maxfarrar.bsky.social
@maxfarrar.bsky.social
@kiaabdullah.bsky.social great hearing & meeting you in Bradford today! Great interview w Barbara Kingsolver in yesterday’s Guardian magazine, BTW. Her Congo book is The Poisonwood Bible.
July 6, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Would love to see you here in Big Flame’s original city on Wednesday evening (the book will be discounted to £20!)
March 24, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Lively, enlightening discussion followed our talks about our book about #BigFlame (MerlinPress2024) at the excellent #MayDayRooms archive in London. Thanks for hosting us!
March 14, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Superb cafe/restaurant in #VictoriaIsland #Lagos #crustandcream — aircon & coffee much needed on this hot day
February 16, 2025 at 12:29 PM
What a treat to hear #CarylPhilips read from his brilliant new novel #AnotherManOnTheStreet & provide eloquent answers to #profJohnMcLeod ‘s stimulating questions at #TheLeedsLibrary tonight
February 12, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Just had an inspiring PM & evening event @wcmlibrary.bsky.social in #Salford, England. Their young ppl are doing amazing work of their #BigFlame archive, & Old Flames united later w new Flames (partly to promote our book abt BF pub by @merlinpress.bsky.social
February 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
It’s 50 years since I was arrested with 11 black youth during the “Bonfire Night Uprising” in Chapeltown, Leeds. I spoke about this at the excellent Black Power at the Grassroots symposium at Manchester Uni on Friday. I’ve posted my short talk here. www.maxfarrar.org.uk/writing/the-...
February 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Ok, with zero followers, let me start the way I mean to go on:: tonight I’m at the launch of a book about genuinely progressive political praxis in the 1970s — please ask your library to buy it!
November 22, 2024 at 2:04 PM