We're in the midst of #LGBT+HistoryMonth, so what better time to share with you a selection (of some) of our latest and bestselling LGBT+ titles! www.saraband.net We'd love to hear your LGBT+ book recommendations, let us know in the comments! #Booksky 📚💙

More #Nibbies congrats! This time to these fab libraries! Tootles 🎺🎺🎺 for Craigmillar Library, HMP Barlinnie Prison Library, Kirkliston & South Queensferry Libraries, Midlothian Council Library Services, @orkneylibrary.bsky.social, Oxgangs Library, Parkhead Library and West Dunbartonshire Libraries!

Congratulations to all the Scottish indie presses shortlisted for the #Nibbies! Trumpet tootles 🎺🎺🎺 for @404ink.bsky.social, Birlinn, @charcopress.com, @leamington.bsky.social, Little Door Books, Rymour Books, Scottish Mountaineering Press & @tippermuirbooks.bsky.social!

It's a new week and over at BooksfromScotland we have an exclusive pre-publication extract from @shonamaclean.bsky.social's new novel The Cromarty Library Circle, published by @quercusbooks.bsky.social. booksfromscotland.com/2026/02/the-...

Congratulations to all the fine bookshops in Scotland shortlisted for the #Nibbies! Trumpet tootles 🎺🎺🎺 for @argonautbooks.bsky.social, Book Lovers Bookshop, Daydreams Bookshop, @ffmaddingcrowd.bsky.social, Heron & Willow Bookshop, The Book Nook, The Wee Bookshop & The Ullapool Bookshop!

Hey pals. We finished our book, Publisher Not Found, and it'll be in our hands in a couple of weeks. If you'd like a copy, you can order it now and have it first: www.404ink.com/store/p/inkl... More soon!

It's a new week and over at BooksfromScotland we have an exclusive pre-publication extract from @shonamaclean.bsky.social's new novel The Cromarty Library Circle, published by @quercusbooks.bsky.social. booksfromscotland.com/2026/02/the-...

Blood Hunt by Neil M. Gunn, with an introduction by @louisewelsh00.bsky.social Hooking the reader from the first page, Blood Hunt is a tale of love, murder, divided loyalties and the awful human instinct to hunt a fellow animal down - even to death. www.northhousepress.co.uk/books #Booksky 📚💙

Congrats to all the authors and publishers on the longlist! 🎺🎺🎺

I spy a Secret Agent Nessie in the latest @booksfromscotland.bsky.social issue!

Pre-order Luna Novella 2026! In This City, Where it rains by @lyndseycroal.bsky.social In an alternative Edinburgh, Maggie is haunted by ghosts that only appear in the rain - and it always rains in this city. ☔︎ www.lunapresspublishing.com/lunanovella

Let's brighten up winter with a new issue of BfS, Coming Up! Read it here: booksfromscotland.com/issue/coming... Lots of fab books coming out between January & March 2026 - with thanks to @canongate.co.uk, @saraband-books.bsky.social, @leamington.bsky.social, @florisbooks.bsky.social & many more!

Announcing Gray Day 2026! New Lanark audiobook by @canongate.co.uk narrated by Alan Cumming + five commissioned animations. Celebrating 45 years of Alasdair Gray’s Lanark. 25 Feb 2026, Òran Mór, Glasgow. Tickets via link in bio.

Congratulations to our authors and artists on their @bsfa.bsky.social longlist 2026! @jennicoutts.bsky.social @lyndseycroal.bsky.social @madeehahwrites.bsky.social @deborahldavitt.com Ivano Sassanelli, Jay Johnstone, Payton McCarty-Simas! @publishingscotland.bsky.social 🤩 And to all the nominees!

Something for the weekend! Delve into Kenneth Steven's marvellous book on hunting for precious jewels around Scotland, In Search of Gems, published by @saraband-books.bsky.social. Over on BfS is an extract from his Pearls chapter: booksfromscotland.com/2026/01/in-s...

Just got back from the launch of the Year of National Reading in the National Library of Scotland. Want to find out more about the campaign, visit the Go All In website. #GoAllIn2026 #NationalYearofReading2026

Happy publication day to Kenneth Steven and In Search of Gems 💎 Blending lyrical prose with personal reflection, Kenneth Steven explores mountains, glens and shores in search of gemstones and crystals, hidden in the wild places where others rarely roam. saraband.net/sb-title/in-... #Booksky 📚💙

We're hiring! 💼 Dae ye want tae gie us a haun tae promote Scots language readin, scrievin and speakin in Scots? We are lookin for a gallus, eident Scots speaker for the role o Scots Language Ootreach Co-ordinator. Apply by 19 January! 👇 www.scottishbooktrust.com/about/vacanc...

Happy publication day to this wondrous stack of books! The Writing Life – Annie Dillard The Swedish Art of Ageing Well – Margareta Magnusson The Wardrobe Department – Elaine Garvey Grace – Chika Unigwe The Ten Year Affair – Erin Somers Available in-store and online! uk.bookshop.org/lists/out-to...

⭐️OUT TODAY!⭐️ 'The Accidental Vikings' is inspired by the back-in-time ride at the wonderful @jorvikviking.bsky.social museum in York! First went when my kiddo was in Yr3 and studying the Vikings at school & we went again for research purposes last year (kiddo now 23!). @barringtonstoke.bsky.social

A decades-old murder resurfaces, ripping open the secrets a family has spent a lifetime burying. CATHEDRALS, the new novel by Claudia Piñeiro (translated by Frances Riddle) will be hitting the shelves in May – and can be pre-ordered now, or get it as part of our 2026 Bundle!

Who wants a sneaky preview of Elisabeth Wolf's gothic thriller, Winterbourne, published next week by @bwpublishing.bsky.social? Head to BfS for an extract . . . booksfromscotland.com/2026/01/wint...

As we're now in 2026, the year of our closure, we're beginning to mark some books as out of print via our distributor, meaning it's your last chance to get your hands on some 404 Ink history before they're gone! Books now marked as out of print with last copies available via us directly...

it wis January and a gey dreich day the first day Ah went to the school… —Liz Lochhead, “Kidspoem/Bairnsang” published in A CHOOSING: The Selected Poems of Liz Lochhead (Polygon, 2017) #poem #poetry #scots #language #MinorityLanguages birlinn.co.uk/product/a-ch...

Please share this opportunity far and wide! Come and work with us! 👇👇👇

Tombstoning looking pretty good for 20 years old! Love these new proofs going out into the world. Published 12th Feb by @orendabooks.bsky.social. Preorder here: geni.us/Mb0bqB

Giving this a bump - tell us about your 2026 books, authors! #booksky

Christmas is a time of giving, a perfect excuse to head over to BfS to read David Robinson's review of Fred Bridgland's memoir, From Scotland with Love, on his work with Edinburgh Direct Aid. booksfromscotland.com/2025/12/davi...

Giving this a bump - tell us about your 2026 books, authors! #booksky

From double Booker Prize listed author, Graeme Macrae Burnet, the Gorski Trilogy follows Chief Inspector Georges Gorski around the streets and bars of Saint-Louis, investigating disappearances and mysterious strangers. Buy the complete trilogy in paperback for £30. saraband.net/product/the-...

Question for the weekend - what new Scottish books are coming out next year? We have started by spreadsheet of joy, but always keen to find any we're missing! Scottish = born in Scotland, live in Scotland, Scottish subject or setting, published in Scotland. Go! ☺️

It's the book-signing you've been waiting for! Saturday 13th December - @gillianshirreffs.bsky.social at Waterstones Byre Road. Between 12.30pm and 2.30pm.

When booksellers pick your novel as one of their favourites of the year, you know you have a great book! The River by Craig A Smith @smicht.bsky.social chosen by @nairnbooks.bsky.social for @booksfromscotland.bsky.social's latest issue... booksfromscotland.com/2025/10/book...

Tonight! It's the last event of the year for Waterstones West End and it's going to be a cracker, with 4/5ths of the @bloodyscotland.bsky.social Debut Prize shortlist in conversation with Susie from the @inmygoodbookspod.bsky.social!

Closing today! This is the last one of 2025 so get those pitches in ✍🏿 scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/call-for-blo...

Delighted that my debut novel will be published by Polygon in 2027 💘

News! We are launching a 404 Ink Bursary to pay it forward to small presses. We will also run a crowdfunder to give away more. We are ALSO releasing one last book. Royalties from this are pledged to match-fund more small press support. You can pre-order now: www.404ink.com/store/p/inkl...

Head over to BfS for a round up of some of the best Scots & Gaelic books to be released in the second half of 2025! booksfromscotland.com/2025/11/wint...

Really fab to be at the Scottish Christmas Book Fair for #bookweekscotland today @booksfromscotland.bsky.social, doing a signing and chatting to readers with @lunapress.bsky.social! Great to be surrounded by such a vibrant Scottish book scene - thanks to the organisers for having me! ✨️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙

Look! We've made the New Town Church in George Street, Edinburgh, all festive for you for The Scottish Christmas Book Fair! We'd love to see you there! 🎄🎄🎄

This is where I'll be, this Saturday, at 11 til 1.1.30 am, surrounded by books and signing pens (and mince pies, apparently) #Edinburgh #signedbooks

The Scottish Christmas Book Fair is nearly upon us! Start your Christmas shopping with us at the New Town Church in George Street, Edinburgh! More info here: www.publishingscotland.org/event/scotti...

It's #BookWeekScotland! We're really looking forward to seeing you at our Scottish Christmas Book Fair! The New Town Church in George Street, Edinburgh will be FULL of booky delights! @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social @creativescots.bsky.social

Come to Edinburgh on the 21 & 22 November for The Scottish Christmas Book Fair at the New Town Church, George Street! 🎄There will be fabulous publishers! 🎄There will be fabulous books! 🎄There will be fabulous authors! 🎄There will be free mulled wine, mince pies & chocolate!

This time next week we hope all the nation's book lovers come to the New Town Church in George Street, Edinburgh for The Scottish Christmas Book Fair! Can't wait to see you there! #bookweekscotland

I'm delighted with this in-depth, beautifully written review of Blurred Faces from David Robinson for @booksfromscotland.bsky.social "Radcliffe writes with an enviably economical and engaging style." Thank you so much! Link here: booksfromscotland.com/2025/11/davi... @fairlightbooks.bsky.social

“While I knew they developed a friendship, I didn’t realise just how much the friendship with Stevenson meant to Barrie” —Michael Shaw brings together correspondence between two famous Scottish writers – via @booksfromscotland.bsky.social #BookologyThursday 💙📚 booksfromscotland.com/2020/11/a-fr...

Happy publication day to @allanradcliffe.bsky.social! Head over to BooksfromScotland for a review of Blurred Faces! booksfromscotland.com/2025/11/davi...

📚 Meet the author! Join us Sat 22 Nov, 2:30pm for a book signing with Gillebrìde Mac ‘IlleMhaoil, translator of our #Gaelic favourites An Tìgear a Thàinig gu Dinneir & more! 🐅✨ Part of the festive @publishingscotland.bsky.social #ScottishChristmasBookFair 🎄

We'll be there, the publishers will be there, the authors will be there (see below 👇👇👇). . . We hope you'll be there too!