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Elliott & Thompson
@eandtbooks.bsky.social
📚 Independent Publisher of creative non-fiction and thrilling crime fiction
📖 Beautiful, insightful and informative books
📕 Catalogue: https://bit.ly/4p1KnYt
🧦Because they don't need more socks this #Christmas...

The brand new updated edition of Tim Marshall's #PrisonersOfGeography makes a thoughtful gift - and, it's easy to wrap! bit.ly/4rGAAsm

Plus, family quiz time just got better, with Prisoners of Geography: The #QuizBook!
bit.ly/4iC0R6U
December 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Need some #Christmas gifting inspiration? These wintry classics make the perfect present.

🌼 Nature Tales for Winter Nights
❄️ Fifty Words for Snow
📖 A Winter Dictionary

*Mince pies not included - though highly recommended as a reading snack...
#snow #winter #ChristmasGift #ChristmasGifts
December 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
'I don't believe in ghosts, says MATT BLAKE... but read my story before you judge...'

Author of #HearthOfDarkness Matt Blake writes for @dailymail.co.uk about the dark history of his #Walthamstow home:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

#E17 #E17NightStalker #Murder #Paranormal #TrueCrime
December 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
🎁 #Christmas Giveaway 🎁

Win these two brilliant books to keep or to gift someone special this Christmas!

Visit our Instagram page to enter:
www.instagram.com/p/DRzBPdqDEze/

Books included: #PrisonersOfGeography and Prisoners of Geography: The Quiz Book by Tim Marshall.

Closes midnight on 8 Dec
December 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
'I loved this book, and it reminded me of how much I loved the 1980s. Beautifully put together. Much like the decade, I rattled through at great speed, and was sorry when it was over.' GIDEON COE @gidcoe.bsky.social

#IntoTheGroove by @whenisbirths.bsky.social is out now:
bit.ly/3XzeJoT
#80sMusic
December 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Where is your hibernaculum? Is it where you love to croodle during a stepmother’s breath, when the ground is chibbly beneath your feet?

From #AWinterDictionary by @paulanthjones.bsky.social, the perfect Christmas companion📖

Which of these cozy winter words is your favorite? ❄️
bit.ly/48Crcxk
December 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
#PrisonersOfGeography author Tim Marshall speaks with @matthewstadlen.bsky.social about the role #geography plays in conflicts around the world. Plus, he answers Matt's 20 Questions:
🎧https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/20-questions-with-tim-marshall/id1652022625?i=1000738346319
#geopolitics
December 2, 2025 at 9:20 AM
🎄 A controversial question… when do your put up your #ChristmasTree?

The baubles are hung, the lights are twinkling… and the first present we’re wrapping?

🎁 #TheCatsTales by @charliecreed.bsky.social, a purr-fect gift for the cat lover in your life. 😺
#Christmas #ChristmasGifts #CatLover #Cats
December 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
#Chokepoints by Edward Fishman has been included in the @financialtimes.com 'Best Books of 2025'!

'A well-timed and meticulously researched account of how and why the US has increasingly turned to sanctions and economic warfare as an instrument of statecraft.'
www.ft.com/content/3cda...
Best books of 2025: Politics
Gideon Rachman selects his must-read titles
www.ft.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
#Chokepoints by @edwardfishman.bsky.social has been selected by The Economist in their list of The Best Books of 2025!

‘A riveting world tour of American sanctions ... a ripping yarn.’

bit.ly/4pH6ovv
#economics #sanctions #BestBooksOf2025 #tariffs
The best books of 2025
Gladiators and dictators, wolves and Beatles feature in our list this year
www.economist.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:49 AM
🎧In the latest episode of the Instant Genius podcast, Amelia Thomas, author of #WhatSheepThinkAboutTheWeather, shares how we can enrich our lives by listening to the #animals around us more closely...
open.spotify.com/episode/6wDh... #Dogs #Cats #Pets #Science #NonFiction
Why we should all be listening to animals more closely
open.spotify.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:22 AM
We are so excited to announce we will be publishing Wiccan Priestess Rebecca Beattie's new book #TheSeasonOfFrostAndFire, a unique insight into a witch’s winter for anyone curious about witchcraft, wild magic and tradition.

