Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. ‘’Face of the Establishment’. Sane.
Umut Guner @umuttgunerr.bsky.social Historian & Academic
Medieval History | Islamic Political Thought | Turk, Arab and Persian Worlds | Social History | Islamic Societies | Sufism
Tara Hanks @marina72.bsky.social Author of 2 novels (Wicked Baby and The Mmm Girl), Jeanne Eagels biographer, blogs at The Marilyn Report.
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TripFiction.com matches books with 2,890 locations around the world
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James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out now! 🐈⬛
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Josette @makedo.bsky.social No DMs. Leftist, feminist, Craftivist, Married, French and Irish roots. Dog Mam, working to reuse, recycle and mend. Would love to have never left the European Union. Resist Resist Resist.
Rebekah King @rebekahking.bsky.social Writer/researcher https://www.rebekahkingwriter.com/
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social Mondays at 9pmET on MS NOW
MaddowBlog.com
tits andronicus @tambourine.bsky.social 🥞 🫖 📚
sick poet / library mole
london
@guslegend.bsky.social @guslegend.bsky.social Books, walking & other pastimes
Mathew Lyons @mathewlyons.bsky.social Writer, historian. FRHistS. Recent work: History Today, The Spectator, Slightly Foxed, New Humanist, Engelsberg Ideas.
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.
lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social PhD & Assoc Lecturer @ University of Reading | Modernism, 19th-20th C liberalism, Woolf, Forster, social class | Manuscripts, publishing, archives & special collections | Part-time Admin Asst @ Centre for Book Cultures & Publishing @ University of Reading
Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social American/British Swiss resident. Builders tea, indie publishers, and editing till it hurts ❤️🔥♾️
Vicky Grut @vickygrut.bsky.social Writer. Short story collection 'Live Show, Drink Included' shortlisted for 2019 Edge Hill Awards. Pushcart nominated, 2023. Work in Masters Review XIII in 2025 and Best British Short Stories 2026. www.vickygrut.com
Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social Novelist. Poet. Reader.
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Substack: Clare’s Poetry Circle
GPWigglesworth @gpwigglesworth.bsky.social 'The Book Lover's (& Movie) Quiz Book' (1 & 2) author. Book quiz host - The Betsey Trotwood (next one 20/10). Sales & marketing manager at British Library Publishing. All opinions my own! All quiz dates etc here - https://www.gpwigglesworth.co.uk/
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. 📚
Ali Hope 📚📚 @heavenalibooks.bsky.social Birmingham UK based book lover, former blogger, fan of 20th century women writers. Rheumatoid arthritis warrior. TV binger, jigsaw addict. Here mainly for the book talk. 📚📚
N u z h a t B u k h a r i @nuzhatbukhari7.bsky.social Brilliant Corners (CB Editions)
Views & Reviews: https://cbeditions.com/bukhari.html
Contributing Editor at Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal
Dr Ann Kennedy Smith @akennedysmith.bsky.social Writing about books and 19th-20thc women's history in 'Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society' on Substack: https://akennedysmith.substack.com
Essays & reviews also in TLS, Slightly Foxed, ODNB & History Today etc
Kate Louise Mathis @drmaudbailey.bsky.social Scottish European | #GreenYes | Academic | Lace knitter | Concrete enthusiast | Gaelic women's poetry | Celtic/Gaelic Revivals | Still acknowledging ongoing pandemic (She/her)
Claire Harman @claireharman.bsky.social Biographer, critic, emeritus Professor. Books on Charlotte Brontë, Jane Austen, Fanny Burney, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Katherine Mansfield. Also Murder by the Book, a Victorian literary true-crime.
www.claireharman.com
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social Quondam Prof. English Language & Literature. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social Fact writer. Biographer of Ernie Pyle, John Bartlow Martin, Richard Tregaskis, Malcolm Browne, and Robert Sherrod, among others. Bio about journalist Wallace H. Terry available October 2026: https://www.unmpress.com/9780826370150/wallace-terry/
Paul Leyland @paul51.bsky.social Insect photographer & bibliophile
Dave C @duckpondsreview.bsky.social Retired and reading quite a lot in a quiet corner of Australia.
