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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · Nov 29

🎵We’ve got super Ian McKellern,
He knows exactly what we need,
Viggo at the back,
Elijah in attack,
And now we’re going burn the f**king Ring 🎵
#Fellowship #ITFC

a man with a beard and a hat looks at the camera

Alt: Gandalf the Grey is nodding along to unheard music, suggesting that he’s down with the kids in the Shire

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 9m

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 4h

The name for the emotion experienced when moving effortlessly forward on one side of a motorway and seeing traffic in the opposite direction at a standstill is "strassenfreude".

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Dr. Melissa Schuh @melissaschuh.bsky.social · 19h

I’ll #BuyAStrangerABook
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Personalised recommendations are my thing, so don’t forget to mention what kinds of things you like to read and I’ll suggest accordingly 📚

@biggreenbooks.bsky.social

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Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 23h

IT'S WEDNESDAY!

It's #buyastrangerabook day.

The best of all the days.

I'll give out TWO books.

FOR FREE.

If you'd like one, let me know.

Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know.

It's a thing! Look.

www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...

UK only

Buy A Stranger A Book. #buyastrangerabook - Stuff you might like... - Big Green Bookshop. @biggreenbooks on Twitter. Cheese fan. My Mum says hi.

The Big Green Bookshop an independent online bookshop in selling awesome titles by awesome authors to awesome people

www.biggreenbookshop.com

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 1d

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Adam Farrer @adamjfarrer.bsky.social · 1d

If you fancy getting 25% off the paperback of my book (due out on January 29th 2026) you could go to this link and pre-order it, entering the code OCTOBER25. I’m not pressuring you, but you probably should. Paperbacks are great.

www.waterstones.com/book/broken-...

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Moonflower Books @moonflowerbooks.bsky.social · 1d

🎭 Samuel Pepys is BACK in the new mystery from @jackjewers.bsky.social. Investigating a brutal double murder leads him to in the glamorous yet unexpectedly dangerous world of the Drury Lane theatre. Pre-order now from @waterstones.bsky.social to get 25% off: www.waterstones.com/book/seethin...

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 1d

Boom! Ordered.
And if the option to pre-order the third was offered, I'd snap Waterstones/your/Moonflower's hand off.
I might gift my signed Hardback copy of Pagans out into the wild or pop it on eBay for charity.
If anyone wants to nominate, please reply...

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children of the corncob @bisk.sureis.sexy · 1d

fuck off with this shit you racist cunts.

i forgot the word "tumbledryer" the other day so i called it a tumbley bumbley and english is my only fucking language.

abolish the home office.

Changes to the English language requirement were first reported in May when the government published their early plans in the immigration white paper. The new standard requires people to express themselves “fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expression” and to be able to communicate flexibly in social, academic and work situations.

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 1d

Wait? What?
#PagansSequel

a picture of a woman with the words dramatic druid stare written on it

Alt: a picture of Hugo Weaving dramatically turning around at the news that Pagans sequel opening chapter to be included in the paperback edition of Pagans - available in all good (and bad) bookshops Feb '26

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Moonflower Books @moonflowerbooks.bsky.social · 1d

🚨Exciting news for fans of Pagans by @jamesbluecat.bsky.social...🚨

1. The paperback is available for pre-order
2. If you order it now from @waterstones.bsky.social with the code OCTOBER25, you'll get 25% off
3. IT'S GOT THE FIRST CHAPTER OF THE SEQUEL IN IT

www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/...

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 2d

This is tomorrow @deadinkbookshop.bsky.social. I'm really looking forward to it. Do come along if you want to see how much an author can age between the release of their first and second novels. deadinkbookshop.com/products/the...

15 OCT The Definitions: Book Launch - Matt Greene in conversation with

15 October6pm - 7pmTickets from £5 at the Dead Ink Bookshop:375 Smithdown Rd, Liverpool L15 3JJ The Definitions is a short, thoughtful, and ultimately terrifying novel about the vitality of language...

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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 2d

Pre-order ‘My Bags Are Big’ by Tibor Fischer today, with 25% discount off at Waterstones – use code OCTOBER25 in the checkout 👉 www.waterstones.com/book/my-bags...

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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 2d

Until midnight this Friday (17th Oct), Waterstones are giving 25% off the preorder of the paperback edition of Pagans (due Feb '26) if you use the code OCTOBER25, so that's a thing you could do if you wanted.

www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/...

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2d

After a year out of print, due to the demise of my ex-publisher, my 2018 story collection Help The Witch is now re-available. I've a few signed copies here, available with a free plague doctor linoprint postcard by my mum.

Please email me at [email protected] if you'd like one (& are in the UK).

The paperback of Help The Witch and my mum's plague doctor linoprint

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 2d

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Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 2d

Share a TV show you love from the 1970s.
So many to choose from! ButI'm going for Roobarb and Custard.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRBo...

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 2d

Despite relentlessly discovering social media makes NO difference to ticket sales , let me remind you that I am in ST ALBANS this week

www.books-on-the-hill.co.uk/events/58bpt...

Author Talk: Ice Cream for a Broken Tooth by Robin Ince — Books on the Hill

We are delighted to be welcoming back award winning broadcaster, comedian and author Robin Ince in-store for a discussion about his latest book and first poetry collection, Ice Cream for a Broken T...

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 2d

I've put a few new drawings up at
www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale

There are also badges, prints and a zine at
www.tomgauld.com/shop

A pen and ink drawing.
Panel One:
A woman sits in a chair reading happily in a book-filled room.
A voice offstage says
"You can't survive on books alone"
The woman replies
"Maybe I can!"

Panel Two:
"How?" asks the voice
"I don't know yet, but I'm sure the answer will be in one of my books." Says the woman

Panel Three:
Caption: However
The book is filled with yet more books.
A skull sits on the chair. It says
"I regret nothing!"

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Chris Ewan @chrisewan.bsky.social · 3d

I have a new book coming!

EYE SPY is out in March 2026, it’s a thriller set on the Eurostar, and it looks a lot like this!

www.amazon.co.uk/Eye-Spy-addi...

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 3d

There can be only one. #NonFlyingDutchman

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 3d

As an avid reader, I can whole-heartedly endorse this deal. For the price of a brand new hardback book, you'll get a *year's* worth of excellent writing.
Its a bargain.
#booksky

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 3d

I've paywalled this story, because we all have to find our ways to pay the rent and bills. I think it's one of my favourite things I've written in the last year. £20 a year gives you 12 months full access to it, my (very big) archive of writing, and all future posts.

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · Sep 9

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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 3d

Celebration day for editor, Nicholas Royle and all the contributors of Best British Short Stories 2025! 🥳🎉🎈🥂

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