Just a reminder that if your local independent bookstore doesn’t have the book you want in stock, they can usually order it in for collection within 24-48 hrs.

It’s Good Friday! Bring on the long weekend. We’re open today and closed on Monday. Come down and see us!

Book and Bottle tonight! Come and join us at Harvey Leonard’s to discuss James by Percival Everett. We’ll also be celebrating six years of this magnificent collaboration between the book shop and Harvey Leonard’s, two of Glossop’s finest indie establishments. There may be cake! All welcome!

Coming up! Abigail Dean in conversation with Beth Underdown for the publication of Abigail’s new novel, The Death of Us. Join us at the Partington Theatre Club Room on 17th April for book chat, Q&A and a signing. The bar will be open too. Tickets available here: darkpeakbooks.co.uk/event/abigai...

We’re taking preorders for this beauty on our website and they’re going fast! Grab one here: darkpeakbooks.co.uk/product/is-a...

Women's History Month – March 13 Jigonhsasee, 12th century, one of the founders of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy

Do you fancy some fancy mice?

Tonight! Tickets still available, grab yours now!

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The best time to shift spending away from Amazon is right now. The next best time is tomorrow. If you're first reaction to the action is "Why should I boycott Amazon?" I implore you, take a few minutes to find some answers. Because the answers are there. And you have other options.

#WorldBookDay 📚 "She walks among the tombs" 🪦 'A Picture Book for Little Children' • 1812 📚 #History

"What's your #WorldBookDay costume?" "Hemingway" "You're just drunk at 10am" "correct"

Happy World Book Day to all who celebrate! We’ve got the World Book Day books in stock so bring your tokens down after school or at the weekend! If this year’s books don’t appeal, you can use your token for £1 off any other children’s book. Vouchers valid until 23rd March, see you all soon!

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Event! We’ve got Patrick Joyce, author of Remembering Peasants, coming to Glossop’s. Victoria Hall on 13th March to discuss his book and answer audience questions followed by a signing. Tickets £12 with a copy of the book or £5. Free drink on arrival. Get yours here: www.darkpeakbooks.co.uk/events

i know people are coming here for catharsis and that's fine but when you are done screaming please pick something you can do that will help people and do it. you don't accomplish anything by rolling around in the fear all day

A beautiful piece on the criminalisation of bookselling, by publisher Simon Liebesny writersmosaic.org.uk/close-up/boo...

This description of evacuating a literary archive from Kharkiv after the Russian invasion could be straight out of @richove.bsky.social's Burning the Books

My statement on the arrest and detention of Mahmoud Muna and Ahmad Muna:

This is horrifying. We call for the immediate release of our fellow booksellers Mahmoud and Ahmad.

Roll up for our first book signing of the year! Glossop’s own Dan Hanks will be here on Saturday 1st February from 1-2pm to sign copies of his new book ‘The Way Up Is Death’. Come down and say hello to Dan. You can secure a copy in advance here: www.darkpeakbooks.co.uk/product/the-way-up-is-death/

Useful info here if you have a Microsoft 365 subscription. We just checked ours and they indeed has increased our renewal price without informing us. Check yours too if you don’t want to or don’t need to use their AI.

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Our Book & Bottle book of the month for January is Wild Houses by Colin Barrett. I’ve brought it on a long weekend in Anglesey with the intention of smashing the whole thing in. Haven’t even looked at the first page yet. Plenty of time though. Copies in the shop if you want one!

Reading a physical book bought from a local independent store is an act of resistance in 2025. Apple, Meta, and Amazon all desperately need your screen time. Start denying them some of it.

Reasons to live in #Glossop... @darkpeakbooks.bsky.social running this great Christmas 📚 book campaign again. Supported by the actual @rickastl3y.bsky.social

A helpful gift shopping algorithm that I made for @theguardian.com a couple of years ago.

Leeds' amazing #queer bookshop has been robbed, pls help by buying some stuff from their website if you're able to. Great people and fab place, hate to see this. RT's appreciated. 📚🏳️‍🌈📚🏳️‍🌈📚🏳️‍🌈📚🏳️‍🌈📚 thebookishtype.co.uk?srsltid=AfmB...

The people who say that, “kids don’t read anymore” have no concept of the GRIP manga has on my son’s elementary school. Librarian can’t keep them on the shelves. The kids who can buy them pass them around like bottles of moonshine during prohibition. It’s GLORIOUS.

For December’s Book & Bottle we’ve chosen Run to the Western Shore by Tim Pears. Copies available in the shop or via our website now. It won’t take long to read over the festive period and you can come join us on Mon 6th Jan for our first book club of 2025. New year, new books, new you!

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Why read books? Because reading opens minds & hearts. It helps us imagine different lives and different worlds; it can help us build a better world. So please keep reading books with kids, and encouraging them to read. There is nothing more important. #literacy #books #reading

Christmas shopping in Glossop! Late opening til 7pm on Thurs 5th, 12th & 19th December alongside a load of your fave indie retailers in town. Come enjoy fizz, festive treats & 10% off your purchases during our extended hours. Download a map of participating retailers here: www.tinyurl.com/2pjf7hv9

I remember when Black Friday in the UK meant the last Friday before Christmas when everyone would go out after work and get smashed - town was a no go. We don’t celebrate Thanksgiving here so I don’t understand why we’ve imported this from the USA. Anyway, buy book from us if you want to.

What's interesting about this trend for book marketing AI companies—who secure £Xmil in seed funding, get a write-up in the Bookseller, and will now wither away, leaving only a slime trail of AI generated goop across the surface of culture—is mainly what it says about capital’s engagement with books

We’re running our Christmas book campaign again this year. Purchase a children’s book from us for a 35% discount and we’ll match donations. Glossopdale Foodbank will gift wrap and deliver them to local families in need. Campaign ends Sat 21st Dec.

"How we stand here is important, how we breathe." Canadian writer Madeleine Thien donated the entirety of her $25,000 Writers' Trust of Canada prize to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, Lebanese Red Cross and the Woodcock Fund.

We’ve got an author signing coming up this Saturday! James Ellson will be in the shop from 11am - 12.30pm signing copies of his fourth novel in the DCI Rick Castle series, Base Line. Come and say hello!

The Magician’s Nephew is my favourite. Have enjoyed reading it to my son and doing lots of dodgy cockney accents.

What a great thread of graphic novels!

Oh and just because no new social media account is complete without a picture of a cat or a dog, here’s my lovely girl Rachael inspecting my wine while we snuggle with the electric blanket.

Just discovered today that a new book is due next July from the incredible @laurasrobinson.bsky.social. TOO EXCITING!!

Am so glad to see @museumbums.bsky.social on here 🙌🏼

Whatever they’re reading, if they’re enjoying it let them read it!

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