Here's the recording of the @lighthousebks.bsky.social Radical Book Fair event on #WeirdPride, unruliness and 'outsider wisdom' with @acaciathorns.bsky.social and @cjdebarra.bsky.social who both had such excellent responses to my questions: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTW_...

…and we’re back! Feeling the itchy feet of Betwixtmas? Running out of new reading material? Wanting to listen to (quiet) Mexican pop while browsing all our latest reads? We’re here until Wednesday evening, 11.30-5. See you soon!

Edinburgh book lovers! We are OPEN! Til 8! Today (10-8) and tomorrow (9.30-3.30) and then we will nap and eat and read and nap, and then we reopen on Saturday (10.30-5)! Opening hours for the festive season in one place - come visit!

BOOKS, but not JUST books! Our bookshop has calendars, totes & badges, prints & puzzles & patches & stickers, washi tape, mugs & earrings, audiobooks & embroidery packs- we can be your one stop shop! Honestly if you hate frenzy, Southside is still lovely & chill & full of indies - we got you!

Our mask box at @lighthousebks.bsky.social is freshly restocked with different kinds of masks so you can find the one that works best for you! Make sure to check their opening times to browse both masks and books at leisure

Edinburgh launch of Glasgoscopy @lighthousebks.bsky.social 28/01/26 7pm, with brilliant poets: Julie Laing and Eloise Birtwhistle, tickets from Lighthouse bookshop events page

A delight to have Ella Risbridger pop by to sign copies of In Love with Love earlier this week. A snippet of Christina's review of the book: “… a book that explores the ways romance fiction trends intersect with socioeconomics. It is brilliant..."

This is tonight! Come join us at 7pm on watch online. "Fiercely feminist, brutally honest and full of sharp cultural references, Blueprints is not another trauma story but a vital validation of the act of writing about pain and loss while grappling with identity in a troubled world."

Our friends at @roundtablebookscic.bsky.social are crowdfunding to expand their brilliant inclusive bookshop in Brixton, London into a community space with a café, bar, book events, community workshops and more. We need radical spaces now more than ever! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/a-space-fo...

The very brilliant Welsh novelist & queer lit star Crystal Jeans joins us Thursday 7pm THIS WEEK for a wee preview of her memoir Blueprints - we’ll be chatting friendships, queer love, addiction, grief, creativity & general oversharing, come along! www.lighthousebookshop.com/events/bluep...

Edinburgh readers-Next Week in the bookshop Thurs 27th 7pm BLUEPRINTS: Memoir & Fiction with queer Welsh novelist Crystal Jeans lighthousebookshop.com/events/bluep... Sun 30th 7pm How Not to Die (Too Soon): An evening with Prof @profdevisridhar.bsky.social lighthousebookshop.com/events/how-n...

This is tonight! Do join us at 7pm to launch this spooky book from the author of Hazardous Spirits lighthousebookshop.com/events/sapph...

TONIGHT! Join us in the bookshop from 7-8pm for the launch of "Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition" by @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social, discussing tools to stop climate change and to build a fairer future. lighthousebookshop.com/events/or-so...

Lovely seeing our book with Leilah King on the top of the pile! 💜💚💛

The nights are drawing in... so what better time to launch a sapphic gothic thriller that the end of November? We are so excited to welcome Anbara Salam back to the bookshop. We adored her Edinburgh-set novel Hayardous Spirits, and she is back now with another historical offering set in Scotland!

A delight to have Ella Risbridger pop by to sign copies of In Love with Love earlier this week. A snippet of Christina's review of the book: “… a book that explores the ways romance fiction trends intersect with socioeconomics. It is brilliant..."

Despite the busyness of Radical Book Fair prep, we still managed to read loads in October. Check out our recs here: lighthousebookshop.com/posts/what-w...

Only a few days left to enter the 2026 International Book & Pamphlet Competition and the 2026 New Poets Prize. Enter your poems for a chance to have your pamphlet published by Smith|Doorstop! 📚 Deadline 16 November 2025 Enter on our website - poetrybusiness.co.uk/competitions/

Undoing Empire, One Story at a Time: Featuring Sunny Singh Do give it a listen. On power, stories, ethics and more www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/17-undoing...

Beautiful talk with Basma Ghalayini and Mazan Manrouf on their new book Palestine -1, stories from the Eve of the Nakba at the Edinburgh Radical Book Fair organised by @lighthousebks.bsky.social

One of the highlights of my year in Edinburgh is the @lighthousebks.bsky.social Radical Bookfair, it's such a fab event centering community care, and this year comrades from @edinmaskbloc.bsky.social provided 1500+ masks to attendees! 🥳 As usual I completely blew my budget, here's my book haul 📚

Mymona Bibi reads from her poem ‘Application for Social Housing in Tower Hamlets’, published in ‘The Hajar Book of Rage’, at the @lighthousebks.bsky.social Radical Book Fair 2025. www.hajarpress.com/books/elemen...

We're at @lighthousebks.bsky.social for Edinburgh's Radical Bookfair!📚💡 Until Sunday 9th, browse our latest releases (Drifting North, The Return of the Housewife, etc.) Plus, there are SIGNED copies of our redesigned paperback of @djpaulette.bsky.social's Welcome to the Club up for grabs🎧

From the streets of Bethlehem to the Palestinian neighbourhoods of the New Jerusalem – Micaela Sahhar assembles a story of Palestinian diaspora. Available at Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair, hosted by Lighthouse Books. 📚 buff.ly/diMq0gD #RadicalBookFair #UNSWPress @lighthousebks.bsky.social

What a wonderful night in Edinburgh @lighthousebks.bsky.social 💥🙏

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!