@lighthousebks.bsky.social
Queer-owned and woman-led independent community bookshop. 🏳️🌈 An unapologetically activist, intersectional, feminist, antiracist, lgbtq+ community space. Find us at https://lighthousebookshop.com/
Air bhioran! Cannot wait to launch my new poetry pamphlet at Lighthouse Books with Catherine Wilson Garry. Bilingual night, with new #Gàidhlig poetry!
Love is Queer
@lighthousebks.bsky.social, Edinburgh
7PM Thursday 26th March
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#poetry #scotlit #queer
A beautiful shot of The Book of Murmurs in the wild courtesy of my editor Conrad Groth. @lighthousebks.bsky.social are hosting the launch on 14/05/26. I'd love to see some of you there!
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Launching a Book (Edinburgh version) at 7pm on Thursday 9th April at @lighthousebks.bsky.social, if you're into that sort of thing lighthousebookshop.com/events/polbl...
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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Check out the full program for the First Date Festival- a romance fiction festival in Edinburgh focusing on genre, queer joy, and feminist pleasure 24th April - 8th May. Hosted by @lighthousebks.bsky.social and Book Lovers Bookshop lighthousebookshop.com/events/first...
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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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!!
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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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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“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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