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ten million hardbacks @10millionhardbacks.bsky.social · Jul 7

“I love writing and have learnt from experience that even when it’s not going well there is often some bit that is worth coming back to another day.”

John Maguire interviews Emma Morgan, author of Beggars Would Ride:

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Emma Morgan Interview: Beggars Would Ride - 10mh.net

Emma Morgan interview - 10 million hardbacks talks to the author of Beggars Would Ride, out now from Northodox Press.

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ten million hardbacks @10millionhardbacks.bsky.social · 12h

This is a great article by @ceilidhann.bsky.social which is mainly focused on the US but I wonder how much of the ire directed at football players in the UK at the moment is from people losing money on bets

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How Sports Became Addicted to Gambling

The proliferation of sports betting over the past five years has been a disaster.

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Renard Press @renardpress.com · 1d

#booksky, can you help? In so many ways this has been a glorious week of collaboration and support, but it’s ended on a downer…

Reader, we need you. This morning we woke to the extraordinary news that our bank accidentally duplicated several of our payments that were scheduled to be paid – ‘we’re sorry for any inconvenience.’ As you no doubt know, small presses, like many small businesses, are run on a knife edge, and as our print reps will attest, every transaction is a haggle, a struggle to ensure survival. To be clear, this will not kill us off, but we do need to quickly find around £1,000 to pay our next print bills on time. It’s a hard time for so many, we know, and we do not ask this lightly, but if you’re planning on buying books for Christmas presents, it would make the world of difference if you headed to our site today and bought a book. 🧡

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Rachel Burton Is Querying 📚 @rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social · 2d

Heading to Sydney to visit my ye olde Dad - I bought #NobodysGirl because Virginia Giuffre matters.
She mattered when she was alive.
She matters now.

#justice
#believeher
#BookSky

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ten million hardbacks @10millionhardbacks.bsky.social · 3d

I know that and I know you know that. It's the usual eejits who can't even take a night off from moaning when we win.

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Simon Thomas @stuckinabook.bsky.social · 4d

A really brilliant Elizabeth von Arnim novel for the #1925Club: www.stuckinabook.com/love-by-eliz...

Love by Elizabeth von Arnim – #1925Club

I have let my Audible subscription expire now, since I have such a backlog of downloaded titles I haven’t listened to yet (and since I discovered the free audiobooks from the library) –…

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ten million hardbacks @10millionhardbