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Dan Jenks
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Dec reading. Thanks to
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Stu Hennigan
2 days ago
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
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Countdown To Keshed
T-minus 44 days........
https://stuhennigan.substack.com/p/countdown-to-keshed
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Appealing for help with this! What can be done?
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Richard James Foster
16 days ago
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!!
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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
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18 days ago
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Keshed online launch! Gonna be great. Contact us or Stu to get a link via email.
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21 days ago
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Stu Hennigan
25 days ago
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.
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Drew Gummerson
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On a year in reading, featuring
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@saltpublishing.com
@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
@adamjfarrer.bsky.social
@wednesdayerskin.bsky.social
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On a year in reading
Like in my previous post, On a year in Writing, where I didn’t feel I have written much this year in this post, On a year in Reading, likewise I don’t feel I have read much.
https://open.substack.com/pub/drewgummerson/p/on-a-year-in-reading?r=rg1n9&utm_medium=ios
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Stu Hennigan
about 1 month ago
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 👀👀👀👀👀👀
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Stu Hennigan
about 1 month ago
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.
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Stu Hennigan
about 1 month ago
Well well well what do we have here then 👀👀👀👀👀👀
#StuGotKeshed
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Some great recs here… Biased but Keshed would also make a very good gift!
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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…
about 1 month ago
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Finished copies have arrived.
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@turnarounduk.bsky.social
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Stu Hennigan
about 1 month ago
Look what just landed at Casa
@ortacpress.bsky.social
👀👀👀👀👀
#GetKeshed
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Jonathan Walker
about 1 month ago
Sale from my publisher, including my novel with photographs Push Process and many other great titles!
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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.
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SHOP | Ortac Press
Browse and purchase all books from Ortac Press.
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@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...
about 2 months ago
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Stu Hennigan
about 2 months ago
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."
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Bearded Badger Books
about 2 months ago
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!!!!
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Stu Hennigan
2 months ago
There'll be an e-book for sure 👌 You can't pre-order an e-book like but be on sale in Feb.
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Keshed | Ortac Press
In the derelict shell of what was once his family home, a dying man surveys the wreckage of his former life and drinks himself senseless, haunted by the chain of events that led him there. Dark, compl...
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Stu Hennigan
2 months ago
When Rob the Bastard thinks your work is dark, you KNOW it's like a coalmine at midnight. Enter if you dare ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️
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This from
@regretteruane.bsky.social
is very very true… you can pre-order Keshed now from your local indie,
ortacpress.com
or
bookshop.org
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Stu Hennigan
2 months ago
Seven hours in The Lair tonight, got a shitload done, cracking job. Got booked in for the next
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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.
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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...
2 months ago
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Some of the praise we’ve had for
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’s Keshed, which is published in February 2026. First, from
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Renard Press
3 months ago
And just like that… 🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈 It’s official! Five years of Renard Press! 🦊 📚 165 books published 🌲 2,500 trees planted 😳 650 writers published or anthologised 📚
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Stu Hennigan
3 months ago
ICYMI, list here of 60 books linked to Keshed in some way. Fiction, poetry, non-fic.....proper range of stuff for the curious seeker 📚📚📚📚📚
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How To Get Keshed and Influence People
A list of titles related to Keshed.
https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/how-to-get-keshed-and-influence-people?&new-list-page=true
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Stu Hennigan
3 months ago
New link.
www.waterstones.com/events/book-...
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Richard James Foster
3 months ago
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!
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Having followed Richard’s brilliant PINS newsletter, this should be great, and may have found the perfect medium in Radio!
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Stu Hennigan
3 months ago
New thing here collating all the blurbs for the book, pre-order etc.
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Blatant self-promotion alert!
Oh please fuck off with that.......
https://stuhennigan.substack.com/p/blatant-self-promotion-alert
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Richard James Foster
3 months ago
(And it’s TELLS ME, that typo’s bugging me and here’s the link)
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Flower Factory | Ortac Press
Flower Factory: A Fairy TaleBy Richard Foster Freedom of Movement wasn’t always an alien concept to the British. Flower Factory tells of an English seasonal worker going to live and work in the Nethe...
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Richard James Foster
3 months ago
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
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Stu Hennigan
3 months ago
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 🖤🙏
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Keshed
Check out Keshed - In the derelict shell of what was once his family home, a dying man surveys the wreckage of his former life and drinks himself senseless, haunted by the chain of events that led him...
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/keshed-stu-hennigan/5fb01752b337e081?ean=9781738466764&next=t
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤
3 months ago
Preordering now and highly recommended. Stu’s writing is incandescent, a word I’d rarely use for many other living writers I’ve read.
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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.
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Detour | Ortac Press
Detour: Photography as Antidepressant Therapyby Abele Navin PUBLISHED 02/10/25 Coming soon from Pendle Press & Ortac Press—a collaborative publication between two small indie publishers. 'I couldn...
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3 months ago
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John Doran
3 months ago
Calling Bristol Heads! This will be a fantastic night with the best people!
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Robert
3 months ago
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.
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Stu Hennigan
3 months ago
Hennigan’s language is explosive, Baroque, think Henry Millar meets Jim Cartwright and Violette Leduc with the intelligence of Mark Fisher orchestrating the tune.
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Stu Hennigan
3 months ago
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.
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Stu Hennigan
3 months ago
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
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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
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Domadomadoma-Blumblumblum: Conversations with Other Animals | Ortac Press
Domadomadoma-Blumblumblum: Conversations with Other Animalsby Luke Thompson PUBLISHED 05/09/24 What do the longest-serving Canadian Prime Minister and a ketamine-injecting psychonaut have in common? ...
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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...
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Richard Foster: *Punk Rock Birdwatching Club* at East Bristol Books
A discussion and reading with artist and writer Richard Foster on his latest collection *The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club* (Ortac Press, 2025), in conversation with author Joshua Jones (*Local Fires*)....
https://www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/east-bristol-books/fri-10-oct-richard-foster-punk-rock-birdwatching-club-ortac-press--135446#e135446
4 months ago
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Stu Hennigan
4 months ago
ICYMI. Tix available now for the first Manc area Keshed gig
@serenitybookshop.bsky.social
, with thanks to David for this ringing endorsement.
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David Coates
4 months ago
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!
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Stu Hennigan
4 months ago
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...
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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.
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Stu Hennigan
4 months ago
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
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Richard James Foster
4 months ago
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.
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