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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Today is #HobbitDay because Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were both born on September 22nd. Normally we'd shire a hobbit pun or two but it might just feel like a tolkien gesture and we don't want to embarrass our elves. Anyway it's a good day to come and boromir #Tolkien books. 📚
A shelf of books by JRR Tolkien
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Ruis @kevardhu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My mid month treat from folio_unknown on etsy. #blinddatewithabook
Picture of a book nicely wrapped in brown paper and string with bookmarks, stickers and popping candy attached. Hints to the book inside are mythology, anti-hero and wittyUnwrapped book is The Gospel of Loki by Joanne Harris
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake Tuesday grey and Wednesdaye eke Thursdaye Ich care not for thee Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love [ridiculouslye wondirful lute riff] Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love
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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My dad's started the spooky season early with his latest batch of wood carvings, including his first ever Pumpkin-Headed Ghoul (my idea, I expect royalties). Available in his shop tomorrow... 👁️ wellswoodcarving.bigcartel.com
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
'Setting the Land Free - Visions of a Rewilded Ireland' comes out this day next week!! (Thursday the 10th.) The main launch will be on the 9th in Cork @waterstones.bsky.social at 6.30pm, with Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social speaking. If you're around, do drop in!
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Naught but a leap to the left And then a clockwyse tread; Put thyne handes on thyne hippes, And be thy knees yn-gatheréd: Lo! It ys the pelvique thruste That maketh mirthe down to rayne - Lat us doon the Tyme Warpe agayne!
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SeaWindowCraster @seawindowcraster.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
25th August 2026 06.11
Bright and breezy
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Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com · 24/08/2026
It's Monday again and today I'm reading "Art On My Mind" by bell hooks What book(s) are you reading this week? 💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR
White circle on blue background with the text - IT'S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING? - in the circle
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James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Absolute longshot: I'm looking for Euan Smith who drew artwork for White Dwarf magazine in the mid 1980s and therefore is probably British and probably in his late 50s or 60s. Do you or did you know him?
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Ruis @kevardhu.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
My beautiful Bella 2007 - 2026
Black and white fluffy cat on a grey blanket
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Ruis @kevardhu.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
britainsfavouritebutterfly.co.uk/butterfly/ho... Holly Blue
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Holly Blue - Britain’s Favourite Butterfly
The Holly Blue is one of the 60 beautiful butterflies found across the UK. Will it be Britain's Favourite Butterfly?
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
It's #buyastrangerabook day. I have an offer here from @rachaelscotson.bsky.social who'll buy someone a copy of ANY of Tom Cox's books. I've attached a selection here, so if there's one that you'd like, just let us know! UK only
Six of Tom's books. 
Everything Will Swallow You. 
21st Century Yokel
Help The Witch
Ring The Hill
Villager
1983
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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
As the final leg of the cancer journey is (hopefully) coming to an end soon, here are the pieces I've written, in case it helps anyone going through similar. 1. Diagnosis: observer.co.uk/news/opinion... 2. Chemotherapy: observer.co.uk/news/opinion... 3. Surgery: observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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‘He suggested we go to a quiet room to talk. I knew that ...
My cancer diagnosis was the last thing anyone expected or needed – but especially my mum, while going through chemotherapy herself
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DiGM // DiaTonicRecords @diontegeorgemusic.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
For the past three months I started to get outta of burnout and started to just record anything and everything on my phone as a start. Here's a random piece that I improvised a month ago.
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
It's Wednesday! It's Eid! It's #buyastrangerabook day! And @humanaqvi.bsky.social is offering to buy one lucky person the book of their choice, up to £20! So, if there's a particular book you'd like, get in touch! UK only
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
IT'S WEDNESDAY! It's #buyastrangerabook day! The grooviest day of all. 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. It's a thing! Look. www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi... UK only
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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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Ruis @kevardhu.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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The Food Programme - K-Food - BBC Sounds
How the fascination with Korean Wave culture is driving the popularity of Korean food.
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
IT'S WEDNESDAY! #buyastrangerabook day is EIGHT YEARS OLD! The grooviest day of all. 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. It's a thing! Look. www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi... UK only
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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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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/05/2026
While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
If you check out the #buyastrangerabook hashtag and you live in the UK, you'll see about 10 unclaimed offers. People are offering to buy people books, but nobody is asking. It's not tricky to do. Essentially, people are being lovely. So check out the hashtag, stop being a doof, and just ask!
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Do not pander. Do not dumb down. Trust your audience to be smarter than you. Trust them to be curious. Don’t erase your own voice for spurious bowing down to factors that bring nothing to the stories you need to tell. #Writing
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Ruis @kevardhu.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Does anyone else think Jimin looks like the Goblin King from Labyrinth ? 👀
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Ruis @kevardhu.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
One of the rare occasions I'm glad I'm doing nightshift - so I can listen to this as it drops
Image of BTS new album - Arirang
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SeaWindowCraster @seawindowcraster.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
7th March 2026 06.44
Cloudless, calm and cool
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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
If you’ve nothing better to do tonight I’m at Read Holmfirth at 7pm talking Scratch Moss, folk horror and all sorts of stuff. Come along, maybe buy a book or two. to-be-read.co.uk/books/an-eve...
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An Evening with David Barnett - Read Bookshop - Holmfirth
We'd love you to try one of our brilliant author events. Why not come to our event with David Barnett, author of Scratch Moss, Withered Hill and Scuttler's Cove.
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Repost when you see It
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Another #buyastrangerabook day offer for you! @jajrobertson.bsky.social is offering to buy someone a copy of The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies. If you'd like it, just get in touch. UK only
Front cover of the book. 

