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Aug 10

We love seeing pictures of you enjoying our books!

Thank you to everyone sharing their love for Death Drop by Claire MacLeary over the past few weeks 🕵🏻

#desthdrop #clairemacleary #harcusandlaird #harcusandlairdinvestigate #booksbooksbooks #booklovers #aberdeenbookshop #tartannoir #noirbooks #crimebook #crimebooks #crimebookclub #crimebookjunkie #crimebooks📖 #crimebooksaremyfavorite #crimebookseries #detectivebooks #privateinvestigatorbooks #scottishbook #scottishbookstagrammer

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Aug 9

A few recommendations for you this #BookLoversDay - there's something for everyone 📚

Happy reading!

#booklovers #bookloversofinstagram #bookloversunite #bookloversday📚 #readingrec #readingrecommendations #readingtime #readingrecs #goodbooks #newbooks #discoverbooks #bookishlife #casestudygmb #graememacraeburnet #coldfishsoup #stanabbott #olgawojtas #jimcrumley #suelawrence

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Aug 8

Our publishing manager visited Whitby over the weekend for a very special photoshoot with a seagull. Our feathered friend wasn't the easiest model to work with as they're pretty notorious for being loud, rowdy and often flying away from set - such a diva!

Nevertheless, we still think they enjoyed themselves being photographed with @adamjfarrer's debut book, Cold Fish Soup! 🌊🐦

Who's been reading Cold Fish Soup over the weekend?

#coldfishsoup #whitbyseagulls #whitbybeach #whitby #withernsea #holdernesscoast #eastyorkshire #yorkshirecoast #nonfictionlovers #booksbooksbooks #booksinthewild #northernwriters #northboundbookaward #godhateswithernsea #bookish #bookishpost #readingcommunity

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Aug 6

People of London, this one's for you...

Adam Farrer (Cold Fish Soup) will be in conversation with Wyl Menmuir (The Draw of the Sea) at Foyles, Charing Cross Road on Wednesday August 10th, 2022 at 7pm

The two authors will be bringing the sea to the big smoke, discussing seaside life and its eccentricities.

Adam and Wyl’s conversation will be followed by an audience Q&A and a book signing. Doors will open from 6:30pm. Tickets are £8. Book now through the link in our bio.

@adamjfarrer @wylmenmuir @foylesforbooks #adamfarrer #wylmenmuir #bookerprize #foyleslondon #bookevents #authorevents #authorq&a #authortalks #booksigning #coldfishsoup #godhateswithernsea #northernersinlondon #newbooks #bookish #bookstagramuk #bookstagramlondon #charingcrossroad #nonfiction #nonfictionbooks #nonfictionlovers #memoirlovers #memoir #essaycollection

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Aug 5

Readers say Adam Farrer's Cold Fish Soup is 'witty', 'moving' and 'laced with humanity'.

Moving to Withernsea represented one thing to Adam: a chance to leave the insecurities of early adolescence behind. And he could do that anywhere. What he didn’t know was how much he’d grow to love the quirks and people of this faded Yorkshire resort, in spite of its dilapidated attractions and retreating clifftops.

Adam lays bare experiences that are universal. His insights on family, friendship, male mental health and suicide are revealed in stories of reinvention, rapacious seagulls, interdimensional werewolves, burlesque dancing pensioners, and his compulsion towards the sea.

Cold Fish Soup is an affectionate look at a place and its inhabitants, the ways in which they can shape and influence someone, and the hope – and hilarity – that can be found in community.

#coldfishsoup #godhateswithernsea #withernseabeach #newnonfiction #nonfiction #nonfictionbooks #nonfictionreads #nonfic #nonfictionnovember #nonfictionbook #nonfictionbookclub #nonfictionauthor #memoir #memoirwriting #bookstagramuk

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Aug 4

The only acceptable way to end publication day for your first book!

We can't imagine how freezing you must be @adamjfarrer 🥶 🐟 🥣

You've definitely earned a Jaffa Cake (or 10)!

#coldwaterswimming #coldwaters #coldwaterswimminguk #withernsea #withernseabeach #withernsealighthouse #holderness #holdernesscoast #coldfishsoup #adamfarrer #godhateswithernsea

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Aug 4

Oh I do like to be beside the seaside, oh I do like to be beside the (very cold) sea 🎶

It's publication day for @adamjfarrer and his debut book, Cold Fish Soup, a stunning memoir of his life in Withernsea, East Yorkshire.

Cold Fish Soup is an affectionate look at a place and it's inhabitants, and the ways in which they can shape and influence someone, especially of an impressionable age.

Adam's account explores what it means to love and be shaped by a place that is under threat, and the hope - and hilarity - that can be found in community.

Happy reading!

🥶 🐟 🥣

#coldfishsoup #publicationday #northboundbookaward #newbook #newbookalert #adamfarrer #eastyorkshire #yorkshire #yorkshireauthor #ukbookstagram #nonfictionbooks #nonfictionbookclub #memoir #essaycollection #memoirwriting #placewriting #malementalhealth #davidsedaris #alanbennett #withernsea #withernseabeach

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Aug 3

Delighted to see Case Study on the shortlist for the #GordonBurnPrize 2022!

Congratulations @graememacraeburnet and all other shortlisted authors!

