New Arrivals
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Out of the Past: Tales of Haunting History — Ed. Aaron Worth
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Doorway to Dilemma: Bewildering Tales of Dark Fantasy — Ed. Mike Ashley
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The Night Land: William Hope Hodgson — Introduction by Ann Vandermeer
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The Platform Edge: Uncanny Tales of the Railways — Ed. Mike Ashley
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Haunters at the Hearth: Eerie tales for Christmas Nights — Ed. Tanya Kirk
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The Face in the Glass: The Gothic Tales of Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Fear in the Blood: Tales from the Dark Lineages of the Weird — Ed. Mike Ashley
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Polar Horrors: Strange Tales from the World's Ends — Ed. John Miller
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Circles of Stone: Weird Tales of Pagan Sites and Ancient Rites — Ed. Katy Soar
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The Girl Who Became A Fish — Polly Ho Yen
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Our Bestsellers
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Intermezzo — Sally Rooney
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You Could Do Something Amazing With Your Life (You Are Raoul Moat) — Andrew Hankinson
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Lost In The Garden — Adam S. Leslie
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The Muslim Cowboy — Bruce Omar Yates
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Monstrilio — Gerardo Sámano Córdova
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Y/N — Esther Yi
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Determination — Tawseef Khan
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Kick the Latch — Kathryn Scanlan
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In Ascension — Martin MacInnes
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Goodnight Tokyo — Atsuhiro Yoshida
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Coming Soon...
Pre-order these upcoming titles ready for release day...
Forthcoming Events
We host loads of author talks, conversations and events at our Smithdown Rd bookshop and further afield. Have a look what's coming up!
Spiracle Audiobooks
NEW from the good people at Spiracle - audiobooks from independent and literary publishers, sold as gorgeous gift cards with download code.
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Spiracle Audiobook: On Bullfighting — AL Kennedy
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Spiracle Audiobook: Banzeiro Òkòtó: The Amazon as the Center of the World — Eliane Brum
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Spiracle Audiobook: Catherine the Great and the Small — Olja Knežević
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Spiracle Audiobook: Exposure — Olivia Sudjic / Losers — Josh Cohen
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Spiracle Audiobook: Polly Barton — Fifty Sounds
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Spiracle Audiobook: How Shostakovich Changed My Mind — Stephen Johnson
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Spiracle Audiobook: Love, Leda — Mark Hyatt
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Spiracle Audiobooks: Playthings — Alex Pheby
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Spiracle Audiobook: Shalimar — Davina Quinlivan
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Spiracle Audiobook: Insignificance — James Clammer
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Gifting
Books make the perfect gift. Complete your purchase with a greetings card and gift bag...
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Completist Gift Bags
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Zodiac Mini Greetings Cards — Roisin O'Donnell
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Greetings Cards — Printer Johnson
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Setting the Scene...
Candles, coffee, chocolate - what do you need to get into the perfect reading mood?
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Crosby Coffee Beans
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Maegan Bubble Matches — Smoked Black
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Maegan Dimple Hand Blown Glass Incense Holder — Yellow
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Maegan Stacks - Olive Mini Incense & Candle Holder
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Maegan Stacks - Peach Mini Incense & Candle Holder
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Stationery
Luxurious Blackwing pencils, multicoloured Kaweco fountain pens and everything in between...
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51mm Binder Paper Clips
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Blackwing Colors
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Blackwing Volumes Pencils
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Kaweco Ink Cartridges - Pack of 6 - Various Colours
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Kaweco Skyline Sport Fountain Pen
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Book of the Month
All My Precious Madness — Mark Bowles
SKU:9781913111564
ALL MY PRECIOUS MADNESS by Mark Bowles (published by Galley Beggar) is a startling, hilarious, moving novel and one of the most assured literary debuts in years - we're delighted to be welcome the author for a conversation around the book on Sunday, November 24th, from 4-6pm. Get a discounted copy of the book (or the audiobook from Spiracle) along with your ticket via the EVENTS & COURSES page... Incensed by the chattering, laptop-wielding hip young professionals whose blovations interfere with his quiet, contemplative espresso, the book's narrator unleashes a stream of invective and personal reminiscences; a book-length polemic against contemporary society that is scabrous, hilarious and underscored with a slow-building pathos that crescendoes in a hugely moving and human epilogue. Inviting favourable comparisons with the likes of Philip Roth, Paul Auster, Thomas Bernard, B.S. Johnson and more giants of literary misanthropy, ALL MY PRECIOUS MADNESS is the acerbic and intelligent story of a man at odds with the world. A man who wants to escape his violent past but instead – most emphatically – repeats it.
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Selected by BLONDE Supper Club
This month we're hosting our first literary dinner with BLONDE Supper Club (Lucy Archer & Jess Fagan) - a menu of foraged flavours inspired by the landscapes and themes of Olga Tokarczuk's DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD. We asked Blonde to select a few of their favourite food-related titles...
What's new from Dead Ink?
