This year's Edinburgh Radical Book Fair has started! On Saturday at 4pm, I'm chairing 'Divergent: Weird pride, unruliness & outsider wisdom' with @cjdebarra.bsky.social and @acaciathorns.bsky.social (frank r. jagoe can't attend in person, unfortunately). #WeirdPride @lighthousebks.bsky.social

@lighthousebks.bsky.social “ecosystems of change” book fair looking rad and Steve McQueen’s project “Resistance” on the history of protest + photography in Britain @nationalgalleries.bsky.social Not to be missed!

Come see us at Edinburgh’s #RadicalBookFair on Sunday! We’re looking forward to meeting local activists and talking about using socialist journalism to support our movements.

This looks *incredible* and you should all pop along to @lighthousebks.bsky.social for it!

Delighted to be chairing this discussion with my anthropologist/activist hat on with @rachelcdailey.bsky.social @samgoncalveshorton.bsky.social and Dan Glazebrook on Saturday in Edinburgh 💜 Come along if you’re around!

Coming up this week! Don't miss @djpaulette.bsky.social on this fantastic panel at @lighthousebks.bsky.social's Radical Book Fair in #Edinburgh, exploring the myriad ways music is powerful & political. Attend in-person or online: lighthousebookshop.com/events/music... @edincityoflit.bsky.social

🔗 Everyday Bonds: Solidarities from the Ground Up 🔗 ✨ SUN 9th | 11am | RADICAL BOOK FAIR ✨ No movement is built alone. At raves, rallies & community centres, folk have found each other & formed unlikely coalitions, rooted in a desire for collective change - how do we foster radical friendships?

The #RadicalBookFair is as much about community as it is about books - a space for connection, for learning, for taking action. So Sunday we host stalls from grassroots groups, local initiatives, bookish collaborators & activist campaigns, come meet the people making change on your doorstep!

⛴ Push The Boat Out poetry festival is back @ptbopoetry.bsky.social ✊ @lighthousebks.bsky.social's Radical Book Fair returns 📚 Launches from Olga Ravn, Helena Fornells Nadal, Ella Risbridger get all that in yr diaries courtesy of our November books roundup

The #RadicalBookFair is as much about community as it is about books - a space for connection, for learning, for taking action. So Sunday we host stalls from grassroots groups, local initiatives, bookish collaborators & activist campaigns, come meet the people making change on your doorstep!

In very good company as ever in this latest lowercase! Thanks for highlighting the Radical Book Fair @bellacaledonia.bsky.social!

Mairi speaks out for a more inclusive feminism that supports trans rights and the intersectionality of struggle. @lighthousebks.bsky.social @rtie.org #transrightsarehumanrights

Baby’s first book shop window!!! Thank you @lighthousebks.bsky.social I’ll be at Edinburgh’s Radical Book Fair on Saturday on an excellent panel - Reframing Resistance. Both IRL + online lighthousebookshop.com/events/refra...

Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair is NEXT WEEK!!!

Join us for an in-person workshop with Anbara Salam exploring how historical fiction can illuminate pathways to friendship! scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/writing-frie...

SO looking forward to this discussion next Saturday at the Radical Book Fair

📚 Against Literatures|RADICAL BOOK FAIR ✨ Poet George Abraham, novelist Nida Sajid & visual artist Remi Graves discuss the radical potential of the arts & explore the struggles of creating impactful and political work against a backdrop of increased censorship. lighthousebookshop.com/events/again...

Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair, hosted by Lighthouse Books This year’s Book Fair theme is ecosystems of change, focusing on how we forge the coalitions vital to meaningful change and to building the world we deserve. @lighthousebks.bsky.social #BookSky 📚💙 lighthousebookshop.com/events/edinb...

Publishers big & small, from Pluto & Verso & Haymarket to Hajar & Dog Section & Mack Books, from Canongate Books to Luath, Virago to Fitzcarraldo, Freedom Press & Hurst to Iskra. Come browse, buy indie books from an indie bookshop, be inspired!

Edinburgh’s Radical Book Fair is NEXT WEEK! As well as a jam-packed program - over 20 events! - we’re filling Assembly Roxy with BOOKS, community, and publisher stalls. 📚 Stalls feature over 70 publishers & 50 writers speaking - a treasure trove of bookish delights awaits!📚

beautiful flyers to go along with fun chats & powerful speeces at #ScotlandDemandsBetter rally in Edinburgh yesterday! Dignity, fairness, collective power all refrains of the day (and echoed in many Radical Book Fair events in a couple weeks, join us!)

Needing a Sunday morning fix of coffee & fiction? We got you! 10.30, the bookshop TODAY: Park Seolyeon & Anton Hur with us to chat fiction & translation & freshly published, wickedly sharp feminist novel CAPITALISTS MUST STARVE. Join us, a wee hour of book chat w/ @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social

I'll be chairing this event in a couple of weeks! Very exciting. I've always loved the Radical Book Fair, and it's great to see a #WeirdPride event I didn't organise myself! 😁 Just digging into the books now. Not sure why or how I didn't come across @cjdebarra.bsky.social's book sooner!

Another event - this time, poetry 🎤 Join us for the Edinburgh launch of @linenpressbooks new collection, Look Away Now: Poems of Hope & Despair By Women. Limited tickets still available - 7pm tonight at Lighthouse Bookshop 💡

We’re thrilled to be welcoming @bschillace.brandyschillace.com to the shop tonight to talk about “The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story.” Have you heard the forgotten story of the Institute for Sexual Science - the world’s first centre for homosexual and transgender rights? Limited tix available!

