Cover of Grimstink by Jack Brougham showing Grimstink and Layla with Reece and Siddarius behind them.
It is a very good weekend when I have read two unputdownable books 👏 Grimstink by @idanielpeak.bsky.social is a clever, funny, twisty and original take on sci-fi. Totally brilliant! Off to get a copy of Little Horror now 😁 @fireflypress.bsky.social #KidLitUK #UKKidLit
Thank you for sharing those kind words! Hope you enjoy LH 😁
Book vending machine
Grimstink
The realisation of an ambition I never knew I had: Grimstink is now available via VENDING MACHINE in Glossop Market Hall thanks to @darkpeakbooks.bsky.social
Because @fireflypress.bsky.social are the best publisher they are ignoring Bleak Friday and instead donating £1 for each book sold through their website to a homelessness charity for the rest of this year
Author signing a book
Elif Shafak novel
Got a lovely welcome at @urmstonbooks.bsky.social where they let me sign my name in the Grimstinks and I bought this…
Lots of people disparaging this list but I seem to be the only one doing it due to the absence of Hi-de-Hi!
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Grimstink is a month and a day old so
I made this shoddy edit of some of the things people have said about it so far
Author signing books
Went in @waterstoneskids.bsky.social Stockport to sign their Grimstinks. It’s the first shop I’ve been in to do this, meaning that for now it’s the ONLY PLACE IN THE WORLD with signed copies for sale
The book “Summer Under the Stars” sits on a wooden table in front of a sunny Greek landscape.
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Today I promoted my book to my 350 Strava followers, most of whom don’t speak English. Can anyone beat that for a futile marketing strategy?
Here’s a ‘Bookseller Review’ of Grimstink from the @waterstones.bsky.social website. Thank you Steve E 🙏
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Arthur English is this week's Look-In pin up (w/e 22nd July 1972).
Here’s a ‘Bookseller Review’ of Grimstink from the @waterstones.bsky.social website. Thank you Steve E 🙏
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Judith and Alison, fashion edition !
Man, I miss Code 404, I think it's time for a little rewatch of all 3 seasons, eh ? :]
(If I knew how to embroider, I'd make myself the same sweatshirt as Alison)
#code404
My BlueSky post promoting my book: 2 likes, no comments
My daughter’s TikTok mocking my book: 21,000 likes, 424 comments
My book Grimstink is officially out today so I made this slick marketing video
Today I'm sharing nine completely captivating middle grade adventures that will get kids reading this summer! Find my reviews on the link below:
scopeforimagination.co.uk/2025/07/09/c...
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Hey, The Guardian included #Grimstink in its ’hottest books to read now’ article. Thank you to @imogenrw.bsky.social for describing it as ‘outrageously funny’
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www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
Hey, The Guardian included #Grimstink in its ’hottest books to read now’ article. Thank you to @imogenrw.bsky.social for describing it as ‘outrageously funny’
@fireflypress.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
Grimstink cover
My new children’s book is out two weeks today. Ideal for anyone who has, knows, is or was a child
TV listings magazine
New series of Not Going Out starts this Friday at 9pm on BBC1. Co-written by Lee Mack and me, which is to say that I write the scripts and Lee writes his name in at the top
Very grateful to @jacquisydney.bsky.social for her kind and thoughtful review of Grimstink, even if she does seem worryingly on board with the idea of obliterating Planet Earth
Book: Grimstink
This bad boy (and he is a very bad boy) comes out two months today. The absolute best way of getting a copy is to preorder from your local bookshop, which in my neck of the woods means the brilliant @bforbutterflybooks.bsky.social or sensational @serenitybookshop.bsky.social
Thank you, I am so pleased you liked it
Chuffed and grateful that the very first response to Grimstink is as generous as this
This week's Northern Highlight, Daniel Peak, tells us about his new book Grimstink to be published in July by Firefly Press. Link in bio for full interview 📚
Thank you to @cbnnetwork.bsky.social for having me as this week’s Northern Highlight. If you’d like to read the interview, it’s here. If you wouldn’t like to read it it’s still here:
www.childrensbooksnorth.co.uk/blog/norther...
Tolstoy
Tolstoy left it nine years between War and Peace and Anna Karenina. No such slouch, my second book is out in July, a mere four years after the first. Preorderable here: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/grim...
Book: Parfit by David Edmonds
Parfit by @davidedmonds100.bsky.social is one of the best biographies I’ve ever read. Elegantly threads the life and work and leaves you with a feeling of having personally encountered its subject. Also several lols
