Summer reading season is officially underway at MUP☀️📚 From postcolonial family sagas and queer desire in Northern Italy to neo-noir detectives and brand new Maggie O'Farrell, take a peek at what made it out of our TBR piles and into our tote bags this July! Let us know your current read below⬇️

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Had a great time attending @thebookseller.com Marketing & Publicity Conference today (virtually). My highlights: hearing from the teams who worked on the campaigns for both Careless People and Fundamentally was hugely inspiring. #MPConf

🌿 Q is for Garden is going on tour! A celebration of the communities rooted in green spaces, join author @jennychambles.bsky.social for conversations about queer cultivation with fellow garden lovers and book readers. Head to our Events page (link in bio) to book. #booksky #pridemonth

What a week to be a fan of both Ann Patchett and Maggie O’Farrell, can’t wait to get stuck into these 📚 #booksky

The perfect book to arrive in time for a long weekend #booksky

Absolutely chuffed to bits to see this book reviewed in the Guardian. Have been chasing an elusive Guardian review since taking on trade publicity at MUP so this feels like a big moment 😅🙌🏼

Manchester University Press@manchesterup.bsky.social · 3mo ago

'A love letter, full of warmth and enthusiasm; a passionate celebration of Aherne, of working-class artists, of Manchester, and of an era of television that no longer exists.' @arghkid.bsky.social's new book on Caroline Aherne reviewed on @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

PUBLISHING INSIGHTS DAY 2026 🎉 📅 Jun 11 (10-4pm) 📌 Geoffrey Manton Building Always dreamed of a career in publishing? Come along to Publishing Insights Day 2026 to learn from the experts, ask all your burning questions, & get hands-on publishing experience. 🎫 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/publishing...

Scurried to the postbox this morning to collect this 🤩 @picadorbooks.bsky.social

I’ve been looking forward to this delivery from @404ink.bsky.social 👏🏼

Announcing our Spring & Summer events with Satoshi Yagisawa & Emi Yagi, Douglas Stuart, and Tayari Jones! Advance tickets for these events are now available for MLF Members to buy. Tickets go on general sale on Fri 6 Feb. Can't wait? Get your membership here: www.quaytickets.com/mlf/screenlo...

@mcrlitfest.bsky.social are recruiting for new Trustees, join me on the Board of this brilliant organisation! Find out more on our website: manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/get-involved...

Some of my favourite books I’ve read in 2025 📚 the romantasy era continues, but also delving into more Maggie after enjoying Hamnet

I’m so happy I can finally share that I have been promoted to Senior Marketing Coordinator at @manchesterup.bsky.social! Really nice way to end 2025 and to start my fifth year at the press. 🥳

Cannot believe we get new Ann Patchett AND new Maggie O’Farrell books on the same day in June 2026, I might have to book the day off!

Check out the brilliant books I’m going to be working on next Spring and Summer! 🤩

Manchester University Press@manchesterup.bsky.social · 9mo ago

We're delighted to share with you our brand-new Spring / Summer 2026 Trade Catalogue. Featuring new titles publishing March-August 2026, including @jtwelsch.bsky.social, @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social, @arghkid.bsky.social and others. Browse here: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/catalogues #booksky

A brilliant closing event for @mcrlitfest.bsky.social’s 20th anniversary festival listening to lovely Patrick Grant talk about his book Less, and I got my copy signed too ✍🏼

In my capacity as a trustee I was delighted to be at the launch of the new exhibition to celebrate 20 years of @mcrlitfest.bsky.social. Fantastic photos of authors who have appeared at the festival. The exhibition is on in the Reading Room at #Manchester Central Library until the end of the year. 📸

Accidentally matched my manicure to my current read 💅🏻 @hollybourne.bsky.social

Accidentally matched my manicure to my current read 💅🏻 @hollybourne.bsky.social

🎟️ALL TICKETS NOW ON SALE FOR #MLF25🎟️ We celebrate 20 years of stories, ideas and inspiration this autumn with an incredible line-up of award-winning authors, cultural icons and bold new voices, plus a host of family fun! www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk Highlights include:

Excellent post today! This year’s @mcrlitfest.bsky.social programme (which is on sale now!), new commissions archive to celebrate the 20th anniversary and my membership card 😍 it’s only £25 a year to become a member and you get lots of lovely perks: manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/support-us

🎊CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF LITERARY MAGIC - FULL #MLF25 PROGRAMME OUT NOW!📚 From internationally acclaimed authors and cultural icons to bold new voices, our 20th edition is set to inspire, challenge and delight anyone who celebrates with us. 🧵

Just finished Sophie’s powerful book, published by @honnopress.bsky.social - so happy to have come across it when I did, a book I feel I’ve been looking for for a long time and congrats Honno on publishing such an important memoir 👏🏼 and Sophie for all its success.

Becca Parkinson@beccap1502.bsky.social · last yr.

A brilliant event this evening at House of Books and Friends in #Manchester with Sophie Calon discussing her new book with Zoe Lambert and Dr Piers Henriques from @nacoauk.bsky.social - huge thanks to Maria Roberts for organising and making me aware this was happening!

Thank you @jennashworth.bsky.social, @adamjfarrer.bsky.social & @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social for a brilliant event discussing grief, grumpiness, care, memoir, northern grit and walking. Congrats on the new book Jenn! #booksky

Anyone I know coming along?

Blackwell's Manchester@blackwellsmcr.bsky.social · last yr.

Our event for the launch of Jenn Ashworth's The Parallel Path is TOMORROW! Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-parall...

🎟️Tickets are now on sale for our 4 early-released events of #MLF25! Head to our website www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk to grab your tickets🎟️ And don’t forget to sign up to our mailing list to get updates about our full programme✨

As Bookbanks new Ambassador I’d like to spread the word about this brilliant charity giving books with food at food banks. Please share and support if you’re able :) www.bookbanks.co.uk

Is manchester becoming too much like london? Come with me on a trip around a high rise city of OnlyFans creators, £6 pints and ever richer overseas students www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‘All those posh apartments. It’s a playground for the rich’: is Manchester turning into London?

£6 a pint, £199 a month for gym membership, £1,200 to rent a studio flat? The Guardian’s former North of England editor asks if the city she’s worked in for 12 years is changing for the better – or wo...

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A magical evening with V.E. Schwab to celebrate the publication of Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, amazing to see Manchester Central Library so full on a Saturday evening in summer too 🤩