Peepal Tree Press
@peepaltreepress.bsky.social
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Publisher of Caribbean and Black British books. Proudly decolonising bookshelves since 1985.
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OTHER WILD this Saturday 11th with Emily Zobel Marshall, 2025 Bookshop Day Ambassador, at Waterstones Leeds. Chaired by Sai Murray, the event explores collection and the lives of errant women&creatures.
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If you love novels, especially novels that tell you about life in London (a unique place) do buy Ferdy Dennis’s latest novel
#ConcreteDreams
from the excellent
@peepaltreepress.bsky.social
Here’s my review on the brilliant site
@writersmosaic.bsky.social
writersmosaic.org.uk/reviews/conc...
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Concrete Dreams | WritersMosaic Magazine
Max Farrar reviews Concrete Dreams by Ferdinand Dennis, a family saga that explores race, colourism, masculinity and British imperialism over generations.
https://writersmosaic.org.uk/reviews/concrete-dreams/
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John Robert Lee, author of After Poems, Psalms with Prime Minister of St. Lucia Philip J Pierre.
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'Smyth captures the beauty of the mundane, untangles complex human dynamics to reveal the love at its core, and writes with such an affection for her own history that the reader cannot help but be absorbed.' - Zimmer Magazine
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about 2 months ago
‘“For 12 years we did everything,” he says; typeset, printed, folded, bound, and made books on the premises.’ A brief history of
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by
@nesrinemalik.bsky.social
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Illustrating the ‘postcolonial experience’: 40 years of Peepal Tree Press
As the publisher celebrates an important milestone, we chart its journey from an ‘expensive hobby’ to an international household name
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/dec/03/illustrating-the-postcolonial-experience-40-years-of-peepal-tree-press?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Liam Bishop
about 2 months ago
Loving this long read in
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by
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on Leeds’s very own
@peepaltreepress.bsky.social
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Illustrating the ‘postcolonial experience’: 40 years of Peepal Tree Press
As the publisher celebrates an important milestone, we chart its journey from an ‘expensive hobby’ to an international household name
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/dec/03/illustrating-the-postcolonial-experience-40-years-of-peepal-tree-press
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'..a window into that transformative Peepal Tree treatment.' 🧡 Thank you to Nesrine Malik for her interview with founder Jeremy Poynting and Fiction Editor Jacob Ross featured in this week's The Long Wave for the Guardian
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Illustrating the ‘postcolonial experience’: 40 years of Peepal Tree Press
As the publisher celebrates an important milestone, we chart its journey from an ‘expensive hobby’ to an international household name
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/dec/03/illustrating-the-postcolonial-experience-40-years-of-peepal-tree-press
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Comma Press
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NFA WINTER SHOWCASE 📚⛄ 📅 TOMORROW @ 6:30pm 📍
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Join us at Blackwell's for a cosy evening of stories, mince pies and wine 🥧🍷
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Happy 40 years of Peepal Tree Press! Here are all our wonderful authors & teams celebrating four decades of publishing ❤️
@inpressbooks.bsky.social
@inscribewriters.bsky.social
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Bocas Lit Fest
2 months ago
1/8 In celebration of the 40th anniversary of
@peepaltreepress.bsky.social
, a leading publisher of Caribbean literature,
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Andre Bagoo (he/him)
3 months ago
I’ll be joining
@bocaslitfest.bsky.social
‘s 40th anniversary celebration of
@peepaltreepress.bsky.social
this week, reading from a Peepal Tree title that is especially meaningful to me. Which book shall I read from? There’s only one way to find out. Come on down.
#Bocas2025
#PeepalTreePress
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Poems on the Underground
3 months ago
yes- it's not back on the trains, but you can listen on our website
poemsontheunderground.org/this-months-...
