An indie friendly promo. The signed exclusive edition available to the first 100 orders!

An incredible campaign resulting in a Sunday Times bestseller. Go team @duckworthbooks.bsky.social !!!

Please pre-order. "Exit, pursued by a polar bear" - I've even written the headline for your review. Hope you like the book, which comes out nexr month.

We had a ball signing copies in over a dozen London bookshops. So many happy booksellers! I expect they won't last much beyond this weekend, so what better reason to pop into a @waterstones.bsky.social @dauntbooks.bsky.social or @foylesforbooks.bsky.social this weekend? Happy reading history lovers!

April 7th is the last day that custom dedications will be available, so don't miss out! Great for birthdays, Christmas etc for the Fall of Civs fan in your life...

I'll be doing events at Blackwell's around the country over this month, in Edinburgh today and Oxford on 22nd April. Come join me! web.duckworthbooks.co.uk/fall-of-civi...

I’ve been sitting on this secret for weeks! (I’m a terrible secret keeper). So proud to see Paul’s book is a Blackwells Book of the Month! And saw a nice mention in the @waterstones.bsky.social newsletter. Lots of exciting things happening during publication week! @duckworthbooks.bsky.social

The first official event for Fall of Civilizations paperback! Signed copies will also be available from Toppings Edinburgh from 2 April. @toppingsbath.bsky.social

Go and order up one of these bad boys from my local bookshop at West End Lane bookshop. This is the limited edition independent bookshop exclusive with sprayed edges. Once they’re gone, they’re gone! So grab yours this weekend.

If you want to pre-order one of these limited edition paperbacks, the best place is from West End Lane Books, a lovely independent shop in London. Help support an indie today! (International delivery for a small fee)

I've just been to Clays book printers to sign a thousand of these special edition paperbacks of my book Fall of Civilizations. These are very limited edition!

In Lyon for the weekend and preparing for a little aperitif.

Lovely piece by Abi Millar in this month's @womanandhome.bsky.social - tied in to publication of *The Spirituality Gap* @clarerbullock.bsky.social @mattcasbourne.bsky.social @angelampr.bsky.social

First look at Oscar Isaac in Frankenstein, directed by Guillermo del Toro (2025, Netflix). This movie better fix my entire life I swear to god. #filmsky

Do you have a National Book Token? Did you know if you spend them at an indie at the moment you could win £500?! That includes spending them at Bert's! Head to @nationalbooktokens.bsky.social website here for more details, then go to ours and buy a book. www.nationalbooktokens.com/spend-and-win

If you don't know what a puddle enema is, it's what happens when you speed through a deep puddle on your bike and your tires shoot gross water up your man business. Bracing. 💦🚲

Duckworth Books joined the Indie Alliance at a good time! I love working with them.

My thoughts on The Possibility of Life by Jamie Green and published by Duckworth. Thanks to @mattcasbourne.bsky.social for sending me a copy halfmanhalfbook.co.uk/review/the-p...

Doing my part to stock the communal library in the Kilburn tube station 📚

Time to put together my London Book Fair schedule. Any booksellers attending who want to meet up while they're in London? Hit me up!

Librarians are saints, offering access to literature and culture to community and social services. I would consider a career in libraries but the pay is so awful I don’t know how anyone can live off the salary. Support your local libraries! And while you’re there, slip your librarian a fiver.

A little dessert with a wee coffee.

We had a lovely time at the shortlisting party last night hosted by @stanfordstravel.bsky.social. Super happy for Aube whose book River East, River West is in very good company 🥳

Lavender gray buttercream studded with gold and silver edible beads on a vegan chocolate cupcake base. And now to the eating.

One of those days when you carefully prepare a nice afternoon coffee, then knock your elbow on the doorknob and karate chop the air with your coffee mug.

I was in a spa for a wellness minibreak over lunch and this woman, who was late for her appointment, refused that it had been cancelled. She pulled the 'I'm connected with mum's groups in this area and will drag your company through the mud - you'd don't want this' 😬

Prairie Dawn, the original publishing girlie

#MexicanGothic is a twist on the gothic novel: a big old house in the countryside, dark but ambiguous going-ons connected to Catalina who has presumably gone mad, rumours of hauntings and a spooky cemetery that Noemi roams while plotting to rescue her cousin from her bizarre in-laws.

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Just a snippet from Professor Maxim and Mercury’s cabaret styled lecture about the ABCs of queer history. Fun fact: that harpsichord is 7 years older than America.

We went to a queer history event last night and my het bestie hit on a guy. Only she would cruise for straight men at a queer event 🫣 But I appreciate the hustle.

I've been quiet this morning because I've been setting up The Berties in the other place and on instagram. This list is filled up with your nominations, prize winners and some of our favourite books of the year. You then vote! We can't do votes on bluesky yet, but I'm going to reveal the titles.

I've just created a Starter Pack for book reviewers! These are book lovers who review books (of all genres) on a blog/website, podcast, IG, YouTube, etc. To make this useful, I'm only adding people who I know are active here on 🦋 so if you want to be included, just let me know! go.bsky.app/EnNqXQp

God how I’ve missed screaming into the void

It might be time to go up a size on the gym shirts… 💪🏋️

Thrilled to have witnessed Liz's well deserved win! Author, friend and neighbour, this really is her year. Go and check out all of her novels, including The Queen's Gambit which was adapted to the brilliant period piece: Firebrand.