For those who might like a copy! 😉 www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l... #BookSky

we dig bogs

Just arrived from the printers. The Book of Bogs began as a community response & has grown beyond the Walshaw Moor into a wider celebration & campaign for bogs & other peatland ecologies. This was the most brilliant crowdfunded project, with over 40 contributions from artists & poets. OUT NOW.

This coming Thursday I’ll be in Cork for a Wild Twin event . I’ll be in Conversation with Issa Quincy talking about his book ‘Absence’. Hosted by Danny Denton. If you’re in Cork come along! @littletollerbooks.bsky.social Details: www.eventbrite.ie/e/literary-r...

Happy Birthday Wild Twin, one year old today. Shortlisted for the Stanford Travel Book Award/ winner of the TLS Ackerley Prize. It’s done ok! Thanks to everyone who’s read it and if you haven’t yet you can buy it here: www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l... @littletollerbooks.bsky.social

My review of Brightening from the East by @kgeorgew.bsky.social published by @littletollerbooks.bsky.social is on my website to read now: tomasstanger.com/brightening-... #Booksky #writingcommunity #bookreviews #history #landscape

I wrote about this derelict pub for the 8th edition of Science & Magic, Violette's newsletter. There are lots of great pieces of writing in the newsletter. You can read the current edition here and read the archived editions too. Subscribe! www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...

Good morning. Together with @littletollerbooks.bsky.social we publish a very important book The destruction of our peat lands is of international concern. 40 nature writers incl. Rob Macfarlane - Amy Liptrot - Horatio Clare & music legend Patti Smith. You can order here: www.littletoller.co.uk

One year old today, and what a year!

#BookSky💙📚 Don't miss this #AutumnOffer 🍂

'Horatio has a way of telling another person's story, which is unlike anything I have come across in all the welter of news... an exceptionally fine book.' Sue Brooks on We Came by Sea @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/we-c...

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'Horatio has a way of telling another person's story, which is unlike anything I have come across in all the welter of news... an exceptionally fine book.' Sue Brooks on We Came by Sea @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/we-c...

🍂A little autumn offer🍂 #BookSky

This sounds like a brilliant book

I really enjoyed this Wild Twin conversation with Alex Clark and Lucy Dallas. This week, the winner of this year's TLS Ackerley Prize, Jeff Young, discusses his spellbinding memoir. Tune in! @littletollerbooks.bsky.social @thetls.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...

Ahead of the publication of Unschooled @patrickbarkham.bsky.social travelled to Glasgow to meet @carogileswrites.bsky.social Read Caro's story today in the @theguardian.com in print & on online. Huge thanks to Patrick for listening & responding so beautifully www.theguardian.com/education/20...

An excellent display of our nature classics in @waterstones.bsky.social Cambridge. Including The Wild Garden, just out. Needs this looooong shot to get them all in.

Please join us at Swedenborg House on Thursday 25 September 7pm-9pm (doors open 6.30pm) for 'BUILDING A WINDMILL | KEN WORPOLE & MELISSA BENN IN CONVERSATION.' FREE. For more information please visit: www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/build... @kgeorgew.bsky.social @littletollerbooks.bsky.social

Please , if you are able Support Independent publishers. They are doing more than most to find, nurture and publish great new writers and stories. There are many but here are a few. @littletollerbooks.bsky.social @galleybeggars.bsky.social @saraband-books.bsky.social Thank you.

We have some of the finest writers on nature around Contributing to : The Book of Bogs - which is publishing in September. The destruction of our bogs and peat lands. Including: Amy Liptrot @horatioclare.bsky.social Robert McFarlane Edited by Anna Chilvers & Clare Shaw

Interesting new publication from @littletollerbooks.bsky.social arrived today. First in a series. You can find out more on their website 👍

The brilliant @wildtwin.bsky.social won the TLS Ackerley prize (the UK’s only literary prize dedicated to memoir and autobiography) earlier this week. Back in 2020, we spoke to the author about his similarly exquisite book, Ghost Town www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2020/12/ghos...

Coming soon, Haunted Paper, an exhibition of Ghost Town and Wild Twin notebooks and collages at Dorothy, Jamaica Street Liverpool. More details soon. @littletollerbooks.bsky.social

Wild Twn won! @littletollerbooks.bsky.social

We are TEAM JEFF YOUNG at Road Song Books. Wild Twin is a very kool book for anyone that can relate to being on the road, young, free and totally skint. He's up for the top prize at the TLS Ackerley Prize 2025! Totally awesome. Go Jeff! @wildtwin.bsky.social @littletollerbooks.bsky.social

Congratulations to Jeff Young, winner of this year’s TLS Ackerley Prize for his highly original and exhilaratingly written memoir ‘Wild Twin’, published by @littletollerbooks.bsky.social‬

Fantastic news. Absolute stunner of a book. Congratulations @wildtwin.bsky.social and @littletollerbooks.bsky.social

Just received proofs for THE BOOK OF BOGS - out in September from @littletollerbooks.bsky.social, with contributions from @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social @guyshrubsole.bsky.social, Amy Liptrot, @nicolawriting.bsky.social @horatioclare.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social, me, and many others.

