The first book in our Playwriting and the Contemporary: Critical Collaborations series is now available - congratulations to Luke Lamont on the publication of The Documentary Aesthetic in Irish Theatre, 2010-2020! liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/topic/book-s...

I'm a few days late with this, but delighted to share the good news about Catherine E. Ross's excellent book Educating the Romantic Poets: Life and Learning in the Anglo-Classical Academy, 1770-1850. Congratulations, Catherine!

This book is a new study on contemporary Chinese science fiction through the lens of techno-nationalism, revealing how the genre critiques class inequality, exploitative capitalism, and the social costs of new technologies in the 21st century. Find out more: bit.ly/RCSFAT

Out in February from @livunipress.bsky.social: The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature. The book started as a lockdown tweet. Delighted that it’s finally done! With Bridget English and @drreznicek.bsky.social

I’ve had flu, so I missed it yesterday, but! 28 December was my book’s OFFICIAL birthday. Metafiction and Narrative Worlds in Science Fiction: Prism, Mirror, Lens (‘PML’ for short) was a labour of love, and is published by @livunipress.bsky.social . Available wherever you buy your books.

Tomorrow is the final day of our Winter Sale! Use discount code 27WINTER on the LUP website for up to 50% off selected print and ebooks. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk

New in Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies | Play in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction is a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary study of the different forms of play found in depictions of radically better and radically worse societies. Find out more: bit.ly/PIUDF

New in Romantic Reconfigurations | Charlotte Smith's Liberal Feminism re-values her fiction as articulating a specifically liberal agenda of legislative reform and intellectual freedom, often through imitations of earlier comic fiction and satire. Find out more here: bit.ly/4pzg37C

New in Romantic Reconfigurations | The Stereoscopic Picturesque combines fields of study that have are brought into close contiguity: the history of science, art history, photography, literature, and environmentalism. Find out more here: bit.ly/452VR5C

The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature is now available for preorder from @livunipress.bsky.social. This collection ranges from graveyard poetry and the gothic through Ní Ghríofa’s Ghost in the Throat, with incisive and new readings of the dead body www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale is now available for preorder from @livunipress.bsky.social. It revises our understanding of this political genre through medical humanities www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

It’s the most wonderful time of the year to buy LUP books - up to 50% off in our Winter Sale!

I intend to do a full-on photo shoot with these when I have some free time, but for now, this will do - author copies of my first book, Metafiction and Narratice Worlds in Science Fiction ( @livunipress.bsky.social ) have arrived! Over the moon, and can highly recommend LUP as publishers.

Happy #WorkInPublishing Week! If you're interested in joining the world of publishing, staff members at LUP share what they love about their jobs and advice on getting into the industry 📚 Read more here ⬇️ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/pages/careers @publishersassoc.bsky.social

🚀 Discover new and forthcoming ebooks in Liverpool Science Fiction Studies Online, a digital collection offering a broad perspective on a variety of themes relating to #SFStudies. Available to libraries as a one-off purchase and with perpetual access. Browse the full collection ➡️ bit.ly/lsfso

Excellent news - congratulations Cathy! @crossphd.bsky.social

Very happy with this cover for ‘Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955’, which features a detail from Evie Hone’s stained glass window 'Four Green Fields'. This window was originally shown at the New York's World Fair in 1939, but is now found in Government Buildings on Merrion Street

Reappraisals in Irish History | The Commercial Lives of Irish Women, 1850-1922 by Antonia Hart is available now! The first book to tell the story of the many entrepreneurial Irish women who ran businesses in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, find out more here ⬇️ bit.ly/CommercialLi...

🎉 @hoireabhard.bsky.social has been awarded the 2025 @nuimerrionsq.bsky.social Publication Prize in Irish History, for his book The Medieval Irish Kings and the English Invasion. Congratulations, Seán! Learn more about the book here ⬇️ bit.ly/MedievalIris...

Dr Miranda Melcher recently chatted with @eleanorfitzsimons.bsky.social on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about Speranza: Poems by Jane Wilde! Find out more here: bit.ly/NBNSPJW

'Kamila Shamsie' is now available in Writers and Their Work: The Digital Collection, a perpetual access resource offering over 400 rigorous critical examinations of the works of distinguished writers and schools of writing. Browse the collection ➡️bit.ly/writers-and-their-work-digital-collection

@ssnci.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social Finally got my own copies! Hard to think that this all started with a conference in June 2022! Thanks to Arlene and Cathal, all the contributors and to our top secret peer reviewers #ssnci #irishstudies #conflict #Ireland

SSNCI members are now starting to receive their FREE copy of our latest conference volume: New Perspectives on Conflict and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century edited by Paul Huddie, Cathal Billings, Arlene Crampsie www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Event | Join the School of English and Digital Humanities ‪@ucc.ie‬ on Wednesday, 10th September, for a symposium in honour of the late Dr Eibhear Walshe. Find out more here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/green-carn...

It's alive! Publication day! Play in Utopian and Dystopian Ficion arrived in the mail. Thanks Liverpool University Press for producing such a beautiful book.