Chris Wolak @chriswolak.bsky.social Reader, writer, budding biographer. Librarian/Archivist. Co-host Book Cougars podcast.
chriswolak.com
Derek Bryant @derekbryant.bsky.social Curating things I think may be important - J Catherine Hawley @juxtabook.bsky.social Secondnd hand book seller (literary criticism, history, philosophy, classics etc). https://www.clhawley.co.uk/ PBFA member. Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/dnIGJv Blog: http://juxtabook.typepad.com/books #Dyslexic
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
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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/
Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social The Walking Museum of the Spanish Civil War in Barcelona. Author Forgotten Places: Barcelona&SCW. Also Iberian wildlife+landscape. Latest book "Travels through the Spanish Civil War" Now researching next book about Iberian wolves
www.thespanishcivilwar.com
Mel 📎🐟🌲⚓🌳🌊 @norska11.bsky.social 🇳🇴🇸🇪🇩🇰🇫🇮💙 Retired garden buyer, Begonia grower, chicken keeper. *No DM's-unsolicited DM's = instant block*, no lists. 🌈 ally, 🏳️⚧️ally, kindness to animals, respect for our beautiful earth, #Pigoneer🐷, Palmoildetectives.com 🌎 Oregonian
WriteStats @writestats.bsky.social Data-Driven Insights for Writers and Publishers.
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com Journalist, Reporter, Writer, Presenter @ Britain's biggest news podcast The News Agents (Mon-Fri) and Sunday with Lewis Goodall on LBC 10-12.
Website: lewisgoodall.com
Email: lewis.goodall@global.com
Substack: https://goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
Rory Stewart @rory-stewart.bsky.social Author The Middleland linktr.ee/middleland, PlacesinBetween, Jackson/Yale. PoliticsOnTheEdge. @Restispolitics podcast w Alastair Campbell.
Parody
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 
Deborah Parkin @deborahparkin.bsky.social Photography - Art - Literature - Women’s Photo History - Bookbinding - Printing - Women Artists - Gardening - Walking
Living on the moors in Northumberland with family, animals & camera.
Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of short fiction from the UK & beyond. Championing the next generation of writers & translators. Shares do not equal endorsements.
Find us at: https://commapress.co.uk/
Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social Author of Believable Lies, a story of wartime propaganda and fake news, out now from WH Allen. Discussing politics and more on Times Radio and Monocle Radio. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/452994/believable-lies-by-stiastny-terry/
Women Writers Network @womenwritersnet.bsky.social Supporting and promoting #WomenWriters. On insta at womenwritersnetwork and Twitter (X) @womenwritersnet.
The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social Empowering authors since 1884. The largest UK union for writers, illustrators and literary translators. #societyofauthors #humanauthored
Kirsten Miles, Author 🌹 @kirstenmiles.bsky.social Author 🖊 Vegan 🥬 Libra ♎️
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Erin Maher @theerinmaher.bsky.social TV writer (SWAMP THING! SHINING VALE!) Friend to books, horses, and old movies. I am pro-Oxford comma.
Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social Writer, collagist, memoirist, essayist. Scavenger. Ex-Radio Dramatist, Ex-Playwright.
Author of:
Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay (Little Toller)
Deliria (Rough Trade Books)
Wild Twin (Little Toller)
Latchkey (Sacred Parasite)
History Clippings @historyclippings.bsky.social Clippings found during my historical research. Showcasing the awesome primary material from around the web.
DM me for submissions.
Run by @joedragovich.bsky.social
Check out my 📖 on tea-smuggling gangsters: https://lnk.to/Hawkhurst
Fleurish Folk @fleurishfolk.bsky.social Researching women in #folklore & comparative #myth INFJ 🇨🇦 owned by 3 cats 🌸 #amwriting * No DM's thx
Anna Beer @annabeerauthor.bsky.social Author of 'Eve Bites Back', 'Sounds' and Oxford crime novels: 'Death of an Englishman' and coming soon 'An Inkling of Death' https://annabeerauthor.wixsite.com/mysite and https://www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/our-people/anna-beer/
Sean Murphy @sesn.bsky.social
Editor
Republic of Freedonia
“Useful, With A Pleasant Degree Of Humor”
Thomas Ruys Smith @thomasruyssmith.com Prof of Lit and Culture, mostly nineteenth century. Coming soon: 🎅 🔎 Searching for Santa Claus: An Anthology of the Poems, Stories and Illustrations That Shaped an American Icon. Writing a book about Mark Twain & London.
http://www.thomasruyssmith.com
Sara Catterall @scatterall.bsky.social Writer. MLIS. So many interests. She/her. Author of Amelia Bloomer: Journalist, Suffragist, Anti-Fashion Icon. Blog etc at saracatterall.com
Anna Foden @annafoden.bsky.social Writer of short plays and one seemingly endless biography. Love libraries, archives and generally looking stuff up.
@richvoorhees.bsky.social @richvoorhees.bsky.social 
Slow Moving Pictures @lewisbeerblog.bsky.social A film blog: I spent 2025 analysing Red Desert. www.slowmovingpictures.org
Jason Croot @jasoncroot.bsky.social Bradfordian, actor and author of the Bradford Back in the Day Memories Series: Bradford, Eh? & Bradford, Ye What? and the nostalgic football book Bradford or Leeds, Eh?
https://www.jasoncroot.com
Cate Lombardo @bleuroses.bsky.social “A nomad I will remain for life,
in love with distant and uncharted places.”
― Isabelle Eberhardt
Ruby Cowling @rubycowling.bsky.social THIS PARADISE: Short stories // Boiler House Press // http://tinyurl.com/RCTParadise // Shortlisted Edge Hill Prize; Longlisted Orwell Prize //
Full of state and woe
Sophie Heywood (she/her) @sophieheywood.bsky.social Associate Professor in French at Uni of Reading (UK)
Co-Director: Centre for Book Cultures & Publishing: @cbcp-unirdg.bsky.social
Children's Publishing in Cold War France: https://tinyurl.com/27x5c6kf
Children's 68: https://children68.hypotheses.org/
@nicola-wilson.bsky.social @nicola-wilson.bsky.social Associate Professor Book and Publishing Studies.
Author of Recommended! The influencers who changed how we read (2025)
Co-Director Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP) and Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing (CBCP)
Dr Helen Glew @helenglew.bsky.social Gender historian, book lover, runner, gymnerd.
Current projects: history of the marriage bar; women's work in Mass Observation archives
She/her
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781784996208/
Research/writing services:
https://helenglew.com
Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com Scarlett & Sophie: sisters who make graphic novels together, including Eisner nominated The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, No Surrender and This Slavery with SelfMadeHero
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Linda Maynard @lindamaynard.bsky.social Historian, writer, researcher, museum crawler
Rebecca Bowler @greenbowlerhat.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in C20th English Literature at Keele | Working (slowly but surely) on Critical Eds of May Sinclair | Past Chair of BAMS | Modernist Wellness | She/Her
Lund Humphries @lhartbooks.bsky.social Publishers on Art, Architecture and Design since 1939.
www.lundhumphries.com
The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk Independent poetry press + cultural review platform. We publish narrative-led work with edge. #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs
#PromoteIndieLit
Edited by @alanparrywriter.co.uk
www.thebrokenspine.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/brokenspinearts
S. K. Riley @skriley.bsky.social Writer, PhD, gardener, educator, tree planter, and so forth.
www.skriley-author.com
Lover of Australian wildlife, re-wilding, mythology, music, cinema and democracy. 🇦🇺
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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Brian Boyd @brianacadia.bsky.social Writer of fiction, poems, and arts journalism. Teacher and forever student. 
ReRouted By History @reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social Counterfactuals for the geopolitically curious. What if the script flipped? The GPS of alternate timelines. Because history doesn’t repeat—it remixes. Let’s imagine the tracks that never dropped.
open.substack.com/pub/reroutedbyhistory | #bskystorians
Clickworlddaily · by Jon @clickworlddaily.bsky.social ✍️Writing for those who feel deeply, but quietly.
Moments that linger, questions that stay. Nurse grad, postgrad in HR & Soc. Serv. Manag, working in HR.
Collector of silences, seeker of meaning.
