Can‘t recommend this book by highly enough - and for friends in the Calder Valley and beyond there’s a great opportunity to listen to @johnharris1969.bsky.social coming up.

Glückwunsch!

A pity, still you could always start a campaign to call it the Ozymandias Wing

I blame those zebra crossings!

Decidedly on the chillier side “up North”

“Every Little Helps” (Tesco, 2025)

Thanks, John, for being such an insightful, engaging and generous guest speaker @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social . A great pleasure to meet you! Hope your long trip home is going smoothly.

Fortunately this was the mantra of my A-Level economics teacher!

You’ll probably be inundated with comments, so I’ll get mine in early: Bowie, Newcastle City Hall 1978 for a fiver in row 4 — £27.50 in today’s prices according to the Bank of England!

Spent many a happy hour there working on the Hilsenrath-Nachlaß. One of my favourite archives!