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This Month’s Poems
Days of November 2009 read by Sheenagh Pugh This month we feature our new Autumn Poems on the Underground which will be on London Underground and Overground trains through November. To mark Armisti…
https://poemsontheunderground.org/this-months-poems
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Look out for 'Barter' by Nii Ayikwei Parks from The Makings of You on your November commutes 👀
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Bocas Lit Fest
3 months ago
📣November’s Bocas Book Bulletin is here! Featuring new Caribbean releases, upcoming events and workshops, awards & prizes, and October’s bestsellers at
@paperbasedbookshop.bsky.social
! Enjoy:
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Bocas Lit Fest
3 months ago
📣The pioneering publishing house
@peepaltreepress.bsky.social
turns 40 in 2025! Join us on Sat 8th Nov to celebrate with a special readings from five Peepal Tree authors: James Christopher Aboud, Andre Bagoo, Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné, J. Vijay Maharaj, and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw.
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Happy publication day to Concrete Dreams by Ferdinand Dennis! 💙 Find your copy of the gripping story of Lucas Bostock, a Jamaican immigrant who arrives in 1950s London determined to succeed here:
www.peepaltreepress.com/books/concre...
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OTHER WILD this Saturday 11th with Emily Zobel Marshall, 2025 Bookshop Day Ambassador, at Waterstones Leeds. Chaired by Sai Murray, the event explores collection and the lives of errant women&creatures.
@emilyzmarshall.bsky.social
@inpressbooks.bsky.social
Info:
www.waterstones.com/events/emily...
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Una McCormack
4 months ago
My lovely friend David Lambert’s first novel comes out tomorrow from
@peepaltreepress.bsky.social
! So delighted for him!
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The House in Bacolet
The House in Bacolet by David Lambert
https://www.peepaltreepress.com/books/house-bacolet
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A. McKenzie
4 months ago
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of its publication, STORIES FROM YARD has a new cover, new edition,
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#books
#stories
#writing
#Jamaica
#Caribbean
#reading
#readers
#writers
#publishing
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4 months ago
Dear friends, big news:
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have agreed to publish my second poetry collection titled ‘Rooms’‼️
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Dear friends, my new poetry manuscript has been accepted by
@peepaltreepress.bsky.social
Any poetry outlets interested in interviews, readings, submissions or commissions, let me know!
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Jellybooks Ltd
4 months ago
New from
@peepaltreepress.bsky.social
'The Gift of Music and Song' Interviews with Jamaican Women Writers 📖 sample to peek insdie and share
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Sample of "The Gift of Music and Song"
Peek inside this book and discover another great read.
https://www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader/excerpts/the-gift-of-music-and-song_9781845236168-ex/L3Leb
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Join us this Thursday in Leeds at Next Chapter Books to celebrate the latest novel by
@amandasmythstories.bsky.social
and the upcoming collection by
@emilyzmarshall.bsky.social
. Tickets and information here:
www.nextchapterleeds.co.uk/events/p/pee...
Can't wait to see you there! 🥰💙
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Guest blog:
#INSCRIBE
: Decoding the London Book Fair 2025: the digital progression of the publishing industry by Kimberly Azumah
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We are pleased to announce that Manzu Islam's Godzilla and the Song Bird has been longlisted for the Diverse Book Awards. Book lovers can also vote directly for the book in the Readers' Choice Awards as well!
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Bocas Lit Fest
6 months ago
Thanks to all who joined us at The Writers Centre for a lovely evening with
@amandasmythstories.bsky.social
, author of Look at You, who discussed her new novel-in-stories with Shivanee Ramlochan. More at:
facebook.com/share/p/15wa...
#bocas2025
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Fly on the Wall Press
7 months ago
Our Northern Publishers' Fair is back this Autumn! 📅 Sat 27th September, 11am-3:30pm
@manclibraries.bsky.social
✨ 16 publishers (and new agents table!) across all genres ✨ Author book signings Perfect for readers, writers & literature lovers.
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Monica Minott's latest book, Wandering Spirits of Exile, compiles
#conversations
with some of the
#musicians
,
#artists
and
#writers
creating new forms of
#BlackCreativity
to explore
#history
, individual
#ancestry
, and being
#Jamaican
in
#Britain
today.
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Wandering Spirits of Exile
Wandering Spirits of Exile by Monica Minott
https://www.peepaltreepress.com/books/wandering-spirits-exile
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John Robert Lee explores the sacred and the sacramental in poetry.
