Dec reading. Thanks to @stuhennigan.bsky.social @ortacpress.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social @jonathancape.bsky.social @scratchbooks.bsky.social @judecook.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social @backlisted.bsky.social @burningshed.com @thamesandhudson.bsky.social

The countdown to Keshed begins. Shouts to @regretteruane.bsky.social @heidijames.bsky.social @ortacpress.bsky.social @davidcollard.bsky.social @saloneurope.bsky.social @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social @oziasmidwinter.bsky.social @serenitybookshop.bsky.social stuhennigan.substack.com/p/countdown-...

Appealing for help with this! What can be done?

Help needed: the beautiful design of the teeshirt by @weare1of100.bsky.social using my book’s title & design (copyright @ortacpress.bsky.social is now on a lot of US knock off sites. Don’t buy them, obvs, but any advice as to what to do if anything will be gratefully received: look at this BS!!

To register for the Keshed online launch, follow Stu’s instructions below! Thursday 5th Feb at 7pm. Hosted by @davidcollard.bsky.social and with an author interview from @regretteruane.bsky.social

Keshed online launch! Gonna be great. Contact us or Stu to get a link via email.

Lovely meeting re: Keshed publicity this morn with Henry @ortacpress.bsky.social and Jaime, who's doing the PR. In The Lair now for the graveyard shift, smashing out as much as I can about LA punk and a million related matters between now and when my fingers fall off at 4 a.m.

On a year in reading, featuring @cbeditions.bsky.social @ortacpress.bsky.social @saltpublishing.com @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social @adamjfarrer.bsky.social @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social @davidcollard.bsky.social @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social @willwiles.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/drewgumm...

This is gonna cost a fucking packet to send em all securely when i go to the Post Office shortly, but a select handful of lucky lads n lasses are gonna #GetKeshed in the next coupla days 👀👀👀👀👀👀

You're going to hear me say this a LOT, but props to Henry @ortacpress.bsky.social for taking on such a fucked up and dark book at a time when the market is as safe as its ever been. Maximum respect due.

Well well well what do we have here then 👀👀👀👀👀👀 #StuGotKeshed

Some great recs here… Biased but Keshed would also make a very good gift!

It seems The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club by @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social is part of the M&S winter campaign. Didn’t see this one coming…

Finished copies have arrived. @stuhennigan.bsky.social @turnarounduk.bsky.social

Look what just landed at Casa @ortacpress.bsky.social 👀👀👀👀👀 #GetKeshed

Sale from my publisher, including my novel with photographs Push Process and many other great titles!

We are running our first ever Ortac sale, with 30% off all books in our online shop. Simply enter the code WINTER30 at checkout to receive your discount. The sale begins today, and will run for one month. www.ortacpress.com/shop

@richardjamesfoster.bsky.social has collab’d with the brilliant @weare1of100.bsky.social on this special edition Punk Rock Birdwatching t-shirt. Tote bag also available! weare1of100.co.uk/clothing/the...

Big thanks to El Patron @thesecretdj.bsky.social for his thoughts on Keshed 🖤 "I love Hennigan, he's a genuine northern working class voice from the exact same streets I have trodden throughout my entire life. He loves books, it's his true calling. You can absolutely feel that with every syllable."

Ok… this is a BIG DEAL. Published back in 2020, Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel by the unsurpassable @drewgum.bsky.social was our first novel… and as a consequence of us going to into hibernation for a while, it’s sadly been out of print. NOT ANY LONGER!!!! IT’S BACK!!!!

There'll be an e-book for sure 👌 You can't pre-order an e-book like but be on sale in Feb. www.ortacpress.com/product-page...

When Rob the Bastard thinks your work is dark, you KNOW it's like a coalmine at midnight. Enter if you dare ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

This from @regretteruane.bsky.social is very very true… you can pre-order Keshed now from your local indie, ortacpress.com or bookshop.org.

Seven hours in The Lair tonight, got a shitload done, cracking job. Got booked in for the next @saloneurope.bsky.social online event for what will be the first reading in 2026 from Keshed. You don't wanna miss it. Do you? Actually, don't answer that.

Some more praise for Keshed by @stuhennigan.bsky.social, this time from @jamesscudamore.bsky.social. If this doesn't convince you to buy a copy...

Some of the praise we’ve had for @stuhennigan.bsky.social’s Keshed, which is published in February 2026. First, from @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social

And just like that… 🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈 It’s official! Five years of Renard Press! 🦊 📚 165 books published 🌲 2,500 trees planted 😳 650 writers published or anthologised 📚 renardpress.com/books/

ICYMI, list here of 60 books linked to Keshed in some way. Fiction, poetry, non-fic.....proper range of stuff for the curious seeker 📚📚📚📚📚 uk.bookshop.org/lists/how-to...

New link. www.waterstones.com/events/book-...

In Bristol for a reading with the mighty Joshua Jones at the marvelous East Bristol Books tomorrow, yes, Friday 10 October, doors 18.30. Come & say hello!

Having followed Richard’s brilliant PINS newsletter, this should be great, and may have found the perfect medium in Radio!

New thing here collating all the blurbs for the book, pre-order etc. stuhennigan.substack.com/p/blatant-se...

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

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 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 🖤🙏 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/kesh...

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

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. www.ortacpress.com/product-page...

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 😱 @ortacpress.bsky.social @beelitmag.bsky.social

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: tinyurl.com/4xyf24ck

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. www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/eas...

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 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/sto...

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. ortacpress.com

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 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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.