another couple of Fly Agaric from today’s walk #fungi #mushrooms #FlyAgaric

Join Mimi Khalvati on Thursday 23rd October for the annual Rylands Reading at Manchester Literature Festival. She will be discussing her latest publication, Collected Poems. 🌊 Tickets are free and can be booked here:🎟️ manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/mimi-...

A reminder on International Translation Day that there is an interview section for translators on the blog, only three at the moment but always on the look out for any translators who would like to take part There’s a series of questions and links here bigbeardedbookseller.uk/questions-fo...

cooked everything in foil parcels tonight, broccoli with a bit of butter, cherry tomatoes in pesto, and sea bass with butter, lemon juice and zest that was so scrummy

What’s your sign?

'Moonflow' by Bitter Karella. Picked up yesterday at the bookshop.

Just started this Irish folk horror. It's grandiose ! And I'll probably try either Pagans by Ethan Doyle White or Folk by Zoe Gilbert then. #BookSky

Saltburn pier #AlphabetChallenge #WeekNforNights

Who's your favorite Jedi? (Wrong answers only)

Another little visitor

Little forest walk, we weren’t abducted by any of the courts

WE'RE OVER 50% FUNDED?! By the time it took our co-founders to remember to breathe and stop screaming, it's closer to over 60% funded—but then we'd have to try to remember to make another graphic and at this rate who knows!! SERIOUSLY cannot thank you all enough for this outpouring of support!!

anyone got recs for an ipad app for bluesky

I saw this image of Slave-1 done up with a German Luftwaffe cross on it and really liked the colour scheme and how it all worked together. The original post is for another gaming system called Dust which is set in an alternative timeline WWII. The imagery fits so well with Dust and therefore the…

Well I now know what to do with some of my birthday money… www.humblebundle.com/books/mike-m...

This was yesterday afternoon and evening, then there were massive drifts of stars

New Review - A Brilliant tale of magic, family and great storytelling I strongly recommend A Sword of Bronze And Ruin by @annasmithspark.bsky.social out now! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/9/...

Here it is, my lovelies. A massive in-depth interview with @davebjeffery.bsky.social and @leemurraywriter.bsky.social about creating an anthology that tackles mental health in horror. It's a brilliant anthology and dare I say a brillaint interview gnofhorror.com/when-horror-... 💙📚 🩸📚

Read Until You Understand, Farah Jasmine Griffin

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami House of Idyll by @delilahsdawson.bsky.social The Darkling Child by @terrybrooks.bsky.social

I’m reading the misnamed Little Novels (actually a collection of short stories) by Wilkie Collins #booksky

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome - again. I love this book. The bit where Montmorency the dog decides the lemons are rats and kills three of them before George can land him with the frying pan will never stop being funny.

The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy

Well I now know what to do with some of my birthday money… www.humblebundle.com/books/mike-m...

✨sharing these fellas again & want to remind folx that I'm always happy to take payments in stages & post out when the final payment is in 👀 shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/cynn... #art #witchsky #crow

★ “A family’s forced migration prompts a new way of seeing home” in Eugenia Perrella and illustrator Angela Salerno’s “arresting” picture book MY HOME IS IN MY BACKPACK

A new Monday's First Sentence is up on my blog! Today's first sentence is from: Road Trip With a Vampire by Jenna Levine! I really need to get this book, I loved the first two books~ #BookBloggers #Blogging #Vampires #Witches #Romance #TBR #BookSky📚💙 twirlingbookprincess.com/2025/09/mond...

Saw a couple of nuthatch at the same time today no more than six feet away Been listening to amorous Tawny Owls as well but didn’t see them and we were kept company by a friendly Tabby who we decided was called Athena

You really should grab yourself a copy of this, it is one of the most gorgeous decks I own

just remembered that I used to be a card carrying member of the Labour party, from ‘83 until 2020

Recent review copy of Kevin Parr's latest book, thank you to Flint Books for sending it

Sorcery by Terry Pratchett I’d like to know Terry Pratchett’s take on perception of magic 🪄

Done this twice now, can’t do it often as skint most of the time but do it as often as I can

Really like the special evolutions

Poetry people - I have an editing client with a collection, but no idea where to pitch it, and it's not my area, so I don't know either. It's kind of a parody - think Milk & Vine. If you know of a good fit, give me a shout.

Currently on The Wizard: Words That Kill. Enjoyable so far.

Coming to GNoH tomorrow. A massive in-depth interview with @leemurraywriter.bsky.social and @davebjeffery.bsky.social about their amazing anthology, This Way Lies Madness And a review of The Nigfht Birds by Christopher Golden

It's Monday again and today I'm about to start Revenge by Yoko Ogawa What book(s) are you reading this week? 💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR alt text in images please

The Ax by Donald E Westlake. Wanted to read it before the Park Chan-wook adaptation comes out.

Currently reading Eleanor Catton’s ‘The Luminaries’ and Mariana Enriquez’s ‘Somebody Is Walking On Your Grave’. #BookSky💙📚

A little friend

Gone for escapist read this week. It’s now 1948 and the upper middle classes are definitely NOT enjoying the Attlee government.

I've just started 'Anno Dracula' by Kim Newman, which is remarkably enjoyable so far. Didn't realise when I picked it up that it's the start of a series. (sorry about the Neil Gaiman quote on the cover BTW)

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski and All Fours by Miranda July

Invasive by Chuck Wendig 🐜

Off sick from work today, so was able to finish The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington. I wouldn't advise anybody in less than prime condition to read the last 50 pages of this book, but that's how the poisoned fudge crumbles sometimes. (With thanks to @backlisted.bsky.social anyway. Loved it.)

They told her to go to Hell. She’ll go on her own terms. Lily is less than thrilled about her arrival to the Afterlife, but what awaits her is more fantastical than she ever could have imagined. (About ¾ through the book & I've been hooked since Chapter 1. This is such a fun & emotional story.)

Been on a horror/thriller kick lately. Listening to The Reformatory by Tananarive Due, which has been SO GOOD! Joniece Abbott-Pratt is a fantastic narrator! I also started Play Nice by Rachel Harrison, and I cant seem to put it down - I expect to be finishing it today or tomorrow!

For The Missing by Lina Bengtsdotter 💙📚 #Booksky #amreading