Rachel Malik
@rachelmalik.bsky.social
Writes, reads, watches, worries. 1st novel Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves - SL for Walter Scott prize. LL for V S Pritchett Short Story. Second novel, A Fire of Stalks and Feathers, coming soon I hope
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Rachel Malik
@rachelmalik.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Some of you will know I've written a novel, Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves, based on the life of my black sheep grandmother, Rene Hargreaves and her partner Elsie Boston.
I was sent this recently by a relative of Elsie's. Elsie far right, elusive as ever, garden theatricals.
I was sent this recently by a relative of Elsie's. Elsie far right, elusive as ever, garden theatricals.
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Absolutely chuffed to have my story, If only, nominated for the #Pushcart, alongside so many writers whose work I adore & my writing bestie @pleomorphic2.bsky.social. Congrats to all 👋🏼
Thank you thank you Eirene and the editors of @templeinacity.bsky.social ❤️
Thank you thank you Eirene and the editors of @templeinacity.bsky.social ❤️
Nominations nominations nominations with a corrected typo because we are having a very mercury retrograde day just like cloudflare
With apologies. templeinacity.com/temple-in-a-...
With apologies. templeinacity.com/temple-in-a-...
November 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Absolutely chuffed to have my story, If only, nominated for the #Pushcart, alongside so many writers whose work I adore & my writing bestie @pleomorphic2.bsky.social. Congrats to all 👋🏼
Thank you thank you Eirene and the editors of @templeinacity.bsky.social ❤️
Thank you thank you Eirene and the editors of @templeinacity.bsky.social ❤️
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In the wet and cold that is London right now, looking forward to Wed evening's pop up salon with @saloneurope.bsky.social !
@deborahzafer.bsky.social @judepickledplum.bsky.social @markabowles.bsky.social @aldbera.bsky.social @rachelmalik.bsky.social - who else is going to be there???
@deborahzafer.bsky.social @judepickledplum.bsky.social @markabowles.bsky.social @aldbera.bsky.social @rachelmalik.bsky.social - who else is going to be there???
Couldn’t make it to Paris?
Meet us in London for another night of chat, drinks and readings with writers from all over Europe, hosted alongside our pals at Insurgent Press
Only a few spots left--get em while they're hot! 🔥
Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-lit...
Meet us in London for another night of chat, drinks and readings with writers from all over Europe, hosted alongside our pals at Insurgent Press
Only a few spots left--get em while they're hot! 🔥
Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-lit...
November 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
In the wet and cold that is London right now, looking forward to Wed evening's pop up salon with @saloneurope.bsky.social !
@deborahzafer.bsky.social @judepickledplum.bsky.social @markabowles.bsky.social @aldbera.bsky.social @rachelmalik.bsky.social - who else is going to be there???
@deborahzafer.bsky.social @judepickledplum.bsky.social @markabowles.bsky.social @aldbera.bsky.social @rachelmalik.bsky.social - who else is going to be there???
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At the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, I discovered the wild works of Argentine ceramic artist #LucioFontana (1899-1968). Here are one early work & one late piece.
November 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
At the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, I discovered the wild works of Argentine ceramic artist #LucioFontana (1899-1968). Here are one early work & one late piece.
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wrote an article for @thebookseller.com outlining to the industry why small presses are the lifeforce & future of book production. Pls share esp w people who may not know what small press publishers do!
www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
Don’t invest in AI, invest in the future of the book
Why the publishing industry must back small presses, rather than LLMs.
www.thebookseller.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
wrote an article for @thebookseller.com outlining to the industry why small presses are the lifeforce & future of book production. Pls share esp w people who may not know what small press publishers do!
www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
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Wonderful obituary for South African writer Zoë Wicomb here, in good company with the late Geoffrey Bindman.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Last Word - Baroness Newlove, Zoe Wicomb, Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC, Professor Roland Paxton - BBC Sounds
Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, an author, a lawyer and a civil engineer.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Oh god yes.
I wrote about something similar years ago
I wrote about something similar years ago
November 17, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Oh god yes.
I wrote about something similar years ago
I wrote about something similar years ago
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Some well-remunerated Labour consultant thought this was a genius move because it would help win the 24-hour news cycle.
Anyone who has been to see a concentration camp or even watched a documentary will have seared into their brain the images of piles of personal items (shoes, glasses, jewellery, etc) that were seized and how forlorn and laden with symbolism they are. No spin can fix that.
November 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Some well-remunerated Labour consultant thought this was a genius move because it would help win the 24-hour news cycle.
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mariska hargitay’s documentary on her mother, jayne mansfield, is phenomenal
November 15, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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“What we have isn’t peace. What we have is a continuing genocide, albeit one that has shifted gears and has—for now—moved into the slow lane.” New: Saree Makdisi on the ceasefire in Gaza. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
After the Genocide, the Genocide | Saree Makdisi
As the Western media and politicians breathlessly celebrated the return of the final Israeli prisoners, a number of them soldiers captured in combat, Israel began returning hundreds of captives it had...
www.nplusonemag.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
“What we have isn’t peace. What we have is a continuing genocide, albeit one that has shifted gears and has—for now—moved into the slow lane.” New: Saree Makdisi on the ceasefire in Gaza. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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Bumping up this thread for some excellent books to choose from in the ongoing NYRB Classics sitewide sale.
A couple of years ago, I wrote a post on some of my favourite NYRB Classics. Books you can consider buying from the current sale.
readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2023/05/15/f...
@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
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@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
Favourite NYRB Classics
After my trip, I have yet to get into the groove of writing individual book reviews, so have decided to put up this themed post instead, this time on some of my favourite NYRB Classics titles in th…
readersretreat2017.wordpress.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Bumping up this thread for some excellent books to choose from in the ongoing NYRB Classics sitewide sale.
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It’s that time of year! The NYRB sale is on now! For those of you who want to be prepared for #NYRBWomen26, here’s our schedule. (Note: Cagnati, Lemann & Carrington aren’t being released until next year.) www.nyrb.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:08 AM
It’s that time of year! The NYRB sale is on now! For those of you who want to be prepared for #NYRBWomen26, here’s our schedule. (Note: Cagnati, Lemann & Carrington aren’t being released until next year.) www.nyrb.com
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THE VERY ANGRY CATERPILLAR went over really well, phew. Thanks to all the students who participated, you were a brilliant audience and I loved the whole afternoon. A very memorable day at the end of a year I would prefer to forget. Thank you. 🙏
About to deliver my new talk, THE VERY ANGRY CATERPILLAR: UNLEASHING THE POWER OF YOUR INNER BOOKWORM, to a group of 800 English Literature students.
November 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
THE VERY ANGRY CATERPILLAR went over really well, phew. Thanks to all the students who participated, you were a brilliant audience and I loved the whole afternoon. A very memorable day at the end of a year I would prefer to forget. Thank you. 🙏
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Portal number 32.
November 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Portal number 32.
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Hey, you there — you who borrowed all the Clarice Lispector books from the library. Hurry up and read them.
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Hey, you there — you who borrowed all the Clarice Lispector books from the library. Hurry up and read them.
Really worth a read particularly if you’re inclined to indulge Watson as a controversialist.
Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted.
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liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
James Watson in his own words
“Some anti-Semitism is justified” “Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them” “Japan should be bombed for d…
liorpachter.wordpress.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Really worth a read particularly if you’re inclined to indulge Watson as a controversialist.
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It's interesting talking to my non-desi friends about the slew of racism against Mamdani. Many of them are shocked. Personally? I'm impressed by the restraint. It's the polished, censored, made-for-TV version of what I've been listening to my whole life.
November 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
It's interesting talking to my non-desi friends about the slew of racism against Mamdani. Many of them are shocked. Personally? I'm impressed by the restraint. It's the polished, censored, made-for-TV version of what I've been listening to my whole life.
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Next session 23 November - Rhythm and The Ballad.
Join us! 🖊 🖋
Join us! 🖊 🖋
Build your knowledge of poetic style and form with our very first course series✨
Have you ever wanted to write poetry but felt held back by your lack of formal knowledge? Or are you already writing poetry and would like a better grounding?
Have you ever wanted to write poetry but felt held back by your lack of formal knowledge? Or are you already writing poetry and would like a better grounding?
November 5, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Next session 23 November - Rhythm and The Ballad.
Join us! 🖊 🖋
Join us! 🖊 🖋
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Read Mamdani’s victory speech here:
The Full Transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Speech
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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Good night
November 4, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Good night
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IDF soldiers raped him so violently until they exploded his intestines & raptured his rectum. He underwent 20 surgical operations, inc. colostomy & urostomy, & is still suffering medical complications.
Netanyahu:
"The August 2024 leak “caused enormous reputational damage to Israel, to the IDF, and to our soldiers”
So the key concern for the war criminal PM is not that Israeli soldiers raped and brutalized a detainee.
But that the info got out.
www.timesofisrael.com/pm-palestini...
"The August 2024 leak “caused enormous reputational damage to Israel, to the IDF, and to our soldiers”
So the key concern for the war criminal PM is not that Israeli soldiers raped and brutalized a detainee.
But that the info got out.
www.timesofisrael.com/pm-palestini...
PM: Palestinian prisoner abuse video leak ‘most serious PR attack’ against Israel to date
AG Baharav-Miara rejects Levin’s ‘unlawful’ effort to bar her from investigating incident; indicted soldiers say leak of video footage means they cannot get a fair trial
www.timesofisrael.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
IDF soldiers raped him so violently until they exploded his intestines & raptured his rectum. He underwent 20 surgical operations, inc. colostomy & urostomy, & is still suffering medical complications.
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Just writing something on 1920s culture for programme for @the-rsc.bsky.social new production of The Forsyte Saga and reminded of Will Dyson's brilliant / terrifying cartoon for John Bull in 1922.
November 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Just writing something on 1920s culture for programme for @the-rsc.bsky.social new production of The Forsyte Saga and reminded of Will Dyson's brilliant / terrifying cartoon for John Bull in 1922.
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“The circle sits beautifully within a vertical landscape. Tower blocks, the cathedral spire..the obelisks of the Victorian cemetery, even the wind turbines on surrounding hills, all seem to mirror the stones." A lovely read on Sighthill's nod to prehistory from Peter Ross' book Upon a White Horse.
"Weird things like the standing stones give the city its soul." There's an extract from Upon A White Horse in today's @heraldscotland.bsky.social. It's about Glasgow's only stone circle. I'll be talking about the book at the Aye Write book festival on Nov 15.
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2558912...
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2558912...
'It doesn’t just work archaeo-astronomically, it also works at an emotional level'
Journalist Peter Ross joins Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite at Glasgow’s modern stone circle in Sighthill – part memorial, part urban myth – as…
www.heraldscotland.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:24 AM
“The circle sits beautifully within a vertical landscape. Tower blocks, the cathedral spire..the obelisks of the Victorian cemetery, even the wind turbines on surrounding hills, all seem to mirror the stones." A lovely read on Sighthill's nod to prehistory from Peter Ross' book Upon a White Horse.
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I’ve written a few thoughts on The Flight of the Maidens by Jane Gardem, 2000, an excellent coming of age story about three girls growing up in post war Yorkshire 💙📚 #BookSky #BookReview #Braille https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/5d03df95-31e0-4daf-b26d-f5db4b4a59de
Review by sarahmatthews - The Flight of the Maidens
The Flight of the Maidens by Jane Gardem
Read in BrailleChatto & Windus Pub. 2000, 278pp_...
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November 2, 2025 at 8:45 AM
I’ve written a few thoughts on The Flight of the Maidens by Jane Gardem, 2000, an excellent coming of age story about three girls growing up in post war Yorkshire 💙📚 #BookSky #BookReview #Braille https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/5d03df95-31e0-4daf-b26d-f5db4b4a59de