Vikki Reilly
@bookyvikki.bsky.social
Cheerleader for Books and Beatles.
20+ years in the book trade.
Supporting publishers @publishingscotland.bsky.social
Editor @booksfromscotland.bsky.social
Author of Beatles 101.
Gimme all yer culture!
20+ years in the book trade.
Supporting publishers @publishingscotland.bsky.social
Editor @booksfromscotland.bsky.social
Author of Beatles 101.
Gimme all yer culture!
Started the Anthology binge and first episode down. I highly approve of the archive photos over the interviews as it makes John not being there less obvious. But it still had my favourite bit of Macca saying 'We cannot be seen with that song.' YAS!
November 29, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Started the Anthology binge and first episode down. I highly approve of the archive photos over the interviews as it makes John not being there less obvious. But it still had my favourite bit of Macca saying 'We cannot be seen with that song.' YAS!
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RIP George Harrison (this day in 2001)
Art of Dying (2014 Remaster)
YouTube video by George Harrison - Topic
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November 29, 2025 at 9:06 AM
RIP George Harrison (this day in 2001)
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George Harrison - Blow Away (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by George Harrison
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November 29, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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November 29, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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24 years ago today George Harrison took another step towards moksha. Earlier this year I compiled a People’s Playlist of his music guided by scores of Bluesky responders. Each song here is somebody’s very favourite George-related track. Three hours, ’63-‘01. Enjoy.
open.spotify.com/playlist/1xv...
open.spotify.com/playlist/1xv...
What Is Life: George Harrison, the People's Playlist
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November 29, 2025 at 10:10 AM
24 years ago today George Harrison took another step towards moksha. Earlier this year I compiled a People’s Playlist of his music guided by scores of Bluesky responders. Each song here is somebody’s very favourite George-related track. Three hours, ’63-‘01. Enjoy.
open.spotify.com/playlist/1xv...
open.spotify.com/playlist/1xv...
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We had a brilliant time at the Publishing Scotland Christmas Fair last weekend!
Thanks to everyone who visited us at our stall, got a book signed by one of our fabulous creatives, or got stuck into one of our new jigsaws!
Thanks to everyone who visited us at our stall, got a book signed by one of our fabulous creatives, or got stuck into one of our new jigsaws!
November 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
We had a brilliant time at the Publishing Scotland Christmas Fair last weekend!
Thanks to everyone who visited us at our stall, got a book signed by one of our fabulous creatives, or got stuck into one of our new jigsaws!
Thanks to everyone who visited us at our stall, got a book signed by one of our fabulous creatives, or got stuck into one of our new jigsaws!
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Exciting news! A selection of our iconic Charco covers are now available as fine art prints! Reimagined by artist Pablo Font as striking works of art, and printed using highest quality papers and inks, giving an archival life of 80 years.
Check out the full range: charcopress.com/artstore
Check out the full range: charcopress.com/artstore
November 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Exciting news! A selection of our iconic Charco covers are now available as fine art prints! Reimagined by artist Pablo Font as striking works of art, and printed using highest quality papers and inks, giving an archival life of 80 years.
Check out the full range: charcopress.com/artstore
Check out the full range: charcopress.com/artstore
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We ❤️ Scotland's bookshops!
If you love them too, take a moment to explore The Bookseller Association's report, The Cultural and Community Role of Scotland’s Bookshops.
🔗 booksellers.org.uk/getattachmen...
If you love them too, take a moment to explore The Bookseller Association's report, The Cultural and Community Role of Scotland’s Bookshops.
🔗 booksellers.org.uk/getattachmen...
November 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
We ❤️ Scotland's bookshops!
If you love them too, take a moment to explore The Bookseller Association's report, The Cultural and Community Role of Scotland’s Bookshops.
🔗 booksellers.org.uk/getattachmen...
If you love them too, take a moment to explore The Bookseller Association's report, The Cultural and Community Role of Scotland’s Bookshops.
🔗 booksellers.org.uk/getattachmen...
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When booksellers pick your novel as one of their favourites of the year, you know you have a great book!
The River by Craig A Smith @smicht.bsky.social chosen by @nairnbooks.bsky.social for @booksfromscotland.bsky.social's latest issue...
booksfromscotland.com/2025/10/book...
The River by Craig A Smith @smicht.bsky.social chosen by @nairnbooks.bsky.social for @booksfromscotland.bsky.social's latest issue...
booksfromscotland.com/2025/10/book...
November 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
When booksellers pick your novel as one of their favourites of the year, you know you have a great book!
