Chris_Weston
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My brother just sent this photo of his house (which he built) in Fairbanks, Alaska last night
November 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
My brother just sent this photo of his house (which he built) in Fairbanks, Alaska last night
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A short 🧵: one astounding thing I learned while researching TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES was the existence of the Willow Palisade, a 700-km wall made of interlocking trees, an extension of the Great Wall planted in NE China in the 17th century. This map shows approx. Amur tiger range in 1850. 1/9
November 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
A short 🧵: one astounding thing I learned while researching TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES was the existence of the Willow Palisade, a 700-km wall made of interlocking trees, an extension of the Great Wall planted in NE China in the 17th century. This map shows approx. Amur tiger range in 1850. 1/9
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Read about how this happened in TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES! us.macmillan.com/books/978037... 8/9
Tigers Between Empires
A Chicago Tribune Most-Anticipated Book of the SeasonThe thrilling saga of the great Amur tiger and the scientists who came together, across the world, to sa...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Read about how this happened in TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES! us.macmillan.com/books/978037... 8/9
To those whom I communicate with, 18th November I'll be undergoing priority plastic surgery ( their term not mine ) and so any messages I receive I'll reply to asap.
November 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
To those whom I communicate with, 18th November I'll be undergoing priority plastic surgery ( their term not mine ) and so any messages I receive I'll reply to asap.
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I was invited by @barnesandnoble.com to write about why tigers were the logical follow up to my book Owls of the Eastern Ice: www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/jonatha... 🌍🐅
Writing About Tigers Was Inevitable: A Guest Post by Jonathan C. Slaght - B&N Reads
Blending facts with vivid storytelling, this is a fascinating read about the remarkable conservation efforts to save the iconic Siberian Tiger from vanishing forever. Read on for an exclusive essay fr...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I was invited by @barnesandnoble.com to write about why tigers were the logical follow up to my book Owls of the Eastern Ice: www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/jonatha... 🌍🐅
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Solvitur ambulando is my favourite Latin phrase. It means "it is solved by walking".
November 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Solvitur ambulando is my favourite Latin phrase. It means "it is solved by walking".
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Feeling rather chuffed with my American version of #TigersBetweenEmpires brought all the way to London by @jonathanslaght.com. Thank you!
November 12, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Feeling rather chuffed with my American version of #TigersBetweenEmpires brought all the way to London by @jonathanslaght.com. Thank you!
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POND WATER (a text from my mum, that I have turned into a poem)
Bridget was round my neck
All night
I thought
It was affection
But I see from the weather
That she was just
Sucking the warmth from me
She smelled
Just like pond water
We have the plumber
Coming
To fit a new shower
Bridget was round my neck
All night
I thought
It was affection
But I see from the weather
That she was just
Sucking the warmth from me
She smelled
Just like pond water
We have the plumber
Coming
To fit a new shower
November 13, 2025 at 7:53 AM
POND WATER (a text from my mum, that I have turned into a poem)
Bridget was round my neck
All night
I thought
It was affection
But I see from the weather
That she was just
Sucking the warmth from me
She smelled
Just like pond water
We have the plumber
Coming
To fit a new shower
Bridget was round my neck
All night
I thought
It was affection
But I see from the weather
That she was just
Sucking the warmth from me
She smelled
Just like pond water
We have the plumber
Coming
To fit a new shower
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Thanks to everyone sharing this post, and indulging my optimist's experiment to see if a book completely ignored by the literary establishment, written by an author with no famous friends and released by a small publisher, with no big marketing budget behind it, can float solely on word of mouth.
Author wrote best book he's ever written.
Publisher disintegrated/fucked off with author's earnings.
Book was finally published by new publisher.
Author has bought two hardbacks, for full price, to give away, signed.
Please repost/reply if you'd like a chance to win one..
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Publisher disintegrated/fucked off with author's earnings.
Book was finally published by new publisher.
Author has bought two hardbacks, for full price, to give away, signed.
Please repost/reply if you'd like a chance to win one..
bsky.app/profile/zygo...
November 13, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Thanks to everyone sharing this post, and indulging my optimist's experiment to see if a book completely ignored by the literary establishment, written by an author with no famous friends and released by a small publisher, with no big marketing budget behind it, can float solely on word of mouth.
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Prints my mum did of my cat, Roscoe.
AKA the actor, influencer and designer Philippa Islington-Smythe: www.tom-cox.com/at-home-with...
AKA the actor, influencer and designer Philippa Islington-Smythe: www.tom-cox.com/at-home-with...
October 21, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Prints my mum did of my cat, Roscoe.
AKA the actor, influencer and designer Philippa Islington-Smythe: www.tom-cox.com/at-home-with...
AKA the actor, influencer and designer Philippa Islington-Smythe: www.tom-cox.com/at-home-with...
