Charles Lambert
@charleslambert.bsky.social
Novelist. European. Husband to Giuseppe. Fond of short trousers and brightly coloured socks (visual proof provided). Most recent novel? Birthright. Repped by Isobel Dixon @ Blake Friedmann.
@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social Just finished #Septology by Jon Fosse, but finished is totally the wrong word for a book that will stay with me for quite some time to come. An extraordinary achievement, hypnotic and deeply moving.
September 20, 2025 at 10:44 AM
@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social Just finished #Septology by Jon Fosse, but finished is totally the wrong word for a book that will stay with me for quite some time to come. An extraordinary achievement, hypnotic and deeply moving.
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Do you have/know children between 4 and 15? Do they enjoy books and writing stories? Then you could steer them in them direction of the annual DAUNT BOOKS CHILDREN'S SHORT STORY COMPETITION. Please share this! Entries close 31st January. Good luck!
January 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Do you have/know children between 4 and 15? Do they enjoy books and writing stories? Then you could steer them in them direction of the annual DAUNT BOOKS CHILDREN'S SHORT STORY COMPETITION. Please share this! Entries close 31st January. Good luck!
Two dangling clauses.
November 29, 2024 at 6:43 PM
Two dangling clauses.
@douglasstuart.bsky.social I wanted to thank you for Young Mungo, which I finished reading yesterday. A heart-wrenching read and one I'll be carrying with me for quite some time to come.
November 29, 2024 at 9:19 AM
@douglasstuart.bsky.social I wanted to thank you for Young Mungo, which I finished reading yesterday. A heart-wrenching read and one I'll be carrying with me for quite some time to come.
Does this scene look autumnal enough to justify the purchase from this convenient stall of an artisan baked bread roll containing some suckling pig, with crackling still attached?
Remember: silence = assent.
Remember: silence = assent.
November 27, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Does this scene look autumnal enough to justify the purchase from this convenient stall of an artisan baked bread roll containing some suckling pig, with crackling still attached?
Remember: silence = assent.
Remember: silence = assent.
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Authors receive a payment every time you borrow a book, audiobook or ebook from libraries in 35 countries. Those countries include the UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Germany to name but a few. Borrowing a book helps the author’s pocket as well as yours.
November 26, 2024 at 9:21 AM
Authors receive a payment every time you borrow a book, audiobook or ebook from libraries in 35 countries. Those countries include the UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Germany to name but a few. Borrowing a book helps the author’s pocket as well as yours.
Hard not to feel affection for a place that devotes three whole days each year to the festive consumption of frogs.
Unless you're a frog, of course.
Unless you're a frog, of course.
November 26, 2024 at 12:51 PM
Hard not to feel affection for a place that devotes three whole days each year to the festive consumption of frogs.
Unless you're a frog, of course.
Unless you're a frog, of course.
Festive reflections in a steampunk nativity scene (although you can't really see the old TV set it's rather neatly occupying. Have faith, it's there).
November 26, 2024 at 11:04 AM
Festive reflections in a steampunk nativity scene (although you can't really see the old TV set it's rather neatly occupying. Have faith, it's there).
According to my husband this bears more than a passing resemblance to the author of this post. I have no idea why and I'm far too hungry to think about it at the moment.
November 24, 2024 at 6:31 PM
According to my husband this bears more than a passing resemblance to the author of this post. I have no idea why and I'm far too hungry to think about it at the moment.
There are cherubs...
...and there are cherubs.
...and there are cherubs.
November 23, 2024 at 11:05 AM
There are cherubs...
...and there are cherubs.
...and there are cherubs.
I finished reading John Boyne's "The Heart's Infinite Furies" this afternoon and now I'm homesick for the world it made for me, so similar to and so different from my own, with all the love and fear and hope that make us what we are.
November 21, 2024 at 5:32 PM
I finished reading John Boyne's "The Heart's Infinite Furies" this afternoon and now I'm homesick for the world it made for me, so similar to and so different from my own, with all the love and fear and hope that make us what we are.
Bit of a breeze in Rome this afternoon... I'm sure there's an appropriate quote but I'm damned if I can remember it.
November 20, 2024 at 3:25 PM
Bit of a breeze in Rome this afternoon... I'm sure there's an appropriate quote but I'm damned if I can remember it.
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Had a handful of homophobic/transphobic messages here today because I’ve created a Starter Pack supporting LGBTQIA+ writers.
