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🔔CLOSING SUBMISSIONS
We are shutting our open submissions window for the summer period. We are loving reading all of your wonderful submissions but currently have a backlog we are trying to work through so please bear with us!
Submissions will close 1 July, and re-open 1 Oct.
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If you're a northern author (or future northern author) and we're not following you, let us know and we'll get that sorted!
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If you're a northern bookshop, bookseller, blogger or reader, please raise your hand so we can follow you!
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'I want to create a hugely successful Northern publishing house, publishing brilliant new authors, identifying new voices, identifying staff from more diverse backgrounds. But what I really wanted to do is show that this is about actions not words.'
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If you're a bookseller or blogger, please give us a wave, particularly if you use Netgalley for advanced reading copies!
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HarperNorth is proud to announce Northern:Lite – a virtual learning day for anyone interested in beginning a career in publishing.
No previous experience is needed, apply here:
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Hello to all our new followers!
Give us a wave and we'll have a follow spree later ❤️📚
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We're looking for fiction and non-fiction writing from northern writers, or authors writing about the north.
Please send completed manuscripts, and read our submission guidelines here beforehand. Any questions, let us know!
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📣 We've just signed a new author to our list... more detail to follow! 📣
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If you're interested in starting a career in
#publishing
, it can be hard to even get work experience.
We aim to be as open as we can about the industry, and if you are intrigued, keep an eye peeled for something we're working on with
@JobsAtHarper
...
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📢📢We have huge news this morning! 📢📢
In April 2023 we will be publishing The Full English by
@StuartMaconie
.
It's a revisiting of the route taken by JB Priestley in his 1930s classic The English Journey.
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We have some news!
@GenPegg
is now publisher,
@_MegJonesy
is assistant editor, and
@alicemurphypyle
is head of marketing and publicity, with
@biwmcconnell
joining as non-fiction editor and
@taslibri
as publicity and marketing assistant!
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✋🤚🤚✋
If you're interested in learning more about getting into
#publishing
, please check back tomorrow morning as we have An Announcement...
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Early proofs of the incendiary debut, REMEMBER, REMEMBER by Elle Machray are hot off the press🔥 Copies have landed in the Manchester office and we are simply OBSESSED! Publishing February 2024, but if you can't wait until then... keep your eyes peeled for a giveaway this week👀
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We are looking for northern authors, or authors writing about the north.
Submission of your completed manuscript is via our website
✔️Adult fiction
✔️Adult non-fiction
❌Poetry
❌Children's
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In our search for books for the HarperNorth list, we often have to turn down submissions.
To reiterate: it doesn't mean your book isn't worthwhile.
It's not because you're not a writer.
Your book not being right for us doesn't mean you won't go on to have publishing success.❤️📚
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Hello new followers! Some things you need to know:
📚We love stories. Fiction, non-fiction, big and small, send us your ideas, we love them all
📭 We love books and reading
❤️We love booksellers, writers, readers, jobhunters
🖼️We love gifs
✅That's us! Tweet us yeah? We like it
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***BIG NEWS***
We are hiring! If you're a talented fiction commissioning editor, please apply to join us!
Must like:
✅ Books
✅ The North
✅ Editing
Is this you? Closing date is 14/2 ❤️❤️❤️
The team
@JobsAtHarper
can answer any application queries.
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📢📢📢DESIGNER CALLOUT 📢📢📢If you are a freelance designer, based in the north of the UK, who wants to work on book covers, please send some portfolio images to hello
@harpernorth
with the subject heading DESIGN FREELANCERS. DM if you have any questions!
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We set up Northern:Lite open days because we all understand how disheartening it can be to try to get an entry-level job in publishing.
We knew we couldn't have work placements in 2020, so this is our alternative: a day full of straightforward advice, CV tips and practical help.
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Hello new followers! Say hi and let us know whether you're a reader, writer, blogger, bookseller or candlestick maker.
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We are over the moon to be shortlisted for Imprint of the Year at the British Book Awards 2024 (
@thebookseller
)✨ Congratulations to the entire shortlist!
