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Celebrating books by artists, poets, writers, book designers and their publishers online and through the annual gathering, Fri 24 & Sat 25 October 2025.

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prototypepubs.bsky.social
We are thrilled to share the news that Katy Derbyshire’s translation of Mountainish by Zsuzsanna Gahse has been shortlisted for the @societyofauthors.bsky.social John Calder Translation Prize. This is a new award for English translations of full-length groundbreaking works of literary merit.
December 1, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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longbarrowpress.bsky.social
If you're in Sheffield, we can deliver by hand, on foot, to any address in the city encircled by the blue line (and we're happy to gift-wrap books, if you like, at no extra cost). This might be useful for any last-minute Christmas orders (last day to order via this method is Tuesday 23 Dec).
A map of central Sheffield, with a ragged blue line marking the limits of the Longbarrow Press delivery area.
December 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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cbeditions.bsky.social
CB editions December newsletter, as archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/12/cbe-...
CBe newsletter December 2025
Christmas. Presents. Books are even easier to wrap than bottles. See the home page of the website and bear in mind the Season Tickets: 6 b...
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December 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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uniformbooks.bsky.social
"For Christmas, not just for life..."

Uniformbooks are available direct: uniformbooks.co.uk
Our books may also be ordered through any bookshop; and online, Blackwells, for example, carry all of our titles, and offer free delivery.
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/sea...
December 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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confingopublishing.bsky.social
‘There are stories of great tenderness alongside others which have the macabre strain of Roald Dahl’s adult stories’ – Imogen Tomlinson reviews Sightings by David Bevan (with images by Maya Sharp). substack.com/home/post/p-180534430
Culture I Enjoyed 006
November 2025
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December 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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johndilnot.bsky.social
Brighton Art Book Fair
this weekend

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December 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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pamenarpress.bsky.social
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Pamenar In Person Launch & Reading | ///// Pamenar Press
Collective Book Launch Reading and Gathring Featuring, Ágnes Lehóczky, Farid Matuk, Iris Colomb, and Yè Yè.
www.pamenarpress.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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longbarrowpress.bsky.social
"I recall a sense of writing from one ephemeral, collective platform (the pop-up shop) into another (Twitter), and that both were conducive to discovery and dialogue. Improvisations in an improvised space."

SHIP's log: notes from a pop-up bookshop
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Stefan Tobler tapes the hand-made SHIP sign to the plastic fascia above the Moor Market pop-up shop.
December 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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confingopublishing.bsky.social
Thank you to Jonathan Coe (The Proof of My Innocence) for selecting Paris Fantastique by Nicholas Royle for the Observer’s ‘Writers recommend: the best books of 2025’ feature: observer.co.uk/culture/books/article/writers-recommend-the-best-books-of-2025
November 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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johndilnot.bsky.social
Brighton Art Book Fair is next weekend
or see artists’ books, screen prints, boxes and paintings on my website johndilnot.com
Free UK postage
November 29, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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semplepress.bsky.social
Small Press Publishers are the *best* — but they need more support (and investment): www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
(Spotted in newsletter by the excellent @cacrampton.bsky.social )
Don’t invest in AI, invest in the future of the book
Why the publishing industry must back small presses, rather than LLMs.
www.thebookseller.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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longbarrowpress.bsky.social
"We loan books from the local library, or we loan books through it from a library far away. But we also lend ourselves to the library — enlarging the commons and participating in the political project of making an informed society." @shannonmattern.bsky.social

placesjournal.org/article/extr...
Extralibrary Loan: Making the Civic Infrastructure We Need
Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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uniformbooks.bsky.social
Sample read with clomping about soundtrack.
uniformbooks.co.uk/done.php
davidcollard.bsky.social David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 24d
Many thanks to Colin Sackett of Uniform Books for my copy of 'done' which is an excellent example of 'scriptio continua' (or perhaps that should be 'scriptiocontinua' and youseewhatIdid there).
November 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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longbarrowpress.bsky.social
Looking forward to bringing Longbarrow Press (and @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social) to the inaugural @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social at the end of the month, alongside 30+ excellent presses. Fri 28 Nov & Sat 29 Nov, Pearse Street Library, Dublin 2, all welcome, admission free. dublinsmallpressfair.com
Flyer for the Dublin Small Press Fair. https://dublinsmallpressfair.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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longbarrowpress.bsky.social
Whoopers cruise the Dutch Barn’s shadow, pen and cob,
a litter of half-grown cygnets, upending in the algal soup,
plucking out pondweed, diving beetles, the monstrous
Palaeozoic nymphs of Anax imperator.

'Eely'
Steve Ely
A symphony in four movements
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Three copies of Steve Ely's collection 'Eely' arranged against an orange background.
November 15, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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pamenarpress.bsky.social
Pamenar Reading on 6 Dec with Ágnes Lehóczky, Farid Matuk (visiting London🎉), Iris Colomb, and Yě Yě at 49 Great Ormond Street.

We’ll also be celebrating Iris’s and Ágnes’s new Pamenar books.
Doors 6pm, £5.

