Liam Bishop
@liamhbishopwriting.bsky.social
✍️Writer from Leeds with bylines in Irish Times, LA Review of Books, TLS and many others.
🎧Curating the world’s most interesting writers on the Rippling Pages
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👨🏻⚕️Elsewhere, health researcher
https://tinyurl.com/Lbhealthbluesky
🎧Curating the world’s most interesting writers on the Rippling Pages
Linktr.ee/ripplingpagespod
👨🏻⚕️Elsewhere, health researcher
https://tinyurl.com/Lbhealthbluesky
🚨New episode of the Rippling Pages is out now!
I’m talking to Lee Cole and asking why is that two people from the same place and family can end up in very different places?
This is Lee Cole’s novel, HOMECOMING @faberbooks.bsky.social @aaknopf.bsky.social
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I’m talking to Lee Cole and asking why is that two people from the same place and family can end up in very different places?
This is Lee Cole’s novel, HOMECOMING @faberbooks.bsky.social @aaknopf.bsky.social
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November 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🚨New episode of the Rippling Pages is out now!
I’m talking to Lee Cole and asking why is that two people from the same place and family can end up in very different places?
This is Lee Cole’s novel, HOMECOMING @faberbooks.bsky.social @aaknopf.bsky.social
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I’m talking to Lee Cole and asking why is that two people from the same place and family can end up in very different places?
This is Lee Cole’s novel, HOMECOMING @faberbooks.bsky.social @aaknopf.bsky.social
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Another episode tomorrow, but here’s what I learnt from the wonderful essayist @joannapocock.bsky.social
🙏 Writing kindness
🚎 the importance of buses
🛣️ another road trip on RP - and I’m here for it!
We were discussing GREYHOUND @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
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🙏 Writing kindness
🚎 the importance of buses
🛣️ another road trip on RP - and I’m here for it!
We were discussing GREYHOUND @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
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Bonus! Joanna Pocock on why your phone and notebook might be all you need to write
Podcast Episode · Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers · 30/10/2025 · 13m
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November 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Another episode tomorrow, but here’s what I learnt from the wonderful essayist @joannapocock.bsky.social
🙏 Writing kindness
🚎 the importance of buses
🛣️ another road trip on RP - and I’m here for it!
We were discussing GREYHOUND @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
🙏 Writing kindness
🚎 the importance of buses
🛣️ another road trip on RP - and I’m here for it!
We were discussing GREYHOUND @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
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Tavistock Square looking wonderfully autumnal
November 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Tavistock Square looking wonderfully autumnal
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‘Feels less like reading a novel and more like sitting in a car beside a dear friend. . . a profoundly moving experience.’ Ann Patchett
The Rest of Our Lives is shortlisted for the Booker Prize - we're looking forward to finding out the winner this evening ✨
www.faber.co.uk/book/9780571...
The Rest of Our Lives is shortlisted for the Booker Prize - we're looking forward to finding out the winner this evening ✨
www.faber.co.uk/book/9780571...
November 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
‘Feels less like reading a novel and more like sitting in a car beside a dear friend. . . a profoundly moving experience.’ Ann Patchett
The Rest of Our Lives is shortlisted for the Booker Prize - we're looking forward to finding out the winner this evening ✨
www.faber.co.uk/book/9780571...
The Rest of Our Lives is shortlisted for the Booker Prize - we're looking forward to finding out the winner this evening ✨
www.faber.co.uk/book/9780571...
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Good morning #bluesky!
The wonderful @ccrrll.bsky.social has a new short story out in Glut Magazine.
'When I'm Thirsty and When I'm Not' is about a woman's infatuation with a deceased playwright.
Read it below:
shorturl.at/Ugfws
[ #MondayReads #BookSky💙📚 #AmReading]
The wonderful @ccrrll.bsky.social has a new short story out in Glut Magazine.
'When I'm Thirsty and When I'm Not' is about a woman's infatuation with a deceased playwright.
Read it below:
shorturl.at/Ugfws
[ #MondayReads #BookSky💙📚 #AmReading]
November 10, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Good morning #bluesky!
The wonderful @ccrrll.bsky.social has a new short story out in Glut Magazine.
'When I'm Thirsty and When I'm Not' is about a woman's infatuation with a deceased playwright.
Read it below:
shorturl.at/Ugfws
[ #MondayReads #BookSky💙📚 #AmReading]
The wonderful @ccrrll.bsky.social has a new short story out in Glut Magazine.
'When I'm Thirsty and When I'm Not' is about a woman's infatuation with a deceased playwright.
