London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
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Liam Bishop @liamhbishopwriting.bsky.social ✍️Writer from Leeds with bylines in Irish Times, LA Review of Books, TLS and many others.
🎧Curating the world’s most interesting writers on the Rippling Pages
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👨🏻⚕️Elsewhere, health researcher
https://tinyurl.com/Lbhealthbluesky
Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social Independent publisher.
fitzcarraldoeditions.com
Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social Publishing independently since 1929.
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Rosa Campbell @rosavcampbell.bsky.social Historian of global feminism & believer in 🏃💗 🦭🕊📚🏊♀️ 🌹 🍉
Author of The Book that Taught the World to Orgasm and then Disappeared (April '26)
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at King's College.
PhD from Cambridge. Homesick Australian.
www.rosa-campbell.com
🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk Historian #histsci #queerhistory. DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE (Yale, 2026). Curator of queeroxford.info. LGBTQ+ life & culture. Classical music. Seaside living (near Brighton). He/him/they. rossbrooks.co.uk. Agent: www.philippasitters.co.uk.
Aryn Braun @arynbraun.bsky.social West Coast correspondent for The Economist.
📍Los Angeles
Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social She/her
poetry, wildflowers, disco, socialism.
Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media Journalist. Editor of @londoncentric.media, a modern news outlet covering London in the old-fashioned way: www.londoncentric.media jim@londoncentric.media
EUPHA Sexual & Gender Minority Health Section @eupha-sgmh.bsky.social This is the official account of the @eupha.bsky.social Sexual & Gender Minority Health section. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ #LGBTQhealth #EuropeanPublicHealth
Anson Mackay (they/them) @ans.bsky.social non-binary || geographer || ultra runner || managed by @davidadger.bsky.social || cancer blog
https://ansmackay.wixsite.com/uclgeography/blog
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Facebook Beef
Marcus Gilroy-Ware @mjgw.bsky.social Writer about politics/media/culture/tech; Author of "After the Fact?" (2020 - http://mjgw.net/atf) & "Filling the Void" (2017); Lecturer @ SOAS;
Em Colquhoun @xenogothic.bsky.social Blogger. Commissioning editor at the Canary.
https://xenogothic.com/
Repeater Books @repeaterbooks.bsky.social We are alive and we don't agree.
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George Webster @georgeawebster.bsky.social Psychology graduate and graduate entry medical student.
Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social teaching children's and YA literature at the University of Münster
london.ac.uk/seized-books | #QueerBibliography
close reading forever
helped make this: https://www.pagemasters.co/shop/seized-books-lgbtq-books-and-censorship-in-1980s-britain-a-catalogue
@gaystheword.bsky.social @gaystheword.bsky.social LGBT+ Bookshop, London
Tues - Sat Open 11am - 6pm
Sunday Open 1pm - 6pm
Monday - Closed
Pop-up location: 58-60 Marchmont Street, London WC1N 1AB
Queers&Books (Em) @queersandbooks.bsky.social I eat books for breakfast, lunch & dinner. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ admin for the queer in publishing network. (pic from Donna Gottschalk)
Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Paul Chambers. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com
Shiv (they/them) @shivanidave.co.uk Journalist / broadcaster / political commentator
Science, tech, LGBTQ+ rights
community organiser - London Dyke March
some people know me as shivscamp
support me on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/shivscamp
Brian Mullin @bamullinspeaks.bsky.social Queer theatre-maker. Writer, dramaturg & creative facilitator. Blatantly imitating Vito Russo’s politics — and his mustache.
https://linktr.ee/BrianAMullin
Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social Swindon based independent bookshop, visit us online or in person! bertsbooks.co.uk - or 54 Godwin Court, Swindon, SN1 4BB
Email us on bert@bertsbooks.co.uk
Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social Bookshop
34 Main Street, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland
info@ravenbooks.ie ¦ (01) 278 9509 ¦ 086 3390231
Mon-Sat 10-6, Sun 12-5
Little Toller Books @littletollerbooks.bsky.social Award winning indie publisher of new and classic writing on place, nature and culture + The Clearing our online journal.
