I'm thrilled that Upon A White Horse is going to be Radio 4's Book Of The Week. The first episode, which is on Stonehenge, will be on December 8 at 11.45am – and then there will be a reading from a different part of the book every day up to and including December 12. I hope you'll enjoy listening.

Amazing night to celebrate 30 years of the English Bookshop in Uppsala, Sweden. Thanks to Jan and all his brilliant team for such kind hospitality.

An updated list of prizes is here: womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/11/05/g...

Our Custodian, @sorchadallas.bsky.social has written an obituary for Elspeth King in The Guardian. King transformed how Scotland’s museums told the stories of everyday people—https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/16/elspeth-king-obituary

We had a great morning at Glasgow Central station handing out free copies of 'Friendship' for #BookWeekScotland! 📚 Catch us again tomorrow at Edinburgh Waverley from 8am! Thanks to Scotrail for having us🚆

Today and every day the @scottishgreens.org stand with our refugee and migrant neighbours.

Labour’s plan risks weakening protections for all of us. Human rights are universal - politicians may not always find them politically convenient but it shouldn’t fall to any government to say who those rights should and should not apply to. It’s a slippery slope to oblivion youtu.be/bl0Lm7v_T18?...

Delighted to be in this illustrious line up! Good folk of Wishaw - hope to see some of you this Tuesday 😊

I’m wondering if any children’s publishers need a freelance writer to write reading scheme books for them or branded picture books etc? I’ve written reading scheme books for Star Wars and Disney before! Any shares would be amazing! #BookSky #KidLit

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Thinking about my own father, who arrived in 1946 with the Free Polish Army - when would Labour have sent him back to communist Poland? How could he have done anything to build a life and have children in the UK if he had had to beg to stay every two years? Disgusting. www.bbc.com/news/article...

📣Our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships are now open for applications! We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections. Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li... 📆Closing date: 5 January 2026 #UofGLibraryFellows

We’re officially mid-way through #BFLAOpenWeek! Today’s Question of the Day: What would you love to see on submission? What’s top of your wishlist? 📖✏️📖✏️ All our agents share the books they want to see in their inboxes – and you read even more at blakefriedmann.co.uk/news/bfla-op...!

Poverty is a policy area that is highly responsive to policy change. We know what works. In Scotland, where families on a low-income receive £26.70 per child per week, poverty rates have been falling. This contrasts to increase in child poverty everywhere else in UK blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Mark your calendars! Islay Book Festival 2026 will take place from Thursday 27th - Sunday 30th August. 🎉 We have been busy planning ahead for our next festival after the success of 2025. We can’t wait to share updates with you soon… 📚❤️

We can't wait to welcome you and author @writerkcampbell.bsky.social to #WishawLib on Tuesday 18 November, 7pm as we continue our #BookWeekScotland activities. Book a free place now here: culturenl.co.uk/kcBWS

Looking forward to this! Come and say hello if you're about 😊

ICYMI: Come along to our Scottish Christmas Book Fair!

Our #BFLAOpenWeek returns NEXT WEEK (10th – 14th Nov): 5 days of FREE tips, advice and insight on getting published – and more. We can’t wait! For a reminder about what’s on offer, visit our website: blakefriedmann.co.uk/news/bfla-op.... 📚📝

The #RadicalBookFair is as much about community as it is about books - a space for connection, for learning, for taking action. So Sunday we host stalls from grassroots groups, local initiatives, bookish collaborators & activist campaigns, come meet the people making change on your doorstep!

