Tony White
@tonywhite.bsky.social
London author. Latest novel The Fountain in the Forest (Faber). Former Science Museum writer in residence. Tony White is an RLF Fellow. CWA member. Views my own. Mailing list and other links👇🏼
https://linktr.ee/author_tonywhite
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If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
November 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
RIP and thank you David Bellos👏👏👏👏✊
October 27, 2025 at 10:52 PM
RIP and thank you David Bellos👏👏👏👏✊
Morning, all, from the banks of the Thames in SW London — have a good one ;)
PS zoom in for bonus swan flypast🦢🦢🦢🦢🫡
PS zoom in for bonus swan flypast🦢🦢🦢🦢🫡
October 27, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Morning, all, from the banks of the Thames in SW London — have a good one ;)
PS zoom in for bonus swan flypast🦢🦢🦢🦢🫡
PS zoom in for bonus swan flypast🦢🦢🦢🦢🫡
Twilight’s last gleamings, Stratford-style
October 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Twilight’s last gleamings, Stratford-style
Thames at Hammersmith, London, just after low tide this morning
October 17, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Thames at Hammersmith, London, just after low tide this morning
👋Hello to new followers! BTW if you’d like to get book news from me and hear about gigs like this at #thefrenchhouse Soho, and receive invites to my book launches? It’s easy, and now might be a good time… ;) Plus you can unsubscribe any time👉🏼 stats.sender.net/forms/eE2pka...
(Photo Peter Clark 👏👏👏)
(Photo Peter Clark 👏👏👏)
October 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
👋Hello to new followers! BTW if you’d like to get book news from me and hear about gigs like this at #thefrenchhouse Soho, and receive invites to my book launches? It’s easy, and now might be a good time… ;) Plus you can unsubscribe any time👉🏼 stats.sender.net/forms/eE2pka...
(Photo Peter Clark 👏👏👏)
(Photo Peter Clark 👏👏👏)
(Misty) morning, all ;)
— the Thames at Barnes Bridge RN
— the Thames at Barnes Bridge RN
September 29, 2025 at 7:05 AM
(Misty) morning, all ;)
— the Thames at Barnes Bridge RN
— the Thames at Barnes Bridge RN
Spotted on an Oxford pinboard a few days ago: an A4 rabbit hole into the world of artist Suzanne Treister (with a nod to @greatdismal.bsky.social there?) ahead of retrospective ‘Prophetic Dreaming’ at @modernartoxford.bsky.social opens 4 October to 12 April 26! modernartoxford.org.uk/whats-on/suz...
September 28, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Spotted on an Oxford pinboard a few days ago: an A4 rabbit hole into the world of artist Suzanne Treister (with a nod to @greatdismal.bsky.social there?) ahead of retrospective ‘Prophetic Dreaming’ at @modernartoxford.bsky.social opens 4 October to 12 April 26! modernartoxford.org.uk/whats-on/suz...
‘Plain Speaking' was first performed at @davidcollard.bsky.social’s Carthorse Orchestra online salon, then published by #3amMagazine and @irishlitsoc.bsky.social, and in @nicholasroyle.bsky.social’s Best British Short Stories 2022 on @saltpublishing.com — thanks all! 🙏👏✊ More info: bit.ly/46HWKk8
September 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
‘Plain Speaking' was first performed at @davidcollard.bsky.social’s Carthorse Orchestra online salon, then published by #3amMagazine and @irishlitsoc.bsky.social, and in @nicholasroyle.bsky.social’s Best British Short Stories 2022 on @saltpublishing.com — thanks all! 🙏👏✊ More info: bit.ly/46HWKk8
Delighted that my short story ‘Plain Speaking’ written to mark the 110th anniversary of the birth of Brian O’Nolan aka Flann O’Brien is now collected in a new textbook for grammar school students in Germany: ‘Great Britain in Nine Short Stories’ from @cornelsenverlag.bsky.social See: bit.ly/4nKSKq6
September 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Delighted that my short story ‘Plain Speaking’ written to mark the 110th anniversary of the birth of Brian O’Nolan aka Flann O’Brien is now collected in a new textbook for grammar school students in Germany: ‘Great Britain in Nine Short Stories’ from @cornelsenverlag.bsky.social See: bit.ly/4nKSKq6
Thames in SW London at sunset (with ‘tin fish’) today
September 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Thames in SW London at sunset (with ‘tin fish’) today
Equinoctial skies above the river in SW London, at 19:19 BST precisely. It’s now autumn in the northern hemisphere — OFFICIAL!
