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@mathilde314.bsky.social
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Books and stuff. I'm all for independent radical bookshops, small presses & indie publishers, literature in translation, local libraries... 🍉

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Goblin Purwin @goblinpurwin.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Voices I hear when I cannot hear my own www.candicepurwin.com/the-goblin-c...
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Voices I hear when I cannot hear my own... — Goblin Purwin
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Mathilde @mathilde314.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Did I buy this book based entirely on its title? Yes. Did I enjoy it? Also yes. Do I feel like I'm being tricked into reading more body horror than I'm comfortable with this year? Hmmm... (see also: Heather Parry's Carrion Crow). @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social @annedemarcken.com #booksky
A hand holds the book "It Lasts forever and then it's over" by Anne de Marcken in front of a bokshelf. The cover, like all Fitzcarraldo Éditions fiction books, is solid royal blue with the title and author's name in white, all-caps letters.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
1. Many here seem bemused by the anger and disappointment this government attracts. Please bear with me while I try to explain it. Let’s begin with Gaza. Starmer’s complicity is one of the major reasons so many people are disillusioned. rethinkingsecurityorguk.wpcomstaging.com/2025/10/07/i... 🧵
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Is our Government Complicit in Genocide?
The Genocide Convention imposes obligations on states and individuals not just to punish the crime of genocide but to actively prevent it. Two years into the war in Gaza and over 20 months since th…
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Mathilde @mathilde314.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
It feels like I'm not reading as much translation as I once did. This book is a great reminder to do so more often. #WomenInTranslation #booksky
The book "Childhood, Youth, Dependency" by Tove Ditlevsen (translation by Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favala Goldman) is posed on a bookshelf in front of other translated books. The edition is the Penguin Classic with its white and teal colour scheme, and a drawing of a city with red brick buildings.
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Mathilde @mathilde314.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I never read gothic fiction/horror, but this was so good! Finished it in two days, very glad that this was put on my radar by the Lecker podcast and that my local #library stocked a copy. #booksky
A hand holds a paperback copy of "Carrion Crow", by Heather Parry, in front of a sun-lit crosshatch window.
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Mathilde @mathilde314.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Can't really afford to buy books or travel at the moment so I've decided the next best thing to do is to borrow books about travel from my local library. Tip top reading to start the year ✨ #booksky @monisharajesh.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
A hand is holding two books in front of a bookshelf. The first one with an orange cover is "Around India in 80 Trains" (paperback) and the second one is "Moonlight Express: Around the World by Night Train" (ebook), both by Monisha Rajesh.
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Mathilde @mathilde314.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Damn - the first week of January isn't over yet and I'm pretty sure this will be my best book of 2026. Setting the bar high! #booksky
Holding a paperback copy of "How to survive a plague", by David France, in front of a sun-lit window
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
The 8 billionaires are: Musk, Ellison, Bezos, Page, Brin, Zuckerberg, Huang, Ballmer. Each one saw their wealth explode as a direct result of the massive and unsustainable AI bubble. Let's resolve to remember that when their bubble bursts all over working people in 2026. Happy New Year!
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 08/11/2025
Swifts have declined 70% since 1994. They fly from Africa to breed here, only to find we've blocked their nest sites. A £35 swift brick nest box was proposed for all new buildings. The construction industry lobbied Labour to block it. Biodiversity sustains life. Labour sustains economic power.
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mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Please save this, read it, feel it. Shame on all those who do not see our children!!
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Mathilde @mathilde314.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Always a good day when my drink matches my book 🥂 @canongate.co.uk #booksky
A shot from above of a red-ish drink in a wine glass sitting next to a red-ish book (poyums, by Len Pennie) on a round beige wooden table. The drink's a negroni sbagliato but with double the prosecco, if you care to know.
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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
As the predictable calls for “restraint by both sides” are rolled out by Western politicians and officials, let us be clear that Israel’s latest attack against Iran could not, and would not, have happened without the support that those same politicians. OPINION by Ibrahim Hewitt
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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
The Bread & Roses Award longlist has been launched to mark the start of Independent Bookshop Week! The award for political writing is presented by the Alliance of Radical Booksellers, so celebrate both by popping into your local indie for one of these beauts: lighthousebookshop.com/posts/bread-...
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Mathilde @mathilde314.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Latest read: a scintillating collection of interwoven meditations on life, death, and white things. #booksky
The paperback edition of "The White Book" by Han Kang, laid on a crumpled white duvet.
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Mathilde @mathilde314.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
If, like me, you've only ever eaten Chinese food in the West, this book will blow your mind. Fuchsia Dunlop does a brilliant job of explaining the exquisite intricacy of Chinese cuisine and its infinite declinations. An instant favourite, chuffed I could borrow this from my local library. #booksky
A hand holds a hardback copy of "Invitation to a banquet; The history of Chinese food" by Fuchsia Dunlop in front of a blooming magnolia tree. The book has a bright yellow cover with a drawing of a white and blue porcelain bowl from which a white cloud of steam arises. Published by Particular Books.
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Mathilde @mathilde314.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
OMG this book 😭 #booksky
Black and white e-book cover of "There Are Rivers in the Sky" by Elif Shafak, laid flat on some dark red/brown fabric. (I've had to type this caption twice and both times I misspelled "rivers" as "rovers", which would be a very different type of book 😂)
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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
💥FREE EBOOK!💥 This book is a transfeminist call for collective liberation. Because there's no liberation without trans liberation Download your copy here: www.plutobooks.com/978074534941...
Promotional graphic for a free ebook from Pluto Press. The image features the book cover of Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds by Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift, which has a gradient background of orange, pink, and purple. To the right of the book cover, large white text reads “FREE EBOOK,” with the Pluto Press logo and name beneath it. The background is a solid mauve color.
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Shalimar Books @shalimarbooks.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
“When people say this business of ‘she’s the voice of the voiceless’, it makes me crazy. I say, there’s no voiceless, there’s only the deliberately silenced, you know, or the purposely unheard." - Arundhati Roy
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Mathilde @mathilde314.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Currently reading & just finished. Both excellent. #booksky #freepalestine @versobooks.bsky.social @andotherstories.bsky.social
The book "Friends of Israel: The Backlash against Palestine Solidarity" by Hil Aked held by a white woman's hand with a pink blooming tree and blue skies in the background"The Book of Disappearance" by Ibtisam Azem and translated by Sinan Antoon, held by a white woman's hand with the same pink blooming tree and blue skies in the background.
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Mathilde @mathilde314.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Unintended theme in the last 4 books I read: (too) bright things #booksky @faberbooks.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk
From top left, clockwise: Burnout, by Emily and Amelia Nagoski; Feu Mange Forêt, by Clémentine Pons; The Bright Side, bu Sumit Paul-Choudhuri; and Bright Fear, by Mary Jean Chan.
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This is Labour’s poll tax. Its tuition fees. It is - as Iraq was for Blair - the moral stain that will mark Starmer’s government and the party for years to come. Severely disabled people are going to be starved, isolated and degraded. No Labour MP who backs this will be forgiven.
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Mathilde @mathilde314.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Recent #poetry #bookpost 😍 #booksky @ninearchespress.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social
Two poetry books by Mary Jean Chan propped up on a grey/green linen fabric. The one at the front is "Bright Fear", with the author's name in blue and the title in orange on a pale yellow background. The one at the back is "Flèche", with the author's name in yellow and the title in white on a mid-blue background. Two poetry books propped up on a grey/green linen fabric background. The one on the left is "The tattoo collector" by Tim Tim Cheng, the cover is a drawing of two arms with the hands touching, overlaid by tattoo-like patterns, on a light pink background. The other book is "Blackbird singing at dusk" by Wendy Pratt and the cover is a black, yellow and white lino print of a blackbird singing in a cherry tree.
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Drastic cuts to PIP will affect as many as 1 million disabled and ill people, pushing them into severe hardship, worsening physical and mental health, and isolation. There is no credible argument for pulling help from people shouldering the high costs of disability. Cruelty dressed up as reform.
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Labour MPs saying “the clue is in the name” to justify benefit cuts is wildly disingenuous. It co-opts Labour’s history to imply all those that cannot physically labour are somehow excluded from the cause. Being pro-worker does not require being anti-unemployed or anti-disabled. It never did.
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Mathilde @mathilde314.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Palestine is a feminist issue. None of us is free until all of us are free.
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Israel has chosen to mark the first days of Ramadan by blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza. Still, our government refuses to implement sanctions and defend international law. There is no other way of putting it: this is a resumption of genocide — and our government is complicit.
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Mathilde @mathilde314.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I believe there's a time and mood for every book and while I don't tend to have dozens of unread books at home, I also don't feel bad about leaving some unread for a while, waiting for me to be in the right mood for them. #booksky
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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
“This is a bookshop. Crossroads of civilisation, refuge of all the arts against the ravages of time, armoury of fearless truth against whispering rumour,incessant trumpet of trade. From this place words may fly abroad... Friend, you stand on sacred ground." #BooksellingIsNotACrime solidarity always
A cardboard banner in the bookshop window read Bookselling Is Not A Crime and text is overlaid to read: This is a bookshop. Crossroads of civilisation, refuge of all the arts against the ravages of time, armoury of fearless truth against whispering rumour, incessant trumpet of trade. From this place words may fly abroad, not to vary with the writer's hand, nor to perish on the waves of sound, but fixed in time, verified by proof. Friend, you stand on sacred ground."
