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Arachnid Press is an independent Scottish publisher.
Website: https://www.arachnid.scot/
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When the past comes back to haunt you. ‘The Danger of Life’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Scotland during World War Two. The main character visits the army headquarters housed in Edinburgh Castle at the time.
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The image shows a telephoto view up to the west side of Edinburgh Castle past a tree in the bottom left of the frame. The stone barracks are rising in the upper centre of the frame, with a high wall this side of them descending to steeply sloping grass banks. Below them is a lower stone wall which stands above rocky crags. The sky is blue. The front cover of ‘The Danger of Life’ is shown in the top right corner.
November 28, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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National Library of France 🇫🇷
National Library of France 🇫🇷
November 26, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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“there is something in this which refuses the sentimentality of most ghost stories”

Dr @anneelliot.bsky.social sees Margaret Oliphant’s “Old Lady Mary” as a Scottish #gothic response to Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”
#BookologyThursday
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Margaret Oliphant’s Old Lady Mary — a reply to Dickens’s Christmas Carol
From the first Christmas special in Downton Abbey, Maggie Smith as the Dowager Duchess, another old lady (from Downton Abbey, Christmas special closing Season 2, referred to below) Friends and read…
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November 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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'Extraordinary discovery' at Orkney's Ness of Brodgar Neolithic site
Archaeologists are to resume digging at the site after 3D radar technology uncovered a mystery find.
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November 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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‘Friend or Foe?’ is a fast-paced new thriller set largely in south-west Scotland during World War Two. Cairnryan in Galloway plays an important part as the search for a spy builds towards its conclusion.
Available in paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more:
www.kenlussey.com/fof/index.html
This modern image shows part of Cairnryan in Galloway. A road crosses the frame from the bottom left corner to the lower right. On its near side is a grassy area that fills the bottom right of the frame. On the far side of the road is a line of houses and cottages mainly finished in white, with some houses on a higher level at the near end. Behind the buildings is a wooded hillside. The sky is blue. The front cover of ‘Friend or Foe?’ is shown in the top right corner.
November 27, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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spent all morning searching for a book about U2 but I still haven't found what I'm looking for
Shelves of books about musicians and bands
November 26, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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The Art Deco entrance to the Cranbrook Academy of Art Library
Location: Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Art Deco entrance to the Cranbrook Academy of Art Library
November 26, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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"Clan descendants in US and Canada save historic church in two days"

Some very welcome news from the world of Scotland's religious built heritage to start the day as the members of the global Scottish diaspora step up to save Applegarth Church in Dumfries & Galloway 👇

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November 26, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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How far would you go to right a wrong? ‘The House With 46 Chimneys’ is a spooky adventure story for younger readers involving the haunting of Dunmore Park in central Scotland. This is the village of Dunmore.
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The image shows the village of Dunmore. A block of stone houses with tall chimneys can be seen beneath the branches of a large tree, whose trunk is on the left. There are swings on this side of the houses and more buildings on the left. The scene is in sunlight. The front cover of ‘The House With 46 Chimneys’ is shown in the bottom right corner.
November 26, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Burns and Nature 🌳👨‍🌾🐭

Join us and the @natlibscot.bsky.social as we explore the Ploughman Poet’s relationship with nature through poetry, spoken word, song and film.

21st January 2026 | Kelvin Hall | 6pm

Book your free ticket here👇

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Burns and Nature
An exploration of Robert Burns’ relationship to nature through poetry, spoken word and film.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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If you love a book, write a nice review. It gives the author encouragement for bad days when they want to take up scorpion petting. - @lianabrooks.bsky.social

#BookSky #KidLit #BookPromo
Handwritten quote on a white sheet with an illustrated face at the bottom and pink hearts around the text. The quote reads: "If you love a book, write a nice review. It gives the author encouragement for bad days when they want to take up scorpion petting." — Liana Brooks
November 25, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Another in my series of libraries
Cosin's LIbrary, University of Durham
#SomethingBeautiful #LoveLibraries #EveryLibraryMatters #Libraries #Library #LibrarySky #libsky
Cosin's LIbrary, University of Durham - lots of deep rich wood. Round table with antique chairs in foreground, walls lined with old volumes, portrait medallions above shelves, balcony visible
November 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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How many deaths to end a war? ‘Eyes Turned Skywards’ is a fast-paced thriller set mainly in northern Scotland during World War Two. The main character dines in the great hall at the fictional Sarclet Castle.
Available as a Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more:
www.kenlussey.com/ets/index.html
This modern image shows the great hall at Eilean Donan Castle, on which that at the fictional Sarclet Castle is based. It is a large and imposing stone-walled room with a blue and green tartan carpet and an exposed-beam wooden ceiling. There’s a large dining table in the centre of the room and a stone fireplace occupies much of the right-hand wall. Lights are suspended from the ceiling. The front cover of ‘Eyes Turned Skywards’ is shown in the top right corner.
November 25, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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National Library of France 🇨🇵
National Library of France 🇨🇵
November 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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🪬🧿 After being lost for 150 years, a sacred 300y old Sikh scripture was found in an Edinburgh university archive. Lost for over 150 years. Witness its emotional homecoming to the Leith community: youtu.be/icqfFzr5Hzc
#scotland #edinburgh #EdinburghUniversity #sikh #BBC #waheguru #sikhi
The Edinburgh Discovery: Rescuing a Sacred 300 Year Old Scripture
YouTube video by Journey Dude - Scottish Insider
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November 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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‘Friend or Foe?’ is a fast-paced new thriller set largely in south-west Scotland during World War Two. Wigtown plays an important role in the story as the hunt for a spy builds towards its climax.
Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more:
www.arachnid.scot/book-fof/ind...
This modern image shows Wigtown County Buildings and Town Hall in the heart of Wigtown in Galloway. Across the bottom of the frame is a grass bowling green which slopes noticeably down to the left. Beyond it is a large red stone building that is eight bays wide and two tall storeys in height. On its left end is a tall clock tower. The land drops away behind the building. The sky is mainly blue but the side of the building facing us is in shadow. The front cover of ‘Friend or Foe?’ is shown in the top right corner.
November 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Inner library:
November 23, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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In Post Mortem, the first forensic account of how the Post Office, the government and Fujitsu ruined the lives of thousands of innocent people, Private Eye's @rbrooks45.bsky.social explains how the scandal became a Ponzi scheme of injustice.

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November 23, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Some recent projects from our classes and workshops. Classes held throughout the year at our studios in Dennistoun, Glasgow.

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#stainedglass #glasgow #scotland
November 23, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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A game of secrets and lies. 'Bloody Orkney' is a fast-paced thriller set mainly in Orkney during World War Two. The main characters also visit a secret military base at Gruinard Bay in Wester Ross.
Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more:
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This modern image shows a view from amongst trees over a bay to a shoreline of sand and rocks beyond which is a large white-harled house in the centre of the frame comprising a tower house with a large lower extension to its left. In the background, wooded and rocky slopes climb out of the picture. The front cover of ‘Bloody Orkney’ is shown in the bottom right corner.
November 23, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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OH posted this from Thursday morning's "Rise and Grind" bike ride. He showed me this photo, and remarked what a beautiful sunrise it was.
Reader, I had not noticed the sunrise nor all the people on bikes. I had just zoomed in on that gorgeous standing stone...
Sunrise, snowy hill top with mountain bikers and standing stone
November 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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‘So dull and dark are the November days. The lazy mist high up the evening curled, and now the morn quite hides in the smoke and haze; the place we occupy seems all the world.’ ~ John Clare
And @racheldeering.bsky.social here for the rest of a rural #BookWormSat
🖼️ The Incoming Mist, Deer in the Highlands. Charles. Stuart, c.1895-6. Painting as described.
November 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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I’m truly sorry Man’s dominion
Has broken Nature’s social union,
An’ justifies that ill opinion,‍‍
‍‍‍‍‍‍Which makes thee startle,
At me, thy poor, earth-born companion,‍‍
‍‍‍‍‍‍An’ fellow-mortal!

—Robert Burns, “To a Mouse, On turning her up in her Nest, with the Plough, November 1785”
#BookWormSat #poem #C18th
To a Mouse, On turning her up in her Nest, with the Plough, November 1785. Robert Burns Wee, sleekit, cowran, tim’rous beastie, O, what a panic’s in thy breastie! Thou need na start awa sae hasty,‍‍ Wi’ bickering brattle! I wad be laith to rin an’ chase thee‍‍ Wi’ murd’ring pattle! I’m truly sorry Man’s dominion Has broken Nature’s social union, An’ justifies that ill opinion,‍‍ Which makes thee startle, At me, thy poor, earth-born companion,‍‍ An’ fellow-mortal! I doubt na, whyles, but thou may thieve; What then? poor beastie, thou maun live! A daimen-icker in a thrave‍‍ ’S a sma’ request: I’ll get a blessin wi’ the lave,‍‍ An’ never miss’t! Thy wee-bit housie, too, in ruin! Its silly wa’s the win’s are strewin! An’ naething, now, to big a new ane,‍‍ O’ foggage green! An’ bleak December’s winds ensuin,‍‍ Baith snell an’ keen! Thou saw the fields laid bare an’ waste, An’ weary Winter comin fast, An’ cozie here, beneath the blast,‍‍ Thou thought to dwell, Till crash! the cruel coulter past‍‍ Out thro’ thy cell. That wee-bit heap o’ leaves an’ stibble Has cost thee monie a weary nibble! Now thou’s turn’d out, for a’ thy trouble,‍‍ But house or hald, To thole the Winter’s sleety dribble,‍‍ An’ cranreuch cauld! But Mousie, thou art no thy-lane, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men‍‍ Gang aft agley, An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,‍‍ For promis’d joy! Still, thou art blest, compar’d wi’ me! The present only toucheth thee: But Och! I backward cast my e’e,‍‍ On prospects drear! An’ forward, tho’ I canna see,‍‍ I guess an’ fear! To a Mouse, On turning her up in her Nest, with the Plough, November 1785. Robert Burns Wee, sleekit, cowran, tim’rous beastie, O, what a panic’s in thy breastie! Thou need na start awa sae hasty,‍‍ Wi’ bickering brattle! I wad be laith to rin an’ chase thee‍‍ Wi’ murd’ring pattle! I’m truly sorry Man’s dominion Has broken Nature’s social union, An’ justifies that ill opinion,‍‍ Which makes thee startle, At me, thy poor, earth-born companion,‍‍ An’ fellow-mortal! I doubt na, whyles, but thou may thieve; What then? poor beastie, thou maun live! A daimen-icker in a thrave‍‍ ’S a sma’ request: I’ll get a blessin wi’ the lave,‍‍ An’ never miss’t! Thy wee-bit housie, too, in ruin! Its silly wa’s the win’s are strewin! An’ naething, now, to big a new ane,‍‍ O’ foggage green! An’ bleak December’s winds ensuin,‍‍ Baith snell an’ keen! Thou saw the fields laid bare an’ waste, An’ weary Winter comin fast, An’ cozie here, beneath the blast,‍‍ Thou thought to dwell, Till crash! the cruel coulter past‍‍ Out thro’ thy cell. That wee-bit heap o’ leaves an’ stibble Has cost thee monie a weary nibble! Now thou’s turn’d out, for a’ thy trouble,‍‍ But house or hald, To thole the Winter’s sleety dribble,‍‍ An’ cranreuch cauld! But Mousie, thou art no thy-lane, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men‍‍ Gang aft agley, An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,‍‍ For promis’d joy! Still, thou art blest, compar’d wi’ me! The present only toucheth thee: But Och! I backward cast my e’e,‍‍ On prospects drear! An’ forward, tho’ I canna see,‍‍ I guess an’ fear!
November 22, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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A city at peace in a world at war. ‘The Stockholm Run’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Scotland and Sweden during World War Two. The Dockmaster's House on Beckholmen in Stockholm hosts a key meeting in the book.
Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple:
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The image shows a small beige house built in classical style. The main block is three bays wide by two storeys high and it has a pediment with an oculus above. There are single window extensions on both sides and a door in the centre. The house is approached via climbing drive beyond a gate and hedge. There are trees on the left. The front cover of 'The Stockholm Run' is shown in the top right corner.
November 22, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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A 112-year-old carved spiral staircase of a public library in Barrio de San Francisco, Lima.
A 112-year-old carved spiral staircase of a public library in Barrio de San Francisco, Lima.
November 21, 2025 at 6:09 AM