Jeff Young
@wildtwin.bsky.social
Writer, collagist, memoirist, essayist. Scavenger. Ex-Radio Dramatist, Ex-Playwright. Retired wanderer.
Author of Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay, (Little Toller); Deliria, (Rough Trade Books)
Wild Twin was published by Little Toller on 18th Sept
Author of Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay, (Little Toller); Deliria, (Rough Trade Books)
Wild Twin was published by Little Toller on 18th Sept
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On the latest Little Atoms podcast, @joannapocock.bsky.social on her wonderful new book Greyhound. Out now from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here:
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Little Atoms 975 - Joanna Pocock's Greyhound | Little Atoms
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November 3, 2025 at 9:15 AM
On the latest Little Atoms podcast, @joannapocock.bsky.social on her wonderful new book Greyhound. Out now from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here:
shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...
shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...
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I have reviewed Jeff Young’s most excellent Wild Twin in the new edition of Tribune (out in the shops this week)…
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
@wildtwin.bsky.social
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@wildtwin.bsky.social
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Rimbaud of Maghull
Liverpool writer Jeff Young has attracted a dedicated readership in recent years, following publication of two books that powerfully and hypnotically catalogue late-1970s Europe and his native Merseys...
tribunemag.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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I have reviewed Jeff Young’s most excellent Wild Twin in the new edition of Tribune (out in the shops this week)…
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
@wildtwin.bsky.social
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/rimb...
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
@wildtwin.bsky.social
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/rimb...
Rimbaud of Maghull
Liverpool writer Jeff Young has attracted a dedicated readership in recent years, following publication of two books that powerfully and hypnotically catalogue late-1970s Europe and his native Merseys...
tribunemag.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I have reviewed Jeff Young’s most excellent Wild Twin in the new edition of Tribune (out in the shops this week)…
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
@wildtwin.bsky.social
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/rimb...
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
@wildtwin.bsky.social
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/rimb...
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Liverpool, 1960s, photo by Karl Hughes.
November 5, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Liverpool, 1960s, photo by Karl Hughes.
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Now open for submissions of unpublished fiction and non-fiction, poetry, graphic narratives, photo-essays, and short films focussed on the actuality or idea (no matter how abstract) of a journey(or journeys): email to guesteditorbhp@gmail.com.
Welcome November guest editor - C.C. O’HANLON!!! @ccohanlon.bsky.social
JOURNEYS
Physical, Psychological, and Imaginary, embracing words and images, in all forms, as well as complexity, resisting the superficial, algorithmic narratives of social media.
Sendx
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JOURNEYS
Physical, Psychological, and Imaginary, embracing words and images, in all forms, as well as complexity, resisting the superficial, algorithmic narratives of social media.
Sendx
burninghousepress.com/2025/11/01/n...
NOVEMBER 2025 Guest Editor Is C.C. O’HANLON!!! THEME/S: JOURNEYS
Burning House Press are excited to welcome C.C. O’HANLON as the fifth BHP guest editor of our return series of special editions! As of today C.C. will take over editorship of Burning House Pre…
burninghousepress.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Now open for submissions of unpublished fiction and non-fiction, poetry, graphic narratives, photo-essays, and short films focussed on the actuality or idea (no matter how abstract) of a journey(or journeys): email to guesteditorbhp@gmail.com.
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Here’s the cover for LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK, out 16 April with @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
Preorder here: lnk.to/LikeaCatLove...
Please share! The book doing well means I can write another (and fulfil my dream of owning a pizza oven), so it’s pretty serious
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Preorder here: lnk.to/LikeaCatLove...
Please share! The book doing well means I can write another (and fulfil my dream of owning a pizza oven), so it’s pretty serious
🐈⬛ 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
November 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Here’s the cover for LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK, out 16 April with @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
Preorder here: lnk.to/LikeaCatLove...
Please share! The book doing well means I can write another (and fulfil my dream of owning a pizza oven), so it’s pretty serious
🐈⬛ 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
Preorder here: lnk.to/LikeaCatLove...
