WITTY, WILD AND WONDERFULLY AUSTEN: A CONVERSATION WITH DEVONEY LOOSER Just when you thought you knew everything about Jane Austen—her novels, her needlework, her famously “quiet” life—along comes a book that ...

Witty, wild and wonderfully Austen: an interview with author @devoney.bsky.social ahead of the publication of her new book, 'Wild for Austen': thesecretunderstandingofthehearts.blogspot.com/2025/09/witt...

Publishing this week! #JaneAusten #booksky

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Amazingly, my book is ready and will be out soon! I am so excited and so grateful to everyone who has made it possible. Thanks to @wellcometrust.bsky.social it will be open access as well as a beautiful paperback. Thanks as well to @hsmurphy.bsky.social @jillburke.bsky.social and many others.

Exciting news! 📢 The first book in our brand-new series Multiplexities: Popular Screen Cultures is here!

🎬 Screening Sherlock by James Chapman
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Discover more about the series: bit.ly/3XlKQth
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Attending #BAFTSS2025 conference later this week?

Visit our stand to,
▶️Chat to Editor @mlhouston.bsky.social
▶️Browse books
▶️Discover new series

Not attending?
Check out our #Film, #TVStudies and #MediaStudies reading list 👇
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As the far right has gained popularity, women have joined their ranks in droves.

In 'Pink-pilled', journalist Lois Shearing interviews leading experts and infiltrates communities of tradwives and femtrolls to provide a cutting-edge account of how the far right uses the internet to recruit women.

University Reimagined - Manchester University Press The University Reimagined series offers a home for fresh ideas about higher education and innovative solutions to the challenges it faces, both within the UK and internationally.

New book series, UNIVERSITY REIMAGINED, edited by @sadiahabib.bsky.social and me, with thanks to @manchesterup.bsky.social, & esp. commissioning editor @lauramswift.bsky.social. BOOK PROPOSALS NOW WELCOME - please get in touch if you have an idea. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/unive...

Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights

New article co-written with Tom Davies in this month’s History Today.
www.historytoday.com/archive/hist....

Delighted to share with you our brand new Spring/Summer 2025 trade catalogue.
Browse our books publishing March - August 2025 here: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/catalogues/
Feat. new books by @sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social, @drhelenkara.bsky.social, @emmahcasey.bsky.social & @markhussey.bsky.social.

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The best biographies and memoirs of 2024: It-girls, art world intrigue and sociopathy Catch up on 2024’s most illuminating life stories, encompassing tales of recovery, literary feuds and devastating betrayal, with Katie Rosseinsky’s edit of the best memoirs and biographies

"Comyns’s work has been overlooked; some of her books are long out of print. Avril Horner’s biography seeks to redress this, chronicling a fascinating life"

Great to see 'Barbara Comyns' by Avril Horner in @theindependent.bsky.social's best biographies and memoirs of 2024 list: tinyurl.com/y2n548xd