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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 1d

Sighting at Islington cafe of @serpents-tail.bsky.social edition of The Course of the Heart @mjohnharrison.bsky.social

Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 3d

A word on your alphabetically ordered bookshelf: meticulous.

Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 7d

It was twenty years ago today. I can’t remember how it happened.

Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 17d

Yes although not on site. I’ll email you.

Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 19d

☺️

Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 19d

‘That Nicholas Royle, what an idiot’?

Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 19d

Excellent, Seán. Do you know which story she was reading?

Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 26d

Edited by novelist and short story writer @nicholasroyle.bsky.social, Manchester-based @nightjarpress.bsky.social publishes limited edition single short-story chapbooks by individual authors. Browse and buy their titles at #smallpublishersfair25, London, Fri 24 / Sat 25 Oct
smallpublishersfair.co.uk

Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Oct 11

I’ll introduce you.

Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Oct 11

Lovely review of Best British Short Stories 2025 up at @manchesterreview.bsky.social @saltpublishing.com www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=13063

Best British Short Stories 2025, edited by Nicholas Royle, reviewed by Paul Anthony Knowles and Sam Cassells - The Manchester Review

A timely reminder of the ability of the contemporary short form to move, shock and surprise its reader in a myriad of ways. Best British Short Stories 2025 | edited by Nicholas Royle | Salt Publishing...

www.themanchesterreview.co.uk

Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Oct 6

Amazing. Great work.

Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Oct 5

Remarkable essay in the form of marker posts, a haunting record of a walk through landscape, encountering nature, human activity & industrial archeology & recording evidence of personal endurance & the menace of nationalism & reflecting grief for a lost friend.

Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · Sep 30

A walk from Leeds to Goole, via the River Aire, the Aire and Calder Navigation, the Knottingley and Goole Canal, the New Junction Canal and the Dutch River, 6.45am to 9.52pm Friday 26 September.

An improvised, illustrated thread of indeterminate length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/

Shipping containers on the waterside at Stourton, two miles south-east of Leeds city centre.

Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Oct 4

I did like those early stories.

Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Oct 2

More of their crap going in the recycling. Might as well get some good out of it.

Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Oct 1

Whenever I come across child-killers’ literature in book exchanges, I take it away – and recycle it.

david-bevan.bsky.social @david-bevan.bsky.social · Sep 30

Very happy see my story ‘Helium’ in here alongside so many great stories and writers. Many thanks to @nicholasroyle.bsky.social and @saltpublishing.com and @fictivedream.bsky.social

Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · Sep 30

A walk from Leeds to Goole, via the River Aire, the Aire and Calder Navigation, the Knottingley and Goole Canal, the New Junction Canal and the Dutch River, 6.45am to 9.52pm Friday 26 September.

An improvised, illustrated thread of indeterminate length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/

Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Sep 29

On a TGV, running a slight delay, which could affect my connection. SNCF have emailed me, saying they’ve booked me on the next one should that be the case. Just sitting here, watching the French countryside fly past, trying to imagine that happening in the UK.

Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Sep 28

About time too @mjohnharrison.bsky.social

Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Sep 24

Please don’t worry. Now I know it’s large format I’m not so interested.

Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Sep 23

Is it one of those weird large format things?

Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Sep 23

What the hell is that? I’ve never seen it. May we see the spine & back cover?

Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Sep 23

Love that about the buses.

Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Sep 20

That book was a bestseller. A fact that makes it stand out rather on my CV.

Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Sep 19

😂

Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Sep 18

Every morning, the dustbins would form a semi-circle under her apartment just off the Champs-Elysées & serenade her.

Did this image make it into Paris Fantastique? Oui ou non?

Pre-order from @confingopublishing.bsky.social for free b&w photo postcards.

Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Sep 18

I can’t take the credit, Stephen. For Marlowe, yes, but not for Behm.

Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Sep 17

😏

Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Sep 17

No, was a smaller charity *looks up LSA vases*

Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Sep 17

*shakes head*

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