Official page for Newcastle University UK, a founding member of the Russell Group of Research intensive universities, and a Global Top 140 university. #WeAreNCL
Single short story chapbooks since 2009. Uncanny, dark, experimental. Manchester/London. Editor @nicholasroyle.bsky.social. Design @johnoakey.bsky.social.
Canadian living in Liverpool, UK. Knitter, reader, hiker, lover of all textiles and the great outdoors. Once a bookseller, always a bookseller.
📚A tiny little indie press making books (and more) that embody innovation, intuition, and intelligence.
🎴Altered Tarot Deck & Guide Book / The End of Love
🌊Against the Current
💡Account managed by Stephanie Johnson Lawson (she/her), owner/publisher.
Reader. Walker. Author of short story collections Hailman and Fox pub by @theemmapress.bsky.social 📚
leanneradojkovich.com
Senior lecturer in modern British history at Newcastle University. C20th/C21st British childhood, adulthood & age. Writes & reviews fiction: loves the speculative, sapphic and uncanny. Lesbian. 🌈 https://drlauratisdall.wordpress.com
small press | big dreams
Birmingham-based independent publisher of poetry, children's books, short-form prose and translations.
www.theemmapress.com
A Manic Street Preachers Song Contest! Random song vs song, until all 59,340 combinations are done. What will you choose? (Banner photo: Alex Lake)
Avid reader, book blogger, former Latin teacher/classicist, fountain pen addict. Blogging about literature and life at www.thebookbindersdaughter.com
Old white guy
Lit.blogger at TheAustralianLegend.wordpress.com
Rootless cosmopolitan | Reading wildly | 'Obscure enough to be left in the sweetest of solitudes.' — De Quincey
https://timesflowstemmed.com
Art, music, poetry, culture and other stuff.
A blog dedicated to the arts.
Visit: xx2p.com
UK/European
#artnews
Should have been writing.
Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca
and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
New book, out in May 2026! 'En Route: A Journey Round France in the Company of Great Writers'.
Author of 'Oak and Ash and Thorn', 'Footnotes' and 'A Thing of Beauty'.
#books #nature #climate
oneworld-publications.com/contributor/peter-fiennes
Official account of all things Malachi Whitaker, Yorkshire author, b. Bradford (1895-1976). Moderated by Whitaker's Literary Executor, Valerie Waterhouse (PhD researcher, Salford University. Winner of Biographers Intl Org Kitty Kelley Fellowship, 2025)
books and schnauzers
Emeritus Librarian 🌈 aka Larry the Librarian
works in publishing, translates Russian, reads, edits, parents, naps, snarks. @missadadoom on social media and founding tiger at Tiger Team Creative.
My new book is The Village at the Edge of Noon - think Buffy and The Witcher stuck Under the Dome…
Independent publisher of non-fiction and novels
#MDANT
ortacpress.com/shop
Books, books, books, coffee, and my Clark. 🐶
https://www.carosbookcase.com
https://linktr.ee/carosbookcase
Salt | Est. 1999 | One of the UK’s leading independent publishers.
High-impact fiction and brand-led non-fiction.
Redefining independent publishing for the 21st century.
Available in all good bookshops.
www.saltpublishing.com
Lover of all things bookish. Book reviewer and blogger at Brown Flopsy's Book Burrow. Cat servant. 🇬🇧 http://linktr.ee/brownflopsy Admin for The SquadPod Collective https://bsky.app/profile/squadpod2021.bsky.social
Don’t look at the news! Don’t look at the news! Don’t look at the news! (Looks at the news). Oh, for fuck’s sake.
Author, tenacious historian and researcher, love all trains-Camelot, QPR, The Fall, opera, film and comedy, Warner Brothers cartoons, Will Hay and importantly, where to find the best doughnut in London and how to make the perfect pot of tea to go with it!
NancyKay or NK. New Yorker, lady of a certain age, ever curious, queer, flaneuse.
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Books, pop music(s), fine art, humor, history, cities, TV, dogs, Star Trek, #Spirk, etc.
Fic: archiveofourown.org/users/Herself_nyc/
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Fix your heart, or die.
Bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic episodes of life, often coupled with black comedy and literary nonsense.
Proudly a Memorial Device ANT
Independent British publisher of non-fiction and fiction. Highlights include James Hawes's The Shortest History of Germany and Hannelore Cayre's The Godmother, winner of the 2020 'Crime Fiction in Translation' Dagger.
