Claire Squires

@clairesquires

Professor of Publishing Studies at Stirling. Ullapoolist. 50% of Blaire Squiscoll. She/Her.

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Claire Squires@clairesquires· 2d

Happy St Claire to all who celebrate!

An image of St Clare of Assisi. Clare (sic) is holding aloft a lantern(?) and is wearing a brown robe and black and white head covering. In the foreground are big pink flowers. Her make-up is very nicely done and she looks quite hot, if you like catholic saints.

Claire Squires@clairesquires· 8d

Research

A hand holding a mushroom vol au vent with a jaunty puff pastry hat, over a red checked bistrot style tablecloth

Claire Squires@clairesquires· 17d

The giant Tunnocks has landed

A roped off model of a giant Tunnocks tea cake in a park, with tall trees behind

Claire Squires@clairesquires· 18d

Casually adding this wine and canapé mention from @colsonwhitehead.com’s fabulous latest, Cool Machine, into the mss of The Social Life of Canapés… bsky.app/profile/clai...

Photo of part of a book page, reading ‘made a sale to a well-to-do black lady at a couple hundred bucks a pop. There was wine, and canapés, and fuel for daydreams that chronicled their inevitable march into renown and respect.’

Claire Squires@clairesquires· 26d

Some correspondents have commented on the lack of actual cocktail glass in my previous prawn cocktail so I high tailed 🦐 it to Waitrose and assembled this (gussied up with some parsley) 3/ (Apols @scottlyall.bsky.social )

A prawn cocktail in a triangular cocktail glass held over a balcony. A prawn is luxuriously lying over the edge of the glass/:trying to escape. There is a flat leaf parsley garnish

Claire Squires@clairesquires· 26d

Mmmmm

A waterfall pouting through leafy trees, a pool below

Claire Squires@clairesquires· 27d

Just got notification that @hivestores.bsky.social has shipped my copy of @colsonwhitehead.com’s Cool Machine - fortunately I have the day off to reread Crook Manifesto before it arrives! 🔥 (Harlem Shuffle already reread…)

A copy of the US hardback edition of Crook Manifesto held out over a balcony and garden with summer flowers

Claire Squires@clairesquires· 27d

One of my NY resolutions was to eat and enjoy a prawn cocktail (after an alarming encounter at age six). This is my first go, a deconstructed version made by a friend 1/

Some large prawns in a bowl nestled on salad leaves and avocado, topped with salmon roe and a light layer of Marie Rose sauce

Claire Squires@clairesquires· Jul 11

Brilliant energy infrastructures tour on the Forth today led by @ewangibbs.bsky.social & hosted by Jupiter ArtLand

A queue of people waiting to get on the Forth Belle, with the new Queensferry Bridge in the background

Claire Squires@clairesquires· Jul 7

ICONIC

A selfie in front of the Maggies Scottie dug wearing a cone in front of the Duke of Wellington statue wearing a cone. Horse also wearing a cone and (live) seagull.

Claire Squires@clairesquires· Jul 7

And if that is not enticing enough there are RECIPES! 3/

A page from the novel reading ‘Recipes from the Misnich Inn’

The beginning of the recipe for AinsworthMs Bannocks, mmmm

Claire Squires@clairesquires· Jul 7

I was lucky to get a sneak peek of the novel and I love it - it’s a cosy fantasy/academic satire set in the sort of Cairngorms, tagline ‘Behind every hero, there’s a historian’ 2/

A copy of The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance

Claire Squires@clairesquires· Jul 7

Brilliant to be at the launch of @chiarab.bsky.social’s The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance at @waterstones.bsky.social Sauchiehall Street tonight - massive signing queue! 1/

A signing queue snaking round a bookshop, with a copy of the novel held out in front

People seated facing the author Chiara Bullen as she talks about her novel

Claire Squires@clairesquires· Jul 4

YES I went to Luss Highland Games

A highland heavy holding aloft a caber, with another competitor with excellent stripey socks behind

Claire Squires@clairesquires· Jun 25

Glasgoooooow

A man at work road sign with a cone on it, on Byres Road

Claire Squires@clairesquires· Jun 24

Loch Lomond high and low

A pair of hiking boots on a grassy hill overlooking Loch Lomond and its islands

A bare and sandy pair of legs and feet on a throw, on the shores of Loch Lomond, post-swim

Claire Squires@clairesquires· Jun 22

Doubled up with RAIN & PAPERBACK REVOLUTIONS exhibitions at @natlibscot.bsky.social this afternoon 📚 ☔️

