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alex orr 🌷 @alexorr.bsky.social · Mar 9
starting a log of my monthly reads (ignore the fact that it’s March!)

two reads following the International Booker, two weird girl reads, a queer Irish audiobook, and an upcoming @sceptrebooks.bsky.social by @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social — BRILLIANT
my hand is holding Alice Franklin’s Life Hacks for a Little Alien, Lucy Rose’s The Lamb, Wendy Erskine’s The Benefactors, Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume, Saou Ichikawa’s Hunchback. the background is bookshelves a graphic showing Sunbhrn by Chloe’s Howarth’s cover. top right reads Libro.fm and top left reads My listening supports Argonaut Books
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jehadabusalim.bsky.social
A detailed and heartbreaking report on how Israel systematically destroyed Gaza’s bookstores, printing presses, and publishing houses. It turned centers of learning and knowledge production into ruins and ashes.

Please share widely.
palestinestudies.bsky.social Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · Jul 14
Israel destroyed Gaza’s printing presses, publishing houses, and bookstores. These were homes to memory, knowledge, and cultural continuity. Ink and manuscripts turned to ash. Presses were silenced mid-sentence.

Report by Fatma Al Zahraa Sehwail:
www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...
Targeting Printing and Publishing Houses in Gaza: A Cultural Violation and a Memoricide
Palestine Square, فلسطين الميدان
www.palestine-studies.org
July 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
alexorr.bsky.social
what a great shame for the Scottish publishing landscape. Laura and Heather are literary legends who made such an impact in their ten years. so glad to see 404 Ink finds a home with Saraband
404 Ink announces closure ahead of 10th anniversary www.thebookseller.com/news/404-ink...
404 Ink: closure announced ahead of 10th anniversary
When Heather McDaid and Laura Jones-Rivera made the decision to sunset their labour of love, 404 Ink, going out on a high was paramount.
www.thebookseller.com
July 11, 2025 at 8:07 AM
alexorr.bsky.social
so looking forward to this - it will be a privilege to hear more of Pelicot's voice. no doubt A HYMN TO LIFE will take its place alongside Chanel Miller's KNOW MY NAME as one of the most vital reads of a post-MeToo world
www.thebookseller.com/rights/the-b...
The Bodley Head to publish memoir from Gisèle Pelicot
The Bodley Head, an imprint of Vintage, is set to publish a memoir from Gisèle Pelicot, "in her words, to offer solace and hope, and make a positive contribution to changing the conversation around sh...
www.thebookseller.com
March 20, 2025 at 9:55 AM
alexorr.bsky.social
starting a log of my monthly reads (ignore the fact that it’s March!)

two reads following the International Booker, two weird girl reads, a queer Irish audiobook, and an upcoming @sceptrebooks.bsky.social by @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social — BRILLIANT
my hand is holding Alice Franklin’s Life Hacks for a Little Alien, Lucy Rose’s The Lamb, Wendy Erskine’s The Benefactors, Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume, Saou Ichikawa’s Hunchback. the background is bookshelves a graphic showing Sunbhrn by Chloe’s Howarth’s cover. top right reads Libro.fm and top left reads My listening supports Argonaut Books
March 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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thebookerprizes.com
Presenting the #InternationalBooker2025 longlist.

Find out more about all the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025
February 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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thebookerprizes.com
From fresh voices to a fifth-time nominee, here's everything you need to know about the #InternationalBooker2025 longlist.

thebookerprizes.com/IBP2025longl...
February 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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caitlinlogan.bsky.social
Headlines have again been focused on whether Sturgeon let “gender politics” dominate as FM.

Loud voices are rewriting history to fit their agenda.

The facts on Sturgeon’s record on gender equality & the impact of supporting trans rights are very different 🪡

www.thenational.scot/news/2494619...
Nicola Sturgeon owes no apology for her commitment to women’s and trans rights
ANOTHER week, another opportunity for Nicola Sturgeon’s critics to reduce nearly nine years as First Minister to just three letters: GRR ...
www.thenational.scot
February 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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hodderbooks.bsky.social
Published today, #BetweenTwoRivers by @moudhy.bsky.social breathes new life into the stories left behind when the people of ancient Mesopotamia began writing things down for the very first time... ✨

Get your copy here: lnk.to/BetweenTwoRivers
A hardback copy of Between Two Rivers laid against a map of ancient Mesopotamia
February 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
alexorr.bsky.social
thrilled to be joining the 2025 committee of Hachette’s Pride network as secretary and Edinburgh office rep 🌈
a list of faces and names under ‘Meet the 2025 Pride Committee’
February 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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sceptrebooks.bsky.social
Kicking off our #SceptreSalon25 by remembering our amazing 2024 publishing with @mrfeditor.bsky.social, before looking ahead at some of the fantastic books ahead 📚
February 12, 2025 at 7:11 PM
alexorr.bsky.social
pics from Sceptre Salon!

we heard from the wildly talented authors on their 2025 list, including superstars below:

@wednesdayerskin.bsky.social, @jennymustard.bsky.social, @gabrielflynn.bsky.social, @arifa.bsky.social, @elfodongo.bsky.social & @jennashworth.bsky.social