Read more: www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article... #witchcraft #witch #winter
Elliott & Thompson sign witch's book
Wiccan Priestess and green witch Rebecca Beattie’s The Season of Frost and Fire 'is the perfect wintry gift and a unique insight into a witch’s winter for anyone curious about witchcraft, wild magic a...
www.bookbrunch.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
‘If you love galivanting around the globe from the comfort of your home, then a new book could be right up your street.’ @thesun.co.uk

#PrisonersOfGeography: The Quiz Book by Tim Marshall is just 99p in Kindle - for a limited time only! bit.ly/4oWux0U

#geopolitics #QuizBook #Quiz #ChristmasQuiz
November 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
‘Decades of reporting from war zones and foreign cities … taught [Tim Marshall] to convey complex ideas with clarity and directness … It is easy to see why #PrisonersOfGeography was so successful: it is always interesting and sometimes revelatory’ @thetls.bsky.social

www.the-tls.com/world/maps/p...
Geopolitics past and present
Are we masters of geography, or servants of it? Do we inscribe our wishes on the surface of the planet, or are we governed by the ineluctable rules of its
www.the-tls.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
From cat drive-bys to which way a dog’s tail wags & rabbit ‘sploots’ – Amelia Thomas writes for @thesun.co.uk on what your pet is really trying to tell you:
www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/374...

Amelia's book #WhatSheepThinkAboutTheWeather is out now!
#Pets #Animals #AnimalScience #Cat #DogLovers
From cat drive-bys to rabbit 'sploots' - what your pet is trying to tell you
HAVE you ever stared at your cat or dog in despair, sure it’s trying to tell you something but clueless as to what? Author Amelia Thomas may have the answer. She’s spent years quizzing animal behav…
www.thesun.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
🎉Time to celebrate! #ThreeRivers by Robert Winder and #BloodSweatAndAsparagusSpears by @andrewturvil.bsky.social have both been selected for the @financialtimes.com list of the 'Best Books of 2025'!

www.ft.com/content/8419...
#BooksOfTheYear #NonFiction #BooksOf2025
Best books of 2025: Food, Drink and Travel
Harriet Fitch Little and Tom Robbins select their must-read titles
www.ft.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Introducing... #TheWaterlands by @steverutt.bsky.social, a captivating retelling of the water cycle.

Follow a raindrop as it flows through diverse waterscapes: river sources in the upland moors; saltmarsh-flanked firths and estuaries; spectacular lochs and crystal-clear chalk streams.

Out 26 March
November 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
#WhatSheepThinkAboutTheWeather by Amelia Thomas is 'thought-provoking ... if we spent less time talking at them and more time listening to them and observing them, we could communicate far more effectively with the animals who share our lives.' @dailymail.co.uk

www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/a...
My horse told me it wanted to die... here's how to listen to your pets
Time to decode the meaning behind the subtle signals your pets might give
www.dailymail.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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🎧 Ep 258 of Jo Durrant’s Beautiful Universe podcast is out:

🤩 @charliecreed.bsky.social talks about career & book The Cats Tales, about feline folklore & fairy tales!

🦠 Faith Douglas has A-Z of Plants & it’s M for Moss

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November 19, 2025 at 8:34 AM
'An incredibly thrilling slice of maritime history, To The Edge of the World tells the true story of Mary Ann Patten who after her captain husband fell sick steered a clipper ship ... through the most treacherous waters in the world.' @waterstones.bsky.social

Pre-order your copy: bit.ly/4penvnV
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 AM
A new episode of The Virginia Woolf Podcast is out now - @kdclewin.bsky.social chats to Karina Jakubowicz about her new book #TheWritersRoom, the politics and practicalities of authorship, and (of course) about Virginia Woolf's own writing process:

🎧https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/podcasts
Virginia Woolf Podcast — Literature Cambridge
www.literaturecambridge.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 9:56 AM
In search of a twisty psychological thriller to read during the long, dark evenings ahead?

Clémence Michallon speaks to Charlie on the Author's Afterword podcast about her latest book, #OurLastResort:
open.spotify.com/episode/6a95...

#Thriller #CrimeFiction #Fiction
November 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
"I’m a Wiccan and my witchcraft classes sell out"

Wiccan high priestess @rebeccambeattie.bsky.social speaks to the @telegraph.co.uk about the realities of modern #witchcraft. Read more: www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/...

Rebecca's book #TheWheelOfTheYear is out now!
#Witches #witch #Wicca #Wiccan
I’m a Wiccan and my witchcraft classes sell out
Dr Rebecca Beattie loves Hallowe’en – or Samhain, as she calls it – but for altogether more spiritually uplifting reasons than many think
www.telegraph.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Newly out in paperback, @pollyrowena.bsky.social's 'The Company of Owls' (@eandtbooks.bsky.social) demonstrates how we can be better neighbours to the nonhuman, writes Abi Andrews 🦉 www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/the-...
November 16, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Introducing… #MembersBehavingBadly: A History of Britain in 52 Parliamentary Rogues! From 1603 to 1945, @debbiekilroyauthor.bsky.social tells the outrageous stories of 52 MPs who made history for all the wrong reasons...

‘A riot of malfeasance and misbehaviour’ Roger Moorehouse
bit.ly/49SM4Cu
November 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM