The Literary Gift Company @literarygifts.bsky.social Creating and selling literary gifts for readers, writers and book lovers since 2009. Posts by Dani and the team from our Reading (where else?) HQ.
Find us at www.theliterarygiftcompany.com
To become a stockist go to www.academicallygifted.co.uk
Lyric Fiction @lyricfiction.bsky.social Yes, I've got a bookstore. No, you can't visit.
https://www.lyricfiction.com
Jeremy Smith @jeremysmith.bsky.social Co-director PRIME Economics, author of "The Great Brexit Wrench" (PEF, 2019). Past: Gen Secretary of European & international local govt associations, CEO Camden Council, barrister, law centre founder, factotum at ABC tea-shop on Earl's Court Road 1966.
@jaythechou.bsky.social @jaythechou.bsky.social And the Oscar goes to Paddington in Peru
Twitter Refugees Welcome!
Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social Writer. Yes, that one.
(she/they)
www.joanne-harris.co.uk
Tim Minshall @timminshall.bsky.social Dr John C Taylor Professor of Innovation, Head of the Institute for Manufacturing and Fellow of Churchill College, University of Cambridge. Author of ‘Your Life is Manufactured’ https://timminshall.com
#engineering #manufacturing #innovation
Matt @mtauthor.bsky.social All the right words not necessarily in the right order.
Green Unpleasant Land, Lovecraftian shenanigans in Victorian London
Read the opening here
https://mtauthor.substack.com
Kate Nicholls @katenicholls1.bsky.social Author, homeschool consultant. Lives in Rome. No DM’s pls.
https://www.katenicholls.org/
https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/the-maternal-element-9781784633998
Roz Morris @rozmorris.bsky.social Author, Turn Right At The Rainbow, Ever Rest, Not Quite Lost, My Memories of a Future Life, Lifeform Three, Nail Your Novel. Editor/speaker. Judge @ International Voices in Creative Non-Fiction Award, Amazon Kindle Storyteller Award
alifeinbooks @alifeinbooks.bsky.social Mainly books but also travel and art, viewing rather than creating
I blog at http://alifeinbooks.co.uk and live in beautiful Bath, UK.
Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social Writes SFF as Gareth L. Powell and horror and mystery as G.L. Powell. Occasional award winner. Repped by Lucienne Diver at The Knight Agency.
🔗 Mystery and Horror - https://www.glpowell.com
🔗 Science Fiction - https://www.garethlpowell.com
MadameBibiLophile @madamebibi.bsky.social I like books and I blog about books I like at https://madamebibilophilerecommends.co.uk/
Maylin @blithespirit4.bsky.social Canadian living in Liverpool, UK. Knitter, reader, hiker, lover of all textiles and the great outdoors. Once a bookseller, always a bookseller.
phaude @phaude.bsky.social Bookish inactivist seeking a tolerable social medium. Here is the sand in which I choose to bury my head.
Tertulia, a bookshop Like no other www.tertuliabookshop.com @tertuliabookshop.bsky.social Our mission is to make a positive contribution to the way the world thinks.....a place to relax, meet, chat, discuss, drink coffee, read books, buy vinyl.
Simply Susan 💙 @simplysusan.bsky.social I prefer to begin the day in a gradual manner.
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 
Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings @kaggsy59.bsky.social Loves books and arts and culture and vegan food, and sharing thoughts about them! Blogs at https://kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/
@cheltanthology.bsky.social @cheltanthology.bsky.social Former bookseller.
Alison Rogers @readersretreatps.bsky.social Owner of Readers Retreat - A book shop where people and words come together
Stanfords Travel @stanfordstravel.bsky.social The world's largest independent Map and Travel Bookshop. In love with adventure, since 1853.
The Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com Iowa City's home for 47,000 used/rare books, puzzles, games, and two famous cats. 😷 Masks required - 12-6 Central, Mon-Sat - https://www.thehauntedbookshop.com
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
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.
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
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 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Nairn Books @nairnbooks.bsky.social linktr.ee/nairnbooks
@barneysbooks.bsky.social @barneysbooks.bsky.social 
Dean Street Press @deanstpress.bsky.social A publisher devoted to producing, uncovering, and revitalising good books.
Website: https://www.deanstreetpress.co.uk
Facebook group: https://bit.ly/3NshjrH
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Poetry with Linda @poetrywithlinda.bsky.social poetry, nature, writing, reading, art, culture, languages, photography, travelling 🎨🖌️🖼️
Let's also be friends on Substack:@poetrywithlinda
jenniewriter @jenniewriter.bsky.social Bestselling author with Boldwood Books, living in France.
nicole brinkley | bookseller @nebrinkley.bsky.social writer. award-winning bookseller at oblong books. lover of nuance. not here anymore. ✌️ 💛✨
@paulspoems.bsky.social @paulspoems.bsky.social 
Vivienne Tuffnell @viviennetuffnell.bsky.social Writer, poet, explorer, mystic, weary cynic and somehow, sometimes still hopeful.
Still blogging at https://zenandtheartoftightropewalking.wordpress.com/
Author page: https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Vivienne-Tuffnell/author/B00766135C? 
Essie Fox Writer @essiefox.bsky.social
Catherine: A retelling of Wuthering heights is my latest novel, exploring the classic book through the voice of Cathy's ghost.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Catherine-Retelling-Wuthering-Essie-Fox/dp/1917764421/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0
The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk A charitable organisation promoting and advocating poets & poetry since 1909. Publishes #ThePoetryReview, supports young poets @youngpoetsnet.bsky.social.
poetrysociety.org.uk
linktr.ee/poetrysociety22
The Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret @oldoptheatre.bsky.social A medical museum housing the oldest operating theatre in Europe (1822) in the heart of London Bridge. Likes and retweets are not endorsements. #OldOpTheatre
www.oldoperatingtheatre.com
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social Empowering authors since 1884. The largest UK union for writers, illustrators and literary translators. #societyofauthors #humanauthored
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
Try the LRB for just £6: lrb.me/social
Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
Suffolk Family History Society @sfhs1975.bsky.social Founded in Lowestoft 1975, we celebrated our 50th birthday last year. We are keen amateur genealogists who want to encourage the study of family history, genealogy, heraldry & local history. Much more info on our website - https://suffolkfhs.co.uk/
BookTrust @booktrust.org.uk We are the UK’s largest children’s reading charity. We get millions of children & families reading together from the earliest possible age.
Find out more: booktrust.org.uk
The Victorian Society @thevicsoc.bsky.social The national charity campaigning for Victorian and Edwardian Built Heritage. Join us!
linktr.ee/victoriansociety
Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Organization in England and Wales
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
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
The Well-read Naturalist @wellreadnaturalist.bsky.social Mild mannered reviewer of #books on natural philosophy, #naturalhistory, #HistSci, & #HistMed. Gentleman naturalist. Tweedy. Beardy. Has been found out standing in many fields. Plays well with otters. www.wellreadnaturalist.com
The Ghostwriters Agency @gwagency.bsky.social The UK's biggest network of bestselling ghostwriters.
Run by bestselling Ghostwriters Teena Lyons and Shannon Kyle.
Find us at www.theghostwritersagency.com or listen to our podcast Giving Up the Ghostcast. 
Annie Gray @dranniegray.bsky.social Food historian, mainly British food ca1650 on. Writer, consultant, speaker. #BBCTKC panellist. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/dranniegray
Salt Books @saltpublishing.com If you’re reading this, you’re in the right place.
Beautiful books you won't forget. Available in all good bookshops.
