FORUM Books / the bound / The Accidental Bookshop

I’m in tomorrow & Saturday… if you’re passing

🫶 thank you! *also might have another book recommendation for you 🤫

If you are able, please buy your books from Indy bookshops.

They pay their full taxes and build remarkable communities of readers & writers.

@bookcornerhx.bsky.social
@forumbooks.bsky.social
@drakebookshop.bsky.social
@kennysbookshop.bsky.social
@woodbinebooks.bsky.social

This. I cancelled Audible a while back and signed up to @libro.fm . Slightly cheaper per month, I chose Read Holmfirth as the indie bookshop I support on it and The Accidental Bookshop in Alnwick @forumbooks.bsky.social is my local indie bookshop of choice.

Stage set for DEADLINE launch

Steph McGovern chatting to Ann Cleeves about her debut thriller

Signing queue for Steph

View from upper balcony showing packed house for Steph

Wow!! What a night launching #DEADLINE the fab debut thriller from @stephmcgovern.bsky.social 💙 thanks to Steph & @anncleeves.bsky.social for brilliant interview & all who came 🙌

Gorgeous signed indie editions available from us if you missed www.forumbooksshop.com/product/dead...

Yep! We’ll be stocking & happy to pop on pre order for you 🙌

We 💙 Len!

Join us!!

🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks/a...

Gorgeous evening chatting Victorian gothic & Egypt w/ Rachel Louise Driscoll 💚 Nephthys is stunning - a captivating blend of myth, adventure and obsession … thanks to all who came & signed, special editions available if you missed

#IndieBookshopWeek

✍️ www.forumbooksshop.com/product/neph...

Tick! Tock! ⏰!!

We’re on a #DEADLINE … just TWO WEEKS til @stephmcgovern.bsky.social is @ The Exchange, North Shields chatting to @anncleeves.bsky.social
about her debut thriller 🩵 join us!

🗓️ Mon 30 June
🎟️ www.theexchange1856.com/event-detail...

What a week!

It’s #IndieBookshopWeek & we’re celebrating in Corbridge, Whitley Bay & Alnwick 💖🫶 📚 !!
Events, book signing + @brianbilston.bsky.social listening party 🎧
@booksaremybag.bsky.social

Good morning.

It is Independent Bookshop Week.

If you are able please do support your local bookshop.

They pay their taxes and support the community!

@bookcornerhx.bsky.social
@sevenoaksbookshop.bsky.social
@forumbooks.bsky.social
@drakebookshop.bsky.social
@grovebookshop.bsky.social

💚 ONE WEEK! 💚

Next Thursday Mel Rockett joins us at FORUM Books to talk Ratty and the 10 year project to reintroduce the water vole to Kielder. Come along!

🗓️ Thurs 12 June
🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks/f...

@northwildlife.bsky.social

Looking forward to @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social at FORUM Books talking #UncommonGround - vital, engaging & highly relevant to our Northumberland community 💚 we’d love to see you there!

🗓️ Mon 9 June
🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks/f...

💖!! It’s a beaut x enjoying immersing yourself in its pages

Muckle Flugga book in library window, book cover is bright design in black, white, red, blue and yellow.

Muckle thanks to Michael Pedersen & Forum Books for sending us a beautiful signed copy of Michael’s debut novel - Muckle Flugga!
“A fever dream of a book, melding myth and magic to the monumental landscape of Scotland” - Ian Rankin
@michaelpedersen.bsky.social
@forumbooks.bsky.social
…

Such a thrill to launch Muckle Flugga with Stephen Fry at @hayfestival.bsky.social! What a phenomenal human. Next up I’m at @forumbooks.bsky.social (Corbridge) and then Bristol at Storysmith.

Just a tiny spattering of 🎫 left for each: www.michaelpedersen.co.uk/events

💛🩷THIS THURSDAY!🩷💛

💛 ’Extraordinary’ The Scotsman
🩷 'Phenomenal' Matt Haig
💛 ‘A dream’ My Weekly
🩷 'A thing of magic’ The Skinny

@michaelpedersen.bsky.social will be at FORUM Bookschatting gorgeously about his debut novel Muckle Flugga - come along! www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks/f...

Grey tote bag with The Accidental Bookshop logo on it (white writing on green circular background). Candle island by Lauren Wolk and A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin (graphic novel version) on top of the bag.

Ordered and then collected these from @forumbooks.bsky.social last week.
Already read Candle Island and it is as brilliant as Wolf Hollow.
#BookSky 📚💙
“There’s something sad about everyone, Lucy. Don’t ever think otherwise.”

@mattobin.bsky.social @sconnor7.bsky.social
@smithsmm.bsky.social

It’s all we’re talking about!! 😉

I'll be at @forumbooks.bsky.social in Corbridge on Thursday 10th July! Bookings here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks/f... #YoureAllTalk

Us too

Clown Town PREORDER INDIE EDITION Mick Herron 9781399800433 | Forum Books Release date 11 September 2025'They used to call our shop the Circus. Well if this is a circus, Jackson, you're in charge of the clowns.'Old spies grow ridiculous, David Cartwright used to...

Preorders here too 🤡

www.forumbooksshop.com/product/clow...

THRILLED that Mick Herron is back with CLOWN TOWN talking to Ann Cleeves @ The exchange1856

Spies lie. Spies betray. It’s what they do. IT’S TIME TO SEND IN THE CLOWNS. 🤡

🗓️ Sept 16th
🎟️ www.theexchange1856.com/event-detail...

💛💙

🩵TONIGHT!🩵 Last chance to join us w/ Stephanie Butland at The Accidental Bookshop, Alnwick 😉

More info + tickets here www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks/t...

Signed book here www.forumbooksshop.com/product/the-...

Swooning already ..

AND us!

Catch @damianbarr.bsky.social @ FORUM Books, Corbridge

Sept 8th
🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks/f...

Charlie Porter & his debut novel Nova Scotia House

Nova Scotia House by Charlie Porter on wooden counter top

🧡Memories of love and heartbreak during the Aids epidemic are brought vividly to life in this exhilarating, risk-taking debut

Join us May 15 w/ writer, fashion critic, curator Charlie Porter at FORUM Books

Tickets + more info
www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks/f...

We're launching The Bee magazine today because the UK publishing and writing industries have a bit of a class problem.

TOMORROW!!

We’d 💙 to see you there