I was 17 years old when this story ran. I am very aware that if I had been 27, there's a good chance I wouldn't be here to remind you of it. I try never to forget that as much as I chose my own path in life, I also got lucky.

It's Pride in London tomorrow so here is a sample of 'Deep House - The Gayest Love Story Ever Told' by Jeremy Atherton Lin available from all good bookshops 📖 online book sample to peek isndie and share www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

Coming soon from @canongate.co.uk 'Alive - The Hidden Intelligence of the Living World' Meet author Melanie Challenger at Toppings & Company in Edinburgh on 22 July! 📖 have a peek inside here and then pre-order! www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

The founder of the London-based platform Jellybooks unpacks the company’s post-pandemic evolution from a book discovery and analytics platform to a more sales-focused service targeting readers directly through extensive partnerships.

How book covers affect word-of-mouth recommendations + more insights from @arhomberg of @jellybooks http://bit.ly/2vMocec

New from @faberbooks.bsky.social 'The People's Emperor- The Unlikely Rise and Spectacular Fall of Napoleon III' by Edward Shawcross On of the first person to master mass democratic politics and populism. 📖 online book sample to peek inside and share www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

Book of the Month @bertsbooks.bsky.social 'The Murder at World’s End' by Ross Montgomery Navigating secret passages, buried grudges and rising terror to unmask the killer before it’s too late… take a peek inside the book 📖 www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

New from @aptshadow.bsky.social and @torbooks.bsky.social 'Green City Wars' In a city of sunshine and secrets, the shadows belong to the animals! available from @blackwells.bsky.social 📖 online book sample to peek inside and share www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

Our friends at @plutopress.bsky.social Press are havign a half price sale for: 'The Starmer Symptom' by Mark Perryman, Clive Lewis How do you go from a whoppingly large nmajority to being the shortest serving Labout Prime Minster on record? Read a sample here: www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

pre-order from @portybooks.bsky.social 'One Hundred Guinea Pigs' by Gustavo Rodríguez, tr. by Daniel Hahn (@charcopress.com) Friendship makes life worth living, and worth ending too. 📖 take a sneak peek and share with friends... www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

'X Is Where I Am' by Sara Torres, tr. by Maureen Shaughnessy @charcopress.com A buoyant novel about queer love, mothers and daughters, and making a life in the face of the only constant: loss. buy @portybooks.bsky.social 📖 sample to peek inside & share www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

'Cathedrals' by Claudia Piñeiro, tr. by Frances Riddle (@charcopress.com) The hidden truth about a brutal crime in a quiet neighbourhood resurfaces thirty years later… available from @portybooks.bsky.social 📖 online book sample to peek isndie and share www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

The gripping history of the dinosaurs that live among us 'The Story of Birds' by @stevebrusatte.bsky.social available from @blackwells.bsky.social @foylesforbooks.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social & all good bookshops 📖 book sample to peek inside and share www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

'How Queer Bookshops Changed the World' by @ajwestauthor.bsky.social available from @lighthousebks.bsky.social #pridemonth 📖 online book sample to peek inside and share www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

'How Queer Bookshops Changed the World' by @ajwestauthor.bsky.social available from @lighthousebks.bsky.social #pridemonth 📖 online book sample to peek inside and share www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

For pride month @portybooks.bsky.social recommends 'Queer Georgians' by Anthony Delaney A hidden history of lovers, lawbreakers and homemakers 📖 an online book sample to peek inside and share www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Companies Stay Great - From @ericries.bsky.social the Bestselling Author of The Lean Startup 'Incorruptible' 📖 online book sample to peek inside and share www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

authors getting paid a living wage

Signed copies of the brand new Michael Palin book In Nigeria now available!

New from @deadinkbooks.bsky.social 'Decomposition Book' by Sara van OS @saramcclarinet.bsky.social An emotional and darkly hilarious debutnovel about a woman who finds a dead body - ideal for fans of weird girl fiction. buy @foylesforbooks.bsky.social 📖 www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

Get ready for all the footie action with 'Classic Football Shirts' This is a love letter to football shirts and fan culture, told through the world’s most sought-after kits. buy @waterstones.bsky.social 📖 sample to peek inside and share www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

Now available: From acclaimed historian Rahul Markovits, #APassagetoEurope is a story of empire, intrigue and deception at the dawn of the modern age. Order via the link in bio!

The Unseen Universe Beyond Our Senses 'Invisible Rainbows' by @drcarpineti.bsky.social buy it from you local bookshop! 📖 sample to peek insdie and share www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

Shortlisted for the @orwellprize.bsky.social 2026 'Israel: What Went Wrong?' by Omer Bartov Israel’s lurch towards extreme oppression and violence, and why it stands accused of crimes against humanity. 📖 online book sample to peek insdie and share www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

Shortlisted for the @orwellprize.bsky.social 2026 'For the Sun After Long Nights' by Nilo Tabrizy and Fatemeh Jamalpour The Story of Iran's Women-led Uprising 📖 sample to peek inside and share www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

Delighted that @foylesforbooks.bsky.social has adopted the @jellybooks.bsky.social DISCOVERY platform to provide its customers with look inside samples on its website, blogs, and in email newsletters.