After the reading, we’ll gather upstairs to hang out. Bring your own drink and stay awhile.
November 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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lesfugitivespress.bsky.social
We were shocked and saddened to read that Rachel Cooke had died. She championed Michèle Roberts' work, and her take on French Cooking for One proposed the book to the bestsellers sphere. We remember her exemplary, fearless originality and generous spirit.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer
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November 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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bullaunpress.bsky.social
We were honoured to be mentioned in this fantastic article @rte.ie about the upcoming inaugural Dublin Small Press Fair alongside so many wonderful independent Irish publishers, including @lilliputpress.bsky.social, @skeinpress.bsky.social, @machapress.bsky.social, and so many more.
Screenshot of the headline of an RTÉ Culture article about indie publishing in Ireland and the Dublin Small Press Fair, with central image of a male poet in a garden. A screenshot of an excerpt of an RTÉ article about indie publishing in Ireland. A picture of a hand holding a promotional postcard for the Dublin Small Press Fair against an autumnal suburban background.
November 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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longbarrowpress.bsky.social
"I thought of how, as a child, I’d used pylons to calculate distance & time, and how they seemed to anchor space. I thought of how the turbines resisted this, how unmeasurable they seemed, in a nightscape with few visual referents."

'Landscapes of Power'
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Chimney at Didcot Power Station, photographed by Martyn J Bull.
November 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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longbarrowpress.bsky.social
If you missed the limited print edition of The Minute Review's special issue on the Small Publishers Fair, here's a free download:
drive.google.com/file/d/1lfb7...
Previous issues are also available here:
derekbeaulieu.ca/pdfs/
Here's a screenshot of my piece on the 2024 Fair.
25kg braced on my back. 10kg strapped to my chest. A plastic bag in each hand. One by one, the rucksacks and carriers are shucked to the floor of the foyer and I step into the hall, it is early, still, not yet 9.30am, the tables almost bare, only the names are visible, the artists and presses, the plan printed out on plain white paper. The rows recede and the signs recede and I turn back for the inventory. It's my seventh Small Publishers Fair. As the hall starts to fill with boxes and backpacks and trolleys, the aisles narrowing, the stalls taking shape, I look up from the hardwood floor, my bags half-stowed under the tablecloth, and adjust my perspective, my sense of scale. The fair has yet to open to the public and already it's busy. Stallholders squeeze through vanishing gaps or wait for a break in a queue. It's a major event in a minor space. Over the years, the fair has grown, and the hall is at capacity within an hour of the doors opening. On the one hand, the fair needs more space. On the other hand, the fair needs this space. Perhaps it's the architecture, or the ethos of its humanist founders, but Conway Hall has been critical to the development of the fair as an even-handed, open-minded gathering. Sixty stalls at street level. Uniform tables on a uniform plan. No hierarchies. No roller banners. A conversation in the heart of the city. A conversation that has been happening for years. In 2023, I was asked to host the book launches in The Library. It was a privilege, and I enjoyed the readings, but I found that I missed being at the stall, not from any concern for sales, it wasn't that, I missed the encounters that take place across a table, the new and familiar faces, the informality and surprise. The exchange. This year, I'm stepping into a vacancy, with a short reading in The Green Room, following the withdrawal of the advertised speaker. I read an excerpt from Local Distribution, an account of delivering books on foot in the city of Sheffield.
November 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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longbarrowpress.bsky.social
"Books are often slow to materialise, and can be months or years in the making. They can also arise from next to nothing and take shape in a matter of days. Small Publishers Fair is both an incentive and a deadline."

On the 2025 Small Publishers Fair
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/the-exchange
The 2025 Small Publishers Fair, Conway Hall, London.
November 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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uniformbooks.bsky.social
"There are 66 publishers at this year’s event. 66 arguments for the book and the idea of the book. 66 examples of what a small press can do."
longbarrowpress.bsky.social Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 25d
"The inventory is whatever will fit into two rucksacks and two carrier bags. To be hauled, on foot, between tram, train and tube. City to city.​ One year to the next."

'The Exchange': some reflections on the 2025 Small Publishers Fair
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The Longbarrow Press stall, Conway Hall, Holborn, London, 24 October 2025.
November 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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larapawson.bsky.social
I'm not going to lie: this is a reassuring post to read. Thanks Caroline, thanks @smallpublishers.bsky.social, thanks @cbeditions.bsky.social 🙏🏼 😘😉
carolinefrmus.bsky.social Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · Nov 2
Just finished Lara Pawson's Spent Light (bought at @smallpublishers.bsky.social) and it's every bit as good as everyone else says: unnervingly direct, startling, vivid
November 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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carolinefrmus.bsky.social
Just finished Lara Pawson's Spent Light (bought at @smallpublishers.bsky.social) and it's every bit as good as everyone else says: unnervingly direct, startling, vivid
November 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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longbarrowpress.bsky.social
"No hierarchies. No roller banners. A conversation in the heart of the city."

Translocal distribution: the latest number of The Minute Review, edited by @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social (with a focus on the 2024 @smallpublishers.bsky.social Fair) and distributed by him at the 2025 Fair.
The front page of The Minute Review (Vol 2 No 18, October 2025), with cover art by Egidija Čiricaitė.
October 30, 2025 at 11:19 AM