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The Arthur C. Clarke Award @clarkeaward.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Celebrating our 40th year, the Clarke Award shortlist is: DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL, Matt Dinniman THE DREAM HOTEL, Laila Lalami LUMINOUS, Silvia Park THERE IS NO ANTIMEMETICS DIVISION, qntm WHEN THERE ARE WOLVES AGAIN, E.J. Swift THE SALT ORACLE, Lorraine Wilson Buy: uk.bookshop.org/lists/the-ar...

Celebrating its 40th anniversary year, the shortlist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award science fiction book of the year is:

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman (Michael Joseph)
The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami (Bloomsbury Circus)
Luminous by Silvia Park (Magpie)
There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm (Del Rey)
When There Are Wolves Again by E.J. Swift (Arcadia)
The Salt Oracle by Lorraine Wilson (Solaris)

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Mark Thornton @bookshopmark.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

What fantastic news. Congratulations to you and Nick!

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/05/2026

Comrade Trump continues his streak of destroying the American empire's grip on the world, hastening the renewables transition, de-dollarizing trade, and killing the world's suicidal habit of entrusting its digital life to America's defective, enshittified tech: pluralistic.net/2026/04/20/p... 1/

A post-war 'denazification' bonfire featuring several Nazi flags. It has been hand-tinted. There is a smoulderings MAGA hat amidst the coals.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23/04/2026

Britons! I have signed 300 tip-in sheets for my next book, THE REVERSE-CENTAUR'S GUIDE TO LIFE AFTER AI. These signed copies are available *exclusively* for pre-order from Bookshop.org: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI (Signed Edition) uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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Bookshop.org: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.

A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores.

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Bookshop.org UK @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

📣 READ IT FORWARD! 📣 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 📚https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/read-it-forward-with-bookshop-org

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

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Mark Thornton @bookshopmark.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Only thing to wear today for #SmallBusinessSaturday - off to the bookshop!

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Bookshop.org UK @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

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-...

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Bookshop.org UK @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

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 £250 Bookshop.org gift card. Support bookshops, not billionaires.

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Bookshop.org UK @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

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]

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Mark Thornton @bookshopmark.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

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

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Bookshop.org UK @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

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

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Mark Thornton @bookshopmark.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

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

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Bookshop.org UK @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

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 £250 gift card. EVERY sale supports indie booksellers, not billionaires. uk.bookshop.org/lists/win-a-...

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Mark Thornton @bookshopmark.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

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 😊

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

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 🖤🙏 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/kesh...

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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...

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Bookshop.org UK @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Ebooks are HERE! uk.bookshop.org/ebooks

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Bookshop.org UK @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Treat yourself to some Autumn reading and you could win a £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-...

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Salena Godden @salenagodden.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

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...

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

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Bookshop.org UK @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

'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 🏆 uk.bookshop.org/lists/the-bo...

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Bookshop.org UK @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Words to live by. 📷 Mount Florida Books, Glasgow

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The Arthur C. Clarke Award @clarkeaward.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

ANNIE BOT's Summer TBR! 📖 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... 👉 uk.bookshop.org/lists/annie-... Perfect books for the beach or the AI Apocalypse! 🏖️🤖

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

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Bookshop.org UK @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Snap up a book for the chance to WIN a £250 gift card. Every sale supports independent bookshops across the land (rather than making one billionaire even more of a billionaire 💰) uk.bookshop.org/lists/win-a-...

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Mark Thornton @bookshopmark.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

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

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BookBrunch @bookbrunch.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

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)

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One Tree Books rallies after fire

BookBrunch - The publishing trade's daily news magazine

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Mark Thornton @bookshopmark.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

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

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Canongate @canongate.co.uk · 03/07/2025

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!

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Mark Thornton @bookshopmark.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

25 books worth celebrating on SO many levels...

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

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!

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Bookshop.org UK @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Free delivery is GO on ALL books site-wide this weekend 🎉 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...

