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Manderley Press @manderleypress.bsky.social · Nov 16
Hello to all the new followers! I'm a startup indie publisher - a small fish in a huge publishing pond - and so I'm always looking for interesting ways to shine a spotlight on our books. I'm so proud to have published this mini stack, but I'm so excited about our new titles too📚 manderleypress.com
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I run an indie press based in London, and I find forgotten books to bring back to life. This was my absolute favourite read as a child and it’s funny how many readers have been in touch to tell me they felt the same way about this gentle, inspiring and timeless tale set in Tudor London.
November 26, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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“These books are so special. They arrived beautifully wrapped and were the perfect Christmas Eve gift for my children.”
Introducing the Manderley Press Children’s Collection
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A stack of all five colourful Manderley Press books for children, presented here on two levels as a collection for Christmas, Birthdays, Christenings or as a way to kickstart a nursery collection.
November 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Showcasing China Court🪷
Our epic novel by Rumer Godden, set in Cornwall and spanning five generations of one very dramatic family. A new Manderley Press edition, brought to life beautifully with an intro by Linda Grant and a front cover by Emily Maude
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China court by Rumer Godden - a hard back Manderley Press book with a blue cloth spine and a jug of flowers on the front cover, surrounded by illustrations of the same flowers on blue and orange.
November 26, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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“It's an absolute joy to open a package from Manderley Press,” said one of our recent customers. So we ran with that theme!
Introducing the complete collection of all 13 titles - all wrapped up and just in time for Christmas!
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A stack of Manderley press books with their colourful cloth spines arranged in a rainbow. All wrapped up in a giant red ribboned bow.
November 25, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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jfkane.bsky.social Jessica Francis Kane @jfkane.bsky.social · 1d
Could there be a better Christmas present? I don’t think so.

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November 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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We are over the moon that our newest title - The Strange House by Raymond Briggs - has been chosen as one of the best children’s books of 2025 by @telegraph.co.uk. Whoop!
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November 23, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Introducing the Manderley Press subscription - the ultimate gift for readers who love rediscovered literary gems, distinctive titles and beautifully made books. A carefully curated collection elegant reprints brought back to life especially for the 21st-century reader.
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November 22, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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You're invited to play a puzzle created by Manderley.
The clue is: "Bovine star"
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Choose a word for friends to guess, then share your own puzzle.
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November 22, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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The complete collection - the first 13 Manderley Press titles!
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November 19, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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So we coloured in Helene Hanff’s dog - of course it had to be yellow (in honour of the New York taxi cab, Playbill booklets and the starry lights of Broadway, where this book is set). #underfootinshowbusiness #booksky 💛🌟🚖📒
November 12, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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Manderley Press books are all exquisitely produced, as small hardback editions, quarter-bound in real cloth and printed on high quality paper. They are designed to stand the test of time and are intended to be passed on as an heirloom collection from one generation to the next #booksky
A stack of rainbow coloured Manderley press books Edinburgh picturesque notes by Robert Louis Stevenson, introduced by Alexander McCall Smith and illustrated by Iain McIntosh. Published by Manderley press. The yellow spine book with a black-and-white illustration on the front by Bruce Eric Kaplan – illustrator for New Yorker, magazine and script writer for girls. This book is by helen hanff and is entitled letter from New York. It’s introduced by a cousin of hers, hanff korelitz. This is a manderley press title, hardback and quarter bound in yellow cloth. A purple cloth bound spine for the book Florence ordeal by water, with an illustration of Florence during the floods in 1966 on the front cover, by illustrator Agnesbic. This book is by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor author of address unknown and was published by Manderley press press in 2024.
November 11, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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“Once upon a time in Central Park, there was a garden. It was perched on a small hilltop and reached by high stone steps. It had flower beds blooming in spring, summer and autumn,
and a famous mulberry tree; and it was called the
Shakespeare Garden.”
- Helene Hanff, Letter from New York
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“Once upon a time in Central Park, there was a garden. It was perched on a small hilltop and reached by high stone steps. It had flower beds blooming in spring, summer and autumn, and a famous mulberry tree; and it was called the Shakespeare Garden.” - Helene Hanff, Letter from New York A photo of the book published by Manderley Press with a black and white illustration on the front cover of the author and her dog by Brice Eric Kaplan, with a bright yellow cloth spine against a pale grey background.
