Tony White
@tonywhite.bsky.social
London author. Latest novel The Fountain in the Forest (Faber). Former Science Museum writer in residence. Tony White is an RLF Fellow. CWA member. Views my own. Mailing list and other links👇🏼
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Tony White
@tonywhite.bsky.social
· Sep 27
Delighted that my short story ‘Plain Speaking’ written to mark the 110th anniversary of the birth of Brian O’Nolan aka Flann O’Brien is now collected in a new textbook for grammar school students in Germany: ‘Great Britain in Nine Short Stories’ from @cornelsenverlag.bsky.social See: bit.ly/4nKSKq6
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
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
November 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
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Anyone up for a Folk Funk Friday? Here's a great cassette I bought from 'Jazzman' Gerald's stall in Camden Market around 30 years ago. It's recreated here
Spotify ▶️ open.spotify.com/playlist/2gz...
YouTube ▶️ youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Spotify ▶️ open.spotify.com/playlist/2gz...
YouTube ▶️ youtube.com/playlist?lis...
November 7, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Anyone up for a Folk Funk Friday? Here's a great cassette I bought from 'Jazzman' Gerald's stall in Camden Market around 30 years ago. It's recreated here
Spotify ▶️ open.spotify.com/playlist/2gz...
YouTube ▶️ youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Spotify ▶️ open.spotify.com/playlist/2gz...
YouTube ▶️ youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Congratulations to Alan Hollinghurst, the @newwritingnorth.bsky.social team, the #CohenPrize and all concerned — plus *really* great speeches all round. Glad to have been there👏🙏✊
November 4, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Congratulations to Alan Hollinghurst, the @newwritingnorth.bsky.social team, the #CohenPrize and all concerned — plus *really* great speeches all round. Glad to have been there👏🙏✊
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Saturday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 4th lowest on record (JAXA data)
• about 520,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,440,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 2,170,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,410,000 km² below the 1980s mean
More zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
• about 520,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,440,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 2,170,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,410,000 km² below the 1980s mean
More zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
November 1, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Saturday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 4th lowest on record (JAXA data)
• about 520,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,440,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 2,170,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,410,000 km² below the 1980s mean
More zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
• about 520,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,440,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 2,170,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,410,000 km² below the 1980s mean
More zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
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Highly recommend this ambient soundtrack if your dog is upset by fireworks. It’s like Brian Eno for canines and really helped our previous hound who had a week-long panic attack each year around Bonfire Night.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=iY9m...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=iY9m...
Firework Music for Dogs! Calm Music for Dogs Scared of Fireworks For Bonfire Night and Thanksgiving!
YouTube video by Relax My Dog - Relaxing Music for Dogs
m.youtube.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Highly recommend this ambient soundtrack if your dog is upset by fireworks. It’s like Brian Eno for canines and really helped our previous hound who had a week-long panic attack each year around Bonfire Night.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=iY9m...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=iY9m...
RIP and thank you David Bellos👏👏👏👏✊
October 27, 2025 at 10:52 PM
RIP and thank you David Bellos👏👏👏👏✊
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RIP to David Bellos, a great translator, teacher, scholar and popularizer. Here's a charming little essay about what he learned from his landmark translation of Georges Perec's 'Life: A User's Manual'. online.wsj.com/article/SB10...
October 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
RIP to David Bellos, a great translator, teacher, scholar and popularizer. Here's a charming little essay about what he learned from his landmark translation of Georges Perec's 'Life: A User's Manual'. online.wsj.com/article/SB10...
Morning, all, from the banks of the Thames in SW London — have a good one ;)
PS zoom in for bonus swan flypast🦢🦢🦢🦢🫡
PS zoom in for bonus swan flypast🦢🦢🦢🦢🫡
October 27, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Morning, all, from the banks of the Thames in SW London — have a good one ;)
PS zoom in for bonus swan flypast🦢🦢🦢🦢🫡
PS zoom in for bonus swan flypast🦢🦢🦢🦢🫡
Twilight’s last gleamings, Stratford-style
October 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Twilight’s last gleamings, Stratford-style
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Today, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin opens at AA Gallery in London! Curated by Sarah Shin and Harriet Jennings, the exhibition presents a selection of Ursula's maps, including some that have never been exhibited before.
October 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Today, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin opens at AA Gallery in London! Curated by Sarah Shin and Harriet Jennings, the exhibition presents a selection of Ursula's maps, including some that have never been exhibited before.
Thames at Hammersmith, London, just after low tide this morning
October 17, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Thames at Hammersmith, London, just after low tide this morning
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For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.
Reposts welcomed.
Reposts welcomed.
Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...
Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research
observer.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 9:09 AM
For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.
Reposts welcomed.
Reposts welcomed.
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This is such bollocks.
October 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
This is such bollocks.
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Today is Bookshop Day, a day to celebrate ALL bookshops on our high streets.
Bookshops are an integral part of an author's livelihood, and we celebrate all the talented booksellers who share their guidance and expertise.
Visit your local bookshop today and show them your support.
#bookshopday
Bookshops are an integral part of an author's livelihood, and we celebrate all the talented booksellers who share their guidance and expertise.
Visit your local bookshop today and show them your support.
#bookshopday
October 11, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Today is Bookshop Day, a day to celebrate ALL bookshops on our high streets.
Bookshops are an integral part of an author's livelihood, and we celebrate all the talented booksellers who share their guidance and expertise.
Visit your local bookshop today and show them your support.
#bookshopday
Bookshops are an integral part of an author's livelihood, and we celebrate all the talented booksellers who share their guidance and expertise.
Visit your local bookshop today and show them your support.
#bookshopday
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Does anyone have a copy of The Art of Joy (the English translation of L'arte della gioia) by Goliarda Sapienza? I’m looking for a quote for a translation I’m working on. Thanks!
October 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Does anyone have a copy of The Art of Joy (the English translation of L'arte della gioia) by Goliarda Sapienza? I’m looking for a quote for a translation I’m working on. Thanks!
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Fundraiser for @resonancefm.bsky.social Friday 17/10/25 @cafeotodalston.bsky.social two-night festival curated on Friday by Resonance Extra’s Kinn featuring Rocheman, Kinn, Mohammed Rowe, Delia Detritus, Christos Stylianides, Cornelia Isaksson, Beatrice Vorster, Yasmin Vardi, Glint Music + more.
October 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Fundraiser for @resonancefm.bsky.social Friday 17/10/25 @cafeotodalston.bsky.social two-night festival curated on Friday by Resonance Extra’s Kinn featuring Rocheman, Kinn, Mohammed Rowe, Delia Detritus, Christos Stylianides, Cornelia Isaksson, Beatrice Vorster, Yasmin Vardi, Glint Music + more.
👋Hello to new followers! BTW if you’d like to get book news from me and hear about gigs like this at #thefrenchhouse Soho, and receive invites to my book launches? It’s easy, and now might be a good time… ;) Plus you can unsubscribe any time👉🏼 stats.sender.net/forms/eE2pka...
(Photo Peter Clark 👏👏👏)
(Photo Peter Clark 👏👏👏)
October 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
👋Hello to new followers! BTW if you’d like to get book news from me and hear about gigs like this at #thefrenchhouse Soho, and receive invites to my book launches? It’s easy, and now might be a good time… ;) Plus you can unsubscribe any time👉🏼 stats.sender.net/forms/eE2pka...
(Photo Peter Clark 👏👏👏)
(Photo Peter Clark 👏👏👏)
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🧵 In 2025, book censorship in the United States is rampant and common. Never before in the life of any living American have so many books been systematically removed from school libraries across the country.
Read our new report "The Normalization of Book Banning" at: pen.org/report/the-n...
Read our new report "The Normalization of Book Banning" at: pen.org/report/the-n...
October 1, 2025 at 2:03 PM
🧵 In 2025, book censorship in the United States is rampant and common. Never before in the life of any living American have so many books been systematically removed from school libraries across the country.
Read our new report "The Normalization of Book Banning" at: pen.org/report/the-n...
Read our new report "The Normalization of Book Banning" at: pen.org/report/the-n...
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Restrictions on books in public schools have become “rampant and common,” according to a new report by the free speech organization PEN America, so frequent in some states that they are now considered “routine and expected part of school operations"... Read free: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/b...
‘Rampant’ Book Bans Are Being Taken for Granted, Free Speech Group Warns
www.nytimes.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Restrictions on books in public schools have become “rampant and common,” according to a new report by the free speech organization PEN America, so frequent in some states that they are now considered “routine and expected part of school operations"... Read free: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/b...
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It's Wednesday afternoon, and so NEARLY the weekend – and A Personal Anthology! This week's guest editor, picking and introducing a dozen favourite short stories, is translator, critic and writer @anna-aslanyan.bsky.social.
Hitting inboxes Friday. Sign up here if you aren't already. RT if you are!
Hitting inboxes Friday. Sign up here if you aren't already. RT if you are!
About - A Personal Anthology
A weekly guest-editor picks and introduces a personal anthology of twelve favourite short stories. Click to read A Personal Anthology, by Jonathan Gibbs, a Substack publication with thousands of subsc...
apersonalanthology.substack.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
It's Wednesday afternoon, and so NEARLY the weekend – and A Personal Anthology! This week's guest editor, picking and introducing a dozen favourite short stories, is translator, critic and writer @anna-aslanyan.bsky.social.
Hitting inboxes Friday. Sign up here if you aren't already. RT if you are!
Hitting inboxes Friday. Sign up here if you aren't already. RT if you are!
(Misty) morning, all ;)
— the Thames at Barnes Bridge RN
— the Thames at Barnes Bridge RN
September 29, 2025 at 7:05 AM
(Misty) morning, all ;)
— the Thames at Barnes Bridge RN
— the Thames at Barnes Bridge RN