Please follow and share this pack to help keep Bluesky the positive place it promises to be.
go.bsky.app/UD2Hf7W
Please follow and share this pack to help keep Bluesky the positive place it promises to be.
go.bsky.app/UD2Hf7W
November 14, 2024 at 10:41 AM
Had a handful of homophobic/transphobic messages here today because I’ve created a Starter Pack supporting LGBTQIA+ writers.
Please follow and share this pack to help keep Bluesky the positive place it promises to be.
go.bsky.app/UD2Hf7W
Please follow and share this pack to help keep Bluesky the positive place it promises to be.
go.bsky.app/UD2Hf7W
I love the crazy juxtapositions created by alphabetic ordering. Barbara Pym, meet James Purdy. Beatrix? I'd like to introduce you to Marcel.
November 19, 2024 at 10:58 AM
I love the crazy juxtapositions created by alphabetic ordering. Barbara Pym, meet James Purdy. Beatrix? I'd like to introduce you to Marcel.
Would you buy a book from this rabbit?
November 17, 2024 at 5:05 PM
Would you buy a book from this rabbit?
BECAUSE
Because I am here, listening
Because if I weren’t
I would be speaking
above the rustle of swallows,
drowning their nesting out
with the merest whisper
Because if I weren’t
I would be opening the window
to watch them, interrupted, go
Because I am here, listening
Because if I weren’t
I would be speaking
above the rustle of swallows,
drowning their nesting out
with the merest whisper
Because if I weren’t
I would be opening the window
to watch them, interrupted, go
November 16, 2024 at 10:36 AM
BECAUSE
Because I am here, listening
Because if I weren’t
I would be speaking
above the rustle of swallows,
drowning their nesting out
with the merest whisper
Because if I weren’t
I would be opening the window
to watch them, interrupted, go
Because I am here, listening
Because if I weren’t
I would be speaking
above the rustle of swallows,
drowning their nesting out
with the merest whisper
Because if I weren’t
I would be opening the window
to watch them, interrupted, go
A little urban night scene for you all
November 15, 2024 at 5:13 PM
A little urban night scene for you all
I had a friend at school called Tony Hand and I used to think of him as a collection of body parts, like one of those plastic skeletons you assembled week by week. Toe. Knee. Hand.
November 14, 2024 at 8:34 AM
I had a friend at school called Tony Hand and I used to think of him as a collection of body parts, like one of those plastic skeletons you assembled week by week. Toe. Knee. Hand.
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The most important thing in writing is to finish. A finished thing can be fixed. A finished thing can be published. A finished thing can be made into a movie.
An unfinished thing is just a dream. And dreams fade if you don't hold on tight enough.
So finish the thing.
An unfinished thing is just a dream. And dreams fade if you don't hold on tight enough.
So finish the thing.
November 13, 2024 at 2:38 PM
The most important thing in writing is to finish. A finished thing can be fixed. A finished thing can be published. A finished thing can be made into a movie.
An unfinished thing is just a dream. And dreams fade if you don't hold on tight enough.
So finish the thing.
An unfinished thing is just a dream. And dreams fade if you don't hold on tight enough.
So finish the thing.
I wanted to write 'to right a wrong' but my subliminal gremlin intervened and I wrote 'to write a wrong' and now I'm not sure what to do.
November 13, 2024 at 11:06 AM
I wanted to write 'to right a wrong' but my subliminal gremlin intervened and I wrote 'to write a wrong' and now I'm not sure what to do.
Burt Lancaster in glasses, because why not?
November 13, 2024 at 10:56 AM
Burt Lancaster in glasses, because why not?
A SMALL VOICE
A small voice, precious
in the ‘good’ sense that
what it’s worth can also
be afforded by whoever
makes the effort to listen
and is not a value added
but intrinsic, a small
and sensitive voice, like
the murmur of a hair
against the lip, so long
as the hair is loved
A small voice, precious
in the ‘good’ sense that
what it’s worth can also
be afforded by whoever
makes the effort to listen
and is not a value added
but intrinsic, a small
and sensitive voice, like
the murmur of a hair
against the lip, so long
as the hair is loved
November 12, 2024 at 3:05 PM
A SMALL VOICE
A small voice, precious
in the ‘good’ sense that
what it’s worth can also
be afforded by whoever
makes the effort to listen
and is not a value added
but intrinsic, a small
and sensitive voice, like
the murmur of a hair
against the lip, so long
as the hair is loved
A small voice, precious
in the ‘good’ sense that
what it’s worth can also
be afforded by whoever
makes the effort to listen
and is not a value added
but intrinsic, a small
and sensitive voice, like
the murmur of a hair
against the lip, so long
as the hair is loved