Christina Riley
@christinariley.bsky.social
Photos and books. Looking Down at the Stars: Life Beneath the Waves (Saraband) / The Beach Today (Guillemot Press).
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Tonight’s the launch of Looking Down at the Stars at @portybooks.bsky.social! I get to talk to the glorious Roxani Krystalli about the sea, art and probably a lot of light. Really hope you can join, in person or online.
www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/chris...
www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/chris...
November 13, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Tonight’s the launch of Looking Down at the Stars at @portybooks.bsky.social! I get to talk to the glorious Roxani Krystalli about the sea, art and probably a lot of light. Really hope you can join, in person or online.
www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/chris...
www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/chris...
Somehow it’s time for The Beach Today 2026 calendars 🐚
Available to pre-order along with other underwater things, it’s a Looking Down at the Stars theme this year christinariley.bigcartel.com
(I lost so many lovely Beach Today folk in the move here so any shares are much appreciated thank you)
Available to pre-order along with other underwater things, it’s a Looking Down at the Stars theme this year christinariley.bigcartel.com
(I lost so many lovely Beach Today folk in the move here so any shares are much appreciated thank you)
November 12, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Somehow it’s time for The Beach Today 2026 calendars 🐚
Available to pre-order along with other underwater things, it’s a Looking Down at the Stars theme this year christinariley.bigcartel.com
(I lost so many lovely Beach Today folk in the move here so any shares are much appreciated thank you)
Available to pre-order along with other underwater things, it’s a Looking Down at the Stars theme this year christinariley.bigcartel.com
(I lost so many lovely Beach Today folk in the move here so any shares are much appreciated thank you)
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Everyone, please remember this endearing crustacean family
July 3, 2023 at 7:12 PM
Everyone, please remember this endearing crustacean family
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'Beach objects in the sand begin to read like words on a page, fragments of stories ready to be pieced together.'
Read an extract from @christinariley.bsky.social’s ‘Looking Down at the Stars’ — our November Book of the Month (@saraband-books.bsky.social) www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/look...
Read an extract from @christinariley.bsky.social’s ‘Looking Down at the Stars’ — our November Book of the Month (@saraband-books.bsky.social) www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/look...
November 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
'Beach objects in the sand begin to read like words on a page, fragments of stories ready to be pieced together.'
Read an extract from @christinariley.bsky.social’s ‘Looking Down at the Stars’ — our November Book of the Month (@saraband-books.bsky.social) www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/look...
Read an extract from @christinariley.bsky.social’s ‘Looking Down at the Stars’ — our November Book of the Month (@saraband-books.bsky.social) www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/look...
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Looking Down at the Stars by @christinariley.bsky.social is published today!
A beautiful collection of essays and reflections on life underwater, inspired by Scotland's rocky coast 🌊💙
Take a look:
uk.bookshop.org/a/2456/97819...
#NatureWriting
#booksky
A beautiful collection of essays and reflections on life underwater, inspired by Scotland's rocky coast 🌊💙
Take a look:
uk.bookshop.org/a/2456/97819...
#NatureWriting
#booksky
November 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Looking Down at the Stars by @christinariley.bsky.social is published today!
A beautiful collection of essays and reflections on life underwater, inspired by Scotland's rocky coast 🌊💙
Take a look:
uk.bookshop.org/a/2456/97819...
#NatureWriting
#booksky
A beautiful collection of essays and reflections on life underwater, inspired by Scotland's rocky coast 🌊💙
Take a look:
uk.bookshop.org/a/2456/97819...
#NatureWriting
#booksky
Wild wild wild. Looking Down at the Stars surfaces today. If you buy it thank you I hope you like it 🪸
Happy publication day to @christinariley.bsky.social and Looking Down at the Stars ✨
Discover the wonder of marine life seen up close in these joyous and sparkling essays 🪸
Visit our blog to read a guest post by Christina!
saraband.net/2025/11/03/l...
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📚💙 @portyliterary.bsky.social
Discover the wonder of marine life seen up close in these joyous and sparkling essays 🪸
Visit our blog to read a guest post by Christina!
saraband.net/2025/11/03/l...
#booksky
📚💙 @portyliterary.bsky.social
Looking Down at the Stars - guest post by Christina Riley - Saraband
When I applied to be an underwater artist-in-residence at the Argyll Hope Spot my plan wasn’t to write, but to look. I’d been taking underwater photographs with various waterproof 35mm cameras, either...
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November 6, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Wild wild wild. Looking Down at the Stars surfaces today. If you buy it thank you I hope you like it 🪸
An update on book and Nature Library things, should you want one open.substack.com/pub/thenatur...
November 5, 2025 at 11:40 AM
An update on book and Nature Library things, should you want one open.substack.com/pub/thenatur...
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We’re so looking forward to this event! The perfect cosy, hopeful, wintry vibe that we all need ❄️
Tickets available here: www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/chris...
Tickets available here: www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/chris...
November 1, 2025 at 11:53 AM
We’re so looking forward to this event! The perfect cosy, hopeful, wintry vibe that we all need ❄️
Tickets available here: www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/chris...
Tickets available here: www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/chris...
Looking Down at the Stars is out a week today! Launching at @portybooks.bsky.social in Edinburgh on Nov 13 and Mount Florida Books in Glasgow on the 22. Hope you can come hear about anemones etc.
Edinburgh www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/chris...
Glasgow mountfloridabooks.com/products/loo...
Edinburgh www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/chris...
Glasgow mountfloridabooks.com/products/loo...
October 30, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Looking Down at the Stars is out a week today! Launching at @portybooks.bsky.social in Edinburgh on Nov 13 and Mount Florida Books in Glasgow on the 22. Hope you can come hear about anemones etc.
Edinburgh www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/chris...
Glasgow mountfloridabooks.com/products/loo...
Edinburgh www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/chris...
Glasgow mountfloridabooks.com/products/loo...
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"Underwater artist captures beautiful and rare marine life of Argyll coast" 🪸
Thank you Sally McDonald and the @sundaypost.com for this lovely feature with @christinariley.bsky.social
www.sundaypost.com/fp/christina...
#Booksky
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Thank you Sally McDonald and the @sundaypost.com for this lovely feature with @christinariley.bsky.social
www.sundaypost.com/fp/christina...
#Booksky
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Underwater artist Christina Riley captures marine life of Argyll coast
Christina Riley snorkels in shallow waters, her eyes trained on pink and yellow tinged coral reefs and an ocean floor carpeted with starfish.
www.sundaypost.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:28 PM
"Underwater artist captures beautiful and rare marine life of Argyll coast" 🪸
Thank you Sally McDonald and the @sundaypost.com for this lovely feature with @christinariley.bsky.social
www.sundaypost.com/fp/christina...
#Booksky
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Thank you Sally McDonald and the @sundaypost.com for this lovely feature with @christinariley.bsky.social
www.sundaypost.com/fp/christina...
#Booksky
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A little autumn offer for this week! 15% off books bought on our website until 1st November. Use code LTB15G at the checkout. Maybe try Edward Thomas' Icknield Way, Caro Giles' Unschooled or Peter Hahn's memoir of life on a vineyard...
www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/
www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/
October 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
A little autumn offer for this week! 15% off books bought on our website until 1st November. Use code LTB15G at the checkout. Maybe try Edward Thomas' Icknield Way, Caro Giles' Unschooled or Peter Hahn's memoir of life on a vineyard...
www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/
www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/
Arrived home to a surprise! Looking Down at the Stars is here. I personally think it looks great but then I love the sea and coral pink. I hope you do too.
Out from @saraband-books.bsky.social on Nov 6 and available to preorder www.waterstones.com/book/looking...
Out from @saraband-books.bsky.social on Nov 6 and available to preorder www.waterstones.com/book/looking...
October 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Arrived home to a surprise! Looking Down at the Stars is here. I personally think it looks great but then I love the sea and coral pink. I hope you do too.
Out from @saraband-books.bsky.social on Nov 6 and available to preorder www.waterstones.com/book/looking...
Out from @saraband-books.bsky.social on Nov 6 and available to preorder www.waterstones.com/book/looking...
Today @sundaypost.com called Looking Down at the Stars “a poetic reflection on the urgency of protecting our oceans”, which is really nice. Unless you’re near a shop tonight you can have a read of it online.
Underwater artist captures beautiful and rare marine life of Argyll coast
Underwater artist captures beautiful and rare marine life of Argyll coast
Christina Riley snorkels in shallow, crystal waters, her eyes trained on pink and yellow tinged coral reefs and an ocean floor carpeted with starfish.
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October 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Today @sundaypost.com called Looking Down at the Stars “a poetic reflection on the urgency of protecting our oceans”, which is really nice. Unless you’re near a shop tonight you can have a read of it online.
Newly obsessed with milkweed pods.
October 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Newly obsessed with milkweed pods.
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Lovely to see an extract from Looking Down at the Stars by @christinariley.bsky.social included in the latest @booksfromscotland.bsky.social issue!
booksfromscotland.com/2025/10/look...
#booksky
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booksfromscotland.com/2025/10/look...
#booksky
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It's time to Celebrate the latest BooksfromScotland issue!
Read it here: booksfromscotland.com/issue/celebr...
Thanks for your contributions @birlinn.bsky.social @mcnidderandgrace.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social @bwpublishing.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk @florisbooks.bsky.social & more!
Read it here: booksfromscotland.com/issue/celebr...
Thanks for your contributions @birlinn.bsky.social @mcnidderandgrace.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social @bwpublishing.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk @florisbooks.bsky.social & more!
October 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Lovely to see an extract from Looking Down at the Stars by @christinariley.bsky.social included in the latest @booksfromscotland.bsky.social issue!
booksfromscotland.com/2025/10/look...
#booksky
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booksfromscotland.com/2025/10/look...
#booksky
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Somehow Looking Down at the Stars is out in less than two weeks from @saraband-books.bsky.social. I’ve been on holiday and not promoting it much but maybe I should! It’s about my time as an underwater artist in residence in Argyll. Non fiction plus imagined realities of sea slugs and barnacles, etc.
October 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Somehow Looking Down at the Stars is out in less than two weeks from @saraband-books.bsky.social. I’ve been on holiday and not promoting it much but maybe I should! It’s about my time as an underwater artist in residence in Argyll. Non fiction plus imagined realities of sea slugs and barnacles, etc.
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We're excited that @christinariley.bsky.social will be launching Looking Down at the Stars at the lovely @portybooks.bsky.social, in conversation with @rkrystalli.bsky.social ✨
🗓️ Thursday 13th November, 7pm
🎟️ Tickets available here: www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/chris...
#Booksky
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🗓️ Thursday 13th November, 7pm
🎟️ Tickets available here: www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/chris...
#Booksky
📚💙
September 22, 2025 at 9:58 AM
We're excited that @christinariley.bsky.social will be launching Looking Down at the Stars at the lovely @portybooks.bsky.social, in conversation with @rkrystalli.bsky.social ✨
🗓️ Thursday 13th November, 7pm
🎟️ Tickets available here: www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/chris...
#Booksky
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🗓️ Thursday 13th November, 7pm
🎟️ Tickets available here: www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/chris...
#Booksky
📚💙
I’m just throwing this out there.
August 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I’m just throwing this out there.
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The f*&%ing library.
2. What is something “low effort, high reward” you wish more people knew about?
August 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The f*&%ing library.
I know there’s a lot going on and people’s attention, care and money are spread thin, but Scottish heritage and design orgs are trying to save this beautiful A-Listed Bernat Klein Studio which is going to auction, despite hopes of a private sale, if you can help www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/saving-pet...
July 25, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I know there’s a lot going on and people’s attention, care and money are spread thin, but Scottish heritage and design orgs are trying to save this beautiful A-Listed Bernat Klein Studio which is going to auction, despite hopes of a private sale, if you can help www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/saving-pet...
Wild to share that I have a book coming out with the brilliant @saraband-books.bsky.social! It stars the sea slugs, serpulid worms, scallops and other gleaming and gelatinous life I met underwater on Scotland’s coast.
It’s out on November 6 and available to pre-order! Hope you like water and light!
It’s out on November 6 and available to pre-order! Hope you like water and light!
We're delighted to reveal the cover and announce the publication of Looking Down at the Stars: Life Beneath the Waves by @christinariley.bsky.social
More book and pre-order details here:
saraband.net/2025/07/22/s...
#Booksky
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More book and pre-order details here:
saraband.net/2025/07/22/s...
#Booksky
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July 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Wild to share that I have a book coming out with the brilliant @saraband-books.bsky.social! It stars the sea slugs, serpulid worms, scallops and other gleaming and gelatinous life I met underwater on Scotland’s coast.
It’s out on November 6 and available to pre-order! Hope you like water and light!
It’s out on November 6 and available to pre-order! Hope you like water and light!
Look at you doing so well! So good at living!
!. Look at this astonishing animal. My velvet worm friend lives on moss in the rainforest. He is ANCIENT. WAY older than dinosaurs, lobopods like him even make an appearance in the Cambrian- when multicellular life became trendy.
You can find him today on a tree at Wildsumaco, in Ecuador :)
You can find him today on a tree at Wildsumaco, in Ecuador :)
July 14, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Look at you doing so well! So good at living!
Apparently they might have just bathed in rusty water but that’s two days in a row I’ve seen, in the same spot, for sure, a very yellow magpie. fao @peediepuss.bsky.social
July 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Apparently they might have just bathed in rusty water but that’s two days in a row I’ve seen, in the same spot, for sure, a very yellow magpie. fao @peediepuss.bsky.social
I need an adaptation of The Sea, The Sea with Hugh Grant as Charles Arrowby more desperately with each passing day.
July 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I need an adaptation of The Sea, The Sea with Hugh Grant as Charles Arrowby more desperately with each passing day.
I’m bad at Bluesky but here’s something cool happening at the weekend I want to share. A dance-theatre-book collaboration from Oceanallover and Juju Books, mythical reptiles and sailmakers, hosted by The Nature Library and the Scottish Maritime Museum. Free!
www.thenaturelibrary.com/locations/th...
www.thenaturelibrary.com/locations/th...
July 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I’m bad at Bluesky but here’s something cool happening at the weekend I want to share. A dance-theatre-book collaboration from Oceanallover and Juju Books, mythical reptiles and sailmakers, hosted by The Nature Library and the Scottish Maritime Museum. Free!
www.thenaturelibrary.com/locations/th...
www.thenaturelibrary.com/locations/th...