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Inigo Purcell
@inigopurcell.bsky.social
Novelist, non-fiction writer and academic.

Writing a book about Arthur in the British Imagination from 1138-present.

Often not thinking about the 21st century by default

(he/him)

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My short story about the heatwave of 2017, egg freezing, Sir Kenneth Clark's Civilization: A Personal View and allowing oneself to imagine a future

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Transitional Summer | The Manifest Station
There are a lot of appointments that summer: ultrasounds every few days, blood tests, and other routine ones which are finally coming around.
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The second series of Dinosaur is really great and just very lovely. (And very funny)
February 8, 2026 at 4:01 AM
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Know this is not new information but do think the thoroughness of detailing Lots of The Nazis is worthwhile.
Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism
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February 7, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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If you buy Susan Stranks Big Ideas Book for thoughts on how to radically decentre the nuclear family & reimagine networks of care, or ideas on abolishing the carceral system, you’ll be disappointed.
However, if you’re seeking heaps of things to make from leaves, wool & paper plates then jackpot baby
February 4, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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June 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
A lot of the time at the moment I just don't really want to think about AI/LLMs. I have a really finite amount of energy, time and attention and I just... I don't want to have to think about them. I'm good at sitting in a corner thinking about my own niche things.
February 7, 2026 at 12:10 AM
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See Brother Philip practicing signing his name in many different scripts.

From the bottom of last year's thread on St. Amand manuscripts for St. Amand's day. Click through and go upthread to see the full selection. #medievalsky #paleography
Oh wait, I need to add one more paleographical fun thing to today's St. Amand thread. Valenciennes 503 is a 16th-c dossier of St. Amand materials on paper once owned, or at least used, by Brother Philippus Ultraquensis of St. Amand, who REALLY liked to sign his name.
February 6, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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My Hugo and Nebula award winning novel Among Others about a science fiction reading girl with fantasy problems is on sale as an ebook for $2.99 www.amazon.com/Among-Others...
Among Others: A Novel (Hugo Award Winner - Best Novel)
Among Others: A Novel (Hugo Award Winner - Best Novel)
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February 6, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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Friends! We are looking for a visiting assistant professor with expertise in 17th century literature. Help me spread the word? It’s limited term, but I can promise wonderful students and lovely colleagues for a very nice bit of teaching experience… wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Visiting Assistant Professor of English: Seventeenth-Century Literature The Department of English at Wesleyan University seeks applicants for a full-time Visiting Professor with expertise in seventeen...
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February 6, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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good lord, I love how the most unhinged thing I've ever posted On Here gets the most likes. anyway, I am pure of heart and only make beautiful things like this monarch butterfly cardigan (just finished it this week!)
February 5, 2026 at 11:38 PM
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🧶 Question for regular sock knitters: I made a pair of thick cozy socks a couple months back and the soles, at the heel, are already much thinner than the rest of the sock. I want to reinforce before there are holes. What would you advise?
February 5, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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A hugely enjoyable & inspiring evening hearing @stuhennigan.bsky.social talk about his new novel #Keshed with the wonderful @regretteruane.bsky.social and @davidcollard.bsky.social Thank you for such a great event 💙📚💙

Published by @ortacpress.bsky.social 📚💙📚

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February 5, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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Happy Publication Day to @stuhennigan.bsky.social
This extraordinary work of brutal beauty is blazing into the world today & I wholeheartedly recommend that everyone #GetKeshed
A pinned thread about my new novel, Keshed, publishing on 12th Feb 2026 with @ortacpress.bsky.social. Pre-orders available now from all the usual bookshops/websites. See thread for some early pre-press takes from some AMAZING writers and links to other stuff.

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February 5, 2026 at 9:13 AM
Excited for the online launch of @stuhennigan.bsky.social 's Keshed later, with @regretteruane.bsky.social

#GetKeshed
February 5, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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For World Cancer Day, here is another poem. I have such a hostility in me to everything this cancer has changed or taken away and that includes making me wear gloves when I change my son; making me treat him as a problem, as something I can't handle, even for a moment, is unforgivable.
February 4, 2026 at 6:48 AM
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This is unbelievable. By which I don’t mean that I don’t believe it, just that I think it’s beyond the scope of what should be considered doable.
A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
February 4, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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'Into the fray' This evening in Glastonbury at sunset. A bit dramatic maybe but so fed up of grey sky I thought it was worth it. 😂
February 4, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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Slightly terrifying/ultimately quite revelatory about re-reading/re-listening-to writings done 15 years ago by yr younger self. 'SO, that's who I was then' is the redux.

These - first broadcast 2010 - are listenable for 28 days if you have 3 x 15 minutes for fiction.

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BBC Radio 4 - I Got the Dog by Susie Maguire - Available now
Available episodes of I Got the Dog by Susie Maguire
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February 4, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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in honour of five years since my cancer surgery, here’s my poem about it
since I’m sharing it elsewhere again today, here’s a poem i published this summer in the poetry review. very proud of it and didn’t publish much else this year:
February 3, 2026 at 10:27 PM
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Thank you to you kind souls who have helped by retweeting my radio/audio story-links this week, much appreciated. The last from the trilogy is tomorrow, Wednesday and it's read by the brilliant Vicki Pepperdine as Chiara, who is talking to herself.. 15:45
February 3, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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The 1921 census required every household to identify a 'head' - assumed to be a husband - but it offered no way to record same-sex relationships. So how did women and gender non- conforming people record their lives? Often subversively, as some examples show 🧵 (1/6)

#LGBTplusHM
#lgbthm26
February 2, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Really horrible pain flare today and I do not know why, beyond that it is quite cold and that I should probably be using my heavier duty mobility aids a bit more. But haven't done an excessive amount of walking or standing or anything.
February 3, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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Jeanne Moreau and Miles, 1957.
February 2, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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Huge thanks to all the US indie booksellers who've taken #TheCompanyOfOwls to heart and to their shelves, meaning it's squeezed into the @lithub.com.web.brid.gy Indie Top 40 pre official pub date. My 1st time on a bestseller list other our own shop's. As a writer and bookseller it means so much.
The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction
Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association. …
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February 2, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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People of the Netherlands. Two questions please:

1) what do your plug sockets look like so I can bring the right whatsit

2) what treat might I bring from the UK to share at a meeting that Netherlanders might enjoy and can’t get there?
February 2, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Post brings admin I must do for the DWP and HMRC which I am pretty sure is to do with their errors not mine, but which is nevertheless exhausting as it comes accompanied with the ghosts of lots of past stressful admin
February 2, 2026 at 2:58 PM