Based in West Dorset
www.littletoller.co.uk
Instagram / @littletollerbooks
Dead Ink Bookshop @deadinkbookshop.bsky.social An independent bookshop exclusively stocking independent publishers, based on Smithdown Road in Liverpool.
https://linktr.ee/deadinkbookshop
The Portal Bookshop @portalbookshop.bsky.social Sci-fi, fantasy, & LGBTQIA. Queer resistance. Always trying to help. Portalbookshop@gmail.com Mon-Sat 10-5.30, Sun 11-5:30; 5 Patrick Pool, York, UK
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/lalidoesbooks
Books & Ink Bookshop - Winchcombe @booky.bsky.social Independent bookshop since 2005. Now in beautiful Winchcombe, Cotswolds. Open Thurs, Fri, Sun. Mostly old books, some bears. Book Nook holiday let for 3 above bookshop. Posts about books, bookshop, the Cotswolds.
Sam posts (she/her).
https://linktr.ee/boo
The Gutter Bookshop, Dublin @gutterbookshop.bsky.social Two lovely bookshops in Dublin, Ireland - named after that famous Oscar Wilde quote... Store Manager Marta posts here whenever she gets a moment.
Five Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social Nottingham's city centre independent and radical bookshop, est. 2013
Publishing as Five Leaves since 1995
www.fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk, www.fiveleaves.co.uk
We organise about a hundred events a year. Fast ordering service. Four book clubs.
Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social Queer-owned and woman-led independent community bookshop. 🏳️🌈 An unapologetically activist, intersectional, feminist, antiracist, lgbtq+ community space.
Find us at https://lighthousebookshop.com/
LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk 20,000 titles across two floors in Bloomsbury, plus the best events in town.
Visit us at 14 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL, or browse at https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk
Sign-up for our newsletters: https://www.lrb.co.uk/account/newsletter-signup
Kennys Bookshop & Art Gallery @kennysbookshop.bsky.social Independent bookshop and art gallery in Galway, Ireland. Free delivery in Ireland and we ship worldwide. New, used and rare books.
www.kennys.ie | www.thekennygallery.ie
bookhaus @bookhaus.bsky.social Contemporary bookshop located in the heart of Bristol's vibrant Wapping Wharf. Member of the Alliance of Radical Booksellers.
Sam Read Bookseller @samreadbookseller.bsky.social Est. by Sam Read in 1887. Award-winning small bookshop in the Lake District. Posts from @likewinterblue.bsky.social and @pollyrowena.bsky.social Insta: samreadbookseller Browse a selection from our virtual shelves: www.samreadbooks.co.uk
Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com I’ve got a beard, I sell books
Books read: 89/100
📚 The Wax Child
📺
https://www.bigbeardedbookseller.com
Primrose Hill Books @primrosehillbooks.bsky.social One of London's leading independent bookshops, established as a family business for more than thirty-five years.
134 Regent's Park Road
London NW1 8XL
020 7586 2022
www.primrosehillbooks.com
Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social Half Man, Half Bookshop.
Moved to Hastings in 2018 to start a wild new adventure with my family.
Not the inventor of the word "brainbow"
https://www.biggreenbookshop.com/
Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social Britain's oldest anarchist publication and bookshop, founded in 1886. Occasionally disreputable.
freedomnews.org.uk for news, freedompress.org.uk for books
editor@ or shop@freedompress.org.uk to contact
https://linktr.ee/f_p
Tree House Second-hand Bookshop @treehousebookshop.bsky.social Read, Recycle, Rediscover
Second-hand bookshop and music venue in Kenilworth, Warwickshire run by Victoria Mier. Profits to charity. Patron is glorious Bad Seed Warren Ellis. Posts by Victoria.
The Book Vault @thebookvault.bsky.social An independent bookshop for Barnsley, UK. Eclectic ranges of fiction and non-fiction for all ages.
