Marie-Louise Patton's Starter Pack
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@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
jester of goodwill (journalist, author, radio person, etc) marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
@janinegibson.ft.com
Editor of Weekend FT • sinkhole tracker • Do not buy crypto from me or anyone who appears to be me
@jonathancoe.bsky.social
Writer. New novel is THE PROOF OF MY INNOCENCE. Previous titles include WHAT A CARVE UP!, THE ROTTERS' CLUB, MIDDLE ENGLAND, MR WILDER AND ME ... https://linktr.ee/coelinks
@newstatesman.com
Politics, geopolitics, economics, books, culture, ideas, science, history, tech, data... Become a subscriber: https://newstatesman.com/subscribe
@questingvole.bsky.social
[indistinct chatter] @spectator lit ed. Author of The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading https://bit.ly/TheHauntedWood
@timadamswrites.bsky.social
Editor of Observer New Review, London; believer in untrodden ways and Invisible Cities, dawn choruses and last-minute winners.
@londonreviewbookshop.co.uk
London Review Bookshop. 20,000 titles on two floors in Bloomsbury, plus the best events in town 14 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL
@legolostatsea.bsky.social
Writer, beachcomber, all at sea. Founder of the award-winning Lego Lost At Sea project. Current Archaeology Rescue Project of the Year. Author of Adrift, The Curious Tale of the Lego Lost At Sea. Cornwall.
@drjamesbailey.bsky.social
Writer who lives in Manchester. Rep’d by Creative Artists Agency. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, is out in April 2026 🐈⬛ Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
@martindoyle.bsky.social
Books Editor of The Irish Times; author of Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place (Merrion Press)
@pdsmith.bsky.social
📚City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age, Doomsday Men, Einstein, Metaphor & Materiality. Now writing about cities, detectives and crime. https://linktr.ee/pd_smith
@yearsofreading.bsky.social
I’m Clare, book blogger since 2017 and full time carer. Life is too short to read books you don’t love, so I don’t.
@roisinlanigan.bsky.social
Author of I WANT TO GO HOME BUT IM ALREADY THERE, March 2025. Contributing Editor at The Fence.
@fionasturges.bsky.social
Arts & culture journalist, interviewer, spouter of opinions. Brightonian. ✍🏻: Guardian, FT Weekend, i newspaper, Independent. "Rampant feminist snowflake" - Piers Morgan "Well known lunatic" - Man on the internet
@thebookseller.com
At the heart of the book trade since 1858📚 News, charts, previews and more, online & in print. Buyer's Guides, conferences & The British Book Awards (Nibbies)✨
@robbiemillen.bsky.social
Literary Editor of The Times/Sunday Times. thetimes.com/culture/books
@matineegirl1.bsky.social
Book Editor Prima magazine. Book consultant for Between The Covers. Hairdresser.
@acaseforbooks.bsky.social
Author of Pages & Co. Sometimes theatre journalist. Host of Lush Book Club.
@zoeannewest.bsky.social
Books Editor @womanandhome @Womans_Weekly @WomanMagazine @Womansown Travel writer. Always looking for an adventure
@ellenejones.bsky.social
Journalist and broadcaster (Guardian, Observer, Empire, Esquire, Elle etc) Author of 'SCREEN DEEP: How film and TV can solve racism and save the world'(Faber, 2024, linktr.ee/Screen_Deep); Co-host of SCREENSHOT on BBC Radio 4 and wherever you get your pods
@sarramanning.bsky.social
Reader, writer, chopped liver Literary Editor for Red Magazine Representation: Rebecca Ritchie at A.M.Heath Ltd
@hamzajahanzeb.bsky.social
🪅: Personal account 📍: Kew, England 🇬🇧🇵🇰☪️🏳️🌈 🎭 : Writer #WestEnd #Broadway 📖 : Authenticity (née Sensitivity) Reader 🏆 : UK CWA Judge 🔗 : hamzajahanzeb.co.uk ✍️ : hamzajahanzeb.substack.com
@chrispower.bsky.social
I read books, write books (Mothers, A Lonely Man) and write about books (LRB, Guardian, NY Times etc). Booker judge 2025
@theguardian.com
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@rachelmayquin.bsky.social
Shortlisted Freelancer of the Year 2024 (The Bookseller) 📚 Award-winning marketing consultant ✨ Publishing professional ☕ Writer ✍️ Herder of 🐱🐶🦔 https://linktr.ee/rachelmayquin
@aetwigg.bsky.social
SPOILT CREATURES (2024) @tinderpress • Observer 10 Best New Novelists • 🏳️🌈 • Rep'd by 📚 @ce_seymour 🎥 @emilyhaywardw
@charnorth.bsky.social
Head of Books for the Guardian, author of The People Before and The House Guest (HarperCollins)
@catharinemorris.bsky.social
Associate Editor and commissioning editor at The TLS (@thetls.bsky.social) - Biography, Memoir, Travel, Book History, Language. Freelance writer
@chrisco96.bsky.social
Games, Movies, Music and Books 🍅-approved, coffee and whisky-driven culture wordsmith. Words in IGN, NME, Radio Times, DIY, Clash, Metro, Yahoo and others. Member of the UK Film Critics Association.
@anitasethi.bsky.social
🌾writer ✍🏽walker👣 talker🎤 Judge, Orwell Prize 2025 Author, I BELONG HERE (“a thing of beauty” - Sunday Times). Winner, Books Are My Bag Award, nominated Wainwright 🏆for #Nature Writing, Great Outdoors Award, RSL Ondaatje. FRGS. Mancunian 🐝 anitasethi.com
@literaryfey.bsky.social
speculative & literary adult fiction @ Bell Lomax Moreton. writer, editor, incorrigible flâneuse. cheap wine enthusiast. TTRPG nerd & Tolkien girlie. nd. views mine. 🚫 query DMs please; 🚫 generative AI. 📍 ldn ❗she, they 🔗 https://linktr.ee/literaryfey
@paullaity.bsky.social
editing @lrb (again), after years as Guardian non-fic editor. Writing book for Penguin/Norton on sandals, sunbaths, muesli, 'bearded fruit-juice drinkers' etc. Campaigner for Martha's Rule in NHS.
@corinaro.bsky.social
Obsessive reader. Whitstable dweller. Publicity person at Penguin Press. Views my own (she/her)
@pussmilligan.bsky.social
Journalist; BooksEd @heatworld; Deputy Ed @CrimeMonthly; CrimeCon UK BookClub Co-host; Event host; Judge TrueCrimeAwards and Theakstons. Repped by Curtis Brown
@susiemesure.bsky.social
Freelance writer, full-time reader, commission-me-anytime reviewer. (For many, most of the places you'd imagine, plus some you might not. That's the joy of freelancing...) susiemesure.com
@ninadouglas.bsky.social
Professional cheerleader; books publicist, consultant (children’s, YA, crossover, charity and arts), reader, writer, story-obsessed. (NDPR, The Pocket Publicist)
@kieransangha94.bsky.social
Literary Queer™️ and Senior Comms Exec @ Picador Books (Pan MacMillan) 📚 PPC shortlisted x 2 📖 Views are mine, not my employers.
@meandmybigmouth.bsky.social
He/him. I write books. I also edit them. Used to publish them too. Offline for a while. Try not to miss me too much. Trans women are women. Trans men are men.
@jtbookspr.bsky.social
Deputy Publicity Director and Commissioning Editor at Headline Publishing Group / Wildfire Books
@evawiseman.bsky.social
@marielouisespp.bsky.social
Campaigns Manager at Penguin General, Penguin Random House.