Home of world literature across languages. Book Club @hatchards piccadilly, BookBlast Diary reviews, interviews by publishing insider Georgia & friends; podcasts; lit executor Estate Lesley Blanch 🔗linktr.ee/bookblast
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Critic - words in The Nation, New Statesman, New York Times, The Baffler, Le Monde Diplomatique, Times Literary Supplement, The Observer & Chair of Resonance FM
Rebecca Carter Literary, an independent literary agency. (she/her)
No professional enquiries to this account please. See submission guidelines on website. rebeccacarterliterary.com
Publicising books while Rome burns @GrantaBooks
Author of The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock, and more. Currently working on a novel about Lady Eleanor Talbot. Here for history and the stories we tell about it. Click for courses, mentoring, and etc: https://linktr.ee/imogenhermes
LGBT+ Bookshop, London
Tues - Sat Open 11am - 6pm
Sunday Open 1pm - 6pm
Monday - Closed
Pop-up location: 58-60 Marchmont Street, London WC1N 1AB
Writer and editor. Proprietor of The Second Shelf, a feminist rare bookshop focused on first editions, ephemera, manuscripts, and collectable but often overlooked works by women and queer folks. First book, Train, forthcoming from Bloomsbury. She/her.
Poet, apparently. Forward Prize, BOTN and Pushcart nom. Occasional horseman, remote rural Spain. Words in blackbough, iambapoet, eatthestorms, Modron, Madrid Review, Bad Lilies, Dark Mountain project and more.
https://linktr.ee/jamesmcconachiepoet
Associate Features Editor at The Times
writer, journalist & broadcaster 📝
Author, I BELONG HERE (“a thing of beauty” - Sunday Times). Winner, Books Are My Bag Award, nominated Wainwright 🏆for Nature Writing, Great Outdoors Award, RSL Ondaatje. FRGS.
Mancunian 🐝
anitasethi.com
Diana fan, scorpio, & very serious leftie novelist. stubborn archivist (2019) & there are more things (2022)🌙 🌎
doing a phd on novels + abolition at Leeds
she/they
https://linktr.ee/yrodriguesfowler
Website editor, television dabbler
Woman, Disabled, & LGBTQ+ Owned and Operated independent bookstore in the heart of Central Illinois. 🏳️🌈✊🍉✊🏳️⚧️✊👨🦽➡️✊
712 W. Main St.
Peoria, IL 61606
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Reducing Environmental Impact | Reconnecting the Community | Reviving Bohemia
A used and new bookstore in Monroe, Washington since 1995. Woman- and LGBTQIA-owned and operated. Store cat. 110 E. Main St. Monroe WA 98272 📚🌈😺 MainStBooksMonroe.com
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Open in historic Stow, Thurs-Sun 10-12.30, 1-4.30.
Sister shop of @melrose-bookshop.bsky.social
www.wedalebooks.scot
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/Weda
Independent online & pop-up bookstore based in Manitou Springs, Colorado | Specializing in LGBTQ+ books 🐺⛰️📚
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Library Lover: search.worldcat.org
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A Queer Little Bookstore & Cafe 🍉
Queer owned / queer everything 🏳️⚧️
MASKS STILL REQUIRED 😷
T-F 12-8
S-S 11-6
📍Ute/Goshute/Shoshone land (SL,UT)
Queer feminist collective in Asheville, NC, operating a bookstore co-op & social movement space since 2008 on Tsalagi land. Ⓐ Ⓔ Ⓥ
That queerly friendly neighbourhood bookstore in the community of East Van on unceded and occupied MST land. Offering new and used books, small gifts, and Cozy Chairs™ for the queer soul and beloved community since 2023. www.crossandcrows.com
Inclusive, LGBTQ-owned "third space" bookstore w/ cafe, events, and free wifi in Elk Grove, just south of Sacramento
Queer Bookstore in Lansing, MI
wayfaringbooksellers.com
At the REO Town Marketplace ~
Open: Thurs 11-5, Fri-Sat 11-6
New & Used Books
Queer Indie Bookshop in Leeds
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 London's queer intersectional bookshop! A sanctuary for storytelling, queer literature & culture.
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We are open Tues - Sun 11 am - 6.30 pm | Events 7 pm-late
118 Bethnal Green Rd, Shoreditch, London, United Kingdom E2 6DG
commonpress.co.uk
Radical booksellers since 1945. Monday to Saturday 11am to 6.30pm. Sunday 12pm to 6pm. Order online at: http://housmans.com/shop
Your queer and trans owned liberation bookstore in Madison, Wisconsin. We ship anywhere in the US.
We are an LGBTQIA+ Bookstore based in Plymouth, UK. We currently only ship within the UK.
our website: toqs.co.uk
our linktree: linktr.ee/toqs
Queer-owned and woman-led independent community bookshop. 🏳️🌈 An unapologetically activist, intersectional, feminist, antiracist, lgbtq+ community space.
Find us at https://lighthousebookshop.com/
parent, partner, cat dad, writer, prof, etc.
arms embargo now & forever!
IG: @anderlawlor
website: www.anderlawlor.com
substack: https://pocketlawlor.substack.com
Queer publishing and design studio. Not affiliated with any other Polari-named things.
polari.press | polari.com
Associate Professor in Victorian Literature. Research interests: hunger & masculinity | food & consumption | history of celebrity. Co-I on ‘Young Women & Body Image’. Dog person. 🏴 https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/en/persons/charlotte-boyce
Writer | Senior Investigative Reporter at openDemocracy | Bylines in i; Observer; Guardian; The Times | BWLF | Book: Bodies Under Siege, Verso | Got a story? Email sian.norris(at)opendemocracy.net
Writer and broadcaster. Previously New Statesman senior editor.
Editor, @prospectmagazine.co.uk / Former EiC the Guardian/ @reutersinstitute ARusbridger.com/ Speaking: karen@chartwellspeakers.com.
The End of Nightwork | @grantabooks | @matthewmarland
Groundwater out with Bloomsbury in July 2025. Previously, The Last Good Man, winner of the 2021 Betty Trask Prize. Art words in Frieze, ArtReview, others. www.thomasmcmullan.com
writer. SMALL FIRES out now (Pushkin Press) winner 2024 Nach Waxman Prize MEAL TIME in progress (Jonathan Cape & Ecco )
edits @ vittles and writes dinner document substack
Coastal Essex
www.rebeccamayjohnson.com
https://boundlesslit.substack.com/
Translator, editor, writer, poet
The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing.
https://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/
Producer and presenter of Little Atoms podcast. Interviews with authors since 2005.
https://shows.acast.com/littleatoms/episodes
Award-winning publisher of short fiction from the UK & beyond. Championing the next generation of writers & translators. Shares do not equal endorsements.
Find us at: https://commapress.co.uk/
Novelist (Byron Easy, Jacob's Advice, Time Being @saltpublishing.com Sept 2026) & critic. Words Guardian, TLS, Literary Review. Radio plays BBC R3. Associate lecturer in Creative Writing Westminster University. judecook.com
https://judecook.substack.com/
Novelist. Poet. Reader.
🏺OVID’S HEROINES 🍼INCARNATION 🐇FIERCE BAD RABBITS 🔮 DELPHI 🏰THE UNTAMEABLES 🧚🏾THE MODERN FAIRIES, ✍️LIVES OF THE FEMALE POETS, etc. 🌊THE OTHERNAUTS coming 2026
Substack: Clare’s Poetry Circle
I help make books at Simon & Schuster UK. Writing in The Atlantic, TLS, Baffler, Drift, etc.
Writer. Author. Bond Fan.