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop @ylbooks.bsky.social In all our forms - bookshops in Gloucestershire, a festival or two, schools and libraries. Occasionally Hereward. Less often, Errol the dog.
Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social A queer feminist zine and bookshop and tiny press, based in Manchester UK since 2015.
penfightdistro.com
The Wedale Bookshop @wedale-bookshop.bsky.social #ScottishBorders independent #bookshop near #Galashiels and #Lauder, #Scotland. Open in historic Stow, Thur 1330-1900 and Fri-Sun 10-12.30, 1-4.30.
Sister shop of @melrose-bookshop.bsky.social
www.wedalebooks.scot
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/Weda
Burley Fisher Books @burleyfisher.bsky.social We sell books in Haggerston, London. New + used + antiquarian. Also zines, coffee, events + a riso press (not for sale, but come print with us)! www.burleyfisherbooks.com.
Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social indie bookshop in Sydenham, SE London | open since 1966
| new books | second hand books | children's books | gifts |
Mon-Sat 9:30-5 Sun 12-4 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Owl Bookshop @owlbookshop.bsky.social Independent bookseller in Kentish Town, London.
🦉📚🎁
Mon-Sat 9am-6pm
Sun 11am-6pm
www.owlbookshop.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/OwlBookshop
owlbookshop@gmail.com
Tel. 020 7485 7793
Belfast Books @belfastbooks.bsky.social Only working class bookshop in Belfast. Out of print books about 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland at our tiny York Rd store and new books are at www.belfastbooks.co.uk with audiobooks at https://libro.fm/belfastbooks and author services at willmybooksell.com
Bridge Books Dromore @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social A tiny world of books and bookish gifts. Come visit, bring chocolate! Owner is a delight, at times. Drinker of terrible tea (allegedly)
Www.bridgebooksdromore.co.uk
TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social A Tipperary, Ireland based indie bookseller of new, old and inbetween books. Spend €20 & get free shipping !
Gaeilge agus fáilte.
www.thebookshop.ie
linktr.ee/thebookshop.ie
https://www.instagram.com/thebookshop.ie/
The Bookshop Bridport @thebookshop.bsky.social We are an indie bookshop selling new books for all ages, games, puzzles and stationary. Situated in the heart of Bridport, near to the jurassic coast.
Sheelagh na Gig: Books Coffee Gifts Wholefoods in Cloughjordan @sheelaghnagig.bsky.social Independent book and wholefoods shop offering the best in fiction for all ages and nonfiction on permaculture, sustainability, activism. Local and organic foods too. Open 6 days 1pm to 6pm. Closed Tuesdays.
Serenity Booksellers @serenitybookshop.bsky.social Independent Bookshop in Romiley, Greater Manchester. Second bookshop in Stockport Centre now open! Co-founder Stockport Noir. Admin: @oziasmidwinter.bsky.social
The BookishType @thebookishtype.bsky.social Queer Indie Bookshop in Leeds
Wonderland Bookshop @wonderlandbookshop.bsky.social An independent bookshop for children and young adults in Retford, North Notts. Quite possibly the cutest little bookshop in the world. British Book Awards Children's Bookseller of the Year 2025.
wonderlandbookshop.co.uk
Truman Books @trumanbooks.bsky.social A friendly local independent bookshop and cafe in Farsley, West Leeds.
Co-founder of Farsley Literature Festival.
www.trumanbooks.co.uk
Fox Lane Books 🦊 @foxlanebooks.bsky.social 🦊Indie bookseller with an online shop📚Lots of signed books & special editions 🦊 Sale sections all year round with book bargains📚Gift packages, book subscriptions & E-gift cards available🦊Bookish gifts📚 FoxLaneBooks.co.uk 🦊
Write Blend Bookshop @writeblendbookshop.bsky.social We are an independent bookshop just outside Liverpool. We love all authors, trad or indie
The Rocketship Bookshop @rshipbshop.bsky.social Children’s Independent Bookshop in Salisbury. Open 9:30-4 Mon-Fri 9:30-5 Sat 11-3 Sun. Visit our website https://rocketshipbookshop.co.uk/online-shop/
Posts by Jo
All Good Bookshop @allgoodbookshop.co.uk A community co-op bookshop in the heart of #Haringey, North London located at 35 Turnpike Lane. We do books and events and local.
http://linktr.ee/allgoodbookshop
Bigglestones Books @bigglestones.bsky.social Bookshop in Glasgow.