November 9, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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I was in #Whitby for the Literary Festival + visited the archives in the local museum to research the writer #StormJameson who we will republish next year. This ghoulish dried human hand (on display in the museum) points the way through the town. One can see why Bram Stoker’s #Dracula was set here!
I was in #Whitby for the Literary Festival + visited the archives in the local museum to research the writer #StormJameson who we will republish next year. This ghoulish dried human hand (on display in the museum) points the way through the town. One can see why Bram Stoker’s #Dracula was set here!
November 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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I drew this cover for WOMAN ALIVE from @manderleypress.bsky.social "A forgotten #sci-fi #dystopian classic, first published 90 years ago and now reissued with an introduction by Graham Norton". Preorder it now: www.manderleypress.com/shop/p/womanalive
The cover of the book WOMAN ALIVE by Susan Ertz. Illustrated with a drawing by Tom Gauld in shades of reds and pinks which shows a retro-futuristic city. In the arched door of a tall tower stands a female stick figure. Stairs lead down, through a layer of clouds to lower levels and tunnels from which a crowd of male stick figures emerges.
November 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Beautiful autumn light this morning. Perfect for photos of books with golden foil on the front when you want to capture the sparkle! ⚡️⚡️
(This is our new kid’s book - The Strange House by Raymond Briggs - introduced by @chrisriddell.bsky.social). I’m biased I know but it’s gorgeous… #booksky
The Strange house by Raymond Briggs – a rediscovered children’s classic published by Manderley press and introduced by Chris Riddell. This book is photographed outside in front of an autumnal tree and features a green cloth spine and an original illustration in chocolate brown on the front cover and copper foiled text too
November 3, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Coming soon. A forgotten #sci-fi #dystopian classic, first published 90 years ago and now reissued with an introduction by Graham Norton and a brand new cover commissioned from @tomgauld.bsky.social - pre-orders are open and shipping is worldwide!
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Woman Alive by Susan Ertz, A Manderley Press edition 2026, introduction by Graham Norton — Manderley Press
Woman Alive is a curious science fiction novel from 1936 by Susan Ertz, set in London in a dystopian future where only one woman is left alive after all others in the world are wiped out in a pandemic...
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November 2, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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We are delighted and honoured to see our book Mary Shelley in Bath reviewed alongside the frighteningly fantastic Frankenstein by @realgdt.bsky.social in the latest edition of @nybooks.com. The perfect Halloween treat #booksky
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A review from the latest edition of the New York review of books featuring our title Mary Shelley in Bath published by Manderley press in London and Frankenstein the new film by Guillermo Del Toro A black poster with white text describing and promoting the latest film by Guillermo Del Toro - Frankenstein A stack of pink cloth spined editions of the Manderley Press title Mary Shelley in Bath, with a candle and a matching bookmark
October 31, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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This @manderleypress.bsky.social book is such a joy. Life-affirming escapism. I just spent 10 mins on Google Maps trying (& failing) to find a tiny alley off E 71st St that Hanff describes as a perfect English mews. Now I want to go to NYC to seek it out. There must/should be a map of Hanff spots🤔💡.
Shot of front cover of “Letters from New York” by Helene Hanff. It has a jaunty yellow spine and a line drawing of a woman with glasses walking a white scotty dog, with a backdrop of hedges/trees and NY skyscrapers. Screenshot from the book, Page 2 of 2: …..“blossoms and there was nobody to open the snapdragons; but more than that, she missed him. 'He was a lovely bumble bee,' she told me sadly. "The two of us worked out there together, we never bothered each other; we were companions.' Well, last week I was on her terrace one afternoon, and I don't know what made me ask, 'Did your bumble bee ever come back?' And Nina's mouth set in a disapproving line. 'His son was here this morning, she said. 'He's an ado-lescent, he has no manners. He kept flying in my face. And he dashed all over the place, from this flower to that, and then back to the first one. He hasn't any idea what he's doing!' 'He'll learn, I said. 'One day he'll be grown up and sedate, and you'll probably be sorry. Last year Nina's son, Claudie, was an adolescent. Now he's finished college, he's grown up and independent, hes joined the Marines and you have to call him Chuck.” Screenshot from the book, page 1 of 2: “This bafled me, because bird-watchers had persuaded me that birds are easily frightened. All year round when Im walking in the Park, singing or kicking leaves, I am shushed by bird-watchers who tiptoe up to a tree and stand looking up with out breathing, for fear of scaring the birds away. So I consulted Nina about this contradiction. 'Birds, said Nina judiciously, 'don't like bird-watchers. Birdwatchers stare at them, invading their privacy, so birds hide from them. Dogs pay no attention to the birds, so the birds like them.' I gotta tell you about Nina's bumble bee. Last year a bee came every day to pollinate her terrace. The old wooden terrace door had a hole in the top, and when the bee got tired he crawled into the hole and took a nap. But last fall Nina had a new door installed. And the next day the bee came and worked, and then looked for his nap hole. He searched more and more frantically for it, before he gave up and flew off. And this spring he didn't come back. Nina was inconsolable. Her orange tree had no”….
