Dark Peak Books and Gifts

Moorhen chicks are the Miyazaki soot sprites of the bird world. ❤️

Just a reminder that if your local independent bookstore doesn’t have the book you want in stock, they can usually order it in for collection within 24-48 hrs.

It’s Good Friday! Bring on the long weekend. We’re open today and closed on Monday. Come down and see us!

Book and Bottle tonight! Come and join us at Harvey Leonard’s to discuss James by Percival Everett. We’ll also be celebrating six years of this magnificent collaboration between the book shop and Harvey Leonard’s, two of Glossop’s finest indie establishments. There may be cake! All welcome!

Coming up! Abigail Dean in conversation with Beth Underdown for the publication of Abigail’s new novel, The Death of Us. Join us at the Partington Theatre Club Room on 17th April for book chat, Q&A and a signing. The bar will be open too.

Tickets available here: darkpeakbooks.co.uk/event/abigai...

We’re taking preorders for this beauty on our website and they’re going fast! Grab one here:

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Women's History Month – March 13

Jigonhsasee, 12th century, one of the founders of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy

Do you fancy some fancy mice?

Tonight! Tickets still available, grab yours now!

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The best time to shift spending away from Amazon is right now. The next best time is tomorrow. If you're first reaction to the action is "Why should I boycott Amazon?" I implore you, take a few minutes to find some answers. Because the answers are there. And you have other options.

The image is an old-style black-and-white illustration showing a woman walking near a balustrade. She reaches out towards a tree with one hand, while an urn on a pedestal stands nearby. Below the image, the text reads: "She walks among the tombs."

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'A Picture Book for Little Children' • 1812 📚

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"What's your #WorldBookDay costume?"
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"You're just drunk at 10am"
"correct"

Happy World Book Day to all who celebrate!

We’ve got the World Book Day books in stock so bring your tokens down after school or at the weekend! If this year’s books don’t appeal, you can use your token for £1 off any other children’s book.

Vouchers valid until 23rd March, see you all soon!

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Event! We’ve got Patrick Joyce, author of Remembering Peasants, coming to Glossop’s. Victoria Hall on 13th March to discuss his book and answer audience questions followed by a signing.

Tickets £12 with a copy of the book or £5. Free drink on arrival. Get yours here: www.darkpeakbooks.co.uk/events

i know people are coming here for catharsis and that's fine but when you are done screaming please pick something you can do that will help people and do it. you don't accomplish anything by rolling around in the fear all day

Bookselling is not a crime | WritersMosaic Magazine Simon Liebesny on the Israeli raid of The Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem and arrest of the owner Mahmoud Muna and his nephew Ahmad

A beautiful piece on the criminalisation of bookselling, by publisher Simon Liebesny

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This description of evacuating a literary archive from Kharkiv after the Russian invasion could be straight out of @richove.bsky.social's Burning the Books

The Israeli authorities must release Mahmoud Muna and Ahmad Muna immediately. There is no justification for their arrest or continued detention. The charges against them are fabricated and malicious, and the manner of their arrest – an undercover raid on a reputable bookselling business established more than forty years ago, followed by handcuffing and many hours of interrogation and detention – is reprehensible. This illegitimate act marks yet another escalation in the suppression by Israeli authorities of the rights and freedoms of the people of Jerusalem. The world has seen the nature of regimes that arrest and imprison booksellers before. The fact that my government in the UK, among others, persists in supporting, defending, encouraging and arming such a regime continues to be a source of profound shock and dismay. The time is long past for Britain and the international community to reassess its backing for Israel, and to condition any future support on the active and immediate dismantling of structures of oppressive control. I am proud to call Mahmoud and Ahmad friends. Both have been a source of strength and professional support to me, and Mahmoud and I have worked together, travelled together and shared a stage together before public audiences over many years. I have nothing but respect and admiration for the work they do in preserving, promoting and championing Palestinian literary culture in Jerusalem. Criminalising booksellers has no place in a democracy. In solidarity with Mahmoud Muna, Ahmad Muna and their families and supporters, I call on the Israeli authorities to release them immediately. Matthew Teller 10 February 2025, 14:00 UTC

My statement on the arrest and detention of Mahmoud Muna and Ahmad Muna:

This is horrifying. We call for the immediate release of our fellow booksellers Mahmoud and Ahmad.

The Way Up Is Death by Dan Hanks - signed copy Secure your copy of Dan Hanks' new book, The Way Up Is Death. Dan will be in store signing copies on Saturday 1st February. If you would like a specific dedication in your copy, please email details t...

Roll up for our first book signing of the year! Glossop’s own Dan Hanks will be here on Saturday 1st February from 1-2pm to sign copies of his new book ‘The Way Up Is Death’. Come down and say hello to Dan. You can secure a copy in advance here:

www.darkpeakbooks.co.uk/product/the-way-up-is-death/

Useful info here if you have a Microsoft 365 subscription. We just checked ours and they indeed has increased our renewal price without informing us. Check yours too if you don’t want to or don’t need to use their AI.

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Our Book & Bottle book of the month for January is Wild Houses by Colin Barrett. I’ve brought it on a long weekend in Anglesey with the intention of smashing the whole thing in. Haven’t even looked at the first page yet. Plenty of time though. Copies in the shop if you want one!

Woman reading a red book. Source: https://pixabay.com/photos/people-woman-girl-reading-book-2593394/

Reading a physical book bought from a local independent store is an act of resistance in 2025. Apple, Meta, and Amazon all desperately need your screen time. Start denying them some of it.

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@darkpeakbooks.bsky.social running this great Christmas 📚 book campaign again. Supported by the actual @rickastl3y.bsky.social

A very complex diagram which begins with the question "Do you need a a gift for someone" but, despite many questions and choices, always suggests either giving a book or buying a book for yourself, or gets in a huff and says "I give up!".

A helpful gift shopping algorithm that I made for @theguardian.com a couple of years ago.

Leeds' amazing #queer bookshop has been robbed, pls help by buying some stuff from their website if you're able to. Great people and fab place, hate to see this.

RT's appreciated.

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The people who say that, “kids don’t read anymore” have no concept of the GRIP manga has on my son’s elementary school. Librarian can’t keep them on the shelves. The kids who can buy them pass them around like bottles of moonshine during prohibition. It’s GLORIOUS.