Yesterday we dropped off our 1st free book at Twelve Triangles on Dalry Rd in Edinburgh! Thanks to the lovely team for humouring me & for making me an incredible coffee! There will be a book at every 12T in Edinburgh soon. If you’re heading there for a pastry, look for a free book! #booksky #bakery

Attention all Edinburgh & Dunfermline folks! Do you like free books?! Of course you do! We will be leaving free book presents around small businesses over the next week or so. 'Tis the season to give back and shop local! Keep an 👀 out, only be one book per shop! Happy hunting! #booksky #freebooks

New books added to the shop recently! Head to the website to check out all the new titles. Includes a 1995 edition of The Hobbit, which has a gilded moon and border on the jacket, which is a point of difference from other editions. www.laureltreebooks.co.uk #booksky #thehobbit #fantasy

Manchester beer with a Manchester author. I really love Manchester in general. Have you been to Affleck's Palace? I haven't been since The Before Times. I hope it's still as fantastically weird as ever. Hope everyone's had a nice weekend so far! What are you reading/drinking? #booksky #beer

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Currently reading Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said by Philip K Dick. It's excellent! Might do a wee write-up when I'm finished. #booksky #scifi #philipkdick

The virtual shelves are open again after a much-needed break! Lots of new books added to the shop as well, particularly for you sci-fi nerds. Have a browse: www.laureltreebooks.co.uk #booksky #books #scifi

We are taking a break for the month of October! Time for much needed rest and recuperation. We look forward to coming back in November with our creativity recharged and ready for the festive season! #booksky #rest

'25 Peppercorns' is out now with @mythaxis.bsky.social. This has been a particularly difficult story for me to publish, both personally and in finding a good home for it. It is deeply personal, but it's also political. mythaxis.co.uk/issue-43/25-... 1/...

Currently reading and absolutely loving The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan. Available in the shop soon! One perk of being a secondhand bookseller is getting first dibs on the good stuff. #booksky #carlsagan #science

Loads of fantasy and sci-fi in stock at the moment! Our shelves are bursting. Help us make room by treating yourself to an escapist autumn read! www.laureltreebooks.co.uk #booksky #fantasy #scifi #sff

Currently reading The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion #booksky #recommendation

Lots of new secondhand books in the shop recently. This one (in a rare picture of part of my face lol) is my favourite. Have yourself a Friday evening book browse: www.laureltreebooks.co.uk #booksky #workingclass #secondhand

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Fundraiser for Chest, Heart and Stoke Scotland! 20% of folks living in Scotland will have one of these conditions, & it could be you! We need orgs like this for support. Donate directly here: www.justgiving.com/page/halena-... Or visit our website for more details! #booksky #fundraiser

Steinbeck's first posthumously published work, 'The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights' is a reinterpretation of tales from Sir Thomas Malory's 'le Morte d'Arthur'. BCA edition, 1977. Available now on the website! www.laureltreebooks.co.uk #booksky #arthurianlegend #classics #steinbeck

Ursula K. Le Guin on change, menopause as rebirth, and the civilizational value of elders www.themarginalian.org/2023/09/30/u...

@bsfa.bsky.social publications arrived today! Can't wait to dive into these on the weekend. Cover artwork is top notch 🌽 #booksky #sf #scifi #bsfa

Read more books and learn something new! A large portion of our sales are non-fiction, shockingly. Don't know how I found all you curious weirdos, but damn does it make me happy. Find your next non-fiction read now on the website: www.laureltreebooks.co.uk #booksky #nonfiction #books #facts

Vintage sci-fi paperbacks, available in the shop! In particular, loads of Frank Herbert, all in good to fine condition! www.laureltreebooks.co.uk #booksky #scifi #sciencefiction #vintagescifi

Our Summer Newsletter incoming soon! We only send out mailers once a season, so no incessant marketing crap. Just book news from the shop, and sometimes a music recommendation. Usually comes with a discount code as well. Sign up on the front page of the website! www.laureltreebooks.co.uk #booksky

Currently reading: #booksky #stephenking

I looooove the smell of secondhand books! Which is good, as I'm surrounded by them most of the time. Bunch of new olfactory delights in the shop this week! Check them out on the website. www.laureltreebooks.co.uk #booksky #secondhandbooks

I'm taking part in the Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland appeal to fundraise for life-saving services. Goal is £200, but the more the merrier! Every little bit helps. All funds raised will go towards CHSS. Check out our website for more details! www.laureltreebooks.co.uk #fundraiser #donate

New (secondhand) books added to the shop this week! Vintage sci-fi, poetry, biography, fantasy and fiction. Have a browse! www.laureltreebooks.co.uk #booksky #scifi #poetry #fantasy #fiction

