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Michelle Houston

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Senior Commissioning Editor for Literature, Film, Theatre, Performance, Culture. Manchester University Press.

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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

22.09.2025 11:25 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Be in touch with project ideas!

20.05.2025 11:58 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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.

20.05.2025 02:06 👍 54 🔁 10 💬 6 📌 2
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Exciting news! 📢 The first book in our brand-new series Multiplexities: Popular Screen Cultures is here!

🎬 Screening Sherlock by James Chapman
🔗 bit.ly/3YdPadz

Discover more about the series: bit.ly/3XlKQth
@mlhouston.bsky.social

02.04.2025 10:24 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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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 👇
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/01...

@baftss2025.bsky.social

24.03.2025 14:53 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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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.

18.02.2025 13:31 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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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...

23.01.2025 18:00 👍 80 🔁 59 💬 5 📌 3
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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....

10.12.2024 17:03 👍 8 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
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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.

20.11.2024 10:38 👍 19 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 4

Be in touch with suggestions!

14.11.2024 17:19 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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

14.11.2024 13:39 👍 27 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 2