his week I started a new novel ... it won't be out until 2027. So for the sheer accountability of it I'm going to post once a week with where I'm at with it. It's called The Counterfeit and the Courtesan and this week I hit my target of 6000 words so I'm off!

We've had a couple of really lovely authors pop in this week to sign their books. Thank you M A Kuzniar and @anikahussainwrites.bsky.social this stuff makes our day

New on the blog today, I've written about THE NEW DRESS by Virginia Woolf. In these evocative stories, a new dress reveals a woman's inadequacies, the gift of a brooch hints at a mystery and a couple's nicknames become symbolic of happier times. #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/09/18/t...

Good morning. Together with @littletollerbooks.bsky.social we publish a very important book The destruction of our peat lands is of international concern. 40 nature writers incl. Rob Macfarlane - Amy Liptrot - Horatio Clare & music legend Patti Smith. You can order here: www.littletoller.co.uk

I read Dorothy L. Sayers at an impressionable age, she made me fall in love with the concept of a university education and want to read all sorts of classics (it's possible I missed the point of the murder mysteries). Thinking about her as I start this absolute beauty. Thank you Norton/Liverlight

Who wants to hear me talk about the Dance of Death? That’s what I’m going to be doing on Thursday - it’s online, and you can get tickets here: thelasttuesdaysociety.org/event/will-y...

Happiest Book Birthday to @mcflycahill90.bsky.social's Audition for the Fox! 🦊 I'm still in awe of how much world Marty managed to fit in such a slim volume. (Vesper is, too.) This book is a marvel. 🖤 tachyonpublications.com/product/audi...

Some tips for your #Discoveries2026 entry from 2026 judge @dorothykoomson.bsky.social 👇

ICYMI: Virago Modern Classics has signed classic fantasy novel Travel Light by Scottish writer Naomi Mitchison. First published in 1952, Travel Light is a “witty, enchanting and slyly subversive” novel 👇 #BookSky

Come and meet a Leicester legend

Cone and meet a Leicester legend

LONDON! We are recruiting an Assistant to our Publisher & Commercial Director, looking for the keenest reader with great organisational skills who wants to discover how multiple departments within a publisher work. Salary & great benefits in the ad, apply by Sept 23rd: canongate.co.uk/about/jobs/

Teachers of Scotland! Join us online on 30 September as we share how the new 2025 Read Write Count book bags could be used for a mixed-level paired reading project in your school. 📚

There's only one week left to apply for a 2026 New Writers Award! Tell your talented writer friends. . . 📲

Announcing the cover for our Christmas Crime Classic, Death in Ambush: A Lost Christmas Murder Mystery. This rediscovered tale is a country-house murder with a clever mystery at its heart. Originally published in 1952, it will be an instant festive favourite. Pre-order:🌨️ shop.bl.uk/products/dea...

If anyone in Glasgow or Edinburgh would like a signed copy of Upon A White Horse, there are copies in Waterstones on Sauchiehall Street, Argyle Street, Princes Street and at the Braehead shopping centre. Blackwell’s on South Bridge and Topping on Blenheim Place also have a few.

Another book for my weekend - its knitting season, and Alison Rendall has impeccable credentials when it comes to heritage knitting from Shetland. Does anyone else have any big making projects in mind for the autumn?

I'm off this weekend, mostly planning on reading The Poisoned King. We still have a few signed exclusive copies left, and a few cool giveaways to go with them.

The youngest #DogsInBookshops we've had. This is Ember. Ember's humans used to come in with Daisy, who they sadly list a wee while ago. They thought we might like to meet Ember, 11 weeks, and exploring the world via a buggy because she's not had all her shots yet. They were right!

Take a rainy-day trip to the lake and watch the lilies open their blossoms in this cosy and relaxing tile placement game perfect for slowing down after a stressful day 🪷🧘🏻🪷

This week: a preemptive new mom cut & this GORGEOUS new book exploring the lives of 18 women over five centuries. Delighted to see a fleeting ref to my girl Isabella Byron, mistress of Castle Howard 🏛️ Thank you @yalebooks.bsky.social for my copy 🤓 Out now! > uk.bookshop.org/p/books/mist...

