And look how stunning the Folio edition is of the Binti trilogy 🤩 The art work really brings the imaginative world to life. #Booksky

I started the year reading Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor and finished it with the Binti trilogy. So fascinating to see the parallels between these two works but also how different they are. I love it when books feel like they're in conversation with one another. 5✨ #Booksky

At the Spotify 2025 wrapped audio party yday. Was nice to reminisce on my fav audio listens this year (Lessons in Chemistry, Fundamentally) and see one I enjoyed on the top list (The Trading Game.) Also a great performance from George the Poet on the power of audio books. #SpotifyWrapped #booksky

Trump wants to recreate a white America that never existed | Rebecca Solnit

FINALLY went to see the Kerry James Marshall exhibit @royalacademyarts.bsky.social and it was everything I was hoping for and more. Love how much agency the Black people in his art have and how much books both inspire the works and also feature in them. A real must see exhibit. #Artsky #booksky

Coming to the end of what will undeniably be my favourite series read this year. If you want to read some non-Western centered fantasy with expansive world building and intriguing characters you have to try @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social's Between Earth and Sky series! #Booksky #amreading

Who listens to music when they write?? My writing playlist definitely skews my #SpotifyWrapped as the top 2-5 songs are all ones that I've been listening to this year as I write my novel. ✍🏾 #Booksky #amwriting

Earlier this week, had a great evening listening to Temi Oh in conversation with Adrian Tchaikovsky to mark the 10th anniversary of Children of Time. #Booksky

A very wicked night at a pre-screening of #wickedforgood with @oliviascatastrophe.bsky.social. The two powerhouses Cynthia and Ariana really make this movie and I loved seeing their chemistry and hearing those harmonies 🎶

Some much needed good news. “Jamaicans Have Been Turning to Solar Power. It Paid Off After the Storm.” Guft link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/c...

This was such a fun audio book. Never did I think a novel about a lecturer running a de-radicalisation programme for Isis brides in Iraq would be so funny, while also balancing the human element of the story. #Booksky #amreading

Saw some cool French translations of Octavia Butler's novels at Tropismes Libraries in Brussels. Definitely one of the fancier looking bookshops I've visited lately 👀 #booksky

7am to train Brussels = star gazing at 4am in South London, baked blueberry and banana oats and a good book on the train to get me through the journey 🚂 #Booksky #travelsky #amreading

So excited to be at the Black British Book Festival today @barbicancentre.bsky.social. So many interesting talks, don't know how I'm going to fit them all in! #Booksky #bbbf

Birthday gift from the husband rescued me from my holiday reading slump. Shame I finished it in 24 hours and it didn't last longer 😅 #Booksky #travelsky #amreading

Playing my favourite game, can you guess the titles of these blind book dates? Pretty sure the first is The Road by Cormac Mccarthy... #Booksky

"A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.." - Upper Street Bookshop near Angel, London

A dystopian novel won the YA Booker Prize... More signs of a comeback for the genre?? 👀 #booksky #authorsky www.thebookseller.com/news/moira-b...

Lekker boekje lezen, koffie drinken bij een Amsterdaamse gracht ☀️☀️ And yes this book is just as good as everyone is saying it is! 5✨ #Booksky #travelsky

Back in the Netherlands for the weekend and couldn't resist stopping by Amsterdam for a quick visit. 📚🇳🇱🇳🇱 #travelsky

🌡️ Europe’s #heatwaves are reshaping demand for air conditioning — only 20% of households have AC, but that’s changing. ⚡ The IEA has warned of a #coolcrunch: energy demand from cooling could nearly triple by 2050 if left unchecked. Here's my story on the latest: shorturl.at/4S7w3

Can't believe I've been in London this long and never visited the Notting Hill Bookshop before. #Booksky

It was a musical weekend with first Evita and then the Devil Wears Prada musical on Saturday. Definitely brought back the nostalgia seeing the movie play out on stage. 💃🏾💃🏾

Completley blown away by every single actor and the production of Evita. Rachel Zegler's voice was breathtaking, she completely owned that role. Diego Andres Rodriguez as the narrator was incredible. That standing ovation went on for ages! #Evita

Absolutely stunning views in Taormina 😍☀️☀️ #travelsky

The food markets in Sicily, Palermo are everything 😍 #travelsky

Really enjoying buddy reading Problematic Summer Romance by Ali Hazelwood with my sister. I get most of my book recommendations from Olivia-Savannah and I loved her idea of reading this Sicily set romance during our family holiday to Sicily! ❤️☀️🍋 #Booksky #amreading

In the world of afrofuturism, the sankofa is a key image. Ytasha L. Womack writes the word sankofa means to "retrieve," it's about "looking back to go forward," signifying a way to the future by "remembering the past." 1/ #booksky #writingcommunity

It was so great to see Maggie Stiefvater talk about luxury and the themes behind her new novel The Listeners. I love reading historical fiction that introduces me to a new element of WWII that I wasn't aware of, and then there are the captivating characters too. Loved it! #Booksky

Historic Mitchelville Freedom Park was the first self-governing town of formerly enslaved people in the country, according to the nonprofit that runs it. Now, visitors sleep there to get close to history.

So my question on this is, if #AI is analysing manuscripts and providing assessments for editors on structure and pace etc. what about the manuscripts that blend genres? Stories that adopt abnormal structures and experiment with dialogue and narrative?

When a five star read leads you to another five star book 😍 Rebecca Roanhorse's short story, "Eye and Tooth" was just so good, I had to find what else she had written. I'm so glad it lead me to Black Sun, an epic fantasy which I blitzed through. #Booksky

Weekend break = weekend treat 🎁📚 #Booksky #amreading

A day off work means time for a long walk & iced coffee & cake & writing ✍🏾☕ #amwriting #authorsky

Love starting the week with a new book. Rebecca Roanhorse's Black Sun is already giving me all the expansive, escapist worldbuilding I could hope for. What's everyone else reading this bank holiday Monday? #Booksky #amreading

Investment has been pouring in for data centers the powerful computer processing facilities that are responsible for everything to making sure your Teams meeting runs smoothly to training #AI applications. Earlier this month I travelled to Portugal to visit one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmUJ... #tech

I've got two hours to kill after work and before I meet up with friends for a dinner date. What to do... What to do... 🤔

"The war of my life had begun and though one of God's most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered." At times a very harrowing listen, Harriet Jacob's story is truly incredible. #Booksky #amreading

The Home Office has agreed to fly home Winston Knight, 64, a member of the Windrush generation who lived in the UK for 47 years before being wrongly deported and forced to live on the streets of Jamaica in horrific conditions for more than a decade www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...

Made it my personal goal to convince as many people as I can in the office to go watch the #Sinners movie. It's working so far.. 😏

Love the subtle humour in Martha Wells' Murderbot series. Murderbot's obsession with binge watching TV is just too relatable 😅 #booksky #amreading

For years, data centers have strained local water supplies. The AI boom has made this issue much worse.

Started a new writing goal: 300 words a day. So far I've actually gone over the target every day. But I'm not going to increase the word count just yet. Turns out the daily goal is mostly useful in just making sure I make it to my desk. When I'm there, the writing flows. #writing #authors

Particularly loving this anthology of black horror because it's introducing me to so many new writers. Already adding books from Erin E. Adams, Rebecca Roanhorse and Lesley Nneka Arimah to my TBR. #Booksky #amreading

Still thinking about that transcendental blues scene in #Sinners. It made me feel so happy because a genre I LOVE - horror/speculative fiction/afrofuturism - was executed so fantastically. But sad because I fear that the hype will be fleeting or that it won't cross over to other media. 1/

The rest of my Jamaica reads: A House for Miss Pauline by Diana McCaulay and Trisha Tobias' Honeysuckle and Bone. I fell in love with the grumpy Miss Pauline and enjoyed discovering the mystery behind her moving stone house. 🇯🇲🇯🇲 #Booksky

New favourite thing: When authors share the music they listened to while writing their novel. Still have Fiasco's Drogas Wave album on repeat after P. Djeli Clark mentioned it at the end of Ring Shout, and now I'm enjoying reggae tunes that inspired Alex Wheatle's Cane Warriors ☺️🎶🎵#booksky

Just watched #Sinners movie and it's hard to put into words how good this film is. That blues scene, the music, the characters, the singing... 10/10! As an afrofuturism fan, it's so exciting and encouraging to see this kind of storytelling win. More please!

There are so many caves in Jamaica, during our trip we visited the Green Grotto Caves which date way back to the 17th century, used by the Arawak Indians (Tainos), the Spanish when they hid from the British and smugglers running arms to Cuba. We spotted snakes and sleeping "rat bats" 🦇 #travelsky

Lately I've been reading alot about the Maroons, former slaves who escaped plantations to form their own communities. This week I visited Maroon village Accompong town in Jamaica. Descendants of the Maroons welcomed us into their community and shared the history of their people.