The River by Craig A Smith @smicht.bsky.social chosen by @nairnbooks.bsky.social for @booksfromscotland.bsky.social's latest issue...
booksfromscotland.com/2025/10/book...
The River by Craig A Smith @smicht.bsky.social chosen by @nairnbooks.bsky.social for @booksfromscotland.bsky.social's latest issue...
booksfromscotland.com/2025/10/book...
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For Strange Horizons, I've been working on a review of A Granite Silence, Nina Allan's fascinating examination of a historical crime as a network of jostling stories. The review went online yesterday: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
A Granite Silence by Nina Allan
In her latest novel, Allan steps in a different direction again.
strangehorizons.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
For Strange Horizons, I've been working on a review of A Granite Silence, Nina Allan's fascinating examination of a historical crime as a network of jostling stories. The review went online yesterday: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
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Publishing in early 2026 are three new In the Moment books!
💎 In Search of Gems: Finding Treasures in Wild Places by Kenneth Steven
🌿 Nature’s Almanac: A Gift for Every Day of the Year by Susie White
🏊🏻♂️ Swimming the Seasons: A Freshwater Almanac by @pollyrowena.bsky.social
📚 saraband.net/books
💎 In Search of Gems: Finding Treasures in Wild Places by Kenneth Steven
🌿 Nature’s Almanac: A Gift for Every Day of the Year by Susie White
🏊🏻♂️ Swimming the Seasons: A Freshwater Almanac by @pollyrowena.bsky.social
📚 saraband.net/books
November 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Publishing in early 2026 are three new In the Moment books!
💎 In Search of Gems: Finding Treasures in Wild Places by Kenneth Steven
🌿 Nature’s Almanac: A Gift for Every Day of the Year by Susie White
🏊🏻♂️ Swimming the Seasons: A Freshwater Almanac by @pollyrowena.bsky.social
📚 saraband.net/books
💎 In Search of Gems: Finding Treasures in Wild Places by Kenneth Steven
🌿 Nature’s Almanac: A Gift for Every Day of the Year by Susie White
🏊🏻♂️ Swimming the Seasons: A Freshwater Almanac by @pollyrowena.bsky.social
📚 saraband.net/books
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This will be FAB!
Beatle-y alert: @britishlibrary.bsky.social are hosting a special anniversary event to play the Stowe Tape with the student who made it, Mark Lewisohn and more special guests. I'll be hosting. April 4th 2026. Tickets here: events.bl.uk/events/the-b...
The Beatles at Stowe School | British Library
On 4 April 1963, The Beatles played a unique live concert at Stowe school in Buckinghamshire, having accepted a booking by one of the pupils.Present on the
events.bl.uk
November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This will be FAB!
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This is the best Scottish ghost story written in the 21st century so far. I devoured the novel in one sitting. It had that rare ability: it made me forget that I’m a critic. I simply lost myself in its pages as a reader.
My review of Hawthorn by Elaine Thomson
In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
My review of Hawthorn by Elaine Thomson
In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
'This the best Scottish ghost story of the 21st century … I read it in one sitting'
Hawthorn: A Scottish Ghost by Elaine Thomson is wonderfully and unapologetically Scottish, filled with delicious Gaelic words like ‘turadh’…
www.heraldscotland.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
This is the best Scottish ghost story written in the 21st century so far. I devoured the novel in one sitting. It had that rare ability: it made me forget that I’m a critic. I simply lost myself in its pages as a reader.
My review of Hawthorn by Elaine Thomson
In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
My review of Hawthorn by Elaine Thomson
In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
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Head over to BfS for a round up of some of the best Scots & Gaelic books to be released in the second half of 2025!
booksfromscotland.com/2025/11/wint...
booksfromscotland.com/2025/11/wint...
Winter Round Up of New Scots and Gaelic Books - Books from Scotland
'what would happen if someone really scrieved in thir ane langwij / didn't turn on their mouth lit it wis a loch tae be drained.'
booksfromscotland.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Head over to BfS for a round up of some of the best Scots & Gaelic books to be released in the second half of 2025!
booksfromscotland.com/2025/11/wint...
booksfromscotland.com/2025/11/wint...
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Delighted to have had the chance to write about Beatle ‘historiography’ in @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
The long and winding road: Stuart Maconie on why our opinions about the Beatles keep changing
Fans and historians have spent 60 years debating what the band means – and which member is greatest. Will the returning Anthology project and Sam Mendes’s planned biopics create new arguments?