But you can’t NOT do it - it’s the necessity of racing racing racing hoping hoping hoping - creating noise after noise in the hope that the cacophony will conceal, even vanquish, the sense of failure

So many amazing books landing at the moment I don't know where to start. Or where to put them. Cone and buy amazing new books and stop a book seller having a breakdown over table space!

On the day a (more modern, c 350 years old) White Horse was vandalised-the antidote. A book about deep heritage & meaningful connection to a landscape "Upon A White Horse is a celebration of landscape and people–and all that is beautiful, strange and old" @peteralanross.bsky.social Published 11 Sept

Who needs some Tuesday cheering up in the form of dog pictures? (Apart from me, because it's exactly what I need today...) #DogsInBookshops

Stop!!! Go and have a cup of tea.

"DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL somehow takes the end of the world and makes it an utterly consumable adventure." My review of the LitRPG by Matt Dinniman!

Big first day for Fearful but we still have a few copies left and a couple of these cute notebooks for lucky customers

Busy day, big releases - is Christmas coming or something? And really cute #DogsInBookshops that pug felt like it was made of the softest velvet - a walking hug

Some great recommendations on this list inews.co.uk/culture/book... there's never a bad time for cosy crime

Katabasis day tomorrow- join us for exclusive editions, merch, and very excited booksellers

Twenty years ago, my ex used to tell me that I'd never be published, because everything I read was 'shit'. These are my published novels (plus Lugan, plus two more completed, plus the one I'm writing at the moment and others coming). READ WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU WANT

Sharing good news doesn’t feel so good right now but this joyous book with its neurodivergent South Asian kid hero means a lot so here it is. Cover reveal and illustrator reveal for Hari Kumar Ultimate Superstar this Thursday. 💛 #kidlituk #kidlit

Can't wait to share the Holly Black excitement next month. Raced through this arc, re read Book of Night, and have loved every moment. Thanks @penguinhuddleuk.bsky.social

I have been utterly absorbed by this by @highamnews.bsky.social - it is a fascinating story. It is out in October.

It's been an excellent day for #DogsinBookshops sheltering from the heat

Great thread for a Monday morning. And a great reason to talk to booksellers and get your kids talking to them too

Authors write the book, and authors or publishers release the book, but it's readers who weild the power behind the book. If you love something you've read, tell everyone, give it as gifts, sing its praises high and low. This and only this is the real magic in publishing.

I finished 2 excellent magical books this week. Both expertly weave magic into our own world, making it feel like the most natural of phenomena and helping me look at our world with a different slant. What brilliant magical books would you recommend? #KidsBooksFriday #KidLitUK #UKKidLit

Day off so playing around with my own book shelves. I love this series! @blpublishing.bsky.social - they're so pretty

Good to see mentions of @noreenmasud.bsky.social , @pollyrowena.bsky.social and @nicwilson.bsky.social . Check their books out.

Love a series like this - 90 bite size introductions to a world of things I might not otherwise pick up. More than happy to order any we don't have on the shelf too!

If there remain any teachers/librarians/parents who doubt the value of comics... read them this! #UKKidlit readingagency.org.uk/reading-cris...

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Last day of this offer!! Preorder today & get 25% off. Thanks if you have ❤️ @summersdalebooks.bsky.social

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Preorder The Movie Lover’s Quiz Book from Waterstones & get 25% off the rrp! What a deal 😁 #Wpreorder (offer ends Thursday) @summersdalebooks.bsky.social www.waterstones.com/book/the-mov...

Penultimate day for pre-ordering ILLUSIONS OF PRESENCE direct from Waterstones online using the code SUMMER25 where you'll get 25% off! #wpreorder This is the only book from the British Library that's getting this treatment.

#TheNancys and the Case of the Missing Necklace is the gripping, glorious and glittering with suspense novel from award-winning author, R.W.R McDonald. Out 6/11 Pre-order for 25% off via Waterstones using code SUMMER 25 💎 https://bit.ly/44LLNyp ##BookTwitter #Mystery #PreOrder #New