Nic the Bookseller
@nic-v.bsky.social
Part-time bookseller, full-time reader.
Bristol, UK.
When I read a book, I post a little review here.
Bristol, UK.
When I read a book, I post a little review here.
Traditional media supports you- if you’re married to the Editor of The Guardian!
February 12, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Traditional media supports you- if you’re married to the Editor of The Guardian!
Yes, I preferred My Sister, The Serial Killer to this one, but they’re both good!
February 12, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Yes, I preferred My Sister, The Serial Killer to this one, but they’re both good!
In her critique/history of twentieth and twenty-first century psychiatry, @mariekebigg.bsky.social considers the social model of mental health and illness.
Can mental distress be explained by biology?(no, not really).
How can the mental health system ensure help over harm?
#books
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Can mental distress be explained by biology?(no, not really).
How can the mental health system ensure help over harm?
#books
💙📚💡
February 12, 2026 at 5:41 PM
In her critique/history of twentieth and twenty-first century psychiatry, @mariekebigg.bsky.social considers the social model of mental health and illness.
Can mental distress be explained by biology?(no, not really).
How can the mental health system ensure help over harm?
#books
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Can mental distress be explained by biology?(no, not really).
How can the mental health system ensure help over harm?
#books
💙📚💡
My school motto was Go And Do Thou Likewise.
Which is good, because it’s from the parable of The Good Samaritan.
But less good, if you remember that my school was Colston’s Girls’ School, and you don’t really want to be Doing Likewise to him.
(Is your school sponsored by Ladbroke’s?)
Which is good, because it’s from the parable of The Good Samaritan.
But less good, if you remember that my school was Colston’s Girls’ School, and you don’t really want to be Doing Likewise to him.
(Is your school sponsored by Ladbroke’s?)
February 12, 2026 at 11:17 AM
My school motto was Go And Do Thou Likewise.
Which is good, because it’s from the parable of The Good Samaritan.
But less good, if you remember that my school was Colston’s Girls’ School, and you don’t really want to be Doing Likewise to him.
(Is your school sponsored by Ladbroke’s?)
Which is good, because it’s from the parable of The Good Samaritan.
But less good, if you remember that my school was Colston’s Girls’ School, and you don’t really want to be Doing Likewise to him.
(Is your school sponsored by Ladbroke’s?)
Just home from a brilliant event with the fantastic author Ali Smith.
She’s so great!
I love her books, but I’d never seen her in person before (she signed a book for me 😊).
She spoke about her most recent novels, Gliff and Glyph, which I strongly recommend to everyone who loves stories.
💙📚🖋️
She’s so great!
I love her books, but I’d never seen her in person before (she signed a book for me 😊).
She spoke about her most recent novels, Gliff and Glyph, which I strongly recommend to everyone who loves stories.
💙📚🖋️
February 11, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Just home from a brilliant event with the fantastic author Ali Smith.
She’s so great!
I love her books, but I’d never seen her in person before (she signed a book for me 😊).
She spoke about her most recent novels, Gliff and Glyph, which I strongly recommend to everyone who loves stories.
💙📚🖋️
She’s so great!
I love her books, but I’d never seen her in person before (she signed a book for me 😊).
She spoke about her most recent novels, Gliff and Glyph, which I strongly recommend to everyone who loves stories.
💙📚🖋️
Longlisted for the Climate Fiction Prize @climate-fiction.bsky.social
February 10, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Longlisted for the Climate Fiction Prize @climate-fiction.bsky.social
The Brooke family, owners of 1000 acres of English countryside, gather to bury their father.
I enjoyed this thoughtful, engaging and readable novel; themes of class, family relationships, suppressed emotions, and our responsibilities towards the environment, history and the future.
#books
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I enjoyed this thoughtful, engaging and readable novel; themes of class, family relationships, suppressed emotions, and our responsibilities towards the environment, history and the future.
#books
💙📚🖋️
February 10, 2026 at 3:43 PM
The Brooke family, owners of 1000 acres of English countryside, gather to bury their father.
I enjoyed this thoughtful, engaging and readable novel; themes of class, family relationships, suppressed emotions, and our responsibilities towards the environment, history and the future.
#books
💙📚🖋️
I enjoyed this thoughtful, engaging and readable novel; themes of class, family relationships, suppressed emotions, and our responsibilities towards the environment, history and the future.
#books
💙📚🖋️
Reposted by Nic the Bookseller
The Climate Fiction Prize 2026 longlist is here! 🤩📚
This longlist shows the limitless scope of climate fiction, from gripping thrillers to experimental literary works, folklore and reimagined myths to science fiction and generational family saga.
Full list here: climatefictionprize.co.uk
This longlist shows the limitless scope of climate fiction, from gripping thrillers to experimental literary works, folklore and reimagined myths to science fiction and generational family saga.
Full list here: climatefictionprize.co.uk
February 5, 2026 at 5:29 PM
The Climate Fiction Prize 2026 longlist is here! 🤩📚
This longlist shows the limitless scope of climate fiction, from gripping thrillers to experimental literary works, folklore and reimagined myths to science fiction and generational family saga.
Full list here: climatefictionprize.co.uk
This longlist shows the limitless scope of climate fiction, from gripping thrillers to experimental literary works, folklore and reimagined myths to science fiction and generational family saga.
Full list here: climatefictionprize.co.uk
The characters in this moving and poetic novel will stay with me for a long time.
From the 1860s to the present day, generations of Native Americans survive displacement and institutional oppression, at a cost, by holding on to culture and care.
Heartbreaking, epic, tender, & truthful.
#books
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From the 1860s to the present day, generations of Native Americans survive displacement and institutional oppression, at a cost, by holding on to culture and care.
Heartbreaking, epic, tender, & truthful.
#books
💙📚🖋️
February 7, 2026 at 3:14 PM
The characters in this moving and poetic novel will stay with me for a long time.
From the 1860s to the present day, generations of Native Americans survive displacement and institutional oppression, at a cost, by holding on to culture and care.
Heartbreaking, epic, tender, & truthful.
#books
💙📚🖋️
From the 1860s to the present day, generations of Native Americans survive displacement and institutional oppression, at a cost, by holding on to culture and care.
Heartbreaking, epic, tender, & truthful.
#books
💙📚🖋️
I was expecting a well-plotted, atmospheric thriller from @sarahhilary.bsky.social, and wasn’t disappointed.
But I was thrilled to encounter an actually believable, authentic, and relatable autistic character in Agnes, the young woman at the heart of this novel.
Insightful and tense.
#books
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But I was thrilled to encounter an actually believable, authentic, and relatable autistic character in Agnes, the young woman at the heart of this novel.
Insightful and tense.
#books
💙📚⚡️
February 5, 2026 at 6:44 PM
I was expecting a well-plotted, atmospheric thriller from @sarahhilary.bsky.social, and wasn’t disappointed.
But I was thrilled to encounter an actually believable, authentic, and relatable autistic character in Agnes, the young woman at the heart of this novel.
Insightful and tense.
#books
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But I was thrilled to encounter an actually believable, authentic, and relatable autistic character in Agnes, the young woman at the heart of this novel.
Insightful and tense.
#books
💙📚⚡️
A fascinating memoir originally published in 1938.
The author leaves her comfortable life in Central Europe to spend a year on the arctic island of Spitsbergen with her husband. They survive in a basic hut.
The writing is vivid, connecting deeply with the harsh reality of nature.
#books
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The author leaves her comfortable life in Central Europe to spend a year on the arctic island of Spitsbergen with her husband. They survive in a basic hut.
The writing is vivid, connecting deeply with the harsh reality of nature.
#books
💙📚💡
February 3, 2026 at 4:12 PM
A fascinating memoir originally published in 1938.
The author leaves her comfortable life in Central Europe to spend a year on the arctic island of Spitsbergen with her husband. They survive in a basic hut.
The writing is vivid, connecting deeply with the harsh reality of nature.
#books
💙📚💡
The author leaves her comfortable life in Central Europe to spend a year on the arctic island of Spitsbergen with her husband. They survive in a basic hut.
The writing is vivid, connecting deeply with the harsh reality of nature.
#books
💙📚💡
An engaging story about love, family, & destiny, set in Nigeria.
The lives of Eniiyi, her dead aunt Monife whom she resembles, and other family women are interwoven to consider fate, heartbreak, autonomy and intergenerational pain.
Are they doomed to repeat past patterns?
Captivating.
#books
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The lives of Eniiyi, her dead aunt Monife whom she resembles, and other family women are interwoven to consider fate, heartbreak, autonomy and intergenerational pain.
Are they doomed to repeat past patterns?
Captivating.
#books
💙📚🖋️
February 1, 2026 at 1:33 PM
An engaging story about love, family, & destiny, set in Nigeria.
The lives of Eniiyi, her dead aunt Monife whom she resembles, and other family women are interwoven to consider fate, heartbreak, autonomy and intergenerational pain.
Are they doomed to repeat past patterns?
Captivating.
#books
💙📚🖋️
The lives of Eniiyi, her dead aunt Monife whom she resembles, and other family women are interwoven to consider fate, heartbreak, autonomy and intergenerational pain.
Are they doomed to repeat past patterns?
Captivating.
#books
💙📚🖋️
Excellent thread.
Makes sense.
Makes sense.
January 30, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Excellent thread.
Makes sense.
Makes sense.
The most striking thing about this forthcoming book by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social is the preponderance of hope.
“Ideas have power”, she reminds us, with clear-eyed analysis and encouragement to connect.
“Liberation is contagious” - even in this time of monsters.
Brilliant & vital.
UK 26/3/26
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“Ideas have power”, she reminds us, with clear-eyed analysis and encouragement to connect.
“Liberation is contagious” - even in this time of monsters.
Brilliant & vital.
UK 26/3/26
💙📚💡
January 30, 2026 at 4:41 PM
The most striking thing about this forthcoming book by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social is the preponderance of hope.
“Ideas have power”, she reminds us, with clear-eyed analysis and encouragement to connect.
“Liberation is contagious” - even in this time of monsters.
Brilliant & vital.
UK 26/3/26
💙📚💡
“Ideas have power”, she reminds us, with clear-eyed analysis and encouragement to connect.
“Liberation is contagious” - even in this time of monsters.
Brilliant & vital.
UK 26/3/26
💙📚💡
A spicy new murder mystery novel by @alessandraranelli.bsky.social set in modern-day Vienna, with a timeless, golden-age feel.
Sterling is the concierge at an infamous love hotel, facilitating anonymous liaisons. When two guests are found dead, can she find the killer?
UK publ. 30/4/26
#books
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Sterling is the concierge at an infamous love hotel, facilitating anonymous liaisons. When two guests are found dead, can she find the killer?
UK publ. 30/4/26
#books
💙📚⚡️
January 28, 2026 at 4:25 PM
A spicy new murder mystery novel by @alessandraranelli.bsky.social set in modern-day Vienna, with a timeless, golden-age feel.
Sterling is the concierge at an infamous love hotel, facilitating anonymous liaisons. When two guests are found dead, can she find the killer?
UK publ. 30/4/26
#books
💙📚⚡️
Sterling is the concierge at an infamous love hotel, facilitating anonymous liaisons. When two guests are found dead, can she find the killer?
UK publ. 30/4/26
#books
💙📚⚡️
Here’s a great review of Glyph, the new novel by Ali Smith which is brilliant and should be read by everyone!
I’m so excited about seeing her in Bristol on 11th February.
Tickets available here:
www.thesmallcitybookshop.co.uk/event-detail...
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I’m so excited about seeing her in Bristol on 11th February.
Tickets available here:
www.thesmallcitybookshop.co.uk/event-detail...
💙📚🖋️
January 27, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Here’s a great review of Glyph, the new novel by Ali Smith which is brilliant and should be read by everyone!
I’m so excited about seeing her in Bristol on 11th February.
Tickets available here:
www.thesmallcitybookshop.co.uk/event-detail...
💙📚🖋️
I’m so excited about seeing her in Bristol on 11th February.
Tickets available here:
www.thesmallcitybookshop.co.uk/event-detail...
💙📚🖋️
I absolutely loved this brilliant new speculative eco-fiction.
People are turning into trees. They pick a spot, stand still, and gradually take root.
Bren & Caelyn, leading unsatisfying late-capitalist lives in Australia, investigate the phenomenon.
Sharp writing; resonant & profound.
#books
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People are turning into trees. They pick a spot, stand still, and gradually take root.
Bren & Caelyn, leading unsatisfying late-capitalist lives in Australia, investigate the phenomenon.
Sharp writing; resonant & profound.
#books
💙📚🪐
January 26, 2026 at 4:56 PM
I absolutely loved this brilliant new speculative eco-fiction.
People are turning into trees. They pick a spot, stand still, and gradually take root.
Bren & Caelyn, leading unsatisfying late-capitalist lives in Australia, investigate the phenomenon.
Sharp writing; resonant & profound.
#books
💙📚🪐
People are turning into trees. They pick a spot, stand still, and gradually take root.
Bren & Caelyn, leading unsatisfying late-capitalist lives in Australia, investigate the phenomenon.
Sharp writing; resonant & profound.
#books
💙📚🪐
The intertwining stories of three generations of gay men in modern India.
Vivaan, an out and very online teenager; Mambro, his uncle, who struggles with persecution in the ‘90s/‘00s; and his grand uncle Sukumar, forced to live a life of secrecy.
Vivid writing with lots of detail.
#books
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Vivaan, an out and very online teenager; Mambro, his uncle, who struggles with persecution in the ‘90s/‘00s; and his grand uncle Sukumar, forced to live a life of secrecy.
Vivid writing with lots of detail.
#books
💙📚🖋️
🌈📚
January 24, 2026 at 2:54 PM
The intertwining stories of three generations of gay men in modern India.
