Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop

Wednesday's Readers and Writers Against the Genocide Fundraiser is SOLD OUT in person, but you can still:

Watch online 🎬: lighthousebookshop.com/events/reade...

Donate directly: gascf.org
Thanks!

Edinburgh readers-Next Week in the bookshop

Thurs 27th 7pm
BLUEPRINTS: Memoir & Fiction with queer Welsh novelist Crystal Jeans lighthousebookshop.com/events/bluep...

Sun 30th 7pm
How Not to Die (Too Soon): An evening with Prof @profdevisridhar.bsky.social
lighthousebookshop.com/events/how-n...

This is tonight! Do join us at 7pm to launch this spooky book from the author of Hazardous Spirits lighthousebookshop.com/events/sapph...

Pao is smiling and holding a copy of Or Something Worse by Nicholas Beuret, standing in a brightly lit bookshop with colourful bookcases in the background

TONIGHT! Join us in the bookshop from 7-8pm for the launch of "Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition" by @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social, discussing tools to stop climate change and to build a fairer future. lighthousebookshop.com/events/or-so...

Lovely seeing our book with Leilah King on the top of the pile! 💜💚💛

The nights are drawing in... so what better time to launch a sapphic gothic thriller that the end of November? We are so excited to welcome Anbara Salam back to the bookshop. We adored her Edinburgh-set novel Hayardous Spirits, and she is back now with another historical offering set in Scotland!

Ella Risbridger, a white woman with brown hair stands in front of the romance section holding a stack of romantic fiction and a bookmark.

A white mug with the text "Woolf Baldwin Wilde Sappho Davis" in block letters and multiple red bookmarks with recommendations from Ella Risbridger's book, In Love with Love which is right behind the mug with a pink cover and lobsters on the front. Pink and red lobster stickers are laid out to the mug's right.

A delight to have Ella Risbridger pop by to sign copies of In Love with Love earlier this week. A snippet of Christina's review of the book:

“… a book that explores the ways romance fiction trends intersect with socioeconomics. It is brilliant..."

Our bookseller, Pao, stands outside the shop wearing a pink jumper and a keffiyeh holding a pile of books.

Despite the busyness of Radical Book Fair prep, we still managed to read loads in October. Check out our recs here: lighthousebookshop.com/posts/what-w...

Only a few days left to enter the 2026 International Book & Pamphlet Competition and the 2026 New Poets Prize.
Enter your poems for a chance to have your pamphlet published by Smith|Doorstop! 📚

Deadline 16 November 2025

Enter on our website - poetrybusiness.co.uk/competitions/

17. Undoing Empire, One Story at a Time: Featuring Sunny Singh Writer, scholar, and educator Sunny Singh explains that everything she does “centers around finding ways to undo empire.” The world we have inherited is “an ongoing colonial project” and thus “the war...

Undoing Empire, One Story at a Time: Featuring Sunny Singh

Do give it a listen. On power, stories, ethics and more www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/17-undoing...

Beautiful talk with Basma Ghalayini and Mazan Manrouf on their new book Palestine -1, stories from the Eve of the Nakba at the Edinburgh Radical Book Fair organised by @lighthousebks.bsky.social

A teetering stack of twelve books with brightly coloured spines on a blue sofa. Books include: Revolutionary Desires by Xuanlin Tham; Love in a F*cked Up World by Dean Spade; Ramping Up Rights by Rachel Charlton-Dailey; Neuroqueer by CJ DeBarra; Defiance: racial injustice, police brutality, a sister's fight for the truth by Janet Alder with Dan Glazebrook; The Feminist Art of Walking by Morag Rose; Little Joe: a book about queers and cinema, mostly; Diasporic threads: Black women, fibre and textiles by Dr Sharbreon Plummer; Pride and Prejudices by Keio Yoshida; Rebent Sinner by Ivan Coyote; Slamming Doors: Falling out and fighting back in a housing crisis; and finally a compendium of Trans Masc & Nonbinary Erotic Comics

One of the highlights of my year in Edinburgh is the @lighthousebks.bsky.social Radical Bookfair, it's such a fab event centering community care, and this year comrades from @edinmaskbloc.bsky.social provided 1500+ masks to attendees! 🥳 As usual I completely blew my budget, here's my book haul 📚

Mymona Bibi reads from her poem ‘Application for Social Housing in Tower Hamlets’, published in ‘The Hajar Book of Rage’, at the @lighthousebks.bsky.social Radical Book Fair 2025.

www.hajarpress.com/books/elemen...

A table of Manchester University Press trade books.

A table of Manchester University Press trade books.

We're at @lighthousebks.bsky.social for Edinburgh's Radical Bookfair!📚💡

Until Sunday 9th, browse our latest releases (Drifting North, The Return of the Housewife, etc.)

Plus, there are SIGNED copies of our redesigned paperback of @djpaulette.bsky.social's Welcome to the Club up for grabs🎧

From the streets of Bethlehem to the Palestinian neighbourhoods of the New Jerusalem – Micaela Sahhar assembles a story of Palestinian diaspora.
Available at Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair, hosted by Lighthouse Books.

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#RadicalBookFair
#UNSWPress
@lighthousebks.bsky.social

What a wonderful night in Edinburgh @lighthousebks.bsky.social 💥🙏

Flyer-style image for the event, 'Divergent: Weird pride, unruliness & outsider wisdom', party of Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair. Date: Saturday 8th November Venue: Assembly Roxy, 2 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9SU Time: 4.30-5.30pm. The flyer shows the covers of of CJ De Barra's 'Neuroqueer: A Neurodivergent Guide to Love, Sex, and Everything In Between' and 'Significant Others, a collection of texts by Frank Jagoe'. The background shows leaves of gingko, perhaps the weirdest of all trees, and an image of hands cupping a source of ornate smoke.

This year's Edinburgh Radical Book Fair has started!

On Saturday at 4pm, I'm chairing 'Divergent: Weird pride, unruliness & outsider wisdom' with @cjdebarra.bsky.social and @acaciathorns.bsky.social (frank r. jagoe can't attend in person, unfortunately).

#WeirdPride
@lighthousebks.bsky.social

Edinburgh’s radical book fair Lighthouse bookshop flyer

P Trevor photo of demo 1978 with commonwealth league members

@lighthousebks.bsky.social “ecosystems of change” book fair looking rad and Steve McQueen’s project “Resistance” on the history of protest + photography in Britain @nationalgalleries.bsky.social
Not to be missed!

Come see us at Edinburgh’s #RadicalBookFair on Sunday!

We’re looking forward to meeting local activists and talking about using socialist journalism to support our movements.

Thank you so much for sharing you wondrous creature!!

This looks *incredible* and you should all pop along to @lighthousebks.bsky.social for it!

Delighted to be chairing this discussion with my anthropologist/activist hat on with @rachelcdailey.bsky.social @samgoncalveshorton.bsky.social and Dan Glazebrook on Saturday in Edinburgh 💜

Come along if you’re around!

Lighthouse | music as life: politics, power, creation [Radical Book Fair] Getting Event Ticket Data

Coming up this week!
Don't miss @djpaulette.bsky.social on this fantastic panel at @lighthousebks.bsky.social's Radical Book Fair in #Edinburgh, exploring the myriad ways music is powerful & political.
Attend in-person or online: lighthousebookshop.com/events/music...
@edincityoflit.bsky.social

Panel with @jakehallwrites.bsky.social, Plan C & @joeljoel.bsky.social explores the political power of solidarity, drawing from activist histories to celebrate the potential of intimate connections.

In-person AND online! lighthousebookshop.com/events/every...

🔗 Everyday Bonds: Solidarities from the Ground Up 🔗
✨ SUN 9th | 11am | RADICAL BOOK FAIR ✨

No movement is built alone. At raves, rallies & community centres, folk have found each other & formed unlikely coalitions, rooted in a desire for collective change - how do we foster radical friendships?

The #RadicalBookFair is as much about community as it is about books - a space for connection, for learning, for taking action.

So Sunday we host stalls from grassroots groups, local initiatives, bookish collaborators & activist campaigns, come meet the people making change on your doorstep!

Scottish Books Events: November 2025 - The Skinny Two big festivals – Push the Boat Out and Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair – return to Edinburgh this month. Elsewhere, there's book launches at Porty and Glasgow.

⛴ Push The Boat Out poetry festival is back @ptbopoetry.bsky.social
✊ @lighthousebks.bsky.social's Radical Book Fair returns
📚 Launches from Olga Ravn, Helena Fornells Nadal, Ella Risbridger

get all that in yr diaries courtesy of our November books roundup

Radical Book Fair Stalls cont:
@foescot.bsky.social
@globaljusticenow.bsky.social (Scotland)
Edinburgh anti-raids
Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh
@stopcambo.bsky.social
SPSC Edinburgh
@refugeesathome.bsky.social
Save the Roseburn Path
Heckle
La Belle Adventure
Scotland 4 @decrimnow.bsky.social

Stalls are up 10.30-4 Sun 9th, with a special time for discussion 1.30-2.30 during our free community lunch, when you can chat & break bread with other attendees, speakers & writers!

Stalls:
Words & Actions for Peace
@edinmaskbloc.bsky.social
Lavender Menace
Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh [2/3]

The #RadicalBookFair is as much about community as it is about books - a space for connection, for learning, for taking action.

So Sunday we host stalls from grassroots groups, local initiatives, bookish collaborators & activist campaigns, come meet the people making change on your doorstep!