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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For #NationalPoetryDay : Beachcomber, by the great Orcadian bard, George Mackay Brown. If you're visiting #Edinburgh , you can see this poem as a sculpture in the West End of Rose Street. #poetry #poesie #books #livres

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Niall Harrison @niallharrison.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have helped to programme a thing! Who fancies a day trip to Newcastle in November?

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Some recent #GraphicNovels hitting the shelves: Mary Wollstonecraft by Costa winning @eyedotter.bsky.social & Bryan Talbot, John of the Night by @acmedarryl.bsky.social , William Morris by Nick Thorkelson, & Charity & Sylvia by the amazing Tillie Walden #books #livres

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And thus ends September, And Summer's last ember Still flickers & glows, The colour of an autumn leaf, As the river of Seasons flows Into the Firth of Time, With all our hopes and grief. Tomorrow is National Poetry Day - do you have a favourite? forwardartsfoundation.org/national-poe... #poetry

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National Poetry Day - Forward Arts Foundation

The biggest celebration of poetry every year since 1994. With a different theme each year and events all across the UK.

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of our regulars!! Big congratulations to Cherise! 👏🎉

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#Edinburgh peeps! We have the hometown gig for @ianrankin1.bsky.social 's upcoming The Heights on October 14th! You can book tickets here www.tickettailor.com/events/theed... #books #livres #BookSky

Poster advertising the launch of Ian Rankin's new novel with the Edinburgh Bookshop

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Waking up the bookshop from its slumbers, prodding the paragraphs and wrangling the words, getting the Pages Posse ready for the day. . #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #books #livres

Looking along a long wall of bookshelves, towards the dark back of the bookshop before opening, the only light from the red neon "we read past our bedtimes" sign

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sad to learn we lost Scottish crime novelist, Peter May, a firm favourite with many of our regular readers in our bookshop. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #books #livres #BookSky

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Scottish crime writer Peter May dies aged 74

May was one of Scotland's most prolific television and crime writers and sold 15 million books around the world.

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#WhatWereReading : Joe, our resident cinephile, enjoyed The Book Was Better, by Louis Willder (pub @oneworldbooks.bsky.social ). From movies that insult the book, to films that actually improve on them (& guilty pleasure bad flicks), this is a perfect read for those who love film & books #books

Bookseller Joe peering over an orange coloured hardback of The Book Was Better, in the Edinburgh Bookshop

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Good morning, bookshop The words say hello We read them above you We read them below... 🎶 . #books #livres #Bruntsfield #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #BookSky

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Something for the weekend?? So many new fiction & non-fiction releases just waiting to be browsed. A wee book browse, then a coffee in one of the excellent Indie cafés in #Bruntsfield Go on, you deserve it! #books #livres #BookSky

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#WhatWereReading : our children's wizard, Fiona, loved The Incredible Other Side, by Andrew J Ross, published Frances Lincoln, which delighted us & made us giggle! We may have to read this at our next Storytime (every Thurs & Fri at 9.30) #books #livres #ChildrensBooks #LivresJeunesse

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We have new flavours from The Chocolate Tree!!! 🍫 Scottish craft #chocolate , now in Kelpie, Treasure Island & Jekyll and Hyde! We cannot be held accountable for any personality swings after eating the Jekyll chocolate!

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 25/09/2026

Lying asleep walking Last night I met my father Who seemed pleased to see me. He wanted to speak. I saw His mouth saying something But the dream had no sound… —W.S. Graham, “To Alexander Graham” in Collected Poems 1942–1977 A #poem from #WorldDreamDay www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48732/...

To Alexander Graham
by W. S. Graham

Lying asleep walking
Last night I met my father
Who seemed pleased to see me.
He wanted to speak. I saw
His mouth saying something
But the dream had no sound.

We were surrounded by
Laid-up paddle steamers
In The Old Quay in Greenock.
I smelt the tar and the ropes.

It seemed that I was standing
Beside the big iron cannon
The tugs used to tie up to
When I was a boy. I turned
To see Dad standing just
Across the causeway under
That one lamp they keep on.

He recognised me immediately.
I could see that. He was
The handsome, same age
With his good brows as when
He would take me on Sundays
Saying we’ll go for a walk.

Dad, what am I doing here?
What is it I am doing now?
Are you proud of me?
Going away, I knew
You wanted to tell me something.

You stopped and almost turned back
To say something. My father,
I try to be the best
In you you give me always.

