Helen Sedgwick
@helensedgwick.bsky.social
Author, editor, physicist. Books: The Comet Seekers, The Growing Season, The Burrowhead Mysteries trilogy. linktr.ee/HelenSedgwick 🏳️🌈
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Argonaut Books needs your help 📣
Waterstones are set to open a store less than 100m from the indie bookshop's front door.
Full info on @argonautbooks.bsky.social's Insta: www.instagram.com/p/DRMULI1jCI...
Waterstones are set to open a store less than 100m from the indie bookshop's front door.
Full info on @argonautbooks.bsky.social's Insta: www.instagram.com/p/DRMULI1jCI...
November 18, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Argonaut Books needs your help 📣
Waterstones are set to open a store less than 100m from the indie bookshop's front door.
Full info on @argonautbooks.bsky.social's Insta: www.instagram.com/p/DRMULI1jCI...
Waterstones are set to open a store less than 100m from the indie bookshop's front door.
Full info on @argonautbooks.bsky.social's Insta: www.instagram.com/p/DRMULI1jCI...
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Marvellous Minoan cups made by Bronze Age potters about 3,800 years ago!
Which is your favourite? ❤️
Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me 🏺
#Archaeology
Which is your favourite? ❤️
Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me 🏺
#Archaeology
October 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Marvellous Minoan cups made by Bronze Age potters about 3,800 years ago!
Which is your favourite? ❤️
Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me 🏺
#Archaeology
Which is your favourite? ❤️
Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me 🏺
#Archaeology
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And making theft illegal would “kill” the thieving industry. Good. Make theft illegal again.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 11:45 AM
And making theft illegal would “kill” the thieving industry. Good. Make theft illegal again.
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Our friends at Literature Alliance Scotland have opened applications to the pilot programme, To Be Continued.
Have a look and see if this could help you or send to someone who might also benefit.
Applications close Friday 3 October 2025. literaturealliancescotland.co.uk/to-be-contin...
Have a look and see if this could help you or send to someone who might also benefit.
Applications close Friday 3 October 2025. literaturealliancescotland.co.uk/to-be-contin...
September 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Our friends at Literature Alliance Scotland have opened applications to the pilot programme, To Be Continued.
Have a look and see if this could help you or send to someone who might also benefit.
Applications close Friday 3 October 2025. literaturealliancescotland.co.uk/to-be-contin...
Have a look and see if this could help you or send to someone who might also benefit.
Applications close Friday 3 October 2025. literaturealliancescotland.co.uk/to-be-contin...
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Really looking forward to the online launch of ‘The Man Who Made Up Trees’ by Michael Greavy - the winner of Magma’s 2024 pamphlet competition on Wed 1st Oct 7-8pm.
Discounted copies available on the night!
Register your free place here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pamphlet-l...
Discounted copies available on the night!
Register your free place here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pamphlet-l...
September 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Really looking forward to the online launch of ‘The Man Who Made Up Trees’ by Michael Greavy - the winner of Magma’s 2024 pamphlet competition on Wed 1st Oct 7-8pm.
Discounted copies available on the night!
Register your free place here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pamphlet-l...
Discounted copies available on the night!
Register your free place here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pamphlet-l...
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This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".
![One of Britain’s most senior police officers has launched an angry tirade against Extinction Rebellion protesters going “all floppy” when they get arrested.
Sir Stephen House, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said the tactic of going limp was a “flipping nuisance” as it required extra officers to drag protesters away.
House told a London assembly police and crime committee hearing: “We have asked them to stop being floppy. And that might seem like a silly thing to say, but when we arrest them and pick them up, they go all floppy, which is why you see four or five officers carrying them away. It’s a complete waste of officers’ time, and a complete pain in the neck.”
Extinction Rebellion: how successful were the latest protests?
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House also expressed annoyance at how the tactic made the police look heavy-handed. He said: “The problem with them going floppy and four offices carrying them away [is that it] looks to the general public like police are overreacting here. We’re not making them go floppy. They’re just sort of being a nuisance.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7uvcqt45oqlutlrtgx7bpodq/bafkreie7yqxb4cj2t4gxftiqsno5wgk2kczb5vbtj7wh2b2u5sjtqtdrku@jpeg)
September 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".
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Ingrid Bergman was born on this day in 1915. She also died on August 29th - in 1982.
📷 David Seymour, 1953
"Love would come right through that lens."
- Pia Lindstrom
📷 David Seymour, 1953
"Love would come right through that lens."
- Pia Lindstrom
August 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Ingrid Bergman was born on this day in 1915. She also died on August 29th - in 1982.
📷 David Seymour, 1953
"Love would come right through that lens."
- Pia Lindstrom
📷 David Seymour, 1953
"Love would come right through that lens."
- Pia Lindstrom
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I keep getting asked for my salty thoughts about the Salt Path as my position on nature cure narratives is v clear! A mere fraction of those thoughts published here @literaryhub.bsky.social, with thanks to @bookwormvaught.bsky.social and @nicwilson.bsky.social for their earlier pieces linked below.