Good luck to writer Jeff Young whose "Wild Twin" is up for the @thetls.bsky.social Ackerley Prize tomorrow @Foyles He's our wonderful guest in #MisadventuresinMusic podcast with @ianprowse.bsky.social & Mick Ord Check it! @littletollerbooks.bsky.social urbanistamagazine.uk/jeff-young-o...

TLS Ackerley Prize 2025. Catherine Coldstream, Clair Wills, Jeff Young in Conversation at Foyles. Details, Tickets: www.foyles.co.uk/events/tls-a... @littletollerbooks.bsky.social @thetls.bsky.social

Terrific evening last night at the London Review Bookshop with Susie Thomas & Iain Sinclair discussing the new Faber edition of Alexander Baron's classic novel, 'The Lowlife'. Amazing how the 're-forgotten' novelist (in Sinclair's apt term) is enjoying a spectacular revival.

TLS Ackerley Prize evening at Foyles later this month, Wild Twin shortlisted. QR Code for details. And you can listen to the conversation I had with Sophy Roberts about the book on her excellent Gone To Timbuktu podcast here: www.gonetotimbuktu.com/jeff-young @littletollerbooks.bsky.social

🍃NEW SUMMER OFFER!🍃 Three handpicked collections for you all, free P&P ( UK orders ) with a bit off each book too. Have a browse through our Walking, Garden and Travel collections, lovely books all of these. www.littletoller.co.uk #BookSky #BookCommunity

Just arrived from the printers, what a beauty. Cover is by Cedric Morris, introduction is Alice Vincent. ‘One of the classics of gardening…he’s worth listening to today, and noting.’ The Daily Telegraph www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l... #BookSky

What a wonderfully humane and compassionate book by @horatioclare.bsky.social - the small boats stories that politicians and the media so rarely allow us to hear. (published by the ever-excellent @littletollerbooks.bsky.social)

Thank you to Jon at @littletollerbooks.bsky.social for publishing this: www.littletoller.co.uk/the-clearing...

I spent months on this investigation and gathered docs from the UK courts, Land Registry and a French local authority, to show that Raynor and Moth Winn's story is not as they claim. @tortoisemedia.bsky.social @observeruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

This morning’s good news: @littletollerbooks.bsky.social have signed the first book from my #RuralWriting friend Elizabeth Wainwright — author of the quiet & profound reflections on place, writing, parenthood, & change in “Field Notes”.

This time next week I'll be chatting to @jonwoolcott.bsky.social from @littletollerbooks.bsky.social about #LandBeneaththeWaves at Grosvenor Arms in #Shaftesbury thanks to @foldedorset.bsky.social. Tickets are just over a fiver, or buy my book & come along for free! @summersdalebooks.bsky.social

A conversation about Ghost Town, Wild Twin, Amsterdam and Paris, the drift, getting lost, Liverpool pubs. L8 and other things with Liam Donohoe at The Owl Revelator. I enjoyed this chat with one of my old students very much. @littletollerbooks.bsky.social www.theowlrevelator.com/p/discoverin...

"A highly original book about the pursuit of romantic ideals and about how memory works – or doesn’t. It is written in an extraordinarily vivid, at times almost stream-of-consciousness, prose that brilliantly mirrors the unusual life it describes." TLS Judges, 2025 @littletollerbooks.bsky.social

#SwimmingTheSeasons: A Freshwater Almanac, out April 26 in the @saraband-books.bsky.social 'In The Moment' series, and the magnificent #BookOfBogs, ed. @clareshawpoet.bsky.social and Anna Chilvers, out from @littletollerbooks.bsky.social in September, in which I cowrite with Sally Huband.

9.59 pm no filter. Heavenly evening here in West Dorset. The birds have gone from 10 to 0 on the singing scales. June has always been my favourite month in my garden, tonight is one of the finest I’ve known.

TLS Ackerley Prize evening, July 23rd. 7pm. QR Code below for details: @littletollerbooks.bsky.social

Fantastic news! A wonderful book, important for its stories, social history, and personal politics, but most of all for Jeff’s beautiful writing. Much deserved. Well done @wildtwin.bsky.social and @littletollerbooks.bsky.social ❤️

Huge congrats to Jeff, and the perpetually wonderful @littletollerbooks.bsky.social. Love to see it. #BookSky

Some amazing news!

Wine Lovers! 23rd June, Dulwich Books, London, the brilliant and charming Peter Hahn on his life on a Loire vineyard. There may also be wine... Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/angels-in-...

Foyles, Waterloo! All aboard! @foylesforbooks.bsky.social @horatioclare.bsky.social