A very generous review of The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature in @booksireland.bsky.social! Delighted the book’s making its way to readers. booksirelandmagazine.com/sorry-for-yo...
Collage of Liverpool scenes at dusk and night, including the Royal Albert Dock reflected on calm water, Liverpool Cathedral, the Royal Liver Building clock tower, cobbled streets, and illuminated city architecture. A red music player graphic overlays the centre reading “Life in Liverpool – Liverpool University Press,” a themed Spotify playlist.
To celebrate the brilliant events happening in Liverpool this month, including University Press Redux 2026, the LUP team have put together a playlist of songs that remind them of the city.
Find the playlist and more about University Press Redux 2026 below:
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#UPRedux2026 #UPRedux26
Read a new blog piece from @livuniheseltine.bsky.social on missed opportunities for social housing in Northern Ireland, including on the former Girdwood Barracks site, here ⬇️
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Promotional image for the book Power, Politics and Territory in the 'New Northern Ireland' by Elizabeth DeYoung. The book cover is placed on the left side of the image. White text on the red background next to it on the right reads: ''This is the author's first book. But she writes like a dream and with a courage and toughness which belie her years.' Marianne Elliott, The Irish Times'. Below, in smaller text: 'Winner of the ACIS Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book, 2023'. In the top right corner is the LUP logo, and in the bottom right corner, white text reads 'New in Paperback'.
New in paperback | Winner of the 2023 ACIS Donald Murphy Prize, Power, Politics and Territory in the 'New Northern Ireland' by Elizabeth DeYoung explores how North Belfast’s biggest investment in the peace process failed to deliver.
Available now in paperback ⬇️
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The promotional image features the book Science Fiction and the Modern World: The Emergence of a Genre in a Revolutionary Age with a brightly lit nineteenth-century exhibition hall on the cover. To the right, text describes the book’s argument about science fiction’s role in redefining humanity’s relationship to nature, with the Liverpool University Press logo.
Recently published in Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies | Science Fiction and the Modern World explores nineteenth-century science fiction as recalibrating humanity’s understanding of its relationship to the natural order.
Find out more here:
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Promotional graphic for a book. The LUP logo is placed in the top left corner. The book cover for The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature is placed on the right of the image. White text reads 'Interrogating representations of the corpse, this collection offers new perspectives on death in Irish literature.' The background is taken from the book cover, and is a grey washed version of the drawing of a sparse tree.
📚 Recently published | The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature is available now!
This is the first book to centre on the figure of the corpse in Irish literature, and it ranges from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century.
Discover more here ⬇️
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
The final final proofs have headed off for 'Hilary Mantel', part of @livunipress.bsky.social 'Writers and their Work Series'. Can't wait to see this one in the flesh liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
Happy St. Brigid's Day! Honouring St Brigid of Kildare and marking the beginning of spring, the holiday also celebrates Irish women. Here, Samantha Lyster discusses the impact Irish women had on English architecture.
A promotional graphic featuring the book cover of The Science Fiction of Defeat: Future Wars in Spanish Culture (1870–1939) by Juan Herrero-Senés. The cover shows vintage war imagery with planes and naval battles. To the right, text highlights the book’s focus on “future wars” in Spanish culture. Liverpool University Press logo appears.
New in Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies | This book explores speculative war narratives in Spain from the late nineteenth century to the Spanish Civil War, examining their ties to real conflicts, technology, colonialism, and ideological fears.
Find out more here:
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The promotional graphic shows the book Socialism and British Literature: A People to Come beside a colourful illustration of socialist figures, miners, banners, and protest imagery. The right side includes text about the book and the Liverpool University Press logo. The design evokes British socialist history and literary culture.
New in Literary Studies | This book identifies a literary discourse committed to the idea of socialism as an open and contingent political project without necessary ideological determinations or outcomes.
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Promotional graphic. The book cover for 'Irish Writers in the Civil Service' edited by Jonathan Foster and Elliott Mills is placed on the right. Text in the middle of the image, next to the book cover, reads 'The volume reveals a literary imagination running through the byways of the Irish bureaucratic state.' The LUP logo is placed in the top left corner.
Recently published | Irish Writers in the Civil Service, edited by Jonathan Foster and Elliott Mills, is available now!
Discover more here ⬇️
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
The first book in our Playwriting and the Contemporary: Critical Collaborations series is now available - congratulations to Luke Lamont on the publication of The Documentary Aesthetic in Irish Theatre, 2010-2020!
