Literary academic, Director at Centre for New Writing, University of Manchester. Women's writing, feminism, modern and contemporary lit.
Associate Editor for Trade Non-Fiction at Manchester University Press
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producer of ‘meet the writers’, 'monocle on culture' + ‘konfekt korner' | studio director at monocle radio | book hoarder | creative | chronically online | magician’s assistant
email: sc@monocle.com
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National charity helping everyone affected by a parent's drinking.
A movement for change 💙
Established in 1986 Honno is a non-for-profit press with a mission to champion the voices of Welsh Women writers. We publish award-winning fiction and non-fiction in English and Welsh.
Book cheerleader, Bookshop fan, Reader. Often on book tour. UK publishing PR and events 📚 Penguin Random House 🐧
Creative & Marketing Director in 📚. Happiest when talking about a great book. Answers to VP.
📚 Author of THE CHARMED LIFE OF ALEX MOORE 🗞 Comment Editor at @TheBookseller.bsky.social 🎙Co-founder The Big Book Weekend with @KitdeWaal.bsky.social
Marketing Director @canongate.co.uk
Independent bookshop in Halifax's The Piece Hall.
bookcornerhalifax.com
01422 414443
Link to our events: https://bookcornerhalifax.com/events/
Poet, author, Sheffield-er. Mountaineering literature specialist, running enthusiast, part time Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Not here much 🇮🇪 Writer Hagstone | Constellations | This Woman’s Work (with Kim Gordon) | Agent: Peter Straus at RCW | Newsletter: momentsofrecognition.substack.com
Commissioning Editor for Scottish Universities Press @scotunipress.bsky.social
Publicist, Daunt Books Publishing
Avid reader. Festival lover. Coffee drinker. Wanderer. Passionate about storytelling, the arts, people and our planet. @Mcrlitfest.bsky.social Co-Director 📚
A cook who writes.
Observer columnist. Author. Gardener.
Books: The Kitchen Diaries,
The Christmas Chronicles, A Cook’s Book,
A Thousand Feasts.
Instagram.com/nigelslater
Assistant opinion editor at the Guardian. Writer on arts, culture and society
We’re here to make you think. And think again.
Our creatively curated event programme gets under the skin of today’s most pressing issues and stimulating subject matter.
www.manlitphil.ac.uk
Manchester Literature Festival presents inspiring live literature, poetry & culture. Check out our Spring & Summer events at www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk
Publicity Director, Fitzcarraldo Editions
Sometimes football, always cats.
Senior Commissioning Editor at Dead Ink Books
Head of sales, marketing and publicity at Duckworth Books | Commissioning queer voices 🏳️🌈 | Aspiring himbo | Follow for all things independent publishing!
Book lover, film watcher, food maker, image taker
flip-flop is my nature
https://www.bigbeardedbookseller.uk
https://ko-fi.com/bigbeardedbookseller
The online store supporting independent bookshops 📚 Certified B Corp | Carbon Neutral Delivery 📚 5 star Trustpilot rating.
uk.bookshop.org
Comms Director at Hodder & Stoughton
@francesca_bookspr on Insta
Book and arts PR (non-fiction and kid's books focus). Reader, traveller, parent. Likes a cup of tea and a chat, especially about books.
CR: Shushu
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
Associate Editor and commissioning editor at The TLS (@thetls.bsky.social) - Biography, Memoir, Travel, Book History, Language. Freelance writer
Books Editor of The Irish Times; author of Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place (Merrion Press)
Literary Editor of The Times/Sunday Times. thetimes.com/culture/books
Writer. Activist. Diarist. Head of Creative Writing at Southampton University.
https://tobylitt.wordpress.com/shop/
Book Editor Prima magazine. Book consultant for Between The Covers. Hairdresser.
One of the millions of journalists who’s defected to Substack and started a podcast. https://theshiftwithsambaker.substack.com/
@spectator lit ed. “Clock-white, still friendly to the earth.” https://bit.ly/TheHauntedWood
Journalist and podcaster. Politics, social affairs and a little bit of Britpop. Once Independent, now independent.
Find me in The i Paper, The New World, Obs, The Lead, Yahoo and on Oh God, What Now? & The Bunker pods
https://muckrack.com/hannah-fearn
FT lit ed (“workaholic” - Private Eye)
Freelance book PR. PPC Committee Member. Previously HarperCollins, Granta & Saqi. Bristol and London. Mostly on IG @kellydpike www.folkpublicrelations.co.uk
A friendly local independent bookshop and cafe in Farsley, West Leeds.
Co-founder of Farsley Literature Festival.
www.trumanbooks.co.uk
At the heart of the book trade since 1858📚
News, charts, previews and more, online & in print. Buyer's Guides, conferences & The British Book Awards (Nibbies)✨
Independent publisher.
fitzcarraldoeditions.com
Read boldly. Think differently.
Publishing Sales Manager/Book Trade Historian and Archivist. PhD in Book Trade History. Ex- bookseller. Book History Bite Newsletter info ⬇️
https://linktr.ee/Bookhistorybite?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=944ff8dd-4748-4759-aada-62e395c26ef1
The BMS represents marketers within the book industry. 📚
Website: https://www.bookmarketingsociety.co.uk/
Director and co-founder of BookMachine. Our mission is to use digital marketing to promote the value of reading and learning worldwide.
Marketing & Communities Director @ Thames & Hudson. Irish in London.
The Bookseller managing editor, book stats wizard. Debut THE ESQUIMAUX (Silvertail, UK & Comm). Repped by Charlie Campbell at Greyhound Literary.
⛓️ https://linktr.ee/kate.neilan
🐈⬛ Cat lover 🪷 Outdoors appreciator
🏴 Cymru am byth 📝 Stories or death
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Snr Publicity Director @atlanticbooks.bsky.social. Glaswegian down south. Mum. Books, cats, theatre, weird and spooky stuff. Swemo. Passionate about SEND issues.
Non-Fiction Commissioning Editor | Seven Dials, Trapeze, Orion Books | The Bookseller Rising Star 2024
Your favourite book publisher, obvs 🏴
Closing in summer 2026.
We're @heathermmcd.bsky.social & @laurafjones.bsky.social
Improve your life with 404 Ink books: https://www.404ink.com/shop
Publishing independently since 1929.
linktr.ee/faberbooks
Lighting up our readers' minds and opening spaces for them to think differently. Bringing you brilliant, award-winning new and classic fiction and non-fiction.
26 | Founder @ThePublishingPost.bsky.social✨ Senior Editor, Audio🎧📚2022 Rising Star⭐️ London Book Fair Trailblazer 2023✨SYP Mentor📚 Co-Collaborating on First Chapter Award📣
https://linktr.ee/chelsea_graham
Contemporary bookshop located in the heart of Bristol's vibrant Wapping Wharf. Member of the Alliance of Radical Booksellers.
Writer & professional nerd putting the A in LGBTQIA+
PhD in representations of AIDS through theatre.
Much queer theatre and TV research.
Also, a lot of Hockey.
She/Her
🎧Twice-weekly podcast episodes with authors & book lovers
📚Book reviews & recommendations
🏴Scotland
🙋🏻♀️Susie - She/her
Links to listen: https://linktr.ee/inmygoodbookspod
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
Nottingham's city centre independent and radical bookshop, est. 2013
Publishing as Five Leaves since 1995
www.fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk, www.fiveleaves.co.uk
We organise about a hundred events a year. Fast ordering service. Four book clubs.
The IPG is the UK's largest association of independent publishers, supporting 600+ members with events, resources, training and much more.
https://linktr.ee/IndependentPublishersGuild
Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. www.celesteng.com
Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Paul Chambers. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com
Publishing commentator. Founder of Meet The Booktokers, As Seen On Booktok, and The Empowered Author. Trying to disrupt book publishing for 15+ years. Not easy.
Independent publisher of inventive books, fearless writing and powerful voices. Our authors include Mary Beard, Shoshana Zuboff and Francis Fukuyama.
20,000 titles across two floors in Bloomsbury, plus the best events in town.
Visit us at 14 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL, or browse at https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk
Sign-up for our newsletters: https://www.lrb.co.uk/account/newsletter-signup?
Northern indie publisher | Winner of the IPG Nick Robinson Newcomer Award 2019 | Publishing the very best books in all genres | Home to NYALlitFest
Senior Commissioning Editor, Modern History and Current Affairs at Yale University Press London (views my own)
Communications Director, @canongate.co.uk. Currently working with Miranda July, Omar El Akkad, Len Pennie, Damian Barr, Lily King, John Niven & many other talented folk.
Live in Edinburgh, though more often on trains. Don't have access to DMs.
Professional dork. Publisher. Puzzle Writer. Campaigns Manager. Tired.
A not-for-profit scholarly press based at the University of Bristol. Home of Policy Press. Publishing on the global social challenges.
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/linktree
Edinburgh University Press is the premier Scottish publisher of academic books and journals in the humanities and social sciences. edinburghuniversitypress.com
Publishing exceptional research since 1899.
Home to @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social, @oxunienl.bsky.social, @modlangopen.bsky.social, and @lupdistribution.bsky.social.
linktr.ee/livunipress
We believe in books that promote positive change and enrich culture.
Sign up to the MUP newsletter & receive 30% off all orders.
https://linktr.ee/ManchesterUniversityPress
A global community of publishers whose mission is to ensure academic excellence and cultivate knowledge. #ReadUP! https://aupresses.org/ Got a question about university press publishing? #AskUP! https://ask.up.hcommons.org/
Publisher of Caribbean and Black British books. Proudly decolonising bookshelves since 1985.
Award-winning independent publisher.
PARADISE by Ben Tufnell OUT NOW
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Contact: hello@influxpress.com
Award-winning independent publisher of distinctive, unforgettable fiction and outstanding non-fiction.
Visit our website https://saraband.net/
An independent publisher of radical, left‐wing non‐fiction books. Established in 1969, we are one of the oldest radical publishing houses in the world.
plutobooks.com
Publisher at Daunt Books; she/her
2x Shortlisted Freelancer of the Year 2024 & 2025 (The Bookseller) 📚 Award-winning marketing consultant ✨ Publishing professional ☕ Writer ✍️ Herder of 🐱🐶🦔
https://linktr.ee/rachelmayquin
Journalist @guardian. Northern Powerhouse, running bore 🏃🏽♀️, MUFC 👹. Send news: hannah.al-othman@theguardian.com. DM for WhatsApp/Signal
North of England correspondent at the Guardian. Mostly here to make bad jokes
Host of Today in Focus, the Guardian’s daily news podcast. Former North of England editor. Nominated for best host at the 2025 British Podcast Awards. Contact me in confidence helen.pidd@theguardian.com
Head of Books for the Guardian, author of The People Before and The House Guest (HarperCollins)
Author, online safety campaigner, journalist, hater of tech bros.
https://www.adelesnotes.co.uk/
Northern correspondent, Financial Times
📍Manchester
Queer-owned and woman-led independent community bookshop. 🏳️🌈 An unapologetically activist, intersectional, feminist, antiracist, lgbtq+ community space.
Find us at https://lighthousebookshop.com/
Film journalist, author, podcaster, broadcaster, etc. Empire's Editor-at-Large. If you would like to give me work, have a look at helenohara.com
Host of the Empire Film Podcast, wrangler of words for Empire magazine, LFC fan, utterly inept golfer.
An independent bookshop exclusively stocking independent publishers, based on Smithdown Road in Liverpool.
https://linktr.ee/deadinkbookshop
Independent publisher of bold new fiction and non-fiction, based in Liverpool
https://linktr.ee/deadinkbooks
Arts & Afters | Digital Editor @huckmag.com and writer elsewhere
isaac[at]tcolondon[dot]com / isaacmuk96[at]gmail[dot]com
author, marshall scholar, phd @ Yale
sinophone + asian american lit
BABEL, YELLOWFACE, etc...
https://linktr.ee/kuangrf
I cry a lot but I am so productive!
Est. by Sam Read in 1887. Award-winning small bookshop in the Lake District. Posts from @likewinterblue.bsky.social and @pollyrowena.bsky.social Insta: samreadbookseller Browse a selection from our virtual shelves: www.samreadbooks.co.uk
Reader. Writer. Associate Editor & #nonfiction previewer @thebookseller.com. Royal Literary Fund Writing For Life Fellow. Honorary President @indexers.bsky.social. Also on Substack: "What to Read Now"