Please share! The book doing well means I can write another (and fulfil my dream of owning a pizza oven), so it’s pretty serious
🐈⬛ 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
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You can now listen to last night’s Unclassified on BBC Sounds. We recorded the Listening Chair at home, on the knackered sofa, with a dog snuffling in the background (which was fitting). Thanks to Elizabeth for the invite.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Unclassified - Adelle Stripe's Listening Chair - BBC Sounds
Elizabeth Alker welcomes author Adelle Stripe into the Unclassified Listening Chair.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 9:26 AM
You can now listen to last night’s Unclassified on BBC Sounds. We recorded the Listening Chair at home, on the knackered sofa, with a dog snuffling in the background (which was fitting). Thanks to Elizabeth for the invite.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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It’s Dory Previn’s centenary today, here’s a repost of a Quietus feature from 2024 if you‘re curious to find out more. Really enjoyed writing this (and the documentary is excellent too).
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
No Ordinary Thing: The Momentous Life & Times of Dory Previn
On the release of a new documentary on Dory Previn, Adelle Stripe explores an artist who learned to live with voices in her head
thequietus.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM
It’s Dory Previn’s centenary today, here’s a repost of a Quietus feature from 2024 if you‘re curious to find out more. Really enjoyed writing this (and the documentary is excellent too).
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
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"+ that is how they change th world without asking for permission"
art + copy by @wildtwin.bsky.social
via @crossstarchitects.bsky.social
art + copy by @wildtwin.bsky.social
via @crossstarchitects.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
"+ that is how they change th world without asking for permission"
art + copy by @wildtwin.bsky.social
via @crossstarchitects.bsky.social
art + copy by @wildtwin.bsky.social
via @crossstarchitects.bsky.social
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@wildtwin.bsky.social Great chatting with you today Jeff. Thanks for attending and talking with the first year students it was lovely to hear you talk about your work and processes.
Thanks
Stephen
Thanks
Stephen
November 3, 2025 at 7:44 PM
@wildtwin.bsky.social Great chatting with you today Jeff. Thanks for attending and talking with the first year students it was lovely to hear you talk about your work and processes.
Thanks
Stephen
Thanks
Stephen
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What did Pasolini know? Fifty years after his brutal murder, the director’s vision of fascism is more urgent than ever
What did Pasolini know? Fifty years after his brutal murder, the director’s vision of fascism is more urgent than ever
With mystery still surrounding Pier Paolo Pasolini’s death, the poet and film-maker’s warnings of corruption and rising totalitarianism offer a chilling message for our times
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 10:04 AM
What did Pasolini know? Fifty years after his brutal murder, the director’s vision of fascism is more urgent than ever
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Judith Joy Ross.
There is a punctum in this portrait that I feel is a little heartbreaking.
There is a punctum in this portrait that I feel is a little heartbreaking.
October 30, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Judith Joy Ross.
There is a punctum in this portrait that I feel is a little heartbreaking.
There is a punctum in this portrait that I feel is a little heartbreaking.
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“In Peter Watkins’s world, no amount of time can bury the cry for freedom.”
Rest in power Peter Watkins, socialist hero.
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/cryi...
Rest in power Peter Watkins, socialist hero.
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/cryi...
Crying for Freedom: Peter Watkins at 90
Radical British filmmaker Peter Watkins was briefly tipped by the BBC before The War Game made him a controversial pariah. But he persisted — and now, at 90, he is a hero of liberated, formally remark...
tribunemag.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 6:51 PM
“In Peter Watkins’s world, no amount of time can bury the cry for freedom.”
Rest in power Peter Watkins, socialist hero.
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/cryi...
Rest in power Peter Watkins, socialist hero.
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/cryi...
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Peter Watkins, 1935-2025
The maverick filmmaker and pioneer of the docudrama, whose anti-establishment works redefined political cinema and challenged the very language of mass media, has died aged 90
www.bfi.org.uk/features/pet...
The maverick filmmaker and pioneer of the docudrama, whose anti-establishment works redefined political cinema and challenged the very language of mass media, has died aged 90
www.bfi.org.uk/features/pet...
Peter Watkins obituary: radical British filmmaker behind The War Game and Punishment Park
The maverick filmmaker and pioneer of the docudrama, whose anti-establishment works redefined political cinema and challenged the very language of mass media, has died aged 90.
www.bfi.org.uk
October 31, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Peter Watkins, 1935-2025
The maverick filmmaker and pioneer of the docudrama, whose anti-establishment works redefined political cinema and challenged the very language of mass media, has died aged 90
www.bfi.org.uk/features/pet...
The maverick filmmaker and pioneer of the docudrama, whose anti-establishment works redefined political cinema and challenged the very language of mass media, has died aged 90
www.bfi.org.uk/features/pet...
