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Tree House Bookshop
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Second-hand bookshop and music venue in Kenilworth, Warwickshire run by Victoria Mier. Profits to the Kenilworth Centre, Help Musicians UK and Ellis Park Sumatra. Patron is glorious Bad Seed Warren Ellis. Posts by Victoria.
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Tree House Bookshop @treehousebookshop.bsky.social · Jul 1
Want some surprise books in the post? Need a new tea towel? Wondering what to send a bookish friend as a gift? Have a look at our lovely online shop - prices include P&P. All helps us and our cashflow hugely too! #BookSky
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womenintranslation.bsky.social
We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025! "Each of these books arrives in English in expert and accessible translations that honour the art and voice of their original authors."
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A photograph of the 6 titles shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025. The books are stood on their side on a wooden table with wood panelling backdrop. The six titles photographed are: Johanna Ekström and Sigrid Rausing, And the Walls Became the World All Around, translated from Swedish (Sweden) by Sigrid Rausing (Granta) Evelyne Trouillot, Désirée Congo, translated from French (Haiti) by M.A. Salvodon (University of Virginia Press) Maylis Besserie, Francis Bacon's Nanny, translated from French (France) by Clíona Ní Ríordáin (The Lilliput Press) Krisztina Tóth, My Secret Life, translated from Hungarian (Hungary) by George Szirtes (Bloodaxe Books) Liliana Corobca, Too Great A Sky, translated from Romanian (Romania) by Monica Cure (Seven Stories Press UK) Han Kang, We Do Not Part, translated from Korean (South Korea) by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris (Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Random House UK)
November 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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hejparry.bsky.social
Every Wednesday, I’m going to post a children’s book I’ve enjoyed.

If you’ve read it too, or you want to share another book, join in!

The Wrong Shoes, by Tom Percival.

Why do I like it? Read the alt text!

#ukkidlit #kidlituk
A copy of The Wrong Shoes, by Tom Percival. The cover illustration is a drawing of a young boy sitting down with a rucksack. This was recommended to me by a friend and I’ve just finished it. It’s the story of a boy whose poverty makes it hard for him to manage and fit in at school. It’s a very powerful depiction of how poverty impacts so many areas of a child’s life, and the difficult choices Will has to make, but all folded into a compelling story with characters it’s easy to care about. The book is beautifully illustrated too, by the author.
November 12, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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alexdavis1981.bsky.social
Christmas and horror go together better than you might think, and this December Char Baker will be exploring the connection between fear and festivities... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/you-better... #xmas #horror #christmas #festive #writing #writers #horrorwriting #horrorwriters
'You Better Not Cry': The Connection between Christmas and Horror
A two-week course explore the connection between horror and Christmas, with writing exercises to help get you inspired!
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November 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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mikelark.bsky.social
Happy Birthday, Mose Allison! (Thanks for hipping me, @dean.bsky.social). This one is a peaceful, seasonal favorite… www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e-x...
Mose Allison - Autumn song
YouTube video by Σάκης
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November 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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maryfrancesness.bsky.social
▫️ curb stones after the rain ▫️
curb stones after a long day of rain - light blue stones with cracks and trailing leaves - we might imagine tiny short stories ...
November 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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This neophyte just bought the Tone Poet reissue (on Blue Note) of this, based on @andrewmale.bsky.social's review in the new issue of MOJO. Any other melancholy autumnal recommendations? Only the Lonely? Watertown?
Frank Sinatra's 1955 album 'In the Wee Small Hours.'
November 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Coventry Bob Dylan fans will be at a late lunch before the concert on Thursday 13 November 2025. All welcome

Khushi Grill
88 Wheelwright Lane
Coventry CV6 4HH

RSVP edlis.cafe@gmail.com

If you know anyone going to the concert let them know...

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https://tinyurl.com/26ag5bw7 Coventry Bob Dylan fans will be at a late lunch before the concert on Thursday 13 November 2025. All welcome Khushi Grill 88 Wheelwright Lane Coventry CV6 4HH RSVP edlis.cafe@gmail.com If you know anyone going to the concert let them know... The EDLIS Annual Conversazione and Lunch RSVP to edlis.cafe@gmail.com if you are coming and wish to be part of our booking. All are welcome! The date is Thursday 13 November 2025. The occasion is Bob Dylan’s concert at the Coventry Building Society Arena. 13:00 Conversazione at the Khushi Grill bar followed by 16:00 a Late Leisurely Lunch Arrive any time that suits you, we rarely leave quickly, and these events tend to drift on, so you can join in whenever. Khushi Grill 88 Wheelwright Lane Coventry CV6 4HH England This is the Holbrooks branch, not the city centre branch! Be sure to go to the correct one, closest to the concert venue. https://tinyurl.com/2bw2n6ve 15 minute walk, 5 minutes by Uber Concert doors open at 18:30. Though this time we will be ordering from the menu, people will share everything as usual. A communal meal. Parking details There is a car‑park designated for the restaurant (at 88 Wheelwright Lane) which offers free parking for customers—however, you must register your vehicle at the venue upon arrival (or via a QR code) to avoid receiving a parking fine. People who do not do this do get fined! "Still Working on Maggie's Farm" Exhibition Coventry Music Museum 80 Walsgrave Road Coventry CV2 4ED https://www.coventrybuildingsocietyarena.co.uk/news/coventry-celebrates-bob-dylans-first-visit-with-new-maggies-farm-exhibition https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_V7C5OH63Tb7iMFdiq4qU9aEKwKNARkQ_5ZHf1I0t30/ https://tinyurl.com/26ag5bw7
November 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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mooseallain.bsky.social
I can draw this cartoon for you, using as few lines as possible.

