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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 17h

Ladies and gentlemen, your contenders! In the blue corner, The Roman Empire, in the red corner, Mighty Carthage!

We want a clean fight, no hitting below the belt, no sneaky salting each other's lands ...

#books #Livres #history #histoire

Blue coloured hardback of The Romans by Edward J Watts

Hardback of Carthage a New History by Eve MacDonald

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 19h

#Edinburgh peeps, we have copies of that fine chap @bobmort.bsky.social 's new novel, The Long Shoe, signed by his own fair hand.

#Edimbourg #books #livres

A signed hardback of The Long Shoe in the Edinburgh Bookshop

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 1d

#WhatWereReading : Joe loved @pfracassi.bsky.social 's Boys in the Valley, so was eager for his new #horror , which is a total change of pace. Imagine the Slasher genre meets Thursday Murder Club, as a serial killer stalks a retirement community.

#books #livres #Halloween @orbitbooksuk.bsky.social

Bookseller Joe holding up a copy of The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre in the Edinburgh Bookshop.

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💙 🇺🇦 NomadicWriter (Fritha Malcouronne) 🇺🇦 💙 @nomadicwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Head up UK screenwriters! Very important dates for your diary. This year’s annual BBC Writers Room Open Call for TV drama or comedy/drama submissions window - noon Tuesday 4th November to noon Tuesday 2nd December.

Details here: www.bbc.co.uk/writers/oppo...

#ScriptSkyUK #ScriptSky

How to submit a script to us

Open Call is our system for receiving unsolicited original scripts.

www.bbc.co.uk

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mstblue.bsky.social @mstblue.bsky.social · 1d

I love this display and btw my students & I thought ‘The Hate U Give’ was great. Will never forget a talk at Dulwich College when Melvin Burgess told the audience that we should never censor what our students chose to read. They are very good at self-censorship, if they don’t like something!

The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 1d

When you erase words, you erase worlds that were, and worlds to come.

Readers resist

#BannedBooksWeek #books #livres #censorship #FreedomOfExpression
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 1d

When you erase words, you erase worlds that were, and worlds to come.

Readers resist

#BannedBooksWeek #books #livres #censorship #FreedomOfExpression
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg

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cartoonmuseum.bsky.social @cartoonmuseum.bsky.social · 6d

Calling all Jane Austen, Comics and Graphic Novel fans! Join Dr Nicola Streeten @nicolast.reeten in conversation with Kate Evans @cartoonkate.evans to discuss Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen - Kate's stunning new graphic novel.
Info https://shop.beyonk.com/1wz1m3el/experiences/xlwi84e7

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 6d

“Necessity is not the mother of invention; play is”
—Ian D. Suttie

It gets late early out here
in the lacklustre places,
wind in the trees and the foodstalls’
ricepaper lamplight, fading and blurred with rain…

—John Burnside, “Travelling South, Scotland, August 2012”
#nationalpoetryday #play #poem

John Burnside
Travelling South, Scotland, August 2012

“Necessity is not the mother of invention; play is”
—Ian D. Suttie

It gets late early out here
in the lacklustre places,
wind in the trees & the foodstalls’
ricepaper lamplight, fading & blurred with rain,
the wire fence studded with fleece
& indelible traces
of polythene wrapping; marrowfat clogging the drains
on the road that runs out to the coast
then disappears.
A last bleed of gold in the west, like a Shan Shui painting,
then darkness.

The animals are gone
that hunted here:
wolves coming down from the hills, that
immaculate hunger,
rumours of bear & cat, quick
martens & raptors.
The rain is darker now,
though not so black,
oil-iridescent, streaked with the smell of lard
– it gets late early out here; though late, out here,
has a different meaning:

stars in the road
& the absence of something more
than birchwoods or song,
pallet fires, tyre-tracks,
grubbed fields clouded with grease
& palm oil, hints
of molasses and lanolin, tarpaper,
iron filings.
A narrow band of weather on the road,
then houses; though we scarcely think of them
as that.