'Attention-Seeking Behaviour' by Aea Varfis-van Warmelo (Peninsula Press) Funny, sexy, and politically astute,this is at once a personal confessional and a critical history of lie detection methods. buy @foylesforbooks.bsky.social 📖 sample to peek inside & share www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

New from @dkbooks.bsky.social 'In Nature's Slipstream' by Carol Bruce How to turn a garden into a haven for nature 🌻🐝 available from @waterstones.bsky.social @blackwells.bsky.social and all good bookshops 📖 online book sample to peek inside and share www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

A big hit with @foyles.bsky.social customers! 'The Things We Never Say' by Elizabeth Strout The new standalone novel from the bestselling, prize-winning author of 'Olive Kitteridge' and 'Lucy By The Sea'. 📖 online book sample to peek inside and share www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

Happy 100th birthday Sir David Attenborough! 'Planet Earth III - Our World at the Dawn of a New Age' available from @nhbs.bsky.social 📖 online book sample to peek inside and share www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

Happy 100th Birthday Sir David Attenborough! 'A Life on Our Planet' A deeply personal account of his love of the natural world, and the devastating changes to it he's witnessed first hand. available @blackwells.bsky.social 📖 a sample to peek inside and share www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

From Britain's favourite historian comes a very timely book 'Weimar - Life on the Edge of Catastrophe' Germany's transition from empire to democracy to fascism between WW I and WW II (1919 - 1939) as experienced by the people who live it. 📖 sample to peek inside www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

New from @deadinkbooks.bsky.social 'Decomposition Book' by Sara van OS @saramcclarinet.bsky.social An emotional and darkly hilarious debutnovel about a woman who finds a dead body - ideal for fans of weird girl fiction. buy @foylesforbooks.bsky.social 📖 www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

I have just discovered the acknowledgements page for Children of Strife, and let's just say I am incredibly happy to be characterised so by @aptshadow.bsky.social

'Rainbow Wales' by Emily Garside Who are the Queer figures, past and present, who have made, and continue to make, Welsh history? available from @siopypentre.bsky.social 📖 online book sample to peek inside and share www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

New from @tramppress.bsky.social 'The Steps' by Juliano Zaffino A meditation on trauma, family bonds, and the thin line between tenderness and violence. available from @foylesforbooks.bsky.social 📖online book sample to peek inside and share www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

'Abyss' by @bingewriting.bsky.social A SciFi look at what it means to be a wage slave in the age of AI. A sneak peek is available in the @waterstones.bsky.social Android & iOS courtesy of @jellybooks.bsky.social (no AI was used in the creation of the preview) Out on 15 May, pre-order now!

The @foylesforbooks.bsky.social Fiction Book of the Month for May 2026 'Audition' by Katie Kitamura An exhilarating, destabilising novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love. Out in paperback 📖 online book sample to peek inside and share www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

The @foylesforbooks.bsky.social Book of the Month for May 'Empire of AI' by Karen Hao A lucid, unsettling portrait of an industry racing toward godlike power with startlingly little humility. Now out in paperback! 📖 online book sample to peek inside and share www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

New from @vintagebooks.bsky.social 'Kill Billionaire' by Anders Lustgarten This riotous revenge caper follows a 14 year-old who decides to hunt down the culprits of climate change: billionaires. available @foylesforbooks.bsky.social 📖 sample to peek inside www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

New from @tramppress.bsky.social 'The Steps' by Juliano Zaffino buy @foylesforbooks.bsky.social A deeply moving and eerily unsettling meditation on trauma, family bonds, and the thin line between tenderness and violence 📖 book sample to peek inside and share www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

New from @lilliputpress.bsky.social 'CTRL: Essays on Video Games' by Dean Fee An anthology of essays exploring how video games have shaped our lives, our cultural imagination and contemporary storytelling. available @foylesforbooks.bsky.social 📖 book sample www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

New from @plutopress.bsky.social 'The Man Who Refused to Plead Guilty' by Uzair S. Paracha How a Muslim Convicted of Terrorism Won His Freedom available from @waterstones.bsky.social rstones 📖 online book sample to peek inside and share www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

For Lesbian Visibility Week we feature: 'Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?' by Jeanette Winterson The shocking, heart-breaking - and often very funny - story behind her novel 'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit'. 📖 online ook sample to peek inside and share www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

Our friends @cassavarepublic.bsky.social have implemented "peek inside" on their website. Do try it out!

For Lesbian Visibility Week we feature: 'Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?' by Jeanette Winterson The shocking, heart-breaking - and often very funny - story behind her novel 'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit'. 📖 online ook sample to peek inside and share www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

Dromore Book Festival author books are starting to arrive. It's getting very real now! www.ticketsource.co.uk/bridge-books

New from @littleislandbooks.bsky.social 'Moon Moon Can't Sleep!' by Johnathan Sung available from @booksupstairs.bsky.social @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social 📖 online book sample to peek inside and share www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Our Relationships 'Love Machines' by James Muldoon A captivating, uncanny journey to the frontier of human-computer interaction. #shopindie and buy @portybooks.bsky.social 📖online book sample to peek isndie and share www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

'What Am I, A Deer?' by Polly Barton What does it mean to lose yourself – and is that something you should be aiming for? SIGNED copies available from @portybooks.bsky.social 📖 online book sample to peek inside and share www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...