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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Anna Frame @annaframe.bsky.social · 3d

Visiting so many bookshops around the country over the last few weeks simply confirmed what I already knew: booksellers are the kindest, best folk, the hardest workers - and the best chat. It always feels like such a privilege to get to drop into the many and varied communities they have created.

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Anna Frame @annaframe.bsky.social · 3d

This was a truly lovely thing to find on arrival back into the office today, after a fairly intense few weeks of extensive touring.

Thanks again to the BA, and to all the brilliant booksellers who voted. It really does mean the world.

A bright blue award sitting on a desk, which reads: “BA Booksellers Association - Sophie Christopher Publicist of the Year: Anna Frame”

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 4d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Anna Frame @annaframe.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, yes she is. Not only that, she’s #6 on the bestseller list at the most competitive time of year, her poetry outselling celeb memoirs. Pretty much unheard of.

Huge thanks to Lemn and the many other poets, writers, booksellers and readers who’ve lent their support to this extraordinary woman.

A screenshot of a tweet from Lemn Sissay, which reads: Today Len Pennie is number 6 in the Sunday Times Bestseller List.

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Anna Frame @annaframe.bsky.social · 4d

EXCITING.

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 7d

The Hampstead ponds have REPEATEDLY voted to include trans women. But the officious pricks at Sex Matters don’t care what other women think and are forcing a public consultation anyway. Throw the ponds some support.

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 Consultation survey launched on whether trans people should be able to access Hampstead Heath ladies' pond following Supreme Court ruling

The consultation is open until 12:00 on Tuesday 25th November 2025.

(Survey link in next post)
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Survey launched on trans access to Hampstead Heath ladies' pond

The ladies’ pond at Hampstead Heath currently admits biological women and transgender women

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Anna Frame @annaframe.bsky.social · 7d

Hell yes.

Canongate @canongate.co.uk · 7d

We're delighted to share the news that @lenniesaurus.bsky.social's second collection poyums annaw is an instant Sunday Times bestseller. Huge congratulations Len! Have you read it yet?

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A hardback photo of Poyums Annaw by Len Pennie sitting against a yellow background

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Anna Frame @annaframe.bsky.social · 8d

This was Len’s 8th event in 8 days - with Bristol, Crickhowell, Bath, London and Aberdeen all coming up over the next week, and more thereafter. Almost the whole tour has sold out, including all the English and Welsh events.

Not bad for a Scots poet south of the border…!

David Coates @oziasmidwinter.bsky.social · 8d

Absolutely incredible event - powerful, inspiring and full of hope and joy. Len is both an astonishing poet and wonderful person.

Serenity Booksellers @serenitybookshop.bsky.social · 8d

Last night we welcomed Len Pennie to Stockport for the launch of her new collection poyums annaw! As well as treating us to some poems, she talked to Terri White about the importance of using poetry to address issues such as domestic violence as well as learning how to incorporate joy into her work.

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Anna Frame @annaframe.bsky.social · 9d

“Sauron and Saruman meet to discuss peaceful resolutions to the war in Middle Earth”

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 9d

Trump and Netanyahu to meet today at WH with joint presser expected afterward

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Trump and Netanyahu are set to meet as pressure mounts to end the war in Gaza

Days after using a U.N. address to reject international demands for an end to the war in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will sit down with President Donald Trump, his important suppor...

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Grace Knight @grace-knight.co.uk · 22d

Imagining a parallel world in which 22 billion was injected into the UK arts industry.

Rob Burton, once and future non-existent entity. @robertsburton.bsky.social · 22d

I don't doubt there'll be initial investment - from companies ramming AI down people's throats - but ascribing that 'boost' to AI itself is utterly disingenuous. The reporting on AI is like discussing the merits of religion and the existence of god by only talking to the heads of various churches.

Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 22d

Microsoft says its new £22bn investment in the UK's AI sector should boost Britain's economy in next few years

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 20d

I remember this speech when Jon Stewart gave it. It was powerful. And urgent. And 100% true. And like too many things over the last many years, it wasn’t taken nearly seriously enough.

Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 20d

🔥💯 Jon Stewart's prophecy from 2022:

"When a democracy is under threat: comedians are the ones who get sent away first. Authoritarians are the threat to comedy, to art, to music, to thought, to progress. It ain't the pronoun police, it's the Secret Police. It always has been & it always will be."

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Anna Frame @annaframe.bsky.social · 21d

This book has already had such a huge impact on readers over the last decade - and sadly is almost more relevant now than it was in 2016.

Exceptionally proud that we’ll be republishing it at Canongate, in time for its 10th anniversary.

The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 21d

Canongate has acquired Nikesh Shukla’s “generation-defining” The Good Immigrant following the closure of Unbound. It will be re-released in a new 10th anniversary edition, complete with a new introduction, in September 2026 👇 #BookSky

Canongate triumphs in six-way auction for Nikesh Shukla’s ‘generation-defining’ The Good Immigrant

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The Bee @beelitmag.bsky.social · 24d

Really enjoyed this from @damianbarr.bsky.social

Such a good understanding of how social class doesn’t just influence lives, but also silences voices. Damian unions how that works, and how it feels.

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 28d

Two democratic lawmakers and their spouses were shot in their own homes three months ago. School shootings are so epidemic there’s an “industry” around them. But won’t someone please, oh please, think of Jeremy Clarkson’s freedom to be racist?

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Jeremy Clarkson Says He’s “Genuinely Frightened” To Voice His Views After Charlie Kirk’s Death

Jeremy Clarkson feels scared to be a newspaper columnist following the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, the influential right-wing activist.

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Anna Frame @annaframe.bsky.social · 29d

Truly the AI writing post we all needed.

Ben, A.D. 1972 @franzferdinand2.bsky.social · Sep 9

I remember someone saying that's how you know AI can never truly be a writer. If you tell AI to stop using em dashes, it'll stop. If you tell a writer to stop using em dashes they'll tell you to fuck yourself and that you can pry them from their cold, dead fingers.

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Anna Frame @annaframe.bsky.social · Sep 7

The fact this statement is both so weak and - even worse - anonymous, speaks volumes. The presence of a woman who actively called for hotels full of people to be set alight isn’t irresponsible, it’s abhorrent.

Why isn’t every major politician and news outlet denouncing it?

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · Sep 6

A Labour source - unnamed - has commented to the Mirror on Connolly at Reform: “No matter what you think of her sentencing, celebrating someone who publicly expressed these views is beyond irresponsible. It shows just why Reform aren’t fit for office.”
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