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Some brilliant recommendations in this thread, including many books I'd not heard about at all! #UkKidlit

My current fave to rave about is Crookhaven by J J Arcanjo. I had so much fun listening to the audio!

HarperCollins and TBS: 'summer of discontent' for booksellers after distribution delays Distribution issues have led to a 'summer of discontent for booksellers' as 'big books sunk without trace' following delayed deliveries caused by disruptions at HarperCollins’ new warehouse and The Book Service.

Distribution issues have led to a 'summer of discontent for booksellers' as 'big books sunk without trace' following delayed deliveries caused by disruptions at HarperCollins’ new warehouse and The Book Service 👇

A proof copy of The Ending Writes Itself by Evelyn Clarke lies open on a coffee shop table with a chair in the background

Word on the street is that #TheEndingWritesItself by Evelyn Clarke is set to be the big book of 2026 👀

Can't quite believe I'm reading a book that's only out in April next year but I love a locked room mystery and the intrigue has got me hooked 🕵🏻‍♀️

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A pink post note on the desk saying "days since distribution disasters: 0"

How's it going in the bookselling world I hear you ask?

A proof copy of Katabasis by R. F. Kuang held open on my lap with the pages towards my leg, as I'm sat on a wall on the beach

Today's only plan: finish #Katabasis 💫

This Prime Day (& every day):

➡️ Support the small businesses making a positive difference

➡️ Get book recs from people who actually read—not algorithms

➡️ Visit your indie, immerse yourself in books, maybe chat with real people, & leave feeling happy

➡️ Support your indie with audiobook purchases

Folks, I finished it and I loved it 🥰

The real Salt Path: how the couple behind a bestseller le... Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal it was far from the truth

I spent months on this investigation and gathered docs from the UK courts, Land Registry and a French local authority, to show that Raynor and Moth Winn's story is not as they claim. @tortoisemedia.bsky.social @observeruk.bsky.social
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I really need people on Vinted to stop describing things as oversized when they've just bought something several sizes bigger than they need 😭

A proof copy of No Friend To This House by Natalie Haynes held by my hand over my lap on the bus, with my tote bag decorated with pins and badges in the background

I am absolutely loving #NoFriendToThisHouse by @nataliehaynes.bsky.social 🐏 (thank you @panmacmillan.bsky.social for the early copy!)

📢 out 11th September

#Booksky 💙📚

An in progress kilt sock in DK New Lanark wool, with a cable rib cuff and garter rib sock body

Kilt sock update: officially delayed but finally onto the leg shaping! 🧶

Everyone, no matter where they live, what they look like, or who they love, deserves to see themselves and their experiences in books—in bookshops, schools, & libraries.⁠
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Reading helps us understand ourselves, our world, & one another.⁠

A woman on my train not only just had a call over speakerphone (already a sin in my eyes) she proceeded to *give her card details* on that phone call

Going to a wedding on the sunniest weekend of the year and have forgotten my sunglasses but don't worry folks I did remember to bring 3 books + an ereader for the train journeys so I won't run out of reading options 🤗

How a “Centuries-Old” Carpet Duped Art Dealers and Curators For Decades On the morning of November 7, 1933, a Viennese art-dealer named Paul Perlefter left his lodgings in the luxurious Park Lane Hotel, London with a rolled-up carpet under his arm. At around 117 inches…

How did a fraudulent carpet dupe the art world for decades? On tracing the history of real and fake antique textiles.

something like two-thirds of new releases will break even at best or outright lose money, the whole model depends on the outliers funding the rest

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?

Bookshops have 1 year to return any unsold stock, and that returned stock usually ends up pulped or in a skip somewhere 🙃

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?

The average author income is about seven grand a year.

It's Independent Bookshop Week. Ways you can support them:

-Don't browse a little bookshop, make a mental note of titles, then get them on Amazon. Buy the books then and there! Dare you!

-Get them to order books in, they almost always can.

-Just march in and present them with a huge bag of money.

Not at all! Even though she's coming from a psychoanalytic perspective and is definitely involved in the academic literature, the language she uses is simple and accessible

The Virago edition of A Life Of One's Own by Marion Milner (published under the pseudonym Joanna Field) lies on a wooden table. At the top of the table is a flat white coffee on a red saucer and underneath that there is a very large chocolate chip cookie on a plate.

I read a very special book recently and hopefully what I've written makes you want to pick it up and give a go too: www.instagram.com/p/DK6hQXCIzN...

#Booksky #Bookseller 💙📚💡

I'm reading A Life of One's Own by Marion Milner and having a spiritual experience with it. So so good, and I cannot wait to read more of her work!

A coral shirt with a navy blue patch, attached with running stitches in unbleached cotton yarn

A pair of striped Calvin Klein pyjamas with 2 tears. I attached patched of black and white checked cotton underneath by hand sewing around the tears, and then used my machine to stitch around the outer edges of the patches

Some #VisibleMending efforts from yesterday 🧶

You and Yours - Fried Chicken, Contested Wills and Unbound Authors - BBC Sounds How fried chicken is going upmarket.

I was invited onto BBC Radio 4's You And Yours today to talk about Unbound, who owe me and their other authors around £650,000 in total, which is not even taking into account the readers they have refused to refund. You can listen to it here (begins around 19 mins in): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Poster with map of Scotland that reads 'Why libraries matter. Final report: The value and impact of Scotland's public libraries.'

Text on orange poster reads: We surveyed 2,000 library users across Scotland. You told us about: How invaluable library staff are The financial relief libraries afford An endless variety in community activity within your libraries A safe and welcoming space for marginalised identities

Poster with a closed sign at the top. It reads: 'Our research indicates that 1 in 8 of Scotland's public libraries have closed between 2008 and 2024. That's 97 libraries.

The copy of this poster is a list of recommendations based on the research Scottish Book Trust has produced. The copy reads: 'Our recommendations: 1. Scottish Government publishes a legal definition of what an 'adequate' public library service is 2. Scottish Government empowers local authorities with sufficient funding and resources 3. Local authorities train and support their librarians 4. Local authorities publish annual reports that detail their library provision 5. Public libraries are supported to develop a service improvement culture 6. More members of the public engage with their local library'

Why does your library matter to you? ❤️📚

We asked 2,000 Scots that question and this is what they told us: www.scottishbooktrust.com/our-research...

reminder, bsky has a clever way to display pronouns that's built in!

but you only see them if you yourself opt in, so please feel free to here by subscribing and then choosing which applies!!

@pronouns.diy

Yes! Its the Patons UK Kilt Sock pattern, with the cable border and I've opted for the garter rib for the main sock bit

What's going on with Queer As Folklore? *Deep intake of breath* part 1

A stack of books on a cream mantelpiece, with a houseplant on the corner. The stack of books from top to bottom is: Hemlock and Silver by T Kingfisher (gifted by Pan Macmillan) A Life of One's Own by Marion Milner Dragonborn by Struan Murray (gifted by Puffin Books) The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown Ingrained by Callum Robinson The Midnight Shift by Cheon Seon-Ram (gifted by Bloomsbury) Modern Divination by Isa Agajanian The Illegals by Shaun Walker (gifted by Profile Books)

Some recent new additions to the TBR shelf 📚💙

Including some treats from @panmacmillan.bsky.social, @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social, @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social, and @profilebooks.bsky.social 🫶🏻

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