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Stewart Brown remembers seminal Caribbean publisher and writer Anne Walmsley (1931–2025)
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Stewart Brown: A memory of THE Anne Walmsley | Peepal Tree Press
by Stewart BrownMervyn Morris, Anne Walmsley, James Berry, Stewart Brown (London, c. mid-1990s)
https://www.peepaltreepress.com/blog/guest-bloggers/stewart-brown-memory-anne-walmsley
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Bocas Lit Fest
7 months ago
We're excited to welcome
#AmandaSmyth
to The Writers Centre to share from her new novel-in-stories, Look at You' and discuss the book with Shivanee Ramlochan. 🗓️Sat 26 July 🕠5.30 pm 📍The Writers Centre, 14 Alcazar Street, St. Clair ✨FREE and open to all!
#bocas2025
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Coming 25 September 2025: The House in Bacolet by David Lambert Hugh and Julia want to ‘get involved’ in the life of their new island home in Tobago — little suspecting how much the past horrors of slavery, and their best intentions, will impact their lives.
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We have just signed two amazing new poetry books for 2026! These are returning members of the Peepal Tree family, so we know you'll all be pleased to see their latest work: * Riddled by Tanya Shirley * Before the Rain by Christine Craig
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Look at You is a powerful novel that follows its young narrator as she grows up between Trinidad, England, and Ireland. “A beautiful, moving, and cleverly structured collage of a novel.” — Neel Mukherjee “A remarkable novel.” — Monique Roffey More info:
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Leeds Lit Fest
7 months ago
Many thanks Leeds Living for this great review of our Wild Women Writing the North event with
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and
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@peepaltreepress.bsky.social
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
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Leeds Lit Fest - Wild Women Writing the North | Leeds Living
As part of Leeds Lit Fest, ‘Wild Woman Writing the North’ brought together two distinctive literary voices for an evening gathering in an intimate corner of Hyde Park Book Club. The two writers, Rache...
https://leedsliving.co.uk/art-culture/leeds-lit-fest-wild-women-writing-the-north/
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9 months ago
Happy publication day to Amanda Smyth 👏
#LookAtYou
, a moving and beautifully written coming of age novel set in Trinidad, Yorkshire and Ireland! Out now, published by
@peepaltreepress.bsky.social
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Jellybooks Ltd
10 months ago
New from
@peepaltreepress.bsky.social
'Sweet Li Jie' by David Dabydeen In this book, two distant worlds converge: Wuhan Province in China and British Guiana. available from
@waterstones.bsky.social
📖 sample to peek inside and share
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Sample of "Sweet Li Jie" by David Dabydeen
Peek inside this book and discover another great read.
https://www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader/excerpts/sweet-li-jie_9781845236069-ex/beylb
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HopeRoad
11 months ago
Hello! We have joined
@peepaltreepress.bsky.social
in the move over to Bluesky. Here's a sneak peek at our next four titles for all our friends over on this site! Small Boat is publishing April 23rd. Pre-order it here:
www.hoperoadpublishing.com
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Comma Press
11 months ago
What a lovely start to the day! 🥳 Huge congrats to
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,
@peepaltreepress.bsky.social
,
@flyonthewallpress.bsky.social
,
@carcanet.bsky.social
,
@uclanpublishing.bsky.social
,
@deadinkbooks.bsky.social
,
@ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
all the small press finalists up and down the UK!
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Poetry By Heart
11 months ago
We are sad to hear of the death of Velma Pollard.
#PoetryByHeart
had the good fortune to meet Velma at the Talk the Poem finals event UWI Mona. Sending love to our
#poetry
friends in Jamaica. Hear her poems thanks to
@peepaltreepress.bsky.social
via Poetry Archive
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Velma Pollard - Poetry Archive
Velma Pollard was born in 1937. She grew up in Woodside, a rural Jamaican village, where her mother was a school teacher and her father was a farmer: their interest in the arts was to be one of the ma...
https://poetryarchive.org/poet/velma-pollard/
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Stu Hennigan
12 months ago
Esp since it's indie pubs month, can i also suggest this, the first UK anthology of spec fiction by Black writers, published by the amazing
@peepaltreepress.bsky.social
🙏✊️
www.peepaltreepress.com/books/glimpse
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