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84% of parents and carers believe sharing stories gives children the best start.

Help every child unwrap the #MagicOfBooks this Christmas – donate today ✨ https://bit.ly/4rk76Am

We are so proud to support the #NationalYearofReading2026 with @literacy-trust.bsky.social, and look forward to meeting with them this afternoon in Cardiff! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

If you're into it, read into it. Go All In. 📚️

#GoAllIn2026

TONIGHT!!

I'm very much looking forward to this event, next Friday.

POST FROM BOOKS COUNCIL OF WALES We are sending over 49,000 free books to schools across the country this term, as part of the Rhyngom scheme funded by Welsh Government and Adnodd. Rhyngom is a three-year, £810,000 project to publish more reading books for pleasure that celebrate and promote diversity, for children and young people. Since it started in 2022, the project has supported the creation of brand-new original books in both Welsh and English, as well as the adaptation of English-language books into Welsh, to create books that reflect more of our stories, people and communities. In the image: Delyth Ifan from the Books Council of Wales, Emyr George from Adnodd and Rebecca Wilson, author of The Winter Festival. #Rhyngom

Delighted to be part of this important project with the Wales Children's Book of the Year winner #AHistoryofmyWeird / #HanesfyHynodrwydd by #ChloeHeuch, adapted by #MaredLlwyd

Join us for a #DarkNightsareforReading soiree at
#AddymanBooks in #HayonWye with 3 writers from 3 indie Welsh presses:⁠
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@clairefayers.bsky.social @fireflypress.bsky.social

@mariellisdunning.bsky.social @honnopress.bsky.social

#CarysShannon @parthianbooks.bsky.social
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See you there? 🌙📚⁠

Author Interview: DIRK JONES IS NOT THE CHOSEN ONE by Gatlin Perrin An interview with Gatlin Perrin, author of DIRK JONES IS NOT THE CHOSEN ONE

Today we're hosting an interview with Gatlin Perrin, author of DIRK JONES IS NOT THE CHOSEN ONE

@fireflypress.bsky.social @gatlinperrin.bsky.social #UKYASpotlight #UKYA

ukyaspotlight.co.uk/2025/11/10/a...

Children's authors featured on the School Reading List A list of all the children's authors featured in our recommended fiction and nonfiction reading lists for children aged 3-16.

Here's a complete list of all the children's and YA authors featured on our website. schoolreadinglist.co.uk/featured-aut... #kidlit #ukedchat

So, who's going to win???

The Faithful or #TheTraitors?

Comment your guess on this post before 9pm tonight, 6/11/25, and we'll pick a random winner from those correct to win #LieorDie and #LieorDieBloodMoon by #AJClack

UK only.

@bouncemarketing.bsky.social
#CelebrityTraitors

"a hugely enjoyable and original story" 5⭐ for our NEW Book of the Week, DIRK JONES IS NOT THE CHOSEN ONE by Gatlin Perrin @fireflypress.bsky.social #KidLit booksforkeeps.co.uk/review/dirk-...

If you like your stories ghostly, scary, supernatural and steeped in legend & folklore, then The Red Gloves by Catherine Fisher is the collection for you. @fireflypress.bsky.social
Here’s my review for @justimaginecentre.bsky.social
justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...

It's #Halloween!⁠
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Here are some more our of fave spooky reads... 👻⁠
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#DeloresMackenzie has always been able to see the ghostly overstayers that haunt the Old Town. But this Hallowe'en will she be strong enough to defeat those intent on destroying her?⁠
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@bouncemarketing.bsky.social #YvonneBanham

We're counting down to #Halloween with some spooky reads... 👻⁠

Beware the bloodstained man who tries to stop the coach... something is not right at #CraterLake activity centre. Then, at night, things get much stranger... it's a school trip straight from your nightmares! #JenniferKillick

Strange Tales: Journey into an uncanny world where invisible beings move among us; skeletons dance, animals speak and luck, spells, fear and fortune are not to be treated lightly!

✍️ Signed copies: fireflypress.co.uk/books/strang...

@bouncemarketing.bsky.social #Halloween #CalanGaeaf

We're counting down to #Halloween with 5 top spooky reads 👻

At no.5 is The Red Gloves

Red gloves that reach for your throat; a changing room where a stranger asks to swap lives with you...

An expert storyteller weaves nine spells....

Get your signed copy here: fireflypress.co.uk/books/the-re...

⭐️Kindle Deal Alert⭐️
Joining #Grimstink in the #UKKindleDeals this month:

#Wilde by Eloise Williams
#TheDollTwin by Janine Beacham
and
#BlackfinSky @katelliswrites.bsky.social

Perfect for Halloween. Deal runs until the end of the month. Don’t miss it!
www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=firefly+...

We hope you've all got your bookshop visiting plans ready for #BookshopDay tomorrow?

If you're in South Wales, you may spot campaign ambassador @clairefayers.bsky.social out and about, signing copies and ready to chat all things books!

