London Anarchist Bookfair @bookfairldn.bsky.social The world's first Anarchist bookfair going on 40+ years strong!
Save the date: Sat 26 September 2026
SQIFF (Scottish Queer International Film Festival) @sqiff.bsky.social SQIFF is a charity programming accessible LGBTQIA+ film events in Scotland 💖
Est. 2015 ✨
🏳️⚧️ SQIFF 2026: 19th-24th Oct 🏳️🌈
Scottish BPOC Writers Network @scotbpocwriters.bsky.social Advocacy, networking, promoting Scottish & Scotland-based writers of colour, literary events & spaces. https://lnk.bio/scotbpocwriters
Creative Lives @creativelivescl.bsky.social We support and encourage people to be creative in their everyday lives | https://www.creative-lives.org/
The Skinny @theskinnymag.bsky.social Independent Cultural Journalism from Scotland. Free monthly magazine, website, podcasts, and more. DMs not monitored, send us an email.
theskinny.co.uk
Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social Elderly trans novelist and poet living in London.
Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social Activist, punk musician, event promoter, feminist academic. Illegal lesbian.
http://ruthpearce.net
Dr Kirstie Ken English (they/them) @kenglish.bsky.social Quantitative Methods Lecturer & researcher in survey representation of LGBTI+ populations
https://kenglish95.github.io
The Londoner @londonermag.bsky.social London's new quality newspaper. Join our free mailing list - all our journalism comes via ✉️
www.the-londoner.co.uk
Working Class Movement Library @wcmlibrary.bsky.social Putting class back on the agenda.
Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social An independent publisher of radical, left‐wing non‐fiction books. Established in 1969, we are one of the oldest radical publishing houses in the world.
plutobooks.com
Yvette Taylor @yvettetaylor.bsky.social 
Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social Philadelphia feminist writer • FEMMEPHILIA • ENEMY FEMINISMS: TERFS, POLICEWOMEN & GIRLBOSSES AGAINST LIBERATION • patreon.com/reproutopia • Full Surrogacy Now • Abolish the Family • essays @ LRB, Harper's etc • octopus essay @ n+1 • "recovering academic"
Seditionist Distribution @seditionist.bsky.social Seditionists need materials.
We aim to provide them.
No Profit. No Bosses.
https://seditionist.uk
Scarmilla de Winter @theswilkieway.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ They/He. ♋️♑️♐️♏️ Artist and Scar! 🐍🕷🦇🦁
🌍 Missing Mile
Portfolio: https://www.swilkiewayart.com/
No AI, no NFTs, please credit if sharing <3 ;)
Sarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.bsky.social Researcher of anti-trans harms (on hiatus). Moody anarchafeminist. A natural source of vitamin 1312.
https://damselindystopia.ghost.io
Without History @withouthistoryband.bsky.social Trans, anarcha feminist, mental, old. Woman behind Without History - trans and queer anti-fascist neofolk (https://withouthistory.bandcamp.com/).
This apparently needs saying - not Jewish but have close Jewish family. Yes I take antisemitism personally.
Lambeth Larder @lambethlarder.org Lambeth Larder Community Food Resource helps connect people in financial crisis to emergency food and other vital support. We're based in Lambeth, South London https://lambethlarder.org/
Friends Provident Foundation @fprovfoundation.bsky.social Friends Provident Foundation is an endowed, independent charity exploring how money, financial systems and the economy can better serve society.
https://friendsprovidentfoundation.org
Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social host of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff. Co-owner of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness. Latest book is The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice. she/they
Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social 🌶 Spicing up the left since '94.
🗞️ Issue 248: ‘Striking back’ is out now.
⤵️ Subscribe today for just £3 a month!
Disablement, Free Time & Work Under Capitalism @disprecwork.bsky.social Exploring the politics of disablement, paid & unpaid work under capitalism & 'free time' | @cerasellachis.bsky.social
disability politics | work | precarity | resistance | social security | rest | free time | bread and roses | #book | #PolEcon | sociology
Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog Trans liberation and information security. @transsafety.network
Manchester, UK
cozy @bimbotheory.bsky.social writer
femme leatherdÿke
co-host of Drunk Church
https://linktr.ee/bimbotheory
Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social London's Independent Bookshop of 2024.
Fiction, London Books, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Travel, Classics, Children's Books, Cards, Totes, and Short Story Prize.
https://linktr.ee/bricklanebookshop
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
Buster Books @busterbooks.bsky.social Award-winning independent children's publisher, imprint of @omarabooks.bsky.social. We publish non-fiction, activity & picture books to spark imagination & creativity!
FranMcBookface @franmcbookface.bsky.social Book devourer & reviewer. Archivist. Occasional crafter. Edinburgh 🏴
franmcbookface@gmail.com
📖 Fulvia📱The Society of Unknowable Objects 🎧 There are Rivers in the Sky
https://linktr.ee/franmcbookface
💙📚
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
Marian Keyes @mariankeyes.bsky.social Reads books. Watches telly. Wrings hands over the state of the world.
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
Irvine Welsh @irvinewelsh.bsky.social Radicalized by discotheque music.
Ian Rankin @ianrankin1.bsky.social Author, Inspector Rebus (and other stuff). Edinburgh-based. More usually pub-based.
Margaret Atwood @margaretatwood.bsky.social Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca
and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social Indy publisher of award winning literary fiction
You can order books here : www.bluemoosebooks.com 
Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social Writer. Yes, that one.
(she/they)
Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social Author from Ireland. Responsible for the Maeve Kerrigan series and Everything She Didn't Say (out 16 July). Also owner of the world’s least cooperative spaniel.
Janet Emson @janetemson.bsky.social Book lover. Book reviewer. On the other socials as @JanetEmson
UK
fromfirstpagetolast.wordpress.com
The Book Shepherd @thebookshepherd.bsky.social Canadian Librarian, basket of feelings, east coast ennui. 🏳️🌈🇨🇦🫐
Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social Writer. Very small. Books normal size. THE CLOCKWORK GIRL, BOOK OF SECRETS etc. Writes thrillers as Anna Sharpe.
Also a criminal justice lawyer and a dark history geek.
Big Bearded Bookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com Expert bookseller with a very big beard
Books read: 75/100
📚 The Midnight Mayor
📺 Skeleton Knight In Another World: Season 2
📺 An Adventurer's Daily Grind at Age 29
https://www.bigbeardedbookseller.com
http://ko-fi.com/bigbeardedbookseller
Sarah Pinborough @sarahpinborough.bsky.social Author and screenwriter. Sunday Times #1, & NYT Bestselling author of BEHIND HER EYES on Netflix and INSOMNIA on Paramount+. Ted owner. WE LIVE HERE NOW coming Summer of 2025
Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social NYT bestselling author, broadcaster, classicist ✍️ 'Rock star mythologist' (Washington Post) 📗 NO FRIEND TO THIS HOUSE: OUT NOW. Posts by N and team.
https://linktr.ee/nataliehaynesauthor
Stephanie Merritt/SJ Parris @stephmerritt.bsky.social Author & journalist. Sunday Times #1 best-selling Giordano Bruno series. Reviews for The Observer. Sometimes on the radio. Rep’d by Jonny Geller/Curtis Brown 📚🗞️🎙️✍🏼
Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social Writer & broadcaster.
🏴 🌈 🖊️📚 🎭 📺 📻 🪴 🐔 🥃
He/Him
www.damianbarr.com
📕 The Two Roberts is my new novel. I’ve curated an exhibition about them for Charleston in Lewes which is now in Nottingham.
📕 Maggie & Me.
📕 You Will Be Safe Here.