Little Acorns Bookstore @littleacornsbooks.bsky.social Award-winning Indie bookshop, Derry, North of Ireland. 70k new & used books. Est 2011. Two LegenDerry Chairs (380 signatures). Typewriter Museum due to open 2025. Donegal owner💚📚
The Old Queeriosity Shop @toqs.bsky.social We are an LGBTQIA+ Bookstore based in Plymouth, UK. We currently only ship within the UK.
our website: toqs.co.uk
our linktree: linktr.ee/toqs
Little Deer Comics @littledeercomics.bsky.social An indie comic book shop in Stoneybatter! D07 KC80 Bringing small press comics to Ireland since 2019! By Matt Melis, founder of DCAF, The Dublin Comic Arts Festival
https://littledeercomics.ie
City Books @citybookshove.bsky.social Brighton & Hove's largest and liveliest indie bookshop since 1986.
https://city-books.co.uk
Gloucester Road Books @gloucesterroadbks.bsky.social Independent bookshop on Bristol's legendary Gloucester Road https://gloucesterroadbooks.com/
Westwood Books in Sedbergh, Cumbria @westwoodbooks.bsky.social Bookshop in England’s official Booktown
www.westwoodbooks.co.uk
FORUM Books / the bound / The Accidental Bookshop @forumbooks.bsky.social Three lovely, friendly, award-winning independent bookshops in Corbridge, Whitley Bay + Alnwick
https://www.forumbooksshop.com
Events: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks
RIAS Bookshop @riasbookshop.bsky.social Scotland's Architecture Bookshop offering wide range of contracts, books and gifts. Part of The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland.
bookshop.rias.org.uk
uk.bookshop.org/shop/RIASBookshop
eventbrite.co.uk/cc/bookshoplates-1351289
The Book Corner @bookcornerhx.bsky.social Independent bookshop in Halifax's The Piece Hall.
bookcornerhalifax.com
01422 414443
Link to our events: https://bookcornerhalifax.com/events/
Urmston Books & Board Games @urmstonbooks.bsky.social Book shop and board game cafe in Urmston, Manchester. Find us at 72 Flixton Road, Urmston M41 5AB. urmstonbooks.co.uk
The Poetry Bookshop @poetrybookshop.bsky.social The largest bookshop of its kind in the UK. Devoted entirely to poetry since 1979
Find us online or in person in heart of Hay on Wye the worlds first Booktown
Script Haven LTD @scripthavenltd.bsky.social Thriving independent bookshop, coffee shop, event venue, safe community haven in Worcester, UK!
scripthavenltd@gmail.com
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/scripthaven
5 Crown Passage, Worcester WR1 3LL
scripthaven.co.uk
Also on Insta, Facebook and Twitter
Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social Ireland’s biggest independent bookstore - new, secondhand & bargain books - where you find what you didn’t know you were looking for!
An Post Bookshop of the Year 🏆
Tell Tales Books @telltales.bsky.social More bookshelf than bookshop! I stock books for children.
Smallest shop you’ll ever see, but the warmest welcome. ❤️📚
Argonaut Books @argonautbooks.bsky.social | 🌊 Leith’s Independent Bookshop - Est.2021
| 🗓️ Open 7 Days a Week
| 🕰️ Sun-Thurs: 10:00-18:00/Fri-Sat: 10:00-20:00
| 📍 15-17 Leith Walk, Edinburgh, EH6 8LN
| 🌐 argonautbooks.co.uk
Hillsborough Bookshop @hillsboroughbooks.bsky.social An independent bookshop in Hillsborough, Sheffield.