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In chapter one of my novel Villager, I described a fictional painting, painted 60+ years ago by a forgotten painter: a psychedelic swirl of moorland landscape, which later became the cover of a fictional psych-folk LP.
"Do you fancy having a go at painting this?" I asked my mum.
So she did...
"Do you fancy having a go at painting this?" I asked my mum.
So she did...
November 12, 2025 at 12:05 PM
In chapter one of my novel Villager, I described a fictional painting, painted 60+ years ago by a forgotten painter: a psychedelic swirl of moorland landscape, which later became the cover of a fictional psych-folk LP.
"Do you fancy having a go at painting this?" I asked my mum.
So she did...
"Do you fancy having a go at painting this?" I asked my mum.
So she did...
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signed some tiger and owl books across London today, including @waterstones.bsky.social and @hatchards.bsky.social!
November 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
signed some tiger and owl books across London today, including @waterstones.bsky.social and @hatchards.bsky.social!
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Extreme linoprinting is one of my absolute favourite sports.
November 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Extreme linoprinting is one of my absolute favourite sports.
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The big fiction recommendations from @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social, as 2025 draws to a close: Ian McEwan, RF Kuang, Philip Pullman, Hollie McNish, SenLinYu, and... me.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The big fiction recommendations from @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social, as 2025 draws to a close: Ian McEwan, RF Kuang, Philip Pullman, Hollie McNish, SenLinYu, and... me.
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/ever...
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@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Tom, thank you so very much, far far better than winning the lottery. Have a great week. Best wishes, Chris
November 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM
@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Tom, thank you so very much, far far better than winning the lottery. Have a great week. Best wishes, Chris
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Thanks to everyone who entered this. The winner of the signed first edition and linoprint was @js-hyder.bsky.social.
If anyone wants to read the book I recommend @blackwells.bsky.social who do free worldwide delivery (& still have a couple of signed ones left):
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
If anyone wants to read the book I recommend @blackwells.bsky.social who do free worldwide delivery (& still have a couple of signed ones left):
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
November 11, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Thanks to everyone who entered this. The winner of the signed first edition and linoprint was @js-hyder.bsky.social.
If anyone wants to read the book I recommend @blackwells.bsky.social who do free worldwide delivery (& still have a couple of signed ones left):
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
If anyone wants to read the book I recommend @blackwells.bsky.social who do free worldwide delivery (& still have a couple of signed ones left):
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
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How fabulous 😀
When Lucy from Compass Books in Dartmouth, Devon, was victim to shoplifting people told her to install CCTV. Instead she put this ancient book thief curse on the wall from the Monastery of San Pedro in Barcelona so book stealers would be consumed by "the flames of hell" with "their members blasted".
November 11, 2025 at 9:42 AM
How fabulous 😀
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Admiring the Penguin UK edition of my tiger book with a pint of IPA created by Iron Maiden
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Admiring the Penguin UK edition of my tiger book with a pint of IPA created by Iron Maiden
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With co-guests @drjuliashaw.bsky.social and Juhea Kim this morning after speaking with @adamrutherford.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week in London.We talked tigers, environmental crime, and the power of art to change minds
November 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
With co-guests @drjuliashaw.bsky.social and Juhea Kim this morning after speaking with @adamrutherford.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week in London.We talked tigers, environmental crime, and the power of art to change minds
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This was a great conversation!
Loving Start the Week today (10 Nov 25). Excellent panel of diverse but convergent views on the biodiversity crisis.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
This was a great conversation!
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These are all excellent albums but if you don’t know Kaleidoscope, Side Trips is a… a trip. Take it off Mr Cox’s hands, why dontcha?
THREAD. In my attempt to raise money for a deposit on a house I’ve decided to sell all my duplicates of favourite LPs. Not cheaply but below Discogs:eBay going rate.
If any of these are of interest, please reply below and I’ll dm you with price.
All first pressings. All classics. All in nice nick.
If any of these are of interest, please reply below and I’ll dm you with price.
All first pressings. All classics. All in nice nick.
November 10, 2025 at 10:33 AM
These are all excellent albums but if you don’t know Kaleidoscope, Side Trips is a… a trip. Take it off Mr Cox’s hands, why dontcha?
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I worked harder on this book than any before it. My ex-publisher then failed to pay me what they owed me for it & did their best to ruin its chances of survival. That robbed me of a year of my life & ruined my health.
After all that, to see reviews like this one brings me close to tears too.
After all that, to see reviews like this one brings me close to tears too.
Bloody hell! It’s been a long time since a book has brought me to tears. @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Thank you so very much for writing Everything Will Swallow You. Book of the year. #BookSky #TheStorygraph
November 9, 2025 at 10:05 AM
I worked harder on this book than any before it. My ex-publisher then failed to pay me what they owed me for it & did their best to ruin its chances of survival. That robbed me of a year of my life & ruined my health.
After all that, to see reviews like this one brings me close to tears too.
After all that, to see reviews like this one brings me close to tears too.