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I wrote about this decommissioned lighthouse for the 11th edition of Science & Magic, the Violette newsletter. You can read it here along with my previous Magnetic North missives and you can subscribe. Chock full of delights!
www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...
www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...
October 31, 2025 at 8:13 AM
I wrote about this decommissioned lighthouse for the 11th edition of Science & Magic, the Violette newsletter. You can read it here along with my previous Magnetic North missives and you can subscribe. Chock full of delights!
www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...
www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...
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I wrote about this decommissioned lighthouse for the 11th edition of Science & Magic, the Violette newsletter. You can read it here along with my previous Magnetic North missives and you can subscribe. Chock full of delights!
www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...
www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...
October 31, 2025 at 8:13 AM
I wrote about this decommissioned lighthouse for the 11th edition of Science & Magic, the Violette newsletter. You can read it here along with my previous Magnetic North missives and you can subscribe. Chock full of delights!
www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...
www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...
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The sharp, dark, dazzling fiction of Beryl Bainbridge is being reissued by @dauntbookspub.bsky.social, starting next year with ‘The Bottle Factory Outing’ and ‘An Awfully Big Adventure’ with new introductions by Yiyun Li and A.K. Blakemore.
October 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The sharp, dark, dazzling fiction of Beryl Bainbridge is being reissued by @dauntbookspub.bsky.social, starting next year with ‘The Bottle Factory Outing’ and ‘An Awfully Big Adventure’ with new introductions by Yiyun Li and A.K. Blakemore.
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There’s a signed copy of Wild Twin in this year’s Children in Read auction. All proceeds are in aid of the Children in Need appeal. Lot 281, get your bids in! @childreninread.bsky.social
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
www.jumblebee.co.uk/auction/deta...
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
www.jumblebee.co.uk/auction/deta...
Children in Read 2025
Authors and Illustrators around the globe, sign, dedicate, and send their books to their successful bidders.All Postage & Packaging is free.All proceeds are in aid of the B.B.C. Children in Need A...
www.jumblebee.co.uk
October 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
There’s a signed copy of Wild Twin in this year’s Children in Read auction. All proceeds are in aid of the Children in Need appeal. Lot 281, get your bids in! @childreninread.bsky.social
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
www.jumblebee.co.uk/auction/deta...
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
www.jumblebee.co.uk/auction/deta...
It’s two years ago today since my dad Cyril died at the age of 92. Here he is in the early 50’s inventing Post Punk. What a lovely man he was. If you want to know more about him here’s a piece I wrote for The Observer about his final year:
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
October 28, 2025 at 8:01 AM
It’s two years ago today since my dad Cyril died at the age of 92. Here he is in the early 50’s inventing Post Punk. What a lovely man he was. If you want to know more about him here’s a piece I wrote for The Observer about his final year:
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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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...
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Liverpool from New Brighton.
Autumn walk.
Autumn walk.
October 22, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Liverpool from New Brighton.
Autumn walk.
Autumn walk.
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Enormously proud to be the new UK home of Beryl Bainbridge. In March 2026, we kick things off in earnest by publishing AN AWFULLY BIG ADVENTURE, with an intro by Yiyun Li, and THE BOTTLE FACTORY OUTING, with an intro by A. K. Blakemore. Ruthlessly smart, darkly comic, her novels are sharp-edged gems
Daunt Books has acquired 13 books by five-time Booker-shortlistee Beryl Bainbridge 👇 #BookSky
Daunt Books acquires 13 books by Beryl Bainbridge
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October 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Enormously proud to be the new UK home of Beryl Bainbridge. In March 2026, we kick things off in earnest by publishing AN AWFULLY BIG ADVENTURE, with an intro by Yiyun Li, and THE BOTTLE FACTORY OUTING, with an intro by A. K. Blakemore. Ruthlessly smart, darkly comic, her novels are sharp-edged gems
Looking for Mr Schwitters - a new book www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/looking-fo...
Looking for Mr Schwitters - a new book
To produce an innovative and finely illustrated book about the émigré artist Kurt Schwitters’ final years in the Lake District.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Looking for Mr Schwitters - a new book www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/looking-fo...
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There's just a day to go until @manchesterup.bsky.social publish my latest book Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London.
I thought I should explain a bit about where the book came from.
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I thought I should explain a bit about where the book came from.
1/15
October 20, 2025 at 9:37 AM
There's just a day to go until @manchesterup.bsky.social publish my latest book Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London.
I thought I should explain a bit about where the book came from.
1/15
I thought I should explain a bit about where the book came from.
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