A section of the RAIN exhibition including a map with rain density of Scotland

Some ladies galoshes and a red umbrella - very Mary Poppins

A sign for the Paperback Revolutions exhibition

Claire Squires@clairesquires· Jun 17

‘Ah hello, Professor Squires’ #StirWilly

A seagull stares down the camera, sitting atop a very upright pink marble artwork

Claire Squires@clairesquires· Jun 17

Seagull on #StirWilly

A seagull sits atop a phallic art work in pink marble, in a courtyard with scrubby plants

Claire Squires@clairesquires· Jun 13

When I left @sgsah.bsky.social the amazing team gave me vouchers for The Bookmonger in Bearsden and today I used some of them while being served by excellent mongerer for the day @sarasheridan.bsky.social, who was bookselling as part of of Independent Bookshop Week…

Sara Sheridan stands behind a counter of delicious foods (cheese, charcuterie, fruit and nuts) filling a box for me. Copies of her books sit on the countertop

A wrapped book with the labels ‘blind date with a book’ ‘Sara Sheridan’s The Bookmonger choice’, with a box behind labelled ‘The Novel’

A platter of foods, which emerged from The Novel box. Martini with a twist in the background

Claire Squires@clairesquires· Jun 9

(Squires, 2024)*

A plate of “gyroplane’ canapés - charcuterie rolled round cheese and pinned with a small pickled onion and cocktail stick, sitting next to a book called The Canapé Book, by Rachel Bell Maiden

Claire Squires@clairesquires· Jun 1

Very pleased to say that @bethdriscoll.bsky.social & I have a contract for our book The Social Life of Canapes with Goldsmiths Press - out towards the end of 2027, all being well 1/

A delightful canape dumpling, in the form of a white chicken nestling in a bed of lettuce

A screenshot of part of a publisher's contract, which reads:

Goldsmiths Press Memorandum of Agreement

1 Background

THIS AGREEMENT is made this 23rd April 2026

BETWEEN Claire Squires of [Claire’s address!] and Beth Driscoll of [Beth’s address!] (hereinafter termed ‘the Authors’, which expression shall, where the context admits, include the Authors’ executors, administrators or assigns) of the one part and Goldsmiths Press, legally represented by Goldsmiths’ College, a body incorporated by royal charter with registered number RC000715, whose administrative offices are at New Cross, London SE14 6NW ('GP’) (hereinafter termed ‘the Publishers’, which expression shall, where the context admits, include the Publishers’ successors in business and assigns) of the other part,

NOW it is agreed as follows concerning a work to be written by the Authors at present entitled: The Social Life of Canapes (hereinafter termed ‘the Work’)

Claire Squires@clairesquires· May 23

A stile with an extra challenge @lakesstiles.bsky.social

A simple wooden style over a wire fence, but the fence extends very high above the stile, rendering it useless. A view of big skies and grassy hills beyond

Claire Squires@clairesquires· May 21

Glasgow nights (summer version)

A hand holding a serving of chips, on a bridge in front of late evening light and a red sandstone church

Claire Squires@clairesquires· May 14

Ginger had to go for some tests (seems still resilient at the grand old age of seventeen) and I wore my MY CAT IS COOL AS FUCK socks. Also featured, post-tests crémant 🥂

A ginger and white cat with a shaved patch on her left hand side on a sofa, next to the poster’s foot wearing a sock with the text detailed in the post and a ginger cat

The poster and her ginger and white cat with a twirly glass of crémant in the background. Beyond, a large window…

Claire Squires@clairesquires· May 14

Five years ago today up the Whangie/Queen’s Seat 😂 @lakesstiles.bsky.social

Concrete block steps over a stone wall, heading into a green, treed hill

Claire Squires@clairesquires· May 4

PONY!

Claire Squires@clairesquires· May 3

Things you regret *not* having bought at the Barras (possibly an occasional series)

A commemorative magazine entitled Princess Margaret’s 19th Birthday Book, with said princess adorning the front cover wearing a grey jacket and full skirt, atop a pile of other magazines

Claire Squires@clairesquires· Apr 26

When you’re a flowsily late daff and you know it

Three yellowy orange daffs with multiple frills, in front of more of the same

Claire Squires@clairesquires· Apr 25

Great to see a big stack of @emmabaird.bsky.social’s Highland Fling in @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social today - for all your sunny Scottish reading desires…