Promotional graphic for the book Irish Culture and Partition, 1920–1955 by Stephen O’Neill. On the left is the book cover, with a dark green top section displaying the title and author, and a colorful stained-glass image below featuring a red hand and a sword among abstract shapes. On the right, yellow text on a blurred stained-glass background reads: “Comprehensively reinterprets the effect on culture of the continuing division of the island of Ireland.” The Liverpool University Press logo appears in the top right.

New in Irish Studies | @oneillsb.bsky.social's Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955, is the first book dedicated to examining culture and partition in Ireland.

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Promotional graphic for the book Irish Joy: Resistant Affects in Contemporary Irish Literature and Culture by Julia C. Obert. On the left is the book cover, featuring a minimalist design with a large yellow sun on a light background above a blue section with a stylized figure floating. On the right, white text on a blue background reads: “This book examines joy as a politically potent force in contemporary Irish literature and culture.” The Liverpool University Press logo appears in the top right.

☀️ Recently published | Irish Joy: Resistant Affects in Contemporary Irish Literature and Culture by Julia C. Obert is available now!

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Liverpool University Press is thrilled to share that we have been shortlisted for the Clarivate Academic, Educational and Professional Publisher of the Year at the 2026 Independent Publishing Awards!

That’s so kind, Chris, it was an absolute pleasure to work with you too!

Recently published | Race, Violence, and Form is available now. One of the first in the new Studies in the Global Nineteenth Century, the book employs exciting new methods to understand nineteenth-century Irish literature and culture.

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'While we can’t address all of the volume’s essays in this post, together they reframe nineteenth-century Ireland by offering new theories of racialization, new approaches to colonial violence, and new understandings of Irish literary forms.'
Mary Mullen and Renée Fox discuss their new book here:

Jacket image of Ghidorah the Three Headed Monster, a yellow cover with fire in the middle of a blue background. The fire is also used as the background for the image. There is red rectangle on the bottom with a white LUP logo and white text.

We are pleased to share that Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster has been nominated for the Best Book on 70 Years of Godzilla at 24th Annual Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards.

Voting is now open here until the 1st May:
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I’m thrilled to announce our new book series Pioneering Peace: New Paradigms in Peace and Conflict Studies, published in collaboration with @ulsteruniincore.bsky.social and edited by @brandonhamber.bsky.social. Please spread the word!

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This is the first volume in the Studies in the Global Nineteenth Century series in collaboration with @global19c.bsky.social! Congratulations to Lahoucine Aammari on the publication of British Travel Writers in Morocco, 1856-1937.

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Promotional graphic for the book Romantic Realisms: Speculative Reconfigurations of Literature, Philosophy, and Science in German Romanticism. The cover shows a moss-covered human-like statue facing the sea. Green design background with quote about German nature-philosophy and Romantic affective ontologies. Edited by Steven Lydon and Barry Murnane, Liverpool University Press publication.

Recently published | This collection of essays argues for an understanding of Romantic aesthetics grounded in nature, and capable of acting on, existing within, and indeed participating in processes of worldmaking.

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This time next week, the first day of @alpsp.bsky.social UP Redux will have started! We're excited to have university press colleagues join us here in Liverpool.
Check out the full programme to plan your time (and let us know if you need any local recommendations!):

Sorry for your trouble—The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature - Books Ireland This is not the best book for late night reading in bed. Its subject matter – death, dying and the dead – are not conducive to sleep. But for the rest of the

A very generous review of The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature in @booksireland.bsky.social! Delighted the book’s making its way to readers. booksirelandmagazine.com/sorry-for-yo...

Collage of Liverpool scenes at dusk and night, including the Royal Albert Dock reflected on calm water, Liverpool Cathedral, the Royal Liver Building clock tower, cobbled streets, and illuminated city architecture. A red music player graphic overlays the centre reading “Life in Liverpool – Liverpool University Press,” a themed Spotify playlist.

To celebrate the brilliant events happening in Liverpool this month, including University Press Redux 2026, the LUP team have put together a playlist of songs that remind them of the city.

Find the playlist and more about University Press Redux 2026 below:

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Read a new blog piece from @livuniheseltine.bsky.social on missed opportunities for social housing in Northern Ireland, including on the former Girdwood Barracks site, here ⬇️
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Promotional image for the book Power, Politics and Territory in the 'New Northern Ireland' by Elizabeth DeYoung. The book cover is placed on the left side of the image. White text on the red background next to it on the right reads: ''This is the author's first book. But she writes like a dream and with a courage and toughness which belie her years.' Marianne Elliott, The Irish Times'. Below, in smaller text: 'Winner of the ACIS Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book, 2023'. In the top right corner is the LUP logo, and in the bottom right corner, white text reads 'New in Paperback'.

New in paperback | Winner of the 2023 ACIS Donald Murphy Prize, Power, Politics and Territory in the 'New Northern Ireland' by Elizabeth DeYoung explores how North Belfast’s biggest investment in the peace process failed to deliver.

