Janet Emson
Book lover. Book reviewer. On the other socials as @JanetEmson
UK
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Book people are the best - so here are some to follow.
@bethbooks-blankets.bsky.social
@balancingthebooks.bsky.social
✨Coming soon!✨ A podcast to help writers balance the books … along with everything else in life. Hosted by @caileansteed.bsky.social
@gordonjbrown.bsky.social
Crime author and founding board director of Bloody Scotland. The Cost, starring Blake Glover, out now - published by Severn House.
@nicolelove.bsky.social
Unreliable narrator 📍Edinburgh/ Glasgow 🎓 Creative Writing PhD, Strathclyde 🌼 Marketing Editor, Interpret Magazine 🏴 🇧🇪 🇺🇸 🇸🇬
@waterstoneslpl.bsky.social
Bookshop and coffee shop over two floors in the very heart of Liverpool. Come & talk to us about books and let us help find you your next favourite read. Regular book events held in store & externally - waterstones.com/events/liverpool
@brightbookfest.bsky.social
Brighton's best festival. Making the marginalised mainstream since 2022. https://linktr.ee/brightonbookfestival
@jamestopham.bsky.social
Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner. https://james-topham.com
@elizabethbaines.bsky.social
Writer of short stories, novels, plays. http://www.elizabethbaines.co.uk Astral Travel, a novel, published by Salt Books https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/astral-travel-9781784632199
@krissysbooked.bsky.social
Londoner | Reader | Spoonie | Mother Audiobooks | Backlog | Library books #IBelieveInBookFairies CR: Their Eyes Were Watching God https://linktr.ee/KrissysBooked
@slightlyfoxed.bsky.social
The magazine for people who love books | We also publish limited-edition memoirs & biographies and produce a well-loved literary podcast. foxedquarterly.com
@girlhermes.bsky.social
Author of The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock, and more. Currently working on a novel about Lady Eleanor Talbot. Here for history and the stories we tell about it. Click for courses, mentoring, and etc: https://linktr.ee/imogenhermes
@abelfrageauthor.bsky.social
History nut, avid reader & writer. Author of acclaimed time travel series The Graham Saga, medieval series The King's Greatest Enemy & The Castilian Saga. Guzzles tea, loves chocolate and HEA . . . https://www.annabelfrage.com
@talking-books.bsky.social
Content producer on RNIB Connect Radio. Mainly shows about books and accessible reading. Used to be a Klingon.
@emilycadwalader.bsky.social
MG & YA Fantasy Writer . she/her . same handle in various places
@lizpoet.bsky.social
I'm a children's poet, I love writing animal and shape poems, and the children's poetry world! National Poetry Day Ambassador. Assistance Dog Owner. Book reader. Coffee drinker. Friend. Between Bristol and Bath.
@johnironmonger.bsky.social
Bestselling novelist. Zoologist. Cruciverbalist. Husband. Dad. Grandpops. Festival Prize winner. Costa short-lister. And I've seen a Javan rhino.
@lauraejames.bsky.social
Writer/author. RNA member #RespectRomFic. Music/MT, cat & stationery 💖. RA. FM. Colitis. Smells new books. Gamer. She/her 🖤🩶🤍💜
@maggiecraig.bsky.social
Scottish writer and historian. Loves writing, reading, cats and drinking tea.
@jpreedman.bsky.social
Author of historical fiction on Medieval Women, the Wars of the Roses, Stonehenge and Robin Hood
@bookbabe.bsky.social
Indie bookstore owner. Traveler to real and imagined places. #Books #Booksellers #IndieBookstores
@wendyreadsbooks1.bsky.social
Books books and more books I’m over on instagram as @wendyreadsbooks And X as @wendyreadsbook1
@timhannigan.bsky.social
Writer: #TheGraniteKingdom, #TheTravelWritingTribe, Indonesia; academic stuff on travel writing. From Cornwall. Teaches Writing & Literature at ATU Sligo
@crimebookgirl.bsky.social
Crime fiction aficionado. Book blogger (www.crimebookgirl.com), event chair, Theakstons Prize academy member, 2021/22/23 Ngaio Marsh Awards judge - it's #AllCrimeAllTheTime here!
