Freelance journalist & writer. Bylines at the Herald, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the Big Issue, Prospect Magazine et al. Radio 4 documentaries, including Waiting for the Van & Prosecuting Polmont. Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.
God, Scotland, and the Universe:
https://ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TIS/index
Here to connect with friends of theology and Scotland, and to share our publications on faith, thought, and culture.
Bloomberg Editor - covering Middle East and North Africa politics and economics. Also johnhbowker on Letterboxd if you like films.
Previously in Johannesburg, Moscow
Author of the Rivers of London Series
Pronounced why-zick. NYC. Literary agent at Trellis Literary Management. Opinions my own. Cat mom; fast talker; Garamond enthusiast; she/her. SUNY Geneseo alum.
Writer
Barrowland: the inside story of Glasgow's beloved ballroom (Luath)
Cat Step (Dead Ink) This Road is Red (Luath)
www.recollective.org.uk
Rep: Millie Hoskins, United Agents
📚 Thriller author. Debut THE HIDEAWAY July 2025 with Pan Macmillan 🇬🇧 and late 2026 with Editura Niculescu 🇷🇴
👭 Therapist in private practice
🤰 Mum of two; neurospicy household
🕵️ Rep: Kate Burke at Blake Friedmann
Author of The Smallest Man, That Bonesetter Woman & The Lost Passenger, agent Alice Lutyens, Curtis Brown. Keen on cats.
Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner.
https://james-topham.com
Book blogger 💙📚
CWA Daggers Judge
Dog and Cat lover 🐈⬛🐕🦺
Theatre Goer 🎭
https://linktr.ee/Lyndaanne
Author of The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley and A Woman of Opinion (Penguin, 2022, 2024). Trying to do a few small good things to lighten the grim 2020s
Author of THE BOOK OF WITCHING, THE LIGHTHOUSE WITCHES, and others.
Crime fiction aficionado. Blogger (www.crimebookgirl.com), event chair, Theakstons & McIlvanney Prize academy member, Ngaio Marsh Awards & CWA Daggers judge - it's #AllCrimeAllTheTime!
We are publishing Ceitidh Chaimbeul • Mohammed Moussa • Luca Serra
UK Publishing home to all your favourite authors.
Bookish news and updates coming very soon!
Author DEVIL’S BREATH-BBC Between The Covers book club pick, HELL’S BELLS and BELLA DONNA Pub’d by @bwpublishing.
Ngaio Marsh Award double category finalist.
Rep'd by Pontas Agency
Insta: jilljohnsonwrites
Info: http://jilljohnsonwrites.com
Crime writer, reader. Whisky lover…
Scotland’s living memory. If you can think of it, we probably have it.
A website from @publishingscotland.bsky.social dedicated to championing the best new writing in Scotland.
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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
🇬🇧London📚book blogger + content creator. Supporter of debut authors, all book genres and indie bookshops 🫶
Judge for the British Book Awards 2025
Shadow panel judge for Young Writers Award 24/25
97K+: https://www.instagram.com/bookmarkonthewall/?hl=en
Associate Professor and Head of School of Art, Film and Media at Bath Spa University, UK. Co-director of screeningsex.com. Series Editor for EUP's Screening Sex book series. And a quiet author of short fiction inc NoSleep Podcast. Personal acc.
I’m Philippa, I love books & biscuits. I host the CHART-TOPPING Quick Book Reviews Podcast, with author interviews & honest book reviews - no spoilers.
Email: quickbookreviews@outlook.com
...sometimes you wake up. sometimes the fall kills you. and sometimes when you fall you fly...
www.crimebookgirl.com
Writer.
Curtis Brown Creative alumna
Lover of all things gothic
Novella, The Off-Season, out now.
Northern and southern in equal parts
https://jodierobins.substack.com
Writer
Shortlisted for the Little, Brown UEA Crime Fiction Award 2024
UEA crime writing MA
LISP Short Story Finalist 2022
Winner Bath Novel Award 2023. 2nd place Bath & Bridport Novel Award 2014. Flash in short & longlists (Bridport, Edinburgh, Lett Review, Scratch A4). I also teach writing. I live in the Tory-free UK. Photo: Martin Figura.
Scottish writer/editor. Queer AF. Terrible workaholic.
PhD student in Creative Writing. Cinema Worms podcast co-host. She/they
Repped: @lzats.bsky.social (literary) Kim Yau at Echo Lake (film/TV)
Bae: @pegasusunder.bsky.social
www.lindzmcleod.co.uk
Writer, poet and guinea pig fosterer. These Mortal Bodies, my debut about sisterhood, girlhood and obsession, is out now with Simon and Schuster 🦇.
https://linktr.ee/elspethwrites
Novelist, essayist, comms professional. Author of THE NIGHT IS NOT FOR YOU (Wildfire Books; Orbit US/Run for It) and BRIDE OF THE SEA (Tin House).
Writer. Procrastinator. Book Reviewer.