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Mark Thornton @bookshopmark.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

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

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Babylon, Albion: A Personal History of Myth and Migration a book by Dalia al-Dujaili.

Whoever said nature is still has not borne witness to the migration of the seasons. In this lyrical enquiry, Dalia Al-Dujaili considers what it means to belong in your land. She traces the rich herit...

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Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Celebrated the UK launch of The Genius Myth by talking about Milton, Mahler & Musk with @aiannucci.bsky.social - probably the best set of audience Qs I've ever had, too. (My rule when picking a book topic is "what will be interesting to talk about for weeks on end?") uk.bookshop.org/a/6497/97817...

Helen and Armando on stage at Conway Hall

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Bookshop.org UK @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

"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...

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Pushing preorders? Think indie

Independent Bookshop Week is the perfect time to overhaul your pre-order strategy.

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Bookshop.org UK @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

🥰Happy Independent Bookshop Week! Buy ANY book 14-15 June, and you could win a £250 Bookshop.org digital gift card! #IndieBookshopWeek Every sale supports independent bookshops 🥳 uk.bookshop.org/lists/win-a-...

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Mark Thornton @bookshopmark.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

That sounds great. Unfortunately I bet you'd fall foul of the Mandela Effect whereby you have factually proven a specific pop act was number 1 that week, but the majority of readers swear blind it was someone else...

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Bookshop.org UK @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Pride is a protest, a celebration, and a moment to reflect on the need to share stories. Here we shine a light on history, on lived experiences and imagined worlds. Discover these books and keep independent voices, and independent bookshops, thriving with us: uk.bookshop.org/lists/pride-2025

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Michael Sheen @mchshe.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I'm delighted to introduce A Home for Spark the Dragon, my new picture book for young readers, co-written by Jess Webb, with illustrations by Sarah Massini published in association with homelessness charity @Shelter. Available to buy at bit.ly/SparkBookshop

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Mark Thornton @bookshopmark.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

So excited for this. It's a fantastic book, and one selected by independent booksellers. AND it will run the whole of June including through Independent Bookshop Week 😍

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The Arthur C. Clarke Award @clarkeaward.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

The complete Clarke Award shortlist 2025 is now available via @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social 🚀 👉 uk.bookshop.org/lists/the-ar...

The 2025 shortlist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award:
Private Rites by Julia Armfield
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
Extremophile by Ian Green
Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock by Maud Woolf

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Bookshop.org UK @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Last few days to have a TREE planted! When you support independent bookshops and buy a copy of 'Once I Was a Tree' before the end of May, @nosycrow.bsky.social commits to planting a tree: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/once... #ChooseBookshops #PlantATree

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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Exciting and practical house designs coming out of Scandinavia

The photo pf the huge container ship run aground in the garden of a small coastal house. I've photoshopped an arrow to the house with 'House to Live in', and another arrow to the ship that says 'a room to keep books in'.

of course writing the alt text has warned me this may be a joke that only I find funny.

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Reminder that all this is documented here, in great detail...... uk.bookshop.org/p/books/ghos...

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Housmans Bookshop @housmansbookshop.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Congratulations to the authors and illustrators on the longlist for this year's Little Rebels Award! A prize celebrating radical fiction for children, which we're proud to help coordinate with @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social Browse the list: uk.bookshop.org/lists/little... #LittleRebelsAward

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Bookshop.org UK @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

The International Booker Prize Winner is Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, translated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi 🏆 Heart Lamp is the first collection of short stories to win the prize. Explore the book and support independent bookshops with us: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/hear...

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Bookshop.org UK @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

'This is a business that stands for reading and its value to society...The challenges we face - from artificial intelligence to authoritarianism - are growing, but we are many, and we will not be moved from this purpose.' Philip Jones, chair of The British Book Awards uk.bookshop.org/lists/the-br...

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Mark Thornton @bookshopmark.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

We happened to be visiting Wistman's Wood on Dartmoor yesterday and was exactly as you described: a pitiful amount of old temperate rainforest, signs telling you why it's so important and to avoid walking through it but...full of sheep.

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