This is a beautifully written and deeply immersive book. Reading it right now! 🌊 @saraband-books.bsky.social

Sea Marked by Linda Cracknell review: 'an intriguing train of thought' www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul... #sailing #books #history #maritimehistory #scotland #orkney #devon

Read more about Single and Psycho: How pop culture created the unstable single woman by Caroline Young on our website! saraband.net/sb-title/sin... #Booksky 📚💙

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the marvellous Caroline Young about her new book #SingleAndPsycho How Pop Culture Created the Unstable Single Woman

We're excited that @christinariley.bsky.social will be launching Looking Down at the Stars at the lovely @portybooks.bsky.social, in conversation with @rkrystalli.bsky.social ✨ 🗓️ Thursday 13th November, 7pm 🎟️ Tickets available here: www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/chris... #Booksky 📚💙

Thank you @heraldscotland.bsky.social for running an extract from Single and Psycho: How pop culture created the unstable single woman by Caroline Young! www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2... Read more about the book on our website #Booksky 📚💙

Looking for some inspiration for this year's prize? Why not read through the winning entries from 2024 🌿 Read more about the anthology, and how you can get a copy, here: naturechroniclesprize.com #Booksky #NatureWriting 📚💙

We're delighted to announce that we'll be publishing 'predominant nature writer' Jim Crumley's latest book, Symphonic: Harmony in Nature and Why It Matters ✨ Read more here: saraband.net/2025/09/17/s... #Booksky 📚💙

The Booker Prize Foundation is partnering with BookKind, the new online bookshop that donates 10% of every sale to charity 👇 #BookSky

Have you discovered our In the Moment series yet? Books exploring mindfulness and being fully present in our activities and environment 🌿 There are two new books publishing in 2026: 💎 In Search of Gems 🌲 Nature's Almanac Read more on our website: saraband.net/in-the-moment #Booksky 📚💙

Congratulations to the 2025 #WainwrightPrize winners 🎉

We’re delighted to share that Donald S Murray has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Association for Scottish Literature, at the University of Edinburgh. Congratulations, Donald! 🎉 Read more on our blog, here: saraband.net/2025/09/06/d... #Booksky 📚💙

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

A huge thank you to everyone who attended Linda Cracknell's Aberfeldy Watermill Bookshop launch last night 🎉 And thanks to Jamie Jauncey for hosting and Claire Hewitt for the sea-songs! Copies of Sea Marked are available in the Watermill Bookshop #Booksky 📚💙

Happy publication day to Linda Cracknell and Sea Marked 🎉 A memoir of place, memory and motion, of seafarers, and the author’s connections to them and to the sea Read a guest post by Linda: The Adventure of Writing Sea Marked saraband.net/2025/09/01/t... #Booksky 📚💙

Thank you @bookyvikki.bsky.social for including the "entertaining and energizing" Single & Psycho by Caroline Young in this piece for the @scotsman.com www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul... #Booksky 📚💙

Burn How Garden Hotel, Bowness-on-Windermere last Wednesday evening. "Rocks and Rain, Reason and Romance" @saraband-books.bsky.social and "Science and Sensibility: From the Heavens Above to the Earth Below" Lutterworth Press. Where were you!

Last few days to get your submissions in!

This year marks ten years since the publication of the propulsive, Booker-shortlisted contemporary classic His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet To celebrate, a special tenth anniversary edition will be available on the 2 October 2025 More here: saraband.net/sb-title/his... #Booksky 📚💙

Happy publication to Francis Sanzaro and The Zen of the Wild 🎉 From the author of The Zen of Climbing and The Craft of Bouldering, a manifesto for a new approach to connecting meaningfully with the wildness around and within us. saraband.net/sb-title/the... #Booksky 📚💙

This has been a fantastic @edbookfest.bsky.social ! This panel shared stories of women travelling, in all sorts of scenarios often missed out by travel writers. Linda Cracknell, @amandathomson.bsky.social & Alice Tarbuck joined Esa Aldegheri celebrating #ThereSheGoes @jennybrownagency.bsky.social

Book biscuits to celebrate the publication of Hold Fast! Congratulations @writercatherine.bsky.social 🥳 Read more about Hold Fast: Motherhood, my autistic daughter and me, here: saraband.net/sb-title/hol... #Booksky 📚💙

Happy publication day to @writercatherine.bsky.social and Hold Fast 🎉 An unforgettable story that shows what a gift it is to see someone not as the world tells them they should be, but as they are. Visit our blog to read a guest post from Catherine! saraband.net/2025/08/01/h... #Booksky 📚💙

@olgawojtas.bsky.social treating us to an entertaining rendition of all manner of accents and languages spoken by Shona in the latest Miss Blaine’s Prefect adventure @edbookfest.bsky.social

Graeme Macrae Burnet onstage in the #Edbookfest Spiegeltent during the Scottish Writing Showcase 📚

AL Kennedy reading from Alive in the Merciful Country to an engaged Edinburgh Book Festival crowd 📚 (and getting us to join in with a rhythmic chant!) #edbookfest @writereralk.bsky.social

A huge congratulations to Graeme Macrae Burnet on being shortlisted for Best International Crime novel at Australian Crime Writers Association Ned Kelly Awards 🎉 A Case of Matricide is out now in paperback - discover more on our website! saraband.net/sb-title/a-c...

NEWS: Graeme Macrae Burnet's Gorski finale A CASE OF MATRICIDE shortlisted for Best International Crime novel at the Ned Kelly Awards! 📚🔦 🔎 Read more: blakefriedmann.co.uk/news/a-case-...

