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@margaretatwood.bsky.social
Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
@ianrankin1.bsky.social
Author, Inspector Rebus (and other stuff). Edinburgh-based. More usually pub-based.
@kitdewaal.com
Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Henry Allen. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com
@mariankeyes.bsky.social
Reads books. Watches telly. Wrings hands over the state of the world.
@louiestowell.bsky.social
Writer/illustrator of the LOKI: A Bad God's Guide books, Writer of Otherland & The Dragon in the Library. https://louiestowell.com. No terfs. Many fluctuating fandoms incluing BtVS + Doctor Who. This feed isn't for kids.
@ciaraioch.bsky.social
Cartoonist/Illustrator/Doodler | Sí/í/YerWan | "Keer-ee-uhk" | 🇮🇪 📨 Work Queries: ciaraioch.art@gmail.com 🎨 Prints: https://www.ciaraioch.com/artprints 📜 Newsletter: https://www.ciaraioch.com/newsletter 🫙 Tip Jar: https://www.ciaraioch.com/tip-jar
@ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
Indy publisher of award winning literary fiction You can order books here : www.bluemoosebooks.com
@sarahpinborough.bsky.social
Author and screenwriter. Sunday Times #1, & NYT Bestselling author of BEHIND HER EYES on Netflix and INSOMNIA on Paramount+. Ted owner. WE LIVE HERE NOW coming Summer of 2025
@annamazz.bsky.social
Writer. Very small. Books normal size. THE CLOCKWORK GIRL, BOOK OF SECRETS etc. Writes thrillers as Anna Sharpe. Also a criminal justice lawyer and a dark history geek.
@bertsbooks.bsky.social
Swindon based independent bookshop, visit us online or in person! bertsbooks.co.uk - or 54 Godwin Court, Swindon, SN1 4BB Email us on bert@bertsbooks.co.uk
@sineadgleeson.bsky.social
🇮🇪 Writer Hagstone | Constellations | This Woman’s Work (with Kim Gordon) | Agent: Peter Straus at RCW | Newsletter: momentsofrecognition.substack.com
@irishlittimes.bsky.social
Promoting Irish writers and writing - maintained by Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social
@janecasey.bsky.social
Author from Ireland. Responsible for the Maeve Kerrigan series and The Killing Kind (now on TV!). Also owner of the world’s least cooperative spaniel.
@rickoshea.bsky.social
Broadcaster @rte.ie - on @rtegold.bsky.social. Book columnist @independent.ie, patron @epilepsyireland.bsky.social, board of Fighting Words NI, literary curator @ucddublin.bsky.social Festival. Quizzer. https://linktree/rickoshea
@janetemson.bsky.social
Book lover. Book reviewer. On the other socials as @JanetEmson UK fromfirstpagetolast.wordpress.com
@charlottemendelson.bsky.social
New novel WIFE out now, Meanwhile: The Exhibitionist, Almost English, When We Were Bad+ Gardening for New Yorker
@ronanhession.bsky.social
Rónán Hession. Irish author @1dublin1book Listed @anpostibas @booksaremybag #BritishBookAwards #KerryGroupIrishNovel @Soc_of_Authors @dalkeybookfest @PrizeRofC Contact via www.ronanhession.com
@stuhennigan.bsky.social
Writer, poet, editor, musician. Ghost Signs (Bluemoose 2022) Keshed (Ortac, Feb 2026) Disappear Here: Bret Easton Ellis' America (Ortac, pub. tbc) #MDANT https://stuhennigan.substack.com/ https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/author/4207/stu-hennigan
@liznugent.bsky.social
No relation to Ted. Writer and rewriter. Sister and resister. Scullery maid to the House of Goldblatt. Strange Sally Diamond in all good bookstores now. And even the bad ones. Ha! As if there was such a thing as a bad bookstore. www.liznugent.com
@gutterbookshop.bsky.social
Two lovely bookshops in Dublin, Ireland - named after that famous Oscar Wilde quote... Store Manager Marta posts here whenever she gets a moment.
@holly.bsky.social
Author. Former journalist. 59 MINUTES out in 2025 (🇬🇧and 🇺🇸) Honest Authors pod. Repped by C&W/UTA. Let’s hope this place works out, eh.
@conorpope.bsky.social
I dropped out of the Cubs because it clashed with The Incredible Hulk on the telly. I work for The Irish Times.
@bobjohnstonbooks.bsky.social
'Our Big Day' LGBTQ+ award-winning picturebook published 2022. Currently working on a gay novel for adults. Husband, dog lover, cat misser, biscuit eater, previously @gutterbookshop ... he/him. www.bobjohnstonbooks.com
@dorothykoomson.bsky.social
📚Award-winning, Sunday Times Bestselling Author | Writer ✍🏾 l Reader 📖 | TV & Film Lover 📺 | Podcaster 🎙️| Latest book Every Smile You Fake out now 📚⚡️
@janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social
Writer (Secrets of the Bees out in Jun 2025; Black Crescent, White Hare, Sea Gate etc), publisher (GRRM, Hobb, Feist, Lawrence, Heartfield, Kaner, ex Tolkien), allotmenteer. History. Morocco/Cornwall. Covid is airborne 💙📚 #Writing #Books #FBPE
@adamcsharp.bsky.social
1. Writer (https://www.adamsharp.me/) 2. Obsessed with lists 3. COMMON PEOPLE 4. THE CORRECT ORDER OF BISCUITS 5. THE WHEEL IS SPINNING BUT THE HAMSTER IS DEAD (http://geni.us/yDxa)
@chaptersbookstore.bsky.social
Ireland’s biggest independent bookstore - new, secondhand & bargain books - where you find what you didn’t know you were looking for! We always want your trade ins!
@keithrosson.bsky.social
Writer, arteest, blindish, kinda punk. Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. FEVER HOUSE/THE DEVIL BY NAME duology out now via Random House. COFFIN MOON coming Fall ‘25. Repped by Chad Luibl, Janklow & Nesbit. CLOSED FOR BLURBS, SORRY.
@bookwormvaught.bsky.social
Author of many books, Creative Writing & English teacher, Curae prize, campaigner, mum of 3 lads. Rep. @keslupo Maass Agency, NYC Wilts, Wales, Southern US https://linktr.ee/bookwormvaught?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=00043ddf-6cad-43e1-8c8a-d89
@poisonedpen.bsky.social
Your Local Bookstore No Matter Where You Live. www.poisonedpen.com
@wednesdayerskin.bsky.social
THE BENEFACTORS (novel) coming JUNE 25, Sceptre. dance move/sweet home/stinging fly/picador/well I just kind of like it/PVA Books
@jillmccabejohnson.bsky.social
Writing about nature, science, history, and sexual violence. Multiple books, multiple mischief. TANGLED IN VOW & BESEECH (poems) released Spring 2024. LEARNING TO SPAR (memoir) due out December 2026. Editor in Chief Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table Press.
@essiefox.bsky.social
Dangerous is my latest novel. A dark historical crime mystery, featuring Lord Byron in Venice and a spate of Vampiric style killings. Is he innocent or guilty? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dangerous-riveting-historical-BESTSELLING-Fascination/dp/1916788440
@cristinleach.bsky.social
Irish Writer. Art Critic. Bestselling divorce/art memoir, NEGATIVE SPACE. ‘She is uncommonly good at writing about being embodied’ - Irish Times. RHA book, FROM TEN TILL DUSK. 20yrs in The Sunday Times. Winter Papers. RTÉ. 🖇️ https://linktr.ee/cristinleach
@nadinematheson.com
Bestselling Author👩🏾💻 | Host of ‘The Conversation’ Podcast 🎙️| All Views My Own 💬 www.nadinematheson.com Podcast: apple.co/3RSKsxK |Spotify spoti.fi/3DVDB0G 🌳https://linktr.ee/Nadine_Matheson 📚 THE KILL LIST( An Inspector Henley Thriller: Book 3) Out Now
@aoifeb.bsky.social
Swears, writes, Gaeilge is fáilte. She/í Makes Censored, a podcast about dirty books and films https://shows.acast.com/censored Research interests: sex and death
@goldsborobooks.bsky.social
An award-winning independent bookshop with branches in London (23-27 Cecil Court) and Brighton (22b Ship Street) The book collectors bookseller.
@callytaylor.bsky.social
British crime author. Sunday Times bestseller. Richard & Judy pick. Mum, dog owner, knitter, crocheter, maker, watches a lot of TV.
@oisinmcgann.bsky.social
Over 30 years in commercial art and more than 20 as a published author – mostly children's and young adult. No hope of ever getting a proper job. Lifelong nerd who's concerned about climate change. No AI data scraping. He/Him. http://oisinmcgann.com/
@fhayesmccoy.bsky.social
USA Today Bestselling Irish author. Fiction/non-fic. Latest novel #TheBooksellersGift, Hachette Books Irl Oct 2024 Lives London, UK/Corca Dhuibhne, Ireland (Gaeilge agus fáilte). Rep: Gaia Banks, Sheil Land Associates UK Linktree: https://rb.gy/g9pf2
@franmcbookface.bsky.social
Book devourer & reviewer. Archivist. Occasional crafter. Edinburgh 🏴 franmcbookface@gmail.com 📖 Fulvia📱The Society of Unknowable Objects 🎧 There are Rivers in the Sky https://linktr.ee/franmcbookface 💙📚
@wurdsmyth.bsky.social
Writer, singer songwriter and sparkly little optimist in a dark, dark world... Six-times Sunday Times Bestseller, vlogger, podcaster and million-copy-seller. Also daft!
@abeewords.bsky.social
📖 GRAVE EXPECTATIONS & DISPLEASURE ISLAND out now from Corvus Books 🇬🇧 and Vintage Anchor🇺🇸 ◦ good books ◦ murder ◦ swearing ◦ #BWithTheT Rep Stevie Finegan at Zeno @totalplaytime.com https://alicebellauthor.com/
@lindasbookbag.bsky.social
Book blogger at https://lindasbookbag.com and fanatical tea drinker Reviewer for My Weekly and The People’s Friend X Lindahill50Hill Insta ljh50hill 📚❤️
@thereadingpara.bsky.social
Paramedic/Team Leader (views my own) Runner (including crazy distance runner!) Book reviewer #TheReadingParamedic™️ UK Book Blogger of the Year 2023 🏆 All my links here: https://linktr.ee/thereadingparamedic
@claireallan.bsky.social
Writer of thrillers ✍️ Derry Girl ☘️ Izzy’s Human 🐾 aka FREYA KENNEDY, when I'm feeling romantic. 💕 Powered by ADHD, HRT & Maltesers 🤯🥵🍫 Published by @boldwoodbooks.bsky.social New thriller: 📕The Perfect Mother 😱🔪🎈- February '25
@amandageard.bsky.social
Author of R&J pick THE MIDNIGHT HOUSE and THE MOON GATE, lover of big books 📚 Pub: Headline/Hachette. Agent: AM Heath www.amandageard.com