"What does life look like in a world where imperialism, citizenship laws, immigration, war, racism and xenophobia all have an immediate physical impact? What does life look like when your future can be commodified, controlled, capitalised upon?" Mahvesh Murad reviews Isabel J. Kim's Sublimation:

Gosh, July already?! Sometimes, the smallest sip can change everything... Set in a mysterious bar where the stories of everyone's lives are just one sip away, Dongwon Seo's THE MOON GLOW BOOKSHOP is our magical and uplifting Science Fiction & Fantasy Book of the Month! #SFF 💙📚🪐

You had me at racoon detective then I realised it was one of Adrian's and I'm even more there! Thanks for the heads up @gabliotecaria.bsky.social

Don't be too jealous but I spent yesterday visiting these (and other) gorgeous wolves/wolf dogs with @verityholloway.bsky.social at Watermill Wolves. Many are trained for acting, and get called on for fantasy and historical films whenever there's a #wolf scene! #DayOff

Good Morning Blue Sky! Hope you’re all ok? Today I’m currently reading The Knight Watch by Thomas D Lee. What are you reading at the moment?

Our July Weird Fiction Book Club pick has is The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones. 📆 19th July, from 1pm - 2pm in our cafe Set in American west in 1912 following a Lutheran priest transcribes the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice.

Some ride the twilight roads chasing after the last solar alchemy of the day. A last fix of gilding light. Some rush along them trying to outrun the coming dark, full of need to be behind their doors before it settles upon the land. Before the Pale Folk walk. – #DAKilroy, 1982

One weekend of Pride month left; the perfect time for a novella! Here's a stack of some of my faves from recent years, from sapphic mysteries on Jupiter, to wild wests of dragons and Devil hounds, from the hollers of Kentucky to the ends of time and space. The realm of the fantastic belongs to US!

🚨ICYMI Cover Reveal!🚨 We've snapped up WHAT COMES FROM PICKING FLOWERS by Joan Tierney for the UK! Our UK edition will feature this beautiful cover design from Sam Gretton and is projected to release in Spring 2027. NETTLE & BONE meets THE RIVER HAS ROOTS in this eco-fantasy fairytale debut!

hey friends!! Tell me about your favorite GENRE-BENDING books! I'm looking for sci-fi mysteries, fantasy horrors, science-fantasy, literary specfic, and all that stuff that doesn't fit neatly into one category.

Delighted to announce that author @mikebrooks668.bsky.social will be joining us on 25th July, 1.30pm at Ipswich Geek Retreat for an author Q&A and signing to celebrate the release of his new fantasy novel This is Where the Future Bleeds! Get in touch to reserve your copy in advance 🪐📚💙 #SFF

The Tarot Sequence by KD Edwards - best fantasy series ever (and queer)! And my favorite queer scifis: These Burning Stars A Desperate Glory

Permafrost by M. Frost @mfrostwords.bsky.social "the way the maw of the world opens to consume what you have built." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

Great book, ton of fun, well written. I'm looking forward to reading the next book in the series.

Coming Soon: BLIGHTFALL by @brandonsanderson.com & @jancipatterson.bsky.social — due to be published by @gollancz.bsky.social in the UK, on September 1st. zenoagency.com/news/coming-... @awfulagent.bsky.social

The sequel to "Perilous Times", which was great fun

And the air con is ON ❄️

i keep trying to find a chill or ironic way to post this and there is simply nothing chill about it!!! ahhhhHHHhhhhhhhh!!!!! variety.com/2026/tv/news...

It's here: a beautiful new edition of The Fall, @ryancahill.bsky.social's novella set in the world of The Bound and The Broken series, has just arrived! And we have just a handful of the signed exclusive edition in stock for the lucky first few customers. 💙📚🪐 #SFF

My little announcement - I have a new book in 2027, and this is the cover!

Amber V Nicole fans! "Featuring a stunning new cover colourway, map endpapers, digital edges, foiled boards, and an exclusive new letter from the author, this limited collector's edition of The Book of Azrael arrives in November: www.waterstones.com/book/book-of...

You there! Have you hydrated recently? Maybe do it now, even if you're lucky enough to be somewhere air-conditioned today... (Like our bookshop. We have great air-con. Come and enjoy it!) 💙📚

It’s a cracking read - get your copy today!!

Happy publication day to The Knight Watch! @thomasdlee.bsky.social's latest is a riotous, action packed Arthurian tale featuring a memorable band of immortal knights trying to do what they do best, this time against the rising Third Reich... 💙📚🪐 #SFF

Good morning #Booksky! Don't forget to dig out your best sunscreen if you're venturing out this week...

