Keith Roberts
@peelhilllibrary.bsky.social
Reader, writer, would be many things - when retirement comes.
Happy New Year one and all
January 1, 2026 at 9:58 AM
Happy New Year one and all
Just a few months ago...
Winter Girders
A familiar path, upstream, from shingle to viaduct. In unfamiliar winter guise. The dense foliage of summer has long been dropped; the rosy...
moraybound.blogspot.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Just a few months ago...
Back on form, with a bang. And Saga to tempt us with...
November 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Back on form, with a bang. And Saga to tempt us with...
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If you love Travel Writing as much as me, what better way to shout about it than entering your favourite books for the @stanfordstravel.bsky.social Travel Writing Awards 2026 🙌📢📚
Submissions are … OPEN !!
Follow the link and get your books in !! Closes 24 Nov 📖
www.stanfords.co.uk/edward-stanf...
Submissions are … OPEN !!
Follow the link and get your books in !! Closes 24 Nov 📖
www.stanfords.co.uk/edward-stanf...
October 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
If you love Travel Writing as much as me, what better way to shout about it than entering your favourite books for the @stanfordstravel.bsky.social Travel Writing Awards 2026 🙌📢📚
Submissions are … OPEN !!
Follow the link and get your books in !! Closes 24 Nov 📖
www.stanfords.co.uk/edward-stanf...
Submissions are … OPEN !!
Follow the link and get your books in !! Closes 24 Nov 📖
www.stanfords.co.uk/edward-stanf...
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Our fabulous @liljawriter.bsky.social and Antti Tuomainen are coming to Aye Write on Sunday 9th November – 12.45pm – chatting to Neil McKay!
They'll be discussing their new books #BlackAsDeath & #TheWinterJob
BOOK TICKETS NOW!
https://bit.ly/3KCm7wu
##BookSky #Glasgow #Scotland #CrimeFiction
They'll be discussing their new books #BlackAsDeath & #TheWinterJob
BOOK TICKETS NOW!
https://bit.ly/3KCm7wu
##BookSky #Glasgow #Scotland #CrimeFiction
October 8, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Our fabulous @liljawriter.bsky.social and Antti Tuomainen are coming to Aye Write on Sunday 9th November – 12.45pm – chatting to Neil McKay!
They'll be discussing their new books #BlackAsDeath & #TheWinterJob
BOOK TICKETS NOW!
https://bit.ly/3KCm7wu
##BookSky #Glasgow #Scotland #CrimeFiction
They'll be discussing their new books #BlackAsDeath & #TheWinterJob
BOOK TICKETS NOW!
https://bit.ly/3KCm7wu
##BookSky #Glasgow #Scotland #CrimeFiction
Skiffs and Ketches, Drakes and Chichesters. Families. On a voyage of discovery Linda Cracknell replaces her walking rhythms with tidal. And she finds herself. And her forebears. She gives us a treasure chest, leaving us longing for more from whatever flotsam and jetsam may follow. #booksky
September 24, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Skiffs and Ketches, Drakes and Chichesters. Families. On a voyage of discovery Linda Cracknell replaces her walking rhythms with tidal. And she finds herself. And her forebears. She gives us a treasure chest, leaving us longing for more from whatever flotsam and jetsam may follow. #booksky
For a second week one man popped up in the pages of a book. Firstly, in Kirsten MacQuarrie's Remember the Rowan, when he met Kathleen Raine later in life. And now he's popped up in Olivier Norken's The Winter Warriors, as part of the 1940 French Govt. Step fwd Alexis Leger/Saint-John Perse. #Booksky
September 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
For a second week one man popped up in the pages of a book. Firstly, in Kirsten MacQuarrie's Remember the Rowan, when he met Kathleen Raine later in life. And now he's popped up in Olivier Norken's The Winter Warriors, as part of the 1940 French Govt. Step fwd Alexis Leger/Saint-John Perse. #Booksky
Books, and reading, and a little bit more. Might spark a nod of the head or two #Booksky
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On Reading
It is something I do, reading. Have done for as long as I can remember. Those early days when Kandy Meets the Bunny Babes was the tale o...
moraybound.blogspot.com
September 8, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Books, and reading, and a little bit more. Might spark a nod of the head or two #Booksky
moraybound.blogspot.com/2025/09/on-r...
moraybound.blogspot.com/2025/09/on-r...
Keeper. Johana Gustawsson. Hum and Dinger.
July 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Keeper. Johana Gustawsson. Hum and Dinger.
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“I was born in 1962. There’s been an environmental crisis for as long as I’ve lived. To step outside that constant culpability was one of the many delights of RING OF BRIGHT WATER.”
—Kathleen Jamie in the @lrb.co.uk on Gavin Maxwell (1914–1969) – born #OTD, 15 July
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—Kathleen Jamie in the @lrb.co.uk on Gavin Maxwell (1914–1969) – born #OTD, 15 July
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www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...
Kathleen Jamie · Diary: In the West Highlands
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July 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
“I was born in 1962. There’s been an environmental crisis for as long as I’ve lived. To step outside that constant culpability was one of the many delights of RING OF BRIGHT WATER.”
—Kathleen Jamie in the @lrb.co.uk on Gavin Maxwell (1914–1969) – born #OTD, 15 July
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www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...
—Kathleen Jamie in the @lrb.co.uk on Gavin Maxwell (1914–1969) – born #OTD, 15 July
1/2
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...
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*IMPORTANT*
Please read & share, it could save you or a loved one from a lifetime of chronic system-wide illness. 🙏❤️
Today I was diagnosed with Lyme Disease.😔
I was bitten by 4 ticks 30 days ago & had a red rash come up around one of the bites, that soon started spreading...
*Continued below
Please read & share, it could save you or a loved one from a lifetime of chronic system-wide illness. 🙏❤️
Today I was diagnosed with Lyme Disease.😔
I was bitten by 4 ticks 30 days ago & had a red rash come up around one of the bites, that soon started spreading...
*Continued below
July 10, 2025 at 11:40 PM
*IMPORTANT*
Please read & share, it could save you or a loved one from a lifetime of chronic system-wide illness. 🙏❤️
Today I was diagnosed with Lyme Disease.😔
I was bitten by 4 ticks 30 days ago & had a red rash come up around one of the bites, that soon started spreading...
*Continued below
Please read & share, it could save you or a loved one from a lifetime of chronic system-wide illness. 🙏❤️
Today I was diagnosed with Lyme Disease.😔
I was bitten by 4 ticks 30 days ago & had a red rash come up around one of the bites, that soon started spreading...
*Continued below
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You may recall that I was caught up in the collapse of publishers Unbound.
I now have the rights to my book Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear? And I have a lot of them to get rid of.
So if you felt like buying one I might see my office floor again before 2027.
levparikian.com/index.php/pr...
I now have the rights to my book Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear? And I have a lot of them to get rid of.
So if you felt like buying one I might see my office floor again before 2027.
levparikian.com/index.php/pr...
July 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
You may recall that I was caught up in the collapse of publishers Unbound.
I now have the rights to my book Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear? And I have a lot of them to get rid of.
So if you felt like buying one I might see my office floor again before 2027.
levparikian.com/index.php/pr...
I now have the rights to my book Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear? And I have a lot of them to get rid of.
So if you felt like buying one I might see my office floor again before 2027.
levparikian.com/index.php/pr...
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A huge thanks to the 1500 people who have added their voice to our #SayNoToBerwickBank campaign📢
Please help us reach 2000 by signing up & sharing the campaign.
Together, we can ensure that renewable projects support the recovery of our seas.
www.seabird.org/conservation...
Please help us reach 2000 by signing up & sharing the campaign.
Together, we can ensure that renewable projects support the recovery of our seas.
www.seabird.org/conservation...
June 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
A huge thanks to the 1500 people who have added their voice to our #SayNoToBerwickBank campaign📢
Please help us reach 2000 by signing up & sharing the campaign.
Together, we can ensure that renewable projects support the recovery of our seas.
www.seabird.org/conservation...
Please help us reach 2000 by signing up & sharing the campaign.
Together, we can ensure that renewable projects support the recovery of our seas.
www.seabird.org/conservation...
Oh this is delicious. MisPer, music, literature. And Twists. And Turns. No spoilers. But sure to be in my Top Ten come the end of the year.
June 11, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Oh this is delicious. MisPer, music, literature. And Twists. And Turns. No spoilers. But sure to be in my Top Ten come the end of the year.
Go for it; hugely enjoyable read
I’m giving away a copy of Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear?
Details in the linked post (which also contains the story of me and Europe’s smallest bird.
Details in the linked post (which also contains the story of me and Europe’s smallest bird.
I wrote about birds. AGAIN.
This week:
– memories
– the tiny joy of goldcrest
– the inaccurate name and lurid sex life of the dunnock
– BOOK GIVEAWAY
open.substack.com/pub/levparik...
This week:
– memories
– the tiny joy of goldcrest
– the inaccurate name and lurid sex life of the dunnock
– BOOK GIVEAWAY
open.substack.com/pub/levparik...
May 31, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Go for it; hugely enjoyable read
Shelduckling, taken for a stroll across the shell-crumbed machair, away for a first dook.
May 31, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Shelduckling, taken for a stroll across the shell-crumbed machair, away for a first dook.
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So excited to share the beautiful cover for my new book, Unschooled! You can pre-order it now here: www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...
Unschooled by Caro Giles
In this raw and honest memoir, acclaimed writer Caro Giles tells of her daily battles with a system that doesn't work for all students, and how she is forced to confront the status quo.
www.littletoller.co.uk
May 21, 2025 at 11:27 AM
So excited to share the beautiful cover for my new book, Unschooled! You can pre-order it now here: www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...
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Thanks again to everyone who has added their voice to our #SayNoToBerwickBank campaign!🙌
Over 1000(!) of you have already called on Scottish Ministers to reject the #BerwickBank windfarm & get behind nature positive offshore wind🍃
Help us reach 1500⬇️
seabird.org/conservation...
Over 1000(!) of you have already called on Scottish Ministers to reject the #BerwickBank windfarm & get behind nature positive offshore wind🍃
Help us reach 1500⬇️
seabird.org/conservation...
May 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Thanks again to everyone who has added their voice to our #SayNoToBerwickBank campaign!🙌
Over 1000(!) of you have already called on Scottish Ministers to reject the #BerwickBank windfarm & get behind nature positive offshore wind🍃
Help us reach 1500⬇️
seabird.org/conservation...
Over 1000(!) of you have already called on Scottish Ministers to reject the #BerwickBank windfarm & get behind nature positive offshore wind🍃
Help us reach 1500⬇️
seabird.org/conservation...
Ages ago someone was looking for suggestions on books related to cheese, for a book group topic. It preyed on mind for a while. Finally found what I knew was a cracker for cheese. Sorry can't recall the original poster.
May 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Ages ago someone was looking for suggestions on books related to cheese, for a book group topic. It preyed on mind for a while. Finally found what I knew was a cracker for cheese. Sorry can't recall the original poster.