m john harrison
@mjohnharrison.bsky.social
New novel: The End of Everything
Serpent's Tail, June, 2026.
Blog: https://ambientehotel.wordpress.com/about
Serpent's Tail, June, 2026.
Blog: https://ambientehotel.wordpress.com/about
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Landscapes are written about, but there will be no landscape writing. Ghosts appear, but not in the ghost stories. Animals feature heavily, but there is nothing here that might be described as “animal fiction”.
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the cat we're cat-sitting is out on the patio eating a mouse he caught & killed to celebrate our arrival, while I sit inside eating half a marks & sparks ham and cheese sandwich
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
the cat we're cat-sitting is out on the patio eating a mouse he caught & killed to celebrate our arrival, while I sit inside eating half a marks & sparks ham and cheese sandwich
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Destroyed place https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/destroyed-place-1920
November 11, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Destroyed place https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/destroyed-place-1920
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Sighting at Islington cafe of @serpents-tail.bsky.social edition of The Course of the Heart @mjohnharrison.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Sighting at Islington cafe of @serpents-tail.bsky.social edition of The Course of the Heart @mjohnharrison.bsky.social
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Yesterday too bad to describe.
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Yesterday too bad to describe.
it's low tide all over, today
November 9, 2025 at 10:36 PM
it's low tide all over, today
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That’s a bit much to say about the new Director General of the BBC
November 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
That’s a bit much to say about the new Director General of the BBC
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Cheers👍🏼Great photo, Roy
@tonywhite.bsky.social
Low tide at Twickenham, just after midday
Low tide at Twickenham, just after midday
November 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Cheers👍🏼Great photo, Roy
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R4: Yes! We'll make sure you know all about the show, *as if it's news*, even if you deliberately avoided watching it!
November 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
R4: Yes! We'll make sure you know all about the show, *as if it's news*, even if you deliberately avoided watching it!
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At last! My translation of Michio Hoshino's The Traveling Tree is out today in the UK! I’ve been dying to translate this beautiful book for more than 15 years.
Read my thoughts on translating it:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Or purchase a copy:
www.amazon.co.uk/Travelling-T...
#japaneseliterature
Read my thoughts on translating it:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Or purchase a copy:
www.amazon.co.uk/Travelling-T...
#japaneseliterature
November 7, 2025 at 4:36 AM
At last! My translation of Michio Hoshino's The Traveling Tree is out today in the UK! I’ve been dying to translate this beautiful book for more than 15 years.
Read my thoughts on translating it:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Or purchase a copy:
www.amazon.co.uk/Travelling-T...
#japaneseliterature
Read my thoughts on translating it:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Or purchase a copy:
www.amazon.co.uk/Travelling-T...
#japaneseliterature
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medusa of the everyday; brilliant cover
"As If Proust Dipped His Madeleine in LSD"
Thank you Steven van Ammel for this fabulous 4**** review for Verbruikt Licht (aka @cbeditions.bsky.social Spent Light) published by Koppernik in the Netherlands & Belgium. Best headline ever!
Thank you Steven van Ammel for this fabulous 4**** review for Verbruikt Licht (aka @cbeditions.bsky.social Spent Light) published by Koppernik in the Netherlands & Belgium. Best headline ever!
“Alsof Proust zijn madeleine in lsd sopt”: ‘Verbruikt licht’ van Lara Pawson is een boek vol excessen dat onder de huid kruipt ★★★★☆
Als de pepermolen aan een handgranaat doet denken en de kookwekker martelfantasieën oproept, weet je dat je te maken hebt met een boek over trauma.
www.standaard.be
November 7, 2025 at 10:29 AM
medusa of the everyday; brilliant cover
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I had similar advice from Tom Disch in the early 1970s, about writing into a niche, changed my life & seems broadly applicable
November 3, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I had similar advice from Tom Disch in the early 1970s, about writing into a niche, changed my life & seems broadly applicable
quite a lot of fog
November 7, 2025 at 10:08 AM
quite a lot of fog
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Gardener Smoking in the Moonlight | Joan Miró
November 6, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Great to be at Foyles last night to support the shortlisters for the 2025 Goldsmiths. Many congratulations to CD Rose! (A pleasure to pick up my belated trophy, too. Thanks, everyone.)
November 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Great to be at Foyles last night to support the shortlisters for the 2025 Goldsmiths. Many congratulations to CD Rose! (A pleasure to pick up my belated trophy, too. Thanks, everyone.)
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A bouquet of congratulations to C.D. Rose, a very deserving winner of the @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social for his brilliant, funny, inventive, cynical, enthralling, disorienting novel We Live Here Now. 👇
Missing ships, missing artworks, missing persons… I loved CD Rose’s new novel We Live Here Now, which has echoes of M John Harrison, JG Ballard, Tom McCarthy and … Martin Amis, but is also thoroughly and delightfully its own thing.
Me in today’s Telegraph:
Me in today’s Telegraph:
November 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
A bouquet of congratulations to C.D. Rose, a very deserving winner of the @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social for his brilliant, funny, inventive, cynical, enthralling, disorienting novel We Live Here Now. 👇
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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
Trophy designed and made by Cherrie Tong; pic @davidcollard.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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
Trophy designed and made by Cherrie Tong; pic @davidcollard.bsky.social
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Still the best prize. We lucky recipients represent a rare club.
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Still the best prize. We lucky recipients represent a rare club.
Tonight's the night
2025 Prize
The Goldsmiths Prize was established in 2013 to celebrate the qualities of creative daring associated with the University and to reward fiction that breaks the mould or opens up new possibilities for ...
www.gold.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Tonight's the night