A great read! Preordered it when it came out in hardback from @bertsbooks.bsky.social 5🌟

This is why I love @bertsbooks.bsky.social ! What a joy to come home to!

First book of today was Tracks on the Ocean - in a shocking display of inefficiency, it's not on the website, but we'll get it added so that you too can join in the maritime fun!

Really enjoyed this take on Orwell’s classic- great read👍

Thank you Laura! If they are anything like your others I certainly will 👍👍

Have preordered my copy from @bertsbooks.bsky.social 👍👍

Already preordered my copy from @bertsbooks.bsky.social loved all of Laura’s other books. So looking forward to this one! 👍

Having a rare Wednesday where I get to play in the shop, while Michael ties the ribbons out the back. I sold today's first book, too! It was 1979 by @valmcdermid.bsky.social - who by the way, rather excitingly is coming to visit us in October!

Done! Preordered from @bertsbooks.bsky.social 👍

Congratulations to you all! Happy birthday 🎉🎉🎉

@bertsbooks.bsky.social @michaeljritchie.bsky.social Agatha is coming along nicely 👍

@bertsbooks.bsky.social Alex I saw this today when walking our dog and immediately thought of you! #wesolvemurders

Liverpool are exceptionally good, and Spurs are exceptionally tired, battered, and disjointed. 4-0 feels entirely just, but no less disappointing #COYS

My novel Thomas True is about minorities finding strength but also turning on each other in the face of terror enacted by a self-appointed moral vigilante force supported by the State. It happened in the 1700s. It's always happened. Read history to understand the present and protect the future. 🦚🇺🇲

@bertsbooks.bsky.social Alex, just saw this and immediately thought of you!

Fantastic performance from Spurs. Absolutely knackered after 30 minutes, but never let the concentration drop. Defended robustly, passed sensibly out from the back, and took their rare chances. Djed Spence incredibly good Ange does adapt. He does change. He is slowly figuring this out. #COYS

I want to commend Trudeau for stating that it’s important that “no one part of the country should carry a heavier burden than any other. We’re all in this together and we will get through this together.” That’s the Canadian way. We don’t abandon one another. We come together.

Gorgeous! We hope you’ll enjoy it! As always @bertsbooks.bsky.social is the absolute biz!!! 🐦‍⬛💚🐦‍⬛

As always, coordinated ribbon from @bertsbooks.bsky.social can’t wait to start reading this. Pre-ordered ages ago! #TheBlackbirdsofStGiles @kateagriffin.bsky.social

It’s pretty simple ❤️

On my TBR pile!

If only it existed in real life!

Look what someone has leant us! @bertsbooks.bsky.social @michaeljritchie.bsky.social

My first book of the New Year was ‘James’ by Percival Everett and what a book! Can’t recommend it highly enough. Phenomenal writing

First book of the New Year read and what a book! Can’t recommend it highly enough. Phenomenal writing

My favourite five reads in 2024 (in no particular order) A little life - Hanya Yanagihara In memoriam - Alice Winn Enlightenment - Sarah Perry A gentleman in Moscow - Amor Toules The Betrayal of Thomas Trew - AJ West All purchased from independent bookshops 4 from @bertsbooks.bsky.social

4. Read whatever you want in 2025. Read as little or as much as you like. Read on a kindle. Read second hand. Read from a library. Borrow books. Steal books (not from independent bookstores). Read banned books. Read audio books. Read books nobody else is talking about. Just read. Over and out.

So many good books published this year, but I’ve made the team pick just one as their absolute favourite. Bert - The Curtain Twitcher’s Book of Murder Michael - The Cracked Mirror Pedro - North Woods Sally - All the Colours of the Dark What was your favourite book of the year?

Right gang, this is how it works. I read 133 books this year & every single one is in the running as this is "the best books I've read this year". There are so many amazing choices, I'm first going to post my "highly commended" books, then my top 6. Are we ready??? #BookSky

Something for the weekend: Five Novels Set in the Eighteenth Century I’ve Read alifeinbooks.co.uk/2024/12/five... 💙 📚 #Booksky #HistoricalFiction

I should go on the radio more often... first book of the day in the shop was Five Minds by Guy Morpuss! You can find out more about it here: bertsbooks.co.uk/five-minds

It’s such a great book- brilliantly told story! 5/5

I would like to thank @bertsbooks.bsky.social for being a beacon of joy and positivity for me and all booksellers and authors, seeking a tirelessly fun and passionate literary champion. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to Alex and the team x

Ok, I know I said yesterday was the last day for orders, but if we have it in stock, we should be able to send it today or tomorrow…! Hit me up

I’m sure someone @bertsbooks.bsky.social would agree!

Friday 13th is unlucky. But buying books is lucky. So cancel out the former, do the latter, then get yourself off home and somewhere cosy to read.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge #Books 20/20

Skandar 5 is coming next August! You can preorder signed indie exclusive right here bertsbooks.co.uk/skandar-5

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge #Books 19/20

The Booker Prize Winner “Orbital” by Samantha Harvey has dropped one place on #PillarOfPopularity this week. It’s Orbit 2, sorry, number 2! -Sally

I don't want to alarm anyone, but it's TWO weeks to Christmas Eve. That means you realistically have about 8 days to place your Christmas orders to guarantee we'll be able to dispatch in time for them to arrive.

The science of reading for pleasure 'it’s worth considering what might happen to us as a species if skills like reading become less prioritised. Our capacity to interpret the world around us and understand the minds of others would surely diminish' theconversation.com/people-who-a...

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge #Books 18/20

Indeed! Children are being short changed as my wife (retired Deputy Head Primary School teacher) has been saying for years

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge #Books 17/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge #Books 16/20

Spurs throwing away a good lead with wildly reckless mistakes - so frustrating that people will blame Ange for this, but you can’t legislate for players pulling the pin on a grenade and then stuffing it down their own shorts

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge #Books 15/20

I Mary Poppins’d myself up the hill and opened the shop. Might be a bit of a quiet one, but that’s ok. I’ve still got secret santas to wrap.

Ooh, the 5th one is going out in orders right now…