Claret Press
@claretpress.bsky.social
An award-winning traditional indie publisher based in London. We love a great read about our shared world, about politics, people and places.
Great storytelling doesn’t just entertain, it energises
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Great storytelling doesn’t just entertain, it energises
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Claret Press
@claretpress.bsky.social
· Sep 30
Hello all!
We’re Claret Press, an indie publisher of engrossing books which engage with the issues of the day
As we believe everything is political, we publish across a wide range of genres, fiction and non-fiction
We look forward to talking about our books, literature and more with you all
We’re Claret Press, an indie publisher of engrossing books which engage with the issues of the day
As we believe everything is political, we publish across a wide range of genres, fiction and non-fiction
We look forward to talking about our books, literature and more with you all
"Man's got an eye for talent."
America's great again!
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December 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"Man's got an eye for talent."
Christmas came early to Claret Press!
Evening Standard's best books 2025, awarded novelist @evesmithauthor.bsky.social chose White Road:
"A compelling eco-thriller with big themes and an unforgiving icescape that’s a character in itself.”
Thank you Eve!
To buy:
www.claretpress.com/book/white-r...
Evening Standard's best books 2025, awarded novelist @evesmithauthor.bsky.social chose White Road:
"A compelling eco-thriller with big themes and an unforgiving icescape that’s a character in itself.”
Thank you Eve!
To buy:
www.claretpress.com/book/white-r...
December 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Christmas came early to Claret Press!
Evening Standard's best books 2025, awarded novelist @evesmithauthor.bsky.social chose White Road:
"A compelling eco-thriller with big themes and an unforgiving icescape that’s a character in itself.”
Thank you Eve!
To buy:
www.claretpress.com/book/white-r...
Evening Standard's best books 2025, awarded novelist @evesmithauthor.bsky.social chose White Road:
"A compelling eco-thriller with big themes and an unforgiving icescape that’s a character in itself.”
Thank you Eve!
To buy:
www.claretpress.com/book/white-r...
Fabulous work by students, tracing persistent violations of German territory. All fingers point to Russia.
Not sure why our govts aren't taking this on and responding accordingly. And why is our best intel coming from students?
Not sure why our govts aren't taking this on and responding accordingly. And why is our best intel coming from students?
They Droned Back
Young journalists expose Russian-linked vessels circling off the Dutch and German coast
www.digitaldigging.org
December 16, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Fabulous work by students, tracing persistent violations of German territory. All fingers point to Russia.
Not sure why our govts aren't taking this on and responding accordingly. And why is our best intel coming from students?
Not sure why our govts aren't taking this on and responding accordingly. And why is our best intel coming from students?
No right to block Amazon from "reading" your books. I don't get why this isn't considered to be piracy. I don't get why the reader can't go back a few pages to remind themself of characters and plotting. #AIpiracy #bookpiracy #creativerights
Kindle's New Gen AI-Powered "Ask This Book" Feature Raises Rights Concerns - Writer Beware
In a recent press release, Amazon noted that some new features were coming to Kindle. We’re adding new AI-powered reading features that preserve the magic of reading on Kindle. Story So Far lets you c...
writerbeware.blog
December 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM
No right to block Amazon from "reading" your books. I don't get why this isn't considered to be piracy. I don't get why the reader can't go back a few pages to remind themself of characters and plotting. #AIpiracy #bookpiracy #creativerights
I know that stare. I wake up to it each morning from my own cat.
December 16, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I know that stare. I wake up to it each morning from my own cat.
A hallmark of being #Canadian is having no certainty how to spell as our #spelling is completely unique in the world. So I have a tinge of sympathy for #Carney.
Linguists call out Canada's Carney for 'utilizing' British spelling
A group of linguists are asking Prime Minister Carney to ditch British English in official documents, saying it is a matter of
www.bbc.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
As reprehensible as the man is, the article is good fun.
Nigel Farage: Canterbury Pilgrim
A New Yorker Profile
mrhenrymorris.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
As reprehensible as the man is, the article is good fun.
Yesterday I heard a gorgeous sermon about the darkness and light at Advent. I came home to news of 15 Jewish dead at Bondi Beach as they celebrated Hanukkah.
The Pope has spoken out against anti-Semitic violence, so has Starmer, Sadiq Khan, and police forces. Did I miss the statement from CofE?
The Pope has spoken out against anti-Semitic violence, so has Starmer, Sadiq Khan, and police forces. Did I miss the statement from CofE?
December 15, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Yesterday I heard a gorgeous sermon about the darkness and light at Advent. I came home to news of 15 Jewish dead at Bondi Beach as they celebrated Hanukkah.
The Pope has spoken out against anti-Semitic violence, so has Starmer, Sadiq Khan, and police forces. Did I miss the statement from CofE?
The Pope has spoken out against anti-Semitic violence, so has Starmer, Sadiq Khan, and police forces. Did I miss the statement from CofE?
It's been 25+years since I've been in #Canada in the dead of #winter. Here are 10 things I've forgotten. 🧵
1. Asphalt goes grey when it’s subzero.
2. Wool mitts. Mine are so cute but got wet with snow. I should have remembered that because I was raised on home-knitted woolly hats and mittens.
1. Asphalt goes grey when it’s subzero.
2. Wool mitts. Mine are so cute but got wet with snow. I should have remembered that because I was raised on home-knitted woolly hats and mittens.
December 11, 2025 at 11:50 PM
My most recent blog on #publishing. And no, despite the title of Logic's BDSM, it's not about sex.
#indiepublisher #ampublishing #publisher
#indiepublisher #ampublishing #publisher
Logic's BDSM
Baroque is utterly gorgeous; its complexity tickles and delights. But it's a hell of a way to organise an industry. What lies in store for publishing's future.
claretpress.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:30 PM
My most recent blog on #publishing. And no, despite the title of Logic's BDSM, it's not about sex.
#indiepublisher #ampublishing #publisher
#indiepublisher #ampublishing #publisher
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I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.
December 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.
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"If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage by means of scribbled comments, a name on the fly-leaf, a bus ticket to mark a certain page."
Alberto Manguel
Alberto Manguel
December 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
"If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage by means of scribbled comments, a name on the fly-leaf, a bus ticket to mark a certain page."
Alberto Manguel
Alberto Manguel
A #free #giveaway and a great conversation with two #authors of #eco-thrillers.
#thriller #amreading #adventure
#thriller #amreading #adventure
Survival in the aftermath of disaster (+ GIVEAWAY!)
A discussion between Georgina Key and Harry Whitehead
open.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
A #free #giveaway and a great conversation with two #authors of #eco-thrillers.
#thriller #amreading #adventure
#thriller #amreading #adventure
Honestly if you knew the pile I have to read through you’d be impressed it went this fast.
December 4, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Honestly if you knew the pile I have to read through you’d be impressed it went this fast.
Don’t do it.
Now is the time to unleash your most typo-filled, brutally short emails, because people will be so grateful that it's obviously not written by an LLM that they'll forgive you for any rudeness
December 2, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Don’t do it.
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
It’s the holiday season and to help get everyone in the mood we’re giving away a #free #audiobook of the chilling #YAthriller House of the Judas Goat. Email us at [email protected] for the download.
Plus news of our #shortstorycompetition.
It's our annual wrap up of all things Claret. Enjoy!
Plus news of our #shortstorycompetition.
It's our annual wrap up of all things Claret. Enjoy!
A Sip of Claret News
Happy Holidays, a present and our annual wrap up of everything Claret!
claretpress.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
It’s the holiday season and to help get everyone in the mood we’re giving away a #free #audiobook of the chilling #YAthriller House of the Judas Goat. Email us at [email protected] for the download.
Plus news of our #shortstorycompetition.
It's our annual wrap up of all things Claret. Enjoy!
Plus news of our #shortstorycompetition.
It's our annual wrap up of all things Claret. Enjoy!
Enjoy our annual end-of-year newsletter with its #free #audiobook to help all of you celebrate.
#freeaudiobook #HappyHolidays #tistheseason
#freeaudiobook #HappyHolidays #tistheseason
A Sip of Claret News
Happy Holidays, a present and our annual wrap up of everything Claret!
claretpress.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Enjoy our annual end-of-year newsletter with its #free #audiobook to help all of you celebrate.
#freeaudiobook #HappyHolidays #tistheseason
#freeaudiobook #HappyHolidays #tistheseason
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Oxford University Press has chosen “rage bait” as its 2025 Word of the Year. The open-compound word, which beat out “biohack” and “aura farming,” goes back at least to 2002. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/a...
November 30, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Oxford University Press has chosen “rage bait” as its 2025 Word of the Year. The open-compound word, which beat out “biohack” and “aura farming,” goes back at least to 2002. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/a...
At a Christmas catch up with old friends at the Queen’s Arms Pimlico, and across the street was this fabulous tree all dressed up in lights. Just so bright and lovely.
Altogether now: City sidewalks pretty sidewalks.
Altogether now: City sidewalks pretty sidewalks.
November 30, 2025 at 6:35 PM
At a Christmas catch up with old friends at the Queen’s Arms Pimlico, and across the street was this fabulous tree all dressed up in lights. Just so bright and lovely.
Altogether now: City sidewalks pretty sidewalks.
Altogether now: City sidewalks pretty sidewalks.
At church with the Bishop of London who is encouraging us to connect with others even through the use of social media.
So happy Sunday everyone! Hope you also have sunshine and blue sky.
So happy Sunday everyone! Hope you also have sunshine and blue sky.
November 30, 2025 at 11:51 AM
At church with the Bishop of London who is encouraging us to connect with others even through the use of social media.
So happy Sunday everyone! Hope you also have sunshine and blue sky.
So happy Sunday everyone! Hope you also have sunshine and blue sky.
You don't know whether to laugh or cry.
#stephencollinscartoon
#stephencollinscartoon
Festive self-flagellation at the BBC: the Stephen Collins cartoon
Traitors, distractions, inertia, manipulation … it’s all on the schedule this Christmas
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:08 AM
You don't know whether to laugh or cry.
#stephencollinscartoon
#stephencollinscartoon
This analysis charts their interaction with each other, what they're trading, and what they want, besides underage girls.
An old saying: the person you really are is the person you are when no one is watching. And they never thought they'd been seen in these emails.
#Epsteinfiles #Epsteinemails
An old saying: the person you really are is the person you are when no one is watching. And they never thought they'd been seen in these emails.
#Epsteinfiles #Epsteinemails
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
This analysis charts their interaction with each other, what they're trading, and what they want, besides underage girls.
An old saying: the person you really are is the person you are when no one is watching. And they never thought they'd been seen in these emails.
#Epsteinfiles #Epsteinemails
An old saying: the person you really are is the person you are when no one is watching. And they never thought they'd been seen in these emails.
#Epsteinfiles #Epsteinemails