Home of colourful and representative books for readers big & small 📚
Books, events, workshops & more!
www.hillsboroughbookshop.co.uk
Support from afar: uk.bookshop.org/shop/hillsboroughbookshop
Chorlton Bookshop @chorltonbookshop.bsky.social Family-owned independent bookshop, est. 1983. Browse our range of fiction, non-fiction and children's titles. Plus fast, free ordering service. (0161) 881 6374
The Little Apple Bookshop @littleapplebkshop.bsky.social Indie Bookshop in York. 🍏 Selling new books for adults and kids. 🍏 Signed books a speciality. 🍏 Next to York Minster. 🍏 Not quite as old.
Chorleywood Bookshop @chorleywoodbooks.bsky.social Award-winning indie bookshop in Herts. Lovers of author events & champions of the finest new and backlist books. Proudly supporting readers, schools, authors & publishers for over 50 years.
https://chilternbookshops.co.uk/
Village Books Dulwich @villagebooks.bsky.social Award-winning indie bookshop in Dulwich, London. We love books 📚and we love dogs too 🦮
Shalimar Books @shalimarbooks.bsky.social South Asian book specialist based in London. Fine art and handmade fair-trade craft products from across the sub-continent. Est. 1968.
Insta: @shalimarbooks
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/shalimar
www.indianbooksuk.com
Open Monday-Saturday 11.30 to 6pm
Rabbits21 @rabbits21.bsky.social Independent Bookshop in Brigg North Lincolnshire
Halfway up the Stairs @halfwayupbooks.bsky.social Award-winning Children’s Bookshop, Greystones, Co Wicklow, Ireland
www.halfwayupthestairs.ie
Mon - Sat 10-5:30. Closed Sundays & Bank Holidays
Knights Of @knightsofbooks.bsky.social Independent. Inclusive. Award-winning children's books publisher 📚|
Arts and Humanities Alliance @artsandhums.bsky.social AHA is an association of learned societies working together to promote the Arts & Humanities in higher education. Posts by @emmacayley.bsky.social and @TheaPitman.bsky.social Find us at: http://artsandhumanitiesalliance.org
jake @jakestefan181.bsky.social irish. phd at KCL. queer/trans stuff and the contemporary medieval. attempts at poet-ing. genderqueer. they/them 🏳️⚧️
Writers & Artists @writersandartists.bsky.social The best industry advice for writers & artists!
Proud Geek LGBTQ+ Bookshop @proud-geek.co.uk A queer online book shop based in the UK, specialising in LGBTQ+ graphic novels, books, and manga. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️📚✌🏻@proudgeekbookshop elsewhere.
https://linktr.ee/ProudGeekBookshop
Patrick Heidmann @patrickheidmann.bsky.social journalist*critic*moderator
(he/him)
writing & talking about films, streaming, TV, culture & more
sometimes in English, manchmal auf Deutsch
Black & trans lives matter 🏳️🌈🎬
Elle Haywood @ellekit.bsky.social sea swimmer | film curator & talent coordinator for festivals and events | Londoner in Toronto ✨
Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social Shamelessly HIV+ actor, writer, public speaker based in London.
Former CEO of aidsmap and Gay Men Fighting AIDS.
He/him. 🏳️🌈🇪🇺🌍🌱
Sidney Coles PhD, PhD @westernwriter.bsky.social Journo, writer, lover of stories that end abruptly. Find me at Ricochet Media, Canada’s National Observer, Capital Daily, Women’s Media Centre and Watershed Sentinel.
Swithun @swithuncooper.bsky.social Stay-at-home mother of none
So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social They/them. Overthinker. Reads things, writes things. BAD LANGUAGE out now with Peninsula Press 🐉 THE WORD FOR WORLD (co-ed) out now with @silver-press.bsky.social 🌳 Website & newsletter: somayer.net. Won't age-verify so no DMs.
Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social America's Copy Editor®
author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • he/him/his
benjamindreyer.com
Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net