Learn how to speak clearly and get rid of filler words for good with leading #SpeechCoach Susie Ashfield: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTxh... Susie's accessible guide to public speaking #JustFingSayIt: bit.ly/41yH4gX #PublicSpeaking #PresentationNerves #Speech #SpeechTips

Today is #NationalGardeningDay, and we're getting inspiration from two wonderful Elliott & Thompson books - #ThisAllotment edited by Sarah Rigby (out now in paperback) and #TheApothecaryByTheSea by Victoria Bennett @beewyld.bsky.social (out later this month)! 🌸

Lessons on independence from the former Soviet republics - @joelucbarnes.bsky.social speaks to Agnieszka Pikulicka on TURAN TALK about his new book #FarewellToRussia: A Journey Through the Former USSR: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRlz...

#ToTheEdgeOfTheWorld is now 99p on Kindle, for a limited time! Download your copy now and set off with Mary Ann Patten on a perilous journey across the high seas: www.amazon.co.uk/Edge-World-P...

From the author of A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings @helenjukes.bsky.social comes a beautiful and unexpected memoir of motherhood and wildness... #MotherAnimal is: ‘Astonishing’ SUNDAY TIMES 'Unflinching’ STYLIST ‘Joyful’ GUARDIAN ‘Magnificent’ LUCY JONES Out now in paperback! bit.ly/3PzXRh7

Professor Suzannah Lipscomb @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social and @debbiekilroyauthor.bsky.social trace the meteoric rise and fall of Captain William Kidd on the Not Just the Tudors podcast: bit.ly/4bGVpxZ Read more stories of political scandal in Debbie's new book, #MembersBehavingBadly: bit.ly/4tgWrXg

One woman. One ship. One astonishing true story. ‘Hear the wind whistle through the ropes, taste the salt spray and feel the roll of the ship…. A true-life epic.’ PETER FRETWELL Listen to the audiobook of #ToTheEdgeOfTheWorld on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6P9QWh1...

The global economy is Iran’s hostage. Can it be released? #Chokepoints author @edwardfishman.bsky.social speaks to @soumayakeynes.ft.com on The Economics Show about what this conflict means for the future of economic coercion: www.ft.com/content/604b... #sanctions #Iran @financialtimes.com

Be a swift brick champion! #NatureNeedsYou author @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social speaks to @theguardian.com about how we can help these beautiful birds. “I’m obsessed with swift bricks ... they’re so easy to install." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#ThisAllotment: Stories of Growing, Eating and Nurturing is published today in paperback 🌱 In memory of contributor, horticulturalist and activist Sara Venn, who passed away last year: 'It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.' ❤️ Available @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social: bit.ly/4bO6ayx

Stephen Rutt on how the River Clyde shaped the city of Glasgow @heraldscotland.bsky.social: www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2... Stephen's new book #TheWaterlands is out now in hardback! #Glasgow #rivers #NonFiction #RiverClyde

Does this weather make you want to lace up your boots and get outside? On 14 May, we'll be publishing @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social's Pathfinding: One Mother's Journey from Wilderness to Freedom in paperback. Perfect reading material for your next #hike! Pre-order: bit.ly/3O9g7gL #walking #hiking

Thank you to @dauntbooks.bsky.social Hampstead for hosting authors @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social and Robert Winder for an event about Britain's broken aslyum system. 📖 #AnywhereButHere: Stories of the Search for Belonging in Modern Britain 📖 Bloody Foreigners: The Story of Immigration to Britain

On BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends, writer and restaurant critic Candice Chung delves her relationship with her family and how food says things that words can't in her memoir - Chinese Parents Don't Say I Love You: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #memoir #foodie #food #relationships #LoveStory

Tune in to Not Just the Tudors where #MembersBehavingBadly author @debbiekilroyauthor.bsky.social speaks to @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social about Captain William Kidd – was he a ruthless pirate or a pawn in a royal gamble gone wrong? 🎧Listen here podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... #History #HistoryBook

💧Happy publication day to #TheWaterlands by @steverutt.bsky.social! Follow a raindrop as it flows through diverse waterscapes: river sources, saltmarsh-flanked firths and estuaries, spectacular lochs, crystal-clear chalk streams, blanket bogs and more. bit.ly/4dbmYka #NatureWriting #wetlands

My review of The Waterlands: Follow a Raindrop from Source to Sea by Stephen Rutt, published by @eandtbooks.bsky.social is on my website to read now: tomasstanger.com/the-waterlan... #Booksky #writingcommunity #bookreviews #Nature #NonFiction #History #wildlife

‘Stephen Rutt’s exploration of Britain’s waterlands combines clear-eyed scientific writing with just the right amount of epiphanic prose ... I find it impossible not to feel wonder at such facts.’ @scotsman.com Out tomorrow!💧 #TheWaterlands by @steverutt.bsky.social: bit.ly/4bKfqSN

Tim Marshall speaks to @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social about why the US has found it so difficult to force the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz: www.youtube.com/watch?v=474R... Tim's international bestseller #PrisonersOfGeography is a must-read for those who want to understand contemporary #geopolitics.

