Did I buy this book based entirely on its title? Yes. Did I enjoy it? Also yes. Do I feel like I'm being tricked into reading more body horror than I'm comfortable with this year? Hmmm... (see also: Heather Parry's Carrion Crow). @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social @annedemarcken.com #booksky

1. Many here seem bemused by the anger and disappointment this government attracts. Please bear with me while I try to explain it. Let’s begin with Gaza. Starmer’s complicity is one of the major reasons so many people are disillusioned. rethinkingsecurityorguk.wpcomstaging.com/2025/10/07/i... 🧵

It feels like I'm not reading as much translation as I once did. This book is a great reminder to do so more often. #WomenInTranslation #booksky

I never read gothic fiction/horror, but this was so good! Finished it in two days, very glad that this was put on my radar by the Lecker podcast and that my local #library stocked a copy. #booksky

Can't really afford to buy books or travel at the moment so I've decided the next best thing to do is to borrow books about travel from my local library. Tip top reading to start the year ✨ #booksky @monisharajesh.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

Damn - the first week of January isn't over yet and I'm pretty sure this will be my best book of 2026. Setting the bar high! #booksky

The 8 billionaires are: Musk, Ellison, Bezos, Page, Brin, Zuckerberg, Huang, Ballmer. Each one saw their wealth explode as a direct result of the massive and unsustainable AI bubble. Let's resolve to remember that when their bubble bursts all over working people in 2026. Happy New Year!

Swifts have declined 70% since 1994. They fly from Africa to breed here, only to find we've blocked their nest sites. A £35 swift brick nest box was proposed for all new buildings. The construction industry lobbied Labour to block it. Biodiversity sustains life. Labour sustains economic power.

Please save this, read it, feel it. Shame on all those who do not see our children!!

Always a good day when my drink matches my book 🥂 @canongate.co.uk #booksky

As the predictable calls for “restraint by both sides” are rolled out by Western politicians and officials, let us be clear that Israel’s latest attack against Iran could not, and would not, have happened without the support that those same politicians. OPINION by Ibrahim Hewitt

The Bread & Roses Award longlist has been launched to mark the start of Independent Bookshop Week! The award for political writing is presented by the Alliance of Radical Booksellers, so celebrate both by popping into your local indie for one of these beauts: lighthousebookshop.com/posts/bread-...

Latest read: a scintillating collection of interwoven meditations on life, death, and white things. #booksky

If, like me, you've only ever eaten Chinese food in the West, this book will blow your mind. Fuchsia Dunlop does a brilliant job of explaining the exquisite intricacy of Chinese cuisine and its infinite declinations. An instant favourite, chuffed I could borrow this from my local library. #booksky

OMG this book 😭 #booksky

💥FREE EBOOK!💥 This book is a transfeminist call for collective liberation. Because there's no liberation without trans liberation Download your copy here: www.plutobooks.com/978074534941...

The UK Supreme Court basically declared all cis women are essentially just our uteruses today and the foolish bigots who are celebrating this are so far removed from reality that they don’t realise how this will be weaponised against us all.

“When people say this business of ‘she’s the voice of the voiceless’, it makes me crazy. I say, there’s no voiceless, there’s only the deliberately silenced, you know, or the purposely unheard." - Arundhati Roy

Currently reading & just finished. Both excellent. #booksky #freepalestine @versobooks.bsky.social @andotherstories.bsky.social

Unintended theme in the last 4 books I read: (too) bright things #booksky @faberbooks.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk

This is Labour’s poll tax. Its tuition fees. It is - as Iraq was for Blair - the moral stain that will mark Starmer’s government and the party for years to come. Severely disabled people are going to be starved, isolated and degraded. No Labour MP who backs this will be forgiven.

Recent #poetry #bookpost 😍 #booksky @ninearchespress.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social

Drastic cuts to PIP will affect as many as 1 million disabled and ill people, pushing them into severe hardship, worsening physical and mental health, and isolation. There is no credible argument for pulling help from people shouldering the high costs of disability. Cruelty dressed up as reform.

Labour MPs saying “the clue is in the name” to justify benefit cuts is wildly disingenuous. It co-opts Labour’s history to imply all those that cannot physically labour are somehow excluded from the cause. Being pro-worker does not require being anti-unemployed or anti-disabled. It never did.

Palestine is a feminist issue. None of us is free until all of us are free.

Israel has chosen to mark the first days of Ramadan by blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza. Still, our government refuses to implement sanctions and defend international law. There is no other way of putting it: this is a resumption of genocide — and our government is complicit.

I believe there's a time and mood for every book and while I don't tend to have dozens of unread books at home, I also don't feel bad about leaving some unread for a while, waiting for me to be in the right mood for them. #booksky

“This is a bookshop. Crossroads of civilisation, refuge of all the arts against the ravages of time, armoury of fearless truth against whispering rumour,incessant trumpet of trade. From this place words may fly abroad... Friend, you stand on sacred ground." #BooksellingIsNotACrime solidarity always

🎧 Catching up on the new series of the Lecker #podcast: To Be Delicious, hosted and produced by @annasulan.bsky.social and co-produced by Lucy Dearlove. I love the mix of research, interviews, and the gorgeous soundscapes that are unique to Lecker. Highly recommended!

A poem of mine is in the antho BRING ME GOLD: 50 POEMS FOR PALESTINE, now avail for pre-order. 100% of the proceeds from this book will go to Medical Aid for Palestinians. Pls consider buying it, wld make a great early Eid gift. 🙏🏼 🤍#DisabilityJustice www.dahliapublishing.co.uk/product/poem...

I just started reading this in ebook format yesterday and found a physical copy while browsing at my local library today. Love the coincidence :) @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social #booksky #poetry

just want to emphasise how vile this is www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We are alarmed and shocked by the arrest and detainment of our author and colleague Mahmoud Muna, along with his nephew Ahmad Muna, owners and booksellers of Jerusalem’s Educational Bookshop. Please share our statement below widely.

Sometimes I wonder what the point is of writing about books when the world is falling apart. Some days it feels frivolous, self-indulgent even. But then I remember... (1/7) #booksky

Reflecting on the latest violent indignities against Palestinians, we’ve put together a list of books which boldly lay bare the many ways in which our systems have failed us: because they were never meant to work for the majority of us in the first place. lighthousebookshop.com/posts/the-ma...

Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?

Part memoir, part nature writing, Nina Mingya Powles's contemplative writing is just a gorgeous thing. @canongate.co.uk #booksky

This is not over until all of Palestine is free. Keep speaking up, protesting, boycotting.

In "Divided", @sosowemimo.bsky.social exposes how structural racism pervades modern medicine. She goes back the colonial roots of medical sciences and shows how non-white people all over the world are still adversely affected both as patients and providers of healthcare services. #booksky

Should I only read green books in 2025? 😅 My first three reads of 2025 were all incredibly good so it is tempting to follow this lead...

"Starmer accuses objectors to such schemes of having “slowed down our progress as a nation”. But when that “progress” is a demented rush towards the precipice, perhaps a slowing down – and a change in priorities – would serve us well."

I was lucky to be gifted a 6-month poetry subscription from @lighthousebks.bsky.social last year. What a gorgeous treat that was.