@ahippisleycox.bsky.social
PR working with Frankfurter Buchmesse, The Chalke History Festival, Pippa Funnell's Pony Tales, The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction and Bitter Lemon Press.
@editorvhw.bsky.social
Commercial fiction editor ✍️ Previously at Pan Macmillan, Corsair and HarperCollins 📚
@evadolan.bsky.social
Sunday Times bestselling author of the Zigic & Ferreira series with Bloomsbury Raven. Grand Prix des Lectrices winner. Cambridge.
@kingsley-pearson.bsky.social
Clinical Psychologist & Writer. London-based. Represented by Silé Edwards at Andrew Nurnberg Associates. 🏳️🌈 🇱🇰 🇧🇪 🇬🇧 Pre-order Flat 401: https://www.klpearson.net/flat-401 Netgalley: https://www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book/598508 Published by Orion July 2025.
@writerjilljohnson.bsky.social
Author DEVIL’S BREATH-BBC Between The Covers book club pick, HELL’S BELLS and BELLA DONNA Pub’d by @bwpublishing. Ngaio Marsh Award double category finalist. Rep'd by Pontas Agency Insta: jilljohnsonwrites Info: http://jilljohnsonwrites.com
@leedslitfest.bsky.social
14th - 22nd June 2025. Returning for its seventh year, the city’s award-winning festival of words aims to bring together, and help develop, the city’s literary scene, with writers, poets and performers from Leeds, Yorkshire and beyond! #LLF25
@wsbookclub.bsky.social
I'm a bookblogger, TTRPG player, homeschool mom, and super nerd. I often speak in movie quotes, and I'm happily weird. She/her 📚 🐉🏒 No to AI! https://wittyandsarcasticbookclub.home.blog/
@fionaschneider.bsky.social
Writer | Reader. THE PARIS AFFAIR is out now. THE PERFUMER'S SECRET comes out on 03/07/25. Published by Penguin @michaeljbooks. Rep’d by @rebeccaritchie.agent @a.m.heath
@longestchapter.bsky.social
NPR book critic for WOSU Public Media, book blogger at thelongestchapter.com, and mom to cardigan corgis Fitzgerald and Daisy Fay.
@bristolshortstory.bsky.social
Annual short story prize housed at the University of Bristol and coordinated by Dr Carrie Etter (carrieetter.bsky.social). https://bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk Open for entries until 31 January 2025 with judges Jan Carson, Peace Adzo Medie, and Kate Johnson
@catmitchell17.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Publishing researching disability. Ex-Penguin. 📚🌈 she/her
@brixtonbookgroup.com
Home of London’s biggest pub based book group, running since 2005. Find us at BrixtonBookGroup.com current book is pinned to our profile.
@wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social
Because ideas matter. 💡 A non-fiction imprint of @harpercollinsuk. The proud publisher of David Attenborough, Max Hastings, Cathy Newman and more.
@4thestatebooks.bsky.social
Books for the independent reader. Bookseller Imprint of the Year, and publishers of Hilary Mantel, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Elizabeth Day and Nigel Slater.
@natasha-gill.bsky.social
Campaigns Executive at Riot Communications | UoN Geography grad 👩🏽🎓 | mental health advocate
@jackbirch.bsky.social
Books 💫 Colombo 💫 Torres Fried Egg Crisps Evangelist 💫 Digital Marketing for Bloomsbury Publishing 💫 Cold Weather Enjoyer
@grumpyoldbooks.bsky.social
Loves a book review😁👍🏼📚. Check out our site at https://grumpyoldbooks.blogspot.com/2020/10/intro.html?spref=tw&m=1 Also Cymro
@alexmarchartist.bsky.social
Artist, art lecturer, worrier UK based collagist, painter and maker of small beautiful things. www.alexmarch.com
@georgiarybanks.bsky.social
Reading books from around the world. Riding bikes. Walking dogs. Watching sport. Lifting weights. Growing food. Drawing critters.
@wearefootnote.bsky.social
We're a disruptive publisher focusing on migration, identity, resistance and reclamation_ There's more to the story_