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Cartoon drawing by Moose Allain of a man and a woman sitting in armchairs in an empty room. The man says "Thanks for introducing me to minimalism" the woman replies "It's the least I could do"
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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andrewmale.bsky.social
Watching Murders In the Rue Morgue (Robert Florey, 1932) and marvelling at the cute little ape letterhead on the writing paper of Dr. Mirakle (Bela Lugosi), Dr. Mirakle who is abducting women and injecting them with ape blood in order to create a mate for his murderous sideshow ape. Pre Code, yes.
November 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Huge congratulations to Chris Emery on the publication of his fifth collection of poetry, ‘Wonder’! 🥳🍾🥂🎉

‘Wonder’ is available from all good bookstores today!
November 9, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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I would love for someone to write the YA novel (or series of novels) where a well-dressed teenager with a love for classic detective fiction actually *is* called in by the French authorities to help solve improbable crimes.
November 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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danherb10.bsky.social
Reposted every year in response to all those who fetishize remembrance
November 9, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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danherb10.bsky.social
Avebury.
A year ago.
#StandingStoneSunday
📷My own
A close up of a Sarsen viewed from below looking up to the sky.
November 9, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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mobydickatsea.bsky.social
Midwifery should be taught in the same course with fencing and boxing, riding and rowing.
November 9, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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mobydickatsea.bsky.social
look at this matter in other lights; weigh it in all sorts of scales
November 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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fannaharendt.bsky.social
#MusicChallenges #MusicChallenge #MusicInMusic
Day 5: Frogs by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
"Kris Kristofferson walks by kicking a can
In a shirt he hasn't washed for years"
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Frogs | live Cruel World, May 17, 2025
YouTube video by LiveShowEd Videos
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November 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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natlibscot.bsky.social
Did you know Mary Shelley once had to correct Sir Walter Scott for crediting her novel, Frankenstein, to her husband? 🔍

For one day only, see this story on paper at the National Library:
➡️ Mary Shelley's letter to Sir Walter Scott
➡️ Rare early editions & items from our archives
➡️ and more!
Page 1 of a letter of Mary Shelley to Sir Walter Scott on the authorship of ‘Frankenstein’, 14 June 1818 (MS.3889 f. 118) Page 2 of a letter of Mary Shelley to Sir Walter Scott on the authorship of ‘Frankenstein’, 14 June 1818 (MS.3889 f. 118)
November 4, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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spittingyarn.bsky.social
The cover has landed for the 2nd #CuraePrize anthology. A selection of fiction, nonfiction & poetry written by unpaid carers, a strangely marginalised group. It’s rare that our voices are amplified, but we’re here holding up our loved ones & growing in unexpected ways. Out 15/11. @renardpress.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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scribblerrob.bsky.social
In todays memory lane jaunt it was exactly 50 yrs ago that Pier Paolo Pasolini was murdered. It was also the day my BA Humanities lot set off on a 1 week field trip to Llandrindod Wells. Pasolini's death was my opening conversational gambit to the girl I sat next to on the coach. #winningsmile #gsoh
November 2, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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drmatthewsweet.bsky.social
It's my last BBC Radio 3 Sound of Cinema tomorrow, and I will be saying a proper goodbye. So tomorrow's show is an argument for the intellectual depth and richness of the film music, and how it should never be treated like wallpaper. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 3 - Sound of Cinema, A place for ideas
Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen.
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October 24, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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folkloretwitcher.bsky.social
“You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?"
"I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.”

👻Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol #BookWormSat
🎨Arthur Rackham
A black and white illustration of a fettered Jacob Marley from Dickens' A Christmas Carol - Arthur Rackham
October 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
treehousebookshop.bsky.social
Tonight! Do come.
richardausher.bsky.social Richard Usher @richardausher.bsky.social · 22d
#Halloween chills from Edgar Allan Poe this weekend in Kenilworth @treehousebookshop.bsky.social and Birmingham. Join Neu Noir Theatre Company for an evening reading of 'Fall of the House of Usher'!

#edgarallanpoe #fallofthehouseofusher

Tour Details Here:

neunoir.wordpress.com/performances/
October 25, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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richardausher.bsky.social
#Halloween chills from Edgar Allan Poe this weekend in Kenilworth @treehousebookshop.bsky.social and Birmingham. Join Neu Noir Theatre Company for an evening reading of 'Fall of the House of Usher'!

#edgarallanpoe #fallofthehouseofusher

Tour Details Here:

neunoir.wordpress.com/performances/
October 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
treehousebookshop.bsky.social
Really enjoying the audiobook of Martin Latham's The Bookseller's Tale, read by Roy McMillan. Lots of wonderful stuff in there. And I discovered he and I joined Waterstones in the same year, 1988 - he in High Street Ken, me in Charing X Road. I did a few weeks at HSK so our paths must have crossed.
October 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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mathewlyons.bsky.social
Quite a niche request, but does anyone know where I can find a complete, reliable translation of St John Chrysostom's Christmas Day sermon in 386? (I can see a few online, but I'm not sure how full or how accurate they are.)
October 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM