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Sci-fi, fantasy, & LGBTQIA. Queer resistance. Always trying to help. [email protected] Mon-Sat 10-5.30, Sun 11-5:30; 5 Patrick Pool, York, UK

Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/lalidoesbooks

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@portalbookshop.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 2:35 PM

👀 What

@portalbookshop.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 6:13 PM

We may all be knackered but that was our best day of the year 🥳 So we just need to do two events and the shop every Saturday, right...? 🫠😅

@stephencoxauthor.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 11:56 AMReposted by @portalbookshop.bsky.social

#Fantasycon - pleased that @portalbookshop.bsky.social is now stocking The Crooked Medium's Guide to Terror and will be my Northern Powerhouse. #queer #sff

My Top Tips for Loving a Lizard went down a storm at a 9.00am post karaoke hungover reading so visit @wtpress.bsky.social too.

@portalbookshop.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 10:30 AM

And the shop is open and still has stock left in it, we didn't completely tip it all out to run off to other places ;) Plus, the cafe has cake and a wild variety of syrups for some incredibly colourful flavoured drinks! 🥳

@portalbookshop.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 9:42 AM

And the lovely Jamie and Andy are running things down in York for Rainbow Bookfest!

Treats and prizes available there too!

Find them at the Radisson hotel until 4 (enquire on arrival for tickets as the online advance sales are ended!)

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rainbow-bo...

A gorgeously rainbow covered stall with many books lined up, all bookmarked with the appropriate representation flags
@portalbookshop.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 9:36 AM

Triple Portal Day is a go! 🥳 It's also National Bookshop Day!

Glasgow, Fantasycon @britfantasysoc.bsky.social

We look cute, come buy books (authors, come sign your books!)

Every purchase today gets entered into a a draw to win a £5 National Book Token!

The left side of the Portal stall, with a bookcase full of paperbacks on a table and an array of hardbacks alongsideThe centre of the Portal stall, with the banner showing the logo along the front of the tablecloth, and stacks and stacks of paperbacks for signings and award shortlists piled high (and some bookmarks and stickers to the far left)The right end of the Porral stall, with a bookcase showing off some hardbacks and increasing numbers of signed books
@portalbookshop.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 8:33 PM

@portalbookshop.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 7:35 PM

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@eliseswords.eurosky.socialOct 3, 2026, 3:31 PMReposted by @portalbookshop.bsky.social

Trans Authors, For Trans Awareness Month (exact dates Nov 1st-15th), I'm putting together a Trans SciFi & Fantasy Bundle. (Note: its best to submit a book you won't be using for my Trantasy & Queer Fantasy bundle, running Dec 20th -Jan something 😉) Sign up form: is on my discord or I can DM it!

Trans Fantasy & SciFi 
Itch Bundle
Nov 1-15th

Eligibility & Genre: 
The author is trans -including nonbinary- and the book is some form of Fantasy or Scifi.
Plot-central trans (and LGBTQIA+) themes are welcome, but not required.

Genre NOTE: I am hosting a Trantasy Bundle in Dec (20th-Jan 10th) for fantasy, so if you wish to participate in that too, please enter a different book in each bundle, if possible.

Preorders: Pre-orders are welcome, if your book releases within 5 weeks of the bundle's end date. Please state the release date in your Itch book description, so readers know when they can download your book.

Categories: YA and Adult Fiction, novellas and full length novels.
@portalbookshop.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 11:04 AM

I think/hope so. But yeah, unpleasant 💔

@portalbookshop.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 10:09 AM

Safe and unharmed, if upset, bless them 🥺

@portalbookshop.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 9:52 AM

So uh... we was robbed! No really 😅 Couple scammers last night made off with a little cash, not even into triple figures, not a huge deal, we'll live. But my poor wonderful staff did not deserve that experience. So if you come by the shop this week, please be extra lovely to my people?

@portalbookshop.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 1:41 PM

Caught it before it left the shop! Will hold off dropping it off until Tuesday :)

@portalbookshop.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 12:09 PM

Happy October Day(e) everyone! 🥳

@seananmcguire.bsky.social

Many copies of A Divided Duty by Seanan McGuire!
@portalbookshop.bsky.socialSep 27, 2026, 10:46 PM

Yes! Bookshop.org do ebooks and audiobooks now and are expanding their range all the time :)

@mikebrooks668.bsky.socialSep 27, 2026, 4:51 PMReposted by @portalbookshop.bsky.social

Portal is such a cool place and indeed community, if you're in or near York then check it out.

@softfutures.bsky.socialSep 27, 2026, 4:58 PMReposted by @portalbookshop.bsky.social

The Portal Bookshop is one of my favourite places that I have not even visited (bc sadly portals do not exist) BUT if you happen to be near York you should definitely pay a visit to help them celebrate being 7, or just because 🎈

@portalbookshop.bsky.socialSep 27, 2026, 11:13 AM

👀

@portalbookshop.bsky.socialSep 27, 2026, 11:04 AM

And of course, our actual permanent shop 😁 Come visit us at 5 Patrick Pool, YO1 8BB, every day of the week!

A postcard sized print of artwork depicting the shop front of Portal, with signage in the windows for refugees welcome and Pride
@portalbookshop.bsky.socialSep 27, 2026, 10:58 AM

Or if you're in York that day, get two Portals for the price of one:

We'll be at the Rainbow Bookfest 10-4, at the Radisson Hotel

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rainbow-bo...

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