Stephen Baird
@bigbeardybooks.bsky.social
the account formerly known as BBB
I blog about pretty much anything I fancy but a lot about the book world, reviews, interviews, and directories.
https://www.bigbeardedbookseller.uk
https://ko-fi.com/bigbeardedbookseller
I blog about pretty much anything I fancy but a lot about the book world, reviews, interviews, and directories.
https://www.bigbeardedbookseller.uk
https://ko-fi.com/bigbeardedbookseller
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Going to do a new pinned post as I'm changing domain, my domain is now bigbeardedbookseller.uk and everything is going on this domain now.
I'm writing about pretty much anything I'm interested in when I have something to say, so no timetable as such.
#Introduction #PinnedPost
I'm writing about pretty much anything I'm interested in when I have something to say, so no timetable as such.
#Introduction #PinnedPost
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A huge thank you to everyone who's supported my new Ko-fi shop so far.
Find my signed book bundles here: ko-fi.com/fiphillips/s...
#ChristmasGifts #FantasyBooks #FantasySeries #Bookshop #ReaderGift
Find my signed book bundles here: ko-fi.com/fiphillips/s...
#ChristmasGifts #FantasyBooks #FantasySeries #Bookshop #ReaderGift
November 11, 2025 at 9:22 AM
A huge thank you to everyone who's supported my new Ko-fi shop so far.
Find my signed book bundles here: ko-fi.com/fiphillips/s...
#ChristmasGifts #FantasyBooks #FantasySeries #Bookshop #ReaderGift
Find my signed book bundles here: ko-fi.com/fiphillips/s...
#ChristmasGifts #FantasyBooks #FantasySeries #Bookshop #ReaderGift
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Putting this fantastic signing tour graphic up again for everyone. See where I'm going to be this week at a glance. Share on social media with your friends and family. Clip and keep in your wallet in case of emergencies.
(it all starts tomorrow night at @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social )
(it all starts tomorrow night at @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social )
The folks at @blackstonepub.bsky.social made me up this handy infographical image telling you where you can find me next week. And some of the week after that. 🙂
November 11, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Putting this fantastic signing tour graphic up again for everyone. See where I'm going to be this week at a glance. Share on social media with your friends and family. Clip and keep in your wallet in case of emergencies.
(it all starts tomorrow night at @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social )
(it all starts tomorrow night at @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social )
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A new story up on my Kofi:
Plant mecha, love lost and betrayed, solarpunkish.
ko-fi.com/post/Reds-He...
Plant mecha, love lost and betrayed, solarpunkish.
ko-fi.com/post/Reds-He...
Red's Heart
Joyce Chng published a post on Ko-fi
ko-fi.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:45 AM
A new story up on my Kofi:
Plant mecha, love lost and betrayed, solarpunkish.
ko-fi.com/post/Reds-He...
Plant mecha, love lost and betrayed, solarpunkish.
ko-fi.com/post/Reds-He...
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Just in time for Christmas ghost story readings, I've added a little risograph print of my Read More Ghost Stories design to my shop!
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READ MORE GHOST STORIES - Mini-Print
We're entering the time of year when ghost stories are best, so here's a reminder to read more of them! M.R. James, Algernon Blackwood,...
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November 11, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Just in time for Christmas ghost story readings, I've added a little risograph print of my Read More Ghost Stories design to my shop!
trevorhenderson.bigcartel.com/product/read...
trevorhenderson.bigcartel.com/product/read...
a quieter day today, mainly updating and formatting various lists on the blog but going to make a big beany stew for dinner tonight and will actually put the recipe together for the blog this time...
and there will be a big dollop of pesto in the stew!
and there will be a big dollop of pesto in the stew!
November 11, 2025 at 9:12 AM
a quieter day today, mainly updating and formatting various lists on the blog but going to make a big beany stew for dinner tonight and will actually put the recipe together for the blog this time...
and there will be a big dollop of pesto in the stew!
and there will be a big dollop of pesto in the stew!
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Let's hear from the illustrator/artists, tell us a little bit about yourself, what projects you've on the go, what you've drawn, any events in the near future, or just drop your bio and links and follow and support each other
#IllustratorTuesday #BookSky 📚💙 #Artists #Illustrator
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#IllustratorTuesday #BookSky 📚💙 #Artists #Illustrator
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November 11, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Let's hear from the illustrator/artists, tell us a little bit about yourself, what projects you've on the go, what you've drawn, any events in the near future, or just drop your bio and links and follow and support each other
#IllustratorTuesday #BookSky 📚💙 #Artists #Illustrator
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#IllustratorTuesday #BookSky 📚💙 #Artists #Illustrator
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Oh, you know...it's just little old Bad Hand Books popping up on Stephen King's Wikipedia page.
November 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Oh, you know...it's just little old Bad Hand Books popping up on Stephen King's Wikipedia page.
Got to say that this combo was really delicious and we now have a batch of gnocchi in the freezer which is always a treat.
#HomeCooking #gnocchi #beetroot
#HomeCooking #gnocchi #beetroot
We’ve been looking for more ways to use up the glut of beetroot we have had this year and someone suggested adding some to gnocchi, which was a good idea...
Beetroot Gnocchi with Walnut and Parsley Pesto
We’ve been looking for more ways to use up the glut of beetroot we have had this year and someone suggested adding some to gnocchi, which was a good idea...
bigbeardedbookseller.uk
November 11, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Got to say that this combo was really delicious and we now have a batch of gnocchi in the freezer which is always a treat.
#HomeCooking #gnocchi #beetroot
#HomeCooking #gnocchi #beetroot
Let's hear from the illustrator/artists, tell us a little bit about yourself, what projects you've on the go, what you've drawn, any events in the near future, or just drop your bio and links and follow and support each other
#IllustratorTuesday #BookSky 📚💙 #Artists #Illustrator
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#IllustratorTuesday #BookSky 📚💙 #Artists #Illustrator
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November 11, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Let's hear from the illustrator/artists, tell us a little bit about yourself, what projects you've on the go, what you've drawn, any events in the near future, or just drop your bio and links and follow and support each other
#IllustratorTuesday #BookSky 📚💙 #Artists #Illustrator
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#IllustratorTuesday #BookSky 📚💙 #Artists #Illustrator
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I finished A Stocking Full of Spies by Robin Stevens today. Not sure what's up next for me, but I also started reading The Boy Who Grew Dragons as the kids' bedtime story.
November 10, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I finished A Stocking Full of Spies by Robin Stevens today. Not sure what's up next for me, but I also started reading The Boy Who Grew Dragons as the kids' bedtime story.
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I'm reading the Point Horror book for the month. Yet more babysitter based scares 🤣
I'm loving the nostalgia though.
I'm loving the nostalgia though.
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I'm reading the Point Horror book for the month. Yet more babysitter based scares 🤣
I'm loving the nostalgia though.
I'm loving the nostalgia though.
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Reading the 8th Brother Cadfael mystery by Ellis Peters, The Devil’s Novice
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Reading the 8th Brother Cadfael mystery by Ellis Peters, The Devil’s Novice
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November 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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I am actually at the point where I get to pick something new to read! I just finished Lolita by Nabokov though and the ending line stole my breath from me. As for what's next, I'm considering starting Beware of Pity, or War & War. I definitely want to start A Confederacy of Dunces. So much to read
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I am actually at the point where I get to pick something new to read! I just finished Lolita by Nabokov though and the ending line stole my breath from me. As for what's next, I'm considering starting Beware of Pity, or War & War. I definitely want to start A Confederacy of Dunces. So much to read
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Good evening. I have five ongoing. Stuart M. Kaminsky's A Fine Red Rain, Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, Bryan Talbot's Grandville graphic novel (just started), and nearing the end of Émile Zola's La Débâcle, and on-and-off reading short stories from the anthology The End of the World As We Know It.
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Good evening. I have five ongoing. Stuart M. Kaminsky's A Fine Red Rain, Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, Bryan Talbot's Grandville graphic novel (just started), and nearing the end of Émile Zola's La Débâcle, and on-and-off reading short stories from the anthology The End of the World As We Know It.
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Agent Sonya didn't work for me so now I'm happily and greedily tearing through a pile of @catswrites.bsky.social novels that suddenly landed on my Libby account before having to start House of Mirrors (by Erin Kelly) for the other reading group 😂 Currently: The Soldier's Scoundrel 🔥💖
November 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Agent Sonya didn't work for me so now I'm happily and greedily tearing through a pile of @catswrites.bsky.social novels that suddenly landed on my Libby account before having to start House of Mirrors (by Erin Kelly) for the other reading group 😂 Currently: The Soldier's Scoundrel 🔥💖
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I went along to the launch of Bryan Talbot's prequel to his Grandville graphic novels last week, so am reading The Casebook Of Stamford Hawksmoor; a politcal thriler set in the decolonisation of a French-ruled Britain.
November 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I went along to the launch of Bryan Talbot's prequel to his Grandville graphic novels last week, so am reading The Casebook Of Stamford Hawksmoor; a politcal thriler set in the decolonisation of a French-ruled Britain.
anyone else started another book since this went out earlier?
It's Monday again and today I'm reading What Stalks the Deep by @tkingfisher.com, the conclusion to the Sworn Soldier trilogy and I've Snake-Eater lined up after that
What book(s) are you reading this week?
💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR
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What book(s) are you reading this week?
💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR
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November 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
anyone else started another book since this went out earlier?
Waverly Sessions: Hurray For The Riff Raff - Look Out Mama
YouTube video by Live Performances from J-Shoe
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November 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Look at this great fund. £200 for really small charities to spend on boring things. Easy, quick to apply.
Link below.
Please share :)
Link below.
Please share :)
Boring Fund | Christina Poulton
Applications now open!
£200 grants available for small charities, CICs and voluntary groups towards some of those boring but hard-to-fund costs.
www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Look at this great fund. £200 for really small charities to spend on boring things. Easy, quick to apply.
Link below.
Please share :)
Link below.
Please share :)
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Cities are Forests Waiting to Happen by Cécile Cristofari and What Lies Beneath by Peter Faulding. Think I'm thinking about bones a lot.
November 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Cities are Forests Waiting to Happen by Cécile Cristofari and What Lies Beneath by Peter Faulding. Think I'm thinking about bones a lot.
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Sophie Hannah’s No One Would So What the Lamberts Have Done
November 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Sophie Hannah’s No One Would So What the Lamberts Have Done
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Just been to the library to return Adam Wishart and James Nally's Three Weeks in July in exchange for Against the Machine by Paul Kingsnorth and
Finding My Way by Malala
Finding My Way by Malala
November 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Just been to the library to return Adam Wishart and James Nally's Three Weeks in July in exchange for Against the Machine by Paul Kingsnorth and
Finding My Way by Malala
Finding My Way by Malala
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Alexei Navalny - Patriot
November 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Alexei Navalny - Patriot
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I've just finished "The Rose Field" by Philip Pullman, and I was very disappointed.
The first 90% is compelling but then the ending is crammed into the last dozen pages, and it feels horribly rushed. And actually it doesn't really end as many of the key plot areas throughout just get left hanging...
The first 90% is compelling but then the ending is crammed into the last dozen pages, and it feels horribly rushed. And actually it doesn't really end as many of the key plot areas throughout just get left hanging...
November 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I've just finished "The Rose Field" by Philip Pullman, and I was very disappointed.
The first 90% is compelling but then the ending is crammed into the last dozen pages, and it feels horribly rushed. And actually it doesn't really end as many of the key plot areas throughout just get left hanging...
The first 90% is compelling but then the ending is crammed into the last dozen pages, and it feels horribly rushed. And actually it doesn't really end as many of the key plot areas throughout just get left hanging...