@sceptrebooks.bsky.social
a dark room with chairs facing a screen which reads ‘welcome to Sceptre Salon 2025’ followed by social media handles and hashtags Leah Davis sits across from Gabriel Flynn and Leon Craig in front of a screen bearing their names and pictures of their books, Poor Ghost! and The Decadence Wendy Erskine stands in front of a screen bearing her name and a picture of her books, The Benefactors Leah Davis sits across from James Cahill and Jenny Mustard in front of a screen bearing their names and pictures of their books, The Violet Hour and What a Time to Be Alive
February 13, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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laurafjones.bsky.social
The Creative Scotland Multi-Year Funding outcome is here and relieved to see some familiar faces continuing to be supported: www.creativescotland.com/news-stories...
Multi-Year Funding Outcome Announcement
A record number of cultural organisations to receive stable, year-on-year funding to deliver culture and creativity for Scotland’s people.
www.creativescotland.com
January 30, 2025 at 11:34 AM
alexorr.bsky.social
storm Éowyn caused a power cut in the East Neuk of Fife — there’s worse ways to spend a friday evening, i guess 💙📚
solvej balle’s ‘on the calculation of volume’ sits on a table surrounded by two candles and a glass of red wine
January 25, 2025 at 11:31 AM
alexorr.bsky.social
mega exciting book post from @faberbooks.bsky.social 📙

Tara Selter has slipped out of time — with nobody believing her, she is approaching her 365th morning of waking up on the 18th of November

Barbara J. Haveland translates the first in the septology from Danish

can’t wait to dive in !
my hand is holding a proof copy of Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume. the wall in the background has printing on it saying Hachette Edinburgh my hand is holding a proof copy of Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume. the wall in the background has printing on it saying Hachette Edinburgh
January 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
alexorr.bsky.social
this *excellent* book published yesterday

horror/thriller about a crime scene cleaner — whose sister was murdered by a man calling her a ‘bat eater’ — uncovering a serial killer targeting East Asian women. oh, and it’s got hungry ghosts!

femgore at its finest!
my hand is holding a copy of Kylie Lee Baker’s Bat Eater with bookshelves behind it
January 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM
alexorr.bsky.social
this is really brilliant - independent publishers have the opportunity to gain funding to run traineeships! hoping to see lots of regional publishers or publishers in Scotland/Wales/Ireland securing this funding 🤞
January 7, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
One of my favorite parts of Ministry for the Future was the abolition of the billionaires. Just to be that rich makes you an enemy of democracy. Wrote early this year:
Let me put it this way: if you made $10,000 a week – a princely sum by the standards of most people – you would have to work every week from the year of Jesus’s birth until this week to earn over a billion dollars. To earn as much as Elon Musk’s net worth at that rate – currently $180bn, according to Forbes – you’d have to work every week for more than a third of a million years – that is, since before Homo sapiens first emerged in Africa. Being a billionaire is arguably a disqualification for participating in the affairs of ordinary people Another way to put it is: one day last year, walking on San Francisco’s western edge, overlooking the Pacific Ocean, I saw whales spouting, and then I came home and rescued a bee buzzing at my window. The extremely disparate scale of these two wild creatures impressed me, and so I did the sums: a honeybee weighs about 0.11 grams and 4,000 bees weigh a pound; a grey whale weighs between 60,000 and 90,000 pounds, meaning that, even at the lower weight, it weighs about as much as a quarter of a billion bees. According to Oxfam, 81 billionaires hold more wealth than the poorest half of all humanity, meaning that in monetary terms 81 people are bigger than 4 billion people. So when it comes to wealth and impact, billionaires are whales and poor people are bees. Except that whales aren’t a menace to bees.
December 18, 2024 at 12:29 AM
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louiestowell.bsky.social
You: slouching towards bethlehem to be born.

Me: crawling towards the christmas holidays to watch Doctor Who
December 18, 2024 at 7:40 AM
alexorr.bsky.social
flicking through some of It's Nice That's articles of the year and this one stopped me in my tracks www.itsnicethat.com/features/jer...
“Art is a way of saying the unsayable”: Jeremy Deller and John Costi on curating an exhibition by people in prison
Koestler Arts is a charity that supports those in criminal justice settings, and each year it hosts an exhibition of prisoner-made art. Here, the artists Jeremy Deller and John Costi discuss their rel...
www.itsnicethat.com
December 18, 2024 at 4:27 PM
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alexorr.bsky.social
this was insanely good. motherhood, friendship, modern womanhood — and the pain that accompanies them

in the first half i was cackling aloud but by halfway through i was holding back tears and racing through it

i don’t think i can accurately do this book justice… READ IT, READ IT!!!!
the front cover of a proof copy of Holly Bourne’s So Thrilled for You the back cover of a proof copy of Holly Bourne’s So Thrilled for You
December 14, 2024 at 12:36 PM
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lighthousebks.bsky.social
‘The children are always ours’ - James Baldwin

*ALL* kids deserve life, a future and a present, childhoods and adolescence and adulthoods shaped by love, marked by joy, and full of possibility.

But our government doesn’t think that’s true for trans kids.

1/3
December 14, 2024 at 2:15 PM
alexorr.bsky.social
this was insanely good. motherhood, friendship, modern womanhood — and the pain that accompanies them

in the first half i was cackling aloud but by halfway through i was holding back tears and racing through it

i don’t think i can accurately do this book justice… READ IT, READ IT!!!!
the front cover of a proof copy of Holly Bourne’s So Thrilled for You the back cover of a proof copy of Holly Bourne’s So Thrilled for You
December 14, 2024 at 12:36 PM
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404ink.bsky.social
Last few days to take advantage of this!
404ink.bsky.social 404 Ink @404ink.bsky.social · Nov 14
🎄 Every copy of Victor & Barry's Kelvinside Compendium sold from the 404 Ink shop will include a FREE Christmas card from Victor & Barry, signed by their pals Alan Cumming & Forbes Masson!

Get yer card: www.404ink.com/store/p/vict...

Ts&Cs: While stock lasts. Dedications not possible, sorry!
December 12, 2024 at 1:35 PM