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Books & Ink Bookshop - Winchcombe @booky.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

One of the most talked about sections in the bookshop. Do you have a favourite Enid Blyton? Are you looking forward to the new Magic Faraway Tree film?

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Here's Part 2 of our Books of the Year roundups - great recommendations here by authors & booksellers. What's your best read of the year? Please tell us in the comments! reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/12/book... #greatreads #BooksoftheYear #readingrecommendations @booky.bsky.social

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BOOKS OF THE YEAR part 2 - chosen by our contributors

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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 17/02/2025

A beautiful piece on the criminalisation of bookselling, by publisher Simon Liebesny writersmosaic.org.uk/close-up/boo...

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Bookselling is not a crime | WritersMosaic Magazine

Simon Liebesny on the Israeli raid of The Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem and arrest of the owner Mahmoud Muna and his nephew Ahmad

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Saqi Books @saqibooks.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

SUPPORT THE EDUCATIONAL BOOKSHOP! We would hugely appreciate any support you are able to give at this time. Find out more here: www.gofundme.com/f/jerusalems...

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Books & Ink Bookshop - Winchcombe @booky.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

What says love better than a vintage Penguin paperback? A red vintage Penguin paperback of Shakespeare's Sonnets perhaps. These pink and red Penguins are new to our stock today. #penguinbooks #vintagepenguins #penguincollector #winchcombe #cotswolds #booksandink #bookshop

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Books & Ink Bookshop - Winchcombe @booky.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I'm looking for Bookshops & Bibliophiles to join this new group and share your love of UK bookshops, book recommendations & more. UK Bookshops please join and share what you offer for sale, events, subscriptions. Let's start a forum for book lovers! www.facebook.com/share/g/1Eim...

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Books & Ink Bookshop - Winchcombe @booky.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

A Tirzah Garwood snow woman from 1938, in honour of (or in hope of?) tomorrow's snow day:

Ink and wash picture of a snow woman, with a lovely pork pie hat, in a walled garden--a black bird on the wall behind her , a city scape in the distance. A melancholy expression on her face.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

No one wants to spend Christmas in the hospital - but if you DO need the hospital over the holidays - please wear a mask. For the staff, for yourself, for all the other patients. The period between Christmas and New Years is rife for virus spread - mask up and stop transmission!

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Books & Ink Bookshop - Winchcombe @booky.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Due to the shop gifting me a Christmas lurg, the bookshop will now be closed until 2nd January so that I do not pass it on. With this comes my constant plea to anyone knowingly poorly with a virus (even if it feels mild to you) to please stay home or mask. Happy New Year and see you in 2025!

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Books & Ink Bookshop - Winchcombe @booky.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I may sneak in an extra day or two if I can but these are the times we will definitely be open over the coming 10 days 🎄 #winchcombe #booksandink #cotswolds

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Books & Ink Bookshop - Winchcombe @booky.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Stow-on-the-Wold on my way home yesterday. One advantage of a long commute is I get to enjoy the landscape or Christmas lights on my way home🎄 #Cotswolds #cotswoldschristmas #stowonthewold #christmaslights

Trees and shop front windows at night lit up by warm white fairy lights

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

As we approach the Winter Solstice, here's what Stonehenge looked like in the 16th century. BL Add MS 28330; Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland; 1573 CE-1575 CE; England (London); f.36r

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Books & Ink Bookshop - Winchcombe @booky.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Some of our little bits and pieces for £3.50 or less.... perfect stocking fillers! #booksandink #winchcombe #cotswoldschristmas

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Books & Ink Bookshop - Winchcombe @booky.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

I restocked cosy Christmas second hand paperbacks today! Grab one of these, a mince pie and a hot chocolate and put your feet up this afternoon 🎄 #winchcombe #indiebookshop #booksandink #cotswoldschristmas #cotswolds #festivereading

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Books & Ink Bookshop - Winchcombe @booky.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Sunset over #Winchcombe - 15 December 2024 #cotswolds #discovercotswolds

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Books & Ink Bookshop - Winchcombe @booky.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Book trees make the best Christmas trees. Discuss. (p.s. I bought remaindered stock - multiple copies of the same book - for this purpose years ago, so no special books are harmed in the making of my book trees).

A large stack of books piled in a cone shape like a Christmas tree, in a bookshop window with other display books and Christmas decorations.

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SF Said @whatsfsaid.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Every single school should have a library & a librarian, to help every single child find the books that will make them readers, and give them all the lifelong benefits of literacy. Libraries & librarians change children's lives FOREVER! #literacy #libraries #librarians

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Books & Ink Bookshop - Winchcombe @booky.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I put the "let it snow" sign in the window on Sunday. Therefore, I'm pretty sure I made it happen!

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Pulp Librarian @pulplibrarian.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

To be fair, this is how I dance nowadays...

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Books & Ink Bookshop - Winchcombe @booky.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

As well as all things booky, bookish, booksellery &c., I'm also looking for recorder players and enthusiasts or baroque music nerds. Are you out there? Even better, recorder playing booksellers would be amazing. We could form a virtual group and call ourselves The Early Editions or Bookish Baroque.

Six wooden recorders of different sizes in brown and black woods, pictured on a piece of sheet music with bare floorboards in the background.

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Books & Ink Bookshop - Winchcombe @booky.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Good morning Bluesky readers, here are some books for you to browse this morning. Have a wonderful day.