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Delighted to have had the chance to write about Beatle ‘historiography’ in @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
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The Scotsman's Poem of the Week
'The Fitba Multiverse' by Hamish MacDonald
'The Fitba Multiverse' by Hamish MacDonald
November 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The Scotsman's Poem of the Week
'The Fitba Multiverse' by Hamish MacDonald
'The Fitba Multiverse' by Hamish MacDonald
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Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmc5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmc5...
The Harder They Come
YouTube video by Jimmy Cliff - Topic
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November 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmc5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmc5...
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Many rivers to cross - Jimmy Cliff
YouTube video by TheSunAnge
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November 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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✨ Emerging animators! ✨
AGA & @canongate.co.uk are commissioning 4 short animations for early 2026. Fee £500. Apply by 6 Dec 2025: CV, brief approach + 2–3 samples to [email protected]. Results by 15 Dec.
AGA & @canongate.co.uk are commissioning 4 short animations for early 2026. Fee £500. Apply by 6 Dec 2025: CV, brief approach + 2–3 samples to [email protected]. Results by 15 Dec.
November 24, 2025 at 7:21 AM
✨ Emerging animators! ✨
AGA & @canongate.co.uk are commissioning 4 short animations for early 2026. Fee £500. Apply by 6 Dec 2025: CV, brief approach + 2–3 samples to [email protected]. Results by 15 Dec.
AGA & @canongate.co.uk are commissioning 4 short animations for early 2026. Fee £500. Apply by 6 Dec 2025: CV, brief approach + 2–3 samples to [email protected]. Results by 15 Dec.
Kind of a little bit in love with silver fox Ted Danson in A Man on the Inside.
November 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Kind of a little bit in love with silver fox Ted Danson in A Man on the Inside.
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Another weekend drafting this book, I finally understand when authors say they're sick of reading and revising their own work and would rather do anything else. I am there.
But at least I can punt the book at last! Preorder! Royalties going to other small presses!
www.404ink.com/store/p/inkl...
But at least I can punt the book at last! Preorder! Royalties going to other small presses!
www.404ink.com/store/p/inkl...
Publisher Not Found: A Decade of Disruption by 404 Ink — 404 Ink
What really goes on behind closer doors in publishing? After ten years of running their own award-winning company, 404 Ink, McDaid and Jones-Rivera call time on their venture and invite readers into t...
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November 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Another weekend drafting this book, I finally understand when authors say they're sick of reading and revising their own work and would rather do anything else. I am there.
But at least I can punt the book at last! Preorder! Royalties going to other small presses!
www.404ink.com/store/p/inkl...
But at least I can punt the book at last! Preorder! Royalties going to other small presses!
www.404ink.com/store/p/inkl...
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New Podcast! I’m joined by Tom Doyle to discuss his fabulous mosaic biography of Ringo Starr - ‘A Fab Life’. From near death as a child to the dizzying heights of Beatlemania and the ups and downs that came after, Tom covers it all in this brilliant book.
October 24, 2025 at 8:10 AM
New Podcast! I’m joined by Tom Doyle to discuss his fabulous mosaic biography of Ringo Starr - ‘A Fab Life’. From near death as a child to the dizzying heights of Beatlemania and the ups and downs that came after, Tom covers it all in this brilliant book.
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Really fab to be at the Scottish Christmas Book Fair for #bookweekscotland today @booksfromscotland.bsky.social, doing a signing and chatting to readers with @lunapress.bsky.social! Great to be surrounded by such a vibrant Scottish book scene - thanks to the organisers for having me! ✨️🏴💙
November 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Really fab to be at the Scottish Christmas Book Fair for #bookweekscotland today @booksfromscotland.bsky.social, doing a signing and chatting to readers with @lunapress.bsky.social! Great to be surrounded by such a vibrant Scottish book scene - thanks to the organisers for having me! ✨️🏴💙
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Amazing oversize book bursting with art, info & great design, all about being a Pict in 690CE. Is an academic text, an illustrated all-ages book & a TTRPG sourcebook all at once. (Hepped to me via @kierongillen.bsky.social's lap.) carvedinstone.scot
Carved in Stone
A storyteller's guide to Pictland. Available now!
carvedinstone.scot
November 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Amazing oversize book bursting with art, info & great design, all about being a Pict in 690CE. Is an academic text, an illustrated all-ages book & a TTRPG sourcebook all at once. (Hepped to me via @kierongillen.bsky.social's lap.) carvedinstone.scot