Just three weeks to go until Bad Language is back for a special one off event at Anthony Burgess Foundation to celebrate the release of two stunning new books: Glen James Brown’s MOTHER NAKED and Daniel Carpenter’s HUNTING BY THE RIVER. They’ll be joined by Matt Hill and Abi Hynes

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👀 Spotted at ⁦The Portobello Bookshop⁩ 👀 Thanks ⁦Euan Tait⁩! 💙

While I'm here, congratulations to Graham Caveney on this ★★★★★ review for his amazing memoir The Body in the Library. A bit previous, as it's not out until the end of May, but so well-deserved. independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…

Ahead of its paperback publication at the end of the month, Graham Caveney's THE BODY IN THE LIBRARY is now as an audiobook co-published with Spiracle 🎧

For a 50 percent discount, use the checkout code BODY_LIBRARY_50

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🎙️ US-based readers and booksellers 🎙️

We are delighted to announce that Peninsula books are finally available to order in the United States via Asterism Books 💫💫💫

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Spotlighting the brilliant Peninsula Press at Waterstones Byres Road - a vibrant bunch jostling together at our wee store in Glasgow.

“And where terror goes, balladry follows”

Finished Glen James Brown’s MOTHER NAKED last night and absolutely loved it! Reading like a one-man morality play, it’s a terrifying ghost story which take in class, religion and the horrifying hardships of villein life in the Middle Ages.

Books read in April…

THE ECHOES - Evie Wyld
MOTHER NAKED - Glen James Brown
BUTTER - Asako Yuzuki (tr: Polly Barton)
BIRDING - Rose Ruane
ENGLAND IS MINE - Nicolas Padamsee
THE BOOK TOUR - Andi Watson

A strong month, I very much enjoyed all of these.

A wonderful ★ ★ ★ ★ ★-review of Graham Caveney’s The Body in the Library from Martin Chilton in today’s The Independent

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“We can get to the moon but we can’t get to the inner ear.” Really enjoyed this. It’s a bit like the long goodbye but for hearing loss. It’s about looking for things you don’t know are lost and what you find in their place.

The happiest of happy publication days to Eliza Barry Callahan, whose absurdly – frankly, frighteningly – good debut The Hearing Test publishes today

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The Hearing Test, Eliza Barry Callahan’s stunning essayistic novel about sound, silence, and sight, is out tomorrow

Available from our website, and reviewed here in the Observer by John Self

theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

What a night at the #indieshowcase2024 !

Thank you to all the exceptional authors who spoke, everyone who came along and of course to our incredible fellow indie publishers VERVE Books Oldcastle Books Peninsula Press Weatherglass Books Dead Ink Books Bedford Square Publishers

Last Show & Tell of 2023/24 tonight - please join us for a free inspiring night with author Julia Bell in conversation with Jonathan Keane: eventbrite.co.uk/e/show-tell-bo…

In relation to the cancelation of the forthcoming 'Voices of Resilience' event at Home, and the libelous allegation that led to it, Comma has made its statement here:
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🎫 NEW EVENT! 🎫

We’re teaming up with Bad Language to host a very special night celebrating the release of Daniel Carpenter’s HUNTING BY THE RIVER and Glen James Brown’s MOTHER NAKED. They’ll be joined by Matt Hill and Abi Hynes.

Details and tickets via link below 👇🏻

Final cover for Graham Caveney’s The Body in the Library.
Published in May by Peninsula Press.
Art direction by Samuel Fisher.

I really, really recommend So Mayer's book on this exact thing (as well as the Nazi view of 'degenerate' art and the history of queer cinema) from Peninsula Press. Only six quid and a phenomenal read:

peninsulapress.co.uk/products/a-naz…

Today a group of writers stood outside the London Book Fair to read poems and letters by Palestinians. The vigil was to commemorate the writers, academics and journalists who’ve been murdered by Israel. I read Fady Joudah poem, Maqam for a Green Silence from […]

These beuts will soon be out from Peninsula Press - right up there with Fitzcarraldo imo in bringing out intelligent, daring, hire-wire flying reads.