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Ailsa Cox @ailsacox.bsky.social · 1d

Their long blue trains go past my window, chalking up the miles of cash.

Ailsa Cox @ailsacox.bsky.social · 2d

Fascinating discussion from Katherine Clements and fellow @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social author Neil McRobert in Todmorden last night. Worth the long spooky walk to get to Fielden Hall.

Wild Hunt Books @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social · 5d

THE FINAL BOOK IN THE NORTHERN WEIRD PROJECT IS HERE!

Turbine 34 by Katherine Clements🧡 🖤

Camped out alone at Turbine 34, an unnamed scientist soon discovers signs of the devastation and begins to see things that shouldn’t be there...

www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/books/p/turb...

The Portico Library @porticolibrary.bsky.social · 4d

🧵 A remarkable discovery by Portico Library volunteer Rebecca Lamb has revealed that Charles Dickens signed the Library’s Strangers’ Book in May 1844 — confirming that one of the world’s most celebrated novelists once stepped inside Manchester’s oldest subscription library...

Volunteer discovering Charles Dickens' signature in The Portico's Library's Strangers' book

Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 5d

A happy C.D. Rose, shortly after winning our 2025 Prize last night @foylesforbooks.bsky.social.

Trophy designed and made by Cherrie Tong; pic @davidcollard.bsky.social

Wild Hunt Books @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social · 5d

THE FINAL BOOK IN THE NORTHERN WEIRD PROJECT IS HERE!

Turbine 34 by Katherine Clements🧡 🖤

Camped out alone at Turbine 34, an unnamed scientist soon discovers signs of the devastation and begins to see things that shouldn’t be there...

www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/books/p/turb...

Melville House @melvillehouse.bsky.social · 5d

@cdrose.bsky.social is the 2025 Goldsmiths Prize winner!!! So, so well deserved ❤️🏆 Read WE LIVE HERE NOW! @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social

Intellect Books @intellectbooks.bsky.social · 5d

Horror Studies 16.2 is out now!

Including ‘Shadow agents: Ecohorror and ambient dread in Vampyr (1932)’ by Benjamin Bigelow.
#horrorstudies Popular Culture Association

Access the issue via Discover 👉 https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/host/16/2

Ailsa Cox @ailsacox.bsky.social · 5d

A great shortlist @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social. Some names very familiar @edgehillprize.bsky.social. Every one a winner but good luck @cdrose.bsky.social

Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 12d

'A book with an innovative approach will ... deliver no message.... But, lord, you will have experienced something.'

@cdrose.bsky.social talks to the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social's Emily Lawford about the wonderful #GP2025 shortlisted novel, We Live Here Now

www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

CD Rose Q&A: “Novels are like massive clouds which lower overhead”

The 2025 Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on the art world, how we measure value and the role of criticism today

www.newstatesman.com

Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social · 6d

I've added details about the online reading on 29th November launching my Broken Sleep book ELLE to my post about the book and buying the book: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/10/my-n...

My new book Elle: A Verse Novel is published by Broken Sleep Books

My new book Elle: A Verse Novel is published by Broken Sleep Books in November 2025 Details for PRE ORDER: Robert Sheppard - Elle, a ...

robertsheppard.blogspot.com

The London Hellenic Prize @lhellenicprize.bsky.social · 6d

We're very proud to announce the winner of this year's prize: Edith Hall's compelling & insightful 'Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me' (Yale UP). A brilliant, moving book for experts & general readers alike - congratulations @edithmayhall.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social!

Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social · 8d

Every Sunday I’ll be contributing a paperback column to the Observer’s New Review. Kicking things off is Driver by Mattia Filice (@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social), who’s poured his experience of 2 decades working on the French rail network into an extraordinary verse novel. observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Ailsa Cox @ailsacox.bsky.social · 8d

Think I might have got rid of my Bradbury anthology and now regret that I did that! The Intro is also well worth a read.

Ailsa Cox @ailsacox.bsky.social · 9d

One of my favourites!

Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 9d

Great news - one of the best mini-series ever with a dazzling & eccentric screenplay by Troy Kennedy Martin & superb direction by Martin Campbell is back on iplayer.
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Edge of Darkness - Series 1: 1. Compassionate Leave

Thriller set in a world of obsessive state security. Ronald Craven is haunted by the murder of his daughter and begins his own investigation into her death.

www.bbc.co.uk

Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 12d

'A book with an innovative approach will ... deliver no message.... But, lord, you will have experienced something.'

@cdrose.bsky.social talks to the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social's Emily Lawford about the wonderful #GP2025 shortlisted novel, We Live Here Now

www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

CD Rose Q&A: “Novels are like massive clouds which lower overhead”

The 2025 Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on the art world, how we measure value and the role of criticism today

www.newstatesman.com

Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 13d

Correct link: www.youtube.com/@bbcarchive

BBC Archive

Welcome to the BBC Archive. Hop aboard an audiovisual time machine, that will transport you back to the golden age of TV. Whether you are looking for some childhood nostalgia (clackers - remember t...

www.youtube.com

Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 16d

I've just updated the apersonalanthology.com website with Becky Tipper’s selection of a dozen favourite short stories.

