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Holly Antrum @hollyantrum.bsky.social She/Her. Artist, filmmaker and researcher (UK). Films distributed by LUX Artists' Moving Image. https://linktr.ee/holly___antrum
Here to keep access to a diversity of algos!
All views are my own - currently finishing a PhD and associated projects...
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
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https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1837201724?i=1000724643828
Europa Editions UK @europaeditionsuk.bsky.social Publishing the world, one book at a time.
Open Borders Press @openborderspress.bsky.social Founded by Christopher MacLehose, OBP specialises in publishing literary fiction, non fiction and crime fiction from around the world exclusively in English translation.
Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com Author. Actor. Observer of everyday life.
https://www.mirandakeeling.com
My new book: https://geni.us/ThePlaceImin
My first book: https://tinyurl.com/ycz2hc94
My podcast: https://StoppingToNotice.lnk.to/podcastho
Patreon: https://tinyurl.com/mrxket5b
Beth Gardiner @bethgardiner.bsky.social Journalist, author of PLASTIC INC. Buy US http://bit.ly/4hTHGFh Buy UK http://bit.ly/3LTjHdi And CHOKED #airpollution book. Bylines in NYTimes, Guardian, NatGeo, Scientific American, & more. AP alum. bethgardiner.com
Samantha Ellis @samanthaellis.bsky.social Books: How to be a Heroine, Take Courage, Chopping Onions on my Heart / Always Carry Salt.
Plays inc How to Date a Feminist
I am mostly on Instagram.
www.samanthaellis.me.uk 🧿
https://open.substack.com/pub/samanthaellis1?r=53sh&utm_medium=ios
Philippa R. Francis @philippa.bsky.social Writer, reader, photographer . . .
https://ko-fi.com/philippa
Francesca L Rolle @francesca-laura.bsky.social Art. Nature. Poetry. Life.
She/Her.
Midas @midascampaigns.bsky.social Midas is an award-winning communications agency working at the heart of publishing, arts and culture, based in both the UK & US.
https://linktr.ee/midascampaigns
Chris Townsend @christownsend.bsky.social Outdoor writer & photographer, passionate about wild places, long distance walking, & rewilding. https://www.christownsendoutdoors.com
National Book Tokens @nationalbooktokens.bsky.social A gift beyond words.
National Book Tokens and Bookily gift cards can be spent in bookshops and online.
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Simon Kuper @simonkuper.bsky.social Financial Times columnist, and author of books including Chums, Good Chaps, Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century, Soccernomics and out in late 2025, World Cup Fever. British and now French too, lives in Paris with wife and kids.
Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social Mom, Refugee and Congresswoman for #MN05. Progressive Caucus Deputy Chair. Fighting for a more just world.✨ http://HC.com/IlhanOmar 
Nairn Books @nairnbooks.bsky.social linktr.ee/nairnbooks
Marina Benjamin @marinabenjamin.bsky.social Writer. Editor at Aeon. Midlife trilogy (Middlepause, Insomnia, A Little Give) &c. Essays in Granta, Aeon, Paris Review. New work cooking. Rep Rebecca Carter
Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social host of @connectwithjacob.bsky.social. weekends 10AM ET on @ms.now. author of NYT bestsellers Firestorm and Separated.
jacobsoboroff.com
Wolfson History Prize @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social The #WolfsonHistoryPrize is the most prestigious history writing prize in the UK.
Alison McNab @alisonmcnab.bsky.social Retired academic librarian (specialised in research support and econtent). Exiled Scot. Christian. Owned by a greyhound. Chatting about personal & professional stuff, incl #TheArchers
Little Rebels Award @littlerebsprize.bsky.social Est. 2012. The Little Rebels Children's Book Award celebrates UK radical fiction for readers aged 0-12. Run by Letterbox Library & Housmans Bookshop on behalf of the Alliance of Radical Booksellers #LittleRebelsAward #UKKidLit #KidLitUK #KidsBookAward
New Adult Book Prize @newadultprize.bsky.social A new book prize celebrating the new adult fiction space and its readers🔮
Shortlist announced on 28th August!
Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social Author, journalist, hero, dad, sleepy etc. He/him. Cambridge, UK. Please buy the fun, funny books I write for children and grown-ups.
mikerampton.com / interestingskull.beehiiv.com
Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com Writer. Comics include Bananaman for the Beano and various for 2000 AD. Books include Create Your Own Comics, Peaches’ Creatures, Science of Marvel Superheroes & Ladybird Big Book of Dead Things.
Pic by Wayne Thompson.
