A stack of books against a blank wall. Paradise by Ben Tufnell She Is Here by Nicola Griffith Orphan Planet by Madeehah Reza The Fell by Sarah Moss The Book Of Bogs Wolf Worm by T Kingfisher The Nice House By The Sea volume 1
March reads! My favourite book in March was Orphan Planet by Madeehah Reza
#RubyHoshReads2026
A photoshopped image from the Bayeux Tapestry, showing Harold Godwinson swearing on holy relics an oath to the Absolute Unit (a very large sheep).
Breaking news: we've just signed a once-in-a-lifetime loan agreement to bring rural England's most iconic artwork home for the first time in 1,000 years.
Introducing our 2027 major exhibition - Bayewe Tapestry: the Fight to Wool England.
Morning! I'm reading The Book Of Bogs edited by Anna Chilvers and Clare Shaw
So the cat's out... I have a novella coming in May from Black Shuck Books, WHERE ONCE HE STOOD. Dark magic, disappearing houses - and a vanished child.
Endorsements and pre-orders in the thread below!
Giant Mr Blobby stomping around behind London scyscapers
A Giant Womble (Orinoco) looming over Big Ben.
Original Bungle from Rainbow looming over St Paul’s
Kitten Kong from The Goodies, toppling the post office tower
Godzilla is attacking London and you must summon a British kaiju to defeat them. Who are you choosing?
A very simply drawn cartoon of a very round and green smiling frog squatting down and holding a ouija board. The background is blue and the text reads ‘fuck ChatGPT. I’m asking ghosts’
Mood for 2026, (the artist is Ainsley Drew, on Instagram)
As negatively disruptive generative AI has been to the surface of reality and people's ability to think... this will only get worse, and in more ways than we can imagine. Now is the time to ditch it.
one thing I'm not gonna do is tell you, a stranger in my signing line, if my book is appropriate for your 13yo. baby i was reading kushiel's dart at 13 i am not the one to ask
image announcing that I'm eligible for the Astounding Award for best new writer and my Tolkien podcast By the Bywater is eligible for best fancast. also there's a few weird medieval guys drawn on it
2025 eligibility post!
I couldn't even get a squirrel out of the single floor jewellery shop that I work in when one found its way in a few years ago 😅
I am! I'm starting the fiction section today 😊
A copy of She Is Here by Nicola Griffith laid on a coffee table next to a mug of matcha latte. The cover has an author portrait illustrating it.
Morning! I'm currently reading She Is Here by @nicolaz.bsky.social
A hand golds a copy of the book Paradise by Ben Tufnell against a blank wall. The book cover features tall dark green trees against an orange sky. The title PARADISE is in block white letters.
My review of Paradise by Ben Tufnell
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It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.
A stack of books held spine facing outward. The wrist of the hand holding the books has a frog tattoo. The books are: Bat Eater by Kylie Lee Baker THE good House by Tananarive Due Pretenders To The Throne Of God by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
My February reading thoughts www.instagram.com/p/DVSz8fzCMh...
#RubyHoshReads2026 #BookSky
Excellent example 😂 I understand perfectly now! Some of these acronyms are intuitive, but that one never made sense to me.
I don't know what ISTG means 😂
Tananarive Due's author bio on the back of The Good House, which mentions her husband, novelist Steven Barnes
Excerpt from The Good House by Tananarive Due. Pov character Corey has to write a book report, and not on an author he would read for fun, such as "Stephen King or Steven Barnes or Tom Clancy".
When reading the author bio rewards you with a cute little Easter egg 💕
@tananarivedue.bsky.social
#TheGoodHouse
Happy book birthday to Pretenders To The Throne Of by @aptshadow.bsky.social! Can't wait to start this 😁
#Booksky
Neither do I 😭
A stack of books held in a hand against a blank white wall. From tattoo on the wrist. The books in order are: The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers Wiz Duos 3 by Ruthanna Emrys and Andrew Knighton The Tricky Business Of Faerie Bargains by Reena McCarty The Book of I by David Greig
My January reading thoughts www.instagram.com/p/DUKnUk8CHr...
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I'm incredibly pleased to able to talk about this at last. Art by Rovina Cai! Will be available to order here in a few days, and the book is already printed. No wait!
Such a good breakdown of the first DWJ book I ever read (and still one of my favourites)
The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers!
Discworld QOTD, from Witches Abroad
It's funny how all these big publishers have been setting up new imprints like this in the past 2 or so years when small independent press publishing has been releasing these sorts of books for, like, ever with a devoted and delightful readership 💷💵
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Stock take of the shop continues, 875 items made accurate to the shelves! Hand-crafted artisanal stock check, manually inputted by local, free range queers
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Would love some more orders tbh, it's been dire this week in the miserable rain. I saw 5 people on Tuesday 🫠
Oo I didn't know there was a DWJ podcast!
