Eye Books
@EyeAndLightning
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Publishing non-fiction as Eye and fiction as Lightning. Regional winner, Small Press of the Year at the British Book Awards 2022
London, United Kingdom
Joined July 2009
When @RowanMcCabe told a police officer neighbour he was planning to knock on doors at Byker Wall and offer to write poems for free, she advised him to take pepper spray and not carry valuables. The reality was very different, as he explains in today’s Guardian (1/3)
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🎉 Huge congratulations to Jim Cockin (1991) whose novel Ghost Tide has been shortlisted for the 2025 East Anglian Book Awards in the Best Children’s Book category! Illustrated by Martha Vine (2022) while she was still a student, Ghost Tide is a true @QueensCam collab👻🌊
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Also pleased to see @GHarrisonWriter on the lists for his terrific Season @EyeAndLightning
What a terrific way to start the week! Poppyland by @djtaylorwriter has been shortlisted for the fiction prize of the East Anglian Book Awards! 🥂🥳🎉🏆 https://t.co/lkq91KV7zr
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A radio interview about my novel, A Circle Outside, where I reveal that I've never lived in a lesbian separatist commune, and why. https://t.co/re1Em8V34Y
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BREAKING: Elvis has officially won the Daytona 500 AI is becoming more real every day...
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‘Grief is a deep weirdness, a country with no maps.’ Ocean by @MsPollyClark left me emotional, heartbroken, healing. An ocean's depth of feeling. INCREDIBLE writing. An unforgettable main protagonist. A book you LIVE. Oh my ❤️ #BookReview #BestReads25
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The wonderful Adam MacQueen has this to say about my book. You should listen to him and go get a copy https://t.co/JL1TL2zcNY
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This is amazing news! Congratulations to @jimcockinauthor & Ghost Tides! Here’s my original review: https://t.co/aDQEbiiBHA
scopeforimagination.co.uk
Not for the faint-hearted, the deliciously creepy Ghost Tide by Jim Cockin is perfect for fans of the Aveline Jones series (Phil Hickes). 14-year-old Charlie does not want to spend his Christmas ho…
Fantastic Ghost Tide has been shortlisted for the 2025 #EastAnglianBookAwards BIG THANKS to all @EyeAndLightning and to everyone who has enjoyed the story #readingforpleasure
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Congratulations,George and @EyeAndLightning . As has been said, it's not about football. It's about a season.
Congratulations to @GHarrisonWriter whose novel Season, a heartfelt portrait of male bonding in the football stands, is shortlisted in the debut novel category of the East Anglian Book Awards #EABA
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From plastic bottles to poolside chic. At SHEIN, we turn waste into swimwear using new tech—from post-consumer plastics like water bottles—spun into soft, durable fabric. Learn more about this sustainable process at the link.
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Fun gay romantic comedy from @conor_sneyd and @EyeAndLightning that can lift you out of whatever doom scroll you're caught in right now.
If you haven't read Future Fish by @conor_sneyd you absolutely should. I'm hoping there are more books coming from him. Drop him a follow to find out.
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Eye Books going from strength to strength with some brilliant new titles this year. Proud that just twelve months ago they published my novel Let These Things Be Written.
Two Eye Books authors, @GHarrisonWriter and @jimcockinauthor, are finalists in the East Anglian Book Awards. One's a Canaries fan with a novel about football. The other writes ghost stories & is a Tractor Boy. Luckily they're in different categories #EABA
https://t.co/KfugX36KRl
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A Circle Outside by Linda Rosewood @LindaRosewood A beautiful book that you should add to your TBR now
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Two Eye Books authors, @GHarrisonWriter and @jimcockinauthor, are finalists in the East Anglian Book Awards. One's a Canaries fan with a novel about football. The other writes ghost stories & is a Tractor Boy. Luckily they're in different categories #EABA
https://t.co/KfugX36KRl
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We’re delighted that TWO of our books are finalists in the East Anglian Book Awards – @GHarrisonWriter’s Season (debut novel) and @jimcockinauthor’s Ghost Tide (children’s book). Not bad for a very small indie publisher, even if we say it ourselves #EABA
edp24.co.uk
The East Anglian Book Awards 2025 celebrate the best writing from Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Essex
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Books I like from my publisher, @EyeAndLightning. https://t.co/t3SSmCYsnV. Books about little communities with strong beliefs, just like my book.
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Congratulations also to @jimcockinauthor, whose story Ghost Tide, a stirring spine-chiller set on a remote part of the Suffolk coast, is shortlisted in the children’s book category of the East Anglian Book Awards #EABA
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Fantastic Ghost Tide has been shortlisted for the 2025 #EastAnglianBookAwards BIG THANKS to all @EyeAndLightning and to everyone who has enjoyed the story #readingforpleasure
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Congratulations to @GHarrisonWriter whose novel Season, a heartfelt portrait of male bonding in the football stands, is shortlisted in the debut novel category of the East Anglian Book Awards #EABA
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An award winning LGBTQ venue talking about my book 😁😁😁 Gay pubs and history are core to my experience of coming out. To be supported by amazing businesses within the community means the world to me ❤️
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To get 25% off Happy Land, use the code OCTOBER25 on the following link. NB the book isn’t published till January so it’ll be a nice post-Christmas surprise when it arrives https://t.co/ZNsGZZk90T
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In January we publish Happy Land, in which longtime Helsinki resident Tim Bird looks at why Finland keeps getting named as the happiest country in the world. It’s a very entertaining read and you can pre-order now from Waterstones to get 25% off (link ⤵️)
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Told through thirty-eight chapters – one for each game of the Premier League campaign – Season is a lyrical, hypnotic and gently uplifting study of loneliness and modern masculinity https://t.co/PuOROVTUy0
eye-books.com
The Young Man and the Old Man – two fanatics in adjacent seats – form a slow but steady friendship over the course of a football season. As their beloved club lurches towards relegation – and as they...
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