I remember a meadow at dusk
in another rain
(and this is nostalgia now); I remember
I stood in a wind like gossamer and watched
three roe fawns and a doe
come quietly, one by one, through the silvering grasses,
wary, but curious, giving me just enough space
to feel safe,
their watchfulness reminding me of something
lost, a creaturely
awareness I could only glimpse

in passing.
That meadow is gone, and dusk
isn’t dusk any more
– or not out here –
just miles of tract and lay-by on the way
to junkyards and dead allotments,
guard dogs on tether,
biomass, factory outlets,
the half-light of ersatz dairies petering out
on rotting fields
of rape and mustardseed.

We’ve been going at this for years:
a steady delete
of anything that tells us what we are,
a long
distaste for the blood warmth and bloom
of the creaturely: local
fauna and words for colour, all the shapes
of ritual and lust
surrendered where they fell, beneath a fog
of smut and grime and counting-house
as church, the old gods

buried undead beneath the rural sprawl
that bears their names, or wandering the hills
of Lammermuir and Whitelee, waiting out
the rule of Mammon, till the land returns
– with or without us –
chainlink going down
to bindweed, drunken
thistles in a sway
of wind and goldfinch on the dead estates, fat
clusters of moss
and gentian, broken

tarmac with new shoots
of coltsfoot breaking through
like velvet, till the darkness of the leaf
unfurls into a light we could have known
but failed to see
by choosing not to find
the kingdom-at-hand:
this order;
this dialectic;
this mother of invention,
ceaseless play.

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 11d

A happy Saturday to everyone. In Christ Church, just a few moments stroll from us, the third #Edinburgh Womens Fiction Festival will be holding events all day today, give them some love & support if you can! www.edwomensficfest.co.uk

#Bruntsfield #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #books #livres

Edinburgh Women's Fiction Festival

www.edwomensficfest.co.uk

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 12d

#WhatWereReading : where do dragons go, when they need to, well, *go* ?

Fiona adored Julie Volk's A Rainy Dragon Day ( @geckopress.bsky.social ) , & Laura Baker & Stacey Thomas's Squirrel & Bird ( @littletigeruk.bsky.social )

#books #livres #ChildrensBooks #LivresJeunesse

Bookseller Fiona smiling and holding copies of Squirrel and Bird, and A Rainy Dragon Day, in the Edinburgh Bookshop

Bookseller Fiona laughing ,and holding copies of Squirrel and Bird, and A Rainy Dragon Day, in the Edinburgh Bookshop

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 12d

A happy opening day to our chums at the 2025 #Edinburgh Womens Fiction Festival!

You can still grab a few tickets, or watch online, events just round the corner from us in beautiful Christ Church (next to McClarens on the Corner)

www.edwomensficfest.co.uk

#books #livres #Edinburgh #Edimbourg

Edinburgh Women's Fiction Festival

www.edwomensficfest.co.uk

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 12d

New releases for #music lovers - @thornerecords.bsky.social , we're looking at you - an expanded, 10th anniversary of iconic Kim Gordon's Girl in a Band, the memoirs of Priscilla Presley, and a history of the legendary 1980s Blitz Club.

#musique #books #livres

Cover of Blitz, the Club that Created the 80s

Cover of Softly, As I Leave You, Life After Elvis

A copy of Girl in a Band 10th anniversary edition by Kim Gordon

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 12d

And the new releases just keep coming! Here are some of the latest #fiction releases to hit our shelves, just in time for some weekend browsing.

#books #livres #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #Bruntsfield

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 12d

Following Under Fives Storytime, we're having a Macmillan coffee morning today!

Please do swing by for a drink, some yummy cake, and help raise donations for Macmillan Cancer Research.

#Bruntsfield #Edinburgh #Edimbourg

Table filled with cups and various cakes

Close up of a plate of chocolate peanut butter rice crispy cakes

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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 15d

Happy 71st Anniversary of the Hunt for the Gorbals Vampire, when school children gathered at Glasgow's Southern Necropolis to seek out the rumoured kidnapper of small boys!

