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Pamela Hutchinson @pamhutch.bsky.social Author, critic, historian | ๐ Guardian S&S BBC Criterion Empire | ๐ The Curse of Queen Kelly | ๐ The Red Shoes | ๐ Pandoraโs Box | โ๏ธ Weekly Film Bulletin | ๐ป silentlondon.co.uk | https://linktr.ee/PamHutch | she/her
Barbara Carrara @2barsand1a.bsky.social I know nothing (Einstein via Manuel), or The inconsequential diary of a nobody (ta, G. & W. Grossmith)
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Lucy Moffatt @lucytranslator.bsky.social Translator of excellent Norwegian books.
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Clare Stevens @clarewynstevens.bsky.social Ambivert author. Writes thoughtful escapism. Second novel, Heartsound, out now with Inspired Quill. 
Guid Reads (Ruth Galloway) @guidreads.bsky.social Community bookshop in central Scotland. Avid reader. And yes thatโs my actual name! 
Matthew Daniel Eddy๐ป @bookscribbler.bsky.social History Prof @ Durham University | Historian of Britain and the Atlantic world | w/ special interests in the global history of science, medicine and technology (including AI).- A Allison Timmins @allisontimmins.bsky.social Bibliophile.
Toby Litt @tobylitt.bsky.social Writer. Mentor. Activist.
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Sarah Russo @sarahrusso.bsky.social Founder of @pageonem.bsky.social, literary publicity and marketing for authors and experts. www.page1m.com
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A Previous Life @apreviouslife.bsky.social traveler/book collector/writer/
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Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social Writer of novels & other stuff from NZ. MG novel The Grimmelings and YA Song of the Saltings (โHorse girl folk horrorโ) out in Aus, NZ, UK & Nth America. Secrets at Red Rocks TV adaptation out NZ, Aus & US. https://www.rachael-king.com Band Pic: J Ganley
Louise Spencely ๐๐ @louisespencely.bsky.social Mother ๐. Editor and project manager of academic encyclopedias and textbooks. Marlborough LitFest committee member (Author Selection Group Chair, Print Publicity Editor). Also ๐ท๐ณ๐ฆ๐งถ
Emma Weird Wiltshire @weird-wiltshire.bsky.social ๐ฒ๐ง๐ป Writer of strange & unusual tales. Ghosts, folklore & history from Wiltshire and beyond. Earth & nature lover. ๐ป๐ง๐ฒ โ www.weird-wiltshire.co.uk
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.
Andrew Thacker @andrewthacker.bsky.social Professor Emeritus of Twentieth Century Literature, Nottingham Trent University. Modernism, periodicals, cricket.
The Lit & Phil @litandphil.bsky.social Newcastle's independent library, the Lit & Phil, is home to more than 200,000 books and music items, and has a rolling programme of events and activities.
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Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social Baltimore-based indie bookstore. Currently online until we get a new space for the bookstore. Generally won't DM people, unless maybe you're a publisher and we need info to stock your books.
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Daniel Westover @danielwestover.bsky.social Professor of English at ETSU | Late Victorian poetry; Welsh Writing in English | Books on R. S. Thomas, Gerard Manley Hopkins | Travel photography at danielwestover.com | he/him
Jude Cook @judecook.bsky.social Novelist (Byron Easy, Jacob's Advice, Time Being @saltpublishing.com Sept 2026) & critic. Words Guardian, TLS, Literary Review. Radio plays BBC R3. Associate lecturer in Creative Writing Westminster University. judecook.com
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Mary Caroline Cummins @bookishbythebay.bsky.social 
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TheBookTrail @thebooktrail.bsky.social Literary Locations and maps of books!
Books set in a location are a great way to travel literary style or in real life. Match your next novel with a destination with The BookTrail - The Literary Travel Agency. www.thebooktrail.com
Joe @joemurrayeditor.bsky.social Rare books, art, publishing and private collections
Independent Publishers Guild @independentpublishersguild.com The IPG is the UK's largest association of independent publishers, supporting 600+ members with events, resources, training and much more.
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bookhaus @bookhaus.bsky.social Contemporary bookshop located in the heart of Bristol's vibrant Wapping Wharf. Member of the Alliance of Radical Booksellers. 
Signe Rudoviฤa @signeru.bsky.social Sharing Sensory Stories Project manager @scottishbooktrust.bsky.socialโฌ Love and live Edinburgh ๐
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Katherine Greenwood @drkatherinelucyg.bsky.social Lecturer in Publishing & Creative Industries at York St John University. Researches class in contemporary British literature and publishing. Ex-editor and festival organiser.
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Veronica Price @vonprice.bsky.social Chartered librarian, MCLIP. NHS Knowledge &Evidence Specialist. Former School Librarian. Posts about library matters and books.
Blog: https://vsviewfromthebookshelves.home.blog/
@abbyrne.bsky.social @abbyrne.bsky.social Irish woman living in London. Reader, book-seller, walker, crossword-solver, left-wing, writer. https://mcanespieandfox.etsy.com
Ruth Brown @baliscoe.bsky.social Retired museum curator; wide interests- civic history; arms and armour; castles; Scotland; Yorkshire; Armourer and Brasier of London. But my bread and butter is historic cannon. Used to be Basiliscoe...
Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social Freelance writer and editor โ healthcare; public sector/not-for-profit; cycle sport โ and, on Tuesdays, a House of Commons committee reporter. Apostrophes in all the right places. ๐ฝ๏ธ๐ฎ๐บ๐ถ fan. Also naps. I like naps.
Katie Allen @katieallenauthor.bsky.social Baker, walker, animal-lover and writer who's hoping this place is kinder and wiser than the last. Books: Everything Happens for a Reason out there somewhere, Happy is the One just out and available here: https://geni.us/G3otY
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Tony Bradley @bluefinch.bsky.social Best selling writer and kitten juggler
Bazmeister @bazmeister.bsky.social Keep on moving, moving, moving your feet.
David Hebblethwaite @davidheb.bsky.social Adventures in reading, small publishers and fiction in translation especially. Yorkshireman down south.
www.davidsbookworld.com 
David @mrdavid885.bsky.social Bookworm who watches far too many soaps.
Dr Andrew Higgins @ashiggins.bsky.social Director of Development at Imperial War Museums. Tolkien Scholar and author Live in Balham London ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
INCSA @incsa.bsky.social The International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (INCSA) is a professional society of scholars from around the globe. #INCSA |
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Triin @awordchild.bsky.social Reader.
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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
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James Spackman @jamesspackman73.bsky.social Literary agent, pitching coach, cyclist, lino printer https://linktr.ee/JamesSpackman
David Kendall @manwithbooks.bsky.social Big Issue #changemaker, Co-director of Penned Up https://pennedup.org.uk/ - a literary festival curated with people in prison for people in prison.
Culture File @culturefile.bsky.social pods, links + such from: RTE lyric fm's audio things:
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Nicola Smith @shortbookandscribes.uk Nicola Smith-UK book blogger.
Reviews and other bookish stuff.
Just one person trying to read all the books.
Andrea Reece @reeceandrea.bsky.social Mostly reading. Managing Editor Books for Keeps, administrator Klaus Flugge Prize and Branford Boase Award plus other book-y stuff.
Jane @janecornwell.bsky.social This is my fun account. ๐๐พ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
Work: Janes-Studio
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Valeria Vescina @valeriavescina.bsky.social Author 'That Summer in Puglia' (2018). Creative-writing tutor, runs writing retreats in the Alps. Founder member & co-manager @WomenWritersNet. #HistFic novel inspired by true events in 16th-century Italy will be out in 2026. Women's history nerd.
LCC municipal @lccmunicipal.bsky.social London County Council, Greater London Council, pre- and post-1965 boroughs in London (+ occasional forays outside of the capital). Municipal stuff from the past that lives on today. Oh, and new towns, shopping centres, infrastructure etc.
lccmunicipal.com
Jayson Carcione @carcionejay.bsky.social Fiction: The London Magazine, The Forge, Lunate, Epoque Press, elsewhere
Best of the Net 2024 finalist
Deputy Production Editor: Irish Examiner
Cork via New York
Antonia Honeywell @antoniahoneywell.bsky.social Permanently drowning, waves occasionally.
Andrew Chapman @chapmanbookman.bsky.social I help authors/indie presses publish non-fiction books. Also editor of various magazines, including northernearth.co.uk (folklore, archaeology, psychogeography, landscape). Writer, walker, ambulomancer, neoantiquarian.
andrewchapman.info- A Alice Jolly @alicejolly.bsky.social Winner of the 2026 Walter Scott prize for 'The Matchbox Girl' (about Dr Asperger) published by Bloomsbury Books in 2025. Rep'd by Eleanor Birne at Rogers, Coleridge, White. Oxford University whistleblower. Active member of Just Stop Oil.
Tiffany Murray @tiffmurray.bsky.social Writer, teacher. Novels. Memoir, My Family and Other Rock Stars, 'best of year' Sunday Times, Guardian, Mail, Independent. Hounds. Slightly repetitive. Rep Cathryn Summerhayes
Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social Writer, artist, stylite.
Fair to middling spinster.
Magpie apologist.
Good at everything.
Northwestern Ireland.
Also Instagram, and X.
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@anneontheshelf.bsky.social @anneontheshelf.bsky.social Love nature, fresh air and books. Supporter of libraries. Monmouth, Wales, UK.
Christine Morgan @bookwormchris.bsky.social Reads a lot & writes too. Love all things literary. Interests include the sea, Art & Design, Education, Health & Disability issues.
Robert Colman @rcolman91.bsky.social just some guy, you know?
Jane_Danielson @bookbabe.bsky.social Indie bookstore owner. Traveler to real and imagined places. #Books #Booksellers #IndieBookstores
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/
Jacke Wilson @jackewilson.bsky.social Host of the History of Literature Podcast. Check it out at historyofliterature.com. 
Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social Writer | audio maker | poetry pusher. Editor Drama, Arts & Classical Music, BBC Audio Wales & West of England. Debut novel: The Berliners/Friedrichstrasse 19 https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/emma-harding/the-berliners/9781529376203/
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
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).
Laurie Hertzel @lhertzel.bsky.social On substack: https://lauriehertzel.substack.com. Also, book reader, book critic, author "News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist" and "Ghosts of Fourth Street," and teacher at MFA program at UGA-Athens.
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
Raven Crime Reads @ravencrime.bsky.social Bookseller. Blogger. All about the books.
TBR pile that can be seen from space.
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Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social Collections and Archives Manager @ria.ie ๐
Medievalist ๐
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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social Anthropology, Timoleon Vieta, Sour Grapes, etc..
Standards have fallen; my value has dropped.
https://danrhodes.co.uk
Karl Whitney @karlwhitney.ie Writer // Books: HIDDEN CITY (Penguin) and HIT FACTORIES (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) // http://www.karlwhitney.ie
Juliet West ๐๐๐ฑ @julietwest.bsky.social Author of historical novels BEFORE THE FALL and THE FAITHFUL published by Pan Macmillan. Poetry in Magma, Hippocrates Prize anthology. Books, gardening, cats.
https://www.julietwest.com/
Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social Lives in Scotland & writes books. Order my new novella STEAL ME from Absinthe Books. Short story collection ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES available from Swan River Press. Perthshire Gothic. M.R.James fiend. Represented by John Jarrold.
Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social Artist, Scientist, Woodland Ecologist, Statistician, Historian & former Research Scholar at the RIA | Art from Dublin, Ireland ๐ He/Him | Sรฉ/รฉ
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Bernie McGill @berniemcgill.bsky.social Writer. Writing Fellow with Royal Literary Fund. Mentor at Irish Writers' Centre. Rep'd by Aitken Alexander. Winner of the 2023 Edge Hill Prize for This Train is For, available at https://noalibis.com/product/this-train-is-for-signed-paperback-edition/
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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social A Tipperary, Ireland based indie bookseller of new, old and inbetween books. Spend โฌ20 & get free shipping !
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Ian Hagues @ianhagues.bsky.social Books and creativity. You matter.
Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social Celebrating books by artists, poets, writers, book designers and their publishers. The next fair will take place in 2027.
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Matilda Battersby @matildabattersby.bsky.social Writer and journalist. Former arts editor at The Independent, and editor of Popshot Quarterly. The Bookseller sometimes 
Years Of Reading @yearsofreading.bsky.social Iโm Clare, book blogger since 2017 and full time carer.
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Sally Oliphant @sallytalksbooks.bsky.social Book and arts PR (non-fiction and kid's books focus). Reader, traveller, parent. Likes a cup of tea and a chat, especially about books.
CR: Honey
Kriti @soykriti.bsky.social Doctor of Romantic Periodicals. @UArizona
Thomas Ruys Smith @thomasruyssmith.com Prof of Lit and Culture, mostly nineteenth century. Coming soon: ๐
๐ 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
Jane Hamlett @janehamlett.bsky.social Professor of Modern British History at RHUL. Research interests: family, home, material and visual culture, mental health and animals. Also keen on catsโฆ
Lisa @lisa-williams.bsky.social Science, nature, books, music. MDANT on the other place.
Thomas Taylor @thomastaylor.bsky.social Author of Malamander, and the Eerie-on-Sea Mysteries. Secret new book on the wayโฆ
Jacqueline (Jay) K @scrubbling.bsky.social Risk delight (despite everything).
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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social An independent bookstore for all kinds of independent readers, near Tower Grove Park in St. Louis.
https://leviathanbookstore.com/