She/Her
FIV+ internet cat 🐟animal rescue fan 🐠 spay and neuter your pets
https://linktr.ee/fishtopher
Debut romcom ‘Chaos Theory’ with Storm Publishing. Rep’ed by Liverpool Lit Agency. Shortlisted for The Letter Review prize, Watson Little Indie Novella prize & Retreat West 1st Chapter. LL’ed for Mslexia novel prize. https://linktr.ee/SylviaLeatham
Award winning children's author. 'No Ballet Shoes in Syria' 'Bird Boy'. Also writing as Cate Shearwater! Teacher too! Rep'd by Rupert Crew
Writer, reader, web developer, ex-bookseller. Pratchett fan. Lives near Stonehenge. Debut crime novel '10 Marchfield Square' out now. (She/Her)
https://linktr.ee/nicolawhyte
#Author #Crime #BookSky
GP, reader, writer. Debut novel SHOW ME WHERE IT HURTS out now from @sceptrebooks.bsky.social Rep’d by @juliasreading.bsky.social
www.clairegleeson.com
Writer & critic 🏳️🌈 He/Him. Novel The Old Haunts shortlisted for McKitterick Prize & Shortlisted for Saltire First Book Award 2024
allanradcliffe.co.uk https://linktr.ee/allanradcliffe
Award-winning YA author and screenwriter. Debut crime thriller, BELIEVE, out with Penguin Michael Joseph June 2025.
Writer, novels 'The Unrecovered' and 'Night Fire' from Raven Books 2025/26. Stories in The Dark, New Writing Scotland, Weird Horror and more. https://linktr.ee/richstrach
Rep'd: @samedenborough.bsky.social
https://richardstrachan.substack.com/
Feminist. Caledonophile. Living in Berlin. Writer of novels. Translator German/English. Erstwhile cognitive scientist.
Rep'd by Jenny Brown Associates
www.julietconlin.com
Eco-worrier. Also writes. http://sallyoreilly.co.uk
New novel HAGTALE out with Scribe 2025
Agent Joanna Swainson https://hardmanswainson.com
Novelist, rep’d by @vickyweberbooks.bsky.social. Thrillers: #LittleWhiteLies💛 #SafeAndSound❤️ #IllNeverTell💗 #AGuiltySecret🧡 Lives in Lincolnshire, has a cat. Clinical Psychologist by day.
📚 Open Your Eyes 📚The Flight 📚The Boat Trip 📚Author 📚Editor/Blog Tour Organiser 📚 General Coordinator for the CWA (All views my own.)
heatherjfitt.com
Historical novelist, book lover & freelance writer/editor with ME/CFS. Currently writing about a 1930s spirit medium.
📚 CBC breakthrough mentee 2024
📚 MMA mentee 2022
https://linktr.ee/katieandersonmorrison
Writer. Winner of Bloody Scotland Debut and McIlvanney Awards. Co-host of the Page One Podcast. The Midnight King - out now!
https://www.tariqashkanani.co.uk
Writer, book lover and mum of two. Loves the sea and cake, not necessarily together. Debut The Secret Collector @panmacmillan.bsky.social out now: bit.ly/SecretCollector 📚🛋️🕰️ Rep'd: WME Books
Thriller author. Always on My Mind out now with Harvill. Loves Disney and cupcakes.
Author of FUNDAMENTALLY (Feb 2025) W&N (UK) Dutton (US)
Cheerleader for Books and Beatles.
20+ years in the book trade.
Supporting publishers @publishingscotland.bsky.social
Editor @booksfromscotland.bsky.social
Author of Beatles 101.
Gimme all yer culture!
A podcast for fans and writers of crime fiction. Hosted by @lesleykara.bsky.social and @nikkismithauthor.bsky.social.
https://linktr.ee/insuspense
Publicist at Hodder & Stoughton
Book cheerleader, Bookshop fan, Reader. Often on book tour. UK publishing PR and events 📚 Penguin Random House 🐧
Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office. 17 year old tabby. Living with my sixth Prime Minister. Unofficial.
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Number10cat
Cats, cats, and more cats! #catsofbluesky
Writer of YA / LWA awardee 2022 / SL Book Edit Writers Prize 2022 / Highly Commended FAB Prize 2023/ LL CNP 2023 / SL SCBW1 2024 / SL Skylark Soaring Voices 2024 / Winner FBA New Voices 2024/ SL David Fickling Search For A Storyteller 2025
Writer, behavioural scientist and aspiring mushroom forager. Ethical Guide to Murder out now.
Historical romance author with twisty-turny plots, a splash of romance, and the merest whiff of magic ✨️
Four kids, three cats, one husband.
Suffolk/Norfolk border. Dance freak.
Be kind always ❤️ (DMs off)
19th century Circus and Music Hall history (esp. acro, aerial & juggling) & Contemporary Circus. Co-organiser of European Circus History Conference (circusconference.org), British Music Hall Society Conference, London Juggling & Flow Arts Festival.
Museums, archives & evidence-based learning. Drawn to the flicker of old images, the glow of forgotten stages and stories waiting to live again.
Writer, oral historian, reminiscence facilitator, teaching artist. Former carny kid. Coney Island, carnivals, fairs, amusement business. It's the front of the show that gets the dough! Authors Guild member.
https://linktr.ee/triciavita
word-tinker, wife, mum. CNP shortlist ‘23. “let me be singing when the evening comes.”
