A book called The Little Book of Fairies by Carolyne Larrington, published by the British Library. It has a purple band down teh side and an old fashioned fairy painting of a very elaborate green fairy. It looks like it might be a stage costume. Victorian? Older? I'm not sure, I'll have to read the book to find out!

Original art for a picture book by Erika Meza. It shows a girl with light brown skin and long dark brown plaits, wearing a pink dress and white trainers. The text at the bottom reads, "...The hero will be ME." It's in a frame on the wall of the exhibition.

An elaborate pop up book with mermaids behind a glass case. You can see the reflection of my fingers and phone taking the photo, drat, I thought I'd avoided that.

Signposts inside the exhibition pointing to dragons, happily ever after, helpful elves, swimming selkies and talking animals.

The Fairy tales exhibition at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social is immense fun. Lots for adults, lots for small children (less for medium children, but they might consider themselves too old for fairy tales anyway, even tho they're not). Came away with a book - @profcarolyne.bsky.social's on fairies

A PALACE NEAR THE WIND by @aijiang.bsky.social is out now in paperback! ✨☁️

A richly inventive, brutal and beautiful science-fantasy novella. A story of family, loss, oppression and rebellion that will stay with you long after the final page.

Grab your copy now: tinyurl.com/5aczxabe

Really, really looking forward to this tonight!

Happy publication day to @mhayinde.bsky.social's Dance of Broken Blades, the much anticipated sequel to A Song of Legends Lost (which we loved!)

Pick up this series if you like epic fantasy full of rebellion and revenge, great worldbuilding, tech/ancestral magic systems & fantastic characters!

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I've noticed that!

We do sometimes have a few bigger format paperbacks, and some cute smaller-than-normal hardbacks, but generally yes they're all this size.

Self-published paperbacks are often larger, interestingly. I wonder if that's because the companies are from the States originally?

THE LAST HOUR BETWEEN WORLDS on a background of clouds, surrounded by quotes: "One heck of a page turner" - Nicholas Eames; "What an absolute delight!" - Alix E. Harrow; "An addictive read" - Genevieve Cogamn; "Totally unlike anything I've read before" - Freya Marske; "I completely adored this book" - Shannon Chakraborty; "Unmissable!" - Andrea Stewart

It's ace day! 🖤🤍💜 In case you didn't know, I'm a biromantic asexual, much like the main character of my Echo Archives series, the badass but tired new mom Kembral Thorne, who would love to have fun at this party but is stuck in a murder time loop with her cat burglar nemesis instead

Oh, has the survey closed already?

Congratulations! A well deserved award for When There Are Wolves Again. You should definitely check it out.

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I do try, when I have time! Often because the spines aren't all legible in these photos (thanks, overly shiny finishes).

Good choices!

After a little think, I guess the collective terms for books all seem to be based on how they're stored: a library, stack, shelf, pile. Maybe a collection is the broadest term.

And, er, one keeps up by being very picky, and yet still having an enormous TBR...

Buffalo Hunter Hunter is excellent horror (and gory, and harrowing) and deals with the era at the beginning of the USA (so it is historical, but I've found myself wanting to know more about the early history of the States in the last few years, given, well, *gestures at everything in the news*)

Jitterbug should be fun scifi with big ideas (ai ships, justice in space, future tech) judging from the author's previous work.

Moreno-Garcia always seems to write interesting multi-layered books (usually more gothic than outright horror), and Bewitching comes right up to the modern day.

Depends on what you're into/in the mood for!

Can't wait to see what she does next!

Don't be fooled by the folklore and flowers- this is a really beautifully written debut that navigates love, obsession, floral biohorror, and bodily consent and dread, with some psychologically dark themes...

A copy of the book in a bookshop. On the cover a human heart is surrounded by flowers, blood-tipped leaves and red roots

Honeysuckle by @barfridmantell.bsky.social is new out this month: an intoxicating, unsettling gothic reimagining of the Welsh myth Blodeuwedd.

Wynne makes her brother a playmate, a girl woven from flowers and words. He grows attached, but at season's end the flowers begin to wilt...