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I'm a few days late with this, but delighted to share the good news about Catherine E. Ross's excellent book Educating the Romantic Poets: Life and Learning in the Anglo-Classical Academy, 1770-1850. Congratulations, Catherine!
Book cover for Reading Chinese Science Fiction in the Age of Techno-Nationalism by Fontaine Lien. Features a futuristic landscape with towering structures, warm orange and blue tones, and a stylized Great Wall. Overlay text highlights the book as the first to explore contemporary Chinese science fiction within techno-nationalist contexts. Liverpool University Press logo included.
This book is a new study on contemporary Chinese science fiction through the lens of techno-nationalism, revealing how the genre critiques class inequality, exploitative capitalism, and the social costs of new technologies in the 21st century.
Find out more: bit.ly/RCSFAT
Cover of The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature, showing a water colour of mourners carrying a coffin towards a ruined church, with a man looking on in the foreground and two windswept, rather Beckettian trees in the background.
Out in February from @livunipress.bsky.social: The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature. The book started as a lockdown tweet. Delighted that it’s finally done! With Bridget English and @drreznicek.bsky.social
My book, Metafiction and Narrative Worlds in Science Fiction: Prism, Mirror, Lens, on a pile of paper. Which is half the print outs I made while editing it.
I’ve had flu, so I missed it yesterday, but! 28 December was my book’s OFFICIAL birthday. Metafiction and Narrative Worlds in Science Fiction: Prism, Mirror, Lens (‘PML’ for short) was a labour of love, and is published by @livunipress.bsky.social .
Available wherever you buy your books.
Tomorrow is the final day of our Winter Sale! Use discount code 27WINTER on the LUP website for up to 50% off selected print and ebooks.
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Promotional material for Play in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction, the cover is a collage drawing of multiple people in a garden. The background of the image is the same as the book cover. There is a beige overlay of the image. The Liverpool University Press logo is in the top left hand corner in white, and there is white text in the middle.
New in Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies | Play in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction is a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary study of the different forms of play found in depictions of radically better and radically worse societies.
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Promotional image for Charlotte Smith’s Liberal Feminism by Anne Chandler, published by Liverpool University Press. The book cover shows an 18th-century pastoral illustration with figures near a river, trees, and sailing ships. Text highlights the study’s argument that Charlotte Smith’s novels imagine political reform in distinctly liberal, often comedic ways.
New in Romantic Reconfigurations | Charlotte Smith's Liberal Feminism re-values her fiction as articulating a specifically liberal agenda of legislative reform and intellectual freedom, often through imitations of earlier comic fiction and satire.
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Promotional graphic for the book The Stereoscopic Picturesque by Bruce Graver, featuring a nineteenth-century stereoscope against a rustic landscape. The left side displays text describing the book’s focus on nineteenth-century 3D photography and the picturesque tradition. The right shows the book cover with the same stereoscope image.
New in Romantic Reconfigurations | The Stereoscopic Picturesque combines fields of study that have are brought into close contiguity: the history of science, art history, photography, literature, and environmentalism.
Find out more here:
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The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature is now available for preorder from @livunipress.bsky.social. This collection ranges from graveyard poetry and the gothic through Ní Ghríofa’s Ghost in the Throat, with incisive and new readings of the dead body
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale is now available for preorder from @livunipress.bsky.social. It revises our understanding of this political genre through medical humanities
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
It’s the most wonderful time of the year to buy LUP books - up to 50% off in our Winter Sale!
Three copies of Amanda Dillon’s book ‘Metafiction and Narrative Worlds in Science Fiction’ sit stacked on one another.
I intend to do a full-on photo shoot with these when I have some free time, but for now, this will do - author copies of my first book, Metafiction and Narratice Worlds in Science Fiction ( @livunipress.bsky.social ) have arrived! Over the moon, and can highly recommend LUP as publishers.
Post for Liverpool University Press promoting ‘Work in Publishing Week 2025.’ The top features the Liverpool University Press logo. Large text reads ‘Work in Publishing Week 2025’ inside a red-bordered box. Below, smaller text says: ‘Hear from staff members at LUP on what they love about their jobs, and advice on how to get into publishing.’ On the bottom left is an illustration of a person with short hair holding an open purple book in front of their face. A curved red arrow points toward the next image.
