It’s save a spider day! Let’s celebrate being a saver not a squisher, and have a flash sale on our very own spider saving tome, No Spider Harmed in the Making of this Book. Use the code SPIDERSAVE at the checkout to get 50% off our 8th anniversary anthology – Poems and stories that stick up for the small and not terribly attractive.
Here are some sillinesses we made to support the book
With thanks to our lovely friends Carrie, Chukwude and Greg
Today is exactly one year since we published A Voice Coming From Then by Jeremy Dixon. Largely written and edited during lockdown, A Voice Coming From Then recently won the English-language Poetry award at the Wales Book of the Year 2022 and this has given us another chance to celebrate Jeremy and his extraordinary collection in real life.
We’re building an A Voice Coming From Then tour of Wales this Autumn, with events already planned at several libraries, independent bookshops and Waterstones stores across Wales this October and November.
If you run a bookshop, library, arts venue or poetry night, then please get in touch with us on outreach@arachnepress.com and let us know if you’d be interested in hosting an event with Jeremy Dixon as a part of this tour.
If you’re in Wales (or close by) and would like to see Jeremy reading from A Voice Coming From Then, please keep an eye on our blog and social media channels for the event dates and locations – coming soon!
For now, we are celebrating A Voice Coming From Then‘s book birthday with an online offer: buy a copy of the print book from our webshop and we’ll send you a code for 50% off the ebook or audiobook, which is beautifully narrated by Nigel Pilkington.
A Voice Coming From Then starts with Jeremy Dixon’s teenage suicide attempt and expands to encompass themes of bullying, queerphobia, acceptance and support.
As well as exploring identity, the tragic effects of bullying and the impact of suicide, this collection also includes unexpected typography, collage, humour, magic, discotheques and frequent appearances from the Victorian demon, Spring-heeled Jack.
One of the Wales Book of the Year judges commented: “I really admire Jeremy’s ability to be so vulnerable. I felt like he just really put his heart and his whole self into the collection.” Congratulations to Jeremy on having this immensely personal and moving collection out in the world for a whole year.
Our Jolabokaflod 2021 offering: buy a second (roughly) half-price copy of the same book. Applies to any book with a cover price of £9.99 or less, until 17th December, last 2nd class posting day for Christmas.
Buy early, buy two!
The Icelandic tradition of giving books on Christmas Eve and staying up all nights reading (with optional vat of hot chocolate) is known as Jolabokaflod – literally, Yule Book Flood.
We’d like to encourage this tradition, so this year, we are offering a discount on second copies of the same book. When you order, ask for 1 copy, and add the Jolabokaflod ‘product’ for £5, and we’ll send you 2 copies. This can be used once for each full-price title you order.
For example: you order a copy of What Meets the Eye? and a copy of Words from the Brink, and you want 2 copies of each, you order 2 Jolabokaflod
Or: you buy 2 full price copies of Where We Find Ourselves, [BACK IN STOCK!] and order 2 Jolabokaflod, and we send you 4 copies.
If you would like us to send your second copy direct to its recipient, perhaps with a message, let us know.
There are undoubtedly simpler ways of doing this, but they require an upgrade of our systems and we haven’t the time or money for it.
I’m almost as excited by the bilingual boxes from TJ Books as I am but the GORGEOUS cover by Kevin Threlfall.
Get your order in now for delivery pre-publication. free ticket to the festival with every order received before 17th December.
The Solstice Shorts Festival, Tymes goe by Turnes is online this year, 21st December 2020 8pm GMT tickets suggested donation £5.
August Bank Holiday,
00:01 Saturday 24th August through to 23:59 Monday 26th August BST
with this single-use-per-customer code
KKNLMB22OSSL
That’s an ‘O’ not a zero. If you don’t use the code, you won’t get the discount.
There is also free postage in the UK at the moment. We will start charging postage soon – basically the next time we print a catalogue, which is likely to be September/October, so you might want to order before that happens.
Enjoy!
We thought we’d give a bit more warning of this sale than the last one, to give you a chance to decide what you fancy and remember to place an order… Don’t try yet!
August Bank Holiday,
00:01 Saturday 24th August through to 23:59 Monday 26th August BST
10% off all physical books
with this single-use-per-customer code
KKNLMB22OSSL
That’s an ‘O’ not a zero. If you don’t use the code, you won’t get the discount.
There is also free postage in the UK at the moment. We will start charging postage soon – basically the next time we print a catalogue, which is likely to be September/October, so you might want to order before that happens.
Enjoy!
All three of our #WomenVote100 titles on offer for one day only, to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the first female vote going into an actual ballot box on 14th December 1918
We/She Liars League stories by Women,
Five by Five, short stories by Katy Darby, Joan Taylor-Rowan, Cassandra Passarelli, Sarah James and Helen Morris,
Vindication Poems from Sarah James, Sarah Lawson, Elinor Brooks, Jill Sharp and Anne Macaulay
Normal price £28.97 still post free in UK – you have until I get to the computer tomorrow morning!
To Celebrate our 5th Anniversary (8th September 2017) we are offering the first five books we published FREE TO BONA FIDE UK LIBRARIES or BOOK CHARITIES
London Lies ISBN: 978-1-909208-00-1 CONTEMPORARY
Our first Liars’ League showcase, featuring unlikely tales set in London.
Stations: Short Stories Inspired by the Overground Line
ISBN: 978-1-909208-01-8 CONTEMPORARY
A story for every station from New Cross, Crystal Palace, and West Croydon at the Southern extremes of the East London line all the way to Highbury & Islington.
Lovers’ Lies ISBN: 978-1-909208-02-5 CONTEMPORARY
Our second collaboration with Liars’ League, bringing the freshness, wit, imagination and passion of their authors to stories of love.
Weird Lies ISBN: 978-1-909208-10-0 SCI-FI/FANTASY
WINNER of the Saboteur2014 Best Anthology Award
Our third Liars’ League collaboration – more than twenty stories varying in style from tales not out of place in One Thousand and One Nights to the completely bemusing.
Mosaic of Air Cherry Potts ISBN: 978-1-909208-03-2
FANTASY/SCI-FI/ CONTEMPORARY
Sixteen short stories from a lesbian perspective.
If you’ve not tried our work before here’s your chance to explore.
Libraries just pay delivery, charities completely free contact us
Other special offers on back-list titles direct from us for the duration of the celebrations. explore the shop
All paid for books ordered direct sent post free within the UK!
These offers only to bona fide libraries and book charities. There are other special offers available to everyone else… explore the shop
I’m sorry, I know, it’s barely December, but we are being busy and we’d like you to come and see us, and buy books! Cheap! Special christmassy offers. Unlike Lettice you don’t have to wait to read our latest anthology.
On this Thursday 5th, 7.45 at Lewisham Library, Actors read from Weird Lies, with a little help from me, and you get to buy books cheap! at least £1 off every book, and special bulk buy offers.
Sunday 8th at Alexandra Nurseries in Penge, we have a stall at the christmas market, 10-5pm. Same special solstice offers.
Wednesday 11th 7.45, at The Story Sessions, The Ivy House, a gamut of festive tales in a lovely pub with excellent beer, plus the same festive special offers on books.
Or of course, you can buy our books online.
Not only are Lies wonderful fun, they are even cheap for a limited period.
I noticed this morning that the earlier post about the special 3 for 2 offer on the three Liar’s League books was missing the link to the sales page. That is now corrected. Didn’t mean to tease you!