Katie, a white woman with long brown hair wearing a denim jacket, leans on the window of Sam Read, smiling, and holding a paperback book 'the edge of solitude'. The window is full of colourful new hardbacks, with rainbows, raindrops and a smiling sun hanging above them.

Katie leaning on the bookshop counter and pointing to a pile of signed copies of The Edge of Solitude.

We thoroughly enjoyed training up Cumbrian novelist and poet @katiescribbles.bsky.social as an #IndieBookshopWeek guest bookseller today. She's left us some recommended reads which we'll share in the week, and some early signed copies of the paper of her brilliant 2nd novel #TheEdgeOfSolitude.

On books in the landscape Some time in the mid twenty-teens, when twitter was still twitter, and still a place to make connections and jokes, my partner Will stepped out of the bookshop where he had been working part-time f…

Inspired by the behind-the-scenes photos @katiescribbles.bsky.social took of me taking photos of the newly arrived paperback of her brilliant novel #TheEdgeOfSolitude, I've written my 1st blog post in an era or two. pollyatkin.com/2025/06/01/o...

Image shows the cover of The Edge of Solitude by Katie Hale. It's pink and mauve, with a teal iceberg on it. The title text is in white, and the author name in teal.

LOOK at this absolute BEAUTY!! 💕📘❄️ The paperback cover of #TheEdgeOfSolitude is here!

I love how @canongate.co.uk have kept the essential beauty of the hardback, but modified - and how the text just pops! 👀

Out on 3rd July - preorder from your favourite bookshop! buythebook.online/the-edge-of-...

Image shows the whale skeleton suspended above the main court of the Natural History Museum in London

Image shows the whale skeleton suspended above the main court of the Natural History Museum in London. Katie is smiling at the camera in the foreground

‘Let’s start with the whales, shall we?’ 🐋 🐋

#TheEdgeOfSolitude opens with Ivy watching a pair of humpback whales in the Beagle Channel - so when I was in London for a book event recently, I just had to visit the magnificent whale at the Natural History Museum.

Maybe we need an updated #TheEdgeOfSolitude Strictly count ahead of (hopeful) Christmas sales...?

Photo shows Katie and her wife in a garden, holding copies of The Edge of Solitude and wearing hoodies with the book cover on it

Happy #PolarPride! ❄️🌈

Ok, so I’m not a scientist, but I am the author of a queer Antarctic novel. So alongside members of the LGBTQ+ polar research community, today I’m also celebrating Ivy: the lesbian main character of #TheEdgeOfSolitude.

Another day, another blog post.

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