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The books in the photo are: The Book that held her heart by Mark Lawrence; Metal Slinger by Rachel Schneider; the staircase in the woods by chuck wendig; scratch moss by david barnett; this vicious hunger by francesca may; the legend of meneka by Kritika H. Rao; The Sea of Unspoken things by Adrienne young; Jitterbug by gareth powell; Elphie by Gregory Maguire; Dark diamond by neal asher house of monstrous women by daphne fama; the jasad crown by sara hashem; onyx storm by rebecca yarros; The new flesh from the british library; the cipher by kathe koja; modern divination by isa agajanian; the bewitching by silvia Moreno-garcia; the wind weaver by julie johnson; the buffalo hunter hunter by stephen graham jones; idolfire by grace curtis; a drop of corruption by robert jackson bennett; hekate by nikita gill; the incandescent by emily tesh; Stone and sky by ben aaronovitch; wearing the lion by john wiswell; the witch who trades with death by c m Alongi; summoned to the wilds by a k caggiano

Happy Monday everyone, whether you're back at work or have a fancy extra day off.

Take a gander at all these lovely new paperbacks we have in stock: which would you choose?

*wafts the tempting new book smell under your nose*

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The Award for Best Novel goes to…

EJ Swift for When There Are Wolves Again

The British Science Fiction Assoc Awards are being announced!

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It looks like a lot of fun. Fingers crossed I'll get to go next year!

Confusing the whole house by making pancakes this morning

Me too, so very happy about this!

~"Radiant Star mixes expansive space opera with political intrigue, as the empire plans to absorb the eponymous antiquated religious site into their own, superior culture, but allows one last man to join the mummified bodies at the site – with unforeseen consequences."

Can't wait!
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A banner with a picture of the book cover, a sticker saying signed edition, and the release date of 12th May 2026

Ooh, signed copies of @annleckie.com's forthcoming Radiant Star are now available for preorder at Waterstones!

A new standalone tale in the Imperial Radch universe, this is absolutely one of those instant-preorder moments for me 😁

Get yours here: www.waterstones.com/book/radiant...
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A tiled compilation of book covers for Solaris SciFi to read on your way to the moon! MICKEY7, ANTIMATTER BLUES, MAL GOES TO WAR, THE FOURTH CONSORT, AFTER THE FALL by Edward Ashton THE GANYMEDAN by R. T. Ester THE IMMEASURABLE HEAVEN by Caspar Geon LADY EVE'S LAST CON by Rebecca Fraimow THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING by Jon McGoran SINOPTICON edited by XUETING NI THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS by Premee Mohamed THE HUMAN SON by Adrian J. Miller REDSIGHT by Meredith Mooring NINEFOX GAMBIT, RAVEN STRATAGEM, REVENANT GUN, MOONSTOM, STARSTRIKE by Yoon Ha Lee THE IMMORTALITY THIEF and THE UNKILLABLE PRINCESS by Taran Hunt UNDER THE FORTUNATE STARS and AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD by Ren Hutchings THE MANY by Sylvain Neuvel THE MISHEARD WORLD, SKYWARD INN and THREE EIGHT ONE by Aliya Whiteley THE QUANTUM MAGICIAN, THE QUANTUM GARDEN, THE QUANTUM WAR, THE HOUSE OF STYX, THE HOUSE OF SAINTS by Derek Kunsken THE CALCULATING STARS, THE RELENTESS MOON, THE FATED SKY, THE MARTIAN CONTINGENCY, THE SPARE MAN by

As the world has come over all SciFi with the #ArtemisII mission, we thought you might be interested in a selection of Solaris SF Books to read on the way to the moon!

From Adrian Tchaikovsky 's TERRIBLE WORLDS novellas, to Mary Robinette Kowal 's LADY ASTRONAUT novels & more! 👇
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Oh, and good morning and happy weekend to you all, especially everyone at Birmingham @easterconuk.bsky.social! Hope you have a fantastic weekend.

I'm not jealous, honest... 😭
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A banner reading "introducing the rottenheart Waterstones special edition". A picture of the book with sprayed red edges on a dark red background. There's a random arrow on the banner pointing right from the book, as if the graphic designer forgot to remove it, or was going to add something and forgot, or maybe it's just indicating the direction you read a standard book in, in case people don't know.

From @katalicedunn.bsky.social, author of Hungerstone, comes a dark, sapphic chiller inspired by Hamlet, as the uneasy spirit of the dead Lydia seeks revenge for her passing...

Out 4/6/26, preorder the fancy Waterstones' *signed* edition of Rottenheart now! www.waterstones.com/book/rottenh...

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Have you considered writing bookseller-specific horror novels because that right there would be a good start!

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A tuxedo cat on a fluffy cream blanket

Guess who forgot that both buses and bookshop don't get started until later than normal on Good Friday?

Currently having an unexpectedly relaxed morning with actual breakfast and a handsome cat for company.

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