Nick McLoughlin
@nickmacwrites.bsky.social
Reader, writer, runner. Tea, trees, and cats.
Co-editor Thin Skin magazine.
My debut novel Slings and Arrows was published on the 28th March 2024. 📚💙
Co-editor Thin Skin magazine.
My debut novel Slings and Arrows was published on the 28th March 2024. 📚💙
I had only previously read Brighton Rock by Graham Greene (at school), but picked this up recently and absolutely loved it. Beautifully but simply written, it is a powerful novel about faith, honour, and human weakness. Really terrific.📚💙 #books
October 16, 2025 at 11:07 AM
I had only previously read Brighton Rock by Graham Greene (at school), but picked this up recently and absolutely loved it. Beautifully but simply written, it is a powerful novel about faith, honour, and human weakness. Really terrific.📚💙 #books
I couldn’t wait any longer. I’ve been dying to get stuck into this lovely book by the wonderful @regretteruane.bsky.social for a while now, so I moved it 47 places up my physical TBR pile and I’m going in. 📚💙 #books
September 16, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I couldn’t wait any longer. I’ve been dying to get stuck into this lovely book by the wonderful @regretteruane.bsky.social for a while now, so I moved it 47 places up my physical TBR pile and I’m going in. 📚💙 #books
Lombok, Indonesia - full of the nicest, most apparently content people I have ever had the pleasure of meeting - a joy 😊
August 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Lombok, Indonesia - full of the nicest, most apparently content people I have ever had the pleasure of meeting - a joy 😊
Current read 📚💙
August 4, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Current read 📚💙
Wow ⚽️. My nerves are shredded. #lionesses
July 22, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Wow ⚽️. My nerves are shredded. #lionesses
My latest read. Priestley’s utterly brilliant travelogue of his 1931 trip around England. Fascinating, wise and remarkably prescient - social history at its finest. 📚💙#books
July 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
My latest read. Priestley’s utterly brilliant travelogue of his 1931 trip around England. Fascinating, wise and remarkably prescient - social history at its finest. 📚💙#books
Noah (17) has had his pencils out again. 1.5 hrs. No art at school, never had a lesson, and prepping to study Maths and Physics at uni next year! This looks pretty decent to me. Thoughts? #art
July 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Noah (17) has had his pencils out again. 1.5 hrs. No art at school, never had a lesson, and prepping to study Maths and Physics at uni next year! This looks pretty decent to me. Thoughts? #art
Well after 30 years on my TBR pile I finally read Middlemarch. Is it the best English novel. IMHO no. But I did really enjoy it. Why is it not at the top of my all-time list?
1. It’s 200 pages too long.
2. Ladislaw is not the man for Dorothea.
3. There is no humour in it at all.
Thoughts? 💙📚 #books
1. It’s 200 pages too long.
2. Ladislaw is not the man for Dorothea.
3. There is no humour in it at all.
Thoughts? 💙📚 #books
July 15, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Well after 30 years on my TBR pile I finally read Middlemarch. Is it the best English novel. IMHO no. But I did really enjoy it. Why is it not at the top of my all-time list?
1. It’s 200 pages too long.
2. Ladislaw is not the man for Dorothea.
3. There is no humour in it at all.
Thoughts? 💙📚 #books
1. It’s 200 pages too long.
2. Ladislaw is not the man for Dorothea.
3. There is no humour in it at all.
Thoughts? 💙📚 #books
Considered by some to be the greatest English novel, Middlemarch has been on my TBR pile for, oh about 32 years give or take. I’m finally going in.
Have you read it?
Where do is it sit in your all-time list?
📚💙#books
Have you read it?
Where do is it sit in your all-time list?
📚💙#books
June 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Considered by some to be the greatest English novel, Middlemarch has been on my TBR pile for, oh about 32 years give or take. I’m finally going in.
Have you read it?
Where do is it sit in your all-time list?
📚💙#books
Have you read it?
Where do is it sit in your all-time list?
📚💙#books
The final Auster 😢. I’ve been putting it off because his novels have been a part of my life since I read NYT as a student 30 odd years ago, and I didn’t want that to end. It’s a long way from his finest work, but it is unmistakably him - and for this reader, this time, that was enough. RIP 📚💙 #books
May 28, 2025 at 11:06 AM
The final Auster 😢. I’ve been putting it off because his novels have been a part of my life since I read NYT as a student 30 odd years ago, and I didn’t want that to end. It’s a long way from his finest work, but it is unmistakably him - and for this reader, this time, that was enough. RIP 📚💙 #books
May 20, 2025 at 6:44 AM
I adored ‘The Fortnight in September’ so much that I put off reading this for fear that it would diminish my admiration for the author. It didn’t. This novel is such a wonderful read: a perfect antidote to the noise and nonsense of today’s world. 📚💙 #books
May 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM
I adored ‘The Fortnight in September’ so much that I put off reading this for fear that it would diminish my admiration for the author. It didn’t. This novel is such a wonderful read: a perfect antidote to the noise and nonsense of today’s world. 📚💙 #books
Finished this final book of Rachel Cusk’s quite brilliant ‘Outline’ trilogy a few days ago. Wonderful, intelligent writing that makes you question what you thought you knew about what a novel is, or can be. Dazzling. 📚💙
April 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Finished this final book of Rachel Cusk’s quite brilliant ‘Outline’ trilogy a few days ago. Wonderful, intelligent writing that makes you question what you thought you knew about what a novel is, or can be. Dazzling. 📚💙
Breakfast, or lunch?
April 25, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Breakfast, or lunch?
April 22, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Nice little secondhand bookshop haul for less than a fiver. I read the Ford first, in two days: spare, tragic, elegiac. Set over 3 late-Autumn days in the early 1960’s it brilliantly catches the fragility of a settled life. I really enjoyed it. 📚💙
April 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Nice little secondhand bookshop haul for less than a fiver. I read the Ford first, in two days: spare, tragic, elegiac. Set over 3 late-Autumn days in the early 1960’s it brilliantly catches the fragility of a settled life. I really enjoyed it. 📚💙
A very Happy Birthday 🎂🎈 to the wonderfully creative, quirkily funny, and straight up lovely @flamingomcflurry.bsky.social 😘
March 18, 2025 at 8:25 AM
A very Happy Birthday 🎂🎈 to the wonderfully creative, quirkily funny, and straight up lovely @flamingomcflurry.bsky.social 😘