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@bookshopmark

Space nerd. Democracy fan. Partnership Manager at Bookshop.org. The revolution will start in a bookshop.

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Read it forward poster by Bookshop.org, books flying on a purple background.

Read it forward poster by Bookshop.org, books flying on a purple background.

πŸ“£ READ IT FORWARD! πŸ“£

10% of ALL children’s book sales through Bookshop.org UK go to reading charities @booktrust.org.uk and @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social in February 2026, and EVERY sale supports independent bookshops πŸ“šhttps://uk.bookshop.org/lists/read-it-forward-with-bookshop-org

02.02.2026 11:15 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3
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Only thing to wear today for #SmallBusinessSaturday - off to the bookshop!

06.12.2025 12:14 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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-...

06.12.2025 07:52 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

That's a splendid gif!

05.12.2025 17:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Avoid Amazon. Shop Small!

Tomorrow is Small Business Saturday. We hope you can get down to a brilliant local indie bookshop. If not, snap up a book and support indie booksellers with us - and you're in with the chance of winning a Β£250 Bookshop.org gift card.

Support bookshops, not billionaires.

05.12.2025 09:47 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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FREE Shipping is GO!

Get your paws on some excellent books with free delivery 28 Nov-1 Dec. Support independent bookshops, indie booksellers (and their cats.) Bookshop.org

[Site-wide | UK only | Standard shipping]

28.11.2025 07:59 πŸ‘ 128 πŸ” 75 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 10

Well, whenever I see 'body wash' on a shower bottle, the niche 80s track 'Body Rock' by Maria Vidal arrives unbidden into my head...

05.11.2025 22:56 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We are 5! 🎈

THANK YOU for being part of the mission. At a time when Amazon profits are soaring, and small businesses face ever increasing pressure, WHERE you choose to spend your money makes all the difference in keeping these community spaces on the high street. Bookshop.org

02.11.2025 09:04 πŸ‘ 161 πŸ” 54 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 9

This is such a great initiative and charity, I really encourage you to discover more about Bookbanks and help spread the word 😊

16.10.2025 11:42 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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It's Bookshop Day! Get down to your local independent bookshop and buy a book or three. No local bookshop? Snap up a book with us 10-12 October and you could WIN a Β£250 gift card.

EVERY sale supports indie booksellers, not billionaires. uk.bookshop.org/lists/win-a-...

11.10.2025 08:42 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

Happy #BookshopDay to all my bookselling friends and colleagues. A great excuse - not that you need one - to go visit your local bookshop and go breathe in the heady aroma of new books hitting the shelves this Autumn 😊

11.10.2025 08:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Keshed Check out Keshed - In the derelict shell of what was once his family home, a dying man surveys the wreckage of his former life and drinks himself senseless, haunted by the chain of events that led him...

Keshed finally available for preorder via @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social if anyone's after a copy. Out 12th Feb. Can't see any endorsements on here but there are tons in my pinned post and loads more on my tl from folk like Robin Ince, Mark Bowles, Wendy Erskine etc πŸ–€πŸ™

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/kesh...

03.10.2025 08:03 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3
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β€˜A tool in the fight against Amazon’: independent bookshops to begin selling ebooks A new platform will be an alternative to Kindle, and bookshops will earn 100% of the profit from sales

'A tool in the fight against Amazon' The news is out! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

01.10.2025 07:22 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ebooks are HERE! uk.bookshop.org/ebooks

01.10.2025 07:19 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 4
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Treat yourself to some Autumn reading and you could win a Β£250 gift card! Every sale supports real independent bookshops, rather than one specific guy with a LOT of warehouses uk.bookshop.org/lists/win-a-...

