Claraisreading ๐ฟ๐๐๐ @claramay.bsky.social books, book chat, wildflowers, pond plants
James Randall @randalljamesp.bsky.social between the forest and the city / editor, writer - for adults & children, incl. folktales & non-fiction (26/27) - Hachette: https://shorturl.at/xJBrT, HarperCollins: https://amzn.eu/d/0iEBWa29. PhD, Goldsmiths (2018).
Riccardo Martinelli Fine Art ๐จ ๐ฎ๐น ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ @riccardomartinelli.bsky.social ๐จ Painter, illustrator, teacher ๐๐ฎ๐น (Tuscany) ๐
Catalog of drawings and paintings available on request / commissions
info@riccardomartinelli.it
www.riccardomartinelli.it
ITA
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Fiona Mossman @fionamossman.bsky.social she/her
๐ Writer | Librarian
๐ Edinburgh | Burntisland | Cairngorms
Gleefully geeky. Writes SFF/literary speculative short stories, among other word-things. ๐๐๐
AI is not welcome here
Find me at https://www.fionamossman.com
Georgia Reads @georgiarybanks.bsky.social Reading books from around the world.
Filling sketchbooks. Riding bikes. Lifting heavy. Walking dogs. Watching sport.
kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social Senior Editor at Book Riot. Editor/Author of BODY TALK, HERE WE ARE, + (DON'T) CALL ME CRAZY. Former librarian. Anti-censorship advocate. Yoga teacher. Your favorite infernal witch. She/her. Library Journal Mover & Shaker in 2024.
Kendra Winchester @kdwinchester.bsky.social Contributing Editor Book Riot | Founder @readappalachia.bsky.social | Cofounder @littlebirdslit.bsky.social | she/her
Andy Hunter @andyhunter777.bsky.social Founder and CEO, Bookshop.org; co-Creator and Publisher, Literary Hub; co-founder and Chairman, Electric Literature
The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine founded in 1953.
https://www.theparisreview.org/
https://theparisreview.substack.com/
@bookriot.bsky.social @bookriot.bsky.social 
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
the #BookSky account ๐๐ @booksky.club #BookSky (est. 2023) is bluesky's home for readers and writers with 20+ literary feeds for every genre. โ๏ธ a project by @clarabelle.xyz
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Hastings Book Festival 2026 @hastingsbookfest.bsky.social The 9th annual Hastings Book Festival will take place from 10th to 20th September 2026, with 40 events and more than 80 speakers and performers.
Our headline guests: David Olusoga; Kate Mosse; Roger McGough and Robin Ince. Many more speakers and events.
West Camel @westcamel.bsky.social Writer & editor. Editorial Director at Orenda Books. Editor of The Riveter Magazine and for the European Literature Network. Author of novels ATTEND and FALL.
After Octavian @afteroctavian.bsky.social Sintesa. Bibliophile. Lieder Enthusiast. Operavore. Balletomane. Gourmand. Oenophile. Eavesdropper Extraordinaire. She/Her They/Them
Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org
Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social Writer and mumbler. Haunted Generation, Fortean Times, Electronic Sound, Doctor Who Magazine, Shindig, Mulgrave Audio, Wiffle Lever To Full, Scarred For Life and Summer Winos. Summat to do innit
Chris Josiffe @christopherjosiffe.bsky.social Writer, cataloguer, Fortean Times irregular, Gef the Talking Mongoose's authorised biographer, twitcher, Eschaton immanentizer.
COYW.
http://instagram.com/cjosiffeart/
gefmongoose.co.uk
Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social Irish ๐ฎ๐ช in Yorkshire ๐ต๏ธ Fortean Times writer & PhD student, I study folk music ๐ช & folklore ๐ง
Also โค๏ธold ๐ cars & homebrew ๐บ
Dad to 2 (not so wee) girls
Music on Woodford Halse and Fenny Compton https://ryanshirlow.bandcamp.com/
London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social Strange and wonderful events since 2011
Paranormal, psychic, folkloric, fortean events.
Sharing the oddest London-based news.
Fortean Times @forteantimes.bsky.social The journal of strange phenomena
Anna Foden @annafoden.bsky.social Writer of short plays and one seemingly endless biography. Love libraries, archives and generally looking stuff up.
Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
EarthworkBec @earthworkbec.bsky.social Landscape Archaeologist, UK.
#EarthworkSurvey | #Prehistory
#LandscapeArchaeology
Nature lover. Wanderer & ponderer.