PhD, FRSL, FRSE
Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social Artist, writer, sweetheart, battleaxe, she/her
Novels This Is Yesterday & Birding with Corsair Books
Rep: Becky Thomas at Lewinsohn Literary
Chair of The Adamson Collection Trust: work created in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital during the C20th
Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social Writer (Secrets of the Bees; Black Crescent, White Hare, Sea Gate, Tenth Gift etc), publisher (GRRM, Hobb, Feist, Lawrence, Heartfield, Kaner, ex Tolkien), allotmenteer. History. Morocco/Cornwall. Covid is airborne 💙📚 #Writing #Books
Peter Ross @peteralanross.bsky.social Author of Upon A White Horse: Journeys In Ancient Britain & Ireland. Also, Steeple Chasing: Around Britain By Church, & A Tomb With A View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards. Substack: https://smallfinds.substack.com
Liz Nugent @liznugent.bsky.social No relation to Ted. Writer and rewriter. Sister and resister.
Scullery maid to the House of Goldblatt.
The Truth About Ruby Cooper in all good bookstores in Uk, Ireland and Commonwealth except Canada now. North America Sept 1st.
www.liznugent.com
David H Headley @davidhheadley.bsky.social M.D. DHH Literary Agency, Goldsboro Books & Capital Crime.
https://linktr.ee/davidhheadley
Dawn O’Porter @hotpatooties.bsky.social CHOOSE LOVE. 
Louise Mangos @louisemangos.bsky.social Author of suspense & historical novels
Stories in 20+ anthologies
MA crime writing UEA
Wild swimmer
Skate skier
Cyclist
Fizz drinker
Ruth Ware @ruthwarewriter.bsky.social Still writing books... still drinking coffee... still making stuff up as I go along. The Woman in Suite 11 available to pre-order now at linktr.ee/ruthwarewriter
Find me at ruthware.com
C.J. Tudor - Author @cjtudor.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author - The Chalk Man, The Taking of Annie Thorne, The Other People, The Burning Girls (Netflix), The Drift and The Gathering. Dog lover. Gin drinker. Tattoo enthusiast. Disturbingly cheery. Serenity Falls out Sept 10, 2026!
Manderley Press @manderleypress.bsky.social Indie publisher of beautiful titles inspired by buildings, cities and landmarks. Sometimes wears a book as a hat… | ManderleyPress.com
Insta @manderleypress
Latest book: manderleypress.com/shop/p/moonismaking
Laura Shepherd-Robinson @laurasrobinson.bsky.social Sunday Times and USA Today bestselling author. Amazon #1 bestseller.
🇬🇧 Mantle, Pan-Macmillan
🇺🇸 Atria, Simon & Schuster
Agent: Antony Topping @greeneandheaton.bsky.social
https://www.laurashepherdrobinson.com/
Sam Baker @theothersambaker.bsky.social One of the millions of journalists who’s defected to Substack and started a podcast. https://theshiftwithsambaker.substack.com/
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 🦊
Clare Mackintosh - Author @claremackwrites.bsky.social Writer. Mother. Ex cop. ✏️ 2 million+ books sold 🎲 #AGameOfLies out now https://claremackintosh.com/me/
elle nash @saderotica.bsky.social literary catgirl | author of Deliver Me, Gag Reflex, Nudes, & Animals Eat Each Other | phd candidate at university of glasgow | editor @thecreativeindependent.com 🌀
“i’m the bigger dog only for now.” —peter christopher
🐇linktr.ee/ellenash
BookwormVaught - Dr Anna Vaught @bookwormvaught.bsky.social Author of many books, teacher, mentor, #Curae, campaigner, doctored, mum of 3. Wilts, Wales, Southern US https://linktr.ee/bookwormvaught?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=00043ddf-6cad-43e1-8c8a-d89 rep. Clare Coombes at Liverpool Literary Agency 🇵🇸
William Hussey @whusseyauthor.bsky.social Award-winning author of the SCOTT JERICHO thrillers (KILLING JERICHO; JERICHO’S DEAD; BURYING JERICHO) and YA novels, including THE BOY I LOVE, BROKEN HEARTS AND ZOMBIE PARTS, and THE OUTRAGE among others
https://linktr.ee/williamhusseyauthor
Miranda Jewess @mirandajewess.bsky.social Publishing Director @viperbooks.bsky.social, the award-winning crime, thriller and mystery imprint of @profilebooks.bsky.social. I like books with a dead body in them.
Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social I write novels and stories . (Recentlyish: Lean Fall Stand.)
There is a Substack: https://classnotesbyjonmcgregor.substack.com/
Also learning Dutch - kom maar bij mij en nederlands met me spreken, alstublieft x
In My Good Books Podcast @inmygoodbookspod.bsky.social 🎧Twice-weekly podcast episodes with authors & book lovers
📚Book reviews & recommendations
🏴Scotland
🙋🏻♀️Susie - She/her
Links to listen: https://linktr.ee/inmygoodbookspod
Elly Griffiths @ellygriffiths.bsky.social Crime-writer 
Chris Brookmyre @brookmyre.bsky.social Author. One half of Ambrose Parry. One sixth of Fun Lovin' Crime Writers.
Tom Mead @tommeadauthor.bsky.social He/Him. Author of DEATH AND THE CONJUROR, THE MURDER WHEEL, and CABARET MACABRE published by Mysterious Press (US) and Head of Zeus (UK)
"Ingenious" - The Guardian
"Ingenious" - The Times
Rep: Lorella Belli Literary Agency
Lauren North @laurennorthauthor.bsky.social Psychological thriller/suspense author and Book Club Thriller author as L.C. North. Love reading, cockerpoos, coffee, running and chatting about writing
Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social Novelist, rep’d by @vickyweberbooks.bsky.social. Thrillers: #LittleWhiteLies💛 #SafeAndSound❤️ #IllNeverTell💗 #AGuiltySecret🧡 Lives in Lincolnshire, has a cat. Clinical Psychologist by day.
Bookaholic Bex @bexbookaholic.bsky.social Book-obsessed, theatre-loving feminist with a liberal outlook on life. Mental health champion. Award winning book blogger.
https://bookaholicbex.wordpress.com/
Sara Sheridan @sarasheridan.bsky.social Writer. Mapped Scotland according to women's history. Also writes novels. Over-enthusiastic. She/her. YES. Insta:@sarasheridanwriter X: @sarasheridan All links: https://linktr.ee/sarasheridanwriter
Canongate @canongate.co.uk Publisher. Always independent.
https://canongate.co.uk
Kate Mosse @katemossewriter.bsky.social Writer of novels, history, plays, ghost stories ~ Interviewer & Performer ~ Founder Director Women’s Prizes ~ Trustee British Library
Find me at www.katemosse.co.uk
SHADOW OF MADNESS out now! @dvbishop.com Writes Cesare Aldo historical thrillers set in Renaissance Italy • SHADOW OF MADNESS our now: https://linktr.ee/D.V.Bishop • Free newsletter: https://dvbishop.substack.com • Rep: @jennybrownagency.bsky.social • Ex-Tharg
Goldsboro Books @goldsborobooks.bsky.social An award-winning independent bookshop with branches in London (23-27 Cecil Court) and Brighton (22b Ship Street) The book collectors bookseller.
Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social Indie publisher of bold, unforgettable international fiction, half in translation. Shortlisted IPG Best Newcomer 2015/16. CWA Crime & Mystery Publisher of the Year 2020. Nibbies Finalist Small Press of the Year. Visit us at www.orendabooks.co.uk.
Miranda's BookScape @mirandasbookscape.bsky.social Bookblogger 📚 House plant enthusiast 🪴 Crafting fanatic 🪡 Have a love for Fantasy, Sci-fi, Thriller and Historical fiction 📚
https://linktr.ee/mirandasbookscape
Years Of Reading @yearsofreading.bsky.social I’m Clare, book blogger since 2017 and full time carer.
Life is too short to read books you don’t love, so I don’t.
Francesca Main @francescamain.bsky.social Reader, editor, publisher of Phoenix, an imprint of Orion. 
