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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Measuringe the value of educacioun by returne on ynvestment onlye ys lyke measuringe the value of a garden by the weight of the floweres

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 7h

Today is a great day to support your indie bookshop with an audiobook purchase 🙃

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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 10h

Today is #InternationalTranslationDay, so it's the perfect time to share our new resource: Why Translators Are Better. Download it now on the Resources section of our website.

Translators are explorers. They are seekers. They are the book's greatest asset and champion.

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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 11h

I have another wonderful #buyastrangerabook day offer for you. @ultrasteve.bsky.social is offering to buy someone a copy of any book by Ronan Hession. So, if there's one in particular you'd like, get in touch. UK only

three books by Ronan.

Leonard & Hungry Paul
Panenka
Ghost Mountain

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 12h

The first rule of Pop Music Club is you never talk about Pop Music, talk about, pop music, shoobie doobie do wop, pop pop shoo wop Club.

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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 12h

IT'S WEDNESDAY! It's #buyastrangerabook day. A groovy kind of day all round.. I'll give out TWO books. FOR FREE. If you'd like one, let me know. Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know. UK only It's a thing! Look. www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...

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Buy A Stranger A Book. #buyastrangerabook - Stuff you might like... - Big Green Bookshop. @biggreenbooks on Twitter. Cheese fan. My Mum says hi.

The Big Green Bookshop an independent online bookshop in selling awesome titles by awesome authors to awesome people

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Adam Farrer @adamjfarrer.bsky.social · 13h

Sharing-praise alert: Received a beautiful message about this book from a reader. I'll put it in this thread, but plainly put it's made my day and brushed aside the notion writers can sometimes feel that it's a pointless exercise. Do tell writers if you like what they do. It means the world.

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 13h

#Booksky If you haven’t already read PAGANS then take this as a hard recommend for your TBR pile.

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 15h

#BookChallenge for September: Books I’ve discovered through BlueSky because their authors were brave enough to promote them. 23/ One Minute Away by Mark Watson Easy to forget that this great stand-up comedian is also a fantastic writer (Contacts, Eleven, Hotel Alpha, etc.) #Booksky

Paperback edition of One Minute Away by Mark Watson

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 16h

“O gracious emperor, O gentle Aaron! Did ever raven sing so like a lark That gives sweet tidings of the sun’s uprise? With all my heart I’ll send the emperor my hand. Good Aaron, wilt thou help to chop it off?” #Bardspotting #Raven #Lark TITUS Titus Andronicus Act III, Scene 1

Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play Titus Andronicus. Text reads “O gracious emperor, O gentle Aaron!
Did ever raven sing so like a lark
That gives sweet tidings of the sun’s uprise?
With all my heart I’ll send the emperor my hand.
Good Aaron, wilt thou help to chop it off?”

The raven singing sweet tidings of the sun’s uprise

A lark perched atop a branch trying to outsing a raven

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 16h

#Wordle 1,929 3/6* ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 29/09/2026

I’m Gail, a one woman (and a feline assistant) business, based in Manchester. I create prints, homewares, T-shirts & cards inspired by midcentury design, music and architecture. Have a look gailmyerscough.co.uk

A grid of twelve illustrations featuring music designs, architecture designs, books, retro abstract designs and swimmers. Bold and colourful.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 29/09/2026

I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a hand-saw.

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Share someone who looks stylish posing with or next to a car.

A young boy in a navy blue coat and jeans is holding a can of Pepsi whilst standing in front of a Rolls Royce. His old brother stands to his left in a brown coat. Both look dapper gents.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

A figure stands in a barren landscape; reaches for the lever on a large, eccentric contraption covered in wires, pipes, dials and buttons; looks over towards two figures inside a bunker and says:

"'Trust me, it's safe' would sound a lot more reassuring if you weren't saying it from inside a concrete bunker."

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bootifulgame @bootifulgame.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How much does Man City owe your club? • Pick their punishment. • Rewrite 18 Premier League seasons without them. • Hand their trophies to the teams they beat. • Add up the bill. passmode.shop/asterisk

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asterisk — the Premier League without Manchester City

Set Manchester City's punishment and watch 18 Premier League seasons rewrite themselves: new champions, cup winners, European places and relegations.

