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Vikki Reilly

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Cheerleader for Books and Beatles. 20+ years in the book trade. Supporting publishers @publishingscotland.bsky.social Editor @booksfromscotland.bsky.social Author of Beatles 101. Gimme all yer culture!

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 17h
Yeah, "Propinquity" is great. Also "Wax Minute". But my favourite has to be this Monkees version of "Nine Times Blue", with harmonies that aren't on any of the studio versions.
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Nine Times Blue
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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It's all true. 😊
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Orkneyology @orkneyology.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A free digital anthology featuring a story from our own Shonaleigh Cumbers – with lesser-known names Sir Ian Rankin, Val McDermid, the Beano and Mairi Kidd. Six-Minute Reads cityofliterature.com/current-proj... launches on World Mental Health Day to promote the mental health benefits of reading.
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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
You can preorder An Injury to All here.
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An Injury to All
From the picket lines of the Miners' Strike to the Amazon warehouses of today, the British working class has been pushed from the center of political life to its margins, though not without a fight. But how did a force that once shaped nations become invisible?Historian Ewan Gibbs reconstructs what was lost—and what wa
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Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
🕖 Wednesday 14 October, 6.30pm 📍 University of Dundee, Dalhousie Building Join Prof Jeanette Davidson for a talk on Black Lives in Scotland. Drawing on extensive research, she explores the voices and experiences that are essential to Scotland's story. 🔖 Reserve your spot: 
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Black Lives in Scotland - Telling Our Stories
A talk for Black History Month by Professor Jeanette Davidson, co-hosted by the Abertay Historical Society and Lifelong Learning Dundee
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Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🕖 Wednesday 7 October, 7pm 📍 @lighthousebks.bsky.social, Edinburgh Celebrate the release of Black Lives in Scotland with stories drawn from centuries of Black Scottish history! This event offers a powerful new perspective on Scotland's past and present. 🔖Book tickets: 
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Lighthouse | Black Lives in Scotland: Jeanette R. Davidson shares our stories
EventBlack Lives in Scotland: Jeanette R. Davidson shares our storiesTime:Wednesday, 7 October 2026 : 19:00 - 20:00Location:Lighthouse Bookshop, 43-45 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh EH8 9DBBook NowIn Person TicketsGetting Event Ticket Data Online Tickets (How to watch online)Please Sign in Or Signu...
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Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🕖 Tuesday 13 October, 7pm 📍 Waterstones Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow Celebrate the release of Black Lives in Scotland, with Professor Jeanette R. Davidson, examining the people, stories and histories that have shaped Scotland. 🔖 Book tickets:
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Black Lives in Scotland with Jeanette R. Davidson | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Black Lives in Scotland with Jeanette R. Davidson today.
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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm here in Frankfurt spreading the good word about Scottish books and publishing - if you're here, come and see me! 😁
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The Carrying Stream @thecarryingstream.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This episode’s guests are publisher David Graham and writer Kirsty Gunn — the joint directors of North House Press, a new publishing house based in the Highlands, and who just republished three novels Neil M. Gunn (1891-1973), the great Caithness novelist.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Queen of Clubs, 1909, by Margaret Macdonald, Art Nouveau pioneer and Glasgow School Artist #WomensArt
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Watch David Bowie & Annie Lennox in Rehearsal, Singing “Under Pressure,” with Queen (1992)
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Watch David Bowie & Annie Lennox in Rehearsal, Singing “Under Pressure,” with Queen (1992)
It's common to feel like we know our artists, writers, musicians, actors… we want so badly to touch their lives in some way, as their lives touch ours.
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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
@wilsonjettone.bsky.social?
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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Anyone know?
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Corrinne F @traviata.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
At one point during the gig, someone shouted 'Do Tin Soldier' and she said 'Ah it's just not the same without Steve…’ ❤️ youtu.be/6vWTtx_PxPo
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Small Faces - Tin Soldier (good quality)
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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lots of good things happen & there are lots of good people too. I recommend spending less time on social media where the focus is mainly on the bad stuff. Sign up to this newsletter too: reasonstobecheerful.world There are probably similar newsletters. Also, you're brilliant! You do amazing work!
