Charles Boyle
@cbeditions.bsky.social
Writer and publisher (CB editions, 2007 to now: www.cbeditions.com)
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Charles Boyle
@cbeditions.bsky.social
· Nov 22
Season Tickets on the CB editions home page: www.cbeditions.com. There are 75+ books on the website - choose any 6 for £50, or any 10 for £75. UK only; free postage.
Last Sunday I went to a Leicester Square premiere of the new series of Landman which stars Billy Bob Thornton and I've written about why I'm a little obsessed with that man here: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/11/bill...
November 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Last Sunday I went to a Leicester Square premiere of the new series of Landman which stars Billy Bob Thornton and I've written about why I'm a little obsessed with that man here: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/11/bill...
With a neat new bag for carrying yoga mats and cricket bats CB editions is off tomorrow to the Indie Book Fair at Bath Central Library organised by the wonderful Peirene Press.
November 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
With a neat new bag for carrying yoga mats and cricket bats CB editions is off tomorrow to the Indie Book Fair at Bath Central Library organised by the wonderful Peirene Press.
Good piece by @john-self.bsky.social on Paul Bailey, who died a year ago, who happened to live down the road and was the best of neighbours, whose last 2 books are published by CB editions: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Where to start with: Paul Bailey
The novelist and poet, who died a year ago, left a huge body of work distinguished by its melancholy wit and warmth. These are some of the highlights
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Good piece by @john-self.bsky.social on Paul Bailey, who died a year ago, who happened to live down the road and was the best of neighbours, whose last 2 books are published by CB editions: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
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10 years today since my poetry collection New Life—a companion to War Reporter—was published by @cbeditions.bsky.social in London (and not long after by @hangingloosepress.bsky.social in Brooklyn) 🙏🏻 Here’s a lovely review in The Rumpus therumpus.net/2016/01/29/n...
October 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
10 years today since my poetry collection New Life—a companion to War Reporter—was published by @cbeditions.bsky.social in London (and not long after by @hangingloosepress.bsky.social in Brooklyn) 🙏🏻 Here’s a lovely review in The Rumpus therumpus.net/2016/01/29/n...
CB editions October newsletter, archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/10/cbe-...
October 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
CB editions October newsletter, archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/10/cbe-...
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My second poetry collection ‘Scarsdale’ is 11 years old today. Still available from @cbeditions.bsky.social in the UK, and Measure Press in the US.
www.cbeditions.com/obrien2.html
www.amazon.com/Scarsdale-Da...
www.cbeditions.com/obrien2.html
www.amazon.com/Scarsdale-Da...
September 12, 2025 at 2:13 PM
My second poetry collection ‘Scarsdale’ is 11 years old today. Still available from @cbeditions.bsky.social in the UK, and Measure Press in the US.
www.cbeditions.com/obrien2.html
www.amazon.com/Scarsdale-Da...
www.cbeditions.com/obrien2.html
www.amazon.com/Scarsdale-Da...
Separation anxiety: books I’m fond of that might be hard or expensive to replace if I lose them – if I see another copy of the same edition in a charity shop, I often buy it. This is the most recent, bought at the weekend. Some of these duplicates I’ve given away, some I appear to have lost.
September 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Separation anxiety: books I’m fond of that might be hard or expensive to replace if I lose them – if I see another copy of the same edition in a charity shop, I often buy it. This is the most recent, bought at the weekend. Some of these duplicates I’ve given away, some I appear to have lost.
The books, yes, but also the shelves - made yesterday from stiff cardboard, they slot together when going up and fold down flat when down. If I designed for IKEA I'd give them a name like Harald.
September 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The books, yes, but also the shelves - made yesterday from stiff cardboard, they slot together when going up and fold down flat when down. If I designed for IKEA I'd give them a name like Harald.
CB editions newsletter, as archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/09/cbe-...
September 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM
CB editions newsletter, as archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/09/cbe-...
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Many thanks to Nadia Vikulina for her thoughtful and insightful review of Sovetica in the latest issue of Tears in the Fence ed. David Caddy.
The book is available here: www.cbeditions.com/clark
The book is available here: www.cbeditions.com/clark
August 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Many thanks to Nadia Vikulina for her thoughtful and insightful review of Sovetica in the latest issue of Tears in the Fence ed. David Caddy.
The book is available here: www.cbeditions.com/clark
The book is available here: www.cbeditions.com/clark
Pick'n'mix: CB editions July newsletter archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/07/pick...