CATCHING BULLETS - MEMOIRS OF A BOND FAN
WATCHING SKIES - STAR WARS SPIELBERG & US
BOND, QUEER BOND - THE FABULOUS OTHER HISTORY OF A SPY
Rep'd by Vivienne Clore
#JamesBond #WatchingSkies #BondQueerBond
www.markoconnell.co.uk
Novelist. New book AWAKE, AWAKE (2026). Also, ELMET (2017) and HOT STEW (2021). Booker-shortlisted. FRSL. Words in New York Times, Guardian, The Fence, British Vogue. Psychodynamic counsellor-in-training.
writing ORDINARY TREASURE: RADICAL PORTRAITS OF WORKING-CLASS WOMEN WRITERS (Virago, 2026) / essays in Granta, New Statesman, The White Review / rep Seren Adams / 📍Manchester
Journalist, author, jaywalker. Books: THIS IS ALL I GOT, ONE AND ONLY, RIGHTEOUS. Next up: AMERICAN PROPHECY. Thought I'd finally join Twitter.
Writer | The Naming of the Birds (Jan. 2025) l The House on Vesper Sands | Lives in a very small way.
https://vspr.st
Publicity Director for all the imprints of Headline Publishing Group
Find me also on Instagram: caitlinraynor
Fast talker, hot temper, symmetry lover. If I was a stick of rock - geek outside with a Jane Austen core.
Brighton & Hove's largest and liveliest indie bookshop since 1986.
https://city-books.co.uk
Writer. University Lecturer. North Cornwall Book Festival Director.
Editor & Co-founder at @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social.
Debut novel ENDPAPERS (Algonquin 2023), writer, cat person, #AuthorsAgainstBookBans, #5amWritersClub, production editor at Cornell University Press, she/they | jennifersavrankelly.com
Head full of books. Works at the glorious Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights.
• WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE (‘25)
• OKAY DAYS (‘23)
• on youtube (500k)
• literary agent: Peter Straus at RCW
• film agent: Emily Hayward-Whitlock at TAP
• a swede in london
Artist, writer, cat lady.
writer, Emblem (Prototype) & Afterlife forthcoming from Fitzcarraldo;🕯️
Historian of the long 18thC, editor, genealogist.
📚 Book: The Fall of the House of Byron
📝 Writing about: Marie Antoinette’s ladies
Vapid Response Unit. Tired dad. Writer, not always about tech. Gadget editor at ft.com/htsi
Also, multi-faceted musical human. Perform with Scritti Politti, Cardiacs, Lost Crowns, Sweet Billy Pilgrim, Spearmint, others. More info at rhodri.biz
Independent Publishers Since 1923.
https://www.outcast-press.com/shop-1
A small press devoted to transgressive fiction and dirty realism. Run by Sebastian Vice (@sebastianvice.bsky.social) & Paige Johnson
Publishing independently since 1929.
linktr.ee/faberbooks
We publish a broad and vibrant range of books for audiences of all ages.
We’re a small indie bookstore in northern IL, operating since 2023. We sell new and used books, clothing and gift items!
www.inkwellbooks.store
You can support us through https://bookshop.org/shop/inkwellbooks
Writing and freelance comms 🏳️🌈🍉
ORDINARY SAINTS is out now! https://linktr.ee/NiamhSquared
fiction editor @headlinebooks.bsky.social (hachette uk) / defender of ocean's 8 (2018) / 'like a bat stuck in a birthday cake' / @themothmagazine.bsky.social
Publicity Director at Penguin Random House. Books, books, books. I love them. View my own
LGBT+ History Month UK, which takes place in February each year, was founded by @SchoolsOUTUK.bsky.social in 2004, and was first celebrated in 2005. The 2026 theme is Science and innovation.
https://lgbtplushistorymonth.co.uk/
Drama and fiction writer. MONSTROUS LONGING out with Dahlia Books.
