Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social Writer: Rosewater, Murders of Molly Southbourne, Far from the Light of Heaven, Making Wolf, Jackdaw and others.
Arthur C. Clarke and BSFA award winner, Hugo finalist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Etc.
Reading worm.
Opinions mine.
He/him
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Intermediate Member of the CIEP.
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Paula Clarke Bain @baindex.org Book indexer, editor, boss at baindex.org | Society of Indexers Chair and Fellow | CIEP APM | Cryptic crossword novice setter Pixie | Stockport, UK
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See also
@indexers.bsky.social
www.indexers.org.uk
#IndexSky
Denise Cowle @denisecowle.bsky.social Copyeditor & proofreader. Advanced professional member & vice-chair of the CIEP. Cohost of The Editing Podcast. https://linktr.ee/denisecowle
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Georgia Tennant @georgiatennant.bsky.social Actress/Producer/Tired
Graham @mr-trajan.bsky.social Rational romantic mystic cynical idealist | Never be cruel, never be cowardly | He/him | 🔸🏳️🌈🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴
Jon Sopel @jonsopel1.bsky.social Host of daily podcast The News Agents. And author of Strangeland. Available at all good bookshops….
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Serenity Booksellers
• Romiley • Stockport Town Centre
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David Coates @oziasmidwinter.bsky.social Bangs on about Taylor Swift and books a lot. Was events manager for Blackwell’s Manchester, now with @serenitybookshop.bsky.social Nero Book Awards Fiction Judge 2023. He/him
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social Always in the Corner
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Margaret Atwood @margaretatwood.bsky.social Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca
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Not in the Epstein Files, but in Alan Bennett's Diaries
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social Writer. Yes, that one.
(she/they)
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Simon Mayo @simonmayo.bsky.social Nil desperandum
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Alastair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social Writer, strategist, co-presenter the U.K. No1 podcast The Rest Is Politics … love Britain hate Brexit, loved Twitter loathe Musk n Trump 
Bad Wolf Archives @badwolfarchives.bsky.social first and foremost a jackie tyler fan, secondly a doctor who fan 🌈
Jess Phillips @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social MP for Birmingham Yardley
Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social Chief film critic, Variety. Beneath this glassy surface, a world of gliding monsters.
Jimmy Fallon @jimmyfallon.bsky.social 
Maitlis @maitlis.bsky.social Co host @thenewsagents .
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
Anna Mears @annamearsy.bsky.social Head of Comms for Radio 4, 5 Live and BBC Sounds. Previously BBC Arts. Music industry survivor
Stephen Fry @stephenfry.bsky.social Grazer and nibbler at the outer edges of new social media platforms
Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk Not even the most famous person in my bedroom. Full biog: https://tinyurl.com/29skn3p6
Bob Mortimer @bobmort.bsky.social 
we deserve love @wedeservelove.bsky.social soon.
Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social Burkey with the good hair. My woke take brings all the c*n*s to the yard. Profile pic by Nancy fancy pants contact@themasonsisters.com
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