@bobthebookerer.bsky.social
Reader, writer, consumer of cake. He/him. On YouTube at Bob The Bookerer.
Continuing on my project to read all the shortlisted books from across the history of @thebookerprizes.com here is the 1990 shortlist! Getting very close to the end of the project now!
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📢 2025 Orwell Prize Finalists Announced!
The Orwell Prizes celebrate the year's best political writing and reporting, inspired by George Orwell's values of clarity, courage, and fidelity to truth.
Explore this year's shortlists & judges’ reflections: open.substack.com/pub/orwellfo...
The Polari Prize is still open for submissions across its First Book and non-debut prizes!
Get submitting to this fantastic prize!
The Polari Prize is open for submissions
One for all you #LGBTQIA+ writers.
Check it out and please share.
Queer fiction!
www.polarisalon.com/submissions-...
Also, as always, indie presses continue to be excellent, championing the weird and wonderful, and pushing the envelope on what books can do and be.
02.05.2025 17:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This year’s shortlist (and longlist) for the International Booker Prize ( @thebookerprizes.bsky.social ) has been such a delight.
Reviewing the books has been fascinating, and picking a favourite has been hard, but here’s me talking about them all:
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Thank you so much for your lovely words! It’s such a great set of books, and I have no idea how you’ll choose a shortlist!
12.03.2025 15:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0A wonderful, engaging, in depth summation of the @climate-fiction.bsky.social from @bobthebookerer.bsky.social here! Look out for the shortlist announcement next Wednesday, 19th!
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I had the best time reading the longlist of what is a very exciting new book prize- The Climate Fiction Prize! @climate-fiction.bsky.social
Here is me talking about the 9 books on this very strong longlist!
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The lovely folks at @inkandescentuk.bsky.social have done it again, publishing a fantastic and creative short story collection by Nathan Evans- here’s me talking about its wonders!
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A green silhouette of a stack of books, against a textured lighter green backgroud. White text over the books' spines reads "Three weeks to go. International Booker Prize longlist announced Tuesday 25 February."
Not long until we reveal the International Booker Prize 2025 longlist…!
Here's a reminder to mark Tuesday 25 February in your calendars. 🗓️
It’s such a fun city- you’ll love it! Enjoy!
11.01.2025 21:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0There were plenty of books I couldn’t fit on this list, and that’s just fiction books from this year, nevermind non-fiction (video coming soon) and backlisted books.
So many exciting books are out there, and I hope I’ve done some justice to what’s out there!
I’ll do a proper post soon tagging the authors and presses, but here are my favourite fiction books from this year!
Many of them are from small and indie presses, who continue to publish some of the most exciting work out there.
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Lovely to see Ghost Moutain included in this round-up of @bobthebookerer.bsky.social favourite books of the year.
Thanks for your kind words, Bob 💚
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Ahh, my pleasure! I hadn’t got around to doing social media posts etc on the list, but it’s such a gem of a book, Rónán! So deeply touching and clever! I’ve got Panenka waiting for me on my shelf for the new year!
26.12.2024 19:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yessss, Valentine is amazing!
07.12.2024 21:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0These are such bangers! I find myself humming Limp and Werewolf so often
07.12.2024 13:33 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0📢 EEEP!!! MYTHWRECKED is OUT NOW
After *3 years* my next indie game (following Röki) is OUT NOW on Steam, Xbox and Nintendo Switch...
🏝️ Explore a secret island
⚡️ Meet the gods of legend
🔎 Uncover the truth, behind the myth
My Spotify wrapped for this year! Lots I expected, but I don’t think I’d realised quite how much I’d listened to Olivia Dean’s album (only one of my top songs is not by her).
05.12.2024 11:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Please , if you are able , support Independent publishers who are doing most of the heavy lifting in finding great new writers!
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
@saraband-books.bsky.social
@influxpress.bsky.social
@galleybeggars.bsky.social
@peepaltreepress.bsky.social
And many more
I was just looking at this post thinking the game looked cool, so clicked on your profile and saw YOU MADE RÖKI! That game absolutely blew me away! Pre-ordering the new one now! Thank you!
03.12.2024 17:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Booktuber here! Thank you- such a lovely idea!
03.12.2024 07:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🥵
29.11.2024 09:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A big hello to all new book-loving Bluesky-ers!
(If you already follow us, (i) thank you, and (ii) a re-post would be very appreciated, to let people know we're here...)
(In other UK news, there's no snow here. It's very sad.)
Congratulations!
19.11.2024 20:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0For several years in a row (and this year will be no different), indie presses have made up a good number of my favourite books of the year.
No one does it quite like them, taking risks on those books and authors that create some of the most exciting work out there.
Please, if you are able, support Indy publishers.
As the big 5 buy up all the book shelves with their astronomic discounting.
It would be grand if you could look at.
@galleybeggars.bsky.social
@influxpress.bsky.social
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
@saraband-books.bsky.social
& many more
So excited for this one!
19.11.2024 19:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sorry to hear it, and same here! I don’t mind ones that are small corrections or disagreements, but some people really say the wildest things in comments, and I’m never sure what they want me to do with them.
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