What are your plans for the weekend? Why not travel round ancient Britain and Ireland with Peter Ross? But first head over to BfS for David Robinson's review! booksfromscotland.com/2025/09/davi...

A new extract on the blog today as part of the tour for Michael J Malone's latest novel, The Howling (pub'd @orendabooks.bsky.social thx @annerandomthings.bsky.social) - "This little cub was indeed a fighter..." #BookSky

Get a sneak peek at four poems from this year’s NEW WRITING SCOTLAND – via @booksfromscotland.bsky.social – from Kevin Cormack, @reyzlgrace.bsky.social, & Zain Rishi 💙📚 booksfromscotland.com/2025/08/a-ch...

Head over to BfS for a sneaky preview of the wonderful picture book Abdullah's Bear Needs a New Name! written by Yasmin Hanif and illustrated by Sophie Benmouyal! booksfromscotland.com/2025/09/abdu...

December 1981. Melbourne. The famous 'man bag' performance. Hit and run. Some context provided in my book, Themes For Great Cities

“It’s half giraffe, half anteater, half horse, half deer and half some more giraffe” 👇 This Tolstoy quote inspired Kevin MacNeil’s story “Fall in Love and Buy a Horse”, which we published in NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 41 – read it via @booksfromscotland.bsky.social booksfromscotland.com/2023/10/noth...

If you missed the new BooksfromScotland column in the Scotland on Sunday, you can still read it at @scotsman.com online! www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...

HEATWAVE The latest issue of @booksfromscotland.bsky.social recommends the hottest Scottish books, including the best in new fiction, memoir, history, nature writing & children's books, along with celebrating some literary legends 💙📚 booksfromscotland.com/issue/heatwa...

Tomorrow at 1pm in St Andrews, I'm doing a signing at Waterstones - if you're in the area please pop by! ✨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 www.waterstones.com/events/lynds...

This year marks ten years since the publication of the propulsive, Booker-shortlisted contemporary classic His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet To celebrate, a special tenth anniversary edition will be available on the 2 October 2025 More here: saraband.net/sb-title/his... #Booksky 📚💙

In his darkroom he is finally alone with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows… —Carol Ann Duffy, “War Photographer” published in COLLECTED POEMS (Picador, 2019) #poem #poetry www.panmacmillan.com/authors/caro...

Food writer and broadcaster Ghillie Basan knows how to live the good life, and her latest book Food, Whisky, Life is a gorgeous celebration of living and eating well. Head over to BfS for her mouthwatering Whisky Baklava recipe! booksfromscotland.com/2025/08/food...

Get a sneak peek at four poems from this year’s NEW WRITING SCOTLAND – via @booksfromscotland.bsky.social – from Kevin Cormack, @reyzlgrace.bsky.social, & Zain Rishi 💙📚 booksfromscotland.com/2025/08/a-ch...

It’s lovely to have a poem in this excellent collection from @asls.org.uk

We always look forward to @asls.org.uk New Writing Scotland anthologies each year. Head over to BfS to get a sneaky preview! booksfromscotland.com/2025/08/a-ch...

A nice excerpt from my book in this Books From Scotland newsletter 💫💫💫

“[I]f you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat.” —Nancy Hawkins, the majestic narrator of Muriel Spark’s A FAR CRY FROM KENSINGTON, on why a writer should own a cat #InternationalCatDay 🐈‍⬛ 💙📚 1/3

Very happy to have an interview in this issue from @booksfromscotland.bsky.social about my debut, These Mortal Bodies, writing about intense friendships, the interaction between poetry and prose, what drew me to dark academia and balancing writing admin with the actual writing itself! #BookSky

David is appearing at Wigtown this autumn, for anyone coming along!

Tonight! For one night only! The launch party for AND OTHER STORIES. Hosted by Chris Shaw and me!

Help me for a thing, please: Who are your favourite UK-based trade publishers that started up since 2017 and are still going today? Small and indie, preferably (imprints don't count).

No longer just a thought, a proposal, seven messy drafts, a pre-order... DRYSTONE - A LIFE REBUILT is officially launched! #Scotland #Books #Writing #WritingCommunity #Book #Nature

Do you work in children’s publishing, editorial, or design? Could you spare half an hour to evaluate the high-contrast children’s book that Julia has created as part of her digital project for her publishing studies degree, please? Shares very welcome! www.linkedin.com/posts/julia-...

I've written about IH Finlay, Alexander Trocchi, and George MacDonald Fraser for @booksfromscotland.bsky.social Three centenaries, three tricky characters. An interesting commission this one.... booksfromscotland.com/2025/07/cent...

