Tune into Gayle Lofthouse on BBC Radio Leeds for an interview with 'Folklore' authors @odavies9.bsky.social & @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social ahead of their event at @waterstones.bsky.social #Leeds on Thursday hosted by @stuhennigan.bsky.social. Listen: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p... #FolkloreThursday

Witty, wild and wonderfully Austen: an interview with author @devoney.bsky.social ahead of the publication of her new book, 'Wild for Austen': thesecretunderstandingofthehearts.blogspot.com/2025/09/witt... Publishing this week! #JaneAusten #booksky

Just a reminder that our new book, ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’, will be out in November through @manchesterup.bsky.social Ask your institutional library to pre-order a hardback copy now! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/

🎧Listen to Simin Fadaee discussing her book 'Global Marxism' with Gabriel Rockhill on the Critical Theory Workshop channel. @uomsoss.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jpS...

“By asking ordinary people to engage with and share their 'loneliness rooms' – real or imagined – Redmond challenges the medicalisation and problematisation of #loneliness today.“ Leah Kennedy reviews Sean Redmond @manchesterup.bsky.social in our September issue. buff.ly/CWo1OCX

Sage have very kindly made this interview free to read until the end of October. Link is below ⬇️

"It celebrates the past, intensely observes the present, and so points hopefully to the future. It makes me want to go back up north and stay there." Peter McGeary reviews @jakecampbell88.bsky.social's 'Between the salt and the ash' for @churchtimes.bsky.social: www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

Lily Dunn's 'Into Being' is a milestone text in the art of life writing. I'm looking forward to chairing a discussion with her at @rilch-ljmu.bsky.social next month. It will be a great evening about how we raise raw personal material and make it powerfully universal.

Join us next month as @lilydunn.bsky.social hits the road next month to launch her new book, 'Into being', sharing the secrets of writing memoir. Coming to a bookshop, festival or university near you, visit our Events page for more info and tickets: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events #booksky

Just a normal commuter, enjoying a normal commute Finally getting to Graveyard Gothic (@manchesterup.bsky.social) and it’s a banger straight out of the gate.

Book and film events in October @manchesterup.bsky.social Come and have a listen to the same old patter

Would recommend @waterstones.bsky.social and @portybooks.bsky.social in particular, both of whom will have plenty of stock and some signed copies if you’re into that kind of thing.

Today author #DarrenReid will be launching his new monograph 'Invoking Empire' with the #NACBS online. Tune in from 12pm EDT / 5pm BST this afternoon! 📅 RSVP here: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...

In 'Drifting north', author, researcher & journalist @dominicmhinde.bsky.social journeys around Scotland, through climate change and fossil capitalism, in search of a sustainable future. Publishing next month, pre-order now from all good bookshops & online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FTc... #booksky

Join us in Todmorden this Saturday for the launch of a new book, 'Folklore', with co-author and leading folklorist @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social at the Folklore Centre. Register to attend here: www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail... #FolkloreThursday #Todmorden #BookLaunch

And b/c character limits don't give much space for emotions... This book - and my thinking about #20s30s London and how cities are made - has been a long time in the making. It would be wonderful to celebrate with you all. You can find out more at manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/978152618195...

Out now in paperback📜 In the midst of growing protests and debates around national identity, Elliot Bulmer's ground-breaking new book proposes a new, written constitution for a truly democratic England🤝 Visit our website for more info or to request your review copy📕

Join us at @waterstones.bsky.social Covent Garden as we launch 'Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London'. Historians and authors Matt Houlbrook & Julia Laite will discuss the vibrant history of Seven Dials. FREE tickets available here: www.eventbrite.com/e/songs-of-s...

Autumn is here and it's time to celebrate the folkloric 🍂 'Folklore: A journey through the past and present' is a gripping guide to the weird yet everyday world of British folklore. Find an event near you between September and November! 📍 All events can be found at the link in our bio 🔗

The launch of my new @manchesterup.bsky.social book Songs of Seven Dials will be at 6pm, Tues 21 Oct, at Waterstones Covent Garden. I'll be in conversation with the wonderful @julialaite.bsky.social. Please do come along. Free tickets, but register in advance www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/songs-of-s...

Short essay for @renewaljournal.bsky.social me and Vallu wrote on Farage, politics and pubs... a bit of a preview to the book we're working on about pubs, race and the nation to be published with @manchesterup.bsky.social in September 2026 renewal.org.uk/articles/the...

Publishing today! Ghosts and the Gothic, edited by @ruthheholt.bsky.social and @joparsons.bsky.social The first book to examine ghostly presences (and absences) in #Gothic texts bit.ly/3I59Uzy #Ghosts #GothicStudies Find out more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181923/

This Thursday, author #DarrenReid will be launching his new monograph 'Invoking Empire' with the #NACBS online. Tune in from 12pm EDT / 5pm BST on 18th September 📅 RSVP here: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...

'I try to explore how people operating outside formal structures of power resist and challenge systemic injustices' Watch Simin Fadaee discuss her book Global Marxism with the Critical Theory Workshop👇

Fantastic to see Gillian Dooley's book 'She played and sang' mentioned in this @nytimes.com piece, now online and in print: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/a... 'She played and sang' is now available in paperback from all good bookshops & online retailers. #JaneAusten #booksky

Our in-person event with Vince Cable has sold out! 🎉 But tickets are still available for the live stream (which you can also watch for up to 72 hours after!): tinyurl.com/yzkvt7z8

Speaking on ABC TV today about political polarisation in the USA (coming in at 51 minutes). @manchesterup.bsky.social iview.abc.net.au/video/NU2522...