Currently reading: #booksky #Botany #science

Also will add, I do love and will always champion life-changing, profound and interesting learning experiences in reading. But it's important to break it up, and try to stave off The Overwhelm. #booksky

Just realised we've done two posts in a row about 'fluffy fantasy' and damn it I don't care, we all need a little extra joy in our lives right now! #booksky #fantasy #fluffy

Not every book you read needs to be the most profound, life-changing learning experience ever written. Sometimes a big ol' fuzzy cozy lovely happy queer fantasy is necessary! Paired with a damn fine lager and you've got yourself the best Friday night. www.laureltreebooks.co.uk #booksky #fantasy

Any Pratchett fans out there? Need some fluffy, witty fantasy reading in your life? Here you go, we have loads in stock at the moment. www.laureltreebooks.co.uk #booksky #fantasy #terrypratchett

Just a couple of books about nature that I absolutely adore. Great reads for anyone interested in the frankly astonishing life cycle of trees or anyone keen to learn about the concept of rewilding, particularly in the UK. Available on the website now! www.laureltreebooks.co.uk #booksky #nature

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

Currently reading Society Despite the State. Feel like @anarchistrl.bsky.social would like it. #booksky

After the daily barrage of absolutely fucked up news this week (this year?), a wine and a story advocating against colonialism is in order. www.laureltreebooks.co.uk #booksky #scifi #secondhandbooks

Currently reading (and loving): Solaris by Stanislaw Lem #booksky #scifi #sciencefiction

Wild Friday night here at Laurel Tree Books HQ! Stamping our business cards. Every order comes with a seeded business card you can plant in your own garden, or in your neighbour's lawn because fuck lawns!

In The Nutmeg's Curse, Ghosh shows our crisis is ultimately the result of a mechanistic view of the earth, where nature exists only as a resource for humans to use for our own ends, rather than a force of its own, full of agency & meaning. Available now! www.laureltreebooks.co.uk #booksky #earth

An especially good day for the Josh Kirby edition Pratchett collectors. www.laureltreebooks.co.uk #terrypratchett #booksky

Loads of new (secondhand) books added to the shop today! Check them out on www.laureltreebooks.co.uk. Sci-fi, fantasy, fiction, history, non-fiction. Lots for cheap, some for collecting. Definitely some unique and interesting finds! #booksky #fiction #scifi #fantasy #history #science

It's been so lush and very joyous outside lately. Vitamin D really is a hell of a drug 😂. So I thought I would pair Scottish cider with this 1st edition of Natural History in the Highlands and Islands, published by Collins in 1947. Why not! www.laureltreebooks.co.uk #booksky #naturalhistory

Tolkien's short stories are overshadowed by the LOTR, and I get it, I wish I could live the hobbit life, hairy feet are hot, etc, you can all relate. He also wrote a bunch of short stories & some poetry. Both are represented here in this 1975 Unwin edition. www.laureltreebooks.co.uk #booksky #books

Currently reading: #booksky #poetry #books

Nothing screams "I'M IN MY LATE 30'S" quite like drinking a craft beer in your sweatpants while listening to Calibre and reading a book about how to fix your fucking incessant back pain. The Back Book by Maggie Lettvin, available now at www.laureltreebooks.co.uk #booksky #backpain #books

On this day in 1986, in the last spring of his life, James Baldwin visited the Library of Congress to read from one of his most powerful and timeless essays, about our relationship to reality. The introduction by Gwendolyn Brooks is itself a masterpiece: www.themarginalian.org/2018/11/19/g...

Want to know more about black holes, LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory), and loads of other incomprehensible super cool space nerd science? Black Hole Blues by Janna Levin is the book for you! Available now on www.laureltreebooks.co.uk. #booksky #astrophysics #science

Tired of living through the non-stop historically significant events of today? Too bad! Pick up a history book and meld your mind into the absolute horrors and atrocities humans have endured for millennia! All of these and more are available on the website. #booksky #history #readmorebooks

New books added to the shop this week! We love specialising in vintage sci-fi, but we also try and make sure we have a good range of genres available for all types of readers, collectors and casuals alike! Head over to the website to check out fresh stock. www.laureltreebooks.co.uk #booksky

New (vintage) sci-fi added to the shop this week. Particularly love the special edition 1975 paperback of le Guin's "The Dispossessed"! My favourite le Guin story. Head over to the front page of the website to see all the new goodies! www.laureltreebooks.co.uk #booksky #scifi #secondhandbooks

Objections to Humanism has a great origin story! A group of humanists wrote a book critical of Christianity, which, of course, drew some backlash. They were challenged to put the microscope on their own beliefs, and in true humanist style, they did just that. #booksky #philosophy