A poem for Advent and Cyber Monday, from Chris Emery's latest collection #WONDER, out now from Salt @chrisemery.me @saltpublishing.com bookanista.com/christmas-is...

Tonight @britishlibrary.bsky.social Tickets still available! Here's editor Basma Ghalayini's irresistible introduction to the collection bookanista.com/alternative-...

"This was the thinking behind Palestine Minus One: for twelve Palestinian writers to process the magnitude of what has been happening, offering an alternative, more distant iteration of the old Nakba.” Basma Ghalayini #PalestineMinusOne @commapress.bsky.social 📚📖💙 bookanista.com/alternative-...

"Dyslexia forced me to be twice as alert – to remain on the bridge that connected the real, which tortured me, with the imaginary, which soothed me.” Giannis Paschos #ChroniclesofaDyslexicAuthor @stairwellbooks.bsky.social 📚📖💙 bookanista.com/giannis-paschos-not-necessarily-in-the-right-order/

"The melding of fiction, memoir and history raises questions about the extent to which a novelist fuses the raw material of life with their fertile imagination." Georgia de Chamberet @bookblast.org admires Nicholas Blincoe’s Oliver Twist & Me bookanista.com/memoir-social-history-and-more/

Publisher and poet Chris Emery looks back on an unexpected encounter in his teenage years, and reflects on the mechanics of writing from lived experience. bookanista.com/origins-chris-emery/ His new poetry collection, Wonder, is available now from Salt Publishing @chrisemery.me @saltpublishing.com

'We know the planet can be saved from unspeakable horror. We’ve done it before.' Beautiful extract from HUMAN NATURE by @drkatemarvel.bsky.social, published today, in @theguardian.com Long Reads today www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

Claire Foy in H is for Hawk, Benedict Cumberbatch in The Thing with Feathers, Andy Serkis' Animal Farm and much more. Read our round-up of book-to-screen adaptations not to be missed at the BFI London Film Festival, 8 to 19 October 2025 📚💙🎬 #BFI #LFF #LFF2025 bookanista.com/bfi-london-f...

We interviewed author Patrick Ryan, whose ambitious (and rather wonderful) novel BUCKEYE chronicles the lives of two couples across five decades in the fictional town of Bonhomie, Ohio. What will you read next? 💙📚📖 #booksky #bookblogger #litmags #debut #skybrarian bookanista.com/patrick-ryan...

With her husband unable to hold down a job, Pakistani housewife Tara takes a drastic step to become a breadwinner. Read an explosive extract from A Splintering by Dur e Aziz Amna bookanista.com/breaking-point @duckworthbooks.bsky.social 💙📚📖 #booksky #bookblogger #litmags #reading

The simple task of hanging a reproduction painting causes escalating friction between a tetchy couple. A delightful portrait of domestic bickering from #fabiomorábito's brilliant story collection #TheShadowoftheMammoth. Out now from #otherpress, tr. #curtisbauer bookanista.com/the-nail-in-the-wall/

Allison King's Tips for Writers No. 7 – adopt a cat One who will lie down on your notebook so you can take cute photos. But also get nice cat toys to lure her away so you can actually write @4thestatebooks.bsky.social bookanista.com/all-about-th... 💙📚📖 #booksky #bookblogger #catsky 🐈 #reading

"It was a glass-shattering moment. I was not, as I had always thought, separate from women. I was one of them.” Marie O'Hare's #writerspath to her joyful and daring debut novel #IKnowWhereYouBuriedYourHusband. Out now from @bantambooksuk.bsky.social bookanista.com/embracing-th...

Waiting in line for eternity can be a colossal bore. Read 'Present Perfect', a hilarious take on protocols and shifting time in the afterlife, from Etgar Keret's new collection #Autocorrect. Out now from @grantabooks.bsky.social bookanista.com/present-perf...

And we are OPEN for submissions for Issue Ten! Submissions will be open from JUNE 1st - JUNE 14th. We are accepting fiction and non-fiction between 800-4000 words.

