Lizzie • they/them
@mudlark-s.bsky.social
🇬🇧 bookseller, bookshop manager
here for books, dog pics, and interesting conversations.
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here for books, dog pics, and interesting conversations.
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Find me on storygraph! (with an underscore)
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Made a rookie fucking error and fell asleep at 3 pm and I can just already feel my sleep schedule withering away. Least I'm not in til 1230 tomorrow.
December 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Made a rookie fucking error and fell asleep at 3 pm and I can just already feel my sleep schedule withering away. Least I'm not in til 1230 tomorrow.
Only took me 3 months from first thinking about it. To qobuz!
December 28, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Only took me 3 months from first thinking about it. To qobuz!
tis the season for list challenges
how many of the books i’ve head this year have you read?
www.listchallenges.com/muds-2025-reading
how many of the books i’ve head this year have you read?
www.listchallenges.com/muds-2025-reading
www.listchallenges.com
December 28, 2025 at 9:01 AM
tis the season for list challenges
how many of the books i’ve head this year have you read?
www.listchallenges.com/muds-2025-reading
how many of the books i’ve head this year have you read?
www.listchallenges.com/muds-2025-reading
Bought my brother a restaurant gift card for Christmas literally 6 days ago and they have closed. Zero signs on the website or social media. I'm annoyed!
December 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Bought my brother a restaurant gift card for Christmas literally 6 days ago and they have closed. Zero signs on the website or social media. I'm annoyed!
Topping up the staff room table to the final stretch
December 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Topping up the staff room table to the final stretch
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“The last-minute christmas rush at the bookshop.” - my latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books
December 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
“The last-minute christmas rush at the bookshop.” - my latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books
I enjoy having a fill your own advent calendar because I can buy myself patches of my favourite childhood characters and gift them to myself 3 months later for an enjoyable sewing evening
December 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I enjoy having a fill your own advent calendar because I can buy myself patches of my favourite childhood characters and gift them to myself 3 months later for an enjoyable sewing evening
Slightly disappointed as to the number of certain titles we have sold today, NGL
December 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Slightly disappointed as to the number of certain titles we have sold today, NGL
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There is always some satisfaction watching a predator get revealed but knowing how long the infamous whisper networks have told us about this again suggests an industry that needs a long hard look at itself for not wanting to lose some sales
December 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
There is always some satisfaction watching a predator get revealed but knowing how long the infamous whisper networks have told us about this again suggests an industry that needs a long hard look at itself for not wanting to lose some sales
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Every time there's a breaking story about a celeb's treatment of women, everyone in the book world asks, "Is it finally Walliams?" Well, it finally is.
Exclusive: David Walliams dropped by publisher over inappropriate behaviour towards women
Telegraph investigation into best-selling children’s author uncovers claims that he ‘harassed’ junior female employees at Harper Collins
www.telegraph.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Every time there's a breaking story about a celeb's treatment of women, everyone in the book world asks, "Is it finally Walliams?" Well, it finally is.
Last two days off before Christmas lets fuckin go (to sleep)
December 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Last two days off before Christmas lets fuckin go (to sleep)
Aw yis! Just two books to go for the title challenge too and I'll all be ticked off for that as well.
December 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Aw yis! Just two books to go for the title challenge too and I'll all be ticked off for that as well.
so the book i WAS going to read for q of my alphabet title challenge this year apparently isn’t coming out until next year now?? big sad. anyone got any recs for books with titles beginning with q?
December 10, 2025 at 1:13 AM
so the book i WAS going to read for q of my alphabet title challenge this year apparently isn’t coming out until next year now?? big sad. anyone got any recs for books with titles beginning with q?
Set up the 2026 alphabet reading challenge! Am not doing separate author and title challenges as that was A Lot this year ☺️
#storygraph #readingchallenge
app.thestorygraph.com/reading_chal...
#storygraph #readingchallenge
app.thestorygraph.com/reading_chal...
app.thestorygraph.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Set up the 2026 alphabet reading challenge! Am not doing separate author and title challenges as that was A Lot this year ☺️
#storygraph #readingchallenge
app.thestorygraph.com/reading_chal...
#storygraph #readingchallenge
app.thestorygraph.com/reading_chal...
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Hands Reaching Up From Hell, Wat Rong Khun Temple, by Chalermchai Kositpipat, 1997
December 5, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Hands Reaching Up From Hell, Wat Rong Khun Temple, by Chalermchai Kositpipat, 1997
nearly there!!! i thought both title and author alphabet challenges were ambitious but super pleased i only have 3 books left to read to tick everything off (the book third by markus zusak will count for both challenges!). will be doing a combined one next year tho 😅
December 6, 2025 at 12:04 AM
nearly there!!! i thought both title and author alphabet challenges were ambitious but super pleased i only have 3 books left to read to tick everything off (the book third by markus zusak will count for both challenges!). will be doing a combined one next year tho 😅
November wrap up! A non fiction heavy month which is on the unusual side for me. Still, really enjoyed it, and several of my November books are probs gonna make my 2025 top 10 list. #storygraph
December 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM
November wrap up! A non fiction heavy month which is on the unusual side for me. Still, really enjoyed it, and several of my November books are probs gonna make my 2025 top 10 list. #storygraph
I'm still mad we didn't get queen demon in at work so I couldn't buy it Immediately. Rude!
November 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I'm still mad we didn't get queen demon in at work so I couldn't buy it Immediately. Rude!
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
I have some concerns about the standard of driving re zebra crossings in the vicinity of my workplace, NGL
November 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I have some concerns about the standard of driving re zebra crossings in the vicinity of my workplace, NGL
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Meet our UK Special Edition, Limited-Run, signed hardback of THE ORB OF CAIRADO, Katherine Addison/ @pennyvixen.bsky.social 's new novella within the wider world of THE GOBLIN EMPEROR & THE CEMETERIES OF AMALO series!
Preorder now, available from all good booksellers https://geni.us/orbcairado
Preorder now, available from all good booksellers https://geni.us/orbcairado
November 22, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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‘I found I’m far harder on books now. I expect more, and I know it can be achieved because I’ve just read 153 books and a lot of them were great’
Sarah Jessica Parker on her year of judging the Booker Prize.
https://nytimes.pulse.ly/w8fgcvzhcs
Sarah Jessica Parker on her year of judging the Booker Prize.
https://nytimes.pulse.ly/w8fgcvzhcs
Sarah Jessica Parker’s Year of Judging the Booker Prize
The actor had to read so many books (153) she bowed out of most family activities. Still, she said, collaborating to pick a winner was worth the sacrifice.
nytimes.pulse.ly
November 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
‘I found I’m far harder on books now. I expect more, and I know it can be achieved because I’ve just read 153 books and a lot of them were great’
Sarah Jessica Parker on her year of judging the Booker Prize.
https://nytimes.pulse.ly/w8fgcvzhcs
Sarah Jessica Parker on her year of judging the Booker Prize.
https://nytimes.pulse.ly/w8fgcvzhcs
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But if the government start taxing the likes of Starbucks & they leave, Are we seriously saying that Britain will stop drinking coffee?
£3 billion in UK sales & they don't want to pay tax?
It's time to get of the merry-go-round & use our smaller, local retailers who will pay their taxes.
£3 billion in UK sales & they don't want to pay tax?
It's time to get of the merry-go-round & use our smaller, local retailers who will pay their taxes.
November 20, 2025 at 6:39 AM
But if the government start taxing the likes of Starbucks & they leave, Are we seriously saying that Britain will stop drinking coffee?
£3 billion in UK sales & they don't want to pay tax?
It's time to get of the merry-go-round & use our smaller, local retailers who will pay their taxes.
£3 billion in UK sales & they don't want to pay tax?
It's time to get of the merry-go-round & use our smaller, local retailers who will pay their taxes.
Annual leave proof stack! Very excited for all of these, which arrived last week whilst I was away (why do the proofs always arrive when I'm away?). Not pictured: the face by fay bound-alberti (ty @penguinhuddleuk.bsky.social) which was immediately stolen by a colleague.
November 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Annual leave proof stack! Very excited for all of these, which arrived last week whilst I was away (why do the proofs always arrive when I'm away?). Not pictured: the face by fay bound-alberti (ty @penguinhuddleuk.bsky.social) which was immediately stolen by a colleague.