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Delighted to be one of Allan Massie's highlights of the year in the @scotsman.com magazine, and doubly delighted to be alongside fabulous fellow authors Sue Lawrence, @liammcilvanney.bsky.social, @mrewanmorrison.bsky.social and Alexander Starritt. Thank you, @saraband-books.bsky.social!

Today we are celebrating all things Emily Brontë 🤎 And we are delighted to reveal the cover for the expanded and updated edition of Emily Brontë Reappraised by @drclaireocall.bsky.social, publishing in 2026! Discover more here: saraband.net/sb-title/emi... #Booksky #emilybronte 📚💙

Have you entered The Nature Chronicles Prize yet? Details in the post below! 🍃 #NatureWriting #Booksky #NatureWritingPrize 📚💙

Thank you @gutter.bsky.social and Malachy Tallack for including Looking Down at the Stars by Christina Riley in your books of the year ✨🪸 #Booksky 📚💙 www.guttermag.co.uk/reviews/book...

It’s the last day to order from our Christmas shop to ensure pre-Christmas delivery ✨ 🎁 saraband.net/2025/11/12/c... #Booksky #ChristmasShopping 📚💙

We're delighted to see Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly included in @theguardian.com's 30 authors on the books they give to everyone! Thank you Derek Owusu for choosing it 📚 #Booksky 📚💙 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

At this time of year people like buying books about celebrities/notable people, so here are some of the ones that are mentioned in mine, pictured alongside the book in which they feature. I'm no marketing genius, but I'll try anything at this point. linktr.ee/adamjfarrer #booksky

Thank you @outdoorscots.bsky.social for including Looking Down at the Stars ✨ #Booksky 📚💙

Congratulations! 🙌

From double Booker Prize listed author, Graeme Macrae Burnet, the Gorski Trilogy follows Chief Inspector Georges Gorski around the streets and bars of Saint-Louis, investigating disappearances and mysterious strangers. Buy the complete trilogy in paperback for £30. saraband.net/product/the-...

As the closing date draws nearer, here's a reminder of the Prize's key dates and entry criteria 🍃 Please do read the full Ts&Cs on our website before submitting your entry. Good luck, and we can't wait to read your work 📝 naturechroniclesprize.com/terms-and-co... #Booksky #NatureWriting 📚💙

They’re all excellent reading!

Overwhelmed by this generous review of "Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Uncharted Island" by the @scotsman.com's chief literary critic Allan Massie in today's supplement on Scottish Books 2025. Reminiscent of the Ealing comedies? I'll take that!

The paperback non-fiction bundle is perfect for those a little more difficult to buy for! There’s something for film buffs, to those who love history and inspiring personal stories. Buy two bundle paperback non-fiction books for £25. saraband.net/product/pape... #Booksky #ChristmasShopping 📚💙

Our latest, and last newsletter for the year, has just been sent to subscribers! You can subscribe for free below: open.substack.com/pub/saraband... #Booksky 📚💙

The latest Goodreads review of my first book, Cold Fish Soup. At this point my books should be categorised under “Not your usual thing but you’ll probably like it.” Importantly, everyone listen to Cerys. @saraband-books.bsky.social

‘Fragments of knowledge and imagination flicker in and out of view, like sunlight in seagrass.’ Christina Riley’s ‘Looking Down at the Stars’, November BOTM, gently leads us to a love that is born from looking, writes Kirsteen Bell — and to hope 🪸✨ www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/look...

We've just added some staff picks to our @bookshop.org page. When you buy through our page, we earn a commission, plus Bookshop donates a matching sum to independent bookshops. There's also FREE SHIPPING until Monday! www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/staf... Image: Book token by Gwen White, 1936

Publishing in early 2026 are three new In the Moment books! 💎 In Search of Gems: Finding Treasures in Wild Places by Kenneth Steven 🌿 Nature’s Almanac: A Gift for Every Day of the Year by Susie White 🏊🏻‍♂️ Swimming the Seasons: A Freshwater Almanac by @pollyrowena.bsky.social 📚 saraband.net/books

Guess the 15 Saraband book covers correctly and be in with a chance of winning one of the featured books! (Pssst...if you find yourself in need of some help, visit our website) Send your answers via the below link by midnight on 14th December. UK entrants only. ✍️ tinyurl.com/yrnv8zye #Booksky 📚💙

In our latest subscriber-exclusive interview, Christina Riley speaks to Tallulah about the writings of Rachel Carson, seeing the world through a scallop’s eyes, and the inherent poetry of the sea. Preview here, or subscribe / sign in to read in full: steady.page/en/caughtbyt...

✨ Paperback fiction bundle ✨ There’s something for everyone in the paperback fiction bundle, from prize winners to debut talent Immerse yourself in historical and contemporary fiction, romance and cosy crime Buy two bundle paperback fiction books for £20 saraband.net/product/pape... #Booksky 📚💙

2 sell out shows this past week: Gregson Centre #Lancaster & The Vault #Hexham Last Shore Lines tour gig is at The Pheasant Inn Cumwhitton #Cumberland Thurs 4 Dec (8pm) Short stories from @joscottheritage.bsky.social @anncleeves.bsky.social Linda Cracknell @saraband-books.bsky.social & Tony Glover

Great time at the Scottish Christmas Book Fair for Book Week Scotland. With literary royalty Stewart Conn; @saraband-books.bsky.social superstars Graeme Macrae Burnet and Catherine Simpson; plus our fab publisher; and comparing MurielSpark-inspired books with @gillianshirreffs.bsky.social.

✨ In the Moment bundle ✨ In the Moment is a collection of beautiful and inspirational compact books, each of which is an ideal stocking filler or Secret Santa gift! Buy any three In the Moment books for £20. #Booksky 📚💙 saraband.net/product/in-t...

