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m john harrison

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New novel: The End of Everything Serpent's Tail, June, 2026. Blog: https://ambientehotel.wordpress.com/about

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m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · Nov 29

Landscapes are written about, but there will be no landscape writing. Ghosts appear, but not in the ghost stories. Animals feature heavily, but there is nothing here that might be described as “animal fiction”.

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m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · 2h

faint sounds from the pub, as of revolution or football support

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Gretchen von Tongeln @metalligretch.bsky.social · 13h

They fixed the sinkhole before I could look in it, story of my life.

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Paul Griffiths @disgwylfa.bsky.social · 1d

a page of Krasznahorkai

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Marina Benjamin @marinabenjamin.bsky.social · 1d

The future of UK Independent presses hang by a thread. Supporting the sector is vital: this is where ALL the bravery lies. The big houses are risk averse, but copycat small press successes to revitalise their lists. Small presses are the motor!
www.thebookseller.com/comment/open...

Open letter on the future of small press publishing in the UK

The industry must work together to ensure the longevity of the UK’s independent presses.

www.thebookseller.com

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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 1d

I've just realised I don't entirely put it past Trump to scupper the truce for sheer Nobel Prize rejection spite

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Depth Noir @depthnoir.bsky.social · 1d

Gosia Janik

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1d

Castle ruins lit by spotlights. A broad sway of cloud covers the sky.

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Calum Barnes @balumcarnes.bsky.social · 1d

is the video actually there? i uploaded it but can’t see it

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Andrew Kelly @andrewkelly.bsky.social · 1d

Lee Miller

Untitled (Funerary towers and Roman columns), Palmyra, c.1938

In Lee Miller Tate Britain show

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Paul McAuley @unlikelyworlds.bsky.social · 1d

So I went for a walk today

View across slopes of trees taking on autumn colours towards the brow of Beacon Hill, Buckinghamshire.

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Benjamin Myers @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social · 1d

I've been doing yoga 3-4 times per week for 11 years now, and the physical changes are remarkable.

I am now fatter and hairier.

#Nameste.

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m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · 1d

effect, obvs

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www.the-tls.com/literature/f...

Geometry, precision, perfection in ‘a little object of meditation’

László Krasznahorkai is perhaps best known as the author of the bleak, often incomprehensibly weird Satantango (1985) – the winner of the 2013 Best

www.the-tls.com

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click for full efect

Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · Mar 23

this cat looks like one of the Old Master painters who's just slept with three servants, argued viciously with his annoying patron about the inferior ham he receives, and then painted his masterpiece out of spite

Collection of paints, brushes and pots on an old table. In the corner a large very fluffy cat sprawls in decadence

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 2d

In autumn light. #Hildy

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Benjamin Myers @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social · 2d

JESUS CHRIST KINSKI is here.

I'm celebrating with a gaucho poncho (from Buenos Aires) and a fedora (Kirkby Lonsdale).

Credit to @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social for backing this sonic blast with such enthusiasm.

Fight fascism of all forms.

I am forever your humble servant & co.

B. D. Myers

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 2d

John Atkinson Grimshaw‘s Moonlight Wharfedale

www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6...

exapnsive landscape. two people leaning on a fence in a hedgrow as a river in the distance threads its way across the land

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Myriam Frey @dustynewrose.bsky.social · 7d

My first collection of short stories is out this month (17 October) on @nightjarpress.bsky.social ! Very excited. And nervous. But mostly excited.

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 3d

Yes

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 3d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · 3d

the thing I fear most is losing the sense that I'm a placeholder; I stand in for something I don't quite understand (but the next book might).

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 3d

Weather by Raymond Briggs, vibes by Samuel Beckett, soundtrack by a small child outside, wailing like an ambulance

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 3d

It's a dream I always have.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 5d

‘If you set aside the “raunchy” cover pictures and the publicists’ emphasis on wall-to-wall sex, you do find something worth reading and worth thinking about, which is pleasure, that most ticklish of subjects.’

Ian Patterson on Jilly Cooper, from 2017: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

Ian Patterson · Miss Dior, Prodigally Applied: Jilly Cooper

www.lrb.co.uk

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