Lying asleep turning
Round in the quay-lit dark
It was my father standing
As real as life. I smelt
The quay’s tar and the ropes.

I think he wanted to speak.
But the dream had no sound.
I think I must have loved him.

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Glasgow Film Theatre @glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Come and see what our Young Programmers have done with the place 🎬 GYFF is on now, 25–27 September. 🎟️ Book now, link in below 🔗

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Edinburgh Futures Institute @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Join this upcoming celebration day with The Binks Hub! 🗓️8 Oct 2026, 10:00 - 18:15 📍Greyfriars Charteris Centre Celebrate the projects and collaborations undertaken in partnership with the Binks Hub, to mark the conclusion of the hub’s five-year research funding. 👉 ow.ly/iJGf50ZQX5m

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/

Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses.

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.

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Eric Orchard @inkybat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Sunken Library

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Couldjya help an old altar boy, Faddah?" The classic 1970s #horror novel, which inspired one of the most famous films of that decade: William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist gets a special anniversary hardback edition. #books #livres #BookSky #horreur

Yellow coloured hardback anniversary edition of The Exorcist, with an inverted cross on the cover, and the now iconic image of the priest in silhouette, looking up at the victim's home

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Cat Rambo @catrambo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

For newer F&SF writers, here's a resource you may not be aware of, the Submission Grinder. It helps you find markets and track your submissions - and even publishes some fiction. Free to use, but if you use it a lot, consider supporting their Patreon. #booksky thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com

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The Submission Grinder

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Time spent reading the old tales and myths that underpins who we are, is never wasted... . #books #livres #BookSky #Mythology #folklore

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Good morning. Here is the hedgehog witch you ordered.

a hedgehog witch with a snail on their hat under a full moon. Pencil drawing. Colour applied.

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's the #autumn equinox 🍂 today. The wheel of world turns and we enter the "season of mists and mellow fruitfulness". And hot chocolate and a good book, by the fireside... #automne #books #livres #Booksky #Equinox

Ali Smith's novel, Autumn, on a shelf in the Edinburgh Bookshop

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We're celebrating #HobbitDay with Second Breakfast. (Okay, to be honest we have Second Breakfast every day, because Hobbiting is for life.) Stephanie Baggins & Jack Legolad are here for all ring-related enquiries. #books #livres #Booksky

Jack, already quite tall, now standing on a stool, reading The Hobbit, so he towers over Stephanie, As if she's Hobbit sized.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Title: Gentlemen! Are you in want of a wife? Allow our algorithm to assist!

Image: a series of yes/no questions for that lead to different outcomes.

Questions include “are you rich?”, “are you dashing?”, “are you a rake” and “are you a vicar?”

Outcomes include “You win the most beautiful daughter of the richest man in the county!”, “You remain a bachelor”, “You marry a dowdy cousin” and “You rescue a 23-year-old from Spinsterhood”.

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Suw @suw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is absolute perfection.

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#WhatWereReading : Joe loved Exit Party by @emilymandel.bsky.social (pub @picadorbooks.bsky.social ), a clever tale of overlapping & intersecting, different, yet sometimes eerily parallel lives & events. Highly recommended 📖 #books #livres

Bookseller Joe holding up a hardback, signed copy of Exit Party, by Emily St John Mandel, in the Edinburgh Bookshop

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Five Centuries of Scottish Art, by Duncan Macmillan, created in association with the Royal Scottish Academy . #Scotland #Ecosse #book #livres #Art

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 17/09/2026

Happy #NationalFoxDay to all who celebrate! 🦊 #fox #poem #poetry Ian Hamilton Finlay FOX see me wan time ah wis a fox an wis ah sleekit! ah gaed slinkin heh an snappin yeh the blokes aa sayed ah wis a GREAT fox aw nae kiddin ah wis pretty good had a whole damn wood in them days hen

A page from a book, printed in a reddish-brown ink. The top left contains a stylised papercut picture of a slightly scrawny, scraggly-looking fox. Beneath it is the text of the poem, “Fox’, by Ian Hamilton Finlay, published in GLASGOW BEASTS, AN A BURD, HAW, AN INSEKS, AN, AW, A FUSH, with papercuts by John Picking & Pete McGinn (The Wild Flounder Press, 1961):

see me
wan time
ah wis a fox
an wis ah sleekit! ah
gaed slinkin
heh
an snappin
yeh
the blokes
aa sayed ah wis a GREAT fox
aw nae kiddin
ah wis pretty good
had a whole damn wood
in them days
hen