If you're curious about The Needfire and want a peek before buying, Books from Scotland has an excerpt from the first chapter in their latest issue! booksfromscotland.com/2025/07/the-...

Look - a new issue of #booksfromscotland is live! Celebrate the summer with some new reads. 🌞

Keep your cool! It's Heatwave, the latest BfS issue! booksfromscotland.com/issue/heatwa... Thanks for your contributions: @florisbooks.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk @birlinn.bsky.social @edinburghup.bsky.social @luathpress.bsky.social @bwpublishing.bsky.social @saraband-books.bsky.social and more!

COVER REVEAL: ‘It is dark now and my window onto the world is a small one. I do not know how much longer I will be here…’ Introducing BENBECULA by Graeme Macrae Burnet – out in the UK on 2 October 2025 from @birlinn.bsky.social 📚 🌑🌕🌑✨ Pre-order now: www.waterstones.com/book/benbecu...

We are delighted to be working with @creativeaccess.bsky.social to recruit for our publishing trainee. If you want to join our team, we’d love to hear from you! For more information, check out the following: edin.ac/3ILW2Kt

Pre-order 'Our Secrets Are The Same' at Waterstones before the end of July and get 25% off www.waterstones.com/book/our-sec...

Hunted won the Crime Novel of the Year at the #theakstonsawards last night. A heartfelt T hank you to all of you who voted for it!

Be Here* Now** * There ** A Week Today www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/edinb...

It’s almost 10 years since this modern classic by Graeme Macrae Burnet was first published! His Bloody Project: Bloody brilliant! #bookerprize #booksky #anniversary

Take a journey into Scottish folklore through the pages of Dark Crescent by @lyndseycroal.bsky.social! Thanks to our friends at @lunapress.bsky.social, we have five copies to offer in our Book of the Month competition. Enter by 31 July to win one 📚🤞

Happy publication day @nivenj1.bsky.social! THE FATHERS is out now in all good bookshops & online: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-... A hilarious and heart-breaking account of fatherhood, marriage, parenting, grief, class and masculinity, following two fathers from very different backgrounds

Happy Publication Day John Niven! Head over to BfS for an extract of his latest novel, The Fathers, published by @canongate.co.uk booksfromscotland.com/2025/07/the-...

Wee bit of news…

A few brief personal words from me over on my own blog regarding @404ink.bsky.social's closure next year. There's going to be a lot to say and analyse over the coming months about the state of publishing so I'm trying to pace myself... epitomeofvague.substack.com/p/404-ink-pu...

So long @404ink.bsky.social! Long live @404ink.bsky.social!

Congratulations Leila! 🎺🎺🎺

Wonderful news: the Gaelic Books Council (@leughleabhar.bsky.social) is offering a full scholarship to a student with fluent written and spoken Scottish Gaelic, to study for the M.Litt in Publishing Studies at Stirling! See the link for more information! www.stir.ac.uk/scholarships...

Awards keep rolling in for Margaret McDonald! Well done!🎺🎺🎺

A CHAOS OF LIGHT New Writing Scotland 43 Ed. by Kirstin Innes, Chris Powici & Niall O’Gallagher “writing that unsettles and challenges, that questions assumptions… A rich, boisterous, tender, charming, angry, sorrowful, gleeful mix” Aug 2025 – available for preorder! 💙📚 asls.org.uk/publications...

It may be sunny here in Edinburgh, but head over to BfS for a taster of the dark side of the city with an extract of Michelle Sloan's Mrs Burke and Mrs Hare! booksfromscotland.com/2025/07/mrs-...

We love Michael Pedersen! (Have you read Muckle Flugga yet?) And we love his new poem Lines on Glister & Glow, written exclusively for Independent Bookshop Week (14-21 June). A love letter to independent bookshops. #ChooseBookshops ❤️ #IndieBookshopWeek youtu.be/FJCDZKBVceE?...

It's a gorgeous day, so what better time to offer you some super summer reading recommendations! Head over to BfS! booksfromscotland.com/2025/06/its-...

It is tonight!!! Join us at the @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social at 7! Come toast with @lyndseycroal.bsky.social and us all, the release of Dark Crescent! @booksfromscotland.bsky.social

If you're in the Milngavie and Glasgow area, don't miss this! @alastairc.com is not only an excellent writer of brilliant stories, but a great and fun speaker, too. This event sounds so much fun! #KidLitUK

“Somehow things happened, odd things, when Muriel was around,” recalled her friend Shirley Hazzard. “Everything that happened to Muriel,” according to … Barbara Epler, “had been foreseen”, usually in her books themselves. —The unnerving vision of Muriel Spark 💙📚 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...