Gita Ralleigh
@gitaralleigh.bsky.social
Writer/Poet/Lecturer/ex-doctor. Kids: The Destiny of Minou Moonshine 🐘 The Voyage of Sam Singh 🦜 @zephyrbooks.bsky.social Poetry: Siren 🧜🏽♀️ @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social A Terrible Thing 🧝🏽♀️ (Bad Betty Press)
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First post! I'm a poet, writer and ex-doctor born to Indian immigrant parents in London. More: gitaralleighauthor.wordpress.com
Here mostly to check in on the world without being sucked into a vortex of despair and to post my daily word count for accountability. ⌨️
Here mostly to check in on the world without being sucked into a vortex of despair and to post my daily word count for accountability. ⌨️
It has been 2 years+ since #thedestinyofminoumoonshine came out and I still love every single message like this I receive!
Still 30% off in the Bloomsbury sale:
#kidlituk #ukkidlit
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/destiny-o...
Still 30% off in the Bloomsbury sale:
#kidlituk #ukkidlit
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/destiny-o...
December 6, 2025 at 9:51 AM
It has been 2 years+ since #thedestinyofminoumoonshine came out and I still love every single message like this I receive!
Still 30% off in the Bloomsbury sale:
#kidlituk #ukkidlit
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/destiny-o...
Still 30% off in the Bloomsbury sale:
#kidlituk #ukkidlit
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/destiny-o...
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It's Small Business Saturday!
We know Amazon serves up irresistible deals, but a closer look at the label reveals unsavoury ingredients - including tax avoidance, worker mistreatment, and a deeply corrosive impact on our community shops.
Avoid Amazon. Shop Small! uk.bookshop.org/lists/win-a-...
We know Amazon serves up irresistible deals, but a closer look at the label reveals unsavoury ingredients - including tax avoidance, worker mistreatment, and a deeply corrosive impact on our community shops.
Avoid Amazon. Shop Small! uk.bookshop.org/lists/win-a-...
December 6, 2025 at 7:52 AM
It's Small Business Saturday!
We know Amazon serves up irresistible deals, but a closer look at the label reveals unsavoury ingredients - including tax avoidance, worker mistreatment, and a deeply corrosive impact on our community shops.
Avoid Amazon. Shop Small! uk.bookshop.org/lists/win-a-...
We know Amazon serves up irresistible deals, but a closer look at the label reveals unsavoury ingredients - including tax avoidance, worker mistreatment, and a deeply corrosive impact on our community shops.
Avoid Amazon. Shop Small! uk.bookshop.org/lists/win-a-...
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📢 Amazing news alert!
Our brilliant #WriterInResidence Matt Goodfellow has launched his poetry competition for children - and his favourite entries will win a signed bundle of his books!
Get more info on how to enter here 👇
https://bit.ly/3Khwki9
Our brilliant #WriterInResidence Matt Goodfellow has launched his poetry competition for children - and his favourite entries will win a signed bundle of his books!
Get more info on how to enter here 👇
https://bit.ly/3Khwki9
December 3, 2025 at 8:19 AM
📢 Amazing news alert!
Our brilliant #WriterInResidence Matt Goodfellow has launched his poetry competition for children - and his favourite entries will win a signed bundle of his books!
Get more info on how to enter here 👇
https://bit.ly/3Khwki9
Our brilliant #WriterInResidence Matt Goodfellow has launched his poetry competition for children - and his favourite entries will win a signed bundle of his books!
Get more info on how to enter here 👇
https://bit.ly/3Khwki9
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My picks of the poetry books of the year (in the UK at least), for @theguardian.com. Usual disclaimers that I have no doubt missed your fave off, not spread my net wide enough etc. But I will say: the Scott is magnificent, magnificent: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
The best poetry books of 2025
From Seamus Heaney’s collected poems and Simon Armitage’s animal spirits, to prizewinners Karen Solie and Vidyan Ravinthiran
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:26 AM
My picks of the poetry books of the year (in the UK at least), for @theguardian.com. Usual disclaimers that I have no doubt missed your fave off, not spread my net wide enough etc. But I will say: the Scott is magnificent, magnificent: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
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🥁Thrilled to share our 2026 #poetry list.
Full details and tantalising glimpses into these new titles are here: ninearchespress.com/about-us/news
Including books by @jennywcreative.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social @kymdeyn.bsky.social @marymulholland.bsky.social & @jessmookherjee.bsky.social
Full details and tantalising glimpses into these new titles are here: ninearchespress.com/about-us/news
Including books by @jennywcreative.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social @kymdeyn.bsky.social @marymulholland.bsky.social & @jessmookherjee.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
🥁Thrilled to share our 2026 #poetry list.
Full details and tantalising glimpses into these new titles are here: ninearchespress.com/about-us/news
Including books by @jennywcreative.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social @kymdeyn.bsky.social @marymulholland.bsky.social & @jessmookherjee.bsky.social
Full details and tantalising glimpses into these new titles are here: ninearchespress.com/about-us/news
Including books by @jennywcreative.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social @kymdeyn.bsky.social @marymulholland.bsky.social & @jessmookherjee.bsky.social
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Up now on @literaryhub.bsky.social; an in-depth interview with small press publishers on what they do and how they do it, how they differ from commercial publishing in content & form, on funding, their impact on literary communities, & some excellent book recommends🎄
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Life-Giving, Imaginative and Underfunded: Small Press Publishers in Crisis
A recent letter co-written and signed by small press publishers has highlighted the significant pressures they face, threatening them with closure and potentially damaging the literary ecosystem ir…
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December 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Up now on @literaryhub.bsky.social; an in-depth interview with small press publishers on what they do and how they do it, how they differ from commercial publishing in content & form, on funding, their impact on literary communities, & some excellent book recommends🎄
lithub.com/life-giving-...
lithub.com/life-giving-...
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Thanks for everyone who's bid on the #Creatives4Sudan auction so far. In amazing news, we're at 12k. We have TWO DAYS LEFT though. If everyone places lots of little bids, I think we could get to 15k easy. The money is going to Sudanese-run Emergency Response Rooms. 💗🇸🇩 app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
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December 4, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Thanks for everyone who's bid on the #Creatives4Sudan auction so far. In amazing news, we're at 12k. We have TWO DAYS LEFT though. If everyone places lots of little bids, I think we could get to 15k easy. The money is going to Sudanese-run Emergency Response Rooms. 💗🇸🇩 app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
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'..a window into that transformative Peepal Tree treatment.' 🧡
Thank you to Nesrine Malik for her interview with founder Jeremy Poynting and Fiction Editor Jacob Ross featured in this week's The Long Wave for the Guardian
@inpressbooks.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
Thank you to Nesrine Malik for her interview with founder Jeremy Poynting and Fiction Editor Jacob Ross featured in this week's The Long Wave for the Guardian
@inpressbooks.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
Illustrating the ‘postcolonial experience’: 40 years of Peepal Tree Press
As the publisher celebrates an important milestone, we chart its journey from an ‘expensive hobby’ to an international household name
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
'..a window into that transformative Peepal Tree treatment.' 🧡
Thank you to Nesrine Malik for her interview with founder Jeremy Poynting and Fiction Editor Jacob Ross featured in this week's The Long Wave for the Guardian
@inpressbooks.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
Thank you to Nesrine Malik for her interview with founder Jeremy Poynting and Fiction Editor Jacob Ross featured in this week's The Long Wave for the Guardian
@inpressbooks.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
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Annnd lovely was on mine too!
December 3, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Annnd lovely was on mine too!
December 3, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Please admire my lovely stack of #Decemberreads #Bookstack
#Booksky
@susancahill.bsky.social
@suchmayer.bsky.social
@chrishaughton.bsky.social
(Titles and authors in alt)
#Booksky
@susancahill.bsky.social
@suchmayer.bsky.social
@chrishaughton.bsky.social
(Titles and authors in alt)
December 1, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Please admire my lovely stack of #Decemberreads #Bookstack
#Booksky
@susancahill.bsky.social
@suchmayer.bsky.social
@chrishaughton.bsky.social
(Titles and authors in alt)
#Booksky
@susancahill.bsky.social
@suchmayer.bsky.social
@chrishaughton.bsky.social
(Titles and authors in alt)
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"I knew the moment the words left my mouth that it would cause a fuss."
Labour needs to wake up, writes Clive Lewis.
Labour needs to wake up, writes Clive Lewis.
Labour needs to wake up
Reform’s rise is a warning, not a surprise
www.newstatesman.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:49 AM
"I knew the moment the words left my mouth that it would cause a fuss."
Labour needs to wake up, writes Clive Lewis.
Labour needs to wake up, writes Clive Lewis.
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December 2, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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From tomorrow, look out for the #NewIllustrationoftheDay #adventcalendar. This year it'll be alphabetical.
I’ll post two pics of children’s book characters who BEGIN WITH THE SAME LETTER & appear in titles/series.
Your task: name the ILLUSTRATORS, NOT the CHARACTERS so others can have a go at that
I’ll post two pics of children’s book characters who BEGIN WITH THE SAME LETTER & appear in titles/series.