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The thing about indie bookshops is that they really, really know their stuff. All love to @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social, who have never failed to be able to order a book for me that I wanted but they didn't have in. Get your shopping lists for this winter revved up early, snoozers = losers

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We've had so much focus on the Odyssey this year (rightly so!), but what of the ancient lore of our own islands? The Mabinogion contains some of the core tales of our ancient land, including Arthur. If you loved Lord of the Rings, this is essential reading. #books #livres #mythology #mythologie

A paperback, Oxford University Press classics edition of The Mabinogion

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Eric Orchard @inkybat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Sketchbooks are awesome because you can just throw stuff at it and find out new things that work

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Seven Stomps to Success: we're chortling with delight at @alexlatimer.bsky.social 's new picture book (pub @andersenpress.bsky.social ) , with Tony Rex dispensing some very dubious advice... #books #livres #ChildrensBooks #LivresJeunesse #PictureBooks

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#WhatWereReading : Joe found Stealing Hitler's Rocket, by Guy Walters (pub @headofzeus.bsky.social ) utterly fascinating. Reading almost like a spy novel, yet all true, the remarkable ingenuity & bravery of the Polish resistance exposing the V2 secret to the Allies #books #livres #history

Bookseller Joe holding up a hardback copy of Stealing Hitler's Rocket, with a Nazi V2 rocket & launcher on the cover, in the Edinburgh Bookshop

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We've had some fabbity-fab new #GraphicNovels for younger readers come in. New Nina Peanut, a second in the terrific Mexikid series, more Unicorn Boy & the delightful Wilomina from Scotland's own @metaphrog.bsky.social #books #livres #comics #BandeDessinee

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Hey Birmingham pals, I’m popping to Kings Heath next Wednesday if you fancy a chat. 2 til 4pm. I’ll read you a poem or two if you fancy it as well. We can have tea . #birmingham #poetry #conversation #bookshop

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"A'mhionaid shiorraidh A dh'itealaicheas an dealan-de Os cionn na h-iochslaint" "The eternal moment The butterfly hovers Over the nectar" Grian is Frasan / Sunshine & Flowers: poems in Gaelic & English by Angus Peter Campbell, pub @luathpress.bsky.social #books #livres #poetry #poesie #Gaelic

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Happy birthday to the queen of detective fiction, Agatha Christie, born on this day, 1890. We were thinking of celebrating by all wearing a Poirot moustache, but Ken Branagh cornered the supply of them. #books #livres #Booksky #AgathaChristie

A paperback copy of Death on the Nile, with a patterned Egyptian scarab on the cover

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 14/09/2026

Would you like a little weirdness in your head this Monday? Here's a muizenberg meets trickster gods meets transformation short fic www.patreon.com/thequietsun/...

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Short Story -- Bordergods | CL Hellisen

It's not quite flash. It was meant to be a dreamscape rather than a narrative and it became a microcosm of how my brain thinks about stories

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Early morning autumn sunlight through the bookshop window, a little tranquil moment before opening. #Bruntsfield #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie

Looking from the back of the bookshop, along the shelf lined wall, to the large, plate glass window letting early morning light in

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JohnChalmers+SandraMarrs=Metaphrog @metaphrog.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We then headed over to the fab @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social to sign copies of Wilomina. It was great to catch up with @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social !

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Chris Scotland @scotlandchris1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#BookPost today, all the way from the US of A (via @hivestores.bsky.social of course, supporting @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social !) Those Who Are Gone, the second in @laurierking.bsky.social 's Raquel Laing series (Pull your fingers out, UK publishers!!)

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Fab to have a visit from #Glasgow creators @metaphrog.bsky.social today, signing Wilomina, their delightful graphic novel from @scholasticuk.bsky.social . We've been loving it, highly recommended for younger readers! #books #livres #Comics #BandeDessinee #ChildrensBooks #LivresJeunesse

Sandra and John from Metaphor , holding up their graphic novel for younger readers, Wilomina, in the Edinburgh Bookshop

Sandra and John from Metaphor , holding up their graphic novel for younger readers, Wilomina, outside the Edinburgh Bookshop

Sandra and John from Metaphor , signing copies of their graphic novel for younger readers, Wilomina, in the Edinburgh Bookshop

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