"As for the monarchy, it will end not with a bang but a whimper. Giuffre’s book, with all its harrowing details, is one more wave battering against its cliff face, eroding the public’s faith." My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column. www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

Just over a week to go until my talk at the Mitchell Library in Glasgow as part of the brilliant Aye Write festival - if you fancy hearing about my adventures in search of Scotland's ancient past, come along! Tickets available here: www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/the-... #RomanSiteSaturday #AyeWrite

And just like that we're officially counting down to Christmas! Our Christmas elves have been busy getting out Christmas cards, advent calendars, advent books, decorations & of course gorgeous gifts! Tis the season to shop local! #shoplocal #christmasiscoming #adventcalendar

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2 weeks to go, and the seats are nearly all gone! Join us in @gleeclubglasgow.bsky.social on the 13th November for our Nae Borders comedy fundraiser. Book your tickets now before there's none left! 🎟 booking.glee.co.uk/22899

Our CEO Sabir spoke with BBC Radio Scotland about the UK Government’s proposal to move people seeking asylum to disused military barracks in Inverness. He highlighted that this is yet another short-term measure for a system that urgently needs long-term, humane reform.

#WritingCommunity! Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct! Submit free via Submittable 👇 nws.submittable.com/submit

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community. Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

Be sure to join us in St Peter's tonight as we sit down with @lesleymcdowell.bsky.social to talk all about her new novel Love & Other Poisons - a tale bursting with scandal and intrigue that spans decades... following the mysterious figure of Madeleine Smith. Tickets available on the door!

#WritingCommunity! Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct! Submit free via Submittable 👇 nws.submittable.com/submit

That will be a vote winner in Scotland not!

My annual shout out to anyone who notices a physical change & decides to wait. Gonnae no dae that! A lump that appeared in 2016 was a sign of Lymphoma. I got it treated within months and today I got the all clear once again at Ninewells. Tak tent an it’s tint. Deal with it and get rid of it!

Join us for Alasdair & Others, launching with writer Willy Maley in conversation with @rodgeglass.bsky.social at the ARC, University of Glasgow — 18 Nov 2025, 4–6pm. Booking via Eventbrite. #alasdairgray #uofg

Great to see this article about #saltires in @thebookseller.com www.thebookseller.com/news/scotlan...

Last year we helped more than 10,700 people rebuild their lives in safety. Thanks for helping us build a better future with refugees in Scotland. This World #StatsDay, take a look at our year in numbers to see how we’re making a difference together scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk/impact/

Jenni Fagan and @writerkcampbell.bsky.social on this list. Will be reading both of these! And LOTS more I’d like to read too. 📚

Woohoo 🎉🎉. Very happy writer here! 😁

Over the moon that This Bright Life has made it onto the 2025 Saltire National Book Awards shortlist!!! 😁 Popping a cork right now! @blakefriedmann.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk www.thesaltires.org.uk

Popped into Govan Old. The Pictish sarcophagus is looking great. I signed my books in their excellent gift shop. Perhaps pick up a Christmas present while helping @govanstones.bsky.social fundraising?

Applications are now open for our New Scots Leadership Programme 2025/26! 💬“We have many skills which are hidden and that we don’t really discover until someone gives you the tools to unlock them. This training helped us do that.” Find out more and apply: scottishrefugeecounc...

Dr Husam Zomlot, Head of Palestinian Mission to the UK, spoke movingly at the SNP Conference today. Well worth listening to his whole speech 👇 Very rarely is a Palestinian voice heard without bias and interruption on British media. (Video courtesy @broadcastscot.bsky.social ) youtu.be/dx-3t7yD36M

I was fortunate enough to be at Edwyn Collins's final ever Scottish gig in Edinburgh last night. www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Aifter the boombers cleck and the sodgers traik thro the skau there’s an auld air sterts up – bubblin and greetin. It’s a ballant mithers sing on their hunkers i the stour for a bairn deid. They ken it by hert. —Alastair Mackie, “Pietà” The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse, @canongate.co.uk 2021

Voices for Gaza. An evening of poetry, music and hope, with love from Scotland to Palestine. On at the Catstrand in New Galloway this Saturday, to raise much needed funds for MAP. gcat.scot/arts

Busy final day at Wigtown! Come on down if you can. 😊

What a brilliant night. Back in The Citz for first time in 7 years, and the old lady is looking fantastic. And what a heart-rending, powerful, thoughtful and ultimately uplifting piece of theatre to open with. Congratulations & thank you to all involved.

It was an absolute pleasure, Ernie! I mean Olga...😄