Read it below:
shorturl.at/Ugfws
[ #MondayReads #BookSky💙📚 #AmReading]
🕵️Is there a clue to @joannapocock.bsky.social
next book in the full episode of our conversation?
Fans of Joanna will be pleased to hear that she has ideas for her next book - a new subject she’s becoming increasingly obsessed by!
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next book in the full episode of our conversation?
Fans of Joanna will be pleased to hear that she has ideas for her next book - a new subject she’s becoming increasingly obsessed by!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
🕵️Is there a clue to @joannapocock.bsky.social
next book in the full episode of our conversation?
Fans of Joanna will be pleased to hear that she has ideas for her next book - a new subject she’s becoming increasingly obsessed by!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
next book in the full episode of our conversation?
Fans of Joanna will be pleased to hear that she has ideas for her next book - a new subject she’s becoming increasingly obsessed by!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
Me and @joannapocock.bsky.social about old film cameras on the Rippling Pages
I love film photography - this is a cheap little point and click i found on eBay. Not sure they measure up to Joanna’s! 🤣
Listen to more on GREYHOUND @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social 👇
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I love film photography - this is a cheap little point and click i found on eBay. Not sure they measure up to Joanna’s! 🤣
Listen to more on GREYHOUND @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social 👇
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November 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Me and @joannapocock.bsky.social about old film cameras on the Rippling Pages
I love film photography - this is a cheap little point and click i found on eBay. Not sure they measure up to Joanna’s! 🤣
Listen to more on GREYHOUND @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social 👇
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
I love film photography - this is a cheap little point and click i found on eBay. Not sure they measure up to Joanna’s! 🤣
Listen to more on GREYHOUND @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social 👇
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Hoping Alan wins - can’t see it happening!
November 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Hoping Alan wins - can’t see it happening!
Prof Gary Younge lecture at Leeds Uni this evening - ‘the man who photobombed De Gaulle’
November 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Prof Gary Younge lecture at Leeds Uni this evening - ‘the man who photobombed De Gaulle’
High praise! Thank you!
Great conversation and great pod. I’ve been binging episodes 🎧📚
November 4, 2025 at 9:03 PM
High praise! Thank you!
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Great conversation and great pod. I’ve been binging episodes 🎧📚
November 4, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Great conversation and great pod. I’ve been binging episodes 🎧📚
Artful weekend
November 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Artful weekend
Catching Jean Vigo’s L’Atalante this afternoon
November 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Catching Jean Vigo’s L’Atalante this afternoon
📸Photographs are like writing - they’re all about editing and what you choose to leave out!
Bonus content with @joannapocock.bsky.social is now out - we’re talking more about objects of influence and GREYHOUND @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
Come and listen👇
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Bonus content with @joannapocock.bsky.social is now out - we’re talking more about objects of influence and GREYHOUND @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
Come and listen👇
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
October 31, 2025 at 8:27 AM
📸Photographs are like writing - they’re all about editing and what you choose to leave out!
Bonus content with @joannapocock.bsky.social is now out - we’re talking more about objects of influence and GREYHOUND @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
Come and listen👇
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
Bonus content with @joannapocock.bsky.social is now out - we’re talking more about objects of influence and GREYHOUND @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
Come and listen👇
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
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#Saraswati by Gurnaik Johal has been selected by Waterstones as a best fiction book of 2025 🌊
A holy river returns, seven lives change course. Saraswati is a masterpiece debut novel from one of the UK's most exciting young writers.
www.waterstones.com/blog/the-bes...
A holy river returns, seven lives change course. Saraswati is a masterpiece debut novel from one of the UK's most exciting young writers.
www.waterstones.com/blog/the-bes...
October 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
#Saraswati by Gurnaik Johal has been selected by Waterstones as a best fiction book of 2025 🌊
A holy river returns, seven lives change course. Saraswati is a masterpiece debut novel from one of the UK's most exciting young writers.
www.waterstones.com/blog/the-bes...
A holy river returns, seven lives change course. Saraswati is a masterpiece debut novel from one of the UK's most exciting young writers.
www.waterstones.com/blog/the-bes...
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It is full of gossip, though she doesn't reveal much about her affair with Nelson Algren... though it's all there if one reads between the lines. (The book is beautifully translated by Carol Cosman)
October 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
It is full of gossip, though she doesn't reveal much about her affair with Nelson Algren... though it's all there if one reads between the lines. (The book is beautifully translated by Carol Cosman)
Love this cover from de Beauvoir’s reissue of America Day by Day
As @joannapocock.bsky.social says, ‘it’s full of gossip’
Joanna mentions it in her book GREYHOUND @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
Which we spoke about on RP (doing some bonus content to release tomorrow!)