Publishing today! As the international order begins to crumble, economist and author Vince Cable asks what the rise of the Asian superstates means for the future. Buy now from all good bookshops & online. #booksky

As the international order begins to crumble, former economist, politician and author Vince Cable asks what the rise of the Asian superstates means for the future. Join us at @toppingsbath.bsky.social this Wednesday for the launch of this new book - tickets: www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/bath/...

Very happy surprise: my latest book, Plagues of the Heart: Crisis and covenanting in a seventeenth-century Scottish town, has been longlisted by the Saltire Society for Scotland's Research Book of the Year. I am honored to be in such great company! 🎉 @manchesterup.bsky.social www.thesaltires.org.uk

🚨THIS BOOK IS ALMOST REAL!!!🚨 @manchesterup.bsky.social out here making dreams come true!

NEW✨ Before Gender: Lost Stories from Trans History 1850-1950 by @elierlick.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social. #Review by Maedbh Pierce @charlesuni.cuni.cz 👇

'This is an ambitious, wide-ranging, and deeply humane book.' -- Katrina Goldstone, H-Judaic The Jewish Pedlar by historian Tony Kushner is an imaginative investigation into a historical crime that sheds new light on Jewish history. Full review here: networks.h-net.org/group/review... #booksky

In their acclaimed book 'Pink-pilled', journalist Lois Shearing shows that understanding how and why women join far-right movements that explicitly aim to restrict their autonomy is essential if we want to fight back. Out now - available from all good bookshops & online. #booksky

We spoke to @lilydunn.bsky.social ahead of the release of her new book, 'Into being', about creative process, writers that influenced her, early responses to the book, and much more. Read the full Q&A on our blog here: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/09... #memoir #author #booksky

Part memoir, part environmental history, part travelogue, @dominicmhinde.bsky.social's 'Drifting north' is an engaging and original portrait of Scotland, a nation standing at an environmental crossroads. Join us in Wigtown on 30th September, tickets:

NEW ONLINE EVENT! Travelling through a landscape of witches, wizards and wicker men, @odavies9.bsky.social and @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social will reveal how folklore continues to be lived in the present. Tickets available now from @faneproductions.bsky.social: www.fane.co.uk/owen-ceri #booksky

To celebrate the imminent release of @lilydunn.bsky.social's 'Into Being: The Radical Craft of Memoir and its Power to Transform' in October, Lily has compiled a fascinating list of the authors she interviewed for the book for her local @gloucesterroadbks.bsky.social:

'Full of surprising & brilliant research, the book is an excellent overview of folklore in the past and present.' @lallymacbeth.bsky.social Leading experts @odavies9.bsky.social & @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social show that folklore is not just the remains of a distant, rural past. #FolkloreThursday

Author @lilydunn.bsky.social visited her local bookshops in Bath & Bristol earlier this week to deliver advance proofs of her new book. In 'Into being', Lily shares the secrets of writing a new, transformative kind of memoir. Pre-order your copy today from all good bookshops & online. #booksky

Delve into the history of Manchester and how its iconic music scene shaped the city with renowned journalist and author @andyspinoza.bsky.social. Speaking about his beloved book 'Manchester unspun' at Greenhouse Books in Stockport on 27th Sept. Tickets: www.greenhousebooks.co.uk/event-detail...

So pleased with the cover MUP came up with for this tough book. In it, Ophelia’s offstage death is an exemplar of the poetry-like ambiguities around every suicide. Out in April, but pre-order-able now from the usual places & @manchesterup.bsky.social: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526191991/

In @thebookseller.com today, author @lilydunn.bsky.social on how writing memoir can be exposing, but Substack is a good place to experiment. Read it here: www.thebookseller.com/comment/a-sa... Lily's new book 'Into being: The radical craft of memoir and its power to transform' is out next month.

On the latest episode of the Kickass Women of History podcast, @devoney.bsky.social introduces Sydney Owenson. Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and Jane Austen all wrote about about Owenson, so why has so been been largely forgotten by modern readers? Find out here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/3...

This is gonna be a terrific event, was getting all my notes in order Sunday to kick my plan into shape. Come join us, there is a LOT to talk about.

Next week in Toulouse: Santiago Fouz-Hernández joins the @bigaslunatribute.bsky.social to celebrate the cultural legacy of one of Spain’s most iconic filmmakers, #BigasLuna Grab your ticket here bigaslunatribute.wordpress.com/2025/07/31/t...

Find a #VinceCable event near you 📍 'ECLIPSING THE WEST' launching August-October. @edbookfest.bsky.social Topping & Co @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social Gloucester History Festival The Conduit Club KCL Lau China Institute Link in bio to our events page - book now! 🔗

Out now! The Fairy Tales of Jim Henson Keeping the best place by the fire By Andrea Wright A complete and chronological overview of Henson's career from the late 1950s to his death in 1990 bit.ly/4mcQtCV #JimHenson #TheMuppetShow #FairyTales #ScreenStudies

We’re delighted to have @odavies9.bsky.social & @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social launching their new book 'Folklore' at @waterstones.bsky.social #Leeds, in conversation with fellow author Stu Hennigan. 25th September Get your tickets here: www.waterstones.com/events/folkl... #booksky

As the international order begins to crumble, Vince Cable's incisive new book asks what the rise of the Asian superstates -China and India - means for the future pf the West. Join us at @toppingsbath.bsky.social on September 17th, tickets on sale now: www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/bath/... #booksky