Evening Bookophiles 😀💖📚, so last week, I couldn’t resist peeking on to #FoxLaneBooks website & they had such a fantastic selection. That I couldn’t resist a book liberation splurge 🦊📚⬇️. Here’s what I got & only 2 of these aren’t signed ⬇️📚💖🦊, see anything you like⬇️⬇️

#BookPost💖📚 A huge thank you to #OrionBooks for my gorgeous copy of #TheGrapevine by #KateKemp & the most heavenly smelling candle 🕯️💖. I love the sound of this antipodean debut, publishing in March 2025. I think you will too📚⬇️💖

Let’s try this again 💖📚I am very excited to reveal the cover of #TheBookOfHeartbreak by #OvaCeren @excusemereading This is a beautiful romantasy about heartbreak, angels & curses. Published by @HotKeyBooks August 2025💖📚⬇️ lnk.to/TheBookOfHeart…

Afternoon Bookophiles 💖📚😀. I was just reviewing the 15 books, I immersed myself in during January. Two really stood out for me, neither will be a suprise😆📚💖 & I doubt I will be alone in my choices😆📚👍 ⬇️⬇️ #WaterMoon #SamanthaSottoYambao & #OynxStorm #RebeccaYarros #BookSky

Evening Bookophiles 💖📚😀 My weekend plans, unexpectedly changed. So I braved a visit into town, which was very crowded 😱😱 & freaked me out but I was determined to visit #Waterstones & my two book limit, was flexible 😆💖📚. Here’s my Saturday book liberation haul📚⬇️💖 #BlueSky

Morning bookophiles 😀📚💖. Looks like it’s Monday again & STILL January 😱😱. This really is the month that won’t end😆😱. I am on my 2nd frothy coffee ☕️ & trying to recover from finishing #OnyxStorm at 6am today 😆😱📚💖. Not quite sure what to do now😆 #BookSky

Evening Bookophiles 💜📚😀 Earlier today, I finished #Water Moon 🌙 by the immensely imaginative & talented #SamanthaSottoYambao This is a magnificent, mysterious & magical read, that I completely fell in love with & I hope you do too. If this book isn’t on your shelf or TBL, then it needs to be😀💜📚⬇️

Evening Bookophiles 💖📚❄️. Today has extremely busy & very chilly 🥶 & the temperature is dropping again now to -5* 🥶. I have only been back at work 4 days but it felt like 16 weeks😱😆. On the plus side, my daffodils 🌼 have started to open & a new book arrived - oops😆📚⬇️

Afternoon Bookophiles 💖📚😀 The Big Man 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 is on a train back to Scotland 🥲. I am a little sad🥲. On my way home from the station I stopped to pick up a couple of items & two discounted books popped in my trolley 🛒 & some daffodils, to lift my mood🌼 😀📚💖⬇️⬇️⬇️

PATREONS! I've just send my first newsletter of 2025. It's got EXCLUSIVE information about six signed books i'm going to be getting. Patreons always get first dibs. I won't be adding 5 of these onto the website. That's how exclusive they are! Hope you like it. patreon.com/c/user?u=343...

An utterly compelling fictional imagining of 3 iconic women destined to become famous names, this book is a fantastic read with full on echoes of Taylor Jenkins Reid... Full review: #booksky bookaholicbex.wordpress.com/2025/01/04/t...

Evening Bookophiles 📚💖 The Big Man 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 & I had a lovely lunch out & then popped into M&S for a few things. After that a frothy coffee & part of a lemon meringue cheesecake, my mother got confused & ate my cake (having said she didn’t want anything 😆😱😱😱) #DementiaJoy 😱

I read 208 books this past year while dealing with the Big Man’s cancer treatments, my mother’s decline & my own crippling arthritis. My reading has been simply to bring me joy - hence the dominance of Crime & Romantasy. Here are 24 of my favourite books of 2024💖📚 I hope you enjoy them💖📚⬇️

Afternoon Bookophiles📚💖 I hope the new year is treating you well. The Big Man 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 & I had a quiet day, yesterday. Today we popped into town, to have lunch & visit my favourite charity shops & his favourite (the model shop) Here’s my book haul , new scarves & an Otter 🦦 💖📚

You are all cordially invited to the world book launch of: The Accidental Immigrants by @jomcmillan.bsky.social In @bookcornerhx.bsky.social on Thursday 23rd January. The event is free and you can book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

Wishing all my lovely Bookophiles a wonderful 2025. Looking forward to lots of book chat this coming year💖📚😀

Evening Bookophiles 🎄💖📚 I made my annual pilgrimage to the #Waterstones sale, armed with a combination of birthday book tokens (from my 50th in October) & my new Christmas ones💖📚😆 Here’s my gorgeous haul, 4 of these have stunning spredges, 3 are signed & I have only read one of them already 📚🎄💖⬇️🎁

Happy Christmas Bookophiles from my family to yours. I hope you’ve had a lovely day & have lots of new books to read💖📚

Happy Christmas Eve Bookophiles 📚🎄💖 The Big Man & I went out to brunch with my parents & popped to M&S for a trifle 👍💖 I spent the rest of the afternoon wrapping a few gifts 🎁 & re-arranging the fridge😱😆 Below is my pre-Christmas book haul 👍⬇️💖📚See anything you like?📚

I still love this old advert from the Australian Booksellers Association

Sharing my review for After The Storm by @gdwrightwrites.bsky.social today. This is an excellent, but heart-wrenching read that I couldn’t put down. The storyline could be upsetting for some so check out the content warnings if necessary. Let me know if this one is going on your TBR list! #BookSky

Happy Thanksgiving 🦃🏈💖📚 to all my American followers. My partner is Scottish American, so we always acknowledge the day🦃🏈🇺🇸. Wishing you a wonderful day

