Great evening at @labiblioteka.bsky.social for the launch of Raoul de Jong’s JAGUARMAN @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social Had my eye on this for a while Translated from the Dutch by John RJ Eyck, Raoul travelled to Suriname on a spiritual ancestral journey after a meeting with his estranged father

The first-ever edition of Sheffield Indie Book Fest takes place this weekend, and the line-up's fantastic 📚 Highlights include @junodawson.bsky.social, @michelletea.bsky.social and others, curated by @junobooks.bsky.social, @labiblioteka.bsky.social and more. Tickets 👉 sheffieldindiebookfest.com

Sheffield Indie Book Festival Sat 25 & Sun 26 April. A great line up - programme and booking info here: www.sheffieldindiebookfest.com SIB Festival is organised by Sheffield Independent Bookshops @gnrr.bsky.social @hillsboroughbooks.bsky.social @junobooks.bsky.social @labiblioteka.bsky.social

It's Sheffield Indie Book Festival this weekend! With a market, talks on witches, folklore, queer memoir & more plus headliner Juno Dawson. From the folk at @gnrr.bsky.social @hillsboroughbooks.bsky.social @junobooks.bsky.social @labiblioteka.bsky.social & Novel: ourfaveplaces.co.uk/whats-on/she...

Putting the Meers-bots into perspective...

A celebration of stories and the shops and publishers who keep them alive, it's the first Sheffield Indie Book Festival this month 📕 With headliner Juno Dawson. A market. Poetry. Talks and workshops on witches and folklore, graphic novels, queer memoir and more: ourfaveplaces.co.uk/whats-on/she...

Hi! We're an alternative to Amazon's Audible, & here are a few things that people often don't know about us: 1. We have over 600k audiobooks in our catalog! You'll pretty much find whatever you want to read, other than Audible exclusives (but that's on them, not us)

The robots are coming! (Meersbrook gentrification final boss) @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social

Disappointed @nytimes.com Stirling Be didn't accept GENNEL as a word. #SouthYorksire word for the alley in between terrace houses...

So excited for this! Tickets available now!

New for '26: Sheffield Indie Book Festival. Celebrating stories, and the shops and publishers who keep them alive. With a talk on witches and folklore, a graphic novel workshop with Steve Webb, writing from life and queer culture with Michelle Tea, and more: www.ourfaveplaces.co.uk/whats-on/she...

Organised by Sheffield indie bookshops and book folk: @junobooks.bsky.social @hillsboroughbooks.bsky.social @labiblioteka.bsky.social, Novel, @gnrr.bsky.social. Taking place at The Mowbray and The Victoria in Neepsend.

I've really been enjoying selling these new editions this month.... Chapeau again Faber Design team 👏

Last few days to support #ReadItForward! Buy Milo and The Mountain by @jamiecarroll.bsky.social through our @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social link by midnight, Feb 28 and 10% will go to @booktrust.org.uk and @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social - uk.bookshop.org/a/14/9781788...

Independent bookshops in England are facing business rates increases of up to 100% under the government’s new reforms, research commissioned by the Booksellers Association has found 👇 #BookSky

First book of the day, from earlier... Valentine Book buying seems in full swing, during this momentary pause in the perma-rain.

Bit tell us what you really think, Jonathan...

@johnshuttleworth.bsky.social Hello! If you get to Sheffield early today We have some books we'd love you to sign, if you have time ahead of your show :)

Reasons to buy a book today: 1. To keep independent bookshops thriving 2. The Booker Prize shortlist has just been announced 3. All orders before midnight tonight automatically give you the chance to win a £250 gift card to buy more books

Our first #businessrates bill in the new shop has arrived...

spending morning attempting to fix the checkout on our website... reminded of this:

No reading today (yet). Out raving in the rain with the other cyclists... Great to see so many kiddos.

First book of the day... @saraband-books.bsky.social

someone just ordered a book under the name 'Mr Rea' - I mean, just tell me where you were posted whilst at MI6, friend, you're fooling no-one.

@podonthetyne.bsky.social #q&a does this hold up to Eddie's 'no d!ckhe@ds' policy? 👀

George R.R. Martin Finally Finishes Writing Sequel to 'Erin Brockovich'

On the occasion of her birthday, Tove Jansson on an elephant, London Zoo, 1957. Good morning.

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

in a sign of the times (or perhaps dwindling student budgets 4 weeks in to summer) we have been asked about vacancies 4 times in the shop today, and thrice over email... 😬 #jobs

hello @fabriziorom.bsky.social can we start the McAtee to #nufc rumours here so we can make it happen! #MCFC

STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING! Take a moment to plan popping into a local bookshop & seeing if there's a good book for £9.99. You have no idea how much it could save both you & the bookshop. #books #bookshop #booksky

That was pretty good then.... #pulp @tramlinesfestival.bsky.social

Exclusive: Sheffield’s secret lab working on the UK’s next nuclear warheads www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/exclusive-sh...

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

Raynor LOSE more like, amirite??

A tour through the experience of ecstasy across the ages, from the works of Julian of Norwich to Anne Carson and Nick Cave, by one of England's foremost philosophers. #OnMysticism by Simon Critchley is out now in paperback profilebooks.com/work/on-myst...

Barker’s Pool looks very different at the moment as the second Crossed Wires podcast festival prepares to get underway tomorrow. Fringe events will take place in the old Cole Brothers building while the BBC Sounds garden will offer a “relaxed, open-air listening experience.”

A huge thank you to @labiblioteka.bsky.social for joining @junobooks.bsky.social as a Sheffield stockist of both Criminal Cat Crew, and Heracles & Nathan - perfect reads for the upcoming summer holidays @nicgerson.bsky.social #kidlit #kidlitUK #childrensbooks #kidsbooks #indiebookshops

There's still time for you to get free shipping on your orders from @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social You have until midnight! Choose your favourite indie bookshop or head to Rossiter Books uk.bookshop.org/shop/rossite...

We were robbed last night. When it’s our stock or our money that is targeted, there’s insurance and systems in place for this, but when it’s stealing from a charity in an extremely direct way then we just can’t abide it. scottishbooktrust.com/donate @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social

Free delivery is GO on ALL books site-wide this weekend 🎉 We hope you can get down to a real life bookshop, but if not - you can support them right here. Bag a book from Bookshop.org and keep indie bookshops thriving! uk.bookshop.org/lists/indepe...

🌸 Glad Midsommar! 🌸 The perfect week to dip into The Lost Folk — @lallymacbeth.bsky.social’s fresh, vibrant celebration of the weird, wonderful and often overlooked customs, places and people that shape folk culture in Britain. ...

Always feel for the marketing team who has to go first with the Christmas gear, and inevitably hit the biggest heatwave since the last one...

things I didn't expect to read in a letter from our kid's Head: "We need to be able to see the children’s natural nails in order to monitor oxygen levels if they are ill or have an accident." Doctors, is this a thing? 👀

I love @biggreenbooks.bsky.social of course but local to me are @labiblioteka.bsky.social and @junobooks.bsky.social both excellent indies 🩷📚

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.

Had a couple of cancellations for this afternoon. A walk around Sheffield's Space Age Music sites. 2pm. @leahsyard #sheffieldmusic #sheffieldbooks #sheffieldevents

"You always seem to have exactly what I'm looking for, before I know what I'm looking for!" Received this most high of praise today, so I guess it's all downhill from here? (What they were looking for:)

Apologies if you popped by the shop this afternoon and found us closed. I had to pop to Liverpool on a side quest for an exciting project, hopefully debuting in the shop this summer!