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#BookChallenge for September: Books I’ve discovered through BlueSky because their authors were brave enough to promote them. Let’s boost our favourites! 22/ This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong by Mark Cooper-Jones & Jay Foreman An outrageously funny outing from YouTube’s Map Men #Booksky

A paperback edition of This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong by Mark Cooper-Jones & Jay Foreman

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 29/09/2026

Also, I bang on about this, but millennials/GenZ/GenA, your 50s/60s/70s will arrive far more quickly than you think, and by the time you get there, you'd better hope there's still some state provision because most of you are not saving anything like enough for your retirement now.

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh God. If I’m in floods of tears just watching the *trailer* what’s the entire film going to do? This looks… magnificent #Elsinore #Hamlet youtu.be/SzopCeFAWF0

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ELSINORE - Official Trailer [HD] - Only In Theaters November

YouTube video by Focus Features

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“O Cressida! But that the busy day, Waked by the lark, hath roused the ribald crows, And dreaming night will hide our joys no longer, I would not from thee.” #Bardspotting #Lark #Crows TROILUS Troilus And Cressida Act IV, Scene 2

Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play Troilus And Cressida. Text reads “O Cressida! But that the busy day,
Wakes by the lark, hath roused the ribald crows,
And dreaming night will hide our joys no longer,
I would not from thee.”

A crow, turns its head to the right, thinking murderous thoughts toward that noisy lark.

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#Wordle 1,928 3/6* 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

CHORUS Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-crossed fucks take their life...

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Dani Donovan 👩🏻‍🎨 ADHD Comics @danidonovan.com · 02/11/2025

the ADHD urge to say “let’s get down to business” and then do literally anything else

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Dr Lucy Rogers @drlucyrogers.com · 16/04/2026

It's out now! Please send me pics of my book (Up - a scientist's guide to the magic above us) out in the wild (be imaginative if you've got it on audio book or e-reader!) If you hadn't yet got it, it's available at all good bookstores (UK). uk.bookshop.org/shop/DrLucyR...

Cover of book "Dr LUCY ROGERS UP -
A Scientist's Guide to the Magic Above Us"

It's looking up with butterflies, condors, kites, clouds etc.

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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good morning. And doesn't this photo warm the cockles. The great Antonin Panenka with @ronanhession.bsky.social on Saturday at Bohemians club in Dublin. Marvellous.

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

28 September - 2 October For those of you who perhaps haven’t yet read Lev Parikian’s beautiful book Light Rains Sometimes Fall (A British Year Through Japan’s 72 Seasons); this is a gentle reminder that today sees the start of: Season 47 “STARLINGS START TO GATHER” #Booksky

Lev Parikian’s beautiful book Light Rains Sometimes Fall (A British Year Through Japan’s 72 Seasons)

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All Good Bookshop @allgoodbookshop.co.uk · 28/09/2026

a return to an old favourite for a current read 'Consider Phlebas' by Iain M. Banks You can get the entire series at 15% off with us. #books #bookoffer #scifi

blue geometric shapes that hint at another world

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#BookChallenge for September: Books I’ve discovered through BlueSky because their authors were brave enough to promote them. Let’s boost our favourites! 21/ Notebook by @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social A paean to opening a new notebook to write something on a fresh page with a nice pen. #Booksky

A paperback edition of Notebook by Tom Cox

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“This outward-sainted deputy, Whose settl’d visage and deliberate word Nips youth i’ th’ head and follies doth enew As falcon doth the fowl, is yet a devil:” #Bardspotting #Falcon #Fowl ISABELLA Measure For Measure Act III, Scene 1

Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play Measure For Measure. Text reads “This outward-sainted deputy,
Whose settl’d visage and deliberate word
Nips youth i’ th’ head and follies doth enew
As falcon doth the fowl, is yet a devil:”

A falcon in full flight about to nip something i’ th’ head.

