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Isn't this wonderful news to start the day.

We're winners in the small press awards for The North of England in The British Book Awards - 2025.

I would like to thank our brilliant team of editors, Lin Webb, Leonora Rustamova, Hetha Duffy and Darya Rustamova, some of the finest in the land. The excellence starts with their editorial rigour.

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/the-british-book-awards-2025-small-pr...

Marvellous!

Kevin & Kevin talk about books, thunderstorms. haircuts, Goths, jigsaw factories, AI, and art.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1HZOTrMne96hJz3FIiV5O7?si=_sn29FSUSoK5K...

Congratulations to Orla Owen whose novel _Christ on a  Bike_ has been long listed for the 100,000 Euro Dublin LIterary Award.

https://dublinliteraryaward.ie/the-library/prize-years/2025/

The short listing will be announced at the end of March with the winner chosen in Dublin in May.

'A poetic tale of loss and belonging.' The Guardian.

A lovely reveiw of Pauls Scraton's novel _A Dream of White Horses_

A Dream of White Horses by Paul Scraton review – images of exile | Fiction | The Guardian

There was a wonderful review of _Ghost Mountain_ by Rónán Hession in The Guardian on Saturday 22nd June by Frank Cottrell-Boyce.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jun/22/ghost-mountain-by-...

Marvellous.

There was a wonderful review by Val Nolan in The Irish TImes on Saturday 25th May where his writing was compared with 'Murakami and Beckett' finishing with this sentence.

'We are very lucky that novels like this are being written today in Ireland.'

The World Book tour took in Hodges Figgis in Dublin - Waterstones , Deansgate Manchester - Waterstones Liverpool - The Book Corner Halifax and The Fitzrovia Chapel courtesy of The Irish Literary Society in London.

The response from readers has been truly wonderful, so much so we've already had to reprint. 

Marvellous.

Delighted to announce that we will be launching Ghost Mountain by Rónán Hession at Hodges Figgis in Dublin on Thursday 23rd May at 6.30pm with the UK launch the following week at Waterstones, Deansgate, Manchester on Wednesday 29th May at 6pm. He will be at Waterstones LIverpool at 1pm on Thursday 30th May to sign copies with the Independent bookshop launch at The Book Corner in The Piece Hall, Halifax where it all started in 2019 with the launch of Leonard and Hungry Paul.

Marvellous.

There is a lovely piece in The Guardian about Bluemoose Books

- https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/aug/06/bluemoose-kevin-duffy-publ...