Check them out here, along with over 3,400 other personal short story recommendations!

A Personal Anthology

Writers, critics and others dream-edit a personal anthology of their favourite short stories

apersonalanthology.com

Ailsa Cox @ailsacox.bsky.social · 17d

A wonderful article from Julian Barnes, and a reminder that writers are not alway likeable or virtuous, and that publishers are not all bad.

London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 19d

‘Today’s publishers must be relieved they do not have to deal with Flaubert, or some mutant facsimile of him; at worst, they have to put up with writers who are crazy, or criminal, or incorrigible hermits.’

Julian Barnes on Flaubert’s relationship with his publisher.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Julian Barnes · Ouvriers de luxe: Author v. Publisher

Gustave Flaubert’s first three novels, Madame Bovary, Salammbô and L’Éducation sentimentale, were all published by...

www.lrb.co.uk

Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 17d

There's still time to sign up for today's Personal Anthology, in which Tim MacGabhann picks and introduces a dozen favourite stories. Some doozies in there, some surprises and old favourites and even a sneak preview!

Hitting inboxes at 2pm, sign up and share!

apersonalanthology.substack.com/about

About - A Personal Anthology

A weekly guest-editor picks and introduces a personal anthology of twelve favourite short stories. Click to read A Personal Anthology, by Jonathan Gibbs, a Substack publication with thousands of subsc...

apersonalanthology.substack.com

David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 17d

‘Taints’, a short story @bansheepress.bsky.social bansheepress.org/read/taints-...

London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 19d

‘Today’s publishers must be relieved they do not have to deal with Flaubert, or some mutant facsimile of him; at worst, they have to put up with writers who are crazy, or criminal, or incorrigible hermits.’

Julian Barnes on Flaubert’s relationship with his publisher.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Julian Barnes · Ouvriers de luxe: Author v. Publisher

Gustave Flaubert’s first three novels, Madame Bovary, Salammbô and L’Éducation sentimentale, were all published by...

www.lrb.co.uk

A Small, Good Thing @smallgoodpodcast.bsky.social · 19d

New Episode!
William Saroyan was an Armenian-American writer and a true short story genius. In this episode, I get to chat about his life and works with Scott Setrakian, President of the William Saroyan Foundation.

Listen here: www.spreaker.com/episode/will...

Ailsa Cox @ailsacox.bsky.social · 20d

That's just me!

Ailsa Cox @ailsacox.bsky.social · 20d

Oh the lost trails, the might have beens, the faded typescripts, literally in the bottom drawer, the necessity of boredom....

Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social · 20d

Exactly me, today. To face this: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/10/my-d...

Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social · 20d

Exactly me, today. To face this: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/10/my-d...

Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social · 21d

Giveaway! 🎉

We're offering four copies of our new book, Women Who Dared, which spotlights powerful and defiant women who made their mark.

Want to win a copy?

Here's how to enter:

1. Like this post ❤️
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🕔 Entries close 5pm GMT on 31 Oct
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Ailsa Cox @ailsacox.bsky.social · 25d

Great news! @lucycaldwell.bsky.social has been shortlisted twice for @edgehillprize.bsky.social. That's how good she is.

Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 26d

I’m thrilled to be able to share this with you! My fourth collection, Devotions, will be published next April 23rd. If you would like a proof copy please contact @faberbooks.bsky.social ✨

Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 26d

I’m thrilled to be able to share this with you! My fourth collection, Devotions, will be published next April 23rd. If you would like a proof copy please contact @faberbooks.bsky.social ✨

Ailsa Cox @ailsacox.bsky.social · 27d

Angela Keaton, always inventive and mischievous.

Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social · 27d

I have heard some sad news. The poet Angela Keaton, a stalwart of the Edge Hill University Poetry and Poetics Research Group has died. She appears a lot on my blog; but here's one memorable post: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2009/10/ange...

Angela Keaton performing and constructing

Angela Keaton (top left) performing at the Walker Gallery as part of the Neon Highway reading, Angela reading at the Rose Theatre (Ormskirk)...

robertsheppard.blogspot.com

Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social · 27d

I have heard some sad news. The poet Angela Keaton, a stalwart of the Edge Hill University Poetry and Poetics Research Group has died. She appears a lot on my blog; but here's one memorable post: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2009/10/ange...

Angela Keaton performing and constructing

Angela Keaton (top left) performing at the Walker Gallery as part of the Neon Highway reading, Angela reading at the Rose Theatre (Ormskirk)...

robertsheppard.blogspot.com

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