Mark Bradley @markbradley.bsky.social Children’s comic artist/writer.
Bumble & Snug graphic novels published by Hachette!
Represented by Lydia Silver of the Soho Agency.
Talks about comics a *lot*.
Salt Books @saltpublishing.com One of the UK's leading indie publishers. High-impact fiction and brand-led non-fiction. Beautiful books you won’t forget. Available in all good bookshops.
Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com She/her. I write books about carriages, corsets, and smartwatches. Mother of (emoji) dinosaurs 🦖🦕. 羽生結弦 fan. Fan of tea. Born at 332 ppm.
This biography should not be taken as a complete description.
courtneymilan.com
Hayley Stevens 🏳️🌈 @theghostgeek.com 🎓 MSc Forensic Psychology student
👩💻 I write an award-winning science blog about spooky things www.theghostgeek.com
Galileo Publishers @galileobooks.bsky.social Cambridge based, mainly literary, publisher. Small outfit with big ambitions. We do Anthony Burgess lost gems, Nan Shepherd's verse, Alfred Doeblin novels, George Mackay Brown, Golden Age of Detection reissues. www.galileopublishing.co.uk
Lion & Unicorn @lionunicorn.bsky.social Culture | History | Politics
thelionandunicorn.com
Lily Dunn @lilydunn.bsky.social Sins of My Father ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Guardian Non-Fiction Book of the Year. Academic. Memoir lover. #lifewriting Co-founder @londonlitlab.bsky.social Find me here: https://lilydunn.substack.com/
Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social Associate Prof @UoBrisEnglish 🏳️🌈 A FLAT PLACE (Hamish Hamilton/MHP 2023) HARD LANGUAGE (OUP 2022) 🐨 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker 🐈⬛ rep: @mfredturner
Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social Author of LAND BENEATH THE WAVES (one of BBC Wildlife's Best Books of 2025), Editor, Guardian Country Diarist, BBC Gardeners' World Mag.
Patron #JohnClare Countryside Project, Fellow British Naturalists' Assoc. MA PGCE. Rep: Cathryn Summerhayes
Rebecca Tyson @tyguson.bsky.social PhD, Bristol University; RHS Marshall Fellow (2024-25), IHR. Research on Norman Invasion in 1066, maritime and riverine environments, 11th-century maritime connections in the North Sea world
https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/rebecca-tyson
Gemma Amor @manylittlewords.bsky.social Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson & British Fantasy Award nominated author, illustrator from Bristol, UK.
ROOTS OF MY FEARS, Titan 2025
ITCH! Hodder & Stoughton 2025
FIRST DATE, Datura Books 2026
HAPPY HOUR, Shortwave 2026
NoSleep Podcast.
sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social Writer | Senior Investigative Reporter at openDemocracy | Bylines in i; Observer; Guardian; The Times | BWLF | Book: Bodies Under Siege, Verso | Got a story? Email sian.norris(at)opendemocracy.net
Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social Author + campaigner for gender equality and safety in public space + post-war graphics + other stuff.
Rants about stately homes here:
https://susannahwalker.substack.com
Co-founder of @makespaceforgirls and formerly @QuadRoyal
Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social Author Real Dorset (Seren), The Tattooed Hills (Aurum, April 2026), editor Going to Ground, works Little Toller, editor The Clearing. Events/writing/buy: linktr.ee/jonwoolcott
Dr. Syntax @drsyntax.bsky.social Scholar & Writer. Professing 18th & 19th c. literature, Romanticism, disability, book history, bookbinding, and comics.
PhD @PennEnglish https://www.coloradocollege.edu/basics/contact/directory/people/richman_jared_s.html
Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social Writer from Cornwall: #TheGraniteKingdom, #TheTravelWritingTribe, #ThePathlessLand (forthcoming), Indonesian history; academic stuff on travel writing. Teaches Writing & Literature at ATU Sligo.
Jim Martin @jimspim.bsky.social Publishing Director, Bloomsbury. Pop-science, natural history. Gonzo editor; zoo-LOL-ogist; supplier of bookish news, animal facts, regular swearing. Views my own.
David Long @writerdavidlong.bsky.social Blue Peter Book of the Year winner. Writes for children and adults, 60+ books translated into 30+ languages. Occasional ghost. Agent: Penny Holroyde at Holroyde-Cartey.
davidlong.info
Mathew Lyons @mathewlyons.bsky.social Writer, historian. FRHistS. Recent work: History Today, The Spectator, Slightly Foxed, New Humanist, Engelsberg Ideas.
Abbie Headon (she/her) @abbieheadon.bsky.social 🇮🇪🇬🇧 Free-range editor and writer. Editor-at-Large, Calon Books. Campus Community Manager, BookMachine. Bookseller Rising Star. FRSA. #TransLivesMatter
Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social Strange fiction, weird history. Lost member of the PRB. Marfan syndrome. Will-o’-the-wisp. Victorians, folklore, bad medicine. THE OTHERS OF EDENWELL and CHEER THE SICK out now. Non-fiction in @helleborezine.bsky.social. 🦇🖋️🇬🇮
Henry Jeffreys @henrygjeffreys.bsky.social Booze enthusiast
@chloehadj.bsky.social @chloehadj.bsky.social 
Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social Writer of The Lodger, Me and Mickie James, Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel. Lambda Award Finalist. Leicestershire Short Story Prize winner. Saltburn - Feb 2025.
Indie Press supporter.
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MD ANT
https://linktr.ee/drewgum
Jason Cobley @jmcobleyauthor.bsky.social Author of A Hundred Years to Arras, Calendar of Ghosts, Amnesia Agents, and more. Loves Dr Who, prog rock, jazz, and walking the dog. Currently writing a novel about fans of Marillion.
Katharine Quarmby @katharineq.bsky.social Writer, editor, journalist: https://muckrack.com/katharine-quarmby; Shortlisted, New Angle Prize for Literature 2025, for historical novel The Low Road; literary agent, non-fiction, Andrew Lownie; website: katharinequarmby.com.
Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social The sailor cannot see the North but knows the needle can.
Full time carer for someone with LongCovid. Cancer survivor. Mostly photographs and thoughts connected to my immediate landscape in the ever decreasing circles of my life.
Peter Foster @pmdfoster.bsky.social Brighton-dwelling World Trade Editor at the Financial Times
https://www.ft.com/peter-foster
Sometime Brexit nerd & author of 'What Went Wrong with Brexit' https://t.co/VsIipD7JBr
KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com She/her. British European. Purveyor of opinions, rude words, and romance novels, historical and fantasy. USA Today bestselling author of How To Fake It In Society. "Erotically charged"--Good Housekeeping. Death to GenAI. http://kjcharleswriter.com
@hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social Phoenix Guide to Strange England: #Hookland. Run by David Southwell
#Hauntology Re-wilding #Folklore #FolkHorror #Psychogeography #LandscapePunk Re-enchantment Is Resistance https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068598123
walter innes @walterjsinnes.bsky.social rare moments of humour.... love cetaceans - and elephants
i often point cameras at things.....
https://flic.kr/ps/of5vm
Con Coleman @concoleman.bsky.social Formerly an historian of sorts, also formerly a writer of sorts, live near a river and a castle and a distillery. Also play the ukulele.
www.concoleman.com/blog
Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social V. Sackville-West: In Your Garden (1946-61); Some Flowers (1937); Letters to VW (1923-41); Passenger to Teheran (1926); Twelve Days (1928). https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/resources/908/collection_organization https://x.com/thegardenvsw/
Waterstones Ipswich @waterstonesipswich.bsky.social Profile for Waterstones Bookshop in Ipswich 📚✨
📞 01473 289044
James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social Surrounded by yowling, nebulous forms. Writer: Smack The Pony, Green Wing, Piglets, my first novel Pagans now available in paperback: https://www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/james-alistair-henry/2928377365622
BLPublishing @blpublishing.bsky.social British Library Publishing - bringing you the very best incredible classic literature, republished for readers new and old. Plus bold new non-fiction for everyone. 📚
Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social Human Remains Conservator at Surgeons’ Hall. Snake charmer. Beagle feeder. All-round general necromancer
Liz Hyder @londonbessie.bsky.social Writer type. Making it up as I go. 📖. #TheTwelve out now. Other books #TheIllusions #TheGifts & #Bearmouth. Fond of wanders. Lover of books, films, art & wildlife. Nerd.
Alex Renton @axrenton.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, optimist. FRHistS. Books: Blood Legacy: slavery & my family's part in it. Stiff Upper Lip: abuse in Britain's elite schools. BBC Radio 4's In Dark Corners.
alexrenton.com
Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social Museum Curator and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, Oxford University • Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford • Tutor Art/Anthropology • https://linktr.ee/danhicks
James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk
Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
David Olusoga @davidolusoga.bsky.social British-Nigerian Historian - BAFTA Winning Producer/Presenter - Best Selling Author - AGENT cwalker@unitedagents.co.uk
Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social Eats and writes for The Financial Times. Piano for the JR Sextet; chairs Kitchen Cabinet for R4. Doesn’t accept comps. jay.rayner@ft.com
https://linktr.ee/jayrayner1
James Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social New book The Place of Tides (Allen Lane) now in all good bookshops
Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social Britain's best-selling news and current affairs magazine with a unique mix of jokes and investigative journalism.
Website: https://private-eye.co.uk
Subscribe: http://subsonline.co.uk
marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social Classicist
The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social Wears a black cape and fights crime. Not Batman.
Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author•The Secret Barrister•#FakeLaw•Nothing But The Truth•
Also writes thrillers. The Cut Throat Trial out now at all good bookshops.
Kill All The Lawyers coming Sept 2027…
Clare Hudson @chudso.bsky.social Leicester, dogs, history, growing things, books, politics, comedy, Isle of Skye, music, archaeology, art, theatre
Stephen Lawrence Research Centre @ De Montfort University @slrc-dmu.bsky.social We’re a hub of exciting and innovative research. Driving conversations to influence how we think about race and social justice. Inspiring positive change.
Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social Prof. of Colonialism & Heritage @ University of Leicester UK.
Penguin author of Our Island Stories. 10 Walks through Rural Britain & its Hidden History of Empire (2024) repd by. Emma Bal @ Madeleine Milburn agency.
@OnlyinBirmingham podcast
On Substack
Charlotte Moore-Lambert @charlottereads.com books, bugs, bolitics 🇵🇸 https://linktr.ee/cavatica
Waterstones Leicester Highcross @waterstoneslhx.bsky.social We love books, dogs in bookshops, and customers who laugh at our jokes
Dr Richard Bate @thenewgalaxy.bsky.social That guy who found a ghost #orchid
Botanist with particular interest in British & European #Orchids. Tour leader for Mariposa Nature and member of #Wildflowerhour team
Have placed #dental implants since 2009, favouring Southern site-specific systems
Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
Kate Innes @kateinnes.bsky.social Writer, trained in Archaeology. Author of Medieval 'Arrowsmith Trilogy’ for adults,& historical fantasy/paranormal adventures for young people.
Also latest poetry collection - 'The Matter’.
If it's old, I'm interested.
www.kateinneswriter.com
Johnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk Horror anthologist.
"This generation's Hugh Lamb" - Mike Mignola
"A valuable man" - Stewart Lee
AuDHD.
Got the morbs.
The Court Jeweller (Lauren Kiehna) @courtjeweller.bsky.social History, royalty, and other sparkly stuff from Lauren Kiehna (@laurenkiehna.bsky.social), writer & editor at thecourtjeweller.com.
Contact: lauren@thecourtjeweller.com
Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social Scottish comic/writer/actor with confusing accent, absolutely not insecure about it. She/her. My book out now! Show for '26: The Mermaid https://linktr.ee/eleanormorton
Eleanor & Alasdair Read That on Spotify
support me: https://ko-fi.com/eleanormorton
Patricia Lovett MBE @patricialovett.bsky.social Professional scribe and illuminator. Written 14 books and made a DVD on the subjects. Co-Director and Chief Judge of the Stanford Calligraphy Collection.
Netherton Foundry @nethertonfoundry.bsky.social Proudly making classic cookware, using sustainable materials and traditional skills and crafts in our rural Shropshire workshops
www.netherton-foundry.co.uk
Kate Watson @loreandordure.com Smallholder, writer, erstwhile vetn'ry, PhD student, lexicographer, ADHD+ & alleged Pratchett witch.
Letterpress, bookbinding, (alt-process) photography.
Long Covid victim. She/they.
🖋️ https://loreandordure.com/
🖼️ https://ko-fi.com/loreandordure/shop/
Leeds Lit Fest @leedslitfest.bsky.social 6 - 14 June 2026. Returning for its eighth year, the award-winning festival of words aims to bring together, and help develop, the city’s literary scene, with writers, poets and performers from Leeds, Yorkshire and beyond!
#LLF26. www.leedslitfest.co.uk
Emma Ash @emmaash.bsky.social Cotswold Girl 💖 | UK Explorer 🇬🇧
Countryside 🏞️ | Heritage 🏛️ | Travel 🌍
Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social Publishing independently since 1929.
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Atlantic Books @atlanticbooks.bsky.social Independent British publisher of literary fiction and non-fiction. Also the home of imprints Corvus Books, Allen & Unwin UK, and Grove Press UK.
Sign up for our newsletter: https://atlantic-books.co.uk/
David Fickling Books @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social ✨Where good stories begin...
📚We're an independent publisher of superb books for readers of all ages. Join the adventure here!
Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social Independent publisher.
fitzcarraldoeditions.com
Granta @grantamag.bsky.social The Magazine of New Writing.
https://granta.com/
Oneworld Publications @oneworldbooks.bsky.social 📖Independent Publishers founded in 1986
💌Literary fiction and non-fiction from around the world
🌊YA @rocktheboatnews
Profile Books @profilebooks.bsky.social Independent publisher of inventive books, fearless writing and powerful voices. Our authors include Mary Beard, Shoshana Zuboff and Francis Fukuyama.
Swift Press @swiftpress.bsky.social Award-winning Independent publisher of your next read.
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Blogger requests: marketing@swiftpress.com
Severn House @severnhouse.bsky.social Home of great genre fiction.
Publisher of mystery, thriller, sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romance and beyond.
The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social Free, fun, informative and educational - public and school library services for Shetland. Further north than Orkney.
01595 743868 shetlandlibrary@shetland.gov.uk
Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social Books and Archives since 1683.
Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk
Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary
Governor Finn Black @govfinnblack.bsky.social Books featuring Governor Finn Black, ex-Royal Marine and prison governor. Fictional character documented by Tony C. Scott, a member of the Crime Writers' Association and former prison governor.
www.prisoncrime.club #prisoncrimeclub #author
@mikewalmer.bsky.social @mikewalmer.bsky.social 
Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social Food + drink, mostly but also sport, culture, cartoons. Author of SMÖRGÅSBORD, SPIRITED, SOLO, HOW TO HYGGE, SCANDILICIOUS 📚
Simon Savidge @savidgereads.bsky.social A bookish bear.
https://linktr.ee/SavidgeReads
Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com Post-colonial mut gentrifying the French country side • Wrote and shot a cookbook once • Bylines and photography in some places too • Fibromyalgia
Greg Buzwell @gregbuzwell.bsky.social Curator of Contemporary Literary Archives at the British Library. Co-curator of Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination exhibition. Loves literature, Doctor Who, the Beatles, Marilyn Monroe and anything spooky.
NearlyKnowledgeable @g0blinegg.bsky.social Amy
𖦹 Folklorist & Writer 𖦹
Ghostlore ● Witchcraft ● Devil Folklore
Rooted in Shropshire History & Lore 💀
Writer of 'The Best Of Men' -A Shropshire folk horror 🦇
Sharon McTeir 📚 🐈 @sharonmcteir.bsky.social Creative Publishing Services
Book design, picture research & rights.
Currently learning Norwegian.
www.sharonmcteir.co.uk
Melrose, Scottish Borders 🏴
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Threads, steel & story @threadssteelnstory.bsky.social Sewist, crafter, reader and larp writer/organizer. She/they
Sue Bursztynski @greatraven.bsky.social Children’s writer, teacher, librarian living in Melbourne with a balcony garden and thousands of books. No DM unless I ask, please. I will unfollow if you do.
Boundless for Booksellers @boundlessbookshops.bsky.social Bookseller-exclusive news, proofs and POS from Unbound and Neem Tree Press, imprints of Boundless Publishing Group 📚
@unboundsocials.bsky.social
@neemtreepress.bsky.social
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Malcolm Tait @malcolmtait.bsky.social Researcher - planning, nature and politics. Professor of Planning, Uni of Sheffield. Very amateur lepidopterist
www.planningfornature.org
Consortium Book Sales & Distribution @consortiumbooks.bsky.social Distributing indie books and advocating for small presses since 1985. Your next favorite book is from an independent publisher ❤️ 📖 cbsd.com
📧 Newsletter: https://bit.ly/cbsdmail
@aggyg.bsky.social @aggyg.bsky.social Rock Chick, Scottish, Journalist, Performer, Vegan 💖
Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social Devoted to vintage Ladybird books and the other work of their artists. My exhibition The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Artists has been travelling since 2018. Twitter: @lbflyawayhome
Hannah Harlow @hhharlow.bsky.social Co-owner of the Book Shop of Beverly Farms @bfbookshop.bsky.social. Writer. Reader. Co-host of John Updike’s Ghost, a books podcast: pod.link/1594686894
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
Katherine Greenwood @drkatherinelucyg.bsky.social Lecturer in Publishing & Creative Industries at York St John University. Researches class in contemporary British literature and publishing. Ex-editor and festival organiser.
Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social I write poems.
Shows: https://brianbilston.com/events/
Books: https://brianbilston.com/books/
Sarah Franklin @sarahefranklin.bsky.social Writer (SHELTER, HOW TO BELONG, other shorter things). Teach publishing & storytelling at Oxford Brookes Uni. Sometime event host, book reviewer, general enthusiast. 
Carmen Marcus Loves Stones @carmenmarcus.bsky.social Writer! Stone lover! Daughter of Yorkshire fisherman and Irish Chef. Writes new mythologies! #Faber #Vintage #GeorginaCapel