Malachi Whitaker
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Official account of all things Malachi Whitaker, Yorkshire author, born Bradford (1895-1976). Moderated by Whitaker's Literary Executor, Valerie Waterhouse (PhD researcher, Salford University. Winner of BIO Kitty Kelley Dissertation Fellowship, 2025-6)
Fascinating evening at Waterstones, Hampstead, hearing Gerri Kimber in conversation with Karina Jakubowicz & Elleke Boehmer on her new book: Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life. Much discussion about Mansfield's love affair with Yorkshireman AR Orage, editor of The New Age @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Fascinating evening at Waterstones, Hampstead, hearing Gerri Kimber in conversation with Karina Jakubowicz & Elleke Boehmer on her new book: Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life. Much discussion about Mansfield's love affair with Yorkshireman AR Orage, editor of The New Age @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
Sitting pretty. Malachi Whitaker's 1939 memoir "And So Did I", among classics including Tara Westover's "Educated" and Charlene White's "No Place Like Home". @waterstones.bsky.social Leeds, Albion Street.
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November 11, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Sitting pretty. Malachi Whitaker's 1939 memoir "And So Did I", among classics including Tara Westover's "Educated" and Charlene White's "No Place Like Home". @waterstones.bsky.social Leeds, Albion Street.
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@neglectedbooks.com
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Jane Austen. Jan Morris. Malachi Whitaker. Malachi's 1939 memoir "And So Did I" in great company under "Biography" at Leeds Waterstones on Albion Street. @waterstones.bsky.social @bhousepress.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Jane Austen. Jan Morris. Malachi Whitaker. Malachi's 1939 memoir "And So Did I" in great company under "Biography" at Leeds Waterstones on Albion Street. @waterstones.bsky.social @bhousepress.bsky.social
Still no copies of Malachi Whitaker's light dark n witty 1939 memoir, "And So Did I" on the dedicated stand at Waterstones in her home city of Bradford. On order apparently. Waiting patiently (with fingers crossed!) @bhousepress.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Still no copies of Malachi Whitaker's light dark n witty 1939 memoir, "And So Did I" on the dedicated stand at Waterstones in her home city of Bradford. On order apparently. Waiting patiently (with fingers crossed!) @bhousepress.bsky.social
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This month is the 400th anniv of the passing of Sofonisba Anguissola. Art Herstory commemorates the moment with a (very) limited edition hard cover journal.
Order your copy at artherstory.net/product/sofo...
Available on Etsy as well: www.etsy.com/listing/4383...
Order your copy at artherstory.net/product/sofo...
Available on Etsy as well: www.etsy.com/listing/4383...
November 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
This month is the 400th anniv of the passing of Sofonisba Anguissola. Art Herstory commemorates the moment with a (very) limited edition hard cover journal.
Order your copy at artherstory.net/product/sofo...
Available on Etsy as well: www.etsy.com/listing/4383...
Order your copy at artherstory.net/product/sofo...
Available on Etsy as well: www.etsy.com/listing/4383...
It's done!
Thanks to everyone who came to the talk on Malachi Whitaker for @litcamb.bsky.social last night.
What a privilege to speak with such an engaged and interested audience.
Here, I'm discussing Malachi's story "Unleashed", set in her father's Bradford bookbindery
(Valerie Waterhouse)
Thanks to everyone who came to the talk on Malachi Whitaker for @litcamb.bsky.social last night.
What a privilege to speak with such an engaged and interested audience.
Here, I'm discussing Malachi's story "Unleashed", set in her father's Bradford bookbindery
(Valerie Waterhouse)
October 26, 2025 at 6:59 AM
It's done!
Thanks to everyone who came to the talk on Malachi Whitaker for @litcamb.bsky.social last night.
What a privilege to speak with such an engaged and interested audience.
Here, I'm discussing Malachi's story "Unleashed", set in her father's Bradford bookbindery
(Valerie Waterhouse)
Thanks to everyone who came to the talk on Malachi Whitaker for @litcamb.bsky.social last night.
What a privilege to speak with such an engaged and interested audience.