Post for Liverpool University Press promoting ‘Work in Publishing Week 2025.’ The top features the Liverpool University Press logo. Large text reads ‘What does your job entail? What does a typical day look like?’ inside a red-bordered box. Below, smaller text says: “As a Senior Production Editor, I oversee the production process of academic books from the point the manuscripts are handed over by the Commissioning Editor to final publication. This means coordinating typesetters, proof-readers, indexers, authors, and printers; managing schedules to keep everything on track; and ensuring the work stays within budget. Costings and supplier quotes are a key part of the job. Sarah, Senior Production Editor' On the bottom right is an illustration of a person sat on a calendar working on a laptop.
Post for Liverpool University Press promoting ‘Work in Publishing Week 2025.’ The top features the Liverpool University Press logo. Large text reads ‘What is your favourite part of the job?’ inside a red-bordered box. Below, smaller text says: '“Working with early career scholars to publish their first book – nothing beats being able to provide joyful moments of acceptance and then publication – and to then see their careers progress thanks to having their work published. Also the satisfaction of being involved in a book’s conception, development, and eventual release into the world.” Clare, Senior Commissioning Editor'. Below this, more text: '“I love all of the journals that we work with so getting to engage with the research that they publish is definitely my favourite part of my job. I also work with wonderful colleagues, and we all share the same goal with equal passion, so my working environment is really great.” Natasha, Journals Marketing Manager'. On the bottom right is an illustration of a person working on a laptop.
Post for Liverpool University Press promoting ‘Work in Publishing Week 2025.’ The top features the Liverpool University Press logo. Large text reads ‘What advice or tips would you give for anyone interested in joining the publishing world?’ inside a red-bordered box. Below, smaller text says: '“Keep abreast of the key issues facing the sector you are interested in – the best interviews I have seen (and I’ve seen a lot) included specific examples of connecting LUP to issues such as AI, Open Access mandates, accessibility, library budgets, shrinking of the market etc. It shows enthusiasm and diligence, both of which are needed to work at LUP.” Jennie, Director of Sales and Marketing'. On the bottom left is an illustration of a person reading a book.
Happy #WorkInPublishing Week! If you're interested in joining the world of publishing, staff members at LUP share what they love about their jobs and advice on getting into the industry 📚
Read more here ⬇️
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/pages/careers
@publishersassoc.bsky.social
The LUP logo in white is displayed in the left-hand corner of the image. Next to it and towards the right, there is a blue text box with white text inside which reads 'LIVERPOOL SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES ONLINE'. Underneath there are four book covers lined up next to each other: 'The Science Fiction of Defeat', 'Science Fiction and the Modern World', 'Metafiction and Narrative Worlds in Science Fiction', 'Reading Chinese Science Fiction in the Age of Techno-Nationalism'. Underneath the covers is a blue text box which spans the length of the image with white text inside that reads, 'Perpetual Access | No Online Hosting Fees | 3 Years' Worth of Future Content'. The background of the image is a blurred section of the cover image from 'Science Fiction and the Modern World'.
🚀 Discover new and forthcoming ebooks in Liverpool Science Fiction Studies Online, a digital collection offering a broad perspective on a variety of themes relating to #SFStudies. Available to libraries as a one-off purchase and with perpetual access.
Browse the full collection ➡️ bit.ly/lsfso
Excellent news - congratulations Cathy! @crossphd.bsky.social
Very happy with this cover for ‘Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955’, which features a detail from Evie Hone’s stained glass window 'Four Green Fields'. This window was originally shown at the New York's World Fair in 1939, but is now found in Government Buildings on Merrion Street
Promotional image for the book "The Commercial Lives of Irish Women, 1850–1922: Business as Usual" by Antonia Hart, published by Liverpool University Press. The right side shows the book cover featuring a vintage photograph of books and a pawnbroker's license for Margaret J. McNally, framed behind glass. The title and subtitle are in white text over an orange background. The left side of the image contains a text overlay: "Reveals the remarkable extent and impact of female entrepreneurship in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ireland." The Liverpool University Press logo appears in the top-left corner.
Reappraisals in Irish History | The Commercial Lives of Irish Women, 1850-1922 by Antonia Hart is available now!
The first book to tell the story of the many entrepreneurial Irish women who ran businesses in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, find out more here ⬇️
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Book cover image for "The Medieval Irish Kings and the English Invasion" by Seán Ó Hoireabhárd, published by Liverpool University Press. The background features medieval manuscript illustrations and script. Text on the right reads: "Winner NUI Publication Prize in Irish History 2025." The Liverpool University Press logo and founding date (1899) are also included.
🎉 @hoireabhard.bsky.social has been awarded the 2025 @nuimerrionsq.bsky.social Publication Prize in Irish History, for his book The Medieval Irish Kings and the English Invasion. Congratulations, Seán!
Learn more about the book here ⬇️
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