Fran Moldaschl - When The Giants Passed Through

The front cover of 'Everything Amplified' by Sarah Lippett and Ziggy Hanaor. It shows a large guitar amp with with two young people sat on top.

Just managed to sneak this in before Eldest took it back to the library - what an absolute stonker of a graphic novel. The music references are *gold* as are the feelings of being a teenage outcast. 100/10, no notes.

Fantastic books. Seems bonkers not to have a look.

While I'm sure this is true, I'm also sure that the world we live in has a lot to do with it.

YAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!

I'm about a third of the way through Green Laughing and am absolutely loving it so far. It's really unexpected, and the flashbacks are integrated into the prose in such a fluid way 😍

The Darkest Tide is up next and I'm super excited about that too!

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This Saturday, we will be celebrating Bookshop Day at Dark Peak Books in Glossop with some of our fantastic writers! Please do come down and say hello if you're in the area, and be sure to support your favourite bookshops!

We haven't mentioned The Witch Boy for a while. Well, it is spooky season... AND LOOK AT THIS COVER!!! 😍

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Right. Enough time online now. I have too many books to read and more inbound (I didn't buy them, I swear! It's just library books!)

Enjoy your evening, friends. 🥰

*Squealing*

I encourage you to read banned books and read them with your kids. (Age appropriate ones--yes they have even banned picture books.) Talk about book banning with your kids. Ask them what they think about someone else's parents telling their teachers what your kids are mature enough to read.

We open for novel and novella query submissions on November 1.

Queer Crow Death Magic Tarot A 78-card potent jewel-coloured tarot deck created with linoprinting. Artwork is complete & project is ready to print.

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That is always super disappointing. Though also probably for the best, because according to other people, I already have too many trebuchets.🙄

Pro tip: NEVER use a joke character name.
I used Phil McCrackin "temporarily" & it stuck, so I had the other characters make jokes about it etc.
Now I'm writing a synopsis & I don't have enough words for "yes this is intentional, no it's not a comedy book, yes, I do intend to keep it as it is." 😐🫠

You get medieval Playmobil and no one thought to inform me?!?!?

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Congratulations again to Sarah Hagger-Holt and to all the shortlisted rebel authors! Great evening celebrating with @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social Their book packs include excellent reading guides www.letterboxlibrary.com/product-page...

A very basic comic strip with "two" Romans (the same image but flipped sort of basic) where the left Roman says 'Look what I made! It's a...' in reference to one of the mystery dodecahedron's often found on Roman sites. The right Roman says 'Say no more, it's obvious! We don't even have to write it down'. Beneath is a picture of a shocked looking cat, under the title 'Archaeologists today'. The cat is saying 'What did they use it for??'

Chris Bradford introduces Nova Broadcasting live from the spaceship Helios, bestselling author Chris Bradford has a special announcement! Watch on to hear all about his thrilling new book, NOVA; before disaster strikes ...

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Review by franmoldaschl - Claire Morris is Completely Lost I really loved this book, particularly the intergenerational friendship of Claire and Hazel. I...

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Bought this on a whim in the @northodoxpress.bsky.social sale & absolutely loved it. The depiction of grief & two slightly broken people coming together was amazing.
Not my usual genre - so glad I picked it up. Reminded me of Lost For Words by Stephanie Butland.

These look great, but are definitely something I wouldn't have considered before reading 'Pride and Prejudices: Queer Lives and the Law' by Keio Yoshida.

If you've not read it yet, definitely give it (and these books!!) a go!

(I'm using 'Anglo-English' to describe the whole of the UK mainland, which isn't really correct - I speak Scots Standard English, for example, but I also know the word. I chose 'Anglo-English' because pretty much all UK English speakers understand that version and I'm limited on characters.)

Agnostic Scot here.

The Danish word 'stum' has a similar meaning, suggesting 'schtum' is of fairly old Germanic origins. Whether it stayed in Anglo-English dialects and left US-English, or whether it re-entered Anglo-English from Jewish roots, it's hard to say.

Very cool linguistic observation!

A tall beech tree in a field against a grey sky. The trunk is split, and a white woman stands inside, looking upwards and smiling.

The poster (Fran) - a white woman in a black raincoat - is stood holding out a tweed flat-cap full of mushrooms.

A grey, folding basket, lined with a dog towel, containing a lot of field mushrooms, penny buns, and scarletina boletes.

Went for a lovely walk after the storm. Found a cool tree and an amazing quantity of mushrooms! Lots of field mushrooms, some penny buns, and some scarletina boletes.

We had some field mushrooms in a salad and the rest in a pearl barley risotto. The boletes are in the dehydrator.

This world! 😍🥹💗🥰

So much!

😱They're GORGEOUS!!! I've never seen them in real life!!

I want to do puppy yoga!!! How does one achieve this incredible thing?!

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Eldest kiddo - who generally doesn't do non-fiction - was reading this about twenty minutes ago, using the page about the start of the universe to rather convincingly argue for the odds of there being life on other planets.

Such a gorgeous book!!

Really looking forward to this one!

The husband is just trying to pick this up again 🥰 He played the Souls games and Bloodborne, but I think Elden Ring just seemed too big.

Glad to hear you enjoyed it - I love the setting, but my dyspraxic hands can't cope with the level of frustration I'd need to endure to give it a go!😅