Brad Bigelow, Missoula, MT
bradbigelow.com
Author, Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts
Editor, Recovered Books series @ Boiler House Press:
www.boilerhouse.press/recovered-books
Editor, neglectedbooks.com. Champion of reading off the beaten path.
Crime novelist and book hunter, fascinated by detective fiction's heritage as well as its present and future. Latest novel, Hemlock Bay. Diamond Dagger, two Edgar awards, President and archivist of the Detection Club. Do You Write Under Your Own Name? blog
Coffee House Press is an independent nonprofit publishing house based in Minneapolis. Literature forever.
Librarian, cat lover, book lover, art lover.
Books 📚tennis, film, motorcycles, astronomy, coffee & red wine🍷
Scotland 🏴
Publisher of the finest editions available of the world's greatest classics.
https://linktr.ee/everymans_library
I do comedy, lecturing, journalism, radio and writing. I like beaches, books and buildings. Probably writing a bit too much about ovarian cancer at the moment because of reasons.
Love books, bookshops and libraries.
Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
Independent American publisher devoted to the translation of overlooked gems and literary oddities in small, affordable, yet elegant paperback editions.
wakefieldpress.com
✍️ Dazed & Confused / The Guardian / Metro / The Quietus / Football Weekends / Vice / The Prague Post / Radio Free Europe
🍷 Uncorked: Wine Without the Bullshit (Thirsty Dog Press)
🎓 University of Oxford, Artificial Intelligence nerd
🇬🇧🇨🇿 Whitley Bay x Praha
We love books, dogs in bookshops, and customers who laugh at our jokes
The official Vegan for the Animals http://veganfta.com Bluesky feed. We're here to help stop the exploitation of all animals. 🌱🐖🐄🐓🐐🐁🐘🐇
linktr.ee/veganfta
Retired public library cataloguer - more time to read! Now full time fiction reader and reviewer. I read mostly mystery/crime/thriller and historical, women's or contemporary fiction.
I have submitted 740 reviews to NetGalley so far...
& 537 to Edelweiss
British Library Publishing - bringing you the very best incredible classic literature, republished for readers new and old. Plus bold new non-fiction for everyone. 📚
Charm is the viscous grease with which he oils his flim-flam machine
he/him
Freelance writer. Blog about books (https://bookdedications.co.uk & https://livesinlit.com). Co-run @tpfilmclub.bsky.social. All links to all bits: https://linktr.ee/wbgooderham
Quarterly literary magazine of #poetry, short #fiction, #nonfiction, #drama, #art and #bookreviews with cadence and personality to take readers on a journey.
Always open for submissions (guidelines on our website)
https://www.doorisajarmagazine.net/
Sharing news on research, teaching & engagement activity in the creative arts, humanities & social sciences at Newcastle University. Monitored Mon-Fri (9am-4pm).
Historian of design, emotions, 19C France, destruction, ruins and the like. writing a book about the aftermath of the Paris Commune.
Independent Bookshop in Brigg North Lincolnshire
Writer, écrivain public, anthologist, literary historian, bibliophile, and three-time winner of the Ice Capades Colouring Contest.
Author of Character Parts (Knopf), A Gentleman of Pleasure (McGill-Queen's UP), and The Dusty Bookcase (Biblioasis).
Since its founding in 1982, Touch (based in London) has created audio-visual productions and live events that combine innovation with a level of care and attention that has made it the most enduring of any independent company of its time.
Interested in history, esp 20th century & Second World War. Independent Company Member (IC#838), mediocre, injured athlete now with shiny new hip, NCFC fan, woeful guitarist, cat-dad, listens to too many pasty, pale '80s indie bands, buys too many books.
Getty Images, London. Walking up and down hills in Hampshire. Photography, books and peering into the abyss.
#2 Most Followed Library in the USA!
Current Challenge, Peeps!!:
https://summitco.librarycalendar.com/event/peeps-diorama-contest-15460
Histoire(s) littéraire(s) en non-mixité
·.★·.·´¯`·.·★ αмoυr, poéѕιe eт révolυтιoɴ ★·.·´¯`·.·★.·
39yo - 🏳️⚧️ (ELLE/SHE)
IRL 📚 libraire d'occasion depuis juin 2025 📚
traduction littéraire / literary translation // édition / publishing @blackheraldpress.bsky.social
https://blongre.wixsite.com/blandinelongre
I review theatre, art and books, and like electronic music, pop, disco, jazz, opera, Siamese cats, coffee, tea shops, and scones with jam. I live in beautiful North East Scotland.
