A detailed and heartbreaking report on how Israel systematically destroyed Gaza’s bookstores, printing presses, and publishing houses. It turned centers of learning and knowledge production into ruins and ashes. Please share widely.

what a great shame for the Scottish publishing landscape. Laura and Heather are literary legends who made such an impact in their ten years. so glad to see 404 Ink finds a home with Saraband 404 Ink announces closure ahead of 10th anniversary www.thebookseller.com/news/404-ink...

so looking forward to this - it will be a privilege to hear more of Pelicot's voice. no doubt A HYMN TO LIFE will take its place alongside Chanel Miller's KNOW MY NAME as one of the most vital reads of a post-MeToo world www.thebookseller.com/rights/the-b...

starting a log of my monthly reads (ignore the fact that it’s March!) two reads following the International Booker, two weird girl reads, a queer Irish audiobook, and an upcoming @sceptrebooks.bsky.social by @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social — BRILLIANT

Presenting the #InternationalBooker2025 longlist. Find out more about all the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025

From fresh voices to a fifth-time nominee, here's everything you need to know about the #InternationalBooker2025 longlist. thebookerprizes.com/IBP2025longl...

Headlines have again been focused on whether Sturgeon let “gender politics” dominate as FM. Loud voices are rewriting history to fit their agenda. The facts on Sturgeon’s record on gender equality & the impact of supporting trans rights are very different 🪡 www.thenational.scot/news/2494619...

Published today, #BetweenTwoRivers by @moudhy.bsky.social breathes new life into the stories left behind when the people of ancient Mesopotamia began writing things down for the very first time... ✨ Get your copy here: lnk.to/BetweenTwoRivers

thrilled to be joining the 2025 committee of Hachette’s Pride network as secretary and Edinburgh office rep 🌈

Kicking off our #SceptreSalon25 by remembering our amazing 2024 publishing with @mrfeditor.bsky.social, before looking ahead at some of the fantastic books ahead 📚

pics from Sceptre Salon! we heard from the wildly talented authors on their 2025 list, including superstars below: @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social, @jennymustard.bsky.social, @gabrielflynn.bsky.social, @arifa.bsky.social, @elfodongo.bsky.social & @jennashworth.bsky.social @sceptrebooks.bsky.social

The Creative Scotland Multi-Year Funding outcome is here and relieved to see some familiar faces continuing to be supported: www.creativescotland.com/news-stories...

storm Éowyn caused a power cut in the East Neuk of Fife — there’s worse ways to spend a friday evening, i guess 💙📚

mega exciting book post from @faberbooks.bsky.social 📙 Tara Selter has slipped out of time — with nobody believing her, she is approaching her 365th morning of waking up on the 18th of November Barbara J. Haveland translates the first in the septology from Danish can’t wait to dive in !

this *excellent* book published yesterday horror/thriller about a crime scene cleaner — whose sister was murdered by a man calling her a ‘bat eater’ — uncovering a serial killer targeting East Asian women. oh, and it’s got hungry ghosts! femgore at its finest!

this is really brilliant - independent publishers have the opportunity to gain funding to run traineeships! hoping to see lots of regional publishers or publishers in Scotland/Wales/Ireland securing this funding 🤞

One of my favorite parts of Ministry for the Future was the abolition of the billionaires. Just to be that rich makes you an enemy of democracy. Wrote early this year:

You: slouching towards bethlehem to be born. Me: crawling towards the christmas holidays to watch Doctor Who

flicking through some of It's Nice That's articles of the year and this one stopped me in my tracks www.itsnicethat.com/features/jer...

this was insanely good. motherhood, friendship, modern womanhood — and the pain that accompanies them in the first half i was cackling aloud but by halfway through i was holding back tears and racing through it i don’t think i can accurately do this book justice… READ IT, READ IT!!!!

‘The children are always ours’ - James Baldwin *ALL* kids deserve life, a future and a present, childhoods and adolescence and adulthoods shaped by love, marked by joy, and full of possibility. But our government doesn’t think that’s true for trans kids. 1/3

this was insanely good. motherhood, friendship, modern womanhood — and the pain that accompanies them in the first half i was cackling aloud but by halfway through i was holding back tears and racing through it i don’t think i can accurately do this book justice… READ IT, READ IT!!!!

Last few days to take advantage of this!

sped through the first third of this on the train from Edinburgh to London… Holly Bourne’s latest novel is FIIIIRE* *not a spoiler if it happens on the first page!

