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@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
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford. Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk Visitors: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
@ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
Indy publisher of award winning literary fiction You can order books here : www.bluemoosebooks.com
@literaturegeek.bsky.social
@ScholarsLab Director: just+joyful critical tech+culture 🏳️🌈✨💻 *SJ+experimental/DH+library futures, communities *DIY scholcom=zine/blog/code *Bookadjacent data+making Enthusiast (3 !s in a hoodie); abolitionist Dr.! (exTTprof) 🏳️⚧️They/Them AmandaVisconti.com
@crookedfootball.bsky.social
Political philosophy and theory, migration, refugees, Rousseau, photography, French literature, Crooked Timber, books, Bristol ... Wrote "Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants" (Wiley/Polity, 2018). Pensioner.
@alishagrauso.bsky.social
Features Editor & Writer | Frustrated nature gal in a media drone's body | Pittsburgh sports, literature, history, politics, the weird & dark, ADHD, practicing druid, nature & conservation | Views mine | You can find me among the trees 🌿🌲
@lincodega.bsky.social
writers room assistant IWTV S3—journalist, co-founder rascal news—debut novel: MOTHEATER, !!!OUT NOW!!!—🏳️⚧️ they/them—a bit of a killjoy
@illdottore.bsky.social
I’m an Associate Professor of Classics at Columbia University. I teach and study Latin, Roman stuff, book history stuff, and I’m involved in our gen-ed literature course, Literature Humanities. Be cool
@trincolllibcam.bsky.social
The Trinity College Library in Cambridge comprises the modern student library, the Wren Library, and significant rare books, manuscript and archive collections. https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/library/home/ https://trinitycollegelibrarycambridge.wordpress.com/
@marklittle.bsky.social
Journalist entrepreneur. Talking media/tech/democracy. Founded Storyful. Co-founded Kinzen. Worked Spotify & Twitter. Ex-foreign correspondent 🇮🇪
@drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social
Historian,Director of UCD Gender Studies. Research-gendered & sexual violence in the Irish revolutionary wars / afterlives of Irish revolutionary women / Irish sexualities /feminist & queer histories / she/her / Ireland 🇮🇪 Dublin via north Kerry/ views mine
@alinaetc.bsky.social
poet. writer. editor. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. exists in romanian and alabamian. hybrid in she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting. www.alinastefanescuwriter.com
@bigbeardedbookseller.com
a shambling lump of ennui with a beard, tattoos, and cat 📖 Reframing Women Printmakers 📖 How To Survive Camping 📚 91/52 http://www.bigbeardedbookseller.com https://www.instagram.com/big.bearded.bookseller
@mattuthompson.bsky.social
Home & Political Correspondent at Sky News. Norn Irish, girl dad, linguist. Email: matthew.thompson4@sky.uk DMs open.
@hardeepmatharu.bsky.social
Editor-in-Chief of Byline Times. Journalist. Writer. Speaker. Curious explorer of the forces that shape us. Outside. Looking in. Identities. Politics. Media. Culture. Nuance. Complexities. Contact: hardeep@bylinetimes.com / hardeepmatharu.wordpress.com
@irinadumitrescu.bsky.social
Writer and professor of medieval literature. I'm a columnist at the TLS, sometimes co-host a podcast with Mary Wellesley at the LRB, and am one of the editors of @creativecritical.bsky.social. irinadumitrescu.com
@irishlittimes.bsky.social
Promoting Irish writers and writing - maintained by Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
Award winning indy publisher of new and classic writing on place, nature and culture + The Clearing our online journal. Based in West Dorset www.littletoller.co.uk Instagram / @littletollerbooks
@thebookmaven.bsky.social
NEW PODCAST: The Book Maven: A Literary Revue https://thebookmavenpodcast.substack.com/ Critic @LATimesBooks LIFE B memoir: https://bookshop.org/p/books/life-b-overcoming-double-depression-bethanne-patrick/1874245 https://linktr.ee/bookmaven
@janetemson.bsky.social
Book lover. Book reviewer. On the other socials as @JanetEmson UK fromfirstpagetolast.wordpress.com
@galleybeggars.bsky.social
Galley Beggar Press is an independent publisher from Norwich. Citizens of the world. And foreign.
@artewrites.bsky.social
UPenn. Management Professional. Bibliophile 📚 Writing ✍️ Art 🎨 Photography 📸 Good food & Gardening. Married. No DMs✖️ From California ☀️ A Real Person ❤️
@elisehoward.bsky.social
Now literary agent! Grew up editor and publisher. https://www.defliterary.com/agents/elise-howard Co-creator w/ Amy Gash of BELIEVE IN THE WORLD: WISDOM FOR GROWNUPS FROM CHILDREN'S BOOKS. Native plants, baked goods, and handknits are my love languages.
@paulmorganbentley.bsky.social
Head of Investigations at The Times in London and author. Occasional undercover reporter. 2X winner of the Cudlipp Award for investigative reporting. Dad (with husband, Robin) to two very jumpy boys (one poodle, one human) 🏳️🌈
@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!
@handle.invalid
I dance with words to exist in the aural realm During the day, I'm the Podcast Librarian™️
@mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social
In the culture wars, I want to be the bit on Christmas Day where they all knocked it on the head for a bit and played football.
@danielgray.com
Book cover designer, York danielgray.com / meanwhile.substack.com
@whaireland.bsky.social
The Women's History Association of Ireland (WHAI) has been promoting research into women's history in Ireland since 1989.
@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
@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.
@lorraineberry.bsky.social
Writes about books @latimes.com Trained as a historian. Grew up in the PNW.
@susiesbookreviews.bsky.social
📚💙Book lover and reviewer 🏴Scotland 🙋🏻♀️She/her 📧susiebooks@yahoo.com Buying books and reading books are two different hobbies, don’t judge me. Also manages @hburghbookfest.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/susiesbookreviews?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
@valmcdermid.bsky.social
Writer, broadcaster, civil(sometimes) partner, mother, lesbian feminist, lover of libraries, vocalist with the Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers. Once described as the ‘gobby shop steward of crime fiction’. Www.valmcdermid.com @quineofcrime on Insta
@instanterudite.bsky.social
Co-host of @theshot.net.au's The Sunday Shot, 9am AEST on Sundays at https://www.youtube.com/@TheSundayShot. Theatre and film producer. Writer. Literary curator. Avid consumer of news, politics, wine & AFL. And gin.
@amygcb.bsky.social
Child Craft (bellepointpress.bsky.social) | @therumpus.net (1/7) | Soon: @bansheepress.bsky.social @hypertextmagazine.bsky.social | Associate Editor: @fracturedlit.bsky.social | Assistant Editor: @literaryruby.bsky.social | Co-editor: @gonelawn.bsky.socia
@kirkdalebooks.bsky.social
indie bookshop in Sydenham, SE London | open since 1966 | new books | second hand books | children's books | gifts | Mon-Sat 9:30-5 Sun 12-4 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@saralread.bsky.social
Historical fiction novelist #hisfic; senior lecturer #earlymodern & #creativewriting; mum; grandma; gardener; open water swimmer. www.sararead.co.uk
@hosford.bsky.social
Deputy Political Editor for the Irish Examiner. Dimestore Saint. True Scene Leader. Tiny Change enthusiast.
@davidhheadley.bsky.social
M.D. DHH Literary Agency, Goldsboro Books & Capital Crime. Literary agent, award-winning bookseller & festival founder.
@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.
@jayrotoole.bsky.social
Cultural and Literary Historian, EM PhD Analyst-Feminist-actor-massage therapist-cook- @kylieminogue -Nigella-Kate Bush-Dannii-ALL my views-He/They 🌈❄️🕊 New Academic Book Forthcoming: Early Modern Sexualities. The Desires of King James VI & I (2025).
@thebeatphilosopher.com
Author. Activist. Existentialist. Humanist. Beat Philosopher. Philosophy Of Mind. Dog Mom. Hosting Philosophy Discussions on Bluesky & Substack. Join us! https://thebeatphilosopher.substack.com
@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
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@martinadevlinbooks.bsky.social
Book lover, novelist, reader, newspaper columnist, occasional lecturer in literature, Irish www.martinadevlin.ie