HELLO ENGLAND! I’m heading to the Bound at Whitley Bay, on Monday 9th February at 7pm, to celebrate the release of SOME BODY LIKE ME in paperback! Tickets available here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/whi... @gollancz.bsky.social @forumbooks.bsky.social

#BlueSkyArtShow the inviting #warmth of an indy bookshop on a late afternoon last December. No garish tat, no shopping mall glare, no feeling hot & hassled, pushed or shoved. Healthful illumination, on every level #photography #EastCoastKin @forumbooks.bsky.social #books

You can support our pals here too ✍️ c.org/pvZPMTkmkB

A fair few indies not yet on Bluesky; hopefully that will change. In the meantime, thanks to @argonautbooks.bsky.social for highlighting a hedge fund's manoeuvring. More reason (if such were needed) to make sure that the indies get our business @forumbooks.bsky.social @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social

As we approach our 20th year anniversary in publishing. We've just had our BEST MONTH EVER for book sales. Thank you to all the bookshops and librarians for placing our books in readers' hands. Phenomenal!! @bookcornerhx.bsky.social @forumbooks.bsky.social @book-ish.bsky.social

Can’t beat an #IndieBookshop edition. Collected Book of Dust 3, The Rose Field, from @forumbooks.bsky.social this morning. Came with a free bag and an alethiometer pin badge. And just look at the endpapers and #UnderTheDustJacket 🥰

Cheers to @craftbeerncl.bsky.social and @forumbooks.bsky.social for featuring Northumbrian Gold in their book and beer pairings! Have a look to discover some great reads and fantastic locally brewed beers 🍻📚

I loved this book from the 1st page when Helen @forumbooks.bsky.social pressed it into my hands with “You’re going to LOVE this “ Oh yes! & Ronan’s Sunday morning visit to our ‘home from home’ in Corbridge @ronanhession.bsky.social @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social 🫶A gem www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Good morning. The next 10 days are going to be absolutely brilliant. I would like to thank all the Indy booksellers who have made _Leonard and Hungry Paul_ @ronanhession.bsky.social a word of mouth bestseller. With a special nod to. @bookcornerhx.bsky.social @forumbooks.bsky.social

👋 !! 🌊 !! 💙 !! hiya! Less than a week til @lenniesaurus.bsky.social joins us with poyums annaw - grab last few tickets here + we’ll see you there www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks/a... @thecrackmagazine.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk

I am to be let out, and poked until I speak. My first talk in AGES - please do come along, if you're in the north-east. Books, birds, all that sort of thing. www.nhsn.org.uk/events/richa...

💙 ONE WEEK!! 💙 Still time to grab tickets for @anncleeves.bsky.social talking Orkney + Jimmy #TheKillingStones w/ Stuart Bain on Oct 1st PLUS you’ll get *exclusive* short story The Lonely Man !! Grab tickets www.theexchange1856.com/event-detail...

Our September events kick off with KEEGAN // Anthony Quinn chatting to @camsell59.bsky.social @livetheatre.bsky.social 🤍🖤 🎟️ www.live.org.uk/whats-on/kee... Total result!! @faberbooks.bsky.social @thecrackmagazine.bsky.social

We have tempted @damianbarr.bsky.social to FORUM’s pulpit to celebrate his new book The Two Roberts & we’d love you to join us 🩵🩷 🗓️ 8th Sept 🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks/f... @thecrackmagazine.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk

If you are able, please buy your books from Indy bookshops. They pay their full taxes and build remarkable communities of readers & writers. @bookcornerhx.bsky.social @forumbooks.bsky.social @drakebookshop.bsky.social @kennysbookshop.bsky.social @woodbinebooks.bsky.social

This. I cancelled Audible a while back and signed up to @libro.fm . Slightly cheaper per month, I chose Read Holmfirth as the indie bookshop I support on it and The Accidental Bookshop in Alnwick @forumbooks.bsky.social is my local indie bookshop of choice.

Wow!! What a night launching #DEADLINE the fab debut thriller from @stephmcgovern.bsky.social 💙 thanks to Steph & @anncleeves.bsky.social for brilliant interview & all who came 🙌 Gorgeous signed indie editions available from us if you missed www.forumbooksshop.com/product/dead...

We 💙 Len! Join us!! 🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks/a...

Gorgeous evening chatting Victorian gothic & Egypt w/ Rachel Louise Driscoll 💚 Nephthys is stunning - a captivating blend of myth, adventure and obsession … thanks to all who came & signed, special editions available if you missed #IndieBookshopWeek ✍️ www.forumbooksshop.com/product/neph...

Tick! Tock! ⏰!! We’re on a #DEADLINE … just TWO WEEKS til @stephmcgovern.bsky.social is @ The Exchange, North Shields chatting to @anncleeves.bsky.social about her debut thriller 🩵 join us! 🗓️ Mon 30 June 🎟️ www.theexchange1856.com/event-detail...

What a week! It’s #IndieBookshopWeek & we’re celebrating in Corbridge, Whitley Bay & Alnwick 💖🫶 📚 !! Events, book signing + @brianbilston.bsky.social listening party 🎧 @booksaremybag.bsky.social

Good morning. It is Independent Bookshop Week. If you are able please do support your local bookshop. They pay their taxes and support the community! @bookcornerhx.bsky.social @sevenoaksbookshop.bsky.social @forumbooks.bsky.social @drakebookshop.bsky.social @grovebookshop.bsky.social

💚 ONE WEEK! 💚 Next Thursday Mel Rockett joins us at FORUM Books to talk Ratty and the 10 year project to reintroduce the water vole to Kielder. Come along! 🗓️ Thurs 12 June 🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks/f... @northwildlife.bsky.social

Looking forward to @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social at FORUM Books talking #UncommonGround - vital, engaging & highly relevant to our Northumberland community 💚 we’d love to see you there! 🗓️ Mon 9 June 🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks/f...

Muckle thanks to Michael Pedersen & Forum Books for sending us a beautiful signed copy of Michael’s debut novel - Muckle Flugga! “A fever dream of a book, melding myth and magic to the monumental landscape of Scotland” - Ian Rankin @michaelpedersen.bsky.social @forumbooks.bsky.social …

Such a thrill to launch Muckle Flugga with Stephen Fry at @hayfestival.bsky.social! What a phenomenal human. Next up I’m at @forumbooks.bsky.social (Corbridge) and then Bristol at Storysmith. Just a tiny spattering of 🎫 left for each: www.michaelpedersen.co.uk/events

💛🩷THIS THURSDAY!🩷💛 💛 ’Extraordinary’ The Scotsman 🩷 'Phenomenal' Matt Haig 💛 ‘A dream’ My Weekly 🩷 'A thing of magic’ The Skinny @michaelpedersen.bsky.social will be at FORUM Bookschatting gorgeously about his debut novel Muckle Flugga - come along! www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks/f...

Ordered and then collected these from @forumbooks.bsky.social last week. Already read Candle Island and it is as brilliant as Wolf Hollow. #BookSky 📚💙 “There’s something sad about everyone, Lucy. Don’t ever think otherwise.” @mattobin.bsky.social @sconnor7.bsky.social @smithsmm.bsky.social

I'll be at @forumbooks.bsky.social in Corbridge on Thursday 10th July! Bookings here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks/f... #YoureAllTalk

THRILLED that Mick Herron is back with CLOWN TOWN talking to Ann Cleeves @ The exchange1856 Spies lie. Spies betray. It’s what they do. IT’S TIME TO SEND IN THE CLOWNS. 🤡 🗓️ Sept 16th 🎟️ www.theexchange1856.com/event-detail...

