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🕷️✨ SPIDER, SPIDER is now available on NetGalley! ✨🕷️
Revenge takes root as poison blooms
Step into the sooty streets of Victorian London in L.C. Winter’s dark and dazzling debut, Spider, Spider.
📖 Reviewers and booksellers can now request their proof copy on NetGalley.
➡️ Spider, Spider by L.C. Winter
🕸️ Available to request now on NetGalley
🕯️ Publishing March 2026 with Duckworth Books
We are so pleased to announce that our author Karen Bartlett will be attending the Wolverton Literary Festival.
You can catch her talking about her book The Escape From Kabul on Friday 6th February at 5:30pm at the Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Come along!
Happy publication day to #BrutalScotland by Simon Phipps, a stunning collection of 200+ photographs featuring postmodern and Brutalist buildings found across Scotland, from the Highlands to the Lowlands.
Constructed in the dynamic, socially motivated period of post-war architecture, these buildings have since been repurposed, pulled down or left to decay. But others still serve their community.
Their popularity may have declined but recent decades have seen a new recognition of their ideals with equal emphasis on form, utility and function.
‘The future once lived here; now it’s damp, derelict and endangered. These buildings were never just about concrete and form – they were about ideas, about society, about a future that people believed they could shape. Scotland’s post-war architecture still tells that story, but you have to be willing to look past the neglect.’
SIMON PHIPPS, FROM THE AFTERWORD
‘Phipps’s work performs a vital service, giving an overlooked architectural style a much-needed boost – some of them have never looked so good’ @wallpapermag
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🎃🕷️ HALLOWEEN GIVEAWAY 🕷️🎃
Revenge takes root as poison blooms 🌿
This Halloween, something wickedly atmospheric is creeping your way… We’re giving away a proof copy of Spider, Spider by L.C. Winter, a pitch-black tale of revenge set in Victorian London, where witchy whispers, dark secrets, and vengeance intertwine.
To enter (if you dare):
🕸️ Follow us @duckworthbooks
🕸️ Follow @libbythescribbler
🕸️ Comment below
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One lucky winner will receive an early proof copy of Spider, Spider — the haunting debut from L.C. Winter out March 2026.
Winner announced next Friday (Nov 7th) Good luck 🖤
#SpiderSpider #LCWinter #DuckworthBooks #HalloweenGiveaway #WitchyReads #HistoricalFiction #SpookySeason #bookgiveaway
Some more snaps from a very successful book tour📸📚
If you are in London or Manchester you may still be able to find signed copies of A Splintering in the following shops:
- House of Books and Friends (Manchester)
- Waterstones Deansgate (Manchester)
- Blackwells Manchester
- Battersea Bookshop
- Daunt Books (Marylebone)
- The Book Elephant
- Waterstones Gower Street
- Standfords Travel
- Brick Lane Bookshop
A Splintering BOOK TOUR!
What a joy it’s been to have Dur e Aziz Amna here in the UK to celebrate her brilliant novel A Splintering! We’ve had an incredible time visiting wonderful bookshops, taking part in inspiring events, and meeting so many passionate readers.
A huge thank you to all the amazing stops along the way — from festivals and bookshops to bloggers and fellow authors — it’s been an unforgettable experience.
We can’t wait to see you again soon @dureamna we are so glad you are now officially part of the Duckworth family! 📚🦆💓
👑 A Crown Stolen, an Empress Remembered
This week, the Louvre Museum was shaken by a dramatic daylight heist: thieves entered the Galerie d’Apollon on 19 October and, in just a few minutes, made off with priceless 19th-century jewels, in the chaos, the crown of Eugénie de Montijo, last Empress of France, was dropped in the street, damaged, and left behind.
In light of this brazen theft, we’re reminded of why Eugénie’s story matters. Coming February 2026, The Last Empress of France – The Rebellious Life of Eugénie de Montijo by Petie Kladstrup and Evelyne Resnick offers readers a portrait of a woman whose life was as audacious as it was influential:
As famed for her skill at riding and fencing as she was for her astonishing beauty, Eugénie’s unconventional life began in the dying days of the Spanish empire. It would take her to the literary salons of Paris where she rubbed shoulders with George Sand and Stendhal; and, finally, to the throne of France itself as the wife of Napoléon III.
On the way she became a powerful advocate for those in need, fighting for institutional reform in children’s education and women’s health, and creating haute couture as we know it today, all while displaying a razor-sharp understanding of geopolitics. But the triumphs of her life were coupled with heartbreak and tragedy, and today her legacy is barely known.
Perhaps the theft of her crown will spark renewed curiosity, not just about her jewels, but about the remarkable woman who once wore it.
✨ The Last Empress of France — publishing February 2026.
#TheLastEmpressOfFrance #EugeniedeMontijo #EmpressOfFrance #Bookstagram #History #Biography #LouvreHeist #TrueStory #WomensHistory
📚 This Weekend: Dur e Aziz Amna at Wimbledon Book Fest × Lahore! 📚
We’re thrilled that Dur e Aziz Amna, author of A Splintering, will join Aisha Hassan and Keshava Guha at Wimbledon Book Fest × Lahore this weekend for Stories from India & Pakistan.
Together, they’ll explore powerful new fiction set against backdrops of ecological collapse, political unrest, and resilience — in conversation with Saba Karim Khan.
🗓️ Sunday 19 October 2025, 1pm
📍 Merton Arts Space, Wimbledon Library
Don’t miss this vibrant celebration of South Asian storytelling and cross-cultural connection.
📚 25% OFF Duckworth Books at Waterstones! 📚
From Tuesday 14th October (00:01) to Friday 17th October (23:59), enjoy 25% off RRP on a selection of brilliant Duckworth titles, exclusively on the Waterstones website and app.
Simply enter OCTOBER25 at checkout to redeem the offer.
✨ Featured Duckworth titles include:
* The Last Empress of France
* Spider, Spider
* Bread and War
* In Green
* Conversations with an Executioner
* I’ll Be the Monster
Don’t miss out — this special #WPreorder promotion runs for just four days!
Explore the offer at: http://waterstones.com//campaign/october-pre-order-offer
📚 OUT NOW IN PAPERBACK! 📚
We’re thrilled to announce that Dead Behind the Eyes — the second book in Ian Moore’s gripping Loire Valley Mystery series — is now available in paperback!
When the decapitated body of a lonely man washes up on the River Loire, Lombard`s investigation draws him into the world of eco-terrorism, bio-medical research, French aristocracy and a violent plan to save the planet.
We are also delighted to celebrate the paperback release by announcing the winners of the giveaway we have been running on our page! Huge congratulations to:
@abbiesgoodreads
@thepuzzling_bookworm
#books #crimefiction #giveaway #bookstagram
Indie bookshop highlight📚💕
Spotted River East, River West and A Splintering in Next Chapter Books, a brilliant women-led independent bookshop in Leeds.
You can find them at the Leeds Corn Exchange (gorgeous location!)
What is an indie bookshops have you visited recently?
#books #bookshop #UK
A Splintering in the Sainsbury’s Magazine🧡💕
‘Every now and then... I saw Mother
was haunted... I could not afford
to sit too long with my mother’s
ghosts.’
Tara’s ambition to swap the
dull smallness of her rural Pakistani
village for the city life is realised when
she marries an urban accountant.
But she is still shackled by expectation
and tradition: children, obeisance,
patriarchy. Not for always, though...
