I successfully located the 5th DPN so it's official: the 2nd kilt sock is underway 🧶🧦 #WIP #Knitsky #WIPWednesday

Happy Bi visibility day 💖 Sending love to anyone new to being open about their Bi identity, to those who have been out for ages, and to those unable to be openly Bi. You are all part of our beautiful community 💕

With every drop of chlorophyll which leaves a leaf, I become stronger

It's the final stages of the Peace By Piece blanket 🎉🎉 2 out of 4 mitred borders done, then it's just a case of blocking and *maybe* adding a backing. #ShowMeYourKnits #KnitSky 🧶

Learning to sew - including how to repair or remake clothing you currently own - is a deeply radical act in the current capitalist hell-scape. Pass it on.

Hey #knitsky I could use some help! My friend bought me a skein of Gusto Wool Echoes in the 1512 colourway (gustowool.com/products/ech...) I'm not keen on the colours, especially when knit as a basic sock. What can I make with this that will break up the colours a bit more?

Behold! A kilt sock! I wanted to cast on the second sock immediately but a sock needle has fallen victim to the project and I can't find it...so I guess I'll just have to take a different knitting project on holiday 😌🧶

Love this quote from a recent interview with Wayne Rooney.

I wrote about the decision myself and other authors took to withdraw from the longlist of the Polari Book Prizes for LGBTQ+ writers www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

Slowly but surely Ruby Tandoh's #AllConsumingBook is dragging me out of one of the biggest reading slumps I've experienced and actually making me believe in the enjoyment of books again 🩷💚❤️ Thank you @serpents-tail.bsky.social for the early copy!

Some brilliant recommendations in this thread, including many books I'd not heard about at all! #UkKidlit

Distribution issues have led to a 'summer of discontent for booksellers' as 'big books sunk without trace' following delayed deliveries caused by disruptions at HarperCollins’ new warehouse and The Book Service 👇

Word on the street is that #TheEndingWritesItself by Evelyn Clarke is set to be the big book of 2026 👀 Can't quite believe I'm reading a book that's only out in April next year but I love a locked room mystery and the intrigue has got me hooked 🕵🏻‍♀️ 💙📚

How's it going in the bookselling world I hear you ask?

Today's only plan: finish #Katabasis 💫

This Prime Day (& every day): ➡️ Support the small businesses making a positive difference ➡️ Get book recs from people who actually read—not algorithms ➡️ Visit your indie, immerse yourself in books, maybe chat with real people, & leave feeling happy ➡️ Support your indie with audiobook purchases

Folks, I finished it and I loved it 🥰

I spent months on this investigation and gathered docs from the UK courts, Land Registry and a French local authority, to show that Raynor and Moth Winn's story is not as they claim. @tortoisemedia.bsky.social @observeruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

I really need people on Vinted to stop describing things as oversized when they've just bought something several sizes bigger than they need 😭

I am absolutely loving #NoFriendToThisHouse by @nataliehaynes.bsky.social 🐏 (thank you @panmacmillan.bsky.social for the early copy!) 📢 out 11th September #Booksky 💙📚

Kilt sock update: officially delayed but finally onto the leg shaping! 🧶

Everyone, no matter where they live, what they look like, or who they love, deserves to see themselves and their experiences in books—in bookshops, schools, & libraries.⁠ ⁠ Reading helps us understand ourselves, our world, & one another.⁠

A woman on my train not only just had a call over speakerphone (already a sin in my eyes) she proceeded to *give her card details* on that phone call

Going to a wedding on the sunniest weekend of the year and have forgotten my sunglasses but don't worry folks I did remember to bring 3 books + an ereader for the train journeys so I won't run out of reading options 🤗

How did a fraudulent carpet dupe the art world for decades? On tracing the history of real and fake antique textiles.

something like two-thirds of new releases will break even at best or outright lose money, the whole model depends on the outliers funding the rest

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? Bookshops have 1 year to return any unsold stock, and that returned stock usually ends up pulped or in a skip somewhere 🙃

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? The average author income is about seven grand a year.

It's Independent Bookshop Week. Ways you can support them: -Don't browse a little bookshop, make a mental note of titles, then get them on Amazon. Buy the books then and there! Dare you! -Get them to order books in, they almost always can. -Just march in and present them with a huge bag of money.

I read a very special book recently and hopefully what I've written makes you want to pick it up and give a go too: www.instagram.com/p/DK6hQXCIzN... #Booksky #Bookseller 💙📚💡

Some #VisibleMending efforts from yesterday 🧶

Why does your library matter to you? ❤️📚 We asked 2,000 Scots that question and this is what they told us: www.scottishbooktrust.com/our-research...

reminder, bsky has a clever way to display pronouns that's built in! but you only see them if you yourself opt in, so please feel free to here by subscribing and then choosing which applies!! @pronouns.diy

What's going on with Queer As Folklore? *Deep intake of breath* part 1

Some recent new additions to the TBR shelf 📚💙 Including some treats from @panmacmillan.bsky.social, @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social, @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social, and @profilebooks.bsky.social 🫶🏻 www.instagram.com/p/DKWqYT9I-c...

Update: cable border finished! 🧶 #KnitSky

Going to crowdfund an unauthorized book compiling all the threads about Unbound and then run off with all the money as a tribute.

So, I think it's time I begin, in detailed specifics, talking about the mess that is Unbound / Boundless as a book publisher, in essence stealing most of a years royalties from me and many other authors, as a result of poor financial decisions, and legal BS. Please read and share this thread.

I'm usually a monogamous knitter but at the moment I have several WIPs on the go. The biggest one is this Peace By Piece blanket By Pattern Knits which is a (now very late) present for my friend. 50% assembled! #ShowMeYourKnits 🧶

Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵 First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.

I recently started watching Spooks and have become a bit obsessed with spies, so when I saw @profilebooks.bsky.social were publishing The Illegals by Shaun Walker*, I snapped at the chance to read it. I'm about 100 pages in and loving it so far! *thanks Profile for the gifted copy 💙📚💡

My partner just finished The City & The City by China Miéville and proceeded to go around the flat exclaiming how good a book it was, shaking it for maximum effect. Does anyone have any recommendations for similar books? #booksky 💙📚🪐

Started a cable knit project forgetting that I lost my cable needle 🤦🏻‍♀️ 🧶

A new WIP! My partner asked for some kilt socks a while back so I decided to knit some for his upcoming 30th. A friend put a new knitting shop on my radar and I went there to buy the New Lanark DK for them; a thoroughly Scottish project 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🧶 #Knitsky #ShowMeYourKnits

Finished up The Autists by Clara Törnvall this morning! It felt quite disjointed in places but ultimately the non-UK/US perspective and the references Törnvall pulls on were so interesting that these won me over. Also what a novelty to read a book about autism by a woman and about women! 💙📚💡

Recently went on a bit of a #RomanceBooks binge and one of the books I read was Not Safe For Work by Nisha J Tuli 🌶📚 TLDR: a really enjoyed! It was clearly written from the heart, and I found it much more memorable than Tuli's romantasy www.instagram.com/p/DJ9uakXI3F...

Current reading mood: literally any book in the world, give me everything, I am insatiable #Booksky

Want to know what you should read this summer? Ask a bookseller. Ask a writer. Ask a librarian. Ask a living, breathing human being. Hell, ask me! It's been a while since I've done one of these, so let's do it: one like = one summer reading book rec.