We're very proud and excited to share that @rickardsisters.com ( #ThisSlavery) and @myfanwytristram.bsky.social ( #TheNoisyValley) will be at @hayfestival.bsky.social this year to helm 'Placards & Panels: Graphic Novels as Protest' on May 27th!
General booking opens at 12pm on Saturday 14 March!
AMAZING AWARD NEWS!
This year marks the first ever Book of the Year: Graphic Novel category at the #BritishBookAwards, and we're delighted to announce that #ThisSlavery by @rickardsisters.com has been shortlisted!
Congrats to the shortlisters, and fingers crossed for May 11th!
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Have a fab time at t'mill tomorrow boomclackers * @commonerschoir.bsky.social
Hope you sell loads of your lovely books @rickardsisters.com
#ThisSlavery
*If you know you know.
"Many truths apply to exploitation as much now as then... An author who still has something to say has been proudly restored to topicality by Scarlett and Sophie Rickard."
@sandagnguide.bsky.social on #ThisSlavery — OUT NOW!
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"This never-more-timely tale of the eternal injustice and biologically apologist is superbly readable, dramatically enticing and should be compulsory viewing for all – as long as we don’t force anyone…" - Now Read This! on #ThisSlavery by @rickardsisters.com!
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TROUBLE AT MILL!
On November 8th, #ThisSlavery is being launched on a downright industrial scale!
Only a few tickets are left, so BOOK NOW!
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"An author who still has something to say has been proudly restored to topicality by Scarlett and Sophie Rickard." - #ThisSlavery, reviewed by the @sandagnguide.bsky.social!
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#ThisSlavery: OUT NOW IN THE UK!
To celebrate, we've just posted an exclusive Q&A with the author/artist duo the @rickardsisters.com!
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So, #ThisSlavery is coming out tomorrow - but, @RickardSisters.com, what's it all about?
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"I'd sooner be born in the gutter than live on the poor like a cannibal."
The new revelatory adaptation of Ethel Carnie Holdsworth's #ThisSlavery arrives TOMORROW!
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In cotton-county, life's all knots and tangles...
The UK release of #ThisSlavery is in only 2 DAYS!
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#ThisSlavery, the revived Marxist-Feminist epic, is out in 3 DAYS!
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Reflections on #WilliamMorris from the making of #ThisSlavery...
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"It can be a continuity nightmare..."
Scarlett of the @rickardsisters.com on all the angles and details that go into deigning just one room in #ThisSlavery!
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@rickardsisters.com on this Where's Wally illustration from #ThisSlavery, which arrives next week on September 11th!
(Or Where's Waldo to our American readers, who can read This Slavery on October 7th!)
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Dark smoke rises from the mills and factories, charring Lancashire's skies as young rebel Rachel Martin learns the manner of her making...
#ThisSlavery is 2 WEEKS AWAY!
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3 weeks to go until #ThisSlavery hits UK shelves!
(North America: October 7th!)
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New song coming together :)
We are big fans of @rickardsisters.com
#ThisSlavery
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#booksky 📚💙
Follow Ethel Carnie Holdsworth's journey from child labourer to poet to the UK's first published female working class novelist!
#ThisSlavery @rickardsisters.com
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Ethel Carnie Holdsworth (1886-1962) became a full-time mill worker at 13. She then went on to be Britain's first working class female novelist, and original author of #ThisSlavery
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Impoverished mill worker Rachel Martin follows her mother to the house of Old Barstock, who owns the mill that her family have been chained to for decades...
#ThisSlavery by @therickardsisters.com - out in the UK on September 11th!
(North America: October 7th!)
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#WPreorder!
#ThisSlavery by @rickardsisters.com is 25% OFF on the Waterstones website and app if you use the code SUMMER25 at checkout!
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🏭 #ThisSlavery by @therickardsisters.com!
😈 #MyDadFightsDemons by @bobbyjosephcomics.bsky.social and Abbigayle Bircham!
🍜 #BoneBroth by Alex Taylor!
🏡 #TheMostAmazingSaturdayMorningRubbishClub by Francisco de la Mora and Bill Tuckey!
SelfMadeHero Announce This Slavey
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New from the @rickardsisters.bsky.social (No Surrender, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists), #ThisSlavery revives the classic feminist novel by trailblazing author Ethel Carnie Holdsworth!
UK: September 11th
North America: October 7th
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2025's #SelfMadeHero Autumn lineup is here! We have...
🏭 The revived classic #ThisSlavery!
😈 Brand-new YA title #MyDadFightsDemons!
🍜 #FGNA winner #BoneBroth!
🧑🦽 Inspirational SEND story #TheMostAmazingSaturdayMorningRubbishClub!
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