And also the blurb, which reads;
At two minutes to six on December 27th 1908 the lives of three people become inextricably bound together by the trajectory of a snowball. There is ten-year old Dunstable Ramsay, intended victim of the snowball, who, fatefully, ducks; his 'lifelong friend and enemy' Percy Boyd Staunton, angered by their recent quarrel, who hurls the snowball; and Paul Dempster, prematurely born when his pregnant mother is struck by Percy's icy missile. Tracing the rich and varied lives of these three individuals, The Deptford Trilogy lures the reader down labyrinthine tunnels of myth, history and magic in one of the most beguiling, clever and cunning trilogies ever written.
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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Five days to SCRATCH MOSS. Mines, magpies and multi-generational post-industrial folk horror. More info and buying links here: www.canelo.co/books/scratc...
Copies of SCRATCH MOSS by David Barnett with a miner’s lamp and magpie linocut.
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flash kirstie gordon @artie.gay · 24/02/2026
Some of you like dogs, in which case you may appreciate that guide dogs of Team GB for the Paralympics get official photos
Official Team GB Paralympic photo, with the the crests and everything, and a professional headshot, but it's for "Pickle, A Very Good Girl", who is a black labrador, with a hi-viz harness and a red collar.
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Ink Radio @inkradio.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Sometimes I think about the me that almost was. The city I almost moved to. The call I almost made. The person I almost let get closer Now and then, late, I feel the ghost of one of those paths. And got a feeling I’m not the only one But maybe it’s not too late to borrow a little courage from that
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
MY BIG CLEAR OUT! Here are 3 shelves of my books in A-Z order by author. You can have any 2 for £10 (free P+P). Please share (and buy). UK only.
a shelf of books in a-z ordera shelf of books in a-z ordera shelf of books in a-z order
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Ruis @kevardhu.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
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Blood, butter and boys in luv: BTS’s 20 best songs – ranked!
As the superstar K-pop boyband prepare for their first album in three years – after its members completed their military service – we count down the best of their toothsome pop
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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
West Yorkshire people! You have to come and see me launch SCRATCH MOSS at the Read Holmfirth bookshop on March 7. Don't ask me why, you just do. to-be-read.co.uk/books/an-eve...
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Mel Roxby-Mackey @archaeoborders.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I'm sharing this *almost* wonderful news from the Middle Marches Community Land Trust. They are now so close to hitting their funding target to purchase White Grit Meadows. Please can we see if we can help them get over the line? middlemarchescommunitylandtrust.org.uk/white-grit-m...
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White Grit Meadows Appeal | Middle Marches Community Land Trust
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
If you've been joining in with our Audio Waves Book Club then you've still got a couple of weeks to send us your review of The Wall of Life by Shirley MacLaine. Audio Waves is our newest Book Club where we are listening to Audiobooks instead of reading printed books. 🎧
The cover of The Wall of Life by Shirley MacLaine
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The Ken Harbaugh Show @thekenharbaughshow.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Mood in Nuuk, Greenland today.
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Ruis @kevardhu.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Woke up early from my nightshift to try and get tickets, 42,000 in the queue ahead of me. 2 hrs later and I'm going!! Still can't believe it 💜 #btsarirang
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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Hello, Sunday. How’d you fancy backing a six-part immersive audio project set in the folk horror world of Withered Hill? Cost you £18, all in. I know money’s tight but this is an absolute bargain. www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
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The Devil’s Sound
A 6 episode immersive audio folk horror experience, set in David Barnett's Withered Hill universe.
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Carl Maxim @carlmaxim.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."
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Ink Radio @inkradio.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
When something breaks the world like this, the only real response is care. Hold each other close. Move slowly. Let the noise wait. Be gentle with yourself. Drink some water. Sit somewhere quiet. Let music hold what words can’t. Healing doesn’t rush — and neither should we.
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UK ARMY Streaming @ukarmystreaming.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
🏃 Let's run with BTS from the 1st - 4th January! For this rehearsal, we are aiming to enter Run BTS on the Big Top 40 and the midweek Official charts 🔥 Please share so we can reach as many UK ARMY as possible! Let's test our power on the UK charts 💜 #BTS #BTSARMY
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Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com · 17/12/2025
A reminder that on the Big Bearded Bookseller blog there is an author interview series that is at 116 interviews on it. I'm always interested in more authors joining in, why not have a look at the questions and see if you're interested? bigbeardedbookseller.uk/questions-fo... #BookSky #Author 💙📚
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Questions for Authors – Big Bearded Bookseller
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Here's a wonderful #buyastrangerabook day offer. @helenliz.bsky.social is offering to buy FIVE people a book each that they would like to give to someone special as a present. 2 have gone, but 3 are left! So, if there's a book out there you'd like to give to someone, get in touch! UK only
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Xena @wiltshirecat1.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
A woman living in Liverpool has had Buttons turn up on her doorstep. She's had the chip checked & it says that the cat is called Buttons. It also says that it lives on The Isle of Man. She's tried calling the phone number that's registered but nobody's answering. www.three.fm/news/isle-of...
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Isle of Man cat turns up in Liverpool - is he yours?
Has your cat gone on holiday to Merseyside?
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Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com · 23/11/2025
Just bought a handmade pottery garlic rasp and three lino prints for Xmas If you have a small artisan business, selling jewelry, pottery, gifts, prints, knitwear why not let everyone know about it, add your shop site and lets get a chain of supporting small businesses going #BuySmall #ShopIndie
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Ruis @kevardhu.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Just booked my NAVIGATE CLASS ticket! Can't wait to celebrate the 1 year anniversary of Jin's 'HAPPY!' Who’s joining the adventure? Browse & book with ARMYON AIRLINES: 🎟 armyon-airlines.carrd.co #JIN #TicketToHappy #NAVIGATECLASS_JIN #1YearWithHappy #BTSARMY
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WELCOME TO ARMYON AIRLINES
HAPPINESS IS CLOSER THAN YOU THINK
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I have MORE #buyastrangerabook day action! Bike fans! @mrstevious.bsky.social is offering to buy someone a copy of Potholes and Pavements : A Bumpy Ride on Britain’s National Cycle Network by Laura Laker. It looks ace. If you'd like a copy, just get in touch. UK only
Front cover of the book. Blurb for the book. 