Dreaming of Swallowdale, seed cake & tame adventures, oh and hachures! ๐
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Daunt Books @dauntbooks.bsky.social 
Caroline Sanderson @carosanderson.bsky.social Reader. Writer. Associate Editor & #nonfiction previewer @thebookseller.com. Royal Literary Fund Writing For Life Fellow. Honorary President @indexers.bsky.social. Also on Substack: "What to Read Now"
Francesca Main @francescamain.bsky.social Reader, editor, publisher of Phoenix, an imprint of Orion. 
Lauren Steele @shteeeley.bsky.social ๐ MJ PRH Sales ๐ Ex Bookshop Manager ๐ MA, The Warburg Institute๐ป lozlit ๐ May We Feed the Kingโช๏ธshe/her (views my own)
Ioan Marc Jones @ioanmarcjones.bsky.social Writer in The Guardian, BBC, The Times, The FT, The Independent, Spectator, McSweeney's, New England Review, etc. He/Him.
Commissions: ioanmarcjones@proton.me
@awhitby-mag.bsky.social @awhitby-mag.bsky.social Newcastle United fan from Whitby. Probable Humanist . Favourite band Queen. Love History ,Science, books , PlayStation games . Prefer facts over feelings , tolerance over hatred . Anti fascist.
MP Ryan Turnbull ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ @turnbullwhitby.bsky.social MP for Whitby since 2019.
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance and National Revenue.
Husband and Girl Dad!ย ๐
Whitby Museum @whitbymuseum.bsky.social An independent museum founded in 1823 by Whitby Literary & Philosophical Society in Whitby, UK. We have a quirky collection including fossils, archaeology, ships, explorers, Hand of Glory and a library and archive of historic documents.
Tina Hagger @haggytea.bsky.social Printmaker, Artist & Human perpetually seeking wonder | Organiser of For the Love of Print | Printmaking Tutor | Commissions |
Shop etc at haggytea.com
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
Try the LRB for just ยฃ6: lrb.me/social
LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk 20,000 titles across two floors in Bloomsbury, plus the best events in town.
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Philippa @gingerworrier.bsky.social
therapist; once publisher & indie bookseller; peddling own blend of weird since the late 70s; here for all of it (ish)
seldom fast; often furious
๐ ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ ๐ซ๐ท ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ญ๐ฐ ๐ช๐บ ๐
Darryl Jones @profdarryljones.bsky.social Professor of Modern British Literature and Culture, Trinity College Dublin. M. R. James, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle - and fountain pens.
Anna Fazackerley @annafazack.bsky.social Education journalist, write for The Observer & The Guardian, keen on walking, wine, kindness, the aptly used expletive. Totally over misogyny and hoping this place is better. 
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.
Katie Lumsden @katiejlumsden.bsky.social Booktuber (Books and Things). Historical fiction author. Freelance editor. Reader. Part-time Victorian.
โ๏ธThe Trouble with Mrs Montgomery Hurst, The Secrets of Hartwood Hall
๐Hosts #victober #janeaustenjuly
She/her
Mark Doyle @markdoyle.bsky.social Historian & writer. Britain, Ireland, empire, music. Latest book is on John Cale's Paris 1919 for 33 1/3. Next: histories of African people/music in Ireland. โPipe-sucking radicalโ --Mail on Sunday. Views here are my own: my employer has no views.
June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social Writing Place Writing Planet, UCD / iCRAG 2026 | Lamplight Fellowship 2025 | Literature Bursary Award 2025 | Moth Short Story Prize 2024 | 'Somebody' expo MoLi 2020-2021 | Room Little Darker 2018/17 | https://www.airbnb.ie/h/pinkhousedublin
OU English and Creative Writing @ouliterature.bsky.social The official Bluesky account of the English and Creative Writing department of The Open University, UK.
Simone @frauchen.bsky.social ๐จ๐ฆ (๐ฉ๐ช๐บ๐ฆ) She/her; decidedly liberal and socialist. I work in an independent bookshop, so I like offering up reading suggestions based on books Iโve enjoyed.
INCSA @incsa.bsky.social The International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (INCSA) is a professional society of scholars from around the globe. #INCSA |
CNCSI Partner | https://linktr.ee/IN_CSA
Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social Lecturer in c19th and c20th Literature. #Gothic #DeathStudies #Childhood
Assoc Editor @ Gothic Studies
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social Weโre the national library of the UK.
Dr Claire Millington โ๐ป๐บ @clairemillington.bsky.social Archaeologist and writer. Once-upon-a-time a diplomat. Rural.
https://clairemillington.com
(She/her)
Ruskin Society @ruskinsociety.bsky.social Founded in 1997, the Ruskin Society celebrates the life, work and legacy of the Victorian art critic and social thinker John Ruskin. ruskinsociety.uk
Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social โHilarious.โ - Stephen Fry. โMade me laugh out loud.โ - David Sedaris. โVery funny.โ - Kate Atkinson. "Psychedelic." - The Guardian. โNot humerus at all.โ - Amazon reviewer. https://www.tom-cox.com/
Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Cumbria. Latest book is โAn A-Z of Beatrix Potterโ (Bloomsbury Academic). Programme Leader for โMA Literature, Romanticism, and the Lake Districtโ at Ambleside.
@anneontheshelf.bsky.social @anneontheshelf.bsky.social Love nature, fresh air and books. Supporter of libraries. Monmouth, Wales, UK.
Jack Monroe @jackmonroe.bsky.social I have opinions and bylines and plenty of snacks.
James Spackman @jamesspackman73.bsky.social Literary agent, pitching coach, cyclist, lino printer https://linktr.ee/JamesSpackman
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 cityโs literary scene, with writers, poets and performers from Leeds, Yorkshire and beyond!
#LLF26. www.leedslitfest.co.uk
Tom Jenks @tomjenksuk.bsky.social Poetry, prose, publishing, art.
https://tomjenks.uk/
https://substack.com/@tomjenks
Hay Festival @hayfestival.bsky.social ...a world of different...
hayfestival.org 
Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com Palliative care doctor ๐ฉ๐ปโโ Author ๐ Winner: 2025 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction ๐ซ Founder: Hospice Ukraine ๐บ๐ฆ Rep: Clare Alexander at Aitken Alexander ๐
www.drrachelclarke.com
Wendy Erskine @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social THE BENEFACTORS Sceptre. Waterstones Irish Book of the Year. Shortlisted Irish Novel of the Year, Best British Audio Book. Itโs out now. dance move/sweet home/stinging fly/picador/well I just kind of like it/PVA Books
Arvon @arvonfoundation.bsky.social The Home of Creative Writing. Writing courses and retreats online and at three UK countryside homes. https://linktr.ee/arvon_
Julie Bell @buliejell.bsky.social Passionate about books, culture, the environment , and so much more . Life should never be boring you donโt know what is around the corner.
JourneyDude in Scotland @scottishinsider.org ๐ชฌ๐งฟ Freemason | Traveller | Historian | Novel Author | Filmmaker & Photographer
www.youtube.com/c/journeydude
www.weescotland.com
www.sendmeonadventure.com
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Readit Club @readit.club If youโre into books - welcome ๐ค
Everything about books, writers, reviews, literature discussions.
๐ ReadIt.club
Kat @thiscatreads.bsky.social More bookworm than cat
(More often to be found nattering away on IG @this.catreads)
Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social Always in the Corner
Tracy Chevalier @tracychevalier.bsky.social Author (Girl with a Pearl etc). Maker. Best advice: Less is more.
Website: https://tracychevalier.com/
Imogen Foxell @imogenfoxell.bsky.social Artist, author, lexicographer, solo parent
Oxford, UK
(she/her)
www.imogenfoxell.com
Cathy J @whatcathyreadnext.bsky.social Gardener ๐ฑ | Avid reader | Winston Graham Historical Prize 2026 Judge | John Buchan fan | Book blogger always ready for the next chapter... ๐๐
https://whatcathyreadnext.co.uk/
Jack Edwards @jack-edwards.bsky.social the internet's resident librarian
Nick McLoughlin @nickmacwrites.bsky.social Reader, writer, runner. Tea, trees, and cats.
My debut novel Slings and Arrows was published on the 28th March 2024. ๐๐
David @mrdavid885.bsky.social Bookworm who watches far too many soaps.
Mark Hussey @markhussey.bsky.social Markhusseybooks.com
Writer, editor, Woolf person
@markhusseybooks
Susan Dillon @sadillon54.bsky.social Retired English teacher. Catching up with my reading now.
helen @hejparry.bsky.social children's writer, cat wrangler, time waster
A Scrap of Moss & Magick out 8 October 2026 with @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social
pre-orders: https://tinyurl.com/4suv7bh9 | https://tinyurl.com/m9h8d2fe
cover art: Melissa Castrillรณn
British in Belgium
she/her
HopewellsLibrary @hopewellslibrary.bsky.social librarian, cat lover, dog liker, stuck in a bleeding red county in a red red state, trying to be published writer. Blog: https://hopewellslibraryoflife.wordpress.com/
Quite Literally Books @quiteliterallybks.bsky.social We are a heritage press devoted to discovering and reissuing ought-to-be-in-print books by American women authorsโand occasionally othersโwhoโve been shelved for far too long.
Caro Arnett @carosbookcase.bsky.social YouTuber & book blogger โจ๐๐จ๐ฆ
https://www.youtube.com/@CaroArnett
https://linktr.ee/carosbookcase
Matt Keeley @matt-keeley.bsky.social Frequent reader and occasional reviewer
Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social Writer, naturalist, myth and oak lover, museum and play goer. Pursuer of whimsy. she/her. sparrowpost.com
Tanya Izzard @tanyaizzard.bsky.social ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ I'm a book indexer working on scholarly humanities titles. Other hats include being the Marketing lead for the UK Society of Indexers and my E.M. Delafield website. https://tanyaizzard.co.uk/about/tanya-izzards-links/
Katherine @katherineo.bsky.social Love books, bookshops and libraries.
Frank Cottrell-Boyce @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social Waterstone's UK Children's Laureate
Ideas lead to idols. Only wonder leads to truth.
Swinging a hammock on the Island of Brilliant podcast
https://islandofbrilliant.podbean.com/
Friends of Nonsuch @fononsuch.bsky.social Preserving Nonsuch Park's history with a Victorian Service Wing Museum & the largest model of Nonsuch Palace. Open on Sundays. Reg. Charity No. 1053923.
Angela Wright @angelawright1794.bsky.social Professor of Romantic Literature, University of Sheffield. Romanticism, Gothic, author and general co-ed of Ann Radcliffe for forthcoming Cambridge edition and gen co-ed of Cambridge Elements in the Gothic. PL AHRC project โAnn Radcliffe, Then and Nowโ
Ruth Thomas @ruthiesthomas.bsky.social Latest novel The Snow and the Works on the Northern Line (a BBC Book at Bedtime) @royalliteraryfund.bsky.social
Agent Georgia Garrett @RCWLitAgency
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Home-Corner-by-Ruth-Thomas/9780571230624
Catherine Spooner @catherinespooner.bsky.social Academic and creative writer | Professor of Literature and Culture, Lancaster University | all things Gothic | fashion | folk horror | she/her
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Clare Stevens @clarewynstevens.bsky.social Ambivert author. Writes thoughtful escapism. Second novel, Heartsound, out now with Inspired Quill. 
Kirsten Miles, Author ๐น @kirstenmiles.bsky.social Author ๐ Vegan ๐ฅฌ Libra โ๏ธ
EDM forever ๐ชฉ Write Your Heart Out โค๏ธ
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Dr Georgia Toumara @georgiatoumara.bsky.social Early career researcher โข PhD in English lit @UofGlasgow โข Byronic legacyโข C19th- early 20th travel literature โข Gothic seascapes and blue humanities ๐ โข Classical reception and mythology ๐๏ธ
Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social Nonfiction writer. Author of The Mess That Made Them (Bloomsbury, 2026) geni.us/TMtMT. Two-time Best of the Net nominee. | ๐ Council Bluffs, IA (Omaha Metro Area) | Rep: Anderson Literary Agency
Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social Writer. Yes, that one.
(she/they)
www.joanne-harris.co.uk
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
Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social Freelance journalist & writer. Bylines at the Herald, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the Big Issue, Prospect Magazine et al. Radio 4 documentaries, including Waiting for the Van & Prosecuting Polmont. Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.
Jenna Warren @bookcornershop.bsky.social Owner of an indie bookshop in Saltburn-by-the-Sea. Author of novels 'The Hometown Bookshop' and 'The Moon and Stars'. Loves books, writing, musical theatre, dogs, mythology and folk tales.
www.jennawarrenwrites.com
Lucinda Hawksley @lucindahawksley.bsky.social Author, broadcaster, lecturer & travel writer. Art historian, literature lover, Dickens expert (& descendant). Goldster podcast presenter. President of the International Dickens Fellowship.
Laura Harker @lrhrkr.bsky.social Writer & editor. Having a nice time โจ๏ธ
๐Whitby
Katherine Hartley @katherinehartley.bsky.social Writer and pro TV/film subtitler from Whitby ๐ง๐ปโโ๏ธ | MA in screenwriting ๐ฝ๏ธ
Erica Wagner @ericawgnr.bsky.social Writer, reader, cook, friend, lover. Contributing Editor, Observer. Contributing Writer for the New Statesman, Consulting Lit Ed for Harper's Bazaar. Podcaster, various. www.ericawagner.co.uk