Affirm Press will begin distribution of independent UK publishing house Firefly Press in 2025, it was announced at the Frankfurt Bookfair today.
Affirm Press’ agency manager, Grace Breen, said she’s thrilled that such a high-quality list of titles will now be available to our readers.
‘Firefly has an outstanding reputation in the UK for producing the type of titles that ignite a book-devouring spirit in younger readers. We all know that nothing beats the first time you lose yourself in a good book and Firefly’s 2025 list is a treasure trove of unforgettable storytelling that Australian kids and teens will adore,’ said Grace.
The list will launch in February with Australian author Janine Beacham’s dark and creepy novel for middle-readers, The Doll Twin, along with the multi-award-winning and bestselling YA novel, The Blue Book of Nebo. The full 2025 Firefly publishing list is expected to have around 25–30 new release and backlist titles that will span junior fiction through to YA.
‘We so are delighted to be working with Affirm Press in Australia and New Zealand. They are an outstanding publishing house which loves great books and stories and as such, holds values close to our own hearts. We’re particularly pleased that the first books to reach Australian readers will be the Yoto Carnegie award-winning Blue Book of Nebo by Manon Steffan Ros, as well as the amazingly haunting and wonderful Doll Twin by Australia’s own Janine Beacham. We look forward to these and more Firefly titles reaching readers through Affirm and hope that books such as Michael the Amazing Mind-Reading Sausage Dog and Starspill, to name but two, will become firm favourites,’ said Penny Thomas, Firefly Press publisher.
More About Firefly Press
Firefly Press is an independent children’s and YA book publisher based in Wales, UK, that publishes quality fiction for 7 to 19-year-olds. Set up by colleagues Penny and Janet Thomas back in 2013, Firefly won the Branford Boase Award for the Best First Children’s Novel three years later with Aubrey and the Terrible Yoot by Horatio Clare. Since then, their adventurous and fun fiction has won many award-listings. They also have been crowned Wales Small Press of the Year, four times in the last five years, at the Nibbies British Book Award.
Last year, their YA translation The Blue Book of Nebo by Manon Steffan Ros won the prestigious Yoto Carnegie Medal. Additionally, Firefly’s epic environmental thriller Skrimsli by Nicola Davies was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for nature writing and won the Wales Book of the Year.
www.fireflypress.co.uk @fireflypress