🌐 clickworlddaily.com 📘my book amzn.to/4opWiz9 (affiliate)
Arthur Seaton #FBPE #Wessex @southsaxon.bsky.social Working class history, photography, railways, skiing, cats, corvids and goats! A sense of humour is essential. Cat butler. Reluctant intellectual. Rare disease survivor. Born at 314.3ppm.
https://railthing.blogspot.com/?m=1
Mark Jenkinson Sr @markjenkinsonsr.bsky.social Fairer votes, seaside, theatre, Nat Gonella.
John Altringham @johnaltringham.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy Ecologist and conservation scientist (emeritus prof.) in despair over inaction on climate change and biodiversity crises. Mountain-lover. Artist. Live in […]
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Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social Writer
The Earth Thy Great Exchequer Ready Lies (UK)
Something Wonderful (US)
Winner BBC National Short Story Award #bbcnssa
O Henry
Stories in Zoetrope, Southern Review, Ploughshares, BBSS, &&
She/her
Ally
Chris Ponting @chrisponting.bsky.social Swansea born, Gloucestershire bred. Cheese, beer, tripe.
The world leading authority on Mr Arthur Hirst.
If you’re looking for Professor Chris Ponting of the University of Edinburgh, you’ll find him at @cgatist.bsky.social
Derek Sylvester @dereksylvester.bsky.social Artist. Posting paintings to spread some joy and maybe even a smile. www.rockyartworks.com Married with two grown children. Cavapoo. 2 cats. Love Clumber Spaniels. Likes: Art, Music, Food, Science, Comedy
Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social Artist, Scientist, Woodland Ecologist, Statistician, Historian & former Research Scholar at the RIA | Art from Dublin, Ireland 🌈 He/Him | Sé/é
Buy my work here: https://robertbohan.etsy.com
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
@bhousepress.bsky.social @bhousepress.bsky.social Fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and everything in between: https://linktr.ee/BoilerHouse
Jenny Harper @jennyharper.bsky.social SWW DTP (AHRC) funded English Literature PhD student researching Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, the working classes, Walt Whitman, British ethical socialists, non-anthropocentric relationships with nature, ecoscocialism, modernism.
Andrea @mouseinthehouse.bsky.social Slowly regaining control after years of disquiet
England
Mark Allan @markxa.com Learn, Do, Teach, Repeat | Belfast but with Manchester roots | Tech is how I live, art is why I live | Masked scoundrel | Evolving | Microsoft MVP alumnus | NIDC founder | Non-militant cyclist | He/him | markxa.com
Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social Giving new life to old books since 2015. Bookshop.org Indie Champion. Find us: backlisted.fm, Apple Podcasts, Spotify. Support us: patreon.com/backlisted.
rev recluse @revrecluse.bsky.social I do Vintage Edmonton:
http://www.vintageedmonton.com/
Esquire Joe:
https://esquirejoe.bandcamp.com/music
Edmonton, Alberta
Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social Artist & writer. History & art buff. Museum of Photocopies. Quietus. Guardian. Observer. Louder than War. WORM, Rotterdam. Leiden. Write about music, NL, & my family history. #MDANT. 3rd book out March ‘27 https://linktr.ee/richardfoster
Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social Fragments of life in messages from old postcards, curated by Tom Jackson. BOOK: http://amzn.to/34rIDhp POD: http://Apple.co/2xNqQ8D AGENT: http://morgangreencreatives.com
Andrew Crowther @andrewcrowther.bsky.social Unprofessional writer, author of "Down to Earth" published by Stairwell Books and also "Stupid Stories for Tough Times" published by Renard Press, Secretary of the W S Gilbert Society, brunch liberal, and twit
Bradford, Yorkshire 
Interpret Magazine @interpretmagazine.bsky.social A new magazine of international writing, featuring winners of the International Booker, Neustadt Prize and US National Book Award 🏴
Booktasters @booktasters.bsky.social We connect you with authors to read their books for free in exchange for an honest review. 📚📖
Trevor Wilson @trevormwilson.bsky.social I like to photograph my travels and write about whatever catches my eye. Love a bit of street photography. Wedding photography pays the bills.
📍Scotland
📷 Fujifilm X
https://www.trevorwilsonphotography.com
https://trevormwilson.substack.com/
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by us: billions of ordinary people. https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
The TLS @thetls.bsky.social The Times Literary Supplement. Subscribe here: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/buy
Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing.
https://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/