FORUM Books / the bound / The Accidental Bookshop

👋 !! 🌊 !! 💙 !!

hiya! Less than a week til
@lenniesaurus.bsky.social joins us with poyums annaw - grab last few tickets here + we’ll see you there
www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks/a...

@thecrackmagazine.bsky.social
@canongate.co.uk

Richard Smyth: A Nature Writer at Large An evening with nature writer Richard Smyth in the NHSN Council RoomRichard Smyth is one of the UK's busiest nature writers. His most recent book, The Jay, the Beech and the Limpetshell: Finding Wild ...

I am to be let out, and poked until I speak. My first talk in AGES - please do come along, if you're in the north-east. Books, birds, all that sort of thing. www.nhsn.org.uk/events/richa...

💙 ONE WEEK!! 💙

Still time to grab tickets for @anncleeves.bsky.social talking Orkney + Jimmy #TheKillingStones w/ Stuart Bain on Oct 1st

PLUS you’ll get *exclusive* short story The Lonely Man !!
Grab tickets www.theexchange1856.com/event-detail...

Our September events kick off with KEEGAN // Anthony Quinn chatting to @camsell59.bsky.social @livetheatre.bsky.social 🤍🖤
🎟️ www.live.org.uk/whats-on/kee...
Total result!!
@faberbooks.bsky.social
@thecrackmagazine.bsky.social

Damian Barr event poster for The Two Roberts at FORUM Books 8th Sept

Damian Barr in the pulpit at FORUM Books

We have tempted @damianbarr.bsky.social to FORUM’s pulpit to celebrate his new book The Two Roberts
& we’d love you to join us 🩵🩷

🗓️ 8th Sept
🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks/f...
@thecrackmagazine.bsky.social
@canongate.co.uk

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...

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🩵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-...