A good month of reading in June, highlights were The Correspodent and Smallie. Both 5 stars and highly recommended, but everything I read was good this month. (Full list in alt text) what good things did you read in July? 💙📚

Over the moon to announce that I have helped bring back into print the work of lost author Winifred Duke! Book is published by @blpublishing.bsky.social on August 20th. Pre-order from the link below:

Have you got your copy of HAUNTED YORKSHIRE yet? Brilliant line-up of a brilliant book.

Really looking forward to reading this, especially given Simon’s enticing description! Belated thanks to @blpublishing.bsky.social & @gpwigglesworth.bsky.social for the review copy. Very kind of you. 💛 #BookSky

Excellent book post today, "Haunted Yorkshire – Ghostly Tales from God's own County" edited by Elizabeth Dearnley from @blpublishing.bsky.social. Really looking forward to this, though I must write my pending book reviews first.

Lovely post day. 💌 @blpublishing.bsky.social

I picked up a couple of books, @blpublishing.bsky.social @johnnymains.co.uk 'Celtic Weird' from the Ullapool Bookshop (open until 9pm!), & been after a good book on lichen for a while and found this in the Ceilidh Place bookshop, from @reaktionbooks.bsky.social, which even better covers moss too.

"A terrific new book" is how editor Phillipa McGuinness at the excellent Openbook magazine in Australia describes my recent When Books Go Bad published by @blpublishing.bsky.social

Father's Day book gains: another solid showing this year, once again the children may remain housed and fed Feat. @blpublishing.bsky.social, @catamaroon.bsky.social

Still giddy with the brilliance of this year's SOLD OUT Bodies from the Library conference. I did a talk on John Dickson Carr (my fave) and spent time in the company of some of the best people. Huge congratulations to John Curran, Mark Green, Susan Cooper et al for making it a roaring success!

Thank you @tommeadauthor.bsky.social for championing one of our favourite authors John Dickson Carr! It’s no coincidence we chose The Unicorn Murders to be our 150th Crime Classic title ❤️

Kicking off a SOLD OUT Bodies from the Library conference, two grandmasters: Simon Brett and Martin Edwards being delightfully witty and convivial on the history of The Detection Club

It’s Bodies from the Library day at the BL. Looking forward to a day packed with Golden Age Crime panels! It’s sold out this year - so make sure you book early for 2027.

Get your hands/paws/barghesty claws on a copy here: shop.bl.uk/products/hau...

Happy Publication Day to HAUNTED YORKSHIRE 👻🌿🐺🦊 My new @blpublishing.bsky.social anthology explores all things ghoulish in God’s own county, with work by Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Emily Brontë, Arthur Machen, Andrew Michael Hurley & more! Also included: barghests, boggarts & malevolent squirrels 🐿️

Really looking forward to reading this.

Yorkshire: a land of uncanny literature and folklore, home to twilit towns thronging with restless ghosts, woods alive with whispers and vast moorlands stalked by boggarts after dark. Haunted Yorkshire: Ghostly Tales from God's Own County is available online and in store today.

A lovely book from the British Library Women Writers series, Cynthia Asquith's "The Spring House" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/06/17/b... #booksky @britishlibrary.bsky.social 📚💙

This will be an unmissable day! Includes the launch of our next Tales of the Weird ‘Haunted Yorkshire’! More info below:

Beholden to strange customs and inhabited by denizens of ill-omened aspect… but what was Yorkshire like in the haunted past? The new #TalesOfTheWeird from @blpublishing.bsky.social & @elizadearnley.bsky.social might tell this Lancashire lad more!

They say it’s grim up North. Well it is with the new @blpublishing.bsky.social Tales of the Weird entry Haunted Yorkshire Edited by Elizabeth Dearnley. Will post contents page later #weirdfiction 🩸📚💙

Pleased to have reviewed 'Summoned to the Seance-Spirit Tales from Beyond the Veil' , collection from @blpublishing.bsky.social featuring unusual & obscure work from famous authors and not so well known #Seancefiction, #WeirdTales, #Spiritualism, bleakchesneywold.blogspot.com/2026/06/summ...

Thanks to the marvellous new Toppings bookshop in York for giving my latest book The Philosophy of Sheds published by @blpublishing.bsky.social a good showing in their new premises

love the themed collections in this series. They've done everything from railway/train stories to theater to seasonal settings

Happy publication day to Puzzles of the Parish! Edited by @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social. Gathered here are some of the greatest mystery tales in which the tendrils of crime steal into the churchyard. Delivering cosy brainteasers & fiendishly-fashioned stories with a sting in the tail! Out now.