Read our Cameron Johnston's take on the legend, Surviving Life, at the link below.

@cameronjohnston.bsky.social

A Halloween Special - Surviving Life by Cameron Johnston | Glasgow 2024

Her grandpa Rab struggled up in bed, rheumy blue eyes squinting out into the hospice corridor. Satisfied nobody was eavesdropping, he slumped back into his

glasgow2024.org

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The Edwin Morgan Trust @edmorgantrust.bsky.social · Sep 4

Announcing our new partnership scheme: The Canedolia Collaboration! We welcome applications from orgs in Scotland looking to deliver a 3-year programme focused on poetry and/or translation. Financial and in-kind support available.

⏰ Deadline: 2 Oct @ 5pm

edwinmorgantrust.com/2025/09/04/t...

The Canedolia Collaboration: Applications Open

The Canedolia Collaboration is a new partnership scheme named after Edwin Morgan’s poem ‘Canedolia’, a celebration of language, place and possibility. This initiative builds on the success of The S…

edwinmorgantrust.com

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JohnChalmers+SandraMarrs=Metaphrog @metaphrog.bsky.social · 15d

Looking forward to this webinar on Saturday 27 Sept! It's free and you can register at the link below.

Kids Comics Unite @kidscomicsunite.bsky.social · Aug 14

We are INCREDIBLY EXCITED to announce the launch of our new fall course: How to Launch Your Graphic Novel. Taught by Janna Morishima, our newest course will teach you how to build an effective marketing campaign without losing your soul in the process! 🐲📚

#kidlit #kcuintensive #booklaunch

How to Launch Your Graphic Novel - Kids Comics Unite

A free masterclass on everything you need to know about launching your graphic novel or comic, taught by literary agent Janna Morishima!

kidscomicsunite.com

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 15d

This is NOT just america. This is happening here. Local coverage of it, if you can bear the pop up ads....

www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/2548259...

#UKKidlit #Edusky

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Sue John @suejohn.bsky.social · 20d

Our new Autumn / Winter programme is out - an abundance of @womenslibrary.bsky.social joy to behold! Check it out here: womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/09/12/a...

Autumn 2025 Programme Out Now! | Glasgow Women's Library

While heading towards colder weather and shorter days, we are committed to creating warmth by opening our doors to a season full of bold ideas, stories, and joyful gatherings.

womenslibrary.org.uk

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 19d

"All the leaves are brown..." 🎵

Except the ones that are green, or red, or gold! Visiting authors sign our painted leaves, which we then attach to the sculptural tree in our children's room. New batch just painted!

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 19d

The shadows lengthen, the sun sets earlier each evening - it's time for a spooky book to read by the fireplace!

We have a nice mix of factual & fictional #horror for you browse (no demonic summonings required)

#books #livres #horreur

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 19d

We loved Pedro Martin's delightful Mexikid , and for younger readers who enjoyed Dog Man, Rob Harrell's Batpig had us chortling.

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Edinburgh Libraries @edinburghlibraries.bsky.social · 19d

The final chapter in the Our Town Stories #Edinburgh900 series looking at the city’s history over the past 900 years explores Edinburgh a City of Diversity, celebrating the city’s multicultural landscape and the 2050 City Vision for a diverse and vibrant future for the city zurl.co/E60BX

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 19d

Yarrr, me buckoes, it be #InternationalTalkLikeAPirateDay once more! Grab yer copy of Treasure Island and a cutlass, buckle that swash and have a good yo ho ho!

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 20d

Out today from @jonathancape.bsky.social , What We Can Know, the new novel from the much-acclaimed scribe, Ian McEwan.

Grab an exclusive signed Indie Bookshop edition while they last!

#books #livres

A hardback edition of What We Can Know being held up in front of the Edinburgh Bookshop

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