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  • Maktaba Recommends: Tamer Institute for Community Education

    by Sam Fisher

    For this second blog post, we enter worlds beyond words, of pretty pictures, talking animals, dreamful songs and tales of metamorphosis. These come straight from Palestine to London’s Maktaba thanks to the Palestine Festival of Literature putting us in touch with Ramallah-based مؤسسة تامر للتعليم المجتمعي / Tamer Institute for Community Education.

  • Maktaba Recommends: Foraging Fireflies by SuperMelon

    by Sam Fisher

    Elena reviews Foraging Fireflies, an Arabic/English bilingual book riso printed in four colours, the first publication by SuperMelon, a Palestinian cultural food sovereignty initiative.

  • An Updated Bookshop Guide for Independent Presses

    by Sam Fisher
    Made a zine? Run a micro-press? Self-distribute? Want to stock your publication in a bookshop? You’ve come to the right place! It’s been 5 years si...

  • Updated Events Guide

    by Sam Fisher
    Are you looking for a venue to host your book launch / poetry reading / conversation?  Welcome to the Burley Fisher Books (updated) guide to events...

  • Books of the Year 2025 ✨

    by Sam Fisher

    It's the most wonderful list of the year: bookier than the Booker! More indie than your fave band! It's 75% indie publishers, 30% non-fiction, 25% translation, 20% poetry & 100% Burley Fisher. 

    So say hello to the Burley Fisher Books of the Year as selected by our biggest, bookiest team ever: Cat, Elena, Emz, Enya, Forest, Lu, Sam & So. Scroll down for Zines of the Year as chosen by zine queen Emz, and our 2025 bestseller list.

    Our overall Book of the Year is a deep, dark wintry novel of witness and renewal rooted in the natural world…

  • Burley Fisher Community Press: Printing Service

    by Sam Fisher

    Need printing? Burley Fisher Community Press is at your service.

  • Books of the Year 2024 🎄

    by Sam Fisher
    It's our favourite time of the year, when we get to play Santa and stack up bookish goodies under your tree! The Burley Fisher elves – Cat, Emma, ...

  • Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) x Burley Fisher Books

    by Sam Fisher
    Joining with many writers, publishers and bookshops, Burley Fisher Books is signing on to the call of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and...

  • Save the Date! Join Us for #Valentines4Palestine

    by Sam Fisher
    On Wednesday 14 February 2024, Burley Fisher will be one of the many independent bookshops holding #Valentines4Palestine events. Join us in-store ...

  • Books of the Year 2023

    by Sam Fisher
    It's our favourite time of the year, when we get to play Santa and stack up bookish goodies under your tree! The Burley Fisher elves – Cat, Emma, O...
    Posted in booklist, staff picks

  • BFDay23 Festival, 21-23 September: Back, Bigger, Bookier!

    by Sam Fisher
    All tickets available here  Thanks to funding support from Arts Council England, BFDay23 Festival will take place 21-23 September at two fully acc...

  • Books of the Year 2022: Stocking Stuffers!

    by Sam Fisher
    Part 2 of our Books of the Year covers those handy, gorgeous, intriguing stocking stuffers: small books with big hearts that can get a bit lost and...
    Posted in booklist