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Ailsa Cox @ailsacox.bsky.social · 1h

Disappointed the novelist is from LA and not from Manchester Waterstones manchestermill.co.uk/jeff-noon-vu... @manchestermill.bsky.social.

'I'm the guy on the edge of the dancefloor just staring'

Jeff Noon was selling books in the Deansgate Waterstones when he had a strange encounter that changed his life

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Ailsa Cox @ailsacox.bsky.social · 3d

I've watched The Sopranos twice, my husband three times. Enjoy.

Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social · 4d

One week to publication of ELLE: a verse novel. Online launch and publication details here: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/10/my-n...

My new book Elle: A Verse Novel is published by Broken Sleep Books

My new book Elle: A Verse Novel is published by Broken Sleep Books in November 2025 Details for PRE ORDER: Robert Sheppard - Elle, a ...

robertsheppard.blogspot.com

Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 5d

@cdrose.bsky.social talking to Alex Clark & Lucy Dallas about We Live Here Now (@ 30mins 50seconds)

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Books of the Year | The TLS Podcast

This week, TLS contributors select their favourites from 2025; plus an interview with CD Rose, winner of this year’s Goldsmiths Prize.

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Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 6d

It's Wednesday evening, and so nearly the weekend – and A Personal Anthology. This week's guest editor, picking and introducing a dozen favourite short stories, is Alex Johnson a.k.a. @shedworking.bsky.social.

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About - A Personal Anthology

A weekly guest-editor picks and introduces a personal anthology of twelve favourite short stories. Click to read A Personal Anthology, by Jonathan Gibbs, a Substack publication with thousands of subsc...

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Ailsa Cox @ailsacox.bsky.social · 8d

Or which novel you wish was a short story!

Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · 9d

We're open for submissions of #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction and #translations. Please click on the link for our guidlesines #callforsubmissions fictivedream.com/submission-g...

Ailsa Cox @ailsacox.bsky.social · 10d

Happy day-after-birthday!

Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 12d

Tears flowing in Storm Claudia-tossed Manchester, not for @iancritchley.bsky.social’s choosing Colette de Curzon’s @nightjarpress.bsky.social story in his Personal Anthology hosted by @jonathangibbs.bsky.social, nor for his kind words about me & The Cast, but for *his* story about his twin brother.

Ailsa Cox @ailsacox.bsky.social · 14d

Excellent venue for @nicholasroyle.bsky.social launch. Handy for those of us travelling on the Calder Valley Line!

confingopublishing.bsky.social @confingopublishing.bsky.social · 14d

Join us this Thursday for the launch of Paris Fantastique by Nicholas Royle, the final volume in his city-based story collections. Date: 13 November. Time: 7 p.m. – 8.30 p.m. Venue: Pizza Express, Corn Exchange, Manchester. Free entry but RSVP.

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confingopublishing.bsky.social @confingopublishing.bsky.social · 14d

Join us this Thursday for the launch of Paris Fantastique by Nicholas Royle, the final volume in his city-based story collections. Date: 13 November. Time: 7 p.m. – 8.30 p.m. Venue: Pizza Express, Corn Exchange, Manchester. Free entry but RSVP.

confingopublishing.uk/event-list

Ailsa Cox @ailsacox.bsky.social · 15d

Often, yes, but I was cheered to see Chris Power's name amongst the judges and David Szalay's Turbulence is great. If nothing else, let's celebrate the fact that he's not a Yank, come over here to steal our prizes.

Ailsa Cox @ailsacox.bsky.social · 15d

Turbulence is great too.

Ailsa Cox @ailsacox.bsky.social · 16d

Their long blue trains go past my window, chalking up the miles of cash.

Ailsa Cox @ailsacox.bsky.social · 17d

Fascinating discussion from Katherine Clements and fellow @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social author Neil McRobert in Todmorden last night. Worth the long spooky walk to get to Fielden Hall.

Wild Hunt Books @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social · 20d

THE FINAL BOOK IN THE NORTHERN WEIRD PROJECT IS HERE!

Turbine 34 by Katherine Clements🧡 🖤

Camped out alone at Turbine 34, an unnamed scientist soon discovers signs of the devastation and begins to see things that shouldn’t be there...

www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/books/p/turb...