Your task: name the ILLUSTRATORS, NOT the CHARACTERS so others can have a go at that
November 30, 2025 at 7:57 AM
From tomorrow, look out for the #NewIllustrationoftheDay #adventcalendar. This year it'll be alphabetical.
I’ll post two pics of children’s book characters who BEGIN WITH THE SAME LETTER & appear in titles/series.
Your task: name the ILLUSTRATORS, NOT the CHARACTERS so others can have a go at that
I’ll post two pics of children’s book characters who BEGIN WITH THE SAME LETTER & appear in titles/series.
Your task: name the ILLUSTRATORS, NOT the CHARACTERS so others can have a go at that
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Look at this gorgeous list and these gorgeous books. You all know this started a year ago with a grumpy wine skeet and a half baked idea of mine!?? Look at what we made!!!
My gratitude is so deep this morning.
lithub.com/100-notable-...
My gratitude is so deep this morning.
lithub.com/100-notable-...
100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…
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December 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Look at this gorgeous list and these gorgeous books. You all know this started a year ago with a grumpy wine skeet and a half baked idea of mine!?? Look at what we made!!!
My gratitude is so deep this morning.
lithub.com/100-notable-...
My gratitude is so deep this morning.
lithub.com/100-notable-...
I have read four of these - always do much better in the children’s #bestbooksof2025 than the adults!
#kidlituk #ukkidlit
#kidlituk #ukkidlit
December 1, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I have read four of these - always do much better in the children’s #bestbooksof2025 than the adults!
#kidlituk #ukkidlit
#kidlituk #ukkidlit
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✨SchoolBookFlod is our festive book-gifting campaign ✨
Inspired by the Icelandic tradition of gifting books, Jólabókaflóð, we’ve created our own version - and we’d love you to be part of it.
#SchoolBookFlod #NationalYearOfReading 🧵1/3
Inspired by the Icelandic tradition of gifting books, Jólabókaflóð, we’ve created our own version - and we’d love you to be part of it.
#SchoolBookFlod #NationalYearOfReading 🧵1/3
December 1, 2025 at 9:47 AM
✨SchoolBookFlod is our festive book-gifting campaign ✨
Inspired by the Icelandic tradition of gifting books, Jólabókaflóð, we’ve created our own version - and we’d love you to be part of it.
#SchoolBookFlod #NationalYearOfReading 🧵1/3
Inspired by the Icelandic tradition of gifting books, Jólabókaflóð, we’ve created our own version - and we’d love you to be part of it.
#SchoolBookFlod #NationalYearOfReading 🧵1/3
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Just finished a proof of @rashmiwriting.bsky.social's new book and it is a marvel! Witty, cleverly-observed, with a charming main character who is also a massive doofus. I love a massive doofus! (Don't tell Hari I think he's a doofus)
December 1, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Just finished a proof of @rashmiwriting.bsky.social's new book and it is a marvel! Witty, cleverly-observed, with a charming main character who is also a massive doofus. I love a massive doofus! (Don't tell Hari I think he's a doofus)
Please admire my lovely stack of #Decemberreads #Bookstack
#Booksky
@susancahill.bsky.social
@suchmayer.bsky.social
@chrishaughton.bsky.social
(Titles and authors in alt)
#Booksky
@susancahill.bsky.social
@suchmayer.bsky.social
@chrishaughton.bsky.social
(Titles and authors in alt)
December 1, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Please admire my lovely stack of #Decemberreads #Bookstack
#Booksky
@susancahill.bsky.social
@suchmayer.bsky.social
@chrishaughton.bsky.social
(Titles and authors in alt)
#Booksky
@susancahill.bsky.social
@suchmayer.bsky.social
@chrishaughton.bsky.social
(Titles and authors in alt)
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What are your beloved seasonal reads? My regulars include The Hogfather (Terry Pratchett) The Dark is Rising (Susan Cooper) & The Beautiful Christmas Tree (Charlotte Zolotow, Yan Nascimbene) I've acquired a few more favourites recently, all gorgeous! Authors, illustrators & titles in alt. #booksky
November 26, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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African leaders are pushing to have colonial-era crimes recognized, criminalized and addressed through reparations.
African nations push for recognition of colonial crimes and reparations
African leaders are pushing to have colonial-era crimes recognized, criminalized and addressed through reparations.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:30 AM
African leaders are pushing to have colonial-era crimes recognized, criminalized and addressed through reparations.
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Oxford University Press has chosen “rage bait” as its 2025 Word of the Year. The open-compound word, which beat out “biohack” and “aura farming,” goes back at least to 2002. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/a...
November 30, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Oxford University Press has chosen “rage bait” as its 2025 Word of the Year. The open-compound word, which beat out “biohack” and “aura farming,” goes back at least to 2002. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/a...