Sue Lawrence reading from Whispers in the Glen at the Edinburgh Book Festival #edbookfest #scottishfiction

Join Linda Cracknell on board the Bessie Ellen to celebrate the publication of her latest book, Sea Marked: Throwing a Line to a Coastal Past ⛵ Bessie Ellen, Seaport Marina 🗓 8 September, 6pm 🎟 RSVP [email protected] Further information in the image below! #Booksky 📚💙

'That interplay between doom and hope, which encapsulates Kennedy in a nutshell ... sets the tone for Alive in the Merciful Country.' Susie Mesure: Nuclear protest and a spycops scandal catch up in a courtroom

Such a joy to see this very generous blog post on my latest book, Flint Country: “'Flint Country' is a declaration of love to an underrated region – full of knowledge, wit and literary subtlety." fabfourblog.com/2025/07/29/f...

Join Sue Lawrence for Secrets Unearthed at @edbookfest.bsky.social 🗓️ Tuesday 12 August, 10:30 - 11:30 🏛️ Courtyard Theatre #Booksky 📚💙 www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

Over the coming weeks we're going to introduce you to our judges! First up is Linda Cracknell, a writer of fiction and narrative non-fiction. She is inspired by place and memory, and walking is essential to her creative process. naturechroniclesprize.com #Booksky #NatureWriting 📚💙

It's just over a week until A.L. Kennedy's event at Edinburgh International Book Festival 🎉 There are still tickets available, if you're quick! 🎟️ Wednesday 13 August at 11am - further info in the link below www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival... #Booksky 📚💙

Delighted to be part of this fine festival with 'Shore Lines' at #Wooler library on Tues 7th Oct (7pm) Ace stories by @anncleeves.bsky.social @joscottheritage.bsky.social Tony Glover & Linda Cracknell @saraband-books.bsky.social Tickets via www.berwickliteraryfestival.com @visitberwick.bsky.social

Meet the author..the fascinating David Howe @davidprf.bsky.social is guest at the Burn How Hotel book session on Weds Aug 27, 7pm, it's free, all welcome. David wrote the glorious "Rocks & Rain, Reason & Romance", one of the best ever books about the Lakes. Pls share. @lakedistrict.bsky.social

✨ Author Spotlight - Graeme Macrae Burnet ✨ Award-winning novelist Graeme Macrae Burnet will join us on Islay for a chat about his incredible body of work. www.ticketsource.co.uk/islay-book-f...

Inklings submissions open NOW with @saraband-books.bsky.social! Make sure to read the guidelines 👇

And the judges for 2025/26 are 🥁 🍃 Linda Cracknell, nature & place writer 🍃 Kevin Duffy, co-founder @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social 🍃 @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social, award winning earth scientist 🍃 @sourbee-matt.bsky.social, writer & environmental activist 🍃 Patrick Walsh, founder & agent at PEW Literary

We’re delighted to announce that we’re now open to Inklings pitch submissions until the 31st August! Visit our website for further information - we’re really looking forward to reading your submissions! saraband.net/2025/07/11/i... #Booksky #Writers @404ink.bsky.social 📚💙

We're delighted to announce that entries for the 2025/26 Nature Chronicles Prize open today! The winner will receive £10,000 and five runners up £1,000 each. The winning and shortlisted entries will be included in The Nature Chronicles Prize: 3 anthology, published by @saraband-books.bsky.social

Today is the last day of the @waterstones.bsky.social 25% off pre-order promotion Enter SUMMER25 at the checkout before 23.59 today (31 July) Saraband books included in the offer are in the image below! www.waterstones.com/campaign/jul... #Booksky 📚💙

Today marks Emily Brontë's birthday 📚💙 Discover more about Emily in Emily Brontë Reappraised by @drclaireocall.bsky.social The book conjures a new image of the great writer by looking at her afresh from the vantage point of the new millennium saraband.net/sb-title/emi... #Booksky #EmilyBronte

We are delighted to reveal the #BookerPrize2025 longlist – 13 books ‘all alive with great characters and narrative surprises’. Huge congratulations to the authors who make up this year's Booker Dozen. ➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/bp2025

‪Lovely to see @writercatherine.bsky.social included in the @booksfromscotland.bsky.social Heatwave issue! #booksky 📚💙

Keep your cool! It's Heatwave, the latest BfS issue! booksfromscotland.com/issue/heatwa... Thanks for your contributions: @florisbooks.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk @birlinn.bsky.social @edinburghup.bsky.social @luathpress.bsky.social @bwpublishing.bsky.social @saraband-books.bsky.social and more!

The Waterstones 25% off pre-order promotion is now live! 📚 The offer will run until 23.59 on Thursday 31st July 📚 Enter SUMMER25 at the checkout to redeem the offer and receive 25% off 📚 The offer is exclusively available on the Waterstones website and app Happy shopping! #WPreorder #Booksky

We're excited to announce that entries for the 2025/26 #NatureChroniclesPrize will open a week today! More information to follow or keep up-to-date via our website: www.naturechroniclesprize.com #Booksky #Nature #NatureWriting 📚💙

Wild to share that I have a book coming out with the brilliant @saraband-books.bsky.social! It stars the sea slugs, serpulid worms, scallops and other gleaming and gelatinous life I met underwater on Scotland’s coast. It’s out on November 6 and available to pre-order! Hope you like water and light!