“That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.” - OCTAVIA BUTLER, born on this day in 1947 in Pasadena, California

“Love quiets fear. And a sweet and powerful positive obsession blunts pain, diverts rage, and engages each of us in the greatest, the most intense of our chosen struggles.” Octavia Butler, who would have been 79 today,on creativity and how we become who we are

Please spread the word! I’m still open to submissions for the second volume of Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction! Professional pay rate for short stories. Deadline is the end of August. Here are the details: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...

To celebrate the release of cozy fantasy THEODORA'S TEA SHOP by Christy Anne Jones next month, Waterstones is giving away a stunning Huffkins afternoon tea gift set 🫖🍰❤️ GB&NI only, prize draw details here: www.waterstones.com/win/theodora... 💙📚🪐

It's really warming up!!! Time to grab all the books you own that sound or look even slightly cold and hide till the sun forgives us for our bad behaviour.

New dark and suspenseful novella Morsel by @carterkeane.bsky.social is now out, blending the horrors of modern corporate culture working people to death with something bad in the Appalachian woods... #horrorsky 💙📚🪐

Stabby Twinsies 😍😍

If you like a book TELL THE WORLD.

Father's Day is almost here, but there's still time to grab him an awesome gift! Pop in to your local bookshop and we'll be delighted to recommend you something 💙📚🪐 #FathersDay #SFF

Ok, this is very pleasing to my brain. Thank you cover artists! (Audrey Benjaminsen and Sam Hadley) #SFF #Romantasy 💙📚🪐

It's a week until pub day, so I'm going to start sharing some of the amazing blurb quotes from authors who loved The Knight Watch. First up is @venetiaconstantine.bsky.social , #1 Sunday Times Bestselling Author of The Last Starborn Seer!

Father's Day is almost here, but there's still time to grab him an awesome gift! Pop in to your local bookshop and we'll be delighted to recommend you something 💙📚🪐 #FathersDay #SFF

Two nights ago I stayed up way too late so I could finish reading Fate’s Bane by @clclarkwrites.com. It’s a beautifully written novella about two women on opposite sides of a clan war. Naturally, they fall in love. The writing itself is gorgeous and I love how it approaches folklore.

Part two of Peter F Hamilton's Exodus duology is now out! The Helium Sea ups the action and ties together the threads and epic events of book one, the Archimedes Engine 💙📚🪐 #SFF #NewBooks

Heaven's Graveyard by Grace Curtis is now out! We even have some limited signed copies in the shop (if you're quick...) #SFF 💙📚🪐 📚🌈

The most enjoyable book I've read in a long time, with great nature writing and fantastic characters. This is climate fiction done right.

New Review - another Clarke Finalist and this time I strongly recommend a trip to the creepier side of science fiction - There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm is a unique read www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/6/...

It's here! Happy publication day to The Language of Liars by S L Huang! I've picked up my preorder and fortuitously have just finished my current read, so it's the perfect time to start a novella between longer reads. 💙📚🪐 #SFF

Well today has gone from needing a jacket in the morning to sweltering as I leave the bookshop. One day I'll learn to look at the weather forecast before I leave the house...

5 things you will probably find in my books: -People going to the ends of the earth for their friends -People being relatably wrong -Strange things that are somehow funny -Familiar things that are some horrifying -Monsters who deserve hugs

The Bookseller piece for them as missed it, right, I really am going to sleep now x all

The perfect read for #pridemonth : August Clarke's METAL FROM HEAVEN! "Staggeringly beautiful" @amalelmohtar.com "A battle cry of a book; read it, & rise up." @alixeharrow.bsky.social "A thunderous, visceral, Sapphic fever dream" @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social#pridemonth Buy: https://geni.us/metalfhe

Following light-and- music based magic wielders able to cross the realms between life and death, SONGS OF THE DEAD is the first instalment in @brandonsanderson.com and Peter Orullian's new Strata Wars series, and it hits the shelves today! 💙📚🪐 #SFF #NewBooks

The #2026IgnyteAwards finalists in Outstanding Novella are: Audition for the Fox – @mcflycahill90.bsky.social Descent – @wtalabi.com Psychopomp & Circumstance – @edenroyce.bsky.social The Iron Below Remembers – @sharangbiswas.bsky.social The River Has Roots – @amalelmohtar.com

The #2026IgnyteAwards finalists for Outstanding Novel: Adult are: Cursed Daughters – Oyinkan Braithwaite Harmattan Season – @tochitruestory.bsky.social Motheater – @lincodega.com Song of Legends Lost – @mhayinde.bsky.social The Buffalo Hunter Hunter – @stephengrahamjones.com