book at a discounted price from our website.

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Calling Bristol Heads! This will be a fantastic night with the best people!

The photo you see below was taken by the marvellous Travis Elborough in Bunhill Fields after Sinclair had walked us there. He had just climbed on top of the grave marking of John Bunyan seconds earlier. Sinclair is the real deal.

Hennigan’s language is explosive, Baroque, think Henry Millar meets Jim Cartwright and Violette Leduc with the intelligence of Mark Fisher orchestrating the tune.

Keshed is a wild, lyrical, journey through the labyrinth of Northern English working-class culture. A story of escape and belonging, hope and loss, this is a beautiful, blazing debut, burning from first page right to last.

Another endorsement for Keshed, in two parts below, from the inordiantely talented @susannacrossman.bsky.social. Ngl these are knocking me over, and so many of them too 😱

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Domadomadoma-Blumblumblum: Conversations with Other Animals | Ortac Press Domadomadoma-Blumblumblum: Conversations with Other Animalsby Luke Thompson PUBLISHED 05/09/24 What do the longest-serving Canadian Prime Minister and a ketamine-injecting psychonaut have in common? ...

We published @lukeathompson.bsky.social's Domadomadoma-Blumblumblum just over a year ago.

It's a fascinating and surreal journey through our attempts - real and imagined - at conversation with other species.

Order a copy from your bookshop of choice, or from our website:

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Richard Foster: *Punk Rock Birdwatching Club* at East Bristol Books A discussion and reading with artist and writer Richard Foster on his latest collection *The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club* (Ortac Press, 2025), in conversation with author Joshua Jones (*Local Fires*)....

Bristol! Join @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social and Joshua Jones for some Punk Rock Birdwatching at the brilliant East Bristol Books on Friday 10th October.

More details here! Spread the word, this will be fun.

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ICYMI. Tix available now for the first Manc area Keshed gig @serenitybookshop.bsky.social, with thanks to David for this ringing endorsement.

Lucky enough to have read an early copy of Stu’s Keshed and it’s stunning - a brilliant and brutal beast of a book that will be one of THE novels of 2026 for those who know their stuff. Stu and Terri are a match made in heaven and I cannot wait for this event!

In news unrelated to shit mental health, tech hassles or grindcore......Tix now available for the @serenitybookshop.bsky.social Keshed gig in Feb, hosted by the force of nature that is Terri White. Get em while you can 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Internals from Detour, a photobook we publish next month in partnership with Pendle Press.

Combining striking photography and stark memoir, Detour documents Tokyo architect Abele's experience with Bipolar disorder.

A meditation on the power of creativity in managing mental health.

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Done 12 hours on this today and finally, FINALLY feel like i'm actually WRITING the fucker. What a buzz. Gonna be a long old haul but with Keshed out next year this won't drop till mid-2027 i don't reckon so i got all the time in the world. The blag is truly afoot.

@ortacpress.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club teeshirt, in grey with white lettering and olive, tan & scarlet design. Made by We Are 1 of 100, Glasgow.

BEYOND delighted to announce that @weare1of100.bsky.social is making a Punk Rock Birdwatching Club teeshirt! You can successfully hide in scrub near a cycle path and not look dodgy! In fact, you’re better dressed than Beau Brummell with this on, phwoar! Details soon, add this in your spotter book.

Join @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social at @krankenhausfest.bsky.social this BH Sunday! Richard is part of an excellent lineup.

Book Bar: Richard Foster – Flower Factory - Worm - A Rotterdam based organisation working at the intersection of culture and arts.

Heads up to anyone in Rotterdam tonight. I’m going to be reading from my first book, Flower Factory, at WORM tonight. 19.30 in the foyer, free.

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And another here that the UK print media wouldn't touch with a bargepole but was good enough to get a personal rejection from the literary editor of the New Yorker. Thankfully 3 A:M supremo @andrewgallix.bsky.social doesn't flinch at the tough stuff.

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For a flavour of ny fiction, here's a tiny Christmas ghost story, first published in 2022 in a micropress anthology by Massive Overheads, republishwled online at the legendary 3:AM magazine.

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How To Get Keshed and Influence People A list of titles related to Keshed. Some are works by my literary influences; some are by writers who other people have said Keshed reminds them of; and some are linked in other ways. To keep it inter...

There's also a BIG list of books here that are linked to the text in one way or another if anyone's interested in trying to figure out what kind of book could possiblty be the bastard offspring of this lot 🤣

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"Like reading a Molotov Cocktail." -Rose Ruane, Women's Prize longlisted author of Birding

"What a fucking triumph. Heartbreaking, vicious and so brilliant." - the great Heidi James, author of Wounding, So the Doves and The Sound Mirror

"Keshed is a beautiful, visceral, gut-punch of a novel. Hennigan is one of the country's finest writers on the confluence of capitalism and class." - Angharrad Hampshire, Wallter Scott Prize shortlisted author of The Mare

“Keshed is an incredibly powerful book. Immersive, visceral and compelling. For long stretches of it I was right back in the world of my upbringing, the stink and the glory.” - Mark Bowles, Goldsmiths Prize shortlisted author of All My Precious Madness

"Keshed brilliantly captures the reckless, intoxicated energy of an unforgettable cast of characters. Profane, darkly funny, unflinching in its focus on the wreckage of ordinary lives: Henngian is a voice we need." - Naomi Booth, Edge Hill Readers Choice Winner, author of Raw Content

“I want to use the words 'gritty and brutal’ to describe this phenomenal work but ‘beautiful and intricate’ need to be alongside them to fully do justice to this visceral textual landscape.It’s a book that both takes and gives.Like great art.” - Juno Roche,writer of A Working Class Family Ages Badly