Available now in paperback ⬇️
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The promotional image features the book Science Fiction and the Modern World: The Emergence of a Genre in a Revolutionary Age with a brightly lit nineteenth-century exhibition hall on the cover. To the right, text describes the book’s argument about science fiction’s role in redefining humanity’s relationship to nature, with the Liverpool University Press logo.

Recently published in Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies | Science Fiction and the Modern World explores nineteenth-century science fiction as recalibrating humanity’s understanding of its relationship to the natural order.

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Promotional graphic for a book. The LUP logo is placed in the top left corner. The book cover for The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature is placed on the right of the image. White text reads 'Interrogating representations of the corpse, this collection offers new perspectives on death in Irish literature.' The background is taken from the book cover, and is a grey washed version of the drawing of a sparse tree.

📚 Recently published | The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature is available now!

This is the first book to centre on the figure of the corpse in Irish literature, and it ranges from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century.

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The final final proofs have headed off for 'Hilary Mantel', part of @livunipress.bsky.social 'Writers and their Work Series'. Can't wait to see this one in the flesh liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Happy St. Brigid's Day! Honouring St Brigid of Kildare and marking the beginning of spring, the holiday also celebrates Irish women. Here, Samantha Lyster discusses the impact Irish women had on English architecture.

A promotional graphic featuring the book cover of The Science Fiction of Defeat: Future Wars in Spanish Culture (1870–1939) by Juan Herrero-Senés. The cover shows vintage war imagery with planes and naval battles. To the right, text highlights the book’s focus on “future wars” in Spanish culture. Liverpool University Press logo appears.

New in Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies | This book explores speculative war narratives in Spain from the late nineteenth century to the Spanish Civil War, examining their ties to real conflicts, technology, colonialism, and ideological fears.

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The promotional graphic shows the book Socialism and British Literature: A People to Come beside a colourful illustration of socialist figures, miners, banners, and protest imagery. The right side includes text about the book and the Liverpool University Press logo. The design evokes British socialist history and literary culture.

New in Literary Studies | This book identifies a literary discourse committed to the idea of socialism as an open and contingent political project without necessary ideological determinations or outcomes.

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Promotional graphic. The book cover for 'Irish Writers in the Civil Service' edited by Jonathan Foster and Elliott Mills is placed on the right. Text in the middle of the image, next to the book cover, reads 'The volume reveals a literary imagination running through the byways of the Irish bureaucratic state.' The LUP logo is placed in the top left corner.

Recently published | Irish Writers in the Civil Service, edited by Jonathan Foster and Elliott Mills, is available now!

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The first book in our Playwriting and the Contemporary: Critical Collaborations series is now available - congratulations to Luke Lamont on the publication of The Documentary Aesthetic in Irish Theatre, 2010-2020!

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I'm a few days late with this, but delighted to share the good news about Catherine E. Ross's excellent book Educating the Romantic Poets: Life and Learning in the Anglo-Classical Academy, 1770-1850. Congratulations, Catherine!

Book cover for Reading Chinese Science Fiction in the Age of Techno-Nationalism by Fontaine Lien. Features a futuristic landscape with towering structures, warm orange and blue tones, and a stylized Great Wall. Overlay text highlights the book as the first to explore contemporary Chinese science fiction within techno-nationalist contexts. Liverpool University Press logo included.

This book is a new study on contemporary Chinese science fiction through the lens of techno-nationalism, revealing how the genre critiques class inequality, exploitative capitalism, and the social costs of new technologies in the 21st century.

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Cover of The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature, showing a water colour of mourners carrying a coffin towards a ruined church, with a man looking on in the foreground and two windswept, rather Beckettian trees in the background.

Out in February from @livunipress.bsky.social: The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature. The book started as a lockdown tweet. Delighted that it’s finally done! With Bridget English and @drreznicek.bsky.social

My book, Metafiction and Narrative Worlds in Science Fiction: Prism, Mirror, Lens, on a pile of paper. Which is half the print outs I made while editing it.

I’ve had flu, so I missed it yesterday, but! 28 December was my book’s OFFICIAL birthday. Metafiction and Narrative Worlds in Science Fiction: Prism, Mirror, Lens (‘PML’ for short) was a labour of love, and is published by @livunipress.bsky.social .

Available wherever you buy your books.

Tomorrow is the final day of our Winter Sale! Use discount code 27WINTER on the LUP website for up to 50% off selected print and ebooks.
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Promotional material for Play in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction, the cover is a collage drawing of multiple people in a garden. The background of the image is the same as the book cover. There is a beige overlay of the image. The Liverpool University Press logo is in the top left hand corner in white, and there is white text in the middle.

New in Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies | Play in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction is a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary study of the different forms of play found in depictions of radically better and radically worse societies.

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Promotional image for Charlotte Smith’s Liberal Feminism by Anne Chandler, published by Liverpool University Press. The book cover shows an 18th-century pastoral illustration with figures near a river, trees, and sailing ships. Text highlights the study’s argument that Charlotte Smith’s novels imagine political reform in distinctly liberal, often comedic ways.

New in Romantic Reconfigurations | Charlotte Smith's Liberal Feminism re-values her fiction as articulating a specifically liberal agenda of legislative reform and intellectual freedom, often through imitations of earlier comic fiction and satire.

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