Odd title but the right title! All the emotions in a gorgeously written love story like no other. If you’re a fan of the film Past Lives, it will resonate deeply. It’s a book of the year contender! Heart the Lover by Lily King coming soon @canongate.co.uk 💙📚📖 #booksky #bookblogger #litmags #reading

Marriage Material is a new comedy drama now on @lyrichammersmith.bsky.social, loosely adapted from Sathnam Sanghera’s rather good novel about family, sisterly bonds and the Sikh immigrant experience. It lacks the wit of the novel, but still fun #TheatreSky #LondonTheatre 💙📚📖 #booksky #bookblogger

Standing ovation for Jack (Slow Horses) Lowden and Martin Freeman. From the first words it’s evident you’re in for a darkly hilarious, disturbing experience. Stunning performances. Dialogue subversive and eye-boggling. Just WOW! The Fifth Step is on now! sohoplace.org/shows/the-fi... 🎭📖💙📚 #theatre

Congrats @darialavelleauthor.bsky.social on your thrilling (and mesmerising) supernatural romantic thriller! Highly recommend to #booksky. Find out more in our bookanista interview: bookanista.com/daria-lavell... @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @simonandschuster.bsky.social 💙📚 📖 #bookblogger

"No, she had no regrets. On the contrary. If all the French had been on the right side, Germany would have won the war." Read an extract from Cécile Desprairies' unflinching debut novel #ThePropagandist Out now from @swiftpress.bsky.social translated by Natasha Lehrer bookanista.com/my-mothers-w...

We chat with Liann Zhang about her debut thriller Julie Chan Is Dead, a hilariously sinister satire on influencer culture bookanista.com/the-dark-side-of-the-mirror/ @ravenbooks.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social 💙📚📖 #booksky #bookblogger #reading #litmags

If you’re a fan of Edna O’Brien’s writing, this jaw-dropping documentary is a feast! An entertaining portrait of a life of extremes - funny, staggering, disturbing, alarming, dazzling, intriguing. Brilliantly written and directed by Sinéad O’Shea. Go! Go! Go! 💙📚📘 #bookblogger 🎬 #film #litmag

This week’s book post includes these three standouts! Coming soon, and available to pre-order. What will you read next? 🙏 @4thestatebooks.bsky.social @ravenbooks.bsky.social @doubledayuk.bsky.social 💙📚📘🔥 #booksky #bookblogger

Congrats to Nussaibah! Her brilliant debut, Fundamentally, a sharp political satire, is on the 6-spot shortlist for the coveted Women's Prize @womensprize.bsky.social @nussaibah.bsky.social @orionbooks.bsky.social Read the 1st chapter ⬇️ 💙📚📘🔥 #booksky #bookblogger bookanista.com/brouhaha-in-...

READING’S A WASTE OF TIME, the dental hygienist said, hands in blue rubber gloves, blue rubber gloves in my mouth... A laugh-out-loud essay about physical and intellectual entrapment from Unsavory Thoughts by Thomas Walton @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social 💙📚 bookanista.com/from-a-dental-chair/

WE’RE GOD’S BEAUTIFUL CREATURES, the vampire said, something like joy leaking into its voice for the first time since it crawled under this house... An eerie read from Nathan Bellingrud's North American Lake Monsters 💙📚@deadinkbooks.bsky.social @influxpress.bsky.social bookanista.com/sunbleached/

"The acts of ‘woolvish’ women were so shocking because they defied their understanding of the laws of God and nature. We moderns likewise have a fascination with women who kill..." Read an extract from Blessin Adams' Thou Savage Woman @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social bookanista.com/she-devils-a...

Believe the hype A vivid, disturbing and cleverly written insight into the shape of things to come in an AI driven authoritarian near future “The Dream Hotel” by @lailalalami.com is riveting, original and daring @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social 💙📚 #bookblogger #booksky #recommendedread

"Shatila is her name. One of the oldest refugee camps on earth. In Arabic the word means ‘justice’ and ‘insight’. She runs the best whorehouse in town…” Read an uncompromising extract from Meike Ziervogel's new novel Shams. Out now from @saltpublishing.com bookanista.com/stink-seduct...

What's the worst that could happen to a group of teenage millennials on a supervised school cruise to the Greek islands? Ease into the weekend with a story from @marniapple.bsky.social's scintillating debut collection. Out now from The Indigo Press 💙📚😱 bookanista.com/under-the-ci...

"There are no monsters: there are only stories that monstrify people, systems that fail people, and assumptions that dehumanize people. It’s time for new stories, better systems.” Humans: A Monstrous History 💙📚 @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social bookanista.com/moving-on-fr...

Good Morning, Cape @northodoxpress.bsky.social! It's a beautiful #WorldBookDay, perfect conditions (i.e. 25% off) for the #Booklaunch of A Short History of the Future! All Systems go ..3 ..2 ..1 - Ignition... we have LIFT-OFF! #ScienceFiction #ShortStories www.northodox.co.uk/product-page...

