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Oct 10, 2022 11 tweets 4 min read
In recent months I've seen various people complain about the apparently degrading quality of Google search results, so here's how we have gone from being a renowned independent publisher to one of the internet's least satisfying fetish sites (a quick/not entirely-sfw 🧵): We publish a very funny kids' picture book that you absolutely shouldn't read to your kids called Go the Fuck to Sleep by Adam Mansbach, illustrated by Ricardo Cortés, a cri de cœur for tired parents:

'You're cosy and warm in your bed, my dear / Please go the fuck to sleep.' The book: the title is Go t...An inside image of the book...Another image from the book...
Aug 4, 2022 10 tweets 26 min read
🎉 Happy Publication Day! 🎉

The Edge of the Plain @JDcrawf
Belonging @passingplace
None of the Above @travisalabanza
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days @RRRDonner
A Corruption of Blood @ambroseparry
Borges and Me Jay Parini
Imagine a Country @valmcdermid & @ProfJoSharp A stack of books published today, against a grey background! @Jdcrawf @passingplace @travisalabanza @RRRDonner @ambroseparry @valmcdermid @ProfJoSharp & Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black by Cookie Mueller

Congratulations and happy publication day to all these incredible authors!

You can find all these titles in your friendly local independent bookshop, or online @bookshop_org_UK

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Dec 5, 2020 10 tweets 4 min read
I’m going to tell you a story. And hold tight, because this is an emotional one. In 2013, Canongate republished three novels that had fallen out of print: William McIlvanney’s Glasgow-set Laidlaw trilogy, first published between 1977 and 1991.