Writes at dawn | Upmarket/Book Club fiction | Longlisted Goldfinch Books Novel Award 2025 | Longlisted Cheshire Novel prize 2023 | Longlisted Jericho Writers First 500 2023 | Nice human 🖊️
Writer, LL Cheshire Novel Prize 23. Happiest in an art gallery, reading a good book or hovering round a huge cheeseboard.
Writer of YA/adult dark fantasy. Baker, boxer, banjo player, cat lover.
(she/they)
https://linktr.ee/Sophiakb_writes
The Street Library. Where books get social 📚
Use YOUR books - to raise funds for YOUR favourite charity.
http://StreetLibrary.co.uk
Main Bluesky account: @ataxia.scot
Book reviews (historical fiction, history, art), writing, studying.
Happiest in the hills. Then in the bath with a book. And a whisky.
A book and writing festival curated by Brighton authors. Early bird tickets available now for a limited time. COMING 10 MAY 2025.
https://www.beyondthebookfestival.org/
Portobello Book Festival is a volunteer run festival, taking place over the first weekend of October.
27-30 Nov 25. We bring Scottish writers, Scottish themes and Scottish connections to London. Https://StAndrewsBookFestival.org/
We are an annual autumn book festival on Scotland's whisky isle. Next festival taking place 27th - 30th August 2026. 📚
Book talks. In a brewery!
10-days of author talks and book events taking place annually in a Kentish medieval market town
20 Feb – 1 Mar 2026
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We bring the very best in music, literature, crime writing, salon, spectacle and education to Harrogate
...a world of different...
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NYT and USA Today bestselling author. Here be ghost stories.
Writer (The Song of Achilles, Circe), reader, theater lover. Cats, Long Covid. She/her.
Executive Publisher for Fiction @simonschusteruk. Author of 5 thrillers with @HQStories. Shortlisted for Editor of the Year 2022.
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All the best book news and general chit chat from the Hodder Fiction Editorial Team 🖍️
Reading Minds - a literary festival with a difference! Join us for a weekend of wellbeing through books on the West coast of Scotland 🏴
Writer. Barrister. Published by @viperbooks.bsky.social. Rep'd by @onechaptermore.bsky.social.
Crime fiction writer #amquerying, coffee lover, Devon dweller, former barrister, occasional indie music PR ... 💙📚 #Exeter #Topsham via #Hull
We are the UK’s largest children’s reading charity. We get millions of children & families reading together from the earliest possible age.
Scotland’s International Festival of Crime Writing. Stirling. 12-14th September 2025.
Multi-million selling author/illustrator of 200 titles 📚
New book SMALL STORIES OF GREAT ARTISTS published by @Taschen 👩🏽🎨
Everything here: https://linktr.ee/LaurenceAnholtAuthor 🪷
#UKKidLit #ChildrensBooks #books #EduSkyPrimary #illustration
Writer. Reader. Family historian. Chocolate lover. Cheshire Novel Prize Longlist ‘23.
Kirkus ★ THE LOVELY DARK out April '26 🇺🇸 | Financial Times Best Children's Books '23 | Barnes & Noble Children's Book Award Shortlist '24 | Rep'd: Bell Lomax Moreton | No AI |🌱
linktr.ee/mattfoxwriter
Independent Bookshop in Romiley, Greater Manchester. Second bookshop in Stockport Centre now open! Co-founder Stockport Noir. Admin: @oziasmidwinter.bsky.social
A writer with two dark thrillers published by Joffe Books, my third due out on December 18th. All about 📚🐕& 🌱 ‘The Beauty Queen’ https://geni.us/the-beauty-queen
USA Today bestselling author of psychological thrillers and SFF. Pub’d by #AmazonPublishing & #Bookouture Not a morning person. She/her
Author of queer dark novels, aka Victoria Hawthorne. Scottish with an English accent. Owned by golden retrievers. Views mine. 🏴🏳️🌈🇵🇸 she/her
https://linktr.ee/vikkipatis
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Literary Agent and Director of Fiction Development at The Blair Partnership.
Crime, thriller, mystery, book club, gothic. All views my own.
Submissions: https://www.theblairpartnership.com/literary-submissions/
Editor. Crime & Thriller fan. London’s my city but Northern Ireland’s my home. All views my own etc. Cats. Books. Wine. Quizzes.
Editorial Director @ Little, Brown UK.
Commissioner of beautiful books with big plots. Generalist but particularly partial to the historical, the criminal, the ghostly and the lightly fantastical.
Exclusively 📚 on this account.
Educational charity promoting the reading, writing, teaching & study of Scotland's literature & languages, past & present.
https://asls.org.uk
Dunfermline based book blogger. Lover of crime, thrillers and LEGO
Expert Bookseller and reader extraordinaire.
Not really here, but on Instagram. Author of Tell Me How This Ends and The Last Time I Saw You, both out now
Head of Marketing @dialoguepublishing.bsky.social 📚• book reader, dog lover, cake baker • @the-bookseller.bsky.social rising star 2022 🌟• views my own • she/her 🎠
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