Back in Galway in glorious sunshine for the ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference! Come to the LUP table for discounted books or to talk about our book series Liverpool Studies in Literature and Environment: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/topic/book-s... @asleuki.bsky.social

New in paperback | Down from London focuses on reading, literary genre and seaside resorts between the 1840s and the 1930s. As the railway network developed, debates about ‘seaside reading’ intensified and inflected the development of new forms of fiction. Find out more here: bit.ly/DownFL

If anyone has a spare ticket for sale for Comic Con in Dublin (Saturday), we’d love if you could drop us a line! Many thanks.

Available now | The latest volume in the Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland series, this book is the first dedicated study exploring the theme of Irish conflict, broadly defined, during the long nineteenth century. Discover more here: bit.ly/NPCINC

Lovely to catch up with so many LUP authors at the IASIL conference in Galway. Come and visit our book table for a 50% discount and/or a chat about publishing with us!

Great to be in Birmingham attending the World Congress of @global19c.bsky.social. If you’re here, do come by the book stand and find out more about publishing with @livunipress.bsky.social!

Our Summer Sale starts today with up to 50% off our books* when purchased via the LUP website. Use discount code 27SUMMER at checkout before Sunday 20th July to receive your discount. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk *Excludes selected partner titles.

All set up for English Shared Futures in the Huntingdon Room at King’s Manor - come and browse our books!

Just arrived in beautiful York for the English Shared Futures conference. Looking forward to tomorrow!

We're hiring a Commissioning Editor / Senior Commissioning Editor (dependent on experience) for a one-year maternity cover. The full job description and details about applying are at the link below. Applications close on Monday 30th June. bit.ly/JobVacSCE #PublishingJobs #JobsInPublishing

🎨 Remember to stay inside the lines when you are colouring in The Translated Texts for Historians Colouring Book! ✍️ Purchase your copy here ⬇️ bit.ly/TTHColouring...

In 1617, Rachel Speght caused a sensation when, aged nineteen, she published a polemic in defence of women, but the power of her words died with her. This is a portrait of the ‘forward’ woman, who dared to speak her mind in an age of controversy and conflict. Find out more: bit.ly/TLoRS

This is the first critical study of the work of John Wyndham, a leading practitioner of science fiction in post-war Britain. This book examines his novels, short stories, and also reprints a key essay by Wyndham about science fiction, originally published in 1955. Find out more: bit.ly/JWyndham

This evening at the BFI Reuben Library in London, join author Diane Negra for a discussion on the significance of Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt, the small-town thriller the director himself regarded as one of his finest works. Find out more here: bit.ly/SOADDN

Love the cover of the latest book in @englishassociation.bsky.social & @livunipress.bsky.social monograph series by Dr Rachel White *** Elizabethan Occult Poetics: Exploring Practice and Knowledge in English Poetry *** Out 28 September 2025! 📚🧙 www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

We are delighted that Dr Ruth Duffy has been awarded an honourable mention in the Irish Historical Studies First Book Prize 2024 for Healthcare and the Troubles! Congratulations, Ruth 🎉 Discover more about the book here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Many congratulations to @hoireabhard.bsky.social‬ who has won the @irishhistsoc.bsky.social‬ First Book Prize 2024 for The Medieval Irish Kings and the English Invasion! 🎉 The first analysis of the twelfth-century Irish kingdoms, Irish kingship and impact of the English invasion. bit.ly/3UZeSky

Exciting news... Strained Peace: Northern Ireland from Good Friday to Brexit by Amanda Hall has been awarded the 2024 BAIS Book Prize! Congratulations Amanda!

'A map of a vast and previously uncharted field that is set to inspire future in-depth studies of individual titles or themes.' Discover more about The Rise of the Cyberzines here ⬇️ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Looking to expand your library's literary studies collections? Liverpool University Press has an extensive array of volumes, covering a vast breadth of subjects and genres, available exclusively in our perpetual access digital collections. Find out more ➡️ bit.ly/collections-catalogue-2025

Within our recent blog post, John Culbert, author of Proximities: Literature, Mobility and the Politics of Displacement, discusses the American higher education system and considers how scholarship can respond to it. Find out more: bit.ly/JohnCulbert

To mark the launch of our brilliant colleague Karl O'Hanlon's new book, Official Voices: Poets and the Irish State, @livunipress.bsky.social is offering a 30% discount. Pls spread the word&order this terrific book for yr library! @mulibrary.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie #irishstudies #irishlit

Sorry to those who said C was best. Stuck to my instinct and went with B which was also a popular choice. Play in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction also now has a webpage. Due for publication in September! www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

@ssnci.bsky.social New Perspectives on Conflict and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century is out on 28 July 2025! Order a copy for yourself, your class or your library via www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... #SSNCI #IrishStudies #conflict

We're taking a couple of weeks break, and our next Irish Studies event will be a booklaunch of Shannon Devlin's 'Siblinghood and Sociability in 19th-Century Ulster' on Mon. 28 Apr. at 4.30 (in-person and online), with Prof. Diane Urquhart. All welcome. www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...