Met someone in the pub last night who'd received a very favourite long-wanted, fairly unusual paperback when he was given a PatC subscription box as a gift a couple of years' ago and he was so delighted, still, it is just such a magical thing that happens when you unite someone with a favourite.

Such a treasure, this book, it really is ❤️

Travelling today and I have forgotten my book! I do have Caroline Fraser's Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder on my phone, which is excellent, but I also really don't enjoy reading on my phone...

My favourite Jilly Cooper story is recounted in Graham Hoyland's 2013 book Last Hours on Everest. What a trooper.

I understand that it's the longest book but it is wild to me that there's still no audiobook for Mariana Enriquez' Our Share of Night...

@mmeguillotine.bsky.social you have done it again: this is marvellously immersive, savouring the details.

Very much enjoyed this collection of readers recounting how they read, and how they make time for it: indeed, I find it the MOST pleasing thing to hear about. www.thecut.com/article/how-...

Just caught up with Slow Horses and sorry but there's no WAY Diana Taverner doesn't use bookends in that arrangement

I hope this finds the person who needs it: every episode of Jim Henson's The Storyteller is available for free on YouTube.

Wonderful news! PatC favourite @derekdesanges.bsky.social has just released a book of short stories (including glorious SF short Vessel 151-B, which keen PatC postcard collectors will have seen recommended!): do not delay, shop, read and enjoy! #bookrec derekdesanges.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/p...

Sold! ❤️🥂

NEW in the #patcshop - Booth's Handbook of Cocktails and Mixed Drinks. 1966 FIRST EDITION. By appointment to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. No cocktail cabinet is complete without a copy of this classic Booth's handbook! £5.75 inc UK P&P. #bookmail 💙📚 shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/boo...

always repost <3

One thing the Hugo Award rec sheet struggles with is artists. Are you an SFF artist, or do you know any that have done work in 2025? Our professional artist and fan artist categories need some love. #art #HugoAwards

Remember all my mad book drama? (If not, buy me a pint and I'll sing you the ballad of the dodgy ex-publisher...) Well, I'm absolutely delighted to say it's over! An enormous thanks to my wonderful new publisher @manchesterup.bsky.social Queer As Folklore will be back in the wild! 🧜🏼‍♂️

NEW in the #patcshop - Dorita Fairlie Bruce's The School on the Moor. Oxford University Press. 1934. Hardback with pictorial cover. Illustrated frontispiece. Condition: see listing please! £12 inc UK P&P. #bookmail 💙📚 shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/dor...

This scene is where we leave Roland at the end of the book, so it seemed appropriate as the back cover illustration for the first edition of THE DARK TOWER: THE GUNSLINGER, published by Donald M. Grant. www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/gu...

I dunno, I feel like I'm getting the exact future that all the sci-fi I was consuming as a teenager warned me about.

And some amazing covers! Sometimes it feels like we've seen all the paperbacks over the years, but none of these have come my way or they would be on my shelf right now! Fantastic.

This is going to be such a treat of a read, really looking forward to it x

Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction

it's this, this is how you end up with floorboards bowing under their very weight (books, not pigs)

I tried to decide which books to take with me on a short trip and gave up thinking maybe I could just buy some fresh ones /o\ This is how they get you...

Photos from ‘Spineless Wonders and 60 years of Small Press at UCL’. It’s been a great exhibition by the Research Institute for Collections showcasing iconic presses from the 1960s and 1970s alongside recent acquisitions.

I haven't read it yet, but this month's @prudenceandthecrow.bsky.social book actually made me squeal with delight - a murder mystery WITH RECIPES OMG. It could only be more up my alley if it also came with a vintage sewing pattern and a bottle of gin. The food puns in the blurb alone are glorious!

I have dozens of episodes of a PatC podcast I've started over the years and never published because I'm all too aware that consistency is the main point with podcasts, and also I inevitably have far, far too much to say about any book: you would all be better off just reading/rereading the books.

certified PatC fave; you like books? Derek has 100% written something you'll enjoy. Please browse, merrily.