Join naturalist and award-winning author, @steverutt.bsky.social on 1st April at 7pm, as he chats to Jen Stout at Blackwells #Edinburgh about his lyrical and insightful new book #TheWaterlands. 'A masterpiece' - Ajay Tegala, author of Wetland Diaries Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stephen-ru...

'An incredibly thrilling slice of maritime history, To The Edge of the World tells the true story of Mary Ann Patten who ... steered a clipper ship with immensely valuable cargo through the most treacherous waters in the world.' Order your copy @waterstones.bsky.social: bit.ly/4lOjpm8 #history

At #SpringEquinox, we have reached the first of only two points in the year when we achieve a perfect balance of dark and light. Discover how to celebrate this time of new beginnings in @rebeccambeattie.bsky.social's book, #TheWheelOfTheYear: bit.ly/4bV0EtJ #Spring #SpringFlowers #Pagan #GreenWitch

Today is #WorldRewildingDay and we're reading @beewyld.bsky.social's upcoming book, #TheApothecaryByTheSea. Focusing on wild plants and seaweeds, Victoria transforms her #Orkney backyard into an abundant #apothecary garden. Pre-order your signed copy from The Orcadian Bookshop: bit.ly/47Koztr

Tim Marshall's #TheFutureOfGeography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World is just 99p in #Kindle for TODAY ONLY: bit.ly/4uCZSsF We're entering a new space race – and it could revolutionise life on Earth. #space #geopolitics #astropolitics #TimMarshall #PrisonersOfGeography #Ebook

Susie Ashfield, leading #SpeechCoach and author of #JustFingSayIt, on how to deal with colleagues who steal all the credit @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/money/2026/m... Just F**king Say It is out in paperback today! #Confidence #PublicSpeaking #Careers #Upskill #Skills #Presentation

Happy paperback publication day to Just F**king Say It by Susie Ashfield! With this empowering step-by-step guide from Britain’s leading speech coach, you’ll soon be: ✨ Requesting the pay-rise you deserve ✨ Acing that interview ✨ Giving an unforgettable speech And more! Out now: bit.ly/4sZ6xfs

Stories from the earth, sea and skies — @financialtimes.com pick four of the best new books on the environment - including @steverutt.bsky.social's new book #TheWaterlands! www.ft.com/content/83ef... #wetlands #bogs #conservation #WaterCycle #NonFiction #marsh #nature #NatureBooks

And exciting #Booksky news from me: check out this beauty, coming soon from @eandtbooks.bsky.social

Do you work with some tricky characters in the office? Susie Ashfield, speech coach and author of #JustFkingSayIt, provides a handy guide to dealing with ‘difficult creatures’ in workplace settings. Read the piece at Metro: metro.co.uk/2026/03/16/h... #Confidence #PublicSpeaking #Careers

#PrisonersOfGeography by Tim Marshall - today just 99p in Kindle! 'One of the best books about geopolitics you could imagine.' Evening Standard This is the fully updated, new edition of the #1 Sunday Times bestseller: bit.ly/40DNniW #geopolitics #politics #TimMarshall #ForeignAffairs

Join naturalist and award-winning author @steverutt.bsky.social Blackwells Edinburgh on 1 April at 7pm, as he chats to Jen Stout about his lyrical and insightful new book #TheWaterlands. Tickets now on sale! 🎟️ bit.ly/4sbuDmR

'In this searing investigation, former Home Office insider Nicola Kelly exposes the realities of the asylum system, combining behind-the-scenes reporting with the stories of those whose futures depend on it.' @theipaper.com #AnywhereButHere is out now in paperback: inews.co.uk/culture/book...

Nervous networker or conference presenter? Just. Care. Less. Listen to Susie Ashfield, leading speech coach and author of #JustFingSayIt, on @nature.com's Working Scientist podcast: www.nature.com/articles/d41... #PublicSpeaking #Confidence #Speech #Upskilling #Pitch #SpeechCoach #Presenting

'Water is not a story because stories finish. Water is like time, there is no end, not really, and no beginning, only a constant flow, a continuous cycle.' From @steverutt.bsky.social's #TheWaterlands, out 26 March 💧 Pre-order @waterstones.bsky.social: bit.ly/4djuTvy #waterlands #wetlands #marsh

#AnywhereButHere by @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social is out in paperback today! 'I worked at the Home Office, what I saw will shock you...' Nicola speaks to @politicsjoe.bsky.social on the strategies of the government in housing and deporting refugees: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPKv...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS From an award-winning journalist comes the hugely timely story of Britain’s broken asylum system and the search for belonging in Britain today. #AnywhereButHere by @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social - out in paperback today! bit.ly/4bgRK8n

Don't forget about #MothersDay this Sunday! #TheCatsTales: Feline fairy tales and #folklore by @charliecreed.bsky.social is the perfect gift for cat-lovers, beautifully illustrated by Tim Oakenfull. Available at @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social: bit.ly/4biGNmS #MothersDayGifts #cat #CatLovers #Cats

Thank you to Bookish Beck for this review of @julianhoffman.bsky.social's sun-soaked memoir #Lifelines: 'The lingering message is a valuable one of bridging divisions and learning how to live in harmony with other people – and with other species.' bit.ly/4b4J1HM #Travel #Greece #Memoir #NonFiction

Psst… it’s Mother’s Day on Sunday 15th March! MOTHER ANIMAL by @helenjukes.bsky.social is the perfect bookish gift for mum – a ‘passionate plea to revalue and celebrate motherhood’ (New Scientist). #MothersDay #MothersDayGift #MotherAnimal #mothering #Motherhood

Author of #FarewellToRussia @joelucbarnes.bsky.social writes for @theipaper.com on Asia's dynastic rulers, who are busy balancing Putin, China and the West to retain their firm grip on their countries: inews.co.uk/news/world/f...

Tim Marshall writes on Iran for @thetimes.com: This diverse, mountainous nation of 92 million has long been held together by force. Can it last, the #PrisonersOfGeography author asks? www.thetimes.com/world/middle... #Geopolitics #Iran #NonFiction #Politics

'The droplet percolates. It swirls through the soil to the clay beneath, then rises again with the groundwater to become surface water; a cocktail of rainwater, river water, aquifer water ... bringing nutrients to what grows, liquid to a dry place.' From Stephen Rutt's #TheWaterlands, out 26 March

The Myth of the Perfect Writer's Room from the @newyorker.com - an essay from Joshua Rothman about the self-defeating quest for the 'perfect' writer's room: bit.ly/4bhiaqS Katie da Cunha Lewin's book, #TheWritersRoom, is out now! #Creativity #writing #books #CreativeWriting

🥂 #HearthOfDarkness by Matt Blake has been shortlisted for two categories at the #TrueCrime Awards - 'Book of the Year' and 'Best New Author'! 👏 This is a haunting exploration of what it means to feel unsafe… in your own home. bit.ly/4brGIyr #Memoir #Paranormal #GhostStories #E17 #Walthamstow

The first #Spitfire flew #OnThisDay in 1936! The Supermarine Spitfire's prototype, K5054, flew from Eastleigh airfield near Southampton, piloted by Vickers chief test pilot Captain Joseph "Mutt" Summer. Read more in Paul Beaver's biography of Spitfire engineer, R. J. #Mitchell: bit.ly/4r8FDQD

We had a wonderful time at @stanfordstravel.bsky.social last night, celebrating the launch of @joelucbarnes.bsky.social's new political travelogue, #FarewellToRussia: A Journey Through the Former USSR. Look at that table display 😍 Published today! bit.ly/4d4jijP

📕 A very happy publication day to #FarewellToRussia by @joelucbarnes.bsky.social! They might have said goodbye to the USSR — but can they ever say farewell to Russia? Farewell to Russia is an immersive political travelogue through the former USSR, set in the shadow of the Ukraine war: bit.ly/46Ju8I9

My review of Farewell to Russia: A Journey Through the Former USSR by @joelucbarnes.bsky.social published by, @eandtbooks.bsky.social is on my website to read now: tomasstanger.com/farewell-to-... #Booksky #writingcommunity #bookreviews #Travel #NonFiction #History #Russia #Ukraine

Don't miss this #AnywhereButHere event at @dauntbooks.bsky.social Hampstead! Author @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social will be in-conversation with Robert Winder (author of #ThreeRivers and Bloody Foreigners). 26th March 2026 6:30pm 🎟️ dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/events/... #asylum #NonFiction #AsylumSeekers

Learn how to articulate your thoughts and master conversations in this episode of the Working Hard podcast with Grace Beverley and #JustFingSayIt author Susie Ashfield: bit.ly/4si867z #HowTo #PublicSpeaking #Presentations #GuideToPublicSpeaking Just F**king Say It is out in paperback on 19th March