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🩵TONIGHT!🩵 Last chance to join us w/ Stephanie Butland at The Accidental Bookshop, Alnwick 😉 More info + tickets here www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks/t... Signed book here www.forumbooksshop.com/product/the-...

AND us! Catch @damianbarr.bsky.social @ FORUM Books, Corbridge Sept 8th 🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks/f...

🧡Memories of love and heartbreak during the Aids epidemic are brought vividly to life in this exhilarating, risk-taking debut Join us May 15 w/ writer, fashion critic, curator Charlie Porter at FORUM Books Tickets + more info www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks/f...

We're launching The Bee magazine today because the UK publishing and writing industries have a bit of a class problem.

TOMORROW!! We’d 💙 to see you there

☀️ Brilliant Bank Holiday Sunday w/ @robinince.bsky.social being normally weird & wonderfully lovely chatting to @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social - pure joy, energy + inspiration 🫶 we 💜 his new book & we’ve signed ones for you! www.forumbooksshop.com/product/norm...

Normally & weirdly signed copies of @robinince.bsky.social ‘s NEW book available from us 🙌 thanks for stopping by Robin! @panmacmillan.bsky.social www.forumbooksshop.com/product/norm...

Charlie Porter returns to @forumbooks.bsky.social Corbridge Thurs 15 May, talking about his new book, Nova Scotia House. Johnny looks back to his relationship with Jerry Field, they met nearly thirty years ago, & made a life at Nova Scotia House. ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks/for…

From the Farne Islands to Greece … diving in search of Atlantis 💦 Damian Le Bas joins us at The Accidental Bookshop Wed May 7th Tickets + more info www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks/t...

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Delighted to hear Sinclair McKay talk about his new book #StPetersburg @forumbooks.bsky.social last night Thoughts: Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DIgEiI7gmQ-/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/TripFiction....

Don't miss Jessie Elland at The Bound @forumbooks.bsky.social on Thursday 22nd May to celebrate the release of THE LADIE UPSTAIRS. 🐇🩸🖤 Forum Books are also offering signed & dedicated hardbacks! Pre-order here: www.forumbooksshop.com/product/the-...

Two days and counting till The Missing Hour is on the shelves. Sack off your Thursday night telly and come and spend the evening with me and @trevorwoodwrite.bsky.social instead. Few tickets left below from @forumbooks.bsky.social 👇👇👇

Great to sign books at The Bound yesterday. See @reenamakwana.bsky.social lovely cover! North Tyneside folk - do your duty. I still have ink & I’ve almost got the spelling right. Thanks to Adele, Emma and the staff at this coastal gem. #kidlit @forumbooks.bsky.social @theemmapress.bsky.social

🕯️ Join us w/ @naomikelsey.bsky.social to talk explorers’ wives, haunted objects, gaslighting, secrets, colonialism, sisterhood and mist. Lots of mist … #TheDarkeningGlobe at the bound 🗓️ Wed 23 April 🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks/t...

Meta have stolen the work of 1000s of writers to train their AI. All of my books were included in their illegal action. Today UK authors are protesting against this theft. Copyright law is clear: to use a creator’s copyrighted work, you need to get permission and agree payment. #DoTheWriteThing

⏰ Tick! Tock! ⏰ The NEW @robertrutherford.bsky.social is out next week 10 APRIL + we’re celebrating at the bound as he joins us chatting to @trevorwoodwrite.bsky.social all about THE MISSING HOUR - join us for time well spent! @orionbooks.bsky.social 🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks/t...

Seriously delicious event at The Biscuit Factory’s Garden a room last night to celebrate Anna Hedworth’s stunning new book #Service 🧡 Signed copies if you missed .. www.forumbooksshop.com/product/serv...

Seriously … our events programme is 🔥 in April! w / Anna Hedworth @robertrutherford.bsky.social Sinclair McKay @naomikelsey.bsky.social Join us! Tickets for all these & more 🎟️ ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks 📧 mailchi.mp/forumbooks/a...