One year since Israel killed Refaat Alareer in Gaza. The poet & professor moved millions with his writing and defiance of the Israeli occupation. Yousef Aljamal honors his memory in the Journal of Palestine Studies. doi.org/10.1080/0377...

a ghostwriter sexually harassed by an author, a publicist sexually harassed by another. how many people in publishing have been forced to suffer harassment and abuse at the hands of famous authors? www.thebookseller.com/news/masterc...

i want to gobble and munch and lick all these up

i’m going home for *checks notes* three days… clearly have a GoodReads goal i’m trying to hit with my slimmest books 💙📚 (75 pages left of The Outrun and i don’t want it to end)

having reached demographic parity in 2023, it is very disappointing to see that BPOC presence in the industry has dipped. instead of focusing on hiring BPOC workers, the industry must take better care of BPOC workers already within it to see permanent change www.thebookseller.com/news/publish...

Sceptre is here!! and with such wonderful news 💙📚

The ✨spectacular✨ cover reveal for THE SHOW WOMAN, my debut novel about the first all-female circus act. Set in Edwardian Scotland it’s a story about unconventional women and family secrets, for fans of The Whalebone Theatre & The Greatest Showman. Available for preorder, and to request on NetGalley

the cover. the premise. CAN’T DEAL !!!!

It’s World AIDS Day, we hear of the stories of loved ones that were lost. I was approached by Somewhere: For Us, a LGBTQ+ magazine in Scotland to illustrate the cover story of the AIDS hospice Milestone House, and its significance in Scottish LGBTQ+ history. Case study coming soon #illustration

vital work done by CLPE shedding light on how far short our industry falls on diversity and representation for children — very far, the worst in years

Disappointing, but sadly not surprising. During the 2020 BLM movement, there was an obvious uptick, but of course, unless publishers support Black authors (and other ethnic minorities) long term, it often feels like it's all just "for show" despite good intentions, resulting in this downward spiral

Black Friday is coming up. i will sort Christmas presents and i will not buy myself any books. i will sort Christmas presents and i will not buy myself any books. i wwwwiillll nnnoooot b-b-bBUY MYSELF any BOOKS

some more @404ink.bsky.social greatness to add to the collection ! love a wonky book™ sale 💙📚

cosplayed as a publicist last night! helped superstar @readeatretreat.bsky.social hosting Scottish booksellers meeting Callie Hart, author of Quicksilver just look at those endpapers!!

What a week promoting Quicksilver with superstar author Callie Hart! We’ve been to the warehouse to sign 1000s of copies, recorded a BRILLIANT event with Fane, and made jewellery with just some of the amazing bookish community that have supported this title. So much more to come next week!

research call out for writers who have submitted an unpublished work to a literary prize:

Today is publication day for 'this too is a glistening' (Bitter Melon Press) by me, Pratyusha, Nina Mingya Powles & @jessicajlee.bsky.social 💜 Thanks to @jaygao.bsky.social for this amazing blurb! Last copies of our first print run are avail at bookstores & bittermelon.weebly.com/store/p13/th...

the Hachette Edinburgh office had our Christmas party last night! 🎀🎄 i’ll not be moonlighting as a candle decorator any time soon, but it was a load of fun

I’m horrified by Spines but I very much enjoyed the way Matilda has written this piece about their so-called disruption of the publishing industry with a tech-washed pay-to-publish model, especially the lack of sales data 👀 www.thebookseller.com/news/new-pub...

Just a reminder that none of us are tech bros (we also have a no AI stealing clause on our copyright page going into 2025). You want to follow some exceptional indie publishing? Start here 👇 *AI not included go.bsky.app/HwjSvKq

What's interesting about this trend for book marketing AI companies—who secure £Xmil in seed funding, get a write-up in the Bookseller, and will now wither away, leaving only a slime trail of AI generated goop across the surface of culture—is mainly what it says about capital’s engagement with books

A shiny new Starter Pack of some of the finest independent publishers from the @indiepressnetwork.bsky.social

at the @lighthousebks.bsky.social Radical BookFair listening to Leah Cowan and Gracie Mae Bradley speaking with Nish Doshi about resisting state violence thinking about abolition as abundance; how the state disciplines imagination; giving power to those at the sharpest edge of state violence

me this whole weekend 📚💙❄️