We're a publisher as well as a bookshop, you know?
Writing the Murder — ed. Dan Coxon & Richard V. Hirst
From the macabre tales of Edgar Allan Poe through to the locked-room mysteries of the Golden Age, to the many faces of modern crime fiction and the explosion of true crime, writers have always explored the most taboo of human transgressions: the taking of a life. What is it about murder that has fascinated us for so long? And what is it about crimes of this nature that make for such compelling fiction?
Published by Dead Ink
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808s and Otherworlds — Sean Avery Medlin
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A Dedicated Friend — Shirley Longford
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A Scarab Where the Heart Should Be — Marieke Bigg
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Above Us The Sea — Ania Card
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Along the Journey River — Carole LaFavor
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Required Reading
Required Reading is the irregularly and erratically updated literary mag of the Dead Ink Bookshop, featuring contributions from DI staff, authors and friends. Articles, recommendations, lists and more await. Subscribe to our newsletter to get each new article delivered straight to your inbox as soon as it is released.
Here's Some Interesting Collections For You
One Sitting Reads
Books you can sit down and finish in one go so long as nobody bothers you or ask "what are you doing?". Put the kettle on and settle in for a one-punch wonder.
Something Dark?
So you're after something dark then? Well, consider yourself warned. Here's some books to test your limits as they delve into the bleaker end of the human experience.
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The Doloriad — Missouri Williams
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Hungry For What — María Bastarós
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Scar City – Joel Lane
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London Incognita — Gary Budden
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My Death — Lisa Tuttle
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Graphic Novels
It always seems like literary circles don't acknowledge the innovations in storytelling emerging through graphic novels. If you're not normally a reader of graphic novels why not give one a go?
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Streets of Paris, Streets of Murder: The Complete Graphic Noir of Machete & Trade (Vol. 2) — Jean Patrick Machete & Jacques Tardis
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Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith — Grace Ellis & Hannah Temple
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BLANKETS: 20th Anniversary Edition — Craig Thompson
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A Guest in the House — Emily Carroll
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Werewolf Jones & Sons: Deluxe Summer Fun Annual — Simon Hanselmann and Josh Pettinger
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Fiction in Translation
From bestsellers to cult classics, translated fiction is a great way to challenge yourself to something new and unexpected. Have a browse at the latest translated titles we've brought into the shop.
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The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story — Olga Tokarczuk
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Our Share of Night — Mariana Enriquez
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The Wine-Dark Sea — Leonardo Sciascia
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The Dry Heart – Natalia Ginzburg
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A Sunny Place for Shady People — Mariana Enriquez
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Crime Fiction
Think you know crime fiction? Well you don't! Or maybe you do, we don't know you. But lately the Dead Ink team have been reading and chatting a lot about the criminally underrated genre.
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Point Zero — Seicho Matsumoto
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The A26 — Pascal Garnier
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OUT - Kirino
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Pig Iron — Benjamin Myers
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Crimes of Cymru: Classic Mystery Tales of Wales : 114 (British Library Crime Classics) — ed. Martin Edwards
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Join an Indie Revolution
Buy Independent Books
Books from indie and small press publishers are often at the forefront of pushing boundaries within literature. In 2022 all of the UK's top literary prizes went to small publishers.
Everything we stock on this site is from independent publishers and small businesses. An independent publisher can be anything from those bigger guys at Faber and Bloomsbury down to ourselves at Dead Ink and even some small one-person enterprises. The variety adds to the fun.
If you want exciting, original and creative writing then don't rely on the mainstream – challenge it.
From an Independent Bookshop
Independent bookshops give space for fairer competition within the world of books. They allow for a plurality of vision in what is stocked, promoted and sold. As the bookselling industry continues to consolidate, supporting independents is one of the few ways that consumers can enact change.
Our own bookshop on Liverpool's Smithdown Road is based around the concept of being a neighbourhood store, hub and third space. Your own local bookshop is very likely more than just a bookshop ...
That is an Independent Publisher
Dead Ink began as a publisher and continues that work in tandem with the bookshop. The whole thing is a big cyclical book-obsessed ecosystem. The bookshop supports our publishing output and our publishing output supports our bookshop.
As a patron on our bookshop you are helping us to publish more books and publish them better.
And Keep Books Interesting
When you buy a book you're voting. Somewhere a system has taken note – probably multiple systems – and they pay attention and when it happens enough it tells the people looking at that system that they should do that again. They should repeat it. Duplicate it. Wring life from it and reconstitute it and recycle it and repackage it back to you.
Don't read what you're told to read. Don't read what's paid to be on a chart. Don't read what somebody else thinks you should read.
Read something interesting. Read something weird. Read something dangerous. Something odd. Something forgotten. Something you've never heard of before. Something exciting. Something new. Something old. Something wild. Something that speaks to something. Something that needs to exist. Or something that just exists entirely on its own terms.
Just don't read something boring. Don't read what someone else is making you read.