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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 20h

The Indie Press Network is hosting a free-to-attend marketing and publicity day for small independent publishers on Friday 7th November at Conway Hall in London.

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Indie Press Network to host marketing and publicity day for small publishers

The Indie Press Network is hosting a free-to-attend marketing and publicity day for small independent publishers on Friday 7th November at Conway Hall in London. The event has been made possible by Arts Council funding.

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Patrick Cash @paddycash.bsky.social · 1d

If you're an independent publisher who wants to sharpen your marketing skills, then Arts Council England is sponsoring a free Marketing Day for indie presses, facilitated by the Indie Press Network, on 7 November at Conway Hall in London: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-indie-...

The Indie Press Network Marketing Day

Eventbrite - Renard Press presents The Indie Press Network Marketing Day - Friday, November 7, 2025 at Conway Hall, London, England. Find event and ticket information.

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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 5d

Good morning.

Today Leonard and Hungry Paul by Rónán Hession is launched nationwide across the UK on BBC 2.

Huge thanks to the writers Richie Conroy and Mark Hodkinson and to the crew, actors, producers and you the readers for spreading the word!

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Leonard and Hungry Paul cast and Director on telling a story about kindness, friendship, and the quiet heroism of everyday life -

The feel-good series stars Alex Lawther, Laurie Kynaston and Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, with Julia Roberts as narrator

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Scratch Books @scratchbooks.bsky.social · 7d

PRE-ORDER SALE!

To celebrate the launch of SAINTS this Thursday 23rd October, get 25% off your pre-ordered copy!
Just type Saints2310 at the checkout on or before 23rd October...

www.scratch-books.co.uk/product-page...

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 8d

Independent Publishers Guild members have fled X and are turning to Instagram, Bluesky and TikTok to engage with their readers 👇 #BookSky

X sinks as Instagram and Bluesky spike in IPG social media survey

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Patrick Cash @paddycash.bsky.social · 15d

Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela

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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 16d

I took this picture of Olga and László in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!

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ed public relations @edpr.bsky.social · 25d

We can’t wait for the BBC Short Story Awards with Cambridge University this evening👏 The winners of #BBCNSSA and #BBCYWA will be announced live on Radio 4’s Front Row from the ceremony at Broadcasting House.

Tune in from 7:15pm 🎧 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Sam Jordison @samjordison.bsky.social · Sep 25

An article on the pressures on publishing, rising costs, what can be done about it - and how readers can also help.

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(This ran in the Society of Authors quarterly, The Author, earlier this year. They've kindly given me permission to reproduce it on my Substack.)

What does it cost to produce a book?

Why small presses in the UK are struggling - and what can be done about it.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Sep 21

UK recognises Palestine as an independent state

Deeply symbolic move comes seven decades after end of UK mandate in Palestine and formation of state of Israel The UK has formally recognised Palestine as an independent state, Keir Starmer has announced. The deeply symbolic move comes seven decades after the end of the UK mandate in Palestine and the formation of the state of Israel. It comes in concert with Canada and Australia, who also made their own formal declarations on Sunday. Continue reading...

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Patrick Cash @paddycash.bsky.social · Sep 20

PEN International has adopted four urgent resolutions: defend human rights and free expression; address the climate crisis as a human rights issue; the protection of trans people’s right to free expression; and the protection of free expression in the U.S. www.pen-international.org/news/pen-int...

PEN International’s resolutions to defend free expression, gender diversity, human rights, and climate justice — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide

“At this 91st Congress we affirmed that freedom of expression cannot be atomized —whether in defending peace against authoritarianism, protecting our planet, standing with trans and gender-diverse peo...

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · Sep 19

Titan Books has acquired a British-set contemporary folk–horror from award-winning novelist and dramatist Jake Arnott. Netherwood will be published in autumn 2026 👇 #BookSky

Titan Books snares Jake Arnott’s ‘cautionary tale’ horror debut

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Sep 17

‘Keir Starmer is in trouble.’

New on the blog: James Butler (@piercepenniless.bsky.social) on Labour’s problems.

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...

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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · Aug 11

'There is no value in a rule until it is broken. There is nothing in life unless there is death at the back of it. Death, dear boy, leaning over the edge of the world and grinning like a boneyard.'

Front cover of Titus Alone, the third novel in the Gormenghast series by Mervyn Peake. The cover portrays a series of colourful figures in some kind of struggle outside the large door of a gothic church-like structure. In the background the sky burns red as blood. Menace fills the scene.

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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · Aug 7

“The Green Party needs to tell more emotive and powerful stories about [how] migration benefits this country, and why the elites, the multimillionaires and billionaires, are the problems – and not blame some of the poorest.”

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · Aug 7

Love this!

"An intriguing mix of confidence and humility...

But like the Reform leader, once the tape starts rolling, he certainly knows how to punch (verbally)."

My conversation with @patrickstrudwick.bsky.social on why I'm running to be leader of the Green Party.

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The left's outsider taking on Farage and Reform

The Green Party's Zack Polanski reveals how the homophobic bullying he suffered as a child shaped his politics, and how he plans to beat Nigel Farage on immigration

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · Jul 24

Sphere has announced promotions across its editorial teams, with Cal Kenny and Molly Walker-Sharp both stepping up to editorial director, Sphere Fiction, and Tig Wallace promoted to publishing director, Sphere Non-Fiction 👇

Sphere promotes Cal Kenny, Molly Walker-Sharp and Tig Wallace across editorial team

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The London Magazine @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social · Jun 2

Reviews:

Joseph Williams on Homework by Geoff Dyer.
Madeline Cash on Happiness and Love by Zoe Dubno.
Andrew Lambirth on Leonard McComb.
@paddycash.bsky.social on Open, Heaven by Seán Hewitt.

Order here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...

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The London Magazine @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social · May 23

Reviews:

Joseph Williams on Homework by Geoff Dyer (@canongate.co.uk).
Madeline Cash on Happiness and Love by Zoe Dubno (@doubledaybooks.bsky.social).
Andrew Lambirth on Leonard McComb.
@paddycash.bsky.social on Open, Heaven by Seán Hewitt (@jonathancape.bsky.social).

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Patrick Cash @paddycash.bsky.social · May 6

Teaching a writing workshop tonight for @creativefutureuk.bsky.social on Character. I love this quote from Woolf’s essay Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown: ‘we go down into them as we descend into some enormous cavern. Lights swing about; we hear the boom of the sea; it is all dark, terrible and uncharted.’

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Patrick Cash @paddycash.bsky.social · Apr 29

Looking forward to kicking off this creative writing workshop course with @creativefutureuk.bsky.social tonight: www.creativefuture.org.uk/workshop/wri...

Writing Prose (Online) - Creative Future

Learn how to write powerful and compelling prose, focussed on plot, character, dialogue and editing.

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · Apr 25

Twenty-one years after the publication of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, bestselling author Susanna Clarke returns with a short story. The Bishop of Durham Attempts to Surrender the City is set to appear on the @fictionable.bsky.social website on 24th April 2025 👇 #BookSky

Susanna Clarke returns to world of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell in new short story

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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · Apr 15

Librarians pressured to remove books by LGBTQ+ writers. Librarians harrassed at work for putting LGBTQ+ stories on their shelves. This is the UK-not Hungary, not USA. It's here and now. What can you do? Invite LGBTQ+ writers to your schools and libraries.
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Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads

Anecdotal evidence suggests a rise in requests to take books off shelves, particularly LGBTQ+ titles

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Little Toller Books @littletollerbooks.bsky.social · Mar 28

On Monday our instagram account was hacked and then deleted. We received a ransom note to recover it; obviously we couldn't and wouldn't pay, and therefore lost thousands of followers. Meta support was useless. But we're BACK with a new account: @littletollerbooks. Can you follow us there and share?

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · Mar 18

Ozymandias

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Mar 19

i have been watching clips of the classicist Emily Wilson perform excerpts from her translations of the Odyssey and the Illiad and she is one of the most captivating speakers i have ever seen?

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