Thrilled to be at @serenitybookshop.bsky.social in Romiley on publication date for The Drowning Place. I'll be chatting with the fabulous @cmacwritescrime.bsky.social and signing books as well as trying out my new bespoke book stamps. Do come! Tickets here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/serenity-boo...

Excited to be on tour in April, visiting amazing bookshops & speaking with brilliant writers 💚🧡 @vaseemkhanuk.bsky.social @radiomukhers.bsky.social @serenitybookshop.bsky.social @cmacwritescrime.bsky.social @darkpeakbooks.bsky.social @annacaig.bsky.social Tickets here: linktr.ee/SarahHilary

March events! Thurs 12 Mar: Our Beautiful Mess - Adele Parks Tues 17 Mar: Historical Fiction with Sofia Robleda & Liz Flanagan Tues 24 Mar: Psychological Thrills with Sarah Vaughan & Christie Watson Thurs 26 Mar: A Night of Crime with Claire Douglas, C.M. Ewan & C.L. Taylor #BookSky 🎫👇🏻

My book, Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark, comes out a month today! I had a chat with Booktime magazine all about it, as well as my love of independent bookshops like @urmstonbooks.bsky.social, @chorltonbookshop.bsky.social and @serenitybookshop.bsky.social 🐈‍⬛

Books read in February: Union Street - Pat Barker Dad Had a Bad Day - Ashton Politanoff May We Feed the King - Rebecca Perry The Silver Book - Olivia Laing Seven - Joanna Kavenna A Complicated Women - Rebecca Lucy Taylor Cycle of the Werewolf - Stephen King All good stuff! #BookSky

I said @serenitybookshop.bsky.social on Thurs i like to experience reading like Kakfa's axe to the skull. Two days later..... #GetKeshed, assault your senses. @ortacpress.bsky.social

Always lovely to be @serenitybookshop.bsky.social, guaranteed a receptive, knowledgeable and passionate audience. Huge thanks to everyone who came, and to Jae for stepping in on short notice when they were meant to be doing my nails, feeding me coffee and sitting in the audience 🖤

A fantastic event in Stockport tonight with @stuhennigan.bsky.social to celebrate the release of his debut novel KESHED. A dark and brutal look at modern masculinity, class and mental health which is also infused with Northern humour and a lot of love. Huge thanks to Jae for hosting!

A joy to #getkeshed earlier at @serenitybookshop.bsky.social with @stuhennigan.bsky.social in conversation with Jae Auxjera. Proper looking forward to getting stuck in and experiencing a literary axe to the head.

Still tix left for this is anyone wants to come #GetKeshed with me and Terri on Thursday in the intimate surroundings of @serenitybookshop.bsky.social. Gonna be a banger, as it always is when Terri's in the house 💥💪 www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/sto...

#GetKeshed @serenitybookshop.bsky.social next Thursday with me and Terri. Had a blinding time last night and can't wait to get back for another go-round. Force of nature is Terri and she was on top form yesterday, we're a pretty good double act. And the book chat's not bad either 👍

Happy publication day to @stuhennigan.bsky.social and his brilliantly brutal beast of a debut KESHED - a bold and unflinching novel that explores themes of class, masculinity, addiction, depression and parenthood. It’s not always an easy read but it’s pretty much an essential one.

This Wednesday! Best-selling author Nicci French (writing partnership and married couple Nicci Gerrard and Sean French) will be joining us in Stockport to talk to Abigail Dean (Girl A) about their latest psychological thriller WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT. Wed 11 Feb | 6.30 | £10 #BookSky 🎫👇🏻

Well that was just bloody brilliant. Cheers @stuhennigan.bsky.social and @regretteruane.bsky.social! Looking forward to the event at @serenitybookshop.bsky.social in a couple of weeks and even more to getting my hands on a copy of Keshed.

Went to a @serenitybookshop.bsky.social ‘Val McDermid in conversation’ it was interesting, funny and a terrific evening. The new Karen Pirie book, Silent Bones, is out now.

Two weeks to go until we get Keshed in Stockport with Stu Hennigan. Stu will be chatting to Terri White about his exceptional debut novel on Thurs 19th Feb and we cannot wait! Tickets available instore or via link below 👇🏻 @stuhennigan.bsky.social @ortacpress.bsky.social #GetKeshed #BookSky

February book events coming up in Stockport and Romiley. From the biggest names in crime fiction to some incredibly exciting debuts, join us for events with Garrett Carr, Alexandra Potter, Val McDermid, C.E. Hulse, Nicci French, Liam Higginson, Stu Hennigan and Anna Brook-Mitchell. #BookSky 🎫👇🏻

An absolutely fantastic day at @stockportnoir.bsky.social! Loved my panel with genre legends @ruthwarewriter.bsky.social, Abigail Dean and @samhollandbooks.bsky.social, wonderfully chaired by Kelly Peck. Huge thanks to everyone who came along and @serenitybookshop.bsky.social!

Lancs/Mancs and other folk from that neck of the woods - if Leeds is too much of a stretch for the Keshed launch, doing one the week after in Stockport @serenitybookshop.bsky.social with HUGE thanx to old comrade @oziasmidwinter.bsky.social for organising. www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/sto...

It’s not long now until our SOLD OUT @stockportnoir.bsky.social event and we’re delighted to announce the line-up for the first of our panels - Debuts! Mel Pennant, Sean Watkin, Rebecca Philipson and Sarah Mellor will be discussing their debut crime novels with Guy Hale.

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-...

A WEEK TODAY! We're delighted to be welcoming shop favourite Caroline England back to Romiley on Tuesday 25th November for the launch of her wonderfully tense and disturbing new psychological thriller BEHIND HER SMILE - a twisty story set in Manchester in the run up to Christmas Day. 🎫👇🏻

TOMORROW NIGHT! Join us in Stockport for an entertaining and enlightening evening with bestselling author Mark Forsyth as he gives us a light-hearted and very funny tour through English poetry in support of his new book RHYME & REASON Mon 17 Nov | 6.30 | £5.00 Tickets 👇🏻

Very excited for our event with @robinince.bsky.social at Runaway Brewery and Taproom in Stockport tomorrow. He’ll be reading from his debut poetry collection ICE CREAM FOR A BROKEN TOOTH. Tues 11 Nov | 6.30 | £5.00 Tickets via link below 👇🏻

Spent the morning of my birthday yesterday in London at the beautiful Conway Hall chatting all things Independent Publishing as part of the Indie Press Network Marketing and PR day. Had a wonderful time talking to Ann Morgan alongside my old Blackwell’s colleague Zool and Cat from Burley Fisher.

📣 NOVEMBER EVENTS 📣 4/11 - Chris Frost / @cmacwritescrime.bsky.social 11/11 - @robinince.bsky.social 17/11 - Mark Forsyth 25/11 - Caroline England 26/11 - Merry Crimemas 2 with @markedwardsauthor.bsky.social, @antonyjohnston.bsky.social and @caimhmc.bsky.social Tickets via link below 👇🏻

And any North West based @qedcon.org people - I will be doing a gig with @serenitybookshop.bsky.social in STOCKPORT on 11th November www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/sele...

This Wednesday (22nd October) we’ll be welcoming 4 brilliant crime writers to our Romiley shop! Daniel Aubrey, Caroline Corcoran, Tom Mead and Lucy Nichol will be discussing their new books Dying Light, Tiny Daggers, The House at Devil’s Neck and Girls to the Front. 🎫👇🏻

TOMORROW NIGHT! Sam Mills, Ben Pester and Nell Osborne join us in Stockport to discuss THE WATERMARK, THE EXPANSION PROJECT and GHOST DRIVER - three wildly exciting and inventive novels that playfully explore our existential fears of love, work and modern life. Hosted by Valerie O’Riordan. 💙📚 🎫👇🏻

OCTOBER EVENTS! 💙📚 Mon 6 Oct: Sam Mills, Nell Osborne and Ben Pester Sat 11 Oct: Mary Portas Sun 12 Oct: Peter James Wed 15 Oct: Ben Elton Thurs 16 Oct: Graham Robb Wed 22 Oct: Daniel Aubrey, Caroline Corcoran, Tom Mead and Lucy Nichol Thurs 30 Oct: Keira Willis 🎫👇🏻

Signed copies of poyums and poyums annaw are now available in both our Romiley and Stockport shops. 💜📚

Last night we welcomed Len Pennie to Stockport for the launch of her new collection poyums annaw! As well as treating us to some poems, she talked to Terri White about the importance of using poetry to address issues such as domestic violence as well as learning how to incorporate joy into her work.

Very excited for our Jane Austen celebration event at Lyme Park tomorrow!

Join us on Saturday 11th October for a very special signing event with MARY PORTAS at the New Cathedral St branch of Harvey Nichols in Manchester to celebrate the publication of her new book I Shop, Therefore I Am: The ‘90s, Harvey Nicks and Me.  Detail and tickets below👇🏻 💙📚

TOMORROW NIGHT! Elliot Sweeney will be joining us in Stockport to talk about WE DON’T USE WORDS LIKE ‘CRAZY’ - a heart-warming, darkly funny and eye-opening account of the state of mental health services in the UK drawn from 20 years of working on the frontline. 🎫👇🏻

Next Sunday we’ll be at Lyme Park (used as Pemberley in the BBC’s Pride and Prejudice) to celebrate 250 years since the birth of Jane Austen. Expect author talks with Sophie Andrews, Ros Ballaster, Amelia Blackwell and Jess Shannonn plus regency dancing and fancy dress! 💙📚 Full details and tickets👇🏻

A serene evening at @serenitybookshop.bsky.social , with @oziasmidwinter.bsky.social 's hospitality & @andrewmcmillan.bsky.social 's shrewd interviewing of @damianbarr.bsky.social about The Two Roberts. A joyful time (typography fans: I learnt how to say 'florón' in English!). Highly recommended.

Had such a beautiful time tonight @serenitybookshop.bsky.social in Stockport. A gorgeous wee shop and a great community feel. I could have talked with Andrew McMillan all night - very hard for me to not switch back into interviewer mode when talking with such brilliant writers. Thanks all!

Here I am in @serenitybookshop.bsky.social today - I will be doing a poetry event with them in 11th November - meanwhile look out for me in Tiverton, Dartmouth, Budleigh Salterton, Plymouth, Penzance and a bunch of Devon libraries - here is a poem about a lost balloon Robinince.com

TONIGHT!

A big thank you to Heather Morris for popping into our Romiley store today to sign copies of her heartbreaking and healing new novel THE WISH Signed copies of The Wish and Heather’s bestselling The Tattooist of Auschwitz are available instore now!

ICYMI. Tix available now for the first Manc area Keshed gig @serenitybookshop.bsky.social, with thanks to David for this ringing endorsement.

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...

Happy publication day to @nataliehaynes.bsky.social and NO FRIEND TO THIS HOUSE - her brilliant reimagining of the myth of Medea. We had the honour of selling books at Natalie’s Stoller Hall show in Manchester last night - a fun and illuminating event that brought the classics roaring to life! 💜📚

Off on tour with The Two Roberts for two weeks! Stops @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social @portybooks.bsky.social @forumbooks.bsky.social Queer Lit Mancs @serenitybookshop.bsky.social & more! All tickets and details below buythebook.online/the-two-robe...

Happy publication day to @damianbarr.bsky.social and THE TWO ROBERTS - his captivating and beautiful novel about art, class and queer love based on the true story of working class artists Robert Colquhoun and Bobby MacBryde. Don’t miss Damian at our Stockport shop on Tuesday 16th September 💜📚 🎫👇🏻

Serenity Booksellers are on FIRE! Just look at all these author visits!

📣 SEPTEMBER EVENTS 📣 Romiley: 9/9: KJ Whittle w/ Chris McDonald 11/9: Martin Edwards 15/9: Ali Harris w/ Jennie Agg 19/9: Nadia Shireen Stockport: 13/9: Carly Gledhill 16/9: Damian Barr w/ Andrew McMillan 23/9: Elliot Sweeney 29/9: Len Pennie w/ Terri White #BookSky 💜📚 🎫👇🏻

TONIGHT!

We have a very special #WomeninTranslationMonth event coming up with Samanta Schweblin next week! The International Booker Prize shortlisted author of FEVER DREAM will be joining us in Stockport on Wednesday 27th August for the launch her new book of GOOD AND EVIL AND OTHER STORIES. #BookSky 📚💜 🎫👇🏻