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Little Toller Books
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Award winning indie publisher of new and classic writing on place, nature and culture + The Clearing our online journal.
Based in West Dorset
www.littletoller.co.uk
Instagram / @littletollerbooks
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peterwelsh68.bsky.social
We Came By Sea written by @horatioclare.bsky.social
dares us to look beyond the headlines and meet the truth.

Hands down Book of the Year and would make a great Xmas gift if hopes your bag!

Kindness Better.

#WeCameBySea
Scallop sculpture on Aldeburgh Beach Suffolk. Bright blue sky and sea left of it. Tears off camera. Cover of We Came By Sea by Horatio Clare. White cliffs and different blued seas around the books title and author name.
November 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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eyebooks.bsky.social
Massive congratulations to George Harrison, whose debut novel Season is shortlisted today for the #nerobookawards. It’s a warm, gentle tale about fandom and unlikely friendship in the stands of a Premier League football stadium. We’re overjoyed that it’s getting this recognition
November 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM
littletollerbooks.bsky.social
Can I also just point out there are two small indie publishers shortlisted amongst the big names with their big authors, us and @eyebooks.bsky.social
thebookseller.com The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 2d
Damian Barr’s The Two Roberts (Canongate), Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know (Jonathan Cape) and Lyse Doucet’s The Finest Hotel in Kabul (Hutchinson Heinemann) have been shortlisted for the 2025 Nero Book Awards 👇 #BookSky
Damian Barr, Ian McEwan and Lyse Doucet shortlisted for 2025 Nero Book Awards
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November 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Damian Barr’s The Two Roberts (Canongate), Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know (Jonathan Cape) and Lyse Doucet’s The Finest Hotel in Kabul (Hutchinson Heinemann) have been shortlisted for the 2025 Nero Book Awards 👇 #BookSky
Damian Barr, Ian McEwan and Lyse Doucet shortlisted for 2025 Nero Book Awards
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November 20, 2025 at 10:48 AM
littletollerbooks.bsky.social
Good Morning!

We’ve got wonderful news for you!

Absolutely delighted that Horatio Clare’s We Came by Sea has been shortlisted for the 2025 #NeroBookAwrds. It’s a very impressive shortlist.

The paperback is now at the printers and is available for pre order!

@horatioclare.bsky.social
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November 20, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Finally got hold of a copy of Tribune’s winter edition with Adelle Stripe’s marvellous review of Wild Twin. @adellestripe.bsky.social @littletollerbooks.bsky.social
And this one of my favourite bits!
Sentence from Adelle Stripe’s review of Wild Twin in Tribune’s winter edition: Though this exceptional memoir has roots in psychogeography, Wild Twin gracefully swerves the blokeish craft of academics wandering through landscapes having a big think.
November 19, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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mistinguettecat.bsky.social
Just the thing for a damp afternoon!!!
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Rimbaud of Maghull!!

What an amazing review of Wild Twin.

@jeffyoung.bsky.social
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November 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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adellestripe.bsky.social
I have reviewed Jeff Young’s most excellent Wild Twin in the new edition of Tribune (out in the shops this week)…

@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
@wildtwin.bsky.social

tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/rimb...
Rimbaud of Maghull
Liverpool writer Jeff Young has attracted a dedicated readership in recent years, following publication of two books that powerfully and hypnotically catalogue late-1970s Europe and his native Merseys...
tribunemag.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Sunday book review - The Book of Bogs by Anna Chilvers & @clareshawpoet.bsky.social
Publisher: @littletollerbooks.bsky.social
Review: markavery.info/2025/10/19/s...

Contributions from @guyshrubsole.bsky.social @nicolawriting.bsky.social @gregorynorminton.bsky.social

#bogs #peat #wuthering
October 19, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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annieworsley.bsky.social
Dug out two (old) watercolour paintings of two (very different) storms over the moors and blanket bogs of the Pennines.

For interest... maybe to readers of The Book of Bogs and other peaty works.
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October 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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There’s a signed copy of Wild Twin in this year’s Children in Read auction. All proceeds are in aid of the Children in Need appeal. Lot 281, get your bids in! @childreninread.bsky.social
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social

www.jumblebee.co.uk/auction/deta...
Children in Read 2025
Authors and Illustrators around the globe, sign, dedicate, and send their books to their successful bidders.All Postage & Packaging is free.All proceeds are in aid of the B.B.C. Children in Need A...
www.jumblebee.co.uk
October 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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annieworsley.bsky.social
This is a lovely wee film from @clareshaw.bsky.social & Anna Chilvers. It captures the magic and profound beauty of bogs & moors really well.
Enjoy!

