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The Literary Gift Company
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Creating and selling literary gifts for readers, writers and book lovers since 2009. Posts by Dani and the team from our Reading (where else?) HQ.
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September 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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A reminder to people that independent bookshops that are coming to here from Twitter are taking a financial risk as that social media outlet is a major factor in marketing and getting sales.
November 13, 2024 at 1:48 PM
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I have another #buyastrangerabook day offer.

@pipofsuffolk.bsky.social has sent me £10 to buy someone a book with!

So, if you're based in the UK and there's a paperback you'd like, get in touch.
November 13, 2024 at 3:35 PM
More book people are here, hurrah! More 📚 posts! Spotted two new titles I want already…
November 13, 2024 at 5:41 PM
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My favourite lego to date ❤️📚
November 12, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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The Bookseller is doing a survey on advance and royalty payments (and timely payment status)

Feel free to let loose, as I did!!

www.thebookseller.com/news/the-boo...
The Bookseller launches author survey on advances and royalties
The Bookseller is inviting authors to discuss their experience of receiving advances and royalties via a new survey.
www.thebookseller.com
August 29, 2024 at 2:11 PM
At Literary HQ we’re beginning celebrations to mark our 15th Birthday! We’ve got a bunch of competitions (15 or so) and some special offers (maybe 15 of those too) but you will need to be a newsletter subscriber to find out more. Sign up at www.theliterarygiftcompany.com
August 22, 2024 at 3:02 PM
Been making some more changes today but certainly not going to make the same mistake again of asking anyone to take a look 🤦‍♀️
August 22, 2024 at 2:37 PM
We‘ve been making some changes to the website. I have one of these mugs up for grabs for the first person who spots a typo…

www.theliterarygiftcompany.com/products/go-...
Go Away I'm Proofing Bone China Mug
Attention to detail, an encyclopedic knowledge of spelling, grammar and proper punctuation usage with enough flexibility that keeps the text stylistically authentic, acknowledges the ever-changing nat...
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August 15, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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I asked AI to depict “the magic of reading”. You may find the results disturbing. @backlisted.bsky.social
August 13, 2024 at 5:49 PM
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Here are my Summer Reading episode picks for this
@backlisted.bsky.social: Intermezzo by Sally Rooney (Faber/FSG) and A Body Made of Glass: A History of Hypochondria by Caroline Crampton (Granta/Ecco).
August 13, 2024 at 8:40 AM
Any other online businesses having to go round switching off AI automations left right and centre on various platforms? It’s exhausting. #ratherbereading
August 13, 2024 at 4:00 PM
National Book Lover‘s Day you say? Um we did that yesterday. And Wednesday too. Oh and all of last week. And most of July. 😂😁
August 9, 2024 at 11:49 AM
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My latest cartoon for New Scientist.
May 21, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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I see the old: "Trollope said no-one should publish a book before the age of 40" conversation is happening again.
Just a reminder:
Books are for people of all ages, all cultures, all backgrounds
The voices of old, dead white men are not the only ones worth hearing
April 23, 2024 at 5:46 PM
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Hey Brits! Please share around!

The Govt has an open call for evidence on their proposed changes to fit notes.

This is open to disabled people, carers and medical professionals. It's open until 8th July.
Fit Note Reform: call for evidence
www.gov.uk
April 20, 2024 at 8:09 AM
Oh my!
Another Wyndham cover for you
April 16, 2024 at 9:14 PM
🚨 @joannechocolat.bsky.social is running amok near Kings Cross hiding free books! 🚨
BOOK DROP ALERT! Today, I’ll be hiding 3 proof copies of THE MOONLIGHT MARKET in selected spots near King’s Cross. If you find one, feel free to claim it!
#LookCloser
April 16, 2024 at 3:06 PM
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Just realised it says dildo on the @literarygifts.bsky.social profile page and I genuinely can’t remember if that was intentional or not. 🤔
April 15, 2024 at 1:59 PM
This
April 15, 2024 at 11:06 AM
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And this morning the Shed is a briefcase, with tarnished brass hasp, rotten stitching, and a bellyful of faded books, boxes of chalk, coloured pencils and confiscated slingshots...
April 15, 2024 at 8:49 AM
Congratulations Ros, you are our winner!
Can you you contact us with an address to send your prize!
Please email us via the contact link on our website.
The Gift by AlanTitchmarsh. It’s warm, sensitive, thought-provoking but not twee at all.
November 6, 2023 at 6:21 PM
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National Black Cat Day

(Bestiary, 13th c.)
digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/3665...
Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 533
View high resolution digitized images of Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 533 Bestiary.
digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
October 27, 2023 at 12:57 PM
Are you signed up to our newsletter? We really don't bombard, & there are always interesting new products featured. Sign up via the link (scroll down). 📚❤️
AND to be brutally honest it's so much better if your hear about us from *us* rather than via ZuckerMusk platforms that take cut of everything.
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Literary gifts for book lovers, gorgeous gift ideas for readers, writers and literature fans. Gifts for readers, book lover gifts, find a lovely literary gift.
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October 27, 2023 at 3:03 PM
I have a little helper today it seems. 😬😬😬 #buzzoff
October 27, 2023 at 1:52 PM