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Firefly Press
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Independent publisher of quality fiction for children & teens. WINNER Branford Boase first children’s novel Award, Yoto Carnegie Medal, Wales Book of the Year

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✨️KINDLE DEAL ALERT✨️

📚Snails of the Unexpected
and
📚Hero the Highway Girl

are in a #KindleDeal in Australia!

Deal ends 31st January.

#KindleDeals #AustraliaKindleDeal #eBooks @cowfishdreams.bsky.social @pennychrimes.bsky.social @brendafigueroa.bsky.social

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January 20, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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✨COVER REVEAL✨️

CIRCLING THE STARS is an enchanting tale of secret nighttime walks, a mysterious fox and finding friendship in the most unexpected of places. Touching on themes of loss, change, nurture and healing.

🖊️ Written by Laura Sheldon
🎨 Designed in-house @fireflypress.bsky.social
January 7, 2026 at 11:32 AM
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✨️KINDLE DEAL ALERT✨️

📚A History of My Weird
📚Live
and
📚Project Pony

are in a January #KindleDeal in Australia!

Deal ends 31st January. Don’t miss it!

www.amazon.com.au/s?k=firefly+...

#KindleDeals #AustraliaKindleDeal #KidLit #eBooks
January 7, 2026 at 10:23 AM
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🌟We're signing off for the Holidays! 🖋️

Wishing all our Firefly friends a very merry festive season, and a huge thank you for all your support in 2025, and beyond. See you in 2026! 📅🎆

With all best wishes,
Penny, Ben, Hayley, Lucy, Becka, Grace and Amy
(The Firefly Team) xx
December 24, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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📣BOOKSELLERS
📣EDUCATORS
📣LIBRARIANS
📣REVIEWERS

Need something to dive into over the festive period? We've got something for everyone currently available to request on @netgalley.bsky.social

👉️https://www.netgalley.com/pub/fireflypress

(Get those requests in asap before the festive break! ✨️)
December 19, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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📕✨️ COVER REVEAL ✨️📕

From author of #SummerReadingChallenge favourite, #MyNameisRiver

#ENTANGLED by @emmarea8.bsky.social
Coming 2nd April 2026

🇮🇹🎨

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December 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Confused by cricket? Gobsmacked by googlies? 🤔

With England charging into the third Ashes test, what better time to inspire the next generation with #CrackingCricket by @robinbennettauthor.bsky.social - part of our hilarious and informative #StupendousSports series. Also available in Australia 🏏
December 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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🌟COVER REVEAL🌟

#Wonderland from #PatienceAgbabi is a YA verse novel, and a celebration of Northern Soul music and culture in 1980s north Wales.

🎨 Cover designed in-house

📚️ HITTING BOOKSHOPS 14 MAY 2026 📚️

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#NorthernSoul #ColwynBayPier #WiganCasino #1980s #UKYA #80sYA
December 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Watch Out Girl! A masterful YA novel from #PatienceAgbabi is coming next May. 🎶

And You Didn't Say a Word but we have a gorgeous cover to share with you! Tune in to @fireflypress socials next Weds 👀📗

#Wonderland #UKYA #NorthernSoul #ColwynBay
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November 30, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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We are so proud to support the #NationalYearofReading2026 with @literacy-trust.bsky.social, and look forward to meeting with them this afternoon in Cardiff! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

If you're into it, read into it. Go All In. 📚️

#GoAllIn2026
November 21, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Delighted to be part of this important project with the Wales Children's Book of the Year winner #AHistoryofmyWeird / #HanesfyHynodrwydd by #ChloeHeuch, adapted by #MaredLlwyd
POST FROM BOOKS COUNCIL OF WALES We are sending over 49,000 free books to schools across the country this term, as part of the Rhyngom scheme funded by Welsh Government and Adnodd. Rhyngom is a three-year, £810,000 project to publish more reading books for pleasure that celebrate and promote diversity, for children and young people. Since it started in 2022, the project has supported the creation of brand-new original books in both Welsh and English, as well as the adaptation of English-language books into Welsh, to create books that reflect more of our stories, people and communities. In the image: Delyth Ifan from the Books Council of Wales, Emyr George from Adnodd and Rebecca Wilson, author of The Winter Festival. #Rhyngom
November 14, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Join us for a #DarkNightsareforReading soiree at
#AddymanBooks in #HayonWye with 3 writers from 3 indie Welsh presses:⁠
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@clairefayers.bsky.social @fireflypress.bsky.social

@mariellisdunning.bsky.social @honnopress.bsky.social

#CarysShannon @parthianbooks.bsky.social
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See you there? 🌙📚⁠
November 12, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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So, who's going to win???