Casemate Publishers @casematepublishers.bsky.social We publish and distribute Military History books ranging from Ancient Times to the 21st Century. Our print and e-books delight readers throughout North America.
visit: www.casematepublishers.com
Lucienne Boyce @luciennewrite.bsky.social I write historical fiction (To The Fair Land, The Dan Foster Mysteries) and non-fiction (The Bristol Suffragettes). I blog about women's history, the eighteenth century, women's suffrage, books and writing etc. https://lucienneboyce.com/
@HelenHollick @helenhollick.bsky.social Partial Sighted #USATodayBestseller Author from #DevonUK writing #HistoricalFiction #1700sNauticalAdventure #1970sCosyMysteries #Arthurian #RomanBritain #1066KingHaroldII #BlogPosts & other stuff No DMs contact via website: https://blog.helenhollick.net/
Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social Your go-to place for women’s history!
The Women’s History Network is an inclusive UK association for those passionate about women’s & gender history. Also on LinkedIn.
Learn more about our values: https://womenshistorynetwork.org/about-page/
AA Abbott @aaabbottstories.bsky.social I'm a psychological thriller writer and reader in the English West Country. My books focus on women finding strength in the face of danger.
Read my latest, LIES BETWEEN FRIENDS, in ebook, Kindle Unlimited & print.
https://mybook.to/LiesBetweenFriendsEbk
Debbie Young @debbieyoung.bsky.social 📚Author of hilarious, heartwarming fiction
🔍Cosy mystery & romcom, mostly set in the Cotswolds 🐑
🖋️Published by Boldwood Books
⇩ Visit my website to download a free village mystery ebook
www.authordebbieyoung.com
Alison Morton Author @alisonmorton.bsky.social Writer of #histfic, #althist and contemporary #thrillers and any combination thereof. Also language nerd, historian, 'what if' explorer, Roman nut, wine drinker
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
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.
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
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
Mélanie Woebespierre de Clegane @mmeguillotine.bsky.social Biographer of posh doom, endearingly bleak, sweet titbit for the Devil's mouth, fluctuat nec mergitur, hideous nightmare. More popular on Threads.
Out now - Marie Antoinette.
Currently working on Mme Élisabeth, royal weddings & guillotined women.
Colin Silver @colsilver.bsky.social Writing and photography. Author of a book about the poet John Keats and his friend, the painter and diarist Benjamin Robert Haydon.
Torbay, Devon.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/John-Keats-Benjamin-Robert-Haydon/dp/1497305721
Lorraine Evans @thedeathhistorian.bsky.social Research Fellow, Death Historian/Archaeologist & Best-selling Author researching non-conformist funerary practices, symbolism, art & architecture & Aviation Archaeology www.lorraineevans.com
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/
https://linktr.ee/lighthouseedinburgh
RachelChurcherWriting @rachelchurcher.bsky.social Award-winning YA author. Indie editor, YA reviewer, co-founder of www.forewordfestival.uk
LGBTQ+ novel 'Angels' available now from bookshops, plus Amazon, Waterstones, B&N, Kobo, Apple, Smashwords, Allstora.
www.tallerbooks.com
freebook.tallerbooks.com
East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk Powerful citizen journalism in the East of England | Regulated by IMPRESS
Follow us for national and regional news (Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Cambs, Herts, Beds)
Web: https://eastangliabylines.co.uk
Email: editor@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social Cartoonist and Illustrator. My book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS, is available now! www.tomgauld.com
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
Foreword Festival UK @forewordfestivaluk.bsky.social Welcome to the Foreword Festival – the first literary fringe festival in the UK!
Join us for year-round literary events: http://forewordfestival.uk
Sarah Dent @thebookhide.bsky.social Reader, blogger and book hoarder | MA Literature of the Romantic Period 1775-1832 from @york.ac.uk 📚
Lives in #Manchester 🐝
thebookhide.wordpress.com
Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social Medievalist. She/Her. All DMs are blocked (Bluesky ID issue)
Hay-on-Wye Comics @hayonwyecomics.bsky.social Traders of secondhand and independent comics and graphic novels in the town of books! Give us a visit at the Thursday Hay Market and at Broad Street Book Centre! 