Vivaan, an out and very online teenager; Mambro, his uncle, who struggles with persecution in the ‘90s/‘00s; and his grand uncle Sukumar, forced to live a life of secrecy.
Vivid writing with lots of detail.
#books
💙📚🖋️
🌈📚
Vivaan, an out and very online teenager; Mambro, his uncle, who struggles with persecution in the ‘90s/‘00s; and his grand uncle Sukumar, forced to live a life of secrecy.
Vivid writing with lots of detail.
#books
💙📚🖋️
🌈📚
Really interesting and insightful reportage on the trial in Australia of Erin Patterson, who poisoned her relatives.
These three accomplished writers interrogate our attitudes to women who kill and the “True Crime” genre, with mature and compassionate reflections.
Enlightening.
#books
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These three accomplished writers interrogate our attitudes to women who kill and the “True Crime” genre, with mature and compassionate reflections.
Enlightening.
#books
💙📚💡
January 23, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Really interesting and insightful reportage on the trial in Australia of Erin Patterson, who poisoned her relatives.
These three accomplished writers interrogate our attitudes to women who kill and the “True Crime” genre, with mature and compassionate reflections.
Enlightening.
#books
💙📚💡
These three accomplished writers interrogate our attitudes to women who kill and the “True Crime” genre, with mature and compassionate reflections.
Enlightening.
#books
💙📚💡
Nah, it’s all those other people being not good at networking! With their mistaken first impressions, and voice & word misjudgements.
Cut them some slack, innit?
Cut them some slack, innit?
January 23, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Nah, it’s all those other people being not good at networking! With their mistaken first impressions, and voice & word misjudgements.
Cut them some slack, innit?
Cut them some slack, innit?
I couldn’t put down this debut psychological thriller by @leodora.bsky.social
Natalie has a secret - but does she really know what happened to her exes? And can her new husband be trusted?
Very suspenseful; unfolds across several timelines, with great characters & many twists.
12/2/26
#books
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Natalie has a secret - but does she really know what happened to her exes? And can her new husband be trusted?
Very suspenseful; unfolds across several timelines, with great characters & many twists.
12/2/26
#books
💙📚⚡️
January 21, 2026 at 4:23 PM
I couldn’t put down this debut psychological thriller by @leodora.bsky.social
Natalie has a secret - but does she really know what happened to her exes? And can her new husband be trusted?
Very suspenseful; unfolds across several timelines, with great characters & many twists.
12/2/26
#books
💙📚⚡️
Natalie has a secret - but does she really know what happened to her exes? And can her new husband be trusted?
Very suspenseful; unfolds across several timelines, with great characters & many twists.
12/2/26
#books
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A classic tale of forbidden love, set in 1970s Cyprus and 2010s London.
Greek Kostas and Turkish Dafne know that their teenage love is risky; they meet in secret at the Happy Fig tavern.
Years later their daughter Ada is curious about her background.
Beautiful, moving, enchanting.
#books
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Greek Kostas and Turkish Dafne know that their teenage love is risky; they meet in secret at the Happy Fig tavern.
Years later their daughter Ada is curious about her background.
Beautiful, moving, enchanting.
#books
💙📚🖋️
January 19, 2026 at 4:12 PM
A classic tale of forbidden love, set in 1970s Cyprus and 2010s London.
Greek Kostas and Turkish Dafne know that their teenage love is risky; they meet in secret at the Happy Fig tavern.
Years later their daughter Ada is curious about her background.
Beautiful, moving, enchanting.
#books
💙📚🖋️
Greek Kostas and Turkish Dafne know that their teenage love is risky; they meet in secret at the Happy Fig tavern.
Years later their daughter Ada is curious about her background.
Beautiful, moving, enchanting.
#books
💙📚🖋️
Reposted by Nic the Bookseller
Well this was delightful!
In near-future San Francisco a found family of characterful robots open a noodle shop.
The war between California and America is over, but the struggle to build up from the ruins can be tough - when the robophobes are messing with your star rating…
#books #booksky
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In near-future San Francisco a found family of characterful robots open a noodle shop.
The war between California and America is over, but the struggle to build up from the ruins can be tough - when the robophobes are messing with your star rating…
#books #booksky
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January 17, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Well this was delightful!
In near-future San Francisco a found family of characterful robots open a noodle shop.
The war between California and America is over, but the struggle to build up from the ruins can be tough - when the robophobes are messing with your star rating…
#books #booksky
💙📚🪐
In near-future San Francisco a found family of characterful robots open a noodle shop.
The war between California and America is over, but the struggle to build up from the ruins can be tough - when the robophobes are messing with your star rating…
#books #booksky
💙📚🪐
January 17, 2026 at 4:55 PM