HarperNorth will be celebrating in typical style by continuing to amplify the great stories of the north📚🥂🎊
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Thank you to everyone who virtually attended our first Northern:Lite evening session yesterday evening.
We had hundreds of questions and hope it was useful! We're run an
#askharpernorth
session very soon to follow up on some of the answers we didn't get time to share.
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Exciting news for romance readers💌
We are teaming up with
@simonschusterUK
and Manchester Central Library to bring you Love Stories Etc., a one-day literary festival on July 13th! Including panels, workshops, book signings & industry talks📚✨
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Can I ask about pay at an interview?
Will there be more remote working jobs in future?
What skills are you looking for on a CV?
Join us at 1.30pm on Thursday (6/8) for a careers chat with
@JobsAtHarper
! Use
#askharpernorth
to ask burning questions and our HR team will answer!
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We're HarperNorth and our HQ is in Manchester.
Where are you from?
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We are DELIGHTED to say we will be publishing the absolutely brilliant Inshallah United: A Story of Faith and Football, by
@BeardedGenius
, aka Nooruddean Choudry, in March 2023.
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Did you know that Believe Us: How Jürgen Klopp transformed Liverpool into title winners by the wonderful
@MelissaReddy_
is available in LESS THAN A MONTH??
You can pre-order here:
@WaterstonesLPL
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Congratulations to
@StuartMaconie
whose Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and Its People, is the
@thetimes
Book of the Week!
Preorder now:
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Our editorial team have been working away to read through your manuscripts and we are now ready to reopen our submissions for 2022!
If you are a fiction or non-fiction writer, take a look here at our guidelines:
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Bit drizzly this morning, isn't it?*
Thank you to all ONE THOUSAND of you who have followed us!
*Default Manchester weather comment.
(True though)
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THE HARPERNORTH PROMISE: The House of Footsteps is the creepiest, most atmospheric and strange book you'll read in 2022...
If you love Daphne du Maurier, Kate Bush, and the Brontës, this is one you need to read! Proofs will be going out very soon!
Roughly 3 years ago I decided I wanted to create something, not just consume. A year later I had a finished* novel with no title which I started tentatively emailing to agents. And now there's a physical copy of my book in my hand. Mind blowing.
*it wasn't remotely finished, ha
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We are so excited to share the cover reveal for DARK ISLAND by
@SpacemanDan13
! Get ready to immerse yourself in a thrilling reading experience, set against the atmospheric Orcadian landscape. Publishing on 25 April 2024.
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An abundance of congratulations to
@JDWhitelaw13
for doing what he does best: charming readers with his wonderful writing and winning the
@gilpinhotel
Prize for Fiction 2023 with THE BINGO HALL DETECTIVES at the
@LakesBookAwards
! Bravo🎉
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AUTHORS: Christmas is coming, and if you've written a festive story, we want to read it!
Could you be a HarperNorth author by Christmas 2022? Send us your manuscripts marked FESTIVE FICTION to submissions
@harpernorth
.co.uk to be considered!
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To all the booksellers heading back out today to sell the socks off the books of 2020: stay safe, you are very precious to us.
To everyone looking at their Christmas shopping lists - just buy books.
Directly from shops, online, by phone.
Books are where it's at!
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We’ve thought hard about how to share what we’re doing at
@HarperNorthUK
, and how to work with people looking for their first publishing job.
We can’t have work experience candidates due to Covid-19, and we’re not currently recruiting for the
@HarperNorthUK
office right now.
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If you haven't yet listened to
@nazirafzal
's brilliant Desert Island Discs from Sunday, give it a whirl. It gives an insight into Nazir, his outlook, and why DJing probably wouldn't work as a backup career...
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Hello 4,000+ followers!
Let us know if we're not following and we'll do a li'l spree later.
Things we like:
✅Book chat
✅Answering questions about publishing
✅Good gif action
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Now I know we get lots of questions asking where the north begins in HarperNorth for us, but... this just isn't right, is it?
In other news ...
@ITV
seem to have moved Greater Manchester over the Pennines today ... and shifted a chunk of Yorkshire this way ...
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The first HarperNorth title, Believe Us, is here!
The whole team has worked on this, and none more so than our amazing author
@MelissaReddy_
.
Happy publication day!
Signed copies available from
@homewith4indies
:
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Did someone ask for a spicy, queer romcom about a Hollywood actor and a bookseller-by-day-drag-performer-by-night set in contemporary England and 1940s New York?💞🎞💫🌶
@Philip_Ellis
's WE COULD BE HEROES is publishing this summer, June 2024✨
And proofs have just landed...
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All the amazing books we have published in our Manchester office in March - and the sun finally came out to celebrate with us!
@mikeparkerwales
@BeardedGenius
@BeashelWrites
@katefoxwriter
@FelicityYork6
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📢📢📢We have doubly HUGE NEWS! Firstly, our editorial assistant of dreams, Megan Jones (
@_MegJonesy
), has made her first acquisition, and secondly, it's from
@AlittlewriterEm
! 💕
Coming August 2022 📢📢📢
Heartbreak Houseshare at
@HarperNorthUK
- editorial assistant Megan Jones makes her first acquisition with Emily Merrill's 'fantastically funny' debut
(£)
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The first EVER HarperNorth newsletter will be coming out very, very soon!
Make sure you're the first to hear what we're up to by signing up:
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What do we want?
TO READ WHAT YOU’VE WRITTEN!
When do we want it?
NOW!
We are OPEN to read submissions from northern authors – see
for guidelines
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HarperNorth has been in the world for TEN weeks now!
✅We've announced our first book, Believe Us by Melissa Reddy (preorder: )
🤫 We've signed some yet-to-be-announced projects
📭Our submissions are OPEN and we love to hear from you! ❤️
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If you'd like to say hi
We'll always reply
Say 'how do you do'*
We love hearing from you.
Drop us a line on hello
@harpernorth
.co.uk if you have any questions!
(*We won't be publishing poetry, for obvious reasons)
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'Northerners: A History' will be coming to a bookshop near you in April 2022!
What a brilliant cover for a truly brilliant book, we are delighted to have
@GroomB
as part of the
@HarperNorthUK
list📚👏
Here is the lovely cover for my book 'Northerners: A History', due out in April from
@HarperNorthUK
. 180 million years of northern England's history, encompassing lives, words and deeds of fascinating northerners. Agent
@andrewlownie
. Can be pre-ordered:
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We loved welcoming our attendees to the first ever HarperNorth Northern:Lite publishing learning day!
If you want to be part of future sessions, add your details here:
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Did you hear? The FIRST HarperNorth newsletter will be coming out super soon!
Make sure you don't miss out on hearing what we're up to by signing up at
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Huge publication day congratulations to
@StuartMaconie
, whose marvellous The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People, is out now and currently HALF PRICE at
@Waterstones
!
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Tomorrow, we publish the paperback of
@MelissaReddy_
's Believe Us:
‘Our incredible story shared in all its glory.’
@JHenderson
‘Wonderfully told.’
Ian Wright
‘Remarkable storytelling.’
Gérard Houllier
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Is it too hot to put the kettle on?
*asking for a friend*
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We are HIRING! Could you be our new communications assistant?
📚 Based in Manchester
📖Six month part-time contract, four days per week (two days a week in the office)
📕 Working across publicity and marketing
📙 £24,131 pro rata
📗 No previous experience needed
Apply below: ⬇️
We're looking for a part-time Communications Assistant to join our HarperNorth team in Manchester for a 6 month FTC! 📢
As communications assistant, you will support on publicity and marketing activities and gain experience in both areas. 📝📸
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Finished copies of BAD GIRLS OF ANCIENT GREECE by
@tiffinlizzy
have landed in the office💖😍
A sassy, illuminating guide to the mad, bad and wonderful women of antiquity🏛✨🏹
Publishing 6 June, but AVAILABLE TO REQUEST NOW on NetGalley:
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Benefits of buying books as gifts
✅ Easy to wrap
✅ Endless list of subjects so good for everyone
✅ Everyone will know you're A Person of Taste
✅ Understated, yet luxurious
✅ Makes you look clever
Welcome to my Ted Talk
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"Real and lasting change always starts from the top."
We are proud to announce that we will be publishing the phenomenal
@nazirafzal
's Race to the Top: Structural Racism and How to Fight It, next September.
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Happy publication to
@lisanandy
of
@UKLabour
whose book All In: How We Build a Country that Works, is out today!
‘A powerful argument for rethinking politics.’
@NewStatesman
‘Brave and bursting with ideas.’
@jessphillips
📕
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We're all home-based right now so we're not currently open to work experience candidates. But we're actively working on what else we can do. Our newsletter, launching in the autumn, is going to be stuffed with tips for prospective publishers!
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So what is HarperNorth all about?
🧵
We publish books from the north, for the world... meaning books:
✅from northern authors
✅about northern issues
✅with northern settings
✅of relevance to the north more generally.
And what have we got coming up soon?
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We are OPEN to submissions!
✅Fiction
✅Non-fiction including serious non-fiction
✅From northern authors; or
✅Writing about the north
Does that sound like you? If so, we want to read your submission:
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Today is Super Thursday, which is THE day in the bookselling calendar when lots of the biggest books are released (600 in total!).
If you're visiting a bookshop today, we'd love to see what you're choosing!
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What is the North in HarperNorth?
It's elevating places and stories.
It's modern, but respects its histories.
Is it Scotland? Is it the Midlands? Is it Wales?
We want you all, send us emails*
*submissions
@harpernorth
.co.uk
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Our editorial assistant
@_MegJonesy
has been book shopping at
@newsfromnowhere
!
Share your book haul with us - we love to see!
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⬇️⬇️⬇️To say this is exciting is an UNDERSTATEMENT ⬇️���️⬇️
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'HarperNorth lands 'defining' biography of northern England by Groom.'
Thank you to
@thebookseller
for sharing our news! Northerners by
@GroomB
is out in April:
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It's one week to go until we publish
@lisanandy
's ALL IN: How we build a country that works.
This book sets out how we restore values, energy and direction to our politics, out November 24th.
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We're now on Instagram! Follow us for exlusive content, giveaways, info about upcoming titles and events📚✨ Join our giveaway over on Instagram to be in with the chance of winning a HarperNorth Summer Reading List bundle🌞
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The hashtag
#nationalnorthernauthorsday
is full to bursting today with fantastic recommendations to add to the to-be-read pile! Hat tip to
@AuthorsNorthern
.
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📢📢We have news!
@DaisyAWatt
will be joining HarperNorth on Monday as Commissioning Editor, Fiction.
She's looking for reading group fiction, crime and thriller, historical and humour titles.
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We are SO EXCITED that
@STVStudios
has optioned
@naomikelsey_
's The Burnings, out today in paperback!
.
@STVStudios
has optioned The Burnings, a debut novel by
@naomikelsey_
(
@HarperNorthUK
), set amidst the North Berwick witch trials of 1589
(£)
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We are excited to reveal the cover for this very special debut novel by
@elleandherbooks
!
Remember, Remember is a dazzling alternative history, which reimagines the gunpowder plot to derail the slave trade in 18th-century London.
🔥Coming 1 February 2024. 🔥
One year to go!
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📢📢📢NEW AUTHOR ALERT 📢📢📢
We are BEYOND excited to say that we are welcoming
@JDWhitelaw13
to HarperNorth!
The Bingo Hall Detectives is the most brilliant cosy crime novel, set in Penrith in the Lake District.
It's out in April 2022.
The game is on...
Excellent news for cosy crime fans -
@HarperNorthUK
have acquired two books in
@JDWhitelaw13
's hilarious new series, THE BINGO HALL DETECTIVES 🎉
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Happy publication day to the brilliant
@BeardedGenius
! INSHALLAH UNITED is a memoir about what it means to be a proud Mancunian, explored through themes of faith and football! Entirely compelling and thoroughly fun, you'll find joy in this book.
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📢📢📢 WE HAVE NEWS! 📢📢📢
HarperNorth's
@DaisyAWatt
has scooped the debut novel and one other book from PJ Ellis (
@Philip_Ellis
) in a four-way auction. Publishing spring 2023!
@florencerees93
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🌙 Exciting news! We're thrilled to unveil the captivating cover of ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT by
@DaniDarkSkies
. Get ready to embark on a transformative journey that challenges the impact of light pollution. Stay tuned for the release on 14th Sept 2023.
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'HarperNorth secures novel inspired by North Berwick witch trials'
HUGE Monday news - we will be publishing
@naomikelsey_
's incredible THE BURNINGS in June this year.
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One of the questions we're getting into our inbox is 'At what point are you going to shut down open submissions and be more like a normal London publisher?'
The answer is: IF we ever have to shut the submissions window, it will be so we can get though the volume of manuscripts.
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We were NOT ready for this today.
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We're celebrating spring with some recently published HarperNorth titles📚🌸🌿🌻 Let us know which one you'll be picking up first!
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SIGNED copies of Frontline by
@anthonydredmond
are available from his fantastic local bookshop,
@simplybooksNo1
in Bramhall!
If you can't make it in person, you can visit their online shop and order from there:
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Our publishing director
@GenPegg
is going to be a mentor on this years'
#northernfictionalliance
mentorship scheme, which pairs early stage publishing professionals with industry mentors.
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We are very pleased to announce the final
@HarperNorthUK
release for 2021!
An Italian Scandal is out in November:
📚 It's fiction, set in 1859 between London and Italy
❤️ It's based on the author's own family history
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If you're interested in learning more about publishing, finding out about HarperNorth, and attending the world-famous
@JobsAtHarper
careers clinic, make sure you register for our first evening Northern:Lite open learning session!
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It's October, which means only one thing: SCARY BOOKS!
What is the creepiest book you've read?
To start from a low boundary, the bit in Wuthering Heights with the window and the arm always induces a cringe...
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Our huge news for this week is that the upcoming Northerners by Brian Groom (
@groomb
) is the Times Book of the Week!
'Entertaining and informative' - and out on April 14!
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Seeing as it is
#workinpublishing
week, tomorrow our Editorial Assistant
@_MegJonesy
will be doing an AMA on getting into the publishing industry from 1.30 - 2.00pm! She'll be answering as many questions as she can so don't forget to add
#askharpernorth
to your tweets!
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🚨THIS IS NOT A DRILL🚨
One day to go on our countdown! Tomorrow all our favourite
#bookshops
will be open. Thank you to the amazing
#booksellers
for all your hard work👏
Don't forget to
#ChooseBookshops
📚
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Jolabokaflod: The Icelandic tradition of giving a brand new book on Christmas Eve, and the subsequent reading into the night.
Maybe it's because of all *this* (sweeps arm towards 2020) but this tradition sounds absolutely fantastic this year, doesn't it?
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We have HUGE news today - congratulations to Sunday Times number one bestseller, Sophie McCartney, whose book Tired and Tested: The Wild Ride into Parenthood, is shortlisted for a
@thebookseller
#BritishBookAward
for non-fiction narrative book of the year!
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📢 REMINDER 📢
Friday 15th January, open submissions are back open!
Get those manuscripts that you've been refining out and your emails drafted up because we are ready and excited to read your work!
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🎉 Exciting News! 🎉
We're thrilled to announce an exclusive opportunity for business enthusiasts! Enter for a chance to win an in-person business consultation with James Timpson! 💼🚀
Rules for entry and full T&Cs available here:
Good luck🍀
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BRB, just putting together a moodboard for Jackie Weaver's tell-all expose of life on Handforth Parish Council.
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Your timely reminder to send in your submissions for consideration! We've had lots of fiction and not very much non-fiction, if you need a nudge!
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We're publishing some amazing titles today🌟📚
From WAYFARER, an evocative memoir that chronicles the author's journey along Britain's ancient paths, to your next romcom obsession in LOVE & OTHER SCAMS, to a haunting tale set in the Scottish Highlands in FRAY.
Happy pub day🎉
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Our first fiction acquisition will be Karen Woods' gangland thriller, Tracks, out in July.
Publishing director
@GenPegg
hailed
@karenwoods69
as a 'born storyteller' and we are so pleased to welcome her to our list!
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We're delighted to announce that we've been granted an all-access pass to the history of Manchester's nightlife, publishing in April 2024!
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