Ooh! Like the look of this.

Haunted Yorkshire (the June Tales of the Weird) has arrived at BL towers! Publishing June 18th. Here we go!

It's 1915, and Miranda is spending the war across the Atlantic to her Canadian husband. Gradually, as the war brings death and destruction to those closest to her, Miranda is offered a chance at real love. Available Online and In Store today. #BritishLibraryPublising

If you’re in the Leeds area in a couple of weeks…

Jeremy will be a guest at this "Midsummer Weird" even at @oldwoollen in Leeds on 21st June - tickets available from oldwoollen.seetickets.com/event/midsum...

This will be an unmissable day! Includes the launch of our next Tales of the Weird ‘Haunted Yorkshire’! More info below:

A pleasant five minute excerpt from my A Drink with the Idler talk last week with the Idler magazine's editor Tom Hodgkinson about my latest book The Philosophy of Sheds. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e9a...

Win a copy of this great book > www.shedblog.co.uk/2026/05/05/t...

Nice very small mention of #shedoftheyear in the footer from this lovely piece about @shedworking.bsky.social New book in the Yorkshire post www.pressreader.com/uk/yorkshire... Not seen Alex in real life for years but normally he wears a smoking jacket.

On the blog today, a very special book from @blpublishing.bsky.social "His presence was sanity and reassurance." #BLCC150 #carterdickson kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/05/27/h...

Last week I gave my first Seed Talk public lecture on ‘The History of Women in Spiritualism’ to a lovely audience in London & online. We explored female artists, authors & entrepreneurs who shaped séances, with a reading from my @blpublishing.bsky.social collection & Q&A. Thanks to all attendees! 👻

From the peaks of Eryri to hidden valleys and haunted mines, the storied landscapes of Wales have inspired centuries of myth and folklore. Twenty tales of eerie encounters, Shadows Over Cymru is available online and in store. #Wales #Welshbooks #britishlibrarypublishing

Delighted that The Philosophy of Sheds (published by @blpublishing.bsky.social) is Book of the Week at The Idler where I'll be chatting online on Thursday in their Drink With slot www.idler.co.uk/article/book...

I’m reading this one just now. Some very sinister tales…

Ooh! 👀🖐🏽

“He looked up at the picture rail… and there was the hand.” ✋📖 Tales of the ghostly, possessed and disembodied hands creeping through the history of weird fiction. Prepare to enter a world of nightmares with Beasts with Five Fingers. Available online and in store today #britishlibrarypublishing

May’s Tales of the World subscription arrived from @blpublishing.bsky.social This one looks fun! Beasts with Five Fingers: Strange Tales of Disembodied Hands, edited by Brian J. Showers “Thing, you’re a handful” - Gomez Addams #booksky #horror #talesoftheweird 🩸📚💙

So pleased to update my blog with a review of 'The Weird Tales of William Hope Hodgson' edited by Xavier Aldana Reyes. Well done @blpublishing.bsky.social #Williamhopehodgson, #horrorfiction, #weirdtales, #writerswhodiedinworldwar1 bleakchesneywold.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-...

I’ve ordered the remaining Factory novels, including A State of Denmark, which is about a fascist dictator running Britain. Could never happen… Also picked up the latest John Dickson Carr (as Carter Dickson) from @blpublishing.bsky.social, The Unicorn Murders #booksky #crimefiction ⚡️📚💙

Thank you to Spooky Isles for posting my review of 'Circles of Stone : Weird Tales of Pagan Sites and Ancient Rites', edited by Katy Soar. Published by @blpublishing.bsky.social #WeirdTales,#Paganism,#folklore www.spookyisles.com/circle-of-st...

Just finished reading these two fabulous anthologies from @blpublishing.bsky.social's "Tales of the Weird" collection. Weird Woods and The New Flesh. Both brilliant collections of tales known and unknown to me, both very spooky. Now what odd stories should I read next?

Celebrating our 150th Crime Classic, The Unicorn Murders. Sir George Ramsden returns to Britain with the mysterious “unicorn,” A deadly game of disguise and deception unfolds, until an impossible murder turns everyone into a suspect. Available online and in store today

❤️ ❤️ ❤️ Such a thoughtful synopsis of Malachi Whitaker's "Honeymoon" in Lucy Evan's Introduction to "Stories for Lovers" (British Library Women Writers series, 2026) ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

What exactly can a shed be? 🤔 Uncover how these small spaces have sparked big thinking, from inventions and literature to art and philosophy. The Philosophy of Sheds with @shedworking.bsky.social is available online and in store today. #BritishLibraryPublishing #NewBooks #Sheds #Gardenlovers