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Mathilde @mathilde314.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
🎧 Catching up on the new series of the Lecker #podcast: To Be Delicious, hosted and produced by @annasulan.bsky.social and co-produced by Lucy Dearlove. I love the mix of research, interviews, and the gorgeous soundscapes that are unique to Lecker. Highly recommended!
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To Be Delicious: A Cultural Context of MSG in the UK — Lecker
We live in an era where food ingredients and additives have never been more discussed - and more contested. There’s room for a healthy, informed discussion about transparency and good practice within ...
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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
A poem of mine is in the antho BRING ME GOLD: 50 POEMS FOR PALESTINE, now avail for pre-order. 100% of the proceeds from this book will go to Medical Aid for Palestinians. Pls consider buying it, wld make a great early Eid gift. 🙏🏼 🤍#DisabilityJustice www.dahliapublishing.co.uk/product/poem...
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Bring Me Gold: Fifty Poems for Palestine Anthology – Dahlia Books
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Mathilde @mathilde314.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I just started reading this in ebook format yesterday and found a physical copy while browsing at my local library today. Love the coincidence :) @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social #booksky #poetry
The photo shows the poetry book "The Adoption Papers" by Jackie Kay, held in front of a bookshelf at a public library.
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
just want to emphasise how vile this is www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Keir Starmer pledges to close loophole that let Gazan family settle in UK
The family won an appeal to come to the UK, after originally applying through a scheme for Ukrainians.
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Saqi Books @saqibooks.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
We are alarmed and shocked by the arrest and detainment of our author and colleague Mahmoud Muna, along with his nephew Ahmad Muna, owners and booksellers of Jerusalem’s Educational Bookshop. Please share our statement below widely.
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Mathilde @mathilde314.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Sometimes I wonder what the point is of writing about books when the world is falling apart. Some days it feels frivolous, self-indulgent even. But then I remember... (1/7) #booksky
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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Reflecting on the latest violent indignities against Palestinians, we’ve put together a list of books which boldly lay bare the many ways in which our systems have failed us: because they were never meant to work for the majority of us in the first place. lighthousebookshop.com/posts/the-ma...
A bookseller with short red hair and green eyes stands in the bookshop's doorway, where a Palestinian flag hangs on one door and posters for events with Omar el Akkad and Ellen Jones are on the other. The bookseller holds a stack of books that include Azadi, The Message, Pirate Care and Tangled in Terror.a line up of books from the lighthouse website includes 12 titles:
-One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
- Pirate Care : Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity
- the Message
- We Are Free to Change the World : Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience
- Who Gets Believed? : When the Truth Isn’t Enough
- Azadi: Fascism, Fiction & Freedom in the Time of the Virus
- Doppelganger : A Trip Into the Mirror World
- Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia
- Resist : Stories of Uprising
- Visualizing Palestine : A Chronicle of Colonialism and the Struggle for Liberation
- THE EYES OF GAZA
- Moral Abdication : How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza
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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?
Elon Musk tweet: We spent the wekend feeding USAID
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Mathilde @mathilde314.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Part memoir, part nature writing, Nina Mingya Powles's contemplative writing is just a gorgeous thing. @canongate.co.uk #booksky
Oh, look, I'm holding a book! This one is "Small Bodies of Water" by Nina Mingya Powles.
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Mathilde @mathilde314.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
This is not over until all of Palestine is free. Keep speaking up, protesting, boycotting.
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Mathilde @mathilde314.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
In "Divided", @sosowemimo.bsky.social exposes how structural racism pervades modern medicine. She goes back the colonial roots of medical sciences and shows how non-white people all over the world are still adversely affected both as patients and providers of healthcare services. #booksky
Black-and-white cover of "Divided" by Dr Annabel Sowemimo displayed on an e-reader, held in front of green ferns by a white woman's hand
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Mathilde @mathilde314.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Should I only read green books in 2025? 😅 My first three reads of 2025 were all incredibly good so it is tempting to follow this lead...
Three books with covers in different shades of green held by a white woman's hand in front of a bookcase. The books are, from left to right: amuk, by Khairani Barokka; Nouvelles du Front, by Marine Tondelier; and Les féministes blanches et l'empire, by Félix Boggio Éwanjé-Épée and Stella Magliani-Belkacem.
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Mathilde @mathilde314.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
"Starmer accuses objectors to such schemes of having “slowed down our progress as a nation”. But when that “progress” is a demented rush towards the precipice, perhaps a slowing down – and a change in priorities – would serve us well."
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Mathilde @mathilde314.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I was lucky to be gifted a 6-month poetry subscription from @lighthousebks.bsky.social last year. What a gorgeous treat that was.
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