Pick'n'mix: newsletter July 2025
Pick’n’mix: choose – from any of the books in the photo or on the website – six for £50, ten for £75: see the Season Tickets on the home p...
sonofabook.blogspot.com
July 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Pick'n'mix: CB editions July newsletter archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/07/pick...
Sheila Ramage ran this bookshed for 45 years. “The loveliest person in the trade” – Marius Kociejowski. I’ll be talking about her (5 mins) at 2pm on Saturday, 26 July in this very place, now the Bouda Gallery (W8 4RT), at an event organised by Steven Fowler: london.czechcentres.cz/en/program/p...
July 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Sheila Ramage ran this bookshed for 45 years. “The loveliest person in the trade” – Marius Kociejowski. I’ll be talking about her (5 mins) at 2pm on Saturday, 26 July in this very place, now the Bouda Gallery (W8 4RT), at an event organised by Steven Fowler: london.czechcentres.cz/en/program/p...
From the trailer for Four Letters of Love (whose plot features a poetry competition). Helena Bonham-Carter: “What are you doing?” Brooding man: “I’m writing a love poem.” HB-C: “What is the MATTER with everyone in this house?”
July 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
From the trailer for Four Letters of Love (whose plot features a poetry competition). Helena Bonham-Carter: “What are you doing?” Brooding man: “I’m writing a love poem.” HB-C: “What is the MATTER with everyone in this house?”
All the CBe covers 2007-2026 on a poster, free to takers of Season Ticket 2 (10 books of your own choice for £75) on the website www.cbeditions.com
July 9, 2025 at 12:02 PM
All the CBe covers 2007-2026 on a poster, free to takers of Season Ticket 2 (10 books of your own choice for £75) on the website www.cbeditions.com
Endings, signing off, in novels, are so often tacky. I've written about this, I've argued that 'Everyone lived happily ever after' is metafictional. Here's a good one (Elmore Leonard, Get Shorty):
June 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Endings, signing off, in novels, are so often tacky. I've written about this, I've argued that 'Everyone lived happily ever after' is metafictional. Here's a good one (Elmore Leonard, Get Shorty):
Serve cool: bookshelves for another hot day
June 21, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Serve cool: bookshelves for another hot day
Mended. Since the bones I fractured in my neck in March have now healed, thanks to the NHS, I owed it to this giraffe to put her/him back together.
June 17, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Mended. Since the bones I fractured in my neck in March have now healed, thanks to the NHS, I owed it to this giraffe to put her/him back together.
"Run up the colours" - CB editions newsletter, as archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/05/run-...
"Run up the colours": newsletter May 2025
Early books, above … 176 Interruptions , scheduled for July, is a revised and expanded edition of 99 Interruptions (published in 2022 and n...
sonofabook.blogspot.com
May 31, 2025 at 1:23 PM
"Run up the colours" - CB editions newsletter, as archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/05/run-...
All the CB editions covers, 2007 to now, on one A1 poster.
May 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
All the CB editions covers, 2007 to now, on one A1 poster.
"Umarell": see the Wiki entry: men of retirement age watching roadworks, arms akimbo or hands clasped behind back, offering unwanted advice. Here's me watching a new speed bump being put in in my street.
May 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
"Umarell": see the Wiki entry: men of retirement age watching roadworks, arms akimbo or hands clasped behind back, offering unwanted advice. Here's me watching a new speed bump being put in in my street.
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Short reading 🧵from last night. Book 28 of 2025 Reading: Seesaw by Carmel Doohan, from the redoubtable @cbeditions.bsky.social, where else?
2025 Reading 28: Seesaw by Carmel Doohan. This one’s been on my shelves for a while. Took me about a week to read it, all told. A difficult, uneasy, intelligent, avoidant, deprecating, antsy, occasionally vicious and often true - *insistently* true - book.
(Novel? Autofiction? Book.)
(Novel? Autofiction? Book.)
May 14, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Short reading 🧵from last night. Book 28 of 2025 Reading: Seesaw by Carmel Doohan, from the redoubtable @cbeditions.bsky.social, where else?
Shock horror, the new pope is a man.
May 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Shock horror, the new pope is a man.
Blog post about THAT new publisher: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...
The Silly Season
The non-story so far … A man announces he’s setting up a press that will ‘focus on literary fiction by men’. He says he plans to publish th...
sonofabook.blogspot.com
May 3, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Blog post about THAT new publisher: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...
Me (with ancient author photo) on style, English puritanism, advice and Invisible Dogs: auraist.substack.com/p/was-updike...
April 28, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Me (with ancient author photo) on style, English puritanism, advice and Invisible Dogs: auraist.substack.com/p/was-updike...