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

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

Our huge charity book raffle is back, with a chance to win a whole box of books!

Funds raised will go to @msf.org , whose work is desperately needed by so many.

#MSF #books #livres #charity #Edinburgh #Edimbourg

Showcard advertising the charity book raffle in the Edinburgh Bookshop to raise funds for MSF

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

Thanks, Graeme!

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Graeme Thomson @graemethomson.bsky.social · 1d

Shout out locally to @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social, @goldenharebooks.bsky.social, @portybooks.bsky.social, @lighthousebks.bsky.social and Topping & Co. All wonderful places.

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

Shine on, you crazy diamond...🎵

New #music books hitting the shelves, good potential pressie subjects (hint, hint!)

#musique #books #livres

Hardback of Shine On, an Oral History of Pink Floyd

A copy of Billy Bragg, a People's History

Bright fuschia coloured cover for Shadowplayers: the Rise and Fall of Factory Records

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 2d

DO NOT MISS The Word for World: The Maps of @ursulakleguin.com, Architectural Association, Bedford Sq, London. It's truly beautiful. (I've never been involved w a project that's had massive banners before, it's v exciting).

Spend time with the maps, inc my niche fave, The City Ansul from VOICES 💙

The Architectural Association, a Georgian house of dark brick on Bedford Square, with two-storey high banners outside reading The Word for World and Ursula K Le Guin.

A cyanotype white-on-blue banner with fern prints at the top and a map below hangs in a gallery. Other similar banners featuring different maps are glimpsed behind it.

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

It's both a gorgeous, autumn day, and it's #BookshopDay !! 📚

A perfect time to go for a stroll, a book browse a d support your local Indie bookshop!

#books #livres #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #BooksAreMyBag

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

Happy #BookshopDay !!! We have this year's fab, limited edition Books Are My Bag bags, designed by Ashwin Chacko, get them before they're gone!

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #books #livres #BooksAreMyBag

Advert for the limited edition Bookshop Day bags

Colourful advert of a busy shopping street scene for Bookshop Day

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Jenni Coutts (she/her) @jennicoutts.bsky.social · 2d

Keeping up with Drawtober, my latest #art was for the prompt ‘mushroom fairy’, and tbh I’m pretty proud of this one! It’s my first time drawing mushrooms and fungi, and it took absolutely forever…

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 2d

We had a delightful visit from the fabbity-fab Ross Collins, who created this fantabulous window to go along with How to Scare a Mouse and Bear (pub @nosycrow.bsky.social ).

#books #livres #ChildrensBooks #LivresJeunesse

Author and illustrator Ross Collins holding his new children's book, and pointing to the Edinburgh Bookshop window he has just painted with his characters

Author and illustrator Ross Collins painting characters from his latest children's picture book onto the windows of the Edinburgh Bookshop

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 2d

#WhatWereReading : Joe happily got lost in local scribe @amandablockauthor.bsky.social 's excellent The Haunting of Hero's Bay, just out from @hodderbooks.bsky.social

#books #livres

Bookseller Joe holding up a hardback of The Haunting of Hero's Bay in the Edinburgh Bookshop

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 3d

We get some delightful doggo visitors to the bookshop, but occasionally we also get some fabulous felines!

This handsome devil, with a splendid mane, is Atlas, who kindly brought his human servant in for a visit.

#cats #chats #gatto #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie

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Graeme Thomson @graemethomson.bsky.social · 3d

Very happy to see signed copies of Our Secrets Are The Same in my fabulous local bookshop, @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social

4 copies of Our Secrets Are The Same in the Edinburgh Bookshop, signed by Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 4d

#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 · 5d

#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 · 6d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 10d

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 · 10d

“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 · 15d

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 · 16d

#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 · 16d

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 · 16d

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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