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A tonic for tumultuous times.
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Olga Wojtas @olgawojtas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thank you so much to @publishingscotland.bsky.social and @bookyvikki.bsky.social for inviting me to this evening's Silent Reading session. A brilliant initiative!
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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I really like all three new #Strictly presenters. I must admit, Josh was the one that I feared for the most but he's ace! He has comic timing, can think on his feet, and is clearly having a brilliant time!
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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And despite the changes, the main ingredients of #Strictly are still there: joy, commitment, encouragement, folk giving it a go, silliness, lovable shonkiness, spectacle - what's not to love?
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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Fucking all in on #Strictly and I've only watched Will Best's dance so far. The pros have long been the real celebs of the show, so I don't give a shit that I barely know who the supposed celebs are!
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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
MUST SEE THIS FILM!
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Charco Press @charcopress.com · 23/09/2026
"With her characteristic edge-of-the-seat storytelling, Piñeiro exposes not only the monsters we live among, but also the society that produces them." theconversation.com/cathedrals-b...
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Cathedrals by Claudia Piñeiro is a gripping Argentinian crime story about gender violence and the weaponisation of religion
The unsolved murder of a young girl in Argentina sends shockwaves through generations of a religious family.
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Saraband Books @saraband-books.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We’re delighted that @writercatherine.bsky.social has been longlisted for Non-Fiction Book of the Year at The Saltires, Scotland’s National Book Awards, for Hold Fast: Motherhood, my autistic daughter and me. Congratulations to Catherine and all the authors and publishers on the longlist!
Hold Fast: Motherhood, my autistic daughter and me by Catherine Simpson has been longlisted for Non-Fiction Book of the Year at The Saltires, Scotland’s National Book Awards.
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The Edwin Morgan Trust @edmorgantrust.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Many thanks to Stuart Kelly for this wonderful review of A Home in Space – “a necessary joy” – in The Scotsman yesterday, alongside a fabulous selection of Scottish poetry by Colin Bramwell, Kristján Norge and the late, great John Burnside. @essencepress.bsky.social @gregchthomas.bsky.social
A Home in Space, a collection of Morgan’s more esoteric works – “selected concrete, visual and sound poetry” – is a necessary joy. Although some have been printed before, to see them in the original typewriter form is a wonderful harking back to when innovation did not mean clicking home / font / 14 point. There is an edginess that is in his more well known work; a sense of the glimpse and the overlooked being significant. [...] The editors, Julie Johnstone and Greg Thomas, should be commended for a book that is as beautiful as it is necessary, and which underlines how the avant-garde – Morgan, Hamilton Finlay, Riddell, Forrest-Thomas, WS Graham – was fundamental to Scottish poetics.
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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Honestly, spend as much time as you can with booksellers! They are joyous and magnificent people! Thanks Gardners! Thanks BA! 'Til next time!
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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'd say it's been my favourite one so far! Such a positive atmosphere!
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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It's that time of year again where I get to chat with the UK's fabulous booksellers at the @gardnersbooks.bsky.social Trade Fair! Come and see me and Scotland's marvellous publishers' books! 😁
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EggPod Express @eggpod.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
New EggPod Express online! Available anywhere you pod! This, then, is ‘musical absurdist’ Ron Geesin. Ron discusses the road to co-writing Pink Floyd’s Atom Heart Mother via an article in the 8 March 1969 issue of Melody Maker
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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
What a brilliant picture!
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BooksfromScotland.com @booksfromscotland.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Our latest BfS issue rounds up new releases published between July and September 2026. With reviews, extracts, author interviews and more, this issue is sure to help you build your summer reading list! ☀️ 🔗 Click the link below to... READ INTO IT! booksfromscotland.com/issue/read-i...
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BooksfromScotland.com @booksfromscotland.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Happy 90th birthdays to The Broons and Oor Wullie! 🔗 Click the link below to celebrate Scotland’s Happy Family and Favourite Son with us over on BfS! 🎉 #OorWullie #TheBroons #BooksfromScotland booksfromscotland.com/2026/08/the-...
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The Broons and Oor Wullie Celebrate their 90th Birthdays! - Books from Scotland
'Whatever the future may hold, we can be sure that The Broons and Oor Wullie will always be a part of it in Scotland.'
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A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs @500songspodcast.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs can only brought to you by the generosity of supporters on Patreon. Sign up, support Andrew to research and produce brand new episodes whilst gaining access to a long backlog of bonus content. A no brainer, eh?
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Get more from Andrew Hickey on Patreon
Get more from Andrew Hickey on Patreon. Become a member for just US$1/month. I've been writing for several years, and many people have told me they enjoy…
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Dr Valentina Bold @valbold.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Still some spaces for articles in the forthcoming issue of 'Review of Scottish Culture' -- you can submit at the link below or message me directly. Please share!
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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
What a great picture!
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Séamus Reilly @ewzername.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
youtu.be/4Il9q397lL0?...
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The Byrds - 8 Miles high
YouTube video by Gilles BERTACCO
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Lee Randall @leerandall.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Oh and here's a PDF of the programme, which goes on sale tomorrow morning: www.wigtownbookfestival.com/uploads/file...
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Old Hollywood @theoldhollywood.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Tina Turner photographed by Richard Avedon, 1971
Singer and actress Tina Turner — dressed in a dark-coloured two-piece dress adorned with bracelets and connected by strings of light-coloured beads — captured facing the camera while looking upwards, smiling broadly with her eyes closed, standing in front of a light backdrop, a microphone in her left hand, its wire flung in the air behind her, in a full-length black-and-white studio portrait taken by photographer Richard Avedon
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Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @fivebooks.com · 22/07/2026
"One of Muriel’s favourite phrases was: ‘and I went on my way rejoicing.’ And so this gives it a sort of jeu d’esprit, a lightness of touch – but you can tell that beneath this was a really serious thinker, who’s thinking about all manner of stuff." fivebooks.com/best-books/m...
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The Best Books by Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark's 22 novels are slim and entertaining says Alan Taylor, author and editor of the Scottish Review of Books, but behind the jeux d'esprit lies a fearsome intellect. Here he selects five of…
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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Hahahaha! I love how unselfconscious so many of those dancers are in that clip! Gaun yersels!
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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This is USEFUL INFORMATION! Thank you! 😊
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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Did you know I wrote a book about Richard Lester’s films with the Beatles? Thankyou to @whenisbirths.bsky.social who did and thought to ask me onto his excellent wordcast..
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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Honestly, they're good! We're addicted in our office.
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SHADOW OF MADNESS out now! @dvbishop.com · 16/07/2026
Read this Q&A if you want a big hint about what my 2027 historical thriller will be! @jennybrownagency.bsky.social
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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Just bear in mind this is how Andrew O'Hagan started and go,go,go for it. Wish I were young-ish again; I surely would.
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BooksfromScotland.com @booksfromscotland.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
@dvbishop.com's latest release, Shadow of Madness is out now! 🕵️‍♂️🔎 Click the link below to read our Q&A with him about the Cesare Aldo series and his summer reading plans. booksfromscotland.com/2026/07/shad... #BooksfromScotland #ShadowofMadness #DVBishop
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Shadow of Madness: A Q & A with D. V. Bishop - Books from Scotland
'Yet a great novel of historical fiction also has us escape the here and now by immersing us in the past. It turns the reader’s imagination into a time machine!'
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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
No exaggeration to say Cut Piece is one of the best, most radical artworks of the last century. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
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‘A frightening piece to perform’: can Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece still shock?
Sixty years after its first staging, performance artist MPA is restaging the provocative piece in Los Angeles
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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Anyhoo, I better get to my bed and save part 2 for another day. Oh, and congrats on the nuptials!
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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
That's a great comparison!
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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Ha! Funnily enough, you're just talking about IT and I was looking at their archives earlier!
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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Hahahahahahahaha! Also, I can't believe I didn't know about that Ramsey Lewis album until now. Sounds lovely!
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