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Matt Casbourne @mattcasbourne.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

An indie friendly promo. The signed exclusive edition available to the first 100 orders!

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Matt Casbourne @mattcasbourne.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

An incredible campaign resulting in a Sunday Times bestseller. Go team @duckworthbooks.bsky.social !!!

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Please pre-order. "Exit, pursued by a polar bear" - I've even written the headline for your review. Hope you like the book, which comes out nexr month.

Cover of THE ENDS, new novel, showing the wheelchair-using hero being pursued across the snow by a ravenous polar bear.

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Matt Casbourne @mattcasbourne.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

We had a ball signing copies in over a dozen London bookshops. So many happy booksellers! I expect they won't last much beyond this weekend, so what better reason to pop into a @waterstones.bsky.social @dauntbooks.bsky.social or @foylesforbooks.bsky.social this weekend? Happy reading history lovers!

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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · 03/04/2025

April 7th is the last day that custom dedications will be available, so don't miss out! Great for birthdays, Christmas etc for the Fall of Civs fan in your life...

Me signing a book in Hatchard's Bookshop.

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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · 01/04/2025

I'll be doing events at Blackwell's around the country over this month, in Edinburgh today and Oxford on 22nd April. Come join me! web.duckworthbooks.co.uk/fall-of-civi...

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Fall of Civilizations events

Events with Paul Cooper, author of FALL OF CIVILIZATIONS, at Blackwell's and Hatchards.

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Matt Casbourne @mattcasbourne.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I’ve been sitting on this secret for weeks! (I’m a terrible secret keeper). So proud to see Paul’s book is a Blackwells Book of the Month! And saw a nice mention in the @waterstones.bsky.social newsletter. Lots of exciting things happening during publication week! @duckworthbooks.bsky.social

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Matt Casbourne @mattcasbourne.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

The first official event for Fall of Civilizations paperback! Signed copies will also be available from Toppings Edinburgh from 2 April. @toppingsbath.bsky.social

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Matt Casbourne @mattcasbourne.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Go and order up one of these bad boys from my local bookshop at West End Lane bookshop. This is the limited edition independent bookshop exclusive with sprayed edges. Once they’re gone, they’re gone! So grab yours this weekend.

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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · 21/02/2025

If you want to pre-order one of these limited edition paperbacks, the best place is from West End Lane Books, a lovely independent shop in London. Help support an indie today! (International delivery for a small fee)

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Fall of Civilizations by Paul Cooper — West End Lane Books

Signed and dedicated pre order Paperback Orders will be shipped after 10th April Based on the hit podcast with over 180 million streams. The world is full of ruins. From the Colosseum of Rome...

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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · 21/02/2025

I've just been to Clays book printers to sign a thousand of these special edition paperbacks of my book Fall of Civilizations. These are very limited edition!

Me signing my upcoming paperback book: Fall of Civilizations - Stories of Greatness and Decline.

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Matt Casbourne @mattcasbourne.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

In Lyon for the weekend and preparing for a little aperitif.

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Anna Pallai @annapallai.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Lovely piece by Abi Millar in this month's @womanandhome.bsky.social - tied in to publication of *The Spirituality Gap* @clarerbullock.bsky.social @mattcasbourne.bsky.social @angelampr.bsky.social

Magazine spread - I'm Not a Hippy But... From ecstatic dance to astrology, I've tried it all, says Abi Millar, who is looking for meaning in an uncertain world.

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Disco Barrington 🏳️‍⚧️ Author @discobooks.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

First look at Oscar Isaac in Frankenstein, directed by Guillermo del Toro (2025, Netflix). This movie better fix my entire life I swear to god. #filmsky

Film still from Frankenstein (2025) showing Oscar Isaac in 19th century clothing, standing in a spotlight, holding a glass beaker, in an old operating theatre

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Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Do you have a National Book Token? Did you know if you spend them at an indie at the moment you could win £500?! That includes spending them at Bert's! Head to @nationalbooktokens.bsky.social website here for more details, then go to ours and buy a book. www.nationalbooktokens.com/spend-and-win

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Spend your National Book Tokens in your local bookshop for the chance to win £500/€500!

