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Read an excerpt from GLOSS by Kyra Wilder on @wearebookanista.bsky.social bookanista.com/the-heron-an...

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🚨AUTHOR ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 We are beyond excited to announce the signing of the brilliant @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social Monster: A Tale is coming 2026! What kind of a person would steal a baby asleep in his pram? What kind of a person would leave him there? Details coming soon!

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Looking back on cherished moments across a 50-year marriage, Jessica Soffer's witty, tender and radiantly romantic New York City novel is a cross between When Harry Met Sally and My Name Is Lucy Barton @serpents-tail.bsky.social 💙📚 #booksky #bookblogger bookanista.com/that-first-day-in-central-park/

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Welcome to the world, Little Alien. Read a delightful extract from Alice Franklin’s debut novel about growing up neurodivergent, and the wonder of language. Out now from @quercusbooks.bsky.social bookanista.com/how-it-goes/ 💙📚📖 #booksky #bookblogger

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Was the dog the killer? Read a macabre and entertaining extract from @oskarjensen.bsky.social Oskar Jensen's second compulsive Torben Helle mystery, Helle's Hound. Out this week from @viperbooks.bsky.social 💙📚🕵️ 🔎 #booksky #bookblogger #DetectiveFiction #CrimeFiction bookanista.com/at-the-funer...

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"There is something heartbreaking yet also comforting about being able to hold a loved one’s possessions after they die. We can sense their presence in them and perhaps, more deeply, in the objects they have created.” @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social 💙📚 #bookblogger bookanista.com/beauty-out-o...

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Slavoj Žižek embraces denial and double-think in the face of catastrophic destruction and the rise of neo-fascism. ‘Disavowal’, from Žižek’s Essays volume #1, Against Progress 💙📚📖 #booksky #litmags #bookblogger #philosophy #climatecrisis bookanista.com/disavowal/

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Check out my #booksky 💙📚 starter pack 👇 If you're a book lover, author or publisher and wish to be added let me know! go.bsky.app/5PVFxe5

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Caught highlights of the inauguration, complete with Nazi salute and a determination to destroy our precious planet. All the more reason to remind ourselves of creative beauty and good energy in our world, like this « lavish and steamy, mischievous and dramatic » new novel by Fiona Melrose 💙📚

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“There is such commitment to investigating what makes stories, what’s included, how meaning is shaped, what’s left out, that such focus on the artifice of it all is ingenious and bracing.” – Wendy Erskine @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social bookanista.com/pretty-ugly-by-kirsty-gunn/ 💙📚 #bookblogger

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Congratulations to Holly Watt! Her latest hard-to-put-down thriller centres on college friends reuniting for a special 20-year gathering. Holly gives us an insight into her writing life beloow 💙📚📖 #booksky #bookblogger #TheLastTruthsWeTold @ravenbooks.bsky.social bookanista.com/friends-and-...

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Norman Lewis meets Ernest Hemingway in Cuba, and is shocked and disheartened by his literary hero’s wretched physical shape and demeanour of bitterness and boredom. From A Quiet Evening: The Travels of Norman Lewis 💙📚📖 #booksky #bookblogger 🐈 #catsky bookanista.com/hemingway-in-havana/

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I wrote a piece for @wearebookanista.bsky.social on Black Country noir and the publication of 'Lie of the Land' by @saltpublishing.com bookanista.com/black-countr...

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New post on the Big Bearded Bookseller blog collecting together all the Starter Packs I've made #bluesky #StarterPack #blogging www.bigbeardedbookseller.com/2024/12/14/b...

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It’s #readPalestine week 💙📚🇵🇸 #booksky #bookblogger #litmags #recommended #authors bookanista.com/without-a-tr...

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Bluesky is THE environment for new media and 'public good' publications. Lots of people have been saying it - but I can tell you from the publisher perspective - it's true. Unlike X or Threads, external news content thrives here. So please follow & share my UK media for public good starter pack. 👇

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Chapeau Nicola Dinan! Brilliant news and well-deserved! If you haven’t read it yet, here’s an extract from the winning novel ‘Bellies’: bookanista.com/that-first-n... 💙📚 #bookblogger #litmags #polariprize #LGBTQ #recommendedread

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Chapeau @trevorwoodwrite.bsky.social ! Your brilliant detective thriller (in more ways than the usual) is so right for a TV adaptation. Looking forward to the next in the series

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It’s moody and squally in sodden London, thanks to Storm Bert, which calls for thick socks, pot of coffee and that book I’ve been waiting for. But the best seats in the house are already taken by bookanista’s bookends. Every bucking time 📚💙🐈‍⬛ #bookblogger #catsky #reading #litmags

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I couldnt see one, so I started one! I literally just threw this up on my coffee break so will have missed many awesome people. Shout if you’re one of them go.bsky.app/MeKxG4G

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“There is something heartbreaking yet also comforting about being able to hold a loved one’s possessions after they die. We can sense their presence…” Charlotte Beeston talks candidly about her beautiful debut 💙📚 #booksky #bookblogger @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social 📖 bookanista.com/beauty-out-o...

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The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes Habitat by Catriona Shine Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín And… a brilliantly unsettling debut novel coming next year from @canongate.co.uk The Wardrobe Department by Elaine Garvey 💙📚 #contemporaryirishwriters #writers #books #author

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Great to see the brilliant maverick indie publisher @andotherstories.bsky.social here on Bluesky 💙📚 #bookcommunity #bookbloggers

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On COP 2024, the Guardian's view is "the Cop summit is foundering, we need urgent action not more hot air" Here's Andrew Boyd navigating the climate crisis with grief, hope, and gallows humour 💙📚 #bookblogger #litmags bookanista.com/we-need-to-d...

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If you haven’t already read Sophie Cousens’ ‘Is She Really Going Out With Him?’ (p/b 4/25), it’s a lighthearted romcom antidote to now - it’s in the spirit of Outnumbered crossed with Motherland 💙📚 #bookbloggers #comedy #recommendedreads www.hodder.co.uk/titles/sophi...

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Waiting impatiently for David Miliband and Gary Lineker to make their presence felt here on Bluesky #liberty #integrity #democracy

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Here’s a reminder of those all important flash fiction submission deadlines. Seems to be a bit of a psycho theme so far, can’t imagine why!? 😉 #flashfiction #storytime #writers #tellmeastory #lovebooks #submission #writingprompts 💙📚

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Like so many bookish types, I’m new here over the weekend and have put together a book publicist and bookish journalist starter pack to help us all find each other over here in the sunlit uplands of Bluesky. go.bsky.app/Ao2gR6R

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Good to see @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social here, too 💙📚 #bookbloggers #bookcommunity #litmags #reading

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I learned some stuff about Bluesky I did not know by reading this. Maybe worth passing it on to others so we can all start getting the full benefit of the 🦋.

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Good morning! Expect some big brands to join later today. I'll keep updating the starter pack as I spot them—it’s already packed with fantastic people! I’ve been adding new names every couple of hours. If you’ve joined via the list, take another look—you might find new friends! go.bsky.app/G7Lbbv2

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