Fragments of life in messages from old postcards, curated by Tom Jackson. BOOK: http://amzn.to/34rIDhp POD: http://Apple.co/2xNqQ8D AGENT: http://morgangreencreatives.com
Tied to the pulse of the sea.
Former Twitter/X user. Occasionally blogging about books and other stuff at www.mytwostotinki.com
Posting all the greatest from the famous Calvin & Hobbes comics by Bill Watterson. Not affiliated with Calvin & Hobbes Contact: contactcalvinandhobbes@gmail.com
#TCM, #BookSky, classic films, fiction by dead authors, #bookhaul, #MelvilleMonday
Book lover; library worker
📍MCR
'The Book Lover's (& Movie - Sept!) Quiz Book' (1 & 2) author. Book quiz host - The Betsey Trotwood (next one 17/03). Sales & marketing manager at British Library Publishing. All opinions my own! All quiz dates etc here - https://www.gpwigglesworth.co.uk/
Music, books, nature. Walks like a jerk, but he could eat you with a fork and a spoon. Judgy introvert. Bespoke librarian. Wales.
Reader, blogger, CanLit enthusiast
Midlander/Madrileña
Literary Translator from French and Spanish into English
http://alicebankstranslator.com
Devoted to vintage Ladybird books and the other work of their artists. My exhibition The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Artists has been travelling since 2018. Twitter: @lbflyawayhome
Éditeur indépendant / independent press
poésie, essais, textes courts / Poetry books, essays, short texts (in English or mostly bilingual) since 2010 / éditrice-publisher Blandine Longre @blandinelongre.bsky.social
https://www.blackheraldpress.com
History PhD. Defender of Liberal Arts. History of Leftist Thought. Joachim Boaz (he/him) maps the topography of science fiction before 1985. Creator of the fanzine Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations: https://sciencefictionruminations.com/
My Hollywood & Other Poems (Paul Dry Books); translate Babel, Zoshchenko, Kurkov, et al.; odds & ends @nybooks.com, @thetls.bsky.social, etc.; teach at @utulsa.bsky.social; EiC @nimrodjournal.bsky.social
London-based independent publisher of fiction, poetry, anthologies & interdisciplinary projects, committed to championing the work of new voices in free-form contemporary literature.
https://prototypepublishing.co.uk/
book blogger, short fiction writer, (armchair) traveler, migratory bird 📚
📍Edinburgh, Scotland
📖 https://alexandracristie.com
#MyBookofRevelations OUT NOW from @renardpress.bsky.social. Audiobook #ThisGoodBook read by National Treasure Clare Grogan @claregrogan.bsky.social OUT NOW https://www.spiracleaudiobooks.com/audiobooks/this-good-book-1
Reader, bleeder and mercy pleader
mostly in Gloucestershire but often elsewhere • research @ Centre for Place Writing • https://www.rachael-de-moravia.com/
Book worker at University of Texas Press | Formerly a bookseller, at Paris Review | Occasional writing at places like Defector, LARB, Full Stop, The Millions, elsewhere | joelpinckney@gmail.com
• Author of SURRENDER (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2018) & GREYHOUND (Fitzcarraldo Editions & Soft Skull Press, 2025).
• Words in Guardian, Spectator, New Statesman, TLS, The Nation, etc...
• Creative Writing tutor at the University of the Arts, London.
a pearl scavenged from the toxic sludge • « botanical, celestial, erotic »
https://linktr.ee/isabellastreffen
St. Louis-based literary press distributed by New York Review Books. Publishes Renee Gladman, Leonora Carrington, Cristina Rivera Garza, Amina Cain, Nathalie Léger, Giada Scodellaro, Kate Briggs, Pip Adam, Laura Vazquez, Lana Lin, etc. dorothyproject.com
Love reading and chatting about books. If my head isn't stuck in a book, I'm out Nordic walking or making quilts. Wales. Book chat at www.bookertalk.com
📚 Independent publishers since 1923
🇬🇧 UK & International branch of @wwnorton.bsky.social
Writer: Shock Doctrine of the Left (Polity) and Red Enlightenment (don't buy, boycotting publisher's owner re:Palestine) https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=the-shock-doctrine-of-the-left--9781509528547
Books. Doors. Coffee. Gifts. Events. Zeppelin towers. Albino spiders. Grade 2 listed ex-cinema.
Independent publisher.
fitzcarraldoeditions.com
Publishing independently since 1929.
linktr.ee/faberbooks