If you were lucky enough to receive National Book Tokens for Christmas (or any other occasion), you can now experience the joy of choosing a new book... and the chance to win a big cash prize! Just sp...

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Matt Casbourne @mattcasbourne.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

If you don't know what a puddle enema is, it's what happens when you speed through a deep puddle on your bike and your tires shoot gross water up your man business. Bracing. 💦🚲

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Matt Casbourne @mattcasbourne.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Duckworth Books joined the Indie Alliance at a good time! I love working with them.

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Paul Cheney @halfmanhalfbook.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

My thoughts on The Possibility of Life by Jamie Green and published by Duckworth. Thanks to @mattcasbourne.bsky.social for sending me a copy halfmanhalfbook.co.uk/review/the-p...

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Matt Casbourne @mattcasbourne.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Doing my part to stock the communal library in the Kilburn tube station 📚

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Matt Casbourne @mattcasbourne.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Time to put together my London Book Fair schedule. Any booksellers attending who want to meet up while they're in London? Hit me up!

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Matt Casbourne @mattcasbourne.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Librarians are saints, offering access to literature and culture to community and social services. I would consider a career in libraries but the pay is so awful I don’t know how anyone can live off the salary. Support your local libraries! And while you’re there, slip your librarian a fiver.

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Matt Casbourne @mattcasbourne.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

A little dessert with a wee coffee.

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Matt Casbourne @mattcasbourne.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

We had a lovely time at the shortlisting party last night hosted by @stanfordstravel.bsky.social. Super happy for Aube whose book River East, River West is in very good company 🥳

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Matt Casbourne @mattcasbourne.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Lavender gray buttercream studded with gold and silver edible beads on a vegan chocolate cupcake base. And now to the eating.

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Matt Casbourne @mattcasbourne.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

One of those days when you carefully prepare a nice afternoon coffee, then knock your elbow on the doorknob and karate chop the air with your coffee mug.

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a man in a suit is drinking from a cup that says ' mrs. pepper ' on it

ALT: a man in a suit is drinking from a cup that says ' mrs. pepper ' on it

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Matt Casbourne @mattcasbourne.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I was in a spa for a wellness minibreak over lunch and this woman, who was late for her appointment, refused that it had been cancelled. She pulled the 'I'm connected with mum's groups in this area and will drag your company through the mud - you'd don't want this' 😬

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Matt Casbourne @mattcasbourne.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Prairie Dawn, the original publishing girlie

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Matt Casbourne @mattcasbourne.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

#MexicanGothic is a twist on the gothic novel: a big old house in the countryside, dark but ambiguous going-ons connected to Catalina who has presumably gone mad, rumours of hauntings and a spooky cemetery that Noemi roams while plotting to rescue her cousin from her bizarre in-laws.

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Matt Casbourne @mattcasbourne.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Just a snippet from Professor Maxim and Mercury’s cabaret styled lecture about the ABCs of queer history. Fun fact: that harpsichord is 7 years older than America.

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Matt Casbourne @mattcasbourne.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

We went to a queer history event last night and my het bestie hit on a guy. Only she would cruise for straight men at a queer event 🫣 But I appreciate the hustle.

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Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I've been quiet this morning because I've been setting up The Berties in the other place and on instagram. This list is filled up with your nominations, prize winners and some of our favourite books of the year. You then vote! We can't do votes on bluesky yet, but I'm going to reveal the titles.

32 different books (see following posts for more details) in front of bookcases - surrounding the words "The Berties 2024"

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Stephanie @bookfrolic.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I've just created a Starter Pack for book reviewers! These are book lovers who review books (of all genres) on a blog/website, podcast, IG, YouTube, etc. To make this useful, I'm only adding people who I know are active here on 🦋 so if you want to be included, just let me know! go.bsky.app/EnNqXQp

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Matt Casbourne @mattcasbourne.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

God how I’ve missed screaming into the void

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Matt Casbourne @mattcasbourne.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

It might be time to go up a size on the gym shirts… 💪🏋️

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Matt Casbourne @mattcasbourne.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Thrilled to have witnessed Liz's well deserved win! Author, friend and neighbour, this really is her year. Go and check out all of her novels, including The Queen's Gambit which was adapted to the brilliant period piece: Firebrand.

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