The Portico Library @porticolibrary.bsky.social · 20d

🧵 A remarkable discovery by Portico Library volunteer Rebecca Lamb has revealed that Charles Dickens signed the Library’s Strangers’ Book in May 1844 — confirming that one of the world’s most celebrated novelists once stepped inside Manchester’s oldest subscription library...

Volunteer discovering Charles Dickens' signature in The Portico's Library's Strangers' book

Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 20d

A happy C.D. Rose, shortly after winning our 2025 Prize last night @foylesforbooks.bsky.social.

Trophy designed and made by Cherrie Tong; pic @davidcollard.bsky.social

Wild Hunt Books @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social · 20d

THE FINAL BOOK IN THE NORTHERN WEIRD PROJECT IS HERE!

Turbine 34 by Katherine Clements🧡 🖤

Camped out alone at Turbine 34, an unnamed scientist soon discovers signs of the devastation and begins to see things that shouldn’t be there...

www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/books/p/turb...

Melville House @melvillehouse.bsky.social · 20d

@cdrose.bsky.social is the 2025 Goldsmiths Prize winner!!! So, so well deserved ❤️🏆 Read WE LIVE HERE NOW! @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social

Intellect Books @intellectbooks.bsky.social · 20d

Horror Studies 16.2 is out now!

Including ‘Shadow agents: Ecohorror and ambient dread in Vampyr (1932)’ by Benjamin Bigelow.
#horrorstudies Popular Culture Association

Access the issue via Discover 👉 https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/host/16/2

Ailsa Cox @ailsacox.bsky.social · 21d

A great shortlist @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social. Some names very familiar @edgehillprize.bsky.social. Every one a winner but good luck @cdrose.bsky.social

Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 27d

'A book with an innovative approach will ... deliver no message.... But, lord, you will have experienced something.'

@cdrose.bsky.social talks to the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social's Emily Lawford about the wonderful #GP2025 shortlisted novel, We Live Here Now

www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

CD Rose Q&A: “Novels are like massive clouds which lower overhead”

The 2025 Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on the art world, how we measure value and the role of criticism today

www.newstatesman.com

Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social · 21d

I've added details about the online reading on 29th November launching my Broken Sleep book ELLE to my post about the book and buying the book: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/10/my-n...

My new book Elle: A Verse Novel is published by Broken Sleep Books

My new book Elle: A Verse Novel is published by Broken Sleep Books in November 2025 Details for PRE ORDER: Robert Sheppard - Elle, a ...

robertsheppard.blogspot.com

Carnyx Press @carnyxpress.co.uk · 21d

We're currently open to submissions of novellas and collected short fiction for our 2026-27 publishing schedule! Find out more here: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions

The London Hellenic Prize @lhellenicprize.bsky.social · 22d

We're very proud to announce the winner of this year's prize: Edith Hall's compelling & insightful 'Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me' (Yale UP). A brilliant, moving book for experts & general readers alike - congratulations @edithmayhall.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social!

Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social · 24d

Every Sunday I’ll be contributing a paperback column to the Observer’s New Review. Kicking things off is Driver by Mattia Filice (@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social), who’s poured his experience of 2 decades working on the French rail network into an extraordinary verse novel. observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Ailsa Cox @ailsacox.bsky.social · 24d

Think I might have got rid of my Bradbury anthology and now regret that I did that! The Intro is also well worth a read.

Ailsa Cox @ailsacox.bsky.social · 24d

One of my favourites!

Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 24d

Great news - one of the best mini-series ever with a dazzling & eccentric screenplay by Troy Kennedy Martin & superb direction by Martin Campbell is back on iplayer.
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Edge of Darkness - Series 1: 1. Compassionate Leave

Thriller set in a world of obsessive state security. Ronald Craven is haunted by the murder of his daughter and begins his own investigation into her death.

www.bbc.co.uk

Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 27d

'A book with an innovative approach will ... deliver no message.... But, lord, you will have experienced something.'

@cdrose.bsky.social talks to the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social's Emily Lawford about the wonderful #GP2025 shortlisted novel, We Live Here Now

www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

CD Rose Q&A: “Novels are like massive clouds which lower overhead”

The 2025 Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on the art world, how we measure value and the role of criticism today

www.newstatesman.com