Website: www.nedhartley.com
1 of 100 @weare1of100.bsky.social Community, creativity, collaboration. ♻️ Ethically produced, 100 piece Limited Editions with the world's best creatives. Music, Art, Culture.
🛒 https://linktr.ee/weare1of100
63 Old Castle Road, Glasgow, G44 5TG
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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social Author: Men at War - Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 on British masculinity, sexuality & the cultural memory of WWII on W&N Books/Orion. First 📖 Out of the Woods, 2019. Co-founder: The Quietus. My stuff: https://linktr.ee/luketurner ⚒️🏳️🌈
Samantha Baines @samanthabaines.bsky.social Funny Actress | Bestselling Author | Broadcaster 📚buy my book: Living with Hearing Loss & deafness 📚 🦻ambassador RNID ambassador 🧏♀️ posts: Sam & team
Bookshop.org @bookshop.org A better way to buy books online where every purchase supports local bookstores ☀️📚
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social Butterflies and zebras and moonbeams and fairy tales. Literally wrote the book on carbon. Born 326.17. He/him. "Bleakly amusing." —A. Martine.
"The dad jokes will continue until morale improves." —Charlie Jane Anders.
Signal: eroston.87
Bloomberg Green
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal the champions, wosoc. Wow! (center) Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social America's Copy Editor®
author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • he/him/his
benjamindreyer.com
Dr Thomas Halliday @tjdhalliday.bsky.social Author of OTHERLANDS (Foyle's BOTY 2022) and its illustrated counterpart (Foyle's Children's BOTY 2025), currently writing a second adult book. Palaeontologist, sometime TV quizzer, international croquet player, lapsed choral singer.
David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social Autheur. Unfluencer.
'The Beckett List' (2027)
'A Crumpled Swan' (2025)
'Multiple Joyce' (2022)
All published by www.saggingmeniscus.com
(No DMs)
Lucie McKnight Hardy @lmcknighthardy.bsky.social Author of NIGHT BABIES (2026) @johnmurrays.bsky.social
and DEAD RELATIVES (2021) & WATER SHALL REFUSE THEM (2019) @deadinkbooks.bsky.social
She/her
lmcknighthardy.com
Agent: @donaldwin.bsky.social @watsonlittle.bsky.social
Roz @rozmilner.bsky.social Transfemme Guy Davenport // As seen in the Toronto Star, Lambda Literary, Broken Pencil, Full Stop, The Bulwark, the Ex-Puritan, Liberal Currents, and elsewhere // your dad’s fave books/jazz writer
Jenny Lord @jennylord.bsky.social Publisher &c.
The Arthur C. Clarke Award @clarkeaward.bsky.social The Arthur C. Clarke Award science fiction book of the year.
clarkeaward.com
Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk Online poetry magazine posting daily. We publish & review poetry, prose, filmpoems, word & image and print publish as IS&T Press. Editing internships. Posts by Sabine Wilson-Patrick & Kate Birch.
@mandascott.bsky.social @mandascott.bsky.social Novelist: ANY HUMAN POWER Mytho-political thriller. Boudica: Dreaming, A Treachery of Spies, winner: McIlvanney, shortlisted: Orange, Edgar, Saltire
#Thrutopian narratives: toward a future we'd be proud to leave behind
Podcaster @AccidentalGods
#LBTQIAA+
Pete Apps @peteapps.bsky.social Inside Housing + freelance elsewhere. Author of Orwell Prize winning Show Me The Bodies - How We Let Grenfell Happen. https://peteapps.substack.com
Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social Co-owner of @portersqbooks.bsky.social Author of The Art of Libromancy & An Exaggerated Murder. Opinions my own. BlueSky for @authorsabb.bsky.social & @massaabb.bsky.social He/him https://linktr.ee/joshthelibromancer
e. amato @eamato.bsky.social poet, performer, writer, storyteller, curator, editor, filmmaker, scripty, facilitator, and plant-based kitchen witch
#preWGA #RedListwriter #scriptsky
https://ko-fi.com/eamato
https://eamato.substack.com/
Kerri Andrews @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social Writer & academic at University College Cork, where I am also Director of Creative Writing. Author of Pathfinding and Wanderers. Editor of Way Makers + Nan Shepherd’s letters. Walker, reader and single mum. Signed copies of all books: kerriandrews.co.uk
Nikki Trott @nikkitrott.bsky.social Author of Sacred Business | Host of Going Conscious podcast | Brand Strategist | Investor | CEO Adviser ⚡️ Helping you transform yourself, redesign business & impact the world ⚡️ Working for a future where business, humanity and the Earth thrive in harmony.
Horatio Clare @horatioclare.bsky.social Award-winning author, broadcaster, journalist. Next book: WE CAME BY SEA: the true story of the small boat crisis. Latest: THE RECOVERY GUIDE TO MENTAL HEALTH, is a Times Self-help Book of the Year. Presents Is Psychiatry Working? on BBC Sounds
Irene @derbren.bsky.social books, bikes, cats, cheese, and cinemas. Non-practising German. Unreliable narrator, ready for my close-up. Probably have a crush on you. For more, go here: https://linktr.ee/DerBren
Miriam Toews @authormiriamtoews.bsky.social Award-winning Canadian author known for poignant, witty novels on family, faith, and mental health.
Medha Singh @medhawrites.bsky.social Poet, editor and translator. Edinburgh. SciencesPo, UoE / TEDx / New Writer Awardee ‘23 (Scottish Book Trust) / Ed-at-large, Pen and Anvil Press, MA / Afterbody, Blue Diode Press, Edinburgh: tinyurl.com/afterbodybluediode
Elizabeth Oldfield @elizabetholdfield.bsky.social “You shall love your crooked neighbour/With your crooked heart”
Auden
Writer, podcast host, coach
ElizabethOldfield.com
Taffy Brodesser-Akner @taffyakner.bsky.social I cry a lot but I am so productive! 
Sean | Drowned in Sound @drownedinsound.bsky.social Founder of Drowned in Sound (est. 2000).
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Ellen Jones @ellenjones.bsky.social 📚 Author of Outrage: Why LGBTQ+ Equality Is Not Yet Won And What We Can Do About It
💜 Award-winning strategist & speaker
🏳️🌈 Autistic lesbian
🐶 Probably petting a dog
Annie Gray @dranniegray.bsky.social Food historian, mainly British food ca1650 on. Writer, consultant, speaker. #BBCTKC panellist. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/dranniegray
Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social Technology, Parkinson’s, #sophiefromromania
Amber Massie-Blomfield @ambermb.bsky.social Arts and climate. Born at 344 ppm.
https://ambermassieblomfield.com/
David Ho @davidho.bsky.social Climate scientist; ocean carbon cycle and climate solutions. Professor @soest.hawaii.edu, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Visiting Faculty, Arizona State University. https://linktr.ee/david_ho
Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social Environmental campaigner & author, The Lie of the Land (William Collins, 2024), The Lost Rainforests of Britain (2022), & Who Owns England? (2019). Forthcoming: The Ghosts of Chalk Country (2027). Agent: @jmlockhart.bsky.social
Robert Harris @robertharrishome.bsky.social Author of 16 novels — Conclave, Fatherland, Enigma, Act of Oblivion, The Ghost, Pompeii. Precipice, An Officer and a Spy, The Cicero Trilogy, Archangel, Munich, V2, The Second Sleep, The Fear Index.
Tracy Chevalier @tracychevalier.bsky.social Author (Girl with a Pearl etc). Maker. Best advice: Less is more.
Website: https://tracychevalier.com/
Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com Author. Also husband, dad, clothing-repairer, dog-walker. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. Taking a break for the summer. Contact Patrick Walsh @ PEW Literary in London or email me.
www.linktr.ee/harkaway
He/him
Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social Historian 思想史家 ∙ JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow @utokyoofficial.bsky.social nominated @britishacademy.bsky.social ∙ Reviews Editor @global-ih.bsky.social ∙ Co-org @gpolthought.bsky.social ∙ early modern (English) republicanism ∙ England and Sengoku/Edo Japan
Clare Bogen @clarebot.bsky.social Publicity Director, Fitzcarraldo Editions
Sometimes football, always cats.
@womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social The original & only WomensArt created/ curated by art historian and author PL Henderson
Real art...real artists...No AI
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Cara Pelletier @scaradactyl.bsky.social You can sit with me.
Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social Organizer, Musician, Floridian, and Congressman (FL10).
https://linktr.ee/maxwellfrostfl
La Biblioteka @labiblioteka.bsky.social Staff recs, good books & other essentials, from our Sheffield indie bookshop for locals all over the world.