Space Unicorns! Magic Ovens! A fantastic story (in every sense) from @liamjhogan.bsky.social’s dazzling sci-fi collection #AShortHistoryoftheFuture. Out today from @northodoxpress.bsky.social bookanista.com/space-unicor...

Behold this book feast! The Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist has been announced @womensprize.bsky.social You can learn more here: womensprize.com/library/ 💙📚 #booksky #bookbloggers

"Short stories are a place to play." Paul McVeigh weighs up the differing challenges of long- and short-form fiction, marking publication of I Hear You; a collection of stories written for @bbcradio4.bsky.social. Out now from @saltpublishing.com bookanista.com/the-short-st...

"Suicide had now been added to the family quota of social shame. Yet Mary noted only ‘the worst account. A miserable day... Buy mourning' Read Fiona Sampson's compelling introduction to #MaryShelleyinBath @fionasampson.bsky.social @manderleypress.bsky.social bookanista.com/the-causes-o...

Congratulations to criminal barrister Imran Mahmood, who also happens to be one of Britain's BEST thriller writers. He talks to us about his beautifully written courtroom drama, his upcoming original TV drama, and more! 💙📚 #bookblogger @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social bookanista.com/truth-love-a...

Read an excerpt from GLOSS by Kyra Wilder on @wearebookanista.bsky.social bookanista.com/the-heron-an...

🚨AUTHOR ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 We are beyond excited to announce the signing of the brilliant @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social Monster: A Tale is coming 2026! What kind of a person would steal a baby asleep in his pram? What kind of a person would leave him there? Details coming soon!

Looking back on cherished moments across a 50-year marriage, Jessica Soffer's witty, tender and radiantly romantic New York City novel is a cross between When Harry Met Sally and My Name Is Lucy Barton @serpents-tail.bsky.social 💙📚 #booksky #bookblogger bookanista.com/that-first-day-in-central-park/

Welcome to the world, Little Alien. Read a delightful extract from Alice Franklin’s debut novel about growing up neurodivergent, and the wonder of language. Out now from @quercusbooks.bsky.social bookanista.com/how-it-goes/ 💙📚📖 #booksky #bookblogger

Was the dog the killer? Read a macabre and entertaining extract from @oskarjensen.bsky.social Oskar Jensen's second compulsive Torben Helle mystery, Helle's Hound. Out this week from @viperbooks.bsky.social 💙📚🕵️ 🔎 #booksky #bookblogger #DetectiveFiction #CrimeFiction bookanista.com/at-the-funer...

"There is something heartbreaking yet also comforting about being able to hold a loved one’s possessions after they die. We can sense their presence in them and perhaps, more deeply, in the objects they have created.” @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social 💙📚 #bookblogger bookanista.com/beauty-out-o...

Slavoj Žižek embraces denial and double-think in the face of catastrophic destruction and the rise of neo-fascism. ‘Disavowal’, from Žižek’s Essays volume #1, Against Progress 💙📚📖 #booksky #litmags #bookblogger #philosophy #climatecrisis bookanista.com/disavowal/

Check out my #booksky 💙📚 starter pack 👇 If you're a book lover, author or publisher and wish to be added let me know! go.bsky.app/5PVFxe5

Caught highlights of the inauguration, complete with Nazi salute and a determination to destroy our precious planet. All the more reason to remind ourselves of creative beauty and good energy in our world, like this « lavish and steamy, mischievous and dramatic » new novel by Fiona Melrose 💙📚

“There is such commitment to investigating what makes stories, what’s included, how meaning is shaped, what’s left out, that such focus on the artifice of it all is ingenious and bracing.” – Wendy Erskine @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social bookanista.com/pretty-ugly-by-kirsty-gunn/ 💙📚 #bookblogger

Congratulations to Holly Watt! Her latest hard-to-put-down thriller centres on college friends reuniting for a special 20-year gathering. Holly gives us an insight into her writing life beloow 💙📚📖 #booksky #bookblogger #TheLastTruthsWeTold @ravenbooks.bsky.social bookanista.com/friends-and-...

Norman Lewis meets Ernest Hemingway in Cuba, and is shocked and disheartened by his literary hero’s wretched physical shape and demeanour of bitterness and boredom. From A Quiet Evening: The Travels of Norman Lewis 💙📚📖 #booksky #bookblogger 🐈 #catsky bookanista.com/hemingway-in-havana/

I wrote a piece for @wearebookanista.bsky.social on Black Country noir and the publication of 'Lie of the Land' by @saltpublishing.com bookanista.com/black-countr...