Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop

Weird Pride Day is coming up next week (the 4th of March)!

@fergus.oolong.co.uk wrote a post for Edinburgh's radical bookshop, @lighthousebks.bsky.social about how it came to be, and why this year's theme is Weird Pride in a Hostile World. With many book recs!
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A person in a beige jacket is holding up two copies of Elissa Soave's new book Common Ground, which shows people working in a garden. The background behind the books is a grassy mossy ground with vines growing up an old stone wall.

We're delighted to launch Elissa Soave's latest novel COMMON GROUND, a love letter to community organising, in the bookshop at 7pm today. Jemma Neville is chairing! Do come along - the launch is followed by a bookshop social with drinks & snacks, all welcome. lighthousebookshop.com/events/commo...

Completely agree!!

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Philosophy & Hope Bookclub Announcement!

The overarching theme will be readings that engage in social critique that can help take us towards new forms of social hope.

We’re kicking off with a discussion and exploration of Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism, at 7pm on Monday March 9th!

Full house for Edinburgh launch of The Bed Trick with Izabella Scott, hosted by Sharon Cowan!

A fascinating piece of feminist scholarship ‘putting the trial on trial’ in a search for justice in the midst a of violent, broken system

Watch the livestream here:
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Image of Pao, wearing all purple holding 4 copies of The Bed Trick.

Pink and red banner which reads 'The Bed Trick with Izabella Scott, a Lighthouse Launch, Thursday 26th February 7pm' next to a picture of the book and an image of Izabella dressed all in black looking at the camera.

It’s long past time we learn to have real, nuanced, complicated, honest conversations about assault, consent and toxic relationships.

Looking forward to tonight's event which promises all of the above - @izabellascott.bsky.social and Prof Sharon Cowan discussing The Bed Trick. Limited tickets left!

Tomorrow in Edinburgh! Linda Pentz Gunter, hosted by Lynn Jamieson of @scottishcnd.bsky.social!

Great event - come along if you are in Edinburgh! @asls.org.uk @lighthousebks.bsky.social @byleaveswelive.bsky.social @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social @edinburghminute.com

A new book by one of the writers and journalists with the most enduring sense of humanity and curiosity out there, is absolutely a reason to celebrate! (and part with £20 to pre-order the beauty)

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we are *such* admirers of your work and your writing - genuinely can't wait to be putting 'This Is Also A Love Story' in the hands of readers we've been sharing your journalism and My Fourth Time We Drowned with for years! Always writing just the book we need for the moment we are in, thank you.

Joyful visit from a debut author - and now we're EXTRA excited for Rhiannon Grist 's Home Sick, we *love* a haunting... and a wild spiral of madness. If that's your thing too, you can preorder from us!

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Next Week!

Weds 25th- Linda Pentz Gunter with Lynn Jamieson on the dangers of Nuclear Power

Thurs 26th- Izabella Scott shares a captivating piece of feminist scholarship and cultural reflection excavating a sex crime that made headlines in The Bed Trick.
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Radical Justice | Nani Janson Reventlow | Edinburgh | Mar 21 | @lighthousebks.bsky.social
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The Othered Woman | Shahed Ezaydi | Edinburgh | Mar 25 | @lighthousebks.bsky.social
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Radical Abundance | @kmilb.bsky.social | Edinburgh | Apr 8 | @lighthousebks.bsky.social
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Two women laughing and talking in an interview about a book

Book titled Nation of Strangers rebuilding home in the 21st century by Ece Temelkuran

“To be on the right side of history is more important than winning” ✊

Warmth, beauty and defiant optimism from @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social and @nicolasturgeon.bsky.social to celebrate the 🚀 of “Nation of Strangers”🌿 in #Edinburgh

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LEFT NOW - a new regular feature promoting the Scottish Left, anticapitalist and radical events, publications and projects @makehopepossible.bsky.social @carolinelucas.bsky.social @lighthousebks.bsky.social @reidfoundation.bsky.social @seonadhoy.bsky.social bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/02/18/l...

Ece's in Edinburgh TONIGHT to launch her -newly @womensprize.bsky.social longlisted - reckoning with the world today.

In person & online, a highlight of our 2026 program at Lighthouse and we have just a few spots left!

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Book for anyone who feels alienated by an ever-more monstrous world, a powerful and consoling reappraisal of exile, migration and home.

TONIGHT 7pm we welcome @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social & @nicolasturgeon.bsky.social to launch Nation of Strangers - join us!

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Also, THIS IS NOT A DRILL!

SARAH SCHULMAN (Queer icon, award-winning novelist, activist, playwright, all round babe) IS COMING TO EDINBURGH!

Could not be more thrilled to be collaborating with the wonders at EAF & Lavender Menace to make this happen, and for a book from an indie press too!

This event is tonight! Still a few tickets left if you fancy coming along - and the event will be followed by a warm and informal bookshop social with snacks and drinks, all welcome. More information: lighthousebookshop.com/events/flood...

Sunday, 12 April - Sarah Schulman on the Fantasy & Necessity of Solidarity!

What is solidarity? And how can solidarity effectively challenge the status quo? Join acclaimed writer, activist and historian Sarah Schulman at this Edinburgh Art Fest event!

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Wednesday, 8 April - Radical Abundance with @kmilb.bsky.social & @bellacaledonia.bsky.social!

Keir Milburn on the need for radical abundance, a world of human and non-human flourishing made possible by democratically planned production.

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Saturday, 21 March Radical Justice w/ Nani Jansen Reventlow

Our society is breaking down. Fascists are winning elections, economic inequality is rampant & the climate crisis is at tipping point.

What if there is a way to lower the threshold to action?
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Thursday, 19 March - Frontierlands with @hazelsheffield.bsky.social & @rosiehampton.bsky.social

Communities on Britain’s margins are boldly rewriting the future, reclaiming and reimagining neglected land offering lessons to bring into our own!

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Wednesday 4 March

We launch Common Ground a gorgeous, witty, warm new novel from Scottish talent Elissa Soave!

Her latest is a rousing story of community activism, and a love letter to community spaces, we loved it!

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Come plant seeds of change with us!

This spring we're bringing you novelists, journalists and activists to tend fierce dreams and nourish fragile bonds, together we grow the communities we need and deserve - join us!

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Kate and Saleem speaking on the stage at Porty Books

Had a really wonderful time speaking with Saleem about his new novel Floodlines at Porty Books last night.

Still a chance to see Saleem this evening at Lighthouse Books in Edinburgh lighthousebookshop.com/events/flood... and again in London over the next few days

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No to Nuclear | Linda Pentz Gunter | Edinburgh | Feb 25 | @lighthousebks.bsky.social
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