Come say hi!
labiblioteka.co
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/labiblioteka
Carolyn Boyd @carolynboyd.bsky.social 📕 Author - Amuse Bouche: How to Eat Your Way Around France
🇫🇷 Travel & food writer @ mags & newspapers
📮https://francetraveller.substack.com
👩🏻🍳 Communications manager - The Roux Scholarship
📍 Cheltenham, UK / somewhere in France
@filmlinc.bsky.social @filmlinc.bsky.social FLC is a nonprofit organization that celebrates cinema as an essential art form and fosters a vibrant home for film culture to thrive. 🎥
filmlinc.org
The Scarlett Letters @scarlettletters.co.uk NOW CLOSED
📍140 Cambridge Heath Rd, London E1 5QJ
https://www.scarlettletters.co.uk/
Darren Chetty @darrenchetty.bsky.social Welsh Indian South African Dutch Londoner. PhD in Philosophy of Education. Antiracist Dialogic Pedagogy. Children's Books. Teaching & Writing.
Rep: Rachel Mann, CAA https://www.darrenchetty.com/ https://linktr.ee/DarrenChetty
Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin 2023)/An Alternative History of the British Empire (HUP 2024). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024).
https://linktr.ee/charlottelydiariley
repped by Carrie Plitt @FBA
views are all mine 💫
Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social Writer. Debut novel, Poor Ghost! out in paperback from Sceptre July 2026. Doing a PhD on Adorno & novel theory. Co-editor of @creativecritical.bsky.social. Berlin & UK.
Laura Shepherd-Robinson @laurasrobinson.bsky.social Sunday Times and USA Today bestselling author. Amazon #1 bestseller.
🇬🇧 Mantle, Pan-Macmillan
🇺🇸 Atria, Simon & Schuster
Agent: Antony Topping @greeneandheaton.bsky.social
https://www.laurashepherdrobinson.com/
Kate Sawyer @katesawyer.bsky.social Author: Getting Away (coming 3.7.25!), This Family & The Stranding. Podcaster: Novel Experience. Programme Curator: Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival.
JOHN NIVEN @nivenj1.bsky.social 'John Niven is a fucking idiot. Who needs him?'
Michael Winner, RIP. 
Samuel Miller McDonald @smillermcdonald.bsky.social My book PROGRESS is on sale in bookstores and the Internet
Essays in magazines, Internet
DPhil from Oxford geography
Michigan man
Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov Proudly serving the people of New Jersey in the U.S. Senate. 
Kristie De Garis @kristiedegaris.bsky.social Writer // Photographer // Drystone Waller
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Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social Historian of media, pop culture, and the Middle East; senior lecturer @dartmouth; author of "Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt"; founder of “Ideas to Ink”; andrewgsimon.com
Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov Husband. Father. U.S. Senator for California. Fighting for an economy that works for everyone and for our democracy.
Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov Mom, wife, daughter, and loving but distracted friend. U.S. Senator for Minnesota. Prefers window seats, donuts and MN beer (all together when possible) ✈️ 🍩🍺
Isabel Berwick @isabelberwick.ft.com I head up the FT's Working It brand - we do audio, newsletters, video and events. All the non-trad things. All things workplace, management and leadership, for a broad audience. Author, The Future-Proof Career. Often found @LinkedIn - DM me here or there
Matthew Parkinson-Bennett @matthewpb.bsky.social Publisher, Little Island Books @littleislandbooks.bsky.social. The best new Irish writing for young readers.
Nick Lowles @nicklowles.bsky.social Antifascist with @hopenothate. Will post about politics, cricket, travel and food
Tim Weiner @tim-weiner.bsky.social Author and journalist. THE MISSION: The CIA in the 21st Century and LEGACY OF ASHES: The History of the CIA. https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-mission-tim-weiner?variant=43465484206114
Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social Writer and author. Love Classics, folklore, food, and philosophy.
A Feast of Folklore is out now!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Feast-Folklore-Bizarre-Stories-British/dp/180018316X
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
Dr Ann Kennedy Smith @akennedysmith.bsky.social Writing about books and 19th-20th c. women's history on my Substack, Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society: https://akennedysmith.substack.com/ (other words in TLS, Slightly Foxed, ODNB & History Today)
Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social Fingers in many pies
Emma Sutton @emmalgsutton.bsky.social #SENDMum #AutismMom #ADHDMum to two incredible adopted children. Battling for an education that fits the needs of her neurodiverse children. Expressing the reality of being a SEND parent in books and cartoons.
Wolf & Wyld's Queer Bookstore @wolfwyld.bsky.social Independent online & pop-up bookstore based in Manitou Springs, Colorado | Specializing in LGBTQ+ books 🐺⛰️📚
https://linkpop.com/queer
Michael Sheen @mchshe.bsky.social Serious Actor.