Interior of bookshop with floor to ceiling bookcases and brown wood floor.

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Books & Ink Bookshop - Winchcombe @booky.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Wow! BlueSky is taking off just as I was getting to grips with Threads. What do I do? I'm really liking Threads..... I made a start on my Christmas windows today. Work in progress.

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Books & Ink Bookshop - Winchcombe @booky.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

There's a lot of speculation on Threads that everyone's moving to BlueSky... but I've made the move to Threads so please come on over and join the book chat over there!! 😊 I am at booksandink

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Books & Ink Bookshop - Winchcombe @booky.bsky.social · 05/04/2024

We have programmes for two fabulous local literary festivals in the shop - pop in and pick one up. Cheltenham Poetry Festival is 19-27 April and Chipping Camden Literature Festival 9-11 May.

Two literary festival programmes side by side on a brown bookcase with decorative cloth antiquarian books behind

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Books & Ink Bookshop - Winchcombe @booky.bsky.social · 05/04/2024

We have programmes for two fabulous local literary festivals in the shop - pop in and pick one up. Cheltenham Poetry Festival is 19-27 April and Chipping Camden Literature Festival 9-11 May.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 16/03/2024

“The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes. At 200 terawatt hours annually, data centers collectively devour more energy than some nation-states.” — @boriscrito.bsky.social

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The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud

Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage.

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Books & Ink Bookshop - Winchcombe @booky.bsky.social · 12/03/2024

New on the website today I have the complete illustrations by renowned Ladybird Book artist Roger Hall for the 1982 book The Loaves and Fishes (link below) where you can see more pictures. #ladybirdbooks #vintageladybirdbooks www.booksandinkbookshop.com/page/rogerha...

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Books & Ink Bookshop - Winchcombe @booky.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

New into the bookshop this week - these fabulous original paintings by Roger Hall for the Ladybird book of Elizabeth Fry (1973). There are 23 paintings altogether (offered for sale individually) and you can see them all on my website here www.booksandinkbookshop.com/page/rogerha...

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Books & Ink Bookshop - Winchcombe @booky.bsky.social · 03/03/2024

Win Books!! Order any title through our bookshop.org-UK page this weekend and be entered to win a £250 gift voucher uk.bookshop.org/shop/booksan...

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Books & Ink Bookshop - Winchcombe @booky.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

I have a new book review out on my Substack - link also in my bio. Bringing back Kay-Kay by Dev Kothari is a brilliant new middle grade novel, exploring siblings, parental expectation, poetry, India. See substack for full review. Out in the UK on 4th April 2025. open.substack.com/pub/idyllsof...

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Books & Ink Bookshop - Winchcombe @booky.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

OFFER: Order the PB of Strong Female Character by FernBrady OctopusBooks from us through bookshop_org_uk. Use code STRONG to get an extra 10% off and support Books & Ink Bookshop using the order link uk.bookshop.org/a/3436/97819...

A marketing image with the blue front cover of the book on the left and on the right Book of the Month, January and a Frankie Boyle quote: An absolute riot. I'm literally going to read it again once I've finished.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

Here is a strong contender in the century old librarian play "Where not to put your library stamp to". This thoughtful stamped horse is connecting people and the stars, and greets the modern reader from the HAB Wolfenbüttel. The original print is from 1517. #skystorians #earlymodern #bookhistory

Title page of VD16 B 803 showing a stamp in the middle between a man and a woman. The stamp of the library connects humans and the stars.

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Books & Ink Bookshop - Winchcombe @booky.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

open.substack.com/pub/idyllsof... Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop is my book prescription for anxiety about work, choice of profession, feeling pressure from other people in regard to career or relationships, burnout, anyone feeling a little lost, oh & aspiring booksellers, writers and baristas

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Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum

A Book Prescription

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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

'Restoring our services – an update' from the British Library Main catalogue searchable from Jan 15 Special collections accessible on-site Acknowledgement of the impact on researchers Accelerated investment in our core technology infrastructure blogs.bl.uk/living-knowl...

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Restoring our services – an update

As we begin a new year, I'm pleased to confirm that – as promised before Christmas – next Monday 15 January will see the return online of one of the most important datasets for researchers around ...

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

A Christmas cartoon for the Guardian. Happy holidays, everyone!

A figure points at a bookshelf in the shape of a Christmas tree which is decorated with lights and has a star on top and says: "It combines the festive jollity of a regular Christmas tree with the clear message that I'd like every one of my gifts to be a book."

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Books & Ink Bookshop - Winchcombe @booky.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

Our Christmas hours this year are exactly the same as our regular hours - Thursday, Friday & Sunday 11-3, including Christmas Eve & New Year's Eve! You will often find us open a little earlier and later in the day but these are our core times. #bookshop #indiebookshop #winchcombe #cotswolds

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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

As someone who dearly loves hand-drawn maps, how could I not love this one from 1851, made to be worn on a hand? It's a glove decorated with a map of London landmarks, to help "fashionable ladies" keep from getting lost while visiting the Great Exhibition blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/she-knew-it-...

A white, leather ladies' glove from the Victorian era, hand-painted on the palm and fingers with London landmarks.

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

Day 2 of festive tunes - Sun Processionals brilliantly blends recorder, organ, and electronica

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Midwinter Processionals, by Laura Cannell

7 track album

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