Agents: Independent Talent / The Ampersand Agency
Brit List 2022 / BAFTA Connect member / 4Screenwriting / BBC TV Drama Writers' Programme.
https://linktr.ee/abifahynes
Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
Essayist, Editor @ The Real Story, Winner NorthBound Book Award for COLD FISH SOUP (Saraband, 2022). BROKEN BISCUITS (HarperNorth, 2025) MD ANT
https://linktr.ee/adamjfarrer
Columnist and features writer - The Guardian. Georgetown Fellow.
Guardian writer, but one time I said something inflammatory to the US right & they called me a Diseased Pitmommy. So that's what I go by now
Writer, reader, cook, friend, lover. Contributing Editor, Observer. Contributing Writer for the New Statesman, Consulting Lit Ed for Harper's Bazaar. Podcaster, various. www.ericawagner.co.uk
A leading independent publisher of trade and academic books on the Middle East and North Africa.
Website: www.saqibooks.com
Linktree: https://shorturl.at/Yc9TY
London's Independent Bookshop of 2024.
Fiction, London Books, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Travel, Classics, Children's Books, Cards, Totes, and Short Story Prize.
https://linktr.ee/bricklanebookshop
Freelance journalist with a focus on film. Former Senior Writer @thetimes.com Host of the writing podcast Write-Off. Agent: Laura Macdougall at UA, Insta @francescasteelewrites Recovered from #longcovid
Join us 10-17 July 2026. Full line-up 1 April, Friends Priority Booking 7 April, General Booking 14 April. Sign up for our e-newsletter for programme alerts.
https://linktr.ee/westcorkliteraryfestival
Author of The Bygones (Tangerine Press)
Best British Short Stories 2023 (SALT)
Nightjar Press, The Quietus, 3am Magazine
Co-founder of Hand Job Zine and Hi Vis Press
Rural working class literature
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https://jimgibsonauthor.com/home
Author. Wrote a Spider-Man comic. He wears a mask just to cover the raw flesh. A rather ugly brother with flows that’s gorgeous.
“Orlando's Reigning Big Time Celebrity Author” - The Orlando Weekly
huuuuge lesbian. librarian. dad. floridian. beer drinker. NYT Bestselling author.
Mostly Dead Things & WITH TEETH & STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE
https://www.kristenarnettwriter.com
Marketer at Perlego ("Netflix for Books"). Arts Council grant recipient. Fuelled by writing, reading & Earl Grey tea. Identical twin. She/her.
Lit agent: Harry Illingworth.
WIP: speculative crime novel
Insta & X: @thebethanjames
variant practice model
words sounds images place: stuff
ask to use/share images please
Burntisland, Fife
https://clarearchibald.com/
Not checking this account all that often these days but you can find me here: https://fightweek.substack.com/
2024 Booker shortlisted author ‘Stone Yard Devotional' & other books. Sydney. Here for goodwill & generosity; long smart reads; cooking & gardens; slow, careful attending. https://charlottewood.substack.com
Independent bookseller in Kentish Town, London.
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Mon-Sat 9am-6pm
Sun 11am-6pm
www.owlbookshop.co.uk
owlbookshop@gmail.com
Tel. 020 7485 7793
Auteur en filmcriticus, screenwriter, vertaler, fotograaf, evil feminist, wicked spinster, international cat-sitter. Likes frites, beer & chocolade. The Low Countries.
The OG. Feral essayist. Genderclear. Publicist. They/Thembo. Instructor/Professor. Words: @MarieClaire_sa @Guardian @The_Rumpus etc.🖖
SPOILT CREATURES (2024) @tinderpress • Observer 10 Best New Novelists • 🏳️🌈 • Rep'd by 📚 @ce_seymour 🎥 @emilyhaywardw
Author of Crime fiction 💫
Book reader, book critic, author "News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist." Next memoir, "Ghosts of Fourth Street," pubs in 2026. I review for StarTribune, Washington Post, Boston Globe, LATimes and elsewhere. Teach in MFA program at UGA-Athens.