As @joannapocock.bsky.social says, ‘it’s full of gossip’
Joanna mentions it in her book GREYHOUND @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
Which we spoke about on RP (doing some bonus content to release tomorrow!)
October 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Love this cover from de Beauvoir’s reissue of America Day by Day
As @joannapocock.bsky.social says, ‘it’s full of gossip’
Joanna mentions it in her book GREYHOUND @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
Which we spoke about on RP (doing some bonus content to release tomorrow!)
As @joannapocock.bsky.social says, ‘it’s full of gossip’
Joanna mentions it in her book GREYHOUND @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
Which we spoke about on RP (doing some bonus content to release tomorrow!)
Anna’s pain is spiritual as much as it is physical
Here, Agnes made me think a lot about how we’re trying to find fulfilment, and how we place responsibility in other people’s or ideas of other people to fulfill ourselves.
How do break from that?
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Here, Agnes made me think a lot about how we’re trying to find fulfilment, and how we place responsibility in other people’s or ideas of other people to fulfill ourselves.
How do break from that?
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
October 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Anna’s pain is spiritual as much as it is physical
Here, Agnes made me think a lot about how we’re trying to find fulfilment, and how we place responsibility in other people’s or ideas of other people to fulfill ourselves.
How do break from that?
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
Here, Agnes made me think a lot about how we’re trying to find fulfilment, and how we place responsibility in other people’s or ideas of other people to fulfill ourselves.
How do break from that?
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
Clocks turning back.
Finding light where I can
Finding light where I can
October 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Clocks turning back.
Finding light where I can
Finding light where I can
“It’s like scrap paper - you can’t make anything of it”
This is a painfully sweet metaphor for how Agnes writes about time in her novel
This such a skilful aspect of SUPPORTING ACT and how people experience time differently
Agnes reminded of Ernaux
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This is a painfully sweet metaphor for how Agnes writes about time in her novel
This such a skilful aspect of SUPPORTING ACT and how people experience time differently
Agnes reminded of Ernaux
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October 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
“It’s like scrap paper - you can’t make anything of it”
This is a painfully sweet metaphor for how Agnes writes about time in her novel
This such a skilful aspect of SUPPORTING ACT and how people experience time differently
Agnes reminded of Ernaux
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
This is a painfully sweet metaphor for how Agnes writes about time in her novel
This such a skilful aspect of SUPPORTING ACT and how people experience time differently
Agnes reminded of Ernaux
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One of the books I’ve received for next year
@noreenmasud.bsky.social and Octavia Bright in particular looking forward to reading
@noreenmasud.bsky.social and Octavia Bright in particular looking forward to reading
October 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
One of the books I’ve received for next year
@noreenmasud.bsky.social and Octavia Bright in particular looking forward to reading
@noreenmasud.bsky.social and Octavia Bright in particular looking forward to reading
Autumn trees
Sometimes in the most unlikely of places
This is why I love autumn 🍁
Sometimes in the most unlikely of places
This is why I love autumn 🍁
October 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Autumn trees
Sometimes in the most unlikely of places
This is why I love autumn 🍁
Sometimes in the most unlikely of places
This is why I love autumn 🍁
People clearly feel strongly about this book!
Listen to my conversation with Agnes Lidbeck, as we discuss SUPPORTING ACT tr. by Nichola Smalley
Writing frustration and major life adjustments - that clearly inspire others to make life adjustments!
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Listen to my conversation with Agnes Lidbeck, as we discuss SUPPORTING ACT tr. by Nichola Smalley
Writing frustration and major life adjustments - that clearly inspire others to make life adjustments!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/rip…
October 16, 2025 at 7:18 AM
People clearly feel strongly about this book!
Listen to my conversation with Agnes Lidbeck, as we discuss SUPPORTING ACT tr. by Nichola Smalley
Writing frustration and major life adjustments - that clearly inspire others to make life adjustments!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/rip…
Listen to my conversation with Agnes Lidbeck, as we discuss SUPPORTING ACT tr. by Nichola Smalley
Writing frustration and major life adjustments - that clearly inspire others to make life adjustments!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/rip…
Here’s Agnes Lidbeck and I doing a quick soundcheck before our guests arrived on Friday!
Some kind words about Leeds that I had to keep in!
The full episode is going to be with you tomorrow
Some kind words about Leeds that I had to keep in!
The full episode is going to be with you tomorrow
October 15, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Here’s Agnes Lidbeck and I doing a quick soundcheck before our guests arrived on Friday!
Some kind words about Leeds that I had to keep in!
The full episode is going to be with you tomorrow
Some kind words about Leeds that I had to keep in!
The full episode is going to be with you tomorrow