Today, Xueting's Sunday Culture takes a look at the Chinese artist known as 海豹王XX, or Wang XX, whose comics feature a loveable aquatic alter ego and their tiny octopus friend, exploring the trials and tribulations of everyday life in contemporary China (brace yourselves for those bad puns). 1/

Anyway, if you want to see science fiction thriving and doing all kinds of cool, weird shit, I invite you ti read more short fiction and delve into to small presses. Incredible stories, talented authors. Lots of great work happening in those spaces.

New today in the #patcshop - Alf Prøysen's Little Old Mrs Pepperpot. Gorgeous vintage Puffin! £5 including UK postage 💙📚 shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/alf... #bookish #booksky #bookshopsofbluesky

New today in the #patcshop - Alf Prøysen's Little Old Mrs Pepperpot. Gorgeous vintage Puffin! £5 including UK postage 💙📚 shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/alf... #bookish #booksky #bookshopsofbluesky

Just in case people don't know, because I worry that they don't, anyone can sign up to YouGov and participate in these daily polls we see so fervently commented upon: account.yougov.com/gb-en/join/m...

Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

Okay yes The Girl From Tomorrow and Tomorrow's End were HUGELY formative for Crow and I so this is absolutely great news, count us in... www.indiegogo.com/projects/the...

Catching up with yesterday's Gardener's World, unexpected and delightful feature on Harold and Vita Sackville-West's garden... 🌱

Please tell me about TV shows with queer representation that either never made it on the air because of that or had the queer content cut or censored in some way?

New today in the #patcshop - Floyd on Hangovers first edition. Gloriously 90's! £5 including UK postage 💙📚 shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/flo... #bookish #booksky #bookshopsofbluesky

Such a kind and heartwarming post from one of our vintage paperback book box subscribers this morning 💙📚 Also, beautiful bookish cat content XD It's a true highlight of what we do when we get to match a treasure of a book with its person, it really is! www.instagram.com/p/DNiJlm2CSu...

Did a recording last week, so the podcast should be out soon. Reiterating, that I'd love to hear from female, queer, and other marginalised content creators. Whether you want to discuss scifi, horror, fantasy, wuxia or Chinese cultures, I'd totally be up for it. Your voices are really important!

Such a kind and heartwarming post from one of our vintage paperback book box subscribers this morning 💙📚 Also, beautiful bookish cat content XD It's a true highlight of what we do when we get to match a treasure of a book with its person, it really is! www.instagram.com/p/DNiJlm2CSu...

Kudos to the Hugo ceremony organizers for just leaning into its length and providing attendees with entertainment. If only I’d brought a pen.

New today in the #patcshop - Susan Howatch's Sins of the Fathers - a 1980's first edition! £12 including UK postage 💙📚 #bookish #booksky #bookshopsofbluesky shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/sus...

New today in the #patcshop - Susan Howatch's Sins of the Fathers - a 1980's first edition! £12 including UK postage 💙📚 #bookish #booksky #bookshopsofbluesky shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/sus...

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

I enjoy the Toast newsletter a lot bc their clothes and homeware are lovely and they tell good tales of sustainable practice. This morning's is a "chosen just for you" email, and the lead picture is a massive bookshelf full of old books. Toast, yes, but also, you do not sell books, we do 😆

Every time I hear the song 'Wuthering Heights', I always think of a fella on my university course who didn't know the song was about a novel, and on me revealing its background, came out with this pearl. 'You know, they should do more songs about books, because some books are quite long.'

My new book about Marie Antoinette is coming out at the end of the month and you can now pre-order signed copies directly from me, no matter where you are and without having to use Amazon. ⚜️ www.marcburrows.co.uk/product/pre-...

Sharing my brief introduction to the anthology, which outlines the process through which it was put together.

So delighted to share that BETWEEN WORLDS: THE IF ANTHOLOGY OF NEW INDIAN SFF, is now available for pre-order - and will be in bookshops on 18 August! Pre-order here, or from your local bookshop: www.amazon.in/Between-Worl...

New today in the #patcshop - Lin Yutang's Moment in Peking. A 1940's first edition, no less! £15 including UK postage 💙📚 #bookish #booksky #bookshopsofbluesky shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/lin...