September 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Equinoctial skies above the river in SW London, at 19:19 BST precisely. It’s now autumn in the northern hemisphere — OFFICIAL!
“Barthelme! Barthelme! They’ve all read their Barthelme!”
September 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“Barthelme! Barthelme! They’ve all read their Barthelme!”
Magical Thames around 6:30 pm today
September 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Magical Thames around 6:30 pm today
Looking forward to being in conversation with the brilliant artist Liliane Lijn for EA Festival at the Minories, Colchester, Tuesday 30 September. Come and join us!
Info and bookings here: www.eafestival.com/lilianelijn
(Also I'm teaching @universityofessex.bsky.social this year – very exciting!)
Info and bookings here: www.eafestival.com/lilianelijn
(Also I'm teaching @universityofessex.bsky.social this year – very exciting!)
September 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Looking forward to being in conversation with the brilliant artist Liliane Lijn for EA Festival at the Minories, Colchester, Tuesday 30 September. Come and join us!
Info and bookings here: www.eafestival.com/lilianelijn
(Also I'm teaching @universityofessex.bsky.social this year – very exciting!)
Info and bookings here: www.eafestival.com/lilianelijn
(Also I'm teaching @universityofessex.bsky.social this year – very exciting!)
Looking downstream from Waterloo Bridge RN
September 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Looking downstream from Waterloo Bridge RN
The Way We Were* RIP Robert Redford
(*i.e. holding criminal presidents and wholesale political corruption to account…)
(*i.e. holding criminal presidents and wholesale political corruption to account…)
September 16, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The Way We Were* RIP Robert Redford
(*i.e. holding criminal presidents and wholesale political corruption to account…)
(*i.e. holding criminal presidents and wholesale political corruption to account…)
I’m not a poet, but I’ve been invited to read in West London *tonight* Sat 30 August, alongside poets from the IPLA Collective at The Bouda Gallery, 132 Palace Gardens Terrace, London, W8 4RT. Starts 7pm. FREE no booking. Come along!
August 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I’m not a poet, but I’ve been invited to read in West London *tonight* Sat 30 August, alongside poets from the IPLA Collective at The Bouda Gallery, 132 Palace Gardens Terrace, London, W8 4RT. Starts 7pm. FREE no booking. Come along!
I spoke to the @royalliteraryfund.bsky.social about location and the writer – specifically about how for me the River Thames in London is a constant source of inspiration and renewal (as if you couldn't guess...).
Listen here (it's the 2nd of the two audio clips) www.rlf.org.uk/writer/tony-...
Listen here (it's the 2nd of the two audio clips) www.rlf.org.uk/writer/tony-...
August 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM
I spoke to the @royalliteraryfund.bsky.social about location and the writer – specifically about how for me the River Thames in London is a constant source of inspiration and renewal (as if you couldn't guess...).
Listen here (it's the 2nd of the two audio clips) www.rlf.org.uk/writer/tony-...
Listen here (it's the 2nd of the two audio clips) www.rlf.org.uk/writer/tony-...
Thames in SW London at 5pm today
August 29, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Thames in SW London at 5pm today
Thames at Hammersmith Bridge, London, 6pm this evening
August 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Thames at Hammersmith Bridge, London, 6pm this evening
In honour of #yorkshireday this is me aged 21 when I lived in Leeds in the mid-‘80s before going to art school to study Fine Art at Psalter Lane in Sheffield. Photo taken on Ilkley Moor (I think) by my old friend Debbie Bellis!
August 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
In honour of #yorkshireday this is me aged 21 when I lived in Leeds in the mid-‘80s before going to art school to study Fine Art at Psalter Lane in Sheffield. Photo taken on Ilkley Moor (I think) by my old friend Debbie Bellis!
‘Put your backs into it!’ — Thames looking towards Chiswick, London, at 7:30pm
July 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
‘Put your backs into it!’ — Thames looking towards Chiswick, London, at 7:30pm