Linda Hill @lindasbookbag.bsky.social Book blogger at https://lindasbookbag.com and fanatical tea drinker
X Lindahill50Hill Insta ljh50hill 📚❤️
@thewritereads.bsky.social @thewritereads.bsky.social Book lover. Blog tour organiser. Editor. BBNYA founder.
Contact me to edit your novel at admin@theditors.com (free sample edit of first 3k words provided)
Or for blogtours at thegang@thewritereads.com
Nina Pottell @matineegirl1.bsky.social Book Editor Prima magazine. Book consultant for Between The Covers. Hairdresser.
Renard Press @renardpress.com 🍃 An award-winning climate-positive indie publisher of classic & contemporary fiction, non-fiction, poetry & theatre. Also home to Hay Press.
renardpress.com
linktr.ee/renardpress
TripFiction @tripfiction.bsky.social Love to travel? Love to read?
TripFiction.com matches books with 2,890 locations around the world
See a destination through the eyes of an author
The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social Careful reader, thoughtful writer, nature-lover, garden-potterer, history-dabbler. Distracted by birds. 🐦⬛
theunhurriedreader.substack.com
@the_unhurried_reader on Instagram (yes, I know that's confusing).
#InvisibleIllnessVisibleLives
#Nordlichtberaubt
Alison Hennessey @alisonhennessey.bsky.social Publishing Director of Raven Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Books. Lover of the gripping & the gothic, the contemporary & the cunning. Comprehensive school girl in literary world. Easily bribed with a chocolate orange. 
SAM BLAKE @samblakebooks.bsky.social No 1 bestselling Irish crime writer (adult & YA) 💙📚
Chair Society of Authors, views my own.
Agent: Simon Trewin RIP
https://linktr.ee/SamBlakeBooks
Nikki Smith @nikkismithauthor.bsky.social Author of thrillers. THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK out July ‘26 with Viking, Penguin.
Books: Sophie Lambert at C&W.
TV/Film: Luke Speed at Insight Mgt
Co-host of podcast IN SUSPENSE
https://linktr.ee/nikkismithauthor
Jackie Morrison @jackiemorrison.bsky.social Writer of short stories & more!
In large print from Ulverscroft Publishing:
The Sweetest Thing release date 01/07
Written In The Stars release date TBC
SL Simon and Schuster, LL Penguin
Travelling & exploring 🏴 RNA Member
linktr.ee/LittleWritingCorner
Erin Kelly @mserinkelly.bsky.social my job is book
Wild Hunt Books @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social Independent publisher.
Leeds.
Publishing director: Ariell Cacciola @ariellcacciola.bsky.social
🖤🌈https://www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/bookshop
Jodie Robins @jodierobins.bsky.social Writer.
Curtis Brown Creative alumna
Lover of all things gothic
Novella, The Off-Season, out now.
Northern and southern in equal parts
https://jodierobins.substack.com
S J Watson @sjwatson.bsky.social Writing. Photography. Drinking. Bestselling author of Before I Go to Sleep. Podcaster. Substacker. Procrastinator. Dog dad. Tired.
Just your ordinary average everyday sane psycho super-goddess.
Louise Mumford @louisemumford.bsky.social Author. New Audible Original THE COFFEE SHOP DETECTIVES out now. Thrillers with HQ HarperCollins. Welsh 🏴 Agent: Kate Shaw. Committed insomniac. Care Bear devotee. Website: www.louisemumfordauthor.com
Samuel Burr @samuelburr.bsky.social Author of the instant Sunday Times and USA Today Bestseller, THE FELLOWSHIP OF PUZZLEMAKERS 🧩
Proud #BookSky recruit 💙📚
https://linktr.ee/samuelburr
Heather J Fitt @heatherjfitt.bsky.social 📚 Open Your Eyes 📚The Flight 📚The Boat Trip 📚Author 📚Editor/Blog Tour Organiser 📚 General Coordinator for the CWA (All views my own.)
heatherjfitt.com