Every year, I buy myself a really nice present, some frippery I’ve wanted but couldn’t justify otherwise. It’s my reward for being me, given with love and gratitude, accepted with humility and thanks. Try it ❤️

How brilliant 📚💖👍⬇️

The GORGEOUS superproofs of #TheListeners, the debut adult novel by bestselling YA author @maggiestiefvater.bsky.social, are here & MY GOD I’m obsessed.😍 This book has stuck with me like no other & I can’t wait for readers to meet The Avallon, inimitable GM June Hudson & the omnipresent sweetwater.🐌

My penultimate Starter Pack - bloggers/reviewers who I have met for the first time here'. Still plenty of room in all my packs - shout if you want to be included in one. go.bsky.app/H9MfQES

Nice to see this recognition for translators. Of course, Jon Fosse himself is also a translator – he translated The Plains by Gerald Murnane. (Fosse also married his Slovakian translator.) www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

I’ve been excited for this session all day - Liv Marsden, the original queen of influencers, on a fabulous panel about how we should value influencers 👑 @the-bookseller.bsky.social #FutureBook

Please spread the word to any aspiring crime-writers out there. The competition will be judged by award-winning authors. Might be a kickstart to someone's career.

Fantastic giveaway 📚💖⬇️

I think the people behind Spines AI publishing are spineless cowards who don’t care about books, don’t care about art, don’t care about the instinctive human talent it takes to write, edit and produce a book. They want the magic, quick and cheap and without the work. They are snake oil salesmen.

Morning Bookophiles 📚💖. I am at my desk, enjoying my 1st frothy coffee ☕️ in my new festive season mug💖🎄. I do love a Gnome😀💖 & it’s only a month until Christmas 🎄 (there I mentioned it😆). So definitely time, to prepare & ease myself into the season.

OK, lovely #BookSky people! We're in the process of migrating, and a LOAD of brilliant new followers, so bear with us while we follow back and/or find you! In the meantime, lots of fun #bookchat coming your way! Happy Monday!

Have you got your hands on this beautiful celebration of Goldsboro Books? It is our 25th anniversary this year and we've published this brilliant anthology, expertly curated and edited by @emilyglenister.bsky.social Signed by many of the contributors! shorturl.at/K7BJF

SO excited to share my first ever cover reveal on this site! It is book 3 in the Kat & Lock series (No 1 In the Blink of an Eye won the Theakston’s crime novel of the year) and I cannot wait for you to read this. Thank you to the S&S team who created this stunning cover - out April 24th 2025👇

I love this, I have always said, no coffee = no workie😆⬇️💖☕️☕️☕️

Look, if you only follow one publisher, it should be @srlpublishing.bsky.social. If you follow two, add in @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social. If you follow three, add @saraband-books.bsky.social. If you follow four...look, I can do this all night. But please just go follow and support indie publishers!

‘We are not all in the same boat. But we are in the same storm’. I tweeted this during the first covid lockdown: I was afraid & angry. These words went round the world: they even inspired a movie starring Sandra Oh. Every time I see them I think of how scary that time was & how words can connect.❤️

Just now I have as many followers as there were dalmatians and while I hope to connect with more of the lovely people on here this is momentarily very pleasing. #followers #blueskyfriends.

As it’s #BookWeekScotland here’s some authors I’ve had the pleasure to work with and others I’ve enjoyed reading that you might like: Marion Todd Lynne McEwan @heathercritchlow.bsky.social @dougskelton.bsky.social Douglas Jackson Steven A McKay @valmcdermid.bsky.social @radiomukhers.bsky.social

I received this email this morning. The Eastside Brewery books are officially contraband in prison! Kudos to the person who brought them inside in the first place.

So, I’m starting to pull together my lists of creators and bloggers for my 2025 (spring/ summer) books, and I think it might be the time and place to say… who here is interested in YA/ teen, around historical, contemporary, romantasy, fantasy, and a little bit of mystery/ thriller… #booksky

Let’s make a list of the best lesbian literary fiction I’ll start with these four beauties.

It's #HenleyBrownieDay for all that celebrate! - every book publicist! Big thanks from all @headlinebooks.bsky.social to Henley Literary Festival and Gower Cottage Brownies!

New platform, new rules. I’m declaring it #TenrecTuesday. 🦋, meet Jacob. 🦔 He looks like a hedgehog but he’s more closely related to elephants 🌞 He’s from Madagascar so he lives in a snug 26 degree tank 🤲 He weighs 200g and fits in the palm of your hand 🛀 He likes a sand bath 💉Yes, he is prickly

Here’s another stack of books to celebrate Book Week Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 but this time it’s ones I haven’t read yet! Where should I start? There was a lot of love for my giraffe vase yesterday so I thought I’d also show you where I keep my bookmarks! 💙📚

Please, if you are able, support Indy publishers. As the big 5 buy up all the book shelves with their astronomic discounting. It would be grand if you could look at. @galleybeggars.bsky.social @influxpress.bsky.social @littletollerbooks.bsky.social @saraband-books.bsky.social & many more

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MY BOOK IS OUT TODAY!!!!!!!!! THE LAST HOUR BETWEEN WORLDS releases today in the US (and Italy)!!! I have waited SO LONG to share this book with everyone and I'm so excited that it's finally out in the world!!!!!!!!!

FACT - Orbital is the first Booker Prize winner to go to number 1 in the bestseller charts in the week of its win.

Evening Bookophiles 💖📚😀 Sorry for the silence, I have been delightfully overwhelmed by all the follows, doing my best to follow back💖📚. In the meantime, I was near a favourite charity shop (thrift store to my US🇺🇸bookophiles) & liberated these lovely titles👍😀💖📚⬇️⬇️