Joseph Hone

@josephhone.bsky.social

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Writes about literature and old books ☞ THE BOOK FORGER out now from Chatto & Windus ❧ Editing Pope

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Joseph Marlow Hone was a British writer of the spy novel. His most famous novels featured a British spy called Peter Marlow. The first of the series was The Private Sector (1971), set in the Six-Day War. Marlow's story continues in The Sixth Directorate (1975), The Flowers of the Forest (1980), and The Valley of the Fox (1982). During his heyday, in the 1970s, Hone was favourably compared with writers such as Len Deighton, Eric Ambler and John le Carré. .. more

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Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · 29d

What I love is that Pollard is so humour-deaf, he has marked these in proof and written 'notch, both'. Then, on a second pass, 'Deliberate?'

Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · 29d

Very cool idea. And useful, too, I imagine. As for this copy, it's the best. Gems like this abound:

Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · 29d

I've been look over Graham Pollard's interleaved proof copy: correcting all Carter's mistakes! Fun book.

Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · 29d

Ah yes that slightly spoils the gag. They make up for it with the addition of 'misgrint' though!

Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · Oct 12

How have I only just spotted this fabulous joke in Carter’s ABC?!

Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · Sep 23

Did a fun activity last year where the students had to handle a book blindfolded, and work out as much as they could about it without seeing it. They were all surprised at just how much they could gauge by touch alone!

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Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · Sep 16

Join the @stemma.bsky.social team! We've just advertised a two-year postdoc on WP2, "Networking Early Modern Poems." Apply by 30 September; details at link below. #earlymodern #dh #postdoc #jobfairy

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Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · Sep 9

By what I still worry must be a glaring clerical error, I will be spending the coming term at All Souls. Let’s catch up, Oxford people! www.asc.ox.ac.uk/person/dr-jo...

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · Aug 12

Godfather of AI Geoffrey Hinton at world’s biggest AI conf AI4 in Las Vegas. Is asked what could AI gain control of soon?

“Us…they’re just going to be much smarter than us. Imagine you were in charge of a playgroup of 3 year olds…it wouldn’t be very hard to get control of them….

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Neil Johnston @nejohnst.bsky.social · Aug 4

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Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · Jul 5

The curse of the type facsimile strikes again! This is NOT a C17th century book. Anyone who knows anything about typefaces will tell you that’s a late C18th Caslon. I would wager this was printed c. 1820 not 1678.

The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · Jul 3

The earliest known depiction of a crop circle is in The Mowing-Devil (1678), a 5-page pamphlet which recounts a labor dispute ending with an unwitting deal with the devil, and a field mown in way “that no Mortal Man was able to do the like”: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t... #cropcircles

Title page of pamphlet with woodcut showing devil mowing field in circular fashion

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Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · Jun 22

A very silly but great book.

Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · Jun 17

Where’s Hilary gone?!

Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · Jun 12

Sensible people are just going to defer publication on everything until right before the cut-off date to buy flexibility.

Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · Jun 6

At least buying one is hell too!

Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · Jun 2

You’re on!

Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · Jun 2

It’s like Twitter ten years ago!!

Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · Jun 1

Oh—and the relevant notes in the Mack archive are in box 62.

Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · Jun 1

Mack doesn’t know who she is, but her contact to Pope is William Cheselden and Martha Blount didn’t like her. She seems to have been completely infatuated with Pope and impossible to shake off.

Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · Jun 1

Aha! Maynard Mack writes about this manuscript at length in his Pope biography: pp. 796-801. It’s been on my ‘find this’ list for ages.

Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · May 25

I’m going to have nightmares about Eric.

Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · May 22

But no books on his shelves!

Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · May 21

YWES is usually pretty thorough!

Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · May 20

Congratulations!!

Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · May 17

All I ask for are signed holographs by major authors. Is that really too much?

Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · May 17

And mine is in December (and my tastes are a lot cheaper!).

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Beth DeBold @elizaaudacis.bsky.social · May 9

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Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · May 8

Only in Cambridge would a bookshop devote this much shelf space to J.H. Prynne.

Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · May 7

On a list! And with Henry Hemming and Kate Summerscale, too. Chuffed.

The Crime Writers' Association @thecwa.bsky.social · Apr 16

Announcing the longlist for the 2025 ALCS Gold Dagger for Nonfiction! Congratulations, authors and good luck in the next round! #CWA_Daggers #Daggers_2025

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