Edinburgh’s Radical Book Fair is in 17 DAYS! And we have THE most gorgeous flyers and bookmarks, pick up a copy from the bookshop, or take a wee peek right here: www.tinyurl.com/RadicalBookFair2025

On Tuesday, 21st October, we're thrilled to welcome @halschrieve.bsky.social to launch FAWN'S BLOOD, a delicious queer YA novel about vampires, vampire slayers, and a bloodthirsty underground resistance... a timely antidote to the anti-trans moral panic! lighthousebookshop.com/events/fawns...

Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair is less than a month away! 4 Days of bookstalls from 50+ presses 20 events incl DragQueen Storytelling, Community Lunch & 2 Cabarets! Full program is live, hybrid & either £5 or free! 5-9Nov: Join us! tinyurl.com/RadicalBookF... lighthousebookshop.com/events/edinb...

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Are YOU excited about the Radical Book Fair? Do you want get involved behind the scenes? Our Edinburgh Book Fair (5-9th Nov) is just a few weeks away & we could use extra hands to help our team make it extra special & accessible! Details on volunteering HERE: lighthousebookshop.com/posts/radica...

Really thoughtful discussion last night at @lighthousebks.bsky.social w/ authors from the most recent Scottish Left Review (inc the awesome Glasgow Green Councillor @danhutchison.bsky.social) about how we might coalesce as the left in Scotland & what we'd like to see from the nascent Your Party

Very very excited for this!!

AND THAT, beautiful creatures is a wrap! ALL our panel events are HYBRID so do book in to join us from wherever you are, all tickets are sliding scale, and the Book Fair itself is free to browse from 12 on Thurs 6th until 6pm Sun 9th. Please help us spread the word! bsky.app/profile/ligh...

And *drum roll please* SUNDAY delights at Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair! The 🧵 continues tinyurl.com/RadicalBookFair2025

Aaand BEHOLD, the weekend at Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair... A further thread!

Want a full run down of the events?! Buckle up readers!

Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair is less than a month away! 4 Days of bookstalls from 50+ presses 20 events incl DragQueen Storytelling, Community Lunch & 2 Cabarets! Full program is live, hybrid & either £5 or free! 5-9Nov: Join us! tinyurl.com/RadicalBookF... lighthousebookshop.com/events/edinb...

Tomorrow at @lighthousebks.bsky.social, the RSP will join other contributors to the latest edition of the Scottish Left Review at a launch event which will include a robust debate about the prospects and priorities of the left – please come along!

Tonight, POETRY! Welsh, Gaelic, English for an Edinburgh launch of Parch! At the heart of Parch is the triumph of compassion over conflict, respect as refuge, and a deep love of the nuances in language. Readings & discussion ft Menna & Marcas Mac an Tuairneir! lighthousebookshop.com/events/poetr...

Wondering where to stock up on autumnal reading material?🍁📚 Queer-owned, women led, unapologetically activist, independent AND radical community bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social Shout out to the team for making events accessible ✨🌈 lighthousebookshop.com/book/9780241...

Happy Autumn! It's time for another event roundup 😊 Come say hi to us at @tagsfest.co.uk or @lighthousebks.bsky.social's Radical Book Fair, which are also supported by @airlibraryscotland.bsky.social, come to our crafting session or enjoy some of the many other covid safer events!

New event announcement: "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" shared reading group hosted by @pauseai.bsky.social on Monday 20th October, 6:30-8:00 PM Spaces limited so do book if you'd like to come - 15% discount on the book available! lighthousebookshop.com/events/if-an...

Loved listening to @saranahmed.bsky.social speak so movingly and poetically about some of the ideas behind her new book this evening at @lighthousebks.bsky.social

The Scottish International Storytelling Festival turns to the north this year, with a programme of events inspired by Nordic traditions. Elsewhere, there are launches at @portybooks.bsky.social, @lighthousebks.bsky.social, and more 📚

The @lighthousebks.bsky.social Radical Book Fair is back in November and we're delighted that @djpaulette.bsky.social will be on a panel exploring music as life - politics, power, creation - with Dave Randall & Adèle Oliver, hosted by JJ Fadaka. Tickets: lighthousebookshop.com/events/music...

Edinburgh!! I’ll be with @lighthousebks.bsky.social at the Great Hall on Wednesday October 1st at 7pm for a discussion on Love in a F*cked-Up World with Wu Tsang and Nat Raha! Come join us ❤️❤️ lighthousebookshop.com/events/love-...

In Edinburgh on October 7 with @lighthousebks.bsky.social for anyone up there. There is a lot of commonality between Edinburgh's housing crisis and London's, so I'm looking forward to a good discussion lighthousebookshop.com/events/homes...

An inspiring & uplifting evening @n-t-s.bsky.social Georgian House with @lighthousebks.bsky.social for the launch of Anthony Delaney’s book Queer Georgians. Good to hear (as a former historian) of the method, sources, rigour - & I loved hearing of histories reclaimed of joy, belonging and community

🎉 Delighted to see that INTERVALS by Marianne Brooker is the 2025 Bread and Roses Award winner! 🎉

The panel of judges for the 2025 Bread and Roses Award, organised by the ARB and hosted by us are thrilled to announce the 2025 winners: Pleasure Gardens: Blackouts and the Logic of Crisis in Kashmir by Skye Arundhati Thomas and Izabella Scott and Intervals by Marianne Brooker!