Here, I'm discussing Malachi's story "Unleashed", set in her father's Bradford bookbindery
(Valerie Waterhouse)
So looking forward to this forthcoming book!
Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life by Gerri Kimber
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Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life by Gerri Kimber
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Listen now: Gerri Kimber talks about Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf
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October 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
So looking forward to this forthcoming book!
Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life by Gerri Kimber
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Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life by Gerri Kimber
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Latest sighting of Malachi Whitaker's brilliant 1939 memoir, 'And So Did', at Grove Bookshop, Ilkley. (With a "Signed by the Author" label by her "ghostwriter", obviously!) 😜
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October 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Latest sighting of Malachi Whitaker's brilliant 1939 memoir, 'And So Did', at Grove Bookshop, Ilkley. (With a "Signed by the Author" label by her "ghostwriter", obviously!) 😜
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"An undercurrent of existential bewilderment and searching."
@andrewcrowther.bsky.social on Malachi Whitaker's fast, fun but never frothy 1939 memoir "And So Did I".
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@andrewcrowther.bsky.social on Malachi Whitaker's fast, fun but never frothy 1939 memoir "And So Did I".
Out now from @bhousepress.bsky.social
A book I have very much enjoyed this week: "And So Do I" by Bradford writer Malachi Whitaker, a sort of chronicle of 2 years in the late 1930s, first published in 1939 & newly republished. Irreverent, humorous, often startlingly honest, with an undercurrent of existential bewilderment and searching.
October 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
"An undercurrent of existential bewilderment and searching."
@andrewcrowther.bsky.social on Malachi Whitaker's fast, fun but never frothy 1939 memoir "And So Did I".
Out now from @bhousepress.bsky.social
@andrewcrowther.bsky.social on Malachi Whitaker's fast, fun but never frothy 1939 memoir "And So Did I".
Out now from @bhousepress.bsky.social
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A book I have very much enjoyed this week: "And So Do I" by Bradford writer Malachi Whitaker, a sort of chronicle of 2 years in the late 1930s, first published in 1939 & newly republished. Irreverent, humorous, often startlingly honest, with an undercurrent of existential bewilderment and searching.
October 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
A book I have very much enjoyed this week: "And So Do I" by Bradford writer Malachi Whitaker, a sort of chronicle of 2 years in the late 1930s, first published in 1939 & newly republished. Irreverent, humorous, often startlingly honest, with an undercurrent of existential bewilderment and searching.
Thank you @sarahstarrmurphy.bsky.social for the generous comment on my Afterword for Malachi Whitaker's fast n funny "And So Did I" @bhousepress.bsky.social
(Valerie)
(Valerie)
I became a Whitaker fan thanks to Valerie Waterhouse - fitting to enjoy this with her brilliant afterward!
“Malachi’s 1939 memoir is more tightly controlled…. ‘What is the use of life?’ when uncertainty is all around, she asks, supplying the book’s unifying theme.”
@malachiwhitaker.bsky.social
“Malachi’s 1939 memoir is more tightly controlled…. ‘What is the use of life?’ when uncertainty is all around, she asks, supplying the book’s unifying theme.”
@malachiwhitaker.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Thank you @sarahstarrmurphy.bsky.social for the generous comment on my Afterword for Malachi Whitaker's fast n funny "And So Did I" @bhousepress.bsky.social
(Valerie)
(Valerie)
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I became a Whitaker fan thanks to Valerie Waterhouse - fitting to enjoy this with her brilliant afterward!
“Malachi’s 1939 memoir is more tightly controlled…. ‘What is the use of life?’ when uncertainty is all around, she asks, supplying the book’s unifying theme.”
@malachiwhitaker.bsky.social
“Malachi’s 1939 memoir is more tightly controlled…. ‘What is the use of life?’ when uncertainty is all around, she asks, supplying the book’s unifying theme.”
@malachiwhitaker.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I became a Whitaker fan thanks to Valerie Waterhouse - fitting to enjoy this with her brilliant afterward!
“Malachi’s 1939 memoir is more tightly controlled…. ‘What is the use of life?’ when uncertainty is all around, she asks, supplying the book’s unifying theme.”
