Jack Aldane
@jackaldane.bsky.social
✒️ Writer | 🎙️ Host & Producer of The Booking Club and My Martin Amis podcasts | 🥊 Boxing fan
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Jack Aldane
@jackaldane.bsky.social
· Nov 23
The Booking Club
News Podcast · 72 Episodes · Monthly
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If you follow me, love books, and love restaurants, you’re in for copious treats.
Tell me who you’d like me to have on as a guest on @bookingclubpod.bsky.social in 2025
Then hit SUBSCRIBE for the full archive 2018-now👇
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Tell me who you’d like me to have on as a guest on @bookingclubpod.bsky.social in 2025
Then hit SUBSCRIBE for the full archive 2018-now👇
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Thank you Rob Doyle for getting 2026 off to a darting start with @jackaldane.bsky.social and a tonne of congratulations on the imminent publication of Cameo (out 22 January).
Ep#20 of the My Martin Amis podcast OUT SOON on Friday 23 January.
Ep#20 of the My Martin Amis podcast OUT SOON on Friday 23 January.
January 15, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Thank you Rob Doyle for getting 2026 off to a darting start with @jackaldane.bsky.social and a tonne of congratulations on the imminent publication of Cameo (out 22 January).
Ep#20 of the My Martin Amis podcast OUT SOON on Friday 23 January.
Ep#20 of the My Martin Amis podcast OUT SOON on Friday 23 January.
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🎉 That wraps the first episode of 2026.
Novelist and literary guru for boys @lucasoakeley.bsky.social and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss:
📖 Why 🇪🇹 offers the ultimate communal eating experience.
📖 How the novel can be man’s best friend.
📖 Why cycling in London is not for the faint of heart.
Novelist and literary guru for boys @lucasoakeley.bsky.social and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss:
📖 Why 🇪🇹 offers the ultimate communal eating experience.
📖 How the novel can be man’s best friend.
📖 Why cycling in London is not for the faint of heart.
January 11, 2026 at 11:30 AM
🎉 That wraps the first episode of 2026.
Novelist and literary guru for boys @lucasoakeley.bsky.social and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss:
📖 Why 🇪🇹 offers the ultimate communal eating experience.
📖 How the novel can be man’s best friend.
📖 Why cycling in London is not for the faint of heart.
Novelist and literary guru for boys @lucasoakeley.bsky.social and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss:
📖 Why 🇪🇹 offers the ultimate communal eating experience.
📖 How the novel can be man’s best friend.
📖 Why cycling in London is not for the faint of heart.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
It's 2026, and here to kick us off is @lucasoakeley.bsky.social, debut novelist, book influencer and food journalist, who'll be speaking to @jackaldane.bsky.social at his favourite restaurant very, very soon.
Get this year off to a good-food, good-book start!
It's 2026, and here to kick us off is @lucasoakeley.bsky.social, debut novelist, book influencer and food journalist, who'll be speaking to @jackaldane.bsky.social at his favourite restaurant very, very soon.
Get this year off to a good-food, good-book start!
January 1, 2026 at 3:05 PM
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
It's 2026, and here to kick us off is @lucasoakeley.bsky.social, debut novelist, book influencer and food journalist, who'll be speaking to @jackaldane.bsky.social at his favourite restaurant very, very soon.
Get this year off to a good-food, good-book start!
It's 2026, and here to kick us off is @lucasoakeley.bsky.social, debut novelist, book influencer and food journalist, who'll be speaking to @jackaldane.bsky.social at his favourite restaurant very, very soon.
Get this year off to a good-food, good-book start!