@booksaremybag.bsky.social @bouncemarketing.bsky.social

It's perilous.
It's hilarious.
It's queer.
It's #DirkJonesisNOTtheChosenOne
and
It's OUT NOW!!

Available from
fireflypress.co.uk/books/dirk-j...
or GWALES (support a Welsh bookshop): www.gwales.com/bibliographi...
or your local bookshop!

@gatlinperrin.bsky.social @bouncemarketing.bsky.social

📣BLOGGERS
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Join the #DirkJonesisNOTtheChosenOne blog tour!⁠

Email hello[at]fireflypress[dot]co[dot]uk with
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- Blog name ⁠
- Social handle⁠s
- Date pref (21-31 Oct) if any⁠
- Content pref (Q&A/guest post/review) if any⁠
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Must be UK based

@gatlinperrin.bsky.social @bouncemarketing.bsky.social

“Hero the Highway Girl” by @pennychrimes.bsky.social
is pure #MiddleGradeMagic. Feisty heiress + pet wolf+ reluctant highwayman = Georgian chaos. Full of daring escapes, brave choices & heart. Jack and Hero are truly fab characters and their interplay is a delight @fireflypress.bsky.social

✨KINDLE DEAL UK✨

#Grimstink by @idanielpeak.bsky.social is in a UK #KindleDeal this month!

Deal ends 31st October! You won’t want to miss this one. In the words of author Emer Stamp, it’s ‘spit-out-your-drink funny’.

www.amazon.co.uk/Grimstink-Da...

#UKKindleDeal #KidLit #FunnyBooks #FunnySciFi

✨️KINDLE DEAL ALERT✨️

📚Libby and the Egyptian Escapade by @jo-clarke.bsky.social & Becka Moor
📚Fishfolk by Steven Quincey-Jones
and
📚Fireblood by Sam Stewart
are in a #KindleDeal in Australia!

Deal ends 31st October. Don’t miss it!
www.amazon.com.au/s?k=firefly+...

#KindleDeals #KidLit

VERY exciting book post today! I can't wait to dive into DIRK JONES IS NOT THE CHOSEN ONE, by Gatlin Perrin. It's promising to be fun, spooky, nonbinary, and Welsh – all excellent things. Out October 9th. Thanks @fireflypress.bsky.social

MICHAEL THE GREAT GLOBETROTTING SAUSAGE DOG out NOW
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Pawfect for young fans of #RaceAcrosstheWorld and #DestinationX, Michael uses his mind-reading abilities across 4 continents in this race around the world!

✍️ @cowfishdreams.bsky.social
🎨 @mrtimdraws.bsky.social
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@bouncemarketing.bsky.social

DEAL ALERT

For one week only
📚Crater Lake
📚Major and Mynah
📚The Clockwork Crow
📚Libby and the Parisian Puzzle
📚The Song That Sings Us
and
📚Monster Max and the Bobble Hat of Forgetting
are in the #StartASeries #KindleDeal in Australia!

Grab it here:
www.amazon.com.au/s?k=firefly+...

Always a joy to celebrate a new book by @pennychrimes.bsky.social - and what a lovely launch for Hero, The Highway Girl!

New from @fireflypress.bsky.social - Hero is a fast-paced adventure in the wildnerness of C18th London. It has wolves, secret caves, gargoyles, chandeliers and great outfits.

📚️ Quicksmiths finale is here! ✨️

Kip and friends must travel into the molten ocean deep below the earth's crust to defeat the Grittleshanks once and for all. But other challenges lie in wait...

🛒https://fireflypress.co.uk/books/the-cyber-ciphers-of-eartha-quicksmith/

@bouncemarketing.bsky.social

Book cover for Alex Horne's The Last Pebble. Two children on a beach at sunset.

Book cover for Julia Moscarado's Changing Tides Two children running on a beach with parents in the background and a lighthouse

Book cover for Jarvis' Our Pebbles a boy sitting in the middle of some brightly coloured pebbles

Book cover for Zillah Bethell's Vanishing Edge - a sea shore in blues and pinks with an industrial building in the background

We also have some short reviews of seaside themed books including The Last Pebble by @alexhorne.bsky.social Changing Tides by Julia Moscardo @littletigeruk.bsky.social Our Pebbles by Jarvis @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social and Vanishing Edge by Zillah Bethell @fireflypress.bsky.social #UKkidlit #KidLitUK

@katemallinder.bsky.social is fascinated by what makes people tick & writing is her way of exploring that. She follows her characters on a road trip in Summer Under the Stars, next stop: #CampYA2025

Grab your ticket now🎫- bit.ly/CampYA2025

@fireflypress.bsky.social

✨️COVER REVEAL✨️⁠
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📙#TheTreasureSeekers⁠
✍️ Cathy Faulkner
🎨 Harry Goldhawk
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PREORDER NOW! fireflypress.co.uk/books/treasu... (or from your local bookshop 📚️)⁠
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