I've seen some articles in the last few weeks about 'performative reading' Seems to be a few journalists who have convinced themselves that (younger) people don't read, so they must be pretending to NONSENSE People are reading more fiction, and there's a real enthusiasm around - its a good thing!

TonyInterruptor is out now (hardback, £16.99) "Is this honest? Are we all being honest here?" So good x

TONIGHT! 630pm - 9pm

Come join us at the Birdhouse Brewery (SE24 9AJ) Thursday 7th August! Pints are £3.50 when you buy a book!

The Sleepless is officially out in the UK today! 🐉🐉🐉 This book has been a wild ride, from writing the first draft in a loved up haze to celebrating its existence with lovely foreign publishers in Bologna 💖 It’s my twelfth published novel (can you believe??) and I’m feeling very proud today.

We are disappointed but not surprised that Meta has used millions of pirated books to develop its AI systems. As a matter of urgency, Meta needs to compensate the rightsholders of all the works it has been exploiting. But what can authors do? Read here: societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...

Children’s writer and author of the award-winning Crongton series, Alex Wheatle MBE, has died of prostate cancer at the age of 62. 👇 #BookSky

Writers, musicians, actors & other creators strongly oppose upending copyright law to favour AI companies, as suggested in the UK's AI Opportunities Action Plan. As Kate Mosse says, seeking economic growth "cannot be on the basis of theft of our work". www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

tech bros: we built a machine that can tell you stuff loudly and confidently! us: cool. is it right about stuff? tech bros: we cannot stress enough how loud and confident it is!

AI is a big complicated subject, and obviously we’re not experts - but - we choose our stock very carefully, and we will always do it ourselves. AI can do a lot of things - pattern recognition, plagiarism & fraud seem like the main ones We will never stock anything we know to be AI-generated

A couple of weeks to go on this: www.gov.uk/government/c...

Happy New Year, everyone! Thank you for all your support & tremendousness, and here's to an excellent 2025

Merry Christmas, everyone! Thank you to all of our lovely customers, have a wonderful holiday, thank you for all your support throughout the year x

Heading rapidly towards the weekend-before-Christmas! We're here every day up to, and including, Christmas Eve Hope everyone's enjoying December & looking forward to the holidays (or, you know, coping with December & looking forward to the holidays being over - that's ok too) x

Hope everyone is having a good December - two weeks until Christmas Day! That doesn't sound right, does it? We're here every day up to & including Christmas Eve - and we can still order in for you - often for next day - do ask if you want something we don't have on the shelves!

We will too!

Eliza Clark event at Clapham Omnibus on Saturday 7th December - we’ll be there selling the books!

Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed. (Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).

Never forget: READING FOR PLEASURE has the biggest positive impact of any factor on children's life chances. So never stop sharing books with kids. Never stop reading to them, and helping them to read. Never stop changing lives. #literacy #kidlit #books

Today's thought by Tania: "I have to say, one of my favourite things that happen in bookshops is to see full grown adults, with no kids with them, giggling away whilst reading/perusing the childrens section." So, I'd like to know, which is your favourite children's book and why?

Happy Bookshop Day! Thank you to all our lovely customers for all your support in the past, present and future. Hope you're all reading something good x (being nosy here, but, what is it that you're reading?)

Happy Bookshop Day! Thank you to all our lovely customers for all your support in the past, present and future Hope you're all reading something good x

Yes! So great!

Autumn, already?! Let us know, BlueSky, what’s your favourite book for the year so far? AND which book(s) have you been meaning to read, but not got around to yet?

Hello, BlueSky!