23.09.2025 13:39 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Image of cover art for my poetry book, red with orange flames, white letters of the title 'With Love, Grief and Fury' -- text reads -- NEW paperback edition, pre-order available now, published by Canongate and in your favourite bookshops 09 Oct 2025

Image of cover art for my poetry book, red with orange flames, white letters of the title 'With Love, Grief and Fury' -- text reads -- NEW paperback edition, pre-order available now, published by Canongate and in your favourite bookshops 09 Oct 2025

Beautiful paperback edition of my latest poetry collection 'With Love, Grief and Fury' is on the way with a bright new cover, published by @canongate.co.uk and in all of your favourite bookshops on 9 October 2025, pre-order available via @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social - uk.bookshop.org/p/books/with...

24.07.2025 12:09 πŸ‘ 44 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
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'They are all alive with great characters and narrative surprises. ...and all, I think, are gripping and excellent.' RODDY DOYLE, 2025 Chair of Judges.

The Booker Prize 2025 longlist is HERE!

Discover this year's incredible list and support independent bookshops πŸ† uk.bookshop.org/lists/the-bo...

29.07.2025 13:25 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Words to live by.

πŸ“· Mount Florida Books, Glasgow

24.07.2025 10:09 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
Promotional image of book covers with text: Annie Bot’s Summer Beach Reads

Promotional image of book covers with text: Annie Bot’s Summer Beach Reads

ANNIE BOT's Summer TBR! πŸ“–

To celebrate Annie Bot by Sierra Greer winning the Clarke Award 2025 we've compiled this @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social robots reading list for Annie to enjoy while she's on the run...

πŸ‘‰ uk.bookshop.org/lists/annie-...

Perfect books for the beach or the AI Apocalypse! πŸ–οΈπŸ€–

10.07.2025 08:17 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
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Snap up a book for the chance to WIN a Β£250 gift card. Every sale supports independent bookshops across the land (rather than making one billionaire even more of a billionaire πŸ’°) uk.bookshop.org/lists/win-a-...

17.07.2025 22:54 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

For those of us who've been around the block a few times, this is largely a rehash of the Countryside Guardians / Bernard Ingham (remember him?) claims in the 80s that "wind turbines were an eyesore whilst pylons led the eye gently across the landscape".

Classic 'why do things have to change?' cry

17.07.2025 08:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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One Tree Books rallies after fire BookBrunch - The publishing trade's daily news magazine

Petersfield indie One Tree Books is rallying after a fire - find out how you can support them

www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/free-ar... (Free to view)

07.07.2025 11:45 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Fantastic list Alastair (and congrats on the ambassador position!)

07.07.2025 09:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Artemis looking like the absolute sweetheart she is in the newsletter beside a pile of books

Artemis looking like the absolute sweetheart she is in the newsletter beside a pile of books

I can't express the excitement I felt opening the @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social newsletter only to encounter @lighthousebks.bsky.social dog Artemis front and centre!

03.07.2025 14:53 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

25 books worth celebrating on SO many levels...

03.07.2025 10:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks to all who are pre-ordering from @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social @bookshop.org or @blackwells.bsky.social (who are doing signed copies) instead of Amazon!

01.07.2025 09:38 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Free delivery is GO on ALL books site-wide this weekend πŸŽ‰

We hope you can get down to a real life bookshop, but if not - you can support them right here. Bag a book from Bookshop.org and keep indie bookshops thriving! uk.bookshop.org/lists/indepe...

21.06.2025 07:26 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3

Woohoo! Let's help indie bookshops finish on a high. Go visit them or support them with a purchase. πŸ’ͺ

Gonna recommend my favourite book so far this year: Babylon, Albion by Dalia al-Dujaili. Shifts your perspective of what it means to belong. Utter brilliance: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/baby...

21.06.2025 08:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Pushing preorders? Think indie Independent Bookshop Week is the perfect time to overhaul your pre-order strategy.

"Our call out to the industry is simple but urgent: consider indies when you are thinking about pre-orders."

During #IndieBookshopWeek, Jasper Sutcliffe makes a powerful plea to publishers: put indies at the heart of pre-order campaigns @thebookseller.com - www.thebookseller.com/comment/push...

16.06.2025 11:10 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 5