Nature is Not Going to Cure You: On Raynor Winn’s Fabricated Memoir
Like many writers, I have been following the unfolding revelations about Raynor Winn and The Salt Path with great interest, and a degree of self-interest. I am a memoirist and nature writer, and I …
lithub.com
August 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I keep getting asked for my salty thoughts about the Salt Path as my position on nature cure narratives is v clear! A mere fraction of those thoughts published here @literaryhub.bsky.social, with thanks to @bookwormvaught.bsky.social and @nicwilson.bsky.social for their earlier pieces linked below.
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"Publishing is attached to the idea of a narrative arc that peaks with healing...
Nature writing has long had a problem with the way it presents illness. Nature writing only wants to admit illness into its pages if it is to show nature performing a miraculous cure."
Excellent piece
Nature writing has long had a problem with the way it presents illness. Nature writing only wants to admit illness into its pages if it is to show nature performing a miraculous cure."
Excellent piece
I keep getting asked for my salty thoughts about the Salt Path as my position on nature cure narratives is v clear! A mere fraction of those thoughts published here @literaryhub.bsky.social, with thanks to @bookwormvaught.bsky.social and @nicwilson.bsky.social for their earlier pieces linked below.
Nature is Not Going to Cure You: On Raynor Winn’s Fabricated Memoir
Like many writers, I have been following the unfolding revelations about Raynor Winn and The Salt Path with great interest, and a degree of self-interest. I am a memoirist and nature writer, and I …
lithub.com
August 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
"Publishing is attached to the idea of a narrative arc that peaks with healing...
Nature writing has long had a problem with the way it presents illness. Nature writing only wants to admit illness into its pages if it is to show nature performing a miraculous cure."
Excellent piece
Nature writing has long had a problem with the way it presents illness. Nature writing only wants to admit illness into its pages if it is to show nature performing a miraculous cure."
Excellent piece
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Information on our project researching Gaelic Medium Education and career outcomes can be found here:
@GMECareers | Linktree
Gaelic Medium Education: a career advantage for school leavers in Scotland?
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July 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Information on our project researching Gaelic Medium Education and career outcomes can be found here:
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As Bookbanks new Ambassador I’d like to spread the word about this brilliant charity giving books with food at food banks.
Please share and support if you’re able :)
www.bookbanks.co.uk
Please share and support if you’re able :)
www.bookbanks.co.uk
July 20, 2025 at 5:24 AM
As Bookbanks new Ambassador I’d like to spread the word about this brilliant charity giving books with food at food banks.
Please share and support if you’re able :)
www.bookbanks.co.uk
Please share and support if you’re able :)
www.bookbanks.co.uk
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Among yesterday's arrestees is Deborah Hinton, an 81-year old retired magistrate with an OBE.
That's Yvette Cooper's idea of a terrorist.
Language has been turned on its head.
The law has been turned on its head.
Murdering children is righteous.
Trying to stop it is terrorism.
That's Yvette Cooper's idea of a terrorist.
Language has been turned on its head.
The law has been turned on its head.
Murdering children is righteous.
Trying to stop it is terrorism.
July 20, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Among yesterday's arrestees is Deborah Hinton, an 81-year old retired magistrate with an OBE.
That's Yvette Cooper's idea of a terrorist.
Language has been turned on its head.
The law has been turned on its head.
Murdering children is righteous.
Trying to stop it is terrorism.
That's Yvette Cooper's idea of a terrorist.
Language has been turned on its head.
The law has been turned on its head.
Murdering children is righteous.
Trying to stop it is terrorism.
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Remember all that fulminating in the billionaire press about "free speech" (ie their freedom to abuse Muslims, trans people etc with impunity)? Now that people are being arrested for speaking about an issue of the utmost gravity, the self-appointed guardians of liberty have fallen strangely silent.
It's utterly mad.
These people are the opposite of terrorists.
THEY WANT PEACE.
The police know they're not terrorists.
The government knows they're not terrorists.
Yet, on the Home Secretary's orders, they're being arrested under the Terrorism Act.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
These people are the opposite of terrorists.
THEY WANT PEACE.
The police know they're not terrorists.
The government knows they're not terrorists.
Yet, on the Home Secretary's orders, they're being arrested under the Terrorism Act.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
More than 100 arrested across UK at protests related to Palestine Action
Police in London detain scores of people and confiscate placards under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000
www.theguardian.com
July 20, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Remember all that fulminating in the billionaire press about "free speech" (ie their freedom to abuse Muslims, trans people etc with impunity)? Now that people are being arrested for speaking about an issue of the utmost gravity, the self-appointed guardians of liberty have fallen strangely silent.
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Oh hell no. WeTransfer now claims access in their T&Cs, in perpetuity, to your content to “improve the service and our technologies (and develop new ones)”.
I used to use them to transfer large manuscripts, but looks like I’m jumping ship. Other large transfer sites are recommended in the comments.
I used to use them to transfer large manuscripts, but looks like I’m jumping ship. Other large transfer sites are recommended in the comments.
July 15, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Oh hell no. WeTransfer now claims access in their T&Cs, in perpetuity, to your content to “improve the service and our technologies (and develop new ones)”.
