Sarah Webb @sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social Award-winning Irish children's author, children’s book reviewer, book events programmer and Events Manager at Halfway up the Stairs Children’s Bookshop
Founder of #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/SarahWebbWriter
Word on the Street Bookshop @wotsashtead.bsky.social Independent book shop in the heart of Ashtead. Open since 2022.
@norwicheveningnews.bsky.social @norwicheveningnews.bsky.social Welcome to the Norwich Evening News on Facebook - bringing you all the latest news, views, entertainment, and events from in and around Norwich.
Rabbits21 @rabbits21.bsky.social Independent Bookshop in Brigg North Lincolnshire
David Long @writerdavidlong.bsky.social Blue Peter Book of the Year winner. Writes for children and adults, 70+ books translated into more than 30 languages. Occasional ghost. Agent: Penny Holroyde at Holroyde-Cartey.
davidlong.info
National Centre for Writing @writerscentre.bsky.social The National Centre for Writing is a place of discovery, exchange, ideas and learning for writers, translators, readers and everyone who loves words.
B For Butterfly Books @bforbutterflybooks.bsky.social Independent bookshop based in Brooklands, Sale, Greater Manchester.
MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social Scholarly books from University Presses. News and info from across academia. Part of the Mare Nostrum Group. Based in Harrogate, UK.
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.
Ian Eagleton @ianeagletonauthor.bsky.social He/him
Children’s author, dad, former teacher of 13 years 🏳️🌈
Contact: ian@thereadingrealm.co.uk
Agent: Neil Dunnicliffe at Spring Literary
Big Bearded Bookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com Expert Waterstones bookseller with a very big beard
Books read: 86/100
📚 Twisted Pike
📺 Lanterns
https://www.bigbeardedbookseller.com
https://www.ephemeral.co.uk
Iszi Lawrence @iszi.com I research the truth and lie to children about it. Author of Historical Fiction for Kids. (You might have heard me on Radio 4 or World Service or seen me pop up on BBC2, Sky History or Netflix)
Co-host of Terrible Lizards Podcast
iszi.com
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
S&S Indie B👞👞ksellers @simonsaysbooks.bsky.social The home of the Simon & Schuster UK Regional Manager team - Rich, Nicola, Andrew, Rhys, Naomi, Erin and Kitty.
Sharing the love for Independent Booksellers across the UK!
Proofs, reading copies, special editions, POS and book gossip our specialty!
Pritchards Bookshop @pritchardsbookshop.bsky.social We’re an Independent Bookshop based in Crosby, Liverpool. Opened in April 1975. Follow us for book recommendations, event info and more!
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/
The Mold Bookshop @bookshopmold.bsky.social 
Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social Author. Many books, including SABRIEL, the five other Old Kingdom novels; THE LEFT-HANDED BOOKSELLERS OF LONDON and sequels; THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM series, lots more. And stories. Adult SF/horror MASSIF out Sept 2026. www.garthnix.com
Sally Nicholls @sallynicholls.bsky.social Author of books inc 'Ways to Live Forever', 'Things a Bright Girl Can Do', 'The Button Book', 'A Chase in Time'. 'Leaving the House' out now. Lives in Liverpool with husband and two kids, Quaker, bridge-player, woolly liberal. Profile pic by Ellie Snowden.
Lesley Parr @lesleyparr.bsky.social Author: Bloomsbury Children's, Barrington Stoke
Rep: Sam Copeland at RCW
Made of Port Talbot steel
Chopsy
lesleyparr.com
Elle McNicoll 🏴♾️ @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social Autistic. Bestselling author and award winning screenwriter. Agent: Lauren Gardner.
Winner of Blue Peter Award & Overall Waterstones Children's Book Prize, 21. Emmy nominated #AKindOfSpark streaming on BBC iPlayer!
Frances Hardinge @franceshardinge.bsky.social Writer of downright odd children's/YA books. Hobbies include travelling, dressing in period costume and scuba diving. Addicted to volcanoes and trying new things.
Alice Oseman @aliceoseman.bsky.social author, illustrator, screenwriter, creator of HEARTSTOPPER 🍂
Alastair Chisholm @alastairc.com Author: 🚀OrionLost ☁️REEK 🐲OneHungryDragon 🐉DragonStorm
🐺#IAMWOLF out now! 🤖 #BLITZERS out now!
Rep: https://www.rupertcrew.co.uk. He/him. Likes biscuits.
More: https://alastairc.com/links
#KidLitUK
Patrice Lawrence @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social Writer, Feminist, Furious.
Fleur Hitchcock @fleurhitchcock.bsky.social Author of crime for kids.
#KidnapatMidnight a Malory Towers Mystery out in September with Hachette
West Country UK
- she/her.
#kidlituk
@AgentKateShaw.bsky.social
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
Wild Hunt Books @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social Independent publisher.
Leeds.
Publishing director: Ariell Cacciola @ariellcacciola.bsky.social
🖤🌈https://www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/bookshop
The Haslemere Bookshop @haslemerebookshop.bsky.social An independent bookshop selling a wide range of both new and second hand books.
Gallovidia Books @gallovidiabooks.bsky.social Independent bookstore- supplying the folk of Kirkcudbright SW Scotland with books, gifts and blether 🏴📚
We like tea, dogs…..and books.
Nickel Books @nickelbooks.bsky.social Independent children's bookshop in Sittingbourne - mail order, fairs, fetes, markets, online. Book us for your event!
We take National Book Tokens.
Member of The Booksellers Association of UK and Ireland.
Seema McArdle @seemamcardle.bsky.social #WorkingClass #PunGeordie represented by KAB Literary: https://www.kabliterary.com/authors/seema-mcardle
The John Blanke Project:
https://www.johnblanke.com/seema-mcardle.html
#ShowRacismTheRedCard
Ex-Primary Teacher (17yrs)
Photo credit: Amber Merry
@brendonbooks.bsky.social @brendonbooks.bsky.social 
The Petersfield Bookshop @pfieldbookshop.bsky.social Sending books to every corner of the known universe since 1918
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/
Joshua Seigal - 'YAPPING AWAY' out now! @joshuaseigal.bsky.social Poet/Performer/Author. Winner - People’s Book Prize & Laugh Out Loud Award (twice). Books by Bloomsbury, HarperCollins etc. MA Writing & Education. Loves lemurs. Support my work, buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/joshuaseigal
Kathleen Robb @kathleenrobb.bsky.social Bounce Area Sales Manager
Michael Robb @shelflifemr.bsky.social Author of 'Shelf Life', a history of the British book trade, to be published by The History Press February 2025. Agent Cull and Co Agency. Sales Director, GMC Distribution.
Booklover's Guide to Bookshops @bookloversguide.bsky.social An ongoing project by @t.e.shepherd.art to illustrate himself around the country celebrating independent bookshops.
#indiebooksellers @booksaremybag
Sarah Horne @sarahhorne.bsky.social Illustrator
sarahhorne.studio
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
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💚📚
North Norfolk Living Magazine @northnorfolkliving.bsky.social NNL editor sharing a few of my favourite North Norfolk things
✨Winter issue out now, in print and online ✨
A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com Poet, performer, children's author.
The Imaginary, The Worlds We Leave Behind, Fizzlebert Stump, Greta Zargo and others.
www.afharroldkids.com
Scarthin Books @scarthinbooks.bsky.social A bookshop for the majority of minorities in the historic village of Cromford, Derbyshire, UK.
100,000 books, 13 rooms, one vegan/vegetarian café and someone else's cat.
For all enquiries please ☎️ or email.
@angryben.bsky.social @angryben.bsky.social 
Penguin Books @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social We publish fiction and nonfiction adorned with the famous dignified but flippant logo.
Morag Hood @moraghood.bsky.social 📚Children’s book author/illustrator
🏴 Edinburgh
www.moraghood.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
Mark Thornton @bookshopmark.bsky.social Space nerd. Democracy fan. Partnership Manager at Bookshop.org. The revolution will start in a bookshop.
Niche Comics Bookshop @nichecomics.bsky.social Niche Comics Bookshop - an award winning, inclusive, diverse, accepting and welcoming safe space for EVERYONE. Established 2011. Two floors of new books, games and gifts.
Love welcoming authors/artists
https://linktr.ee/NicheComicsBookshop
Jo Shaw @bookmadjo.bsky.social Mancunian book blogger. I read rom, lit fic, historical + thrillers. #books #f1 #swfc #BookSky #Packers She/her, Cis, Ally 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ INFJ
Michael Rosen @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social Writer, performer, broadcaster, university professor
Website: www.michaelrosen.co.uk
YouTube Channel: 'Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen'
Radio show: BBC Radio 4 'Word of Mouth'
Goldsmiths University of London, Prof Children's Lit., teaching MA
Westwood Books in Sedbergh, Cumbria @westwoodbooks.bsky.social Bookshop in England’s official Booktown
www.westwoodbooks.co.uk
Bookshop.org UK @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social The online store supporting independent bookshops 📚 Certified B Corp | Carbon Neutral Delivery 📚 5 star Trustpilot rating.
uk.bookshop.org
SF Said @whatsfsaid.bsky.social Author of the Varjak Paw books, Phoenix and TYGER! I also write about children's books & all things connected - libraries, literacy & reading for pleasure.
http://www.sfsaid.com/
Dark Peak Books and Gifts @darkpeakbooks.bsky.social A long-established independent bookshop in Glossop on the edge of the Peak District. Selling the best new adult and children’s books plus gifts, games and greetings cards.
www.darkpeakbooks.co.uk
Matt Reeve - Freelance Artist @mattreeve.bsky.social The freelance artist, model and puppet maker one. (Not the son of 80's Superman or the Batman/Cloverfield/Planet of the Apes Director.)
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.
Spark! School Book Award @sparkbookaward.bsky.social Sparking the imaginations of young readers! Now in our 6th year, we are excited to welcome schools across the country to join our awards & vote for the winners. www.sparkbookawards.co.uk
Nicola Kent @nicolakent.bsky.social Author/illustrator of books for young children.
Rep'd Jodie Hodges, United Agents
Latest: Croc's Cooking Day, Bear's Wash Day, Measuring Me
www.nicolakent.co.uk
Philip Ardagh @philipardagh.bsky.social Award-winning children's author, poet, reviewer & commentator. Lifetime Ambassador CILIP School Libraries Group, ambassador Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival and Northern Children's Book Festival. Co-writer 'High in the Clouds' with Paul McCartney
Jenny McLachlan @jennymclachlan.bsky.social I write funny books for children and teens and sometimes I illustrate them too.
⭐️The Land of Roar
⭐️Fairy Vs Boy
⭐️Friends Like Us
Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social ✏️ Comics writer and artist
🍩 Creator of AWARD-WINNING and/or BEST-SELLING comics such as MEGA ROBO BROS and DONUT SQUAD!
🤖 buy books & ticket links: www.linktree.com/neillcameron
🍩 www.neillcameron.com
Simon James Green @simonjamesgreen.bsky.social Author & screenwriter. Boy Like Me, Finn Jones Was Here, Gay Club!, Heartbreak Boys, and more!
www.simonjamesgreen.com
Gary Northfield @stupidmonster.bsky.social Cartoonist/illustrator/author/magician/trapeze artist/grump
Rep'd by United Agents https://www.unitedagents.co.uk/gary-northfield
Dr Joanna Nadin @joannanadin.bsky.social Former politico, now professor of writing books. Sunday Times bestseller, Essex Girl, autistic. Never knowingly underdressed. She/her. Here for ALL the witches. And the pigeons.
https://joannanadin.com/
https://instagram.com/jonadin
Tom Easton @tomeaston.bsky.social Best-selling children's author. Complete idiot. Mostly Dad Jokes. Rep. Claire Wilson - RCW. Also Production Manager at Hachette Children’s.
Check out my books at https://tinyurl.com/39cc3xy5 he/him
Ghostwriter. School visits. Workshops. DM for more info
Brandon T. Snider @brandontsnider.bsky.social Supergirl's Family Vacation, Monster Middle School (Disney,2027), Golden Girls: Love is Golden, Rube Goldberg, Avengers: Infinity War: The Cosmic Quest, Dark Knight Manual, Marvel & DC books, Mad Libs, I'm an actor too! SAG-AFTRA 🏳️🌈 cootiekid.com
Laura Parnum @lauraparnum.bsky.social Author, copyeditor, occasional magician. PERIL AT PRICE MANOR (HarperCollins 2023) and THE HAUNTING OF BELLINGTON COTTAGE (HarperCollins, July 2025). www.LauraParnum.com
linktr.ee/lauraparnum
Ryan Hammond @hamdesign.bsky.social Author-Illustrator of Villains Academy. Art Director & designer 📚 Book, nature and dog lover. He/him🏳️🌈
Marie Basting Author @mariebasting.bsky.social 🚴BMX and Ancient Rome📜
Children's author #PrincessBMX #MyFamilyandOtherRomans #AuntieMedusaAndMe @chickenhsebooks
Fab school visits
Rep The Shaw Agency
she/her
www.mariebasting.com
The Unbelievable James Harris @jamesharris.bsky.social Children’s author. Monster hunter. Mentor for Writers’ Block North East and BFI Academy Teesside. Extremely unreliable narrator.
theUnbelievableJamesHarris.com
Mel Taylor-Bessent @meltaylorbessent.bsky.social ✨ Children’s Author: The Christmas Carrolls, Race To Imagination Island, Riley Wright
🖥️ Authorfy Director / Host of ‘Write for Fun’ on YouTube
💌 info@meltaylorbessent.com
Elys Dolan @elysdolan.bsky.social Illustrator, author and all round good egg. Lecturer on the MA Children’s Book Illustration, Cambridge School of Art. 
Matty Long @superhappymatty.bsky.social Black lines & bright colours 🔸️ Check out my new series CROAKY 🔸️ SUPER HAPPY MAGIC FOREST is on iPlayer and CBBC now! 🔸️
www.mattylong.com
Insta: @superhappymatty
Ben Davis @bendavisauthor.bsky.social Author of the Carnegie nominated THE SOUP MOVEMENT and the LENNY LEMMON series. And other stuff. Remember to breathe.
https://linktr.ee/bendavisauthor
Swapna Haddow @swapnahaddow.bsky.social Children’s author working with Scholastic, Farshore, Magic Cat, Faber&Faber, Macmillan. Writes for Oxford University Press as Swapna Reddy. Represented by Millie van Grutten at RCW Literary Agency. She/her. Ōtepoti, Aotearoa.
swapnahaddow.com
Maisie Chan 🐼 CHI CHI THE PANDA out now! 🎋 @maisiechanwrites.bsky.social 🏆 Winner of the @JHALAKPRIZE & @BRADFORDBOASE for Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths
🐯 Tiger Warrior author
🔎 Very Merry Murder Club author
Screenwriter @bbcwritersroom Scottish Voices.
Lit Rep: @chloeseager
https://linktr.ee/MaisieChanWrites
Brummie
Hannah Moffatt @missdeplume.bsky.social Hello, I’m a children’s author from London. SMALL! & SMALL BITES BACK out now.
HELP! ALIENS STOLE MY GRANDAD out 28 May
Publisher: Everything With Words
https://hannahmoffatt.com/
David Barker @dbarker22000.bsky.social Author of cli-fi thrillers, children's adventure books and pantomime scripts. Published by Bloodhound Books, Tiny Tree & Lazy Bee respectively. Tennis, golf, am-dram and surfing when not writing.
https://davidbarkerauthor.co.uk
Little Island Books @littleislandbooks.bsky.social Independent press publishing the best new Irish writing for young readers. Supported by Arts Council Ireland. Repped in UK by Bounce Sales & Marketing.
Books create waves.
@bluewithstars2.bsky.social @bluewithstars2.bsky.social Teacher at an amazing SEMH AP 🩵 Book addict 🌟 Mum 🩵 Wife 🌟 all views my own 🩵
Liz Tye @liztye.bsky.social former teacher/Senco, believes in equality, inclusion and the power of stories. Carer of a child with ME/POTS, mum to teens 🏳️⚧️ and bookshop co-owner📚
FOLDE Dorset @foldedorset.bsky.social 🌿 Books, art & traditional craft for nature lovers & outdoor wanderers
🌍 Certified B Corp
🏅 Independent Bookshop of the Year for SW England
🏆 Wainwright judges ‘23 & ‘24
📍 Gold Hill, Shaftesbury
Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social Yep, that one.
The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
🇺🇸 Guardian US https://bsky.app/profile/us.theguardian.com
🇦🇺 Guardian Australia https://bsky.app/profile/australia.theguardian.com
Andy Shepherd @andyshepherdwriter.bsky.social Author of the best-selling ‘The Boy Who Grew Dragons’ series out now. Short-listed for Waterstones Children's Book Prize She/her Rep by @jslwilliamson
thebookload.bsky.social @thebookload.bsky.social This is the official Bluesky page for The Bookload book club group on Facebook. thebookload@gmail.com
Gareth P Jones @garethpjones.bsky.social Writer of books, composer of musicals, performer of performances. Listen, I'll pretty much do anything for the right price. I'll clean your car windows if you're paying & I have access to a damp cloth.
Carli Harper @carliharper.bsky.social Londoner in East Anglia, politics and housing nerd. Owned by three cats, two kids and one dog.
Norwich City Councillor for Lakenham Ward.
Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com Founded MoneySavingExpert, @moneyandmentalhealth.org, (ish) the Martin Lewis Money Show ITV & Martin Lewis Podcast
Lisa Thompson @lthompsonwrites.bsky.social Author of mainly contemporary mystery books for younger readers. (The Goldfish Boy and more).
(And dogs. I love dogs.)
lisathompsonauthor.com
Agent: Adam Gauntlett at PFD
Luke Mayhew @mrmayhew.bsky.social Head of History, SHP Eastern Advisor, former lead practitioner of history, frayed at edges father and cantankerous canary. Views my own and should be taken with a pinch of salt.