@blakefriedmannliteraryagency @isobelmdixon @nwnnewwritingnorth #gordonburn #casestudy #casestudygmb #metafiction #literaryfiction #bookawards #bookprizes #literaryprize #literaryawards #scottishauthors #scottishbooks #historicalfiction #literarythriller #hisbloodyproject #graememacraeburnet

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Aug 2

Yesterday marked the beginning of Women in Translation Month!

Shocked Earth by Saskia Goldschmidt and translated by Antoinette Fawcett from Dutch to English is the perfect book to read this month to celebrate #WiTMonth

Antoinette Fawcett is an award-winning member of the Translators Association of the Society of Authors. Her most recent literary translation is The Limits of My Language: Meditations on Depression, by Eva Meijer. Her 2018 translation of Eva Meijer’s Bird Cottage was shortlisted for the 2019 Vondel Prize.

#womenintranslation #womenintranslationmonth #womenintranslationmonth2022 #womenintranslationaugust #antoinettefawcett #shockedearth #saskiagoldschmidt #climatecrisisbooks #climatecrisis #climatefiction #climatechangefiction #bookrecommendations #augusttbr #tbr #tbrlist

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Aug 1

Home of Yorkshire puddings, Arctic Monkeys, Sean Bean and the crumbling coast of Withernsea, Yorkshire has it all - just ask Adam Farrer

This Yorkshire Day, Cold Fish Soup author @adamjfarrer has been travelling the county to sign copies of the book ahead of its publication this Thursday!

Thanks to the bookshops of Yorkshire for welcoming Adam into your stores:

@whitbybookshop
@thebeverleybookshop_
@jebookshull
@trumanbooksleeds
@thegrovebookshop
@bookcornerhx
@bookcasehebden
@saltsmillofficial

Visit any of these stores to find your SIGNED copy of Cold Fish Soup (while stocks last 😉)

#signedbooks #yorkshireday #yorkshiredales #yorkshirelife #whitby #beverley #hull #leeds #ilkley #halifax #hebdenbridge #saltsmill #indiebookshops #indiebookstore #independentbookstore #independentbookshop #yorkshirebookstagrammers #visityorkshire #newbookalert #bookstagramuk #coldfishsoup #godhateswithernsea #eastyorkshire #yorkshirecoast #yorkshireroadtrip #roadtrip #bookishreel #booksbooksbooks #authortour

[Not associated with the actual Tour de Yorkshire/France 🚴‍♀️]

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Aug 1

Celebrating #YorkshireDay with some of our Yorkshire related reads...

Whether it's books about famous literary Yorkshire residents, non-fiction about Yorkshire, or books by authors with connections to Yorkshire - there's something for everyone!

Happy Yorkshire Day to all of our followers from Yorkshire!

Now, time for a cup of Yorkshire tea... ☕️

#celebrateyorkshire #yorkshireday2022 #coldfishsoup #settletocarlisle #settlerailwaystation #withernsea #yorkshirebookstagrammers #booksfromyorkshire #castlesfromcobwebs #alisonarmstrong #annebronte #charlottebronte #emilybronte #visityorkshire #yorkshirewriters #northboundbookaward

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Jul 30

Today we celebrate Emily Brontë's birthday with a copy of Claire O'Callaghan's Emily Brontë Reappraised, part of our Women Writers Rediscovered series.

About the book:
Emily Brontë occupies a special place in the English literary canon. And rightly so: the incomparable Wuthering Heights is a novel that has bewitched us for almost 200 years, and the character of Heathcliff is, perhaps, the ultimate romantic hero – and villain. But Emily herself remains an enigmatic figure, often portrayed as awkward, as a misanthrope, as “no normal being”.

That’s the conventional wisdom on Emily as a person, but is it accurate, is it fair? In this biography with a twist, Claire O’Callaghan conjures a new image of Emily and rehabilitates her reputation by exploring the themes of her life and work – her feminism, her passion for the natural world – as well as the art she has inspired, and even the “fake news” stories about her. What we discover is that she was, in fact, a thoroughly modern woman. And now, in the 21st century, it’s time for the real Emily Brontë to please stand up.

#emilybronte #brontesisters #wutheringheights #emilybrontebirthday #thebrontes #thebrontesisters #bronteparsonagemuseum #haworthvillage #haworth #yorkshiremoors #heathcliffe #cathyandheathcliffe

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Jul 29

A trip to the lighthouse...

Less than one week to go until Cold Fish Soup hits the shelves!

@adamjfarrer #withernsea #withernsealighthouse #coldfishsoup #godhateswithernsea #yorkshire #nonfictionbooks #newbooksaugust #augustbooks #bookstagramuk #nonfictionreads #nonfictionlover

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Jul 29

Take a look at Jim Crumley's fantastic Seasons series 📖

The Nature of Autumn is number one in the Nature Writing Kindle charts! Link in stories...

And look out for the glorious collection reworked into a single new volume, Seasons of Storm and Wonder. Coming this September with a foreword by Kathleen Jamie

#jimcrumley #scottishnature #naturewriting #naturewriter #naturewriters #scottishbooks #seasonsofstormandwonder #kathleenjamie #beautifulbooks #bookscomingsoon #kindledeals #kindlebooks #kindlerecommendations

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