A fowl stood upon a tree stump in a farmyard crowing about the lack of falcons nearby

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 27/09/2026

ICYMI: Shakespeare’s Globe has opened its newly renovated research and collection centre, which features London’s only publicly accessible dedicated Shakespeare library and archive. 👇

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Shakespeare library and archive containing 6,000 books opens under the Globe theatre

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#BookChallenge for September: Books I’ve discovered through BlueSky because their authors were brave enough to promote them. Let’s boost our favourites! 20/ The House Hunt by C M Ewan The epitome of a page-turning, pacy thriller. @chrisewan.bsky.social latest Eye Spy available now. #Booksky

Paperback edition of The House Hunt by C M Ewan

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“The throstle* with his note so true, The wren with little quill.” #Bardspotting #Thrush #Wren BOTTOM A Midsummer Night’s Dream Act III, Scene 1 *throstle - Arden notes, thrush.

Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Text reads “The throstle* with his note so true,
The wren with little quill.”

A wren on the pointy end of a branch singing

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#Wordle 1,926 4/6* ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟨🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“A unique voice, tone and heart.” Everything Will Swallow You has been chosen as one of the top ten paperback releases so far of 2026 by this week’s Bookseller Magazine. Free international delivery here in case you’ve not got yours yet: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

A round up of the year’s best paperbacks, beginning with my latest novel.

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#BookChallenge for September: Books I’ve discovered through BlueSky because their authors were brave enough to promote them. Let’s boost our favourites! 19/ Field Of Dreams by Nige Tassell For football fans of all hues, whether your team is Premier or Non, this read is leagues ahead. #Booksky

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“I’ th’ city of kites and crows? What an ass it is! Then thou dwell’st with daws too?” #Bardspotting #Kites #Crows #Jackdaws 3RD SERVINGMAN Coriolanus Act IV, Scene 5

Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play Coriolanus. Text reads “I’ th’ city of kites and crows? What an ass it is! Then thou dwell’st with daws too?”

A kite wings outstretched high in the canopy of blue sky

A crow squawking whilst on the grass nowhere near the canopy

A jackdaw perched on a dead branch wondering why a serving man thinks he dwells with kites and crows.

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Truly Gifted Kids” by Nige Tassell. As approved by Sir Bobby Robson

Sir Bobby Robson, in a dark blue Umbro Training Top giving the thumbs up to “Truly Gifted Kids” by Nige Tassell.

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Premier League right now.

But as far as I'm concerned, the first thing you can do for me is to chuck all your medals and all your caps and all your pots and all your pans into the biggest fucking dustbin you can find, because you've never won any of them fairly. You've done it all by bloody cheating.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Some gates make you wary of climbing over or opening them. You have this weird sense that crossing their threshold will deliver you somewhere else. Faery or some parallel dimension that is simultaneously familiar yet alien. My danger radar is weak, but not that weak. – #MattAdams

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#BookChallenge for September: Books I’ve discovered through BlueSky because their authors were brave enough to promote them. Let’s boost our favourites! 18/ Hookland Fragments Volume One by David Southwell Evocative & scary in equal measures. All those stories you half remember. #Booksky

A copy of Hookland Fragments Volume One by David Southwell

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Field System - @field-system.bsky.social - is a BRILLIANT shop and need all the support they can get right now so I donated ten signed copies of my new book to them, in the hope the proceeds can help a little. Do visit if you are ever in Devon. You won't regret it!

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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Snaffled the first two tickets of @pierrenovellie.bsky.social 2027 Tour for Theatre Severn. How did I perform this magic? Signed up to his mailing list at pierrenovellie.com Get your tickets now…

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Th*s p*st h*s *st*r*sks *n *ll th* wr*ng fucking pl*c*s.

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Dr Nazlin Bhimani @nazlinbhimani.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Some good news – a new library! Shakespeare’s Globe has opened a new public library and archive holding more than 6,000 books, original texts, recordings of productions and other treasures from the theatre’s history. www.thebookseller.com/news/shakesp... #Shakespeare #TheatreHistory #Renaissance

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Shakespeare library and archive containing 6,000 books opens under the Globe theatre

The theatre has opened its newly renovated research and collection centre, which features London’s only publicly accessible dedicated Shakespeare library and archive

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