Look! We've made the New Town Church in George Street, Edinburgh, all festive for you for The Scottish Christmas Book Fair! We'd love to see you there! 🎄🎄🎄

Making gardens for magical moths "How the wonder of moths winged its way into the life of garden expert Susie White and inspired her latest book." www.culturednortheast.co.uk/p/making-gar... #Booksky @culturednortheast.bsky.social 📚💙

Happy publication day to Susie White and The Gardener and the Moth 🦋 Learn how to create a garden that works both day and night for moths and butterflies, attracting stunning species and helping both flora and fauna to thrive. saraband.net/product/in-t... #booksky 📚💙

To mark the 10th anniversary of His Bloody Project first being published and to celebrate Graeme Macrae Burnet taking part in Book Week Scotland 2025, Saraband is giving away two signed copies of the book. To be in with a chance of winning, share this post and follow @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Our friends at @saraband-books.bsky.social have included the Nature Chronicles Prize 2 anthology in their Christmas shop! Treat a loved one, a friend (or even yourself) to this beautiful book of winning essays from the 2024 Prize 🍃 saraband.net/2025/11/12/s... #Booksky 📚💙

Ahead of the Saltire Book Awards tonight, we're celebrating Ajay Close being the current reigning champion for Fiction Book of the Year, with #WhatDoesntKillUs Good luck to everyone shortlisted this year 🎉 #Booksky 📚💙

We're in the midst of #NonFictionNovember, so what better time to share with you a selection (of some) of our new and bestselling non-fiction titles! Visit our blog for recent posts by: 📚 @christinariley.bsky.social 📚 Caroline Young 📚 Linda Cracknell 📚 Catherine Simpson #Booksky 📚💙

Join Northodox this Saturday at House of Book & Friends for our Winter Book Fair @commapress.bsky.social @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social @stairwellbooks.bsky.social @saraband-books.bsky.social @confingopublishing.bsky.social @writtenoffbooks.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/manchester...

It's #BookWeekScotland! We're really looking forward to seeing you at our Scottish Christmas Book Fair! The New Town Church in George Street, Edinburgh will be FULL of booky delights! @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social @creativescots.bsky.social

A big congratulations to Rozie Kelly for being longlisted for the Novel Tours Awards 🎉 "The judges were completely enthralled by Rozie Kelly’s precise, electrifying writing, noting how every word is charged with emotion, pulling you deep into the tangle of her characters’ lives." #Booksky 📚💙

Sharing this again! I've since added the @saraband-books.bsky.social book 'Peat and Whisky: The Unbreakable Bond' by Mike Billett to this list, as well as 'The Zebra and Lord Jones' by Anna Vaught (and @renardpress.com )😍

I‘m recommending Sea Marked by Linda Cracknell. Creative non-fiction by a tremendously skilled writer. I loved it. ❤️ If you love the sea, you’ll love it too. 🌊

The clocks have gone back, lights are twinkling, mince pies are filling supermarket aisles and Mariah is making her way up the music charts... It’s time to launch our Christmas shop 🎄✨ saraband.net/2025/11/12/c... #Booksky 📚💙

‘We had never read anything quite like it. It is, in many ways, a dark book but it is a joy to read’ We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.

Country diary: The muted beauty of moth-trapping in November by Susie White Susie's latest book, The Gardener and the Moth: Planting for Moths and Butterflies, is available to order now! Details in the link below 🦋 #booksky #naturewriting 📚💙 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Two weeks to go! We hope to see you there - there will be lots and lots of booky goodies!

'Beach objects in the sand begin to read like words on a page, fragments of stories ready to be pieced together.' Read an extract from @christinariley.bsky.social’s ‘Looking Down at the Stars’ — our November Book of the Month (@saraband-books.bsky.social) www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/look...

Happy publication day to @christinariley.bsky.social and Looking Down at the Stars ✨ Discover the wonder of marine life seen up close in these joyous and sparkling essays 🪸 Visit our blog to read a guest post by Christina! saraband.net/2025/11/03/l... #booksky 📚💙 @portyliterary.bsky.social

We're excited to be taking part in @publishingscotland.bsky.social's first Scottish Christmas Book Fair, with Saraband authors: ✨ Caroline Young ✨ @christinariley.bsky.social ✨ @olgawojtas.bsky.social ✨ Graeme Macrae Burnet ✨ @writercatherine.bsky.social www.publishingscotland.org/event/scotti...

We are proud to announce the Jamie Normington Memorial Sponsorship The sponsorship will be awarded to ten aspiring or established nature writers for whom the cost of entry is a bar To qualify – on a first come first served basis – please contact [email protected] #booksky 📚💙

Wonderful to welcome Sue Lawrence for a flying visit - always great to catch up about next books ... and shortbread of course! Signed copies of Whispers in the Glen now on stock! @saraband-books.bsky.social #whispersintheglen #booksigning

Thank you @psychologytoday.com for interviewing Francis Sanzaro about his new book The Zen of the Wild 🍃 "A wonderful guide to rewilding our hearts." www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anim... #Booksky 📚💙

We're delighted to reveal the cover and announce @dsmurray.bsky.social's forthcoming book The Loch of the Bees Continuing his elegiac Lewis novels, Murray serves up a remarkable new work that sweeps across time from the eighth century to the present day saraband.net/sb-title/the... #Booksky 📚💙

Announcing the Scottish Christmas Book Fair! * The perfect occasion for Christmas gift shopping * All your favourite genres for adults & children * Chat with Scotland’s indie publishers & meet their authors See below for who'll be there! www.publishingscotland.org/event/scotti...