@malachiwhitaker.bsky.social
“Malachi’s 1939 memoir is more tightly controlled…. ‘What is the use of life?’ when uncertainty is all around, she asks, supplying the book’s unifying theme.”
@malachiwhitaker.bsky.social
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Katherine Mansfield died from TB #OTD in 1923, in a clinic outside Paris. She was 34.
Three months earlier, she had written this in her journal:
'Warm, eager, living life – to be rooted in life – to learn, to desire to know, to feel, to think, to act. That is what I want.'
Three months earlier, she had written this in her journal:
'Warm, eager, living life – to be rooted in life – to learn, to desire to know, to feel, to think, to act. That is what I want.'
January 9, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Katherine Mansfield died from TB #OTD in 1923, in a clinic outside Paris. She was 34.
Three months earlier, she had written this in her journal:
'Warm, eager, living life – to be rooted in life – to learn, to desire to know, to feel, to think, to act. That is what I want.'
Three months earlier, she had written this in her journal:
'Warm, eager, living life – to be rooted in life – to learn, to desire to know, to feel, to think, to act. That is what I want.'
Last chance to sign up for the FREE Online Book Launch of Malachi Whitaker's light dark n witty 1939 memoir, 'And So Did I'.
With Boiler House Press Editor, Brad Bigelow, and Malachi Whitaker's Literary Executor, Valerie Waterhouse.
TONIGHT, 14/10.
7pm UK, 8pm CET
Link below
With Boiler House Press Editor, Brad Bigelow, and Malachi Whitaker's Literary Executor, Valerie Waterhouse.
TONIGHT, 14/10.
7pm UK, 8pm CET
Link below
October 14, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Last chance to sign up for the FREE Online Book Launch of Malachi Whitaker's light dark n witty 1939 memoir, 'And So Did I'.
With Boiler House Press Editor, Brad Bigelow, and Malachi Whitaker's Literary Executor, Valerie Waterhouse.
TONIGHT, 14/10.
7pm UK, 8pm CET
Link below
With Boiler House Press Editor, Brad Bigelow, and Malachi Whitaker's Literary Executor, Valerie Waterhouse.
TONIGHT, 14/10.
7pm UK, 8pm CET
Link below
Signing copies of my Afterword in Malachi Whitaker's 1939 memoir 'And So Did I' yesterday @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social with Malachi's daughter Val Tordoff. Reprinted for the first time in 38 years by Recovered Books, Boiler House Press, University of East Anglia @bhousepress.bsky.social (Valerie)
October 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Signing copies of my Afterword in Malachi Whitaker's 1939 memoir 'And So Did I' yesterday @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social with Malachi's daughter Val Tordoff. Reprinted for the first time in 38 years by Recovered Books, Boiler House Press, University of East Anglia @bhousepress.bsky.social (Valerie)
Thanks to the 90+ people who came to the launch event for Malachi Whitaker's 1939 memoir, And So Did I @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social reprinted after 38 years by @bhousepress.bsky.social
Thanks for the great questions & for buying so many copies of our Malachi's marvellous book!
Thanks for the great questions & for buying so many copies of our Malachi's marvellous book!
October 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Thanks to the 90+ people who came to the launch event for Malachi Whitaker's 1939 memoir, And So Did I @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social reprinted after 38 years by @bhousepress.bsky.social
Thanks for the great questions & for buying so many copies of our Malachi's marvellous book!
Thanks for the great questions & for buying so many copies of our Malachi's marvellous book!
Two days at BBC Written Archives, Caversham Park, Reading, working with wonderful archivists to go through Malachi's contributions to The Listener in 1930s and 40s; and hunting for BBC Radio 4 scripts. BBC aired 50+ broadcasts of Malachi's stories but sadly, all correspondence seems to be lost.
October 10, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Two days at BBC Written Archives, Caversham Park, Reading, working with wonderful archivists to go through Malachi's contributions to The Listener in 1930s and 40s; and hunting for BBC Radio 4 scripts. BBC aired 50+ broadcasts of Malachi's stories but sadly, all correspondence seems to be lost.