#TheBookofBogs ed by Clare & Anna, pub by @littletollerbooks.bsky.social is out now

#naturewriting #peatbogs
poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social Poets for the Planet @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social · Oct 4
"From the quagmires of Dartmoor to the moors of Wuthering Heights, bogs are bewitching places."
Watch @clareshawpoet.bsky.social and Anna Chilvers talking about their anthology Give Peat A Chance: a book of bogs.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM41... 2/3
Clare Shaw and Anna Chilvers talk about the anthology
YouTube video by Anna Chilvers
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October 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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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/
A photograph of a postcard with details of our autumn offer: 15% discount, using code LTB15G. Use this code at checkout before November 1st to redeem your offer. www.littletoller.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
littletollerbooks.bsky.social
Our next Nature Classic: The Icknield Way by Edward Thomas. For a long time we've wanted to add to our library of Thomas' prose, and here it is, complete with a new introduction by Jack Cornish! Cover by Spencer Gore. Out in the spring.

Preorder
www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...
An image of The cover of The Icknield Way, showing Spencer Gore's painting of the same name.
October 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Really proud to be in this book & this is a lovely review from @markavery.bsky.social. For the bogs & peatlands, & all the wet, wild, wuthering places, @littletollerbooks.bsky.social @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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ianbartlett.bsky.social
Another for the @littletollerbooks.bsky.social collection! 👍
October 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Monday #morningread
from a newly published cool book by @littletollerbooks.bsky.social:
The Book of Bogs: Stories from a Yorkshire Moor and Other Peatlands
From The Book of Bogs: Stories from a Yorkshire Moor and Other Peatlands, ed. Anna Chilvers and Clare Shaw.
October 6, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Help @littletollerbooks.bsky.social produce Jennifer Potter's new book about Kurt Schwitters – 'not a biography, nor an art book, nor a memoir, but a book in its own class.' www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/looking-fo...
Looking for Mr Schwitters - a new book
To produce an innovative and finely illustrated book about the émigré artist Kurt Schwitters’ final years in the Lake District.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
October 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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luketurner.bsky.social
This looks great from @littletollerbooks.bsky.social – a campaign to crowdfund a book on the Cumbrian home and work of Kurt Schwitters. I popped into his Merz Barn there a few years ago, a really crackers place then run by people no longer with us

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/looking-fo...
caughtbytheriver.bsky.social Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · Sep 30
Our friends at the brilliant @littletollerbooks.bsky.social have just launched a new crowdfunding project for 'Looking for Mr Schwitters' — an innovative and finely illustrated book about the émigré artist Kurt Schwitters’ final years in the Lake District www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/look...
October 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social
And this beautiful anthology launches today. Congratulations to @littletollerbooks.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social and Anna Chilvers and to all involved in this beautiful book! You can buy it here. #poetrysky #booksky#naturewriting www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...
The Book of Bogs
This new anthology from over forty writers, including Robert Macfarlane, Amy Liptrot, Alys Fowler and Patti Smith explores peatlands and bogs, and argues for their importance.
www.littletoller.co.uk
October 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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kizzia.bsky.social
My copy of The Book of Bogs - edited by Anna Chilvers and @clareshawpoet.bsky.social - has arrived from @littletollerbooks.bsky.social and look how lovely this important book looks! And it’s full of wonderful work from fantastic authors, too.
Front cover of The Book of Bogs, featuring the stunning artwork called Autumn Comes To Walshaw Dean by Angie Rogers. I am holding the book in my left hand and the nail varnish on my thumbnail, a russet brown colour, matches the colourway of the bog depicted.
October 2, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Jenny Potter is crowdfunding a new book about the artist Kurt Schwitters, but she explains it far better than I can in this video ⬇️. @littletollerbooks.bsky.social will be publishing.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/looking-fo...
Looking for Mr Schwitters - a new book
To produce an innovative and finely illustrated book about the émigré artist Kurt Schwitters’ final years in the Lake District.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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annieworsley.bsky.social
I wrote an essay on high altitude peat bogs in New Guinea for "The Book of Bogs"(edited by Anna Chilvers & @clareshaw.bsky.social @littletollerbooks.bsky.social)
Here are a few pictures recorded on a life-changing research visit to the New Guinea Highlands when I was very young 😊
October 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Little Toller is a fabulous publisher! Let’s get behind this crowdfunder 👏🏼
littletollerbooks.bsky.social Little Toller Books @littletollerbooks.bsky.social · Sep 29
NEXT BOOK PROJECT.

We could do with a little help. We've gone live with our @crowdfunder.bsky.social today!

Please do help us spread the word, Mr Schwitters is a remarkable book, he was a remarkable man. There are some lovely rewards.

Huge thanks

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/looking-fo...

#BookSky
Looking for Mr Schwitters - a new book
To produce an innovative and finely illustrated book about the émigré artist Kurt Schwitters’ final years in the Lake District.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
September 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM