Firefly Press

04/06/2026

🎉 HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY 🎉

⏰ The clock has finally run out… Questers Academy: The Box of Locks by Sam Hay has officially released 🔑 ✨

A fast- paced MG action-adventure chase around London⏳📚

“The Box of Locks is a book that will set hearts racing and will get readers thinking”
- K & O: Bonkers About Books

Out now on the Firefly website and in all good bookshops ✨

03/06/2026

⏳ The countdown is officially on… tomorrow marks the release of Questers Academy: The Box of Locks by Sam Hay! 🔐✨

Over just 24 hours, Tom is thrown into a world of secret societies, hidden truths, and a race against time to uncover the mysterious Box of Locks, an artefact powerful enough to destroy the world if it falls into the wrong hands.

Will you follow along as the clock ticks down? 👀

Join the blog tour for:
📚 Guest posts from the author
⭐ Brilliant reviews
🎉 And an exciting giveaway to finish it all off!

“A thrilling, high stakes race against the clock. I couldn’t put it down.” - Claire Fayers

01/06/2026

🌟KINDLE DEAL ALERT🌟

📚Michael the Amazing Mind-Reading Sausage Dog

📚 Michael the Incredible Super-Sleuth Sausage Dog

and

📚The Song That Sings Us

are now in a Prime Month !

Deal ends 17th June. Don’t miss it!

01/06/2026

And that’s a wrap on Hay Festival 2026 ✨

A huge thank you from all of us at Firefly Press to everyone who came along to our events this year ❤️

Special thanks to Patience Agbabi, Nicola Davies, Elgan Rhys and Mared Roberts for your brilliant conversations and books 📚

Until next year, Hay 👋

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01/06/2026

The Empathy Day Festival 4 -11 June

JUMP into someone else’s story with a FREE week-long Festival offering education settings, bookshops, libraries, community groups and families worldwide fun and inspiring activities which build real life empathy through stories.

A flexible format allows you to celebrate however or whenever you can, with celebrations culminating on a final global Empathy Day, 11 June.

26/05/2026

Huge congratulations to Patience Agbabi on Wonderland being featured in The Guardian Children & Teens roundup 📚✨

In very wonderful company, and very deserved too 👏

22/05/2026

Awesome to see Patience Agbabi talk Wonderland, Colwyn Bay pier, Northen Soul and verse novels to secondary school pupils from Bridgend, Cardiff and more today 🤩

21/05/2026

We are absolutely THRILLED to see The Blue Book of Nebo by Manon Steffan Ros featured in Hay Festival's The Pleasure List.

The list, announced just this morning, features the likes of Charlotte Brontë, J. R. R. Tolkien and Charles Dickens.

How many have you read?

More info: https://fireflypress.co.uk/blog/delight-as-welsh-classic-makes-hay-festivals-the-pleasure-list/

21/05/2026

Awesome to see The Blue Book of Nebo on this stellar list 🤩🤩 Huge congratulations to author Manon Steffan Ros!! 🥳

Introducing The Pleasure List – a bookshelf to spark joy in the UK’s National Year of Reading.

Over the past six months, we asked thousands of readers to share their favourite fiction – the books they couldn’t put down, the books they’ve re-read the most times, the books that started it all for them.

And from that list, we’ve curated a selection of the most-chosen titles – 39 books (to mark our 39th year!) guaranteed to offer something for every budding book lover, launched on the opening day of Hay Festival 2026.

Read more! https://www.hayfestival.org/the-pleasure-list

Shop the list! https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/the-pleasure-list

And enjoy!

19/05/2026

Snippet from the Showstopper launch party ✨🎭

Tom Ramsay shares the heart behind why he wrote the book, and how sometimes the negative voices trying to hold us back become the very thing driving us forward ❤️

“This is the book I desperately needed when I was in high school: theatre-obsessed, living for cast albums, and convinced the only people who truly understood me were the ones waiting in rehearsal. It’s a celebration of finding your people, owning your spotlight, and discovering that sometimes the biggest showstopper is simply being yourself.” - Glenn Griffin 💫