October 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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The spookiest of all the Manderley Press titles… If you need convincing just ask @realgdt.bsky.social - and check out his new film and special literary edition of Frankenstein at the same time - the perfect #Halloween treat! Special Gothic giftwrapping of this title at ManderleyPress.com
💙📚#bluesky
A copy of Mary Shelley in Bath introduced by Fiona Sampson and published by Manderley Press, 2025. A brightly coloured pink yellow orange and black book held by hand in front of three candles and a bowl of tangerines, photographed in a spooky Halloween style light. A copy of a Bluesky post by Guillermo Del Toro of the film director (Frankenstein) holding a copy of Mary Shelley in Bath, published by Manderley Press in 2025 and introduced by Fiona Sampson. A copy of a Bluesky post by Guillermo Del Toro of the film director’s (Frankenstein) model of Mary Shelley, writing with a copy of Mary Shelley in Bath on her desk, as published by Manderley Press in 2025 and introduced by Fiona Sampson.
October 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Ah autumn light - the perfect way to showcase the sparkly text on the front cover of our new book - The Strange House by Raymond Briggs. My daughter calls this design “goblin core” - do you agree? #autumn 💙📚#booksky
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October 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Posing with my favourite edition of my favourite book #rebecca by #daphnedumaurier - the inspiration behind #ManderleyPress and even though most Rebecca-named characters get a bad name in literature, I’m proud to be one of the clan! 💙📚#booksky
Rebeka Russell, publisher at Manderley Press, poses with her favourite edition of the novel Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. The cover is photo of an embroidered white linen fabric, upon which an R is featured prominently.
October 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Turns out the cat is mad keen for French novelists - in graphic novel format. I’m preparing for the forthcoming publication of the #GeorgeSand biography by @fionasampson.bsky.social - dear 💙📚#booksky readers - which book should I read first of this totally mesmerising 19th-century writer?
Manderley Press office mascot - aka Jeremy the cat - reading the graphic novelisation of the life and works of 19th-century French novelist George Sand. Paw outstretched.
October 19, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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The sheer joy of discovering a forgotten portrait of an author you're about to republish - by one of your favourite artists no less. There's nothing like it!
This is #SusanErtz by #Gluck from 1936. Dot-connections like this are one of the best parts of being a publisher 💙📚#booksky
A portrait of author Susan Ertz by Gluck, 1936
October 17, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Pretty much the exact view Mary Shelley would have had of Jacob's Ladder on the facade of Bath Abbey from her window as she wrote chapter 4 of #Frankenstein in 1816. Note the stone angels ascending and descending... @realgdt.bsky.social we can’t wait to see this played out on screen too! 💙📚#booksky
Pretty much the exact view Mary Shelley would have had of Jacob's Ladder on the facade of Bath Abbey from her window, as she wrote chapter 4 of #Frankenstein in 1816. Note the stone angels ascending and descending...
October 14, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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We celebrated Mary Shelley in Bath, in Bath itself! Thank you @fionasampson.bsky.social and @waterstonesbath.bsky.social for helping us to bring her words back to life. We can’t wait to see them resurrected on screen too - roll on #frankenstein by @realgdt.bsky.social later this month! 💙📚#booksky
A stack of books at Waterstones in Bath - Mary Shelley in Bath, introduced by Fiona Sampson and published by Manderley Press 2025.
October 14, 2025 at 8:58 AM