The Faithful or #TheTraitors?

Comment your guess on this post before 9pm tonight, 6/11/25, and we'll pick a random winner from those correct to win #LieorDie and #LieorDieBloodMoon by #AJClack

UK only.

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#CelebrityTraitors
November 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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It's #Halloween!⁠
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Here are some more our of fave spooky reads... 👻⁠
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#DeloresMackenzie has always been able to see the ghostly overstayers that haunt the Old Town. But this Hallowe'en will she be strong enough to defeat those intent on destroying her?⁠
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@bouncemarketing.bsky.social #YvonneBanham
October 31, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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We're counting down to #Halloween with some spooky reads... 👻⁠

Beware the bloodstained man who tries to stop the coach... something is not right at #CraterLake activity centre. Then, at night, things get much stranger... it's a school trip straight from your nightmares! #JenniferKillick
October 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Strange Tales: Journey into an uncanny world where invisible beings move among us; skeletons dance, animals speak and luck, spells, fear and fortune are not to be treated lightly!

✍️ Signed copies: fireflypress.co.uk/books/strang...

@bouncemarketing.bsky.social #Halloween #CalanGaeaf
October 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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We're counting down to #Halloween with 5 top spooky reads 👻

At no.5 is The Red Gloves

Red gloves that reach for your throat; a changing room where a stranger asks to swap lives with you...

An expert storyteller weaves nine spells....

Get your signed copy here: fireflypress.co.uk/books/the-re...
October 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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⭐️Kindle Deal Alert⭐️
Joining #Grimstink in the #UKKindleDeals this month:

#Wilde by Eloise Williams
#TheDollTwin by Janine Beacham
and
#BlackfinSky @katelliswrites.bsky.social

Perfect for Halloween. Deal runs until the end of the month. Don’t miss it!
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October 15, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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We hope you've all got your bookshop visiting plans ready for #BookshopDay tomorrow?

If you're in South Wales, you may spot campaign ambassador @clairefayers.bsky.social out and about, signing copies and ready to chat all things books!

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October 10, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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It's perilous.
It's hilarious.
It's queer.
It's #DirkJonesisNOTtheChosenOne
and
It's OUT NOW!!

Available from
fireflypress.co.uk/books/dirk-j...
or GWALES (support a Welsh bookshop): www.gwales.com/bibliographi...
or your local bookshop!

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October 9, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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📣BLOGGERS
⁠
Join the #DirkJonesisNOTtheChosenOne blog tour!⁠

Email hello[at]fireflypress[dot]co[dot]uk with
⁠
- Blog name ⁠
- Social handle⁠s
- Date pref (21-31 Oct) if any⁠
- Content pref (Q&A/guest post/review) if any⁠
⁠
Must be UK based

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October 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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✨KINDLE DEAL UK✨

#Grimstink by @idanielpeak.bsky.social is in a UK #KindleDeal this month!

Deal ends 31st October! You won’t want to miss this one. In the words of author Emer Stamp, it’s ‘spit-out-your-drink funny’.

www.amazon.co.uk/Grimstink-Da...

#UKKindleDeal #KidLit #FunnyBooks #FunnySciFi
October 1, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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✨️KINDLE DEAL ALERT✨️

📚Libby and the Egyptian Escapade by @jo-clarke.bsky.social & Becka Moor
📚Fishfolk by Steven Quincey-Jones
and
📚Fireblood by Sam Stewart
are in a #KindleDeal in Australia!

Deal ends 31st October. Don’t miss it!
www.amazon.com.au/s?k=firefly+...

#KindleDeals #KidLit
October 1, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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MICHAEL THE GREAT GLOBETROTTING SAUSAGE DOG out NOW
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Pawfect for young fans of #RaceAcrosstheWorld and #DestinationX, Michael uses his mind-reading abilities across 4 continents in this race around the world!

✍️ @cowfishdreams.bsky.social
🎨 @mrtimdraws.bsky.social
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September 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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DEAL ALERT

For one week only
📚Crater Lake
📚Major and Mynah
📚The Clockwork Crow
📚Libby and the Parisian Puzzle
📚The Song That Sings Us
and
📚Monster Max and the Bobble Hat of Forgetting
are in the #StartASeries #KindleDeal in Australia!

Grab it here:
www.amazon.com.au/s?k=firefly+...
September 10, 2025 at 9:02 AM