@aldeburghbookshop.bsky.social @aldeburghbookshop.bsky.social 
Neil Fraistat @fraistat.bsky.social Prof. Emeritus of English UMD & Past President, Keats-Shelley Assoc.; Co-Gen Ed. Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Romanticism, Textual Scholarship, DH, Media. "Rise like lions after slumber."
British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social The British Association for Romantic Studies supports the study of #c18th and #c19th literature and culture.
https://www.bars.ac.uk/main/
Project MUSE @projectmuse.bsky.social At Project MUSE, we believe that knowledge has the power to enrich lives and that a sustainable scholarly ecosystem is essential for advancing humanity. 
Matthew Sangster @mjrsangster.bsky.social Professor of Romantic Studies, Fantasy and Cultural History at the University of Glasgow. President, @bars.bsky.social. New book: https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/subjects/literature/english-literature-1900-1945/introduction-fantasy.
Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social Official account for the Keats-Shelley Association of America. Celebrating the lives & works of Keats, the Shelleys, Byron, & their circles
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...
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
Blue Willow Bookshop @bluewillowbooks.bsky.social West Houston's favorite bookshop. Can we say that? Opinionated service and fantastic author events since 1996.
Nose Stuck in a Book Blog @nsiabblog.bsky.social My name is Yvette. I read romance. Find me at Nsiabblog on Facebook: facebook.com/NoseStuckInABookBlog and Instagram: instagram.com/nsiabblog/ #booksky #booktok I use amazon affiliate links
The Lotus Readers @lotusbooks.bsky.social Writer and Book Blogger, love to read crime, historical and literary fiction. Member of Squad POD Collective. Review requests to lotustherapylincs@outlook.com Visit website www.lotuswritingtherapy.com
The Bookseller @thebookseller.com At the heart of the book trade since 1858📚
News, charts, previews and more, online & in print. Buyer's Guides, conferences & The British Book Awards (Nibbies)✨
Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com I’ve got a beard, I sell books
Books read: 91/100
📚 Feeding the Monster
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https://www.bigbeardedbookseller.com
https://ko-fi.com/bigbeardedbookseller
https://linktr.ee/bigbeardedbookseller
Mary Grand @authormaryg.bsky.social I live and write on the Isle of Wight. classic whodunnit, murder mysteries.No.1 Bestselling author.
I love cats and dogs, new gym member(!) pub. by Boldwood Books. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Castle-Cove-murder-mystery-ebook/dp/B0BKFQZMBC/?
Fantasy Book Critic @fantasybookcritic.bsky.social We are a blog of passionate book reviewers who love anything from fantasy to sci-fi and self published works. Active since 2007. Blogger judges in SPFBO from 2015. Find us at https://fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com (BS Posts/replies by Caitlin & Mihir)
Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social Publishing independently since 1929.
linktr.ee/faberbooks
Bookish Scifi & Fantasy @bookishsff.bsky.social Posting Science Fiction, Fantasy, Geekery, bookshop life, occasional cats.
Expert Bookseller at Waterstones Ipswich and/or Bury Arc.
(Views mine, not representative of Waterstones)
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
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.
SomethingAboutBooks23 @shonaholmes23.bsky.social 📚👋Bookblogger of ARC’s, NetGalley & a never ending TBR list! Reviews posted here, Twitter & #Bookstagram (Insta: @SomethingAboutBooks23)
📚Current Read: Someone Is Lying
Fly on the Wall Press @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social Manc independent publisher with a conscience.
M.D. Isabelle Kenyon
2024 North England Winner Small Press of Year!
Sustainable, political and accessible
www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk
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
Joanne - Portobello Book Blog @portybelle.bsky.social Scottish #bookblogger, chatting about the #books I've loved. Nature watcher, keen cook, always on the go and love living by the sea!
www.portobellobookblog.com
Jill's Book Cafe @jillsbookcafe.bsky.social A 60+ Yorkshire lass now residing in Cheshire. Ex librarian, bibliophile, book blogger & breast cancer thriver. Sorry unable to handle review requests. Blogs at jillsbookcafe.blog
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