A unique journey around the UK’s National Cycle Network and one journalist’s quest to investigate the state of our country’s cycling.

What if we were less reliant on our cars? What if there were safe cycling paths to take us places instead? What if those paths led to the next town, the next village and the countryside beyond?This was the dream of a group of Bristolian idealists in the 1970s when they founded Britain’s National Cycle Network, which now runs to nearly 13,000 miles across the country. Journalist Laura Laker sets off on an odyssey around the UK to see where the NCN began, and where it is now. What has gone right – and wrong – with this piece of national infrastructure? Why is it run by a charity whose CEO once admitted ‘we’ve had enough of it being crap, we need to fix it’? Laura lifts the lid on this maddening, patchy, and at times dangerous network, and the similarly precarious politics and financing that make it what it is.

She discovers beauty, friendship and adventure along the way, from the Cairngorms to Cornwall, from the Pennines to the South Wales coast. On her mission to pin down what the NCN is and what it means to those who use it, she also meets up with high-profile travelling companions, including Chris Boardman and Ned Boulting. In a country where 71% of trips are less than five miles, two thirds of Britons say they want to cycle more and doing so could help our climate, health and wellbeing.

Laura is on a mission to see if we can make that dream a reality.
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The Folklore Library & Archive @folklorelibrary.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Last call for tickets. Online tonight at 8pm GMT we will be hosting a talk on Irish Death Customs with folklore collector Michael Fortune of folklore.ie Tickets are £5 including recording of the event from bit.ly/flaevents All proceeds support our and Michael’s folklore work
Irish Death Customs title card with a candle on a dark background
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National Folklore Survey for England @nfsengland.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Introducing… Chris Bader! Professor of Sociology at Chapman University in the US, Chris has been instrumental in designing our survey and analysing the results. He’s also about to publish ‘Paranormal Britain’, a closer look at British beliefs. Read more here:
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Introducing… Professor Chris Bader — National Folklore Survey for England
In our Introducing… posts, we’ll tell you a little more about the team behind the National Folklore Survey for England. First up is Dr Chris Bader, Professor and Chair of Sociology from Chapman Univer...
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