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The UK-Africa boxing experiment has been a disaster. It smells of colonialism, or at bet, a cynical cash-grab without having to invest in UK fighters. But, it points to the desperation these promoters have to make money at all costs
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BEYOND BOXING EP290 - NOT A 2025 RECAP
Podcast Episode · Beyond Boxing · 30/12/2025 · 1h 9m
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December 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The UK-Africa boxing experiment has been a disaster. It smells of colonialism, or at bet, a cynical cash-grab without having to invest in UK fighters. But, it points to the desperation these promoters have to make money at all costs
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Thank you, Jack. You've made some of the best episodes of the podcast this year and they've prompted me to reconsider Amis. Particularly enjoyed the episodes with Geoff Dyer, Ian McGuire and John McAuliffe, and Vincenzo Barney. Looking forward to many more episodes in 2026. Merry Christmas! 🎄🥂
December 23, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Thank you, Jack. You've made some of the best episodes of the podcast this year and they've prompted me to reconsider Amis. Particularly enjoyed the episodes with Geoff Dyer, Ian McGuire and John McAuliffe, and Vincenzo Barney. Looking forward to many more episodes in 2026. Merry Christmas! 🎄🥂
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@jackaldane.bsky.social with a short message before the year’s festivities begin 🥂🎄
Thanks to all our listeners, viewers & event-goers in 2025. Special thanks to @alysdenby.bsky.social @questingvole.bsky.social , @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social, @finnmcredmond.bsky.social @nivenj1.bsky.social et al
Thanks to all our listeners, viewers & event-goers in 2025. Special thanks to @alysdenby.bsky.social @questingvole.bsky.social , @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social, @finnmcredmond.bsky.social @nivenj1.bsky.social et al
December 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
@jackaldane.bsky.social with a short message before the year’s festivities begin 🥂🎄
Thanks to all our listeners, viewers & event-goers in 2025. Special thanks to @alysdenby.bsky.social @questingvole.bsky.social , @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social, @finnmcredmond.bsky.social @nivenj1.bsky.social et al
Thanks to all our listeners, viewers & event-goers in 2025. Special thanks to @alysdenby.bsky.social @questingvole.bsky.social , @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social, @finnmcredmond.bsky.social @nivenj1.bsky.social et al
The tensile poise it takes to write a life the way Szalay does in Flesh is the literary equivalent of performing a perfect iron cross. Just know that the author allows no friction between you and the story. Once you make contact, that’s it, you’re gone. A masterful work.
December 22, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The tensile poise it takes to write a life the way Szalay does in Flesh is the literary equivalent of performing a perfect iron cross. Just know that the author allows no friction between you and the story. Once you make contact, that’s it, you’re gone. A masterful work.
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@jackaldane.bsky.social met Kasim Ali at Salim’s on Turnpike Lane. Take a peek , have a listen 👀 🎧 @4thestatebooks.bsky.social
🔗 youtu.be/N7z_Zxtq2EQ?...
🔗 youtu.be/N7z_Zxtq2EQ?...
December 19, 2025 at 9:25 AM
@jackaldane.bsky.social met Kasim Ali at Salim’s on Turnpike Lane. Take a peek , have a listen 👀 🎧 @4thestatebooks.bsky.social
🔗 youtu.be/N7z_Zxtq2EQ?...
🔗 youtu.be/N7z_Zxtq2EQ?...
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Author of 📚Who Will Remain📚 Kasim Ali speaks to @jackaldane.bsky.social about growing up in Alum Rock in Birmingham, and the attitude many gang members have towards knife crime and culpability. @4thestatebooks.bsky.social
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7z_...
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7z_...
December 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Author of 📚Who Will Remain📚 Kasim Ali speaks to @jackaldane.bsky.social about growing up in Alum Rock in Birmingham, and the attitude many gang members have towards knife crime and culpability. @4thestatebooks.bsky.social
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7z_...
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7z_...
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A message here from Rob Doyle, the Irish writer who’ll soon be ringing in the new year with a new novel, and a chat with @jackaldane.bsky.social media
December 16, 2025 at 8:42 AM
A message here from Rob Doyle, the Irish writer who’ll soon be ringing in the new year with a new novel, and a chat with @jackaldane.bsky.social media
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No slow start to 2026 for @mymartinamis.bsky.social.
📣IN THE NEW YEAR…
David Szalay, winner of the 2025 Booker Prize for his latest novel 🏆📚Flesh📚🏆, tells @jackaldane.bsky.social how #MartinAmis spurred him to deal with sordidness, how it made him a better writer, and the story behind his favourite Amis work. @thebookerprizes.com @thetls.bsky.social
David Szalay, winner of the 2025 Booker Prize for his latest novel 🏆📚Flesh📚🏆, tells @jackaldane.bsky.social how #MartinAmis spurred him to deal with sordidness, how it made him a better writer, and the story behind his favourite Amis work. @thebookerprizes.com @thetls.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 11:10 AM
No slow start to 2026 for @mymartinamis.bsky.social.
We’re now approaching the second 1/2 of the 2020s, and if you’ve watched any number of documentaries on previous decades, you’ll know that they all end in a world virtually unrecognisable from the one they started as. We’ll only fully appreciate this in 2030 but the half-way mark always bears signs.
December 6, 2025 at 6:17 AM
We’re now approaching the second 1/2 of the 2020s, and if you’ve watched any number of documentaries on previous decades, you’ll know that they all end in a world virtually unrecognisable from the one they started as. We’ll only fully appreciate this in 2030 but the half-way mark always bears signs.
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Last episode of The Booking Club in 2025 brings
@jackaldane.bsky.social together with Kasim Ali to discuss Kasim's intense new novel📚Who Will Remain📚
They met at Salim's on Turnpike Lane. @4thestatebooks.bsky.social
@jackaldane.bsky.social together with Kasim Ali to discuss Kasim's intense new novel📚Who Will Remain📚
They met at Salim's on Turnpike Lane. @4thestatebooks.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Last episode of The Booking Club in 2025 brings
@jackaldane.bsky.social together with Kasim Ali to discuss Kasim's intense new novel📚Who Will Remain📚
They met at Salim's on Turnpike Lane. @4thestatebooks.bsky.social
@jackaldane.bsky.social together with Kasim Ali to discuss Kasim's intense new novel📚Who Will Remain📚
They met at Salim's on Turnpike Lane. @4thestatebooks.bsky.social
No slow start to 2026 for @mymartinamis.bsky.social.
📣IN THE NEW YEAR…
David Szalay, winner of the 2025 Booker Prize for his latest novel 🏆📚Flesh📚🏆, tells @jackaldane.bsky.social how #MartinAmis spurred him to deal with sordidness, how it made him a better writer, and the story behind his favourite Amis work. @thebookerprizes.com @thetls.bsky.social
David Szalay, winner of the 2025 Booker Prize for his latest novel 🏆📚Flesh📚🏆, tells @jackaldane.bsky.social how #MartinAmis spurred him to deal with sordidness, how it made him a better writer, and the story behind his favourite Amis work. @thebookerprizes.com @thetls.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 11:10 AM
No slow start to 2026 for @mymartinamis.bsky.social.
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📣IN THE NEW YEAR…
David Szalay, winner of the 2025 Booker Prize for his latest novel 🏆📚Flesh📚🏆, tells @jackaldane.bsky.social how #MartinAmis spurred him to deal with sordidness, how it made him a better writer, and the story behind his favourite Amis work. @thebookerprizes.com @thetls.bsky.social
David Szalay, winner of the 2025 Booker Prize for his latest novel 🏆📚Flesh📚🏆, tells @jackaldane.bsky.social how #MartinAmis spurred him to deal with sordidness, how it made him a better writer, and the story behind his favourite Amis work. @thebookerprizes.com @thetls.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
📣IN THE NEW YEAR…
David Szalay, winner of the 2025 Booker Prize for his latest novel 🏆📚Flesh📚🏆, tells @jackaldane.bsky.social how #MartinAmis spurred him to deal with sordidness, how it made him a better writer, and the story behind his favourite Amis work. @thebookerprizes.com @thetls.bsky.social
David Szalay, winner of the 2025 Booker Prize for his latest novel 🏆📚Flesh📚🏆, tells @jackaldane.bsky.social how #MartinAmis spurred him to deal with sordidness, how it made him a better writer, and the story behind his favourite Amis work. @thebookerprizes.com @thetls.bsky.social
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Christmas trees should not be up at the time of the Autumn Budget.
I feel very strongly about this. Either curb your enthusiasm and don't put the trees up til December, or have the Budget in actual autumn. I don't mind which*, but red boxes and fairy lights do not mix
*the answer is obviously both
I feel very strongly about this. Either curb your enthusiasm and don't put the trees up til December, or have the Budget in actual autumn. I don't mind which*, but red boxes and fairy lights do not mix
*the answer is obviously both
November 26, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Christmas trees should not be up at the time of the Autumn Budget.
I feel very strongly about this. Either curb your enthusiasm and don't put the trees up til December, or have the Budget in actual autumn. I don't mind which*, but red boxes and fairy lights do not mix
*the answer is obviously both
I feel very strongly about this. Either curb your enthusiasm and don't put the trees up til December, or have the Budget in actual autumn. I don't mind which*, but red boxes and fairy lights do not mix
*the answer is obviously both
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🔊 In 2026...
Irish novelist Rob Doyle, author of📚Here Are the Young Men, 📚This Is the Ritual, 📚Threshold, + a forthcoming novel 📚Cameo, meets @jackaldane.bsky.social to discuss how #MartinAmis has shaped his life as a writer.
Do. Not. Miss.
ALL EPISODES 2023-2025: www.youtube.com/@mymartinami...
Irish novelist Rob Doyle, author of📚Here Are the Young Men, 📚This Is the Ritual, 📚Threshold, + a forthcoming novel 📚Cameo, meets @jackaldane.bsky.social to discuss how #MartinAmis has shaped his life as a writer.
Do. Not. Miss.
ALL EPISODES 2023-2025: www.youtube.com/@mymartinami...
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
🔊 In 2026...
Irish novelist Rob Doyle, author of📚Here Are the Young Men, 📚This Is the Ritual, 📚Threshold, + a forthcoming novel 📚Cameo, meets @jackaldane.bsky.social to discuss how #MartinAmis has shaped his life as a writer.
Do. Not. Miss.
ALL EPISODES 2023-2025: www.youtube.com/@mymartinami...
Irish novelist Rob Doyle, author of📚Here Are the Young Men, 📚This Is the Ritual, 📚Threshold, + a forthcoming novel 📚Cameo, meets @jackaldane.bsky.social to discuss how #MartinAmis has shaped his life as a writer.
Do. Not. Miss.
ALL EPISODES 2023-2025: www.youtube.com/@mymartinami...
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Join @jackaldane.bsky.social and Kasim Ali on December’s episode of The Booking Club ❄️ @4thestatebooks.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Join @jackaldane.bsky.social and Kasim Ali on December’s episode of The Booking Club ❄️ @4thestatebooks.bsky.social
Happy Sunday from Les Deux Magots in Paris
November 23, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Happy Sunday from Les Deux Magots in Paris
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Are the figures who stoke the fires of bureaucracy in Franz Kafka's The Trial the novel's true victims? @jackaldane.bsky.social @nickwallis.bsky.social @johnyorkestory.bsky.social
FULL EPISODE🔗https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkOsfe6apwY
FULL EPISODE🔗https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkOsfe6apwY
November 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Are the figures who stoke the fires of bureaucracy in Franz Kafka's The Trial the novel's true victims? @jackaldane.bsky.social @nickwallis.bsky.social @johnyorkestory.bsky.social
FULL EPISODE🔗https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkOsfe6apwY
FULL EPISODE🔗https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkOsfe6apwY
I wrote a review of Anika Jade Levy's excellent debut novel Flat Earth.
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jackaldane.substack.com/p/flat-earth...
Flat Earth, by Anika Jade Levy: a review
Millennials are forgetting what it was like to be young and desperate. They should discover what it's like now, with the help of a literary debut.
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November 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I wrote a review of Anika Jade Levy's excellent debut novel Flat Earth.
jackaldane.substack.com/p/flat-earth...
jackaldane.substack.com/p/flat-earth...
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‼️ NEW EPISODE from #BattleFest 2025
Celebrate Franz Kafka’s The Trial at 100 with @jackaldane.bsky.social and guests @nickwallis.bsky.social , @johnyorkestory.bsky.social and Maxie Allen
📺 youtu.be/AkOsfe6apwY?...
Celebrate Franz Kafka’s The Trial at 100 with @jackaldane.bsky.social and guests @nickwallis.bsky.social , @johnyorkestory.bsky.social and Maxie Allen
📺 youtu.be/AkOsfe6apwY?...
Why You Should Read Franz Kafka's The Trial in 2025
YouTube video by The Booking Club podcast
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November 14, 2025 at 11:09 AM
‼️ NEW EPISODE from #BattleFest 2025
Celebrate Franz Kafka’s The Trial at 100 with @jackaldane.bsky.social and guests @nickwallis.bsky.social , @johnyorkestory.bsky.social and Maxie Allen
📺 youtu.be/AkOsfe6apwY?...
Celebrate Franz Kafka’s The Trial at 100 with @jackaldane.bsky.social and guests @nickwallis.bsky.social , @johnyorkestory.bsky.social and Maxie Allen
📺 youtu.be/AkOsfe6apwY?...
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The world has changed a lot since Lawrence Osborne’s 📚 The Ballad of a Small Player 📚 was published in 2014…
@jackaldane.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
🔗 youtu.be/FmDE-0zeOwk
@jackaldane.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
🔗 youtu.be/FmDE-0zeOwk
November 9, 2025 at 10:05 AM
The world has changed a lot since Lawrence Osborne’s 📚 The Ballad of a Small Player 📚 was published in 2014…
@jackaldane.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
🔗 youtu.be/FmDE-0zeOwk
@jackaldane.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
🔗 youtu.be/FmDE-0zeOwk
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Check out Lawrence Osborne’s top book rec of 2025, plus the author he would ideally take to dinner.
FULL EPISODE OUT NOW: youtu.be/FmDE-0zeOwk?...
FULL EPISODE OUT NOW: youtu.be/FmDE-0zeOwk?...
November 8, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Check out Lawrence Osborne’s top book rec of 2025, plus the author he would ideally take to dinner.
FULL EPISODE OUT NOW: youtu.be/FmDE-0zeOwk?...
FULL EPISODE OUT NOW: youtu.be/FmDE-0zeOwk?...
Can concur. I've been to the Frick three frickin' times and have only the wateriest memories.
(my viciously snobbish take on the Frick, having finally been, is that if you live in Europe and have put even just *some* effort into going to the big museums there then it just isn't all that remarkable as a collection, but bless the yanks for giving it a decent go)
November 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Can concur. I've been to the Frick three frickin' times and have only the wateriest memories.