I used to use them to transfer large manuscripts, but looks like I’m jumping ship. Other large transfer sites are recommended in the comments.
I used to use them to transfer large manuscripts, but looks like I’m jumping ship. Other large transfer sites are recommended in the comments.
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In case you miss it amongst the news, we're delighted that @saraband-books.bsky.social will be continuing the Inklings series and they open for submissions in August! The process is very similar to our own but check out the guidelines and get your pitches ready.
saraband.net/2025/07/11/i...
saraband.net/2025/07/11/i...
Inklings submissions open from 1st to 31st August - Saraband
Inklings submissions open from 1st to 31st August
saraband.net
July 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
In case you miss it amongst the news, we're delighted that @saraband-books.bsky.social will be continuing the Inklings series and they open for submissions in August! The process is very similar to our own but check out the guidelines and get your pitches ready.
saraband.net/2025/07/11/i...
saraband.net/2025/07/11/i...
Very sad to hear @404ink.bsky.social are closing, but they deserve a massive congratulations - they’ve been a shining light in the industry and have worked with unending passion. I’m delighted @saraband-books.bsky.social are taking on Inklings. A HUGE well done to Laura & Heather for everything!
The co-founders and publishers of 404 Ink, the reigning British Book Awards’ Small Press of the Year winner for Scotland, have exclusively revealed to us their decision to close the business as it reaches its 10th anniversary in July 2026 👇 #BookSky
404 Ink: closure announced ahead of 10th anniversary
ebx.sh
July 12, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Very sad to hear @404ink.bsky.social are closing, but they deserve a massive congratulations - they’ve been a shining light in the industry and have worked with unending passion. I’m delighted @saraband-books.bsky.social are taking on Inklings. A HUGE well done to Laura & Heather for everything!
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Following the announcement of 404 Ink's closure, we're delighted to announce that we'll be taking forward a significant portion of the Inklings series!
Read more here:
saraband.net/news-events
#Booksky
📚💙
Read more here:
saraband.net/news-events
#Booksky
📚💙
The co-founders and publishers of 404 Ink, the reigning British Book Awards’ Small Press of the Year winner for Scotland, have exclusively revealed to us their decision to close the business as it reaches its 10th anniversary in July 2026 👇 #BookSky
404 Ink: closure announced ahead of 10th anniversary
ebx.sh
July 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Following the announcement of 404 Ink's closure, we're delighted to announce that we'll be taking forward a significant portion of the Inklings series!
Read more here:
saraband.net/news-events
#Booksky
📚💙
Read more here:
saraband.net/news-events
#Booksky
📚💙
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Borges’ capsule review of KING KONG in which he mostly complains that Kong should be bigger
July 12, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Borges’ capsule review of KING KONG in which he mostly complains that Kong should be bigger
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- and I have wondered sometimes if I’d reframed it - partly fictionalised it, then - as a tale of triumph in which my body & mind got fixed and everyone said sorry, got therapy and didn’t pass on more inter-generational trauma, that might have been considered more commercial. That really upsets me
July 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
- and I have wondered sometimes if I’d reframed it - partly fictionalised it, then - as a tale of triumph in which my body & mind got fixed and everyone said sorry, got therapy and didn’t pass on more inter-generational trauma, that might have been considered more commercial. That really upsets me
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It’s Sunday but I’m feeling all the feels so I’ve just pitched The Bookseller a piece centred on overcoming tropes. A few years ago a big 5 rejected a proposal from me; it was about mental health problems alongside physical disability. They didn’t want it on both because it would be too depressing
Anyway regarding this Salt Path fiasco, I KNOW it’s hard to fact-check memoir, but I’d actually say there were red flags fairly early here because of the nature of the illness. But more broadly, my little memoir wasn’t considered suitable for a wider market so my then agency didn’t send it out -
July 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
It’s Sunday but I’m feeling all the feels so I’ve just pitched The Bookseller a piece centred on overcoming tropes. A few years ago a big 5 rejected a proposal from me; it was about mental health problems alongside physical disability. They didn’t want it on both because it would be too depressing
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If you've found yourself taking the narrative of the tragic illness the helpless homelessness and the walking cure encrusted with inspiration porn with a pinch of salt over the years, this is *quite* the read. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
The real Salt Path: how the couple behind a bestseller le...
Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal it was far from the truth
observer.co.uk
July 6, 2025 at 1:45 AM
If you've found yourself taking the narrative of the tragic illness the helpless homelessness and the walking cure encrusted with inspiration porn with a pinch of salt over the years, this is *quite* the read. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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There are no red states, no blue states, only purple, from Idaho fuchsia to Vermont violet. And in every state there are children, non-citizens, and prisoners who can't vote. In every state where one candidate won, a bunch of people voted for the other candidate. And so forth.
July 6, 2025 at 5:42 AM
There are no red states, no blue states, only purple, from Idaho fuchsia to Vermont violet. And in every state there are children, non-citizens, and prisoners who can't vote. In every state where one candidate won, a bunch of people voted for the other candidate. And so forth.
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"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
- James Baldwin
- James Baldwin
July 6, 2025 at 3:28 AM
"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
- James Baldwin
- James Baldwin