@incendiarybooks.bsky.social
Independent. Manchester/Salford. Debut release, To Rise in the Dark (2024) Second release, Hunter (2025)
Some book news! 🥳
14.11.2025 15:22 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Image of the cover of the novel To Rise in the Dark by Nick J Brown.
Bought myself To Rise in the Dark by Nick J. Brown. His almost daily Vic & Bob pics on here bring me such a warm glow, I already feel endeared to his work. But this seems right up my street and if my delivery is on track, I will be reading this weekend. @northernmailman.bsky.social
13.11.2025 08:56 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Top warmup man Bobby Chariot
‘I’ve never read any Yeats, but I did enjoy his Wine Lodges.’
13.11.2025 08:17 — 👍 40 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
A print of Big Sam Beckett in a Paris cafe in 1985, by John Minihan.
New face in my writing corner…
11.11.2025 08:19 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Patti Smith saying: I just liked
Patti Smith saying: To be with my books
Monday
10.11.2025 08:10 — 👍 23 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Pictures of Manchester pubs and music stuff surrounding a book, To Rise in the Dark by Nick J. Brown
A dead cult singer, a warehouse worker on borrowed time, and a daughter looking for the truth about the past...
What price the rock ‘n’ roll dream?
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0DD...
Hunter by Nick J. Brown. A book with a dachshund wearing. Stethoscope sitting on a wooden table in front of a grey wall.
Book #15 of 2025, from our own @northernmailman.bsky.social. Great fun.
30.10.2025 11:27 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0‘Miss Costello said to me: "You haven't a good word to say for anyone but the failures". I thought that was quite the nicest thing anyone had said to me for a long time.’
September, 1935
Puppet Nation, political spy thriller by Keegan Wilson.
Sheesh. Almost clean forgot I have a book out. Puppet Nation. If fast action paced political spy thrillers tickle your pickle then you can order it via various book websites.
27.10.2025 08:00 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 1
Reader, we need you. This morning we woke to the extraordinary news that our bank accidentally duplicated several of our payments that were scheduled to be paid – ‘we’re sorry for any inconvenience.’ As you no doubt know, small presses, like many small businesses, are run on a knife edge, and as our print reps will attest, every transaction is a haggle, a struggle to ensure survival. To be clear, this will not kill us off, but we do need to quickly find around £1,000 to pay our next print bills on time. It’s a hard time for so many, we know, and we do not ask this lightly, but if you’re planning on buying books for Christmas presents, it would make the world of difference if you headed to our site today and bought a book. 🧡
#booksky, can you help? In so many ways this has been a glorious week of collaboration and support, but it’s ended on a downer…
25.10.2025 10:22 — 👍 20 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 8Now published as an ebook. A light-hearted & eclectic travelogue, as two ‘mature’ friends embark on day trips to seven Lancashire towns (Bolton, Oldham, Preston, Bury, Blackburn, Wigan and Rochdale) in search of cultural enlightenment (& in the interests of research, beer)
amzn.eu/d/2nGAOkI
‘At the Opera House that evening was H.M.S Pinochet, the high-kicking tale of a shopkeeper's daughter who dreams of one day peddling arms to Latin American dictatorships.’
Hunter by Nick J. Brown. Link to buy in pinned post.
Cafe de Flore
Les Deux Magots at Place Satre-Beauvoir
‘The twin cathedrals of existentialism’ - Brendan Behan.
19.10.2025 13:52 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A French edition of Waiting For Godot.
A shop called Godot & Sons
Found him. Plus your man Godot…
18.10.2025 16:03 — 👍 18 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Reading Beckett at Allée Samuel Beckett
Reading Becket outside his Montparnasse home.
Reading Beckett in his favourite boozer, Le Falstaff.
The grave of Samuel Beckett and his wife, Suzanne.
Waiting For Beckett…
18.10.2025 16:01 — 👍 25 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Shakespeare and Company, Paris.
Me and my other half.
Shakespeare and Company, Paris.
Two books, sunglasses and coffee.
An afternoon at Shakespeare and Co.
17.10.2025 15:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Top warmup man Bobby Chariot
‘Apparently the next great ecological disaster is overhyped celebrity novels. It’s true. They found a dead whale on the Southeast coast and when they cut it open there were 17 Richard Osman books inside. Charity shops won’t take them anymore so people are just pitching them into the sea.’
14.10.2025 12:20 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Latest read.
I’m a bit behind everyone else but the latest from our pal @northernmailman.bsky.social is another entertaining tour of the less salubrious parts of Manchester and Salford. Perfect for exiled Mancs.
When are we getting the trilogy Nick?
Richard M. Nixon
Gravity’s Rainbow (1973)
Samuel Beckett shorts story…
10.10.2025 19:02 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0Latest Big Sam update: it’s 1971 and the Nobel Laureate has just been asked to leave a Maltese church because he’s wearing shorts.
10.10.2025 15:31 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Samuel Beckett mosaic
Samuel Beckett biography and mosaic
Samuel Beckett biography, Damned to Fame.
Samuel Beckett mosaic at 53two bar in Manchester.
09.10.2025 16:02 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
A Thomas Pynchon balloon in an NY parade
A copy of Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon
Happy New Pynchon Novel Day to all who celebrate!
07.10.2025 07:28 — 👍 25 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
A copy of Hunter by Nick J. Brown and the quote, ‘…a very funny detective story on the Pynchon tip…’
‘…a very funny detective story on the Pynchon tip…’
A dachshund goes missing, a disgraced author disappears, a local death cult may or may not be on the loose. When all seems lost, call Hunter.
www.amazon.co.uk/Hunter-When-...
This is all very welcome but for the mistake in the final paragraphs; Shelagh Delaney was from Salford!
Get it right MANCHESTER Guardian!
What do they write in a script before Benedict Cumberbatch enters a scene?
Cue Cumberbatch.
Withnail and I remake films end scene with unorthodox lead actor…
‘And yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust?’
Cheers, Andy!
29.09.2025 09:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