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Opening March 2026, our new family exhibition will explore the enchanting world of fairy tales! ✨ 🏰
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September 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Opening March 2026, our new family exhibition will explore the enchanting world of fairy tales! ✨ 🏰
Read more about what 2026 has in store: bit.ly/BL-Exhibitio...
Read more about what 2026 has in store: bit.ly/BL-Exhibitio...
October 6, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Rocks at Night (1939)
by Paul Klee
by Paul Klee
October 5, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Rocks at Night (1939)
by Paul Klee
by Paul Klee
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The Men Who Stand and Wait, Wigan, 1939, photo by Kurt Hutton for Picture Post. They are outside a labour exchange.
October 6, 2025 at 7:28 AM
The Men Who Stand and Wait, Wigan, 1939, photo by Kurt Hutton for Picture Post. They are outside a labour exchange.
Thrilling to see that in Italy, Malachi Whitaker's 'And So Did I' is available for online orders & delivery from La Feltrinelli
Light, dark & witty, this 1939 memoir is a book for our times
www.lafeltrinelli.it/so-did-i-lib...
Light, dark & witty, this 1939 memoir is a book for our times
www.lafeltrinelli.it/so-did-i-lib...
And So Did I - Malachi Whitaker - Libro in lingua inglese - UEA Publishing Project - | Feltrinelli
And So Did I è un libro di Malachi WhitakerUEA Publishing Project : acquista su Feltrinelli a 26.40€!
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October 6, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Thrilling to see that in Italy, Malachi Whitaker's 'And So Did I' is available for online orders & delivery from La Feltrinelli
Light, dark & witty, this 1939 memoir is a book for our times
www.lafeltrinelli.it/so-did-i-lib...
Light, dark & witty, this 1939 memoir is a book for our times
www.lafeltrinelli.it/so-did-i-lib...
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"Her work combines tension and keen observation in a uniquely captivating way. I love the book, and we owe thanks to Recovered Books/Boiler House Press for bringing [her] to our attention."
Review of Malachi Whitaker's And So Did I. By Tosh Berman
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Review of Malachi Whitaker's And So Did I. By Tosh Berman
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The Quiet Visionary From Yorkshire
Book Review: "And So Did I " by Malachi Whitaker (Recovered Books/Boiler House Press, 2025 ISBN: 9781915812759
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October 3, 2025 at 6:30 AM
"Her work combines tension and keen observation in a uniquely captivating way. I love the book, and we owe thanks to Recovered Books/Boiler House Press for bringing [her] to our attention."
Review of Malachi Whitaker's And So Did I. By Tosh Berman
tosh.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...
Review of Malachi Whitaker's And So Did I. By Tosh Berman
tosh.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...
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Back in 2019, I told my UEA tutor that Malachi Whitaker's And So Did I was one of the books I most wanted to reissue if I ever had a chance.
And six years later, with the help of Valerie Waterhouse, Catherine Taylor, and @bhousepress.bsky.social, we have.
(One reason to be cheerful today.)
And six years later, with the help of Valerie Waterhouse, Catherine Taylor, and @bhousepress.bsky.social, we have.
(One reason to be cheerful today.)
“And So Did I is an engrossing, often moving, beautifully written and contemplative work.” @kaggsy59.bsky.social offers an enthusiastic assessment of Malachi Whitaker's unique memoir, out today in the Recovered Books series from Boiler House Press. Available in the US from @asterismbooks.bsky.social
“Tea, like death, is a great leveller.” @neglectedbooks @bhousepress #malachiwhitaker
Over the last few years, I’ve been happy to champion the Recovered Books imprint from Boiler House Press; since their initial release, “Gentleman Overboard” in 2021, they’ve…
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September 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Back in 2019, I told my UEA tutor that Malachi Whitaker's And So Did I was one of the books I most wanted to reissue if I ever had a chance.
And six years later, with the help of Valerie Waterhouse, Catherine Taylor, and @bhousepress.bsky.social, we have.
(One reason to be cheerful today.)
And six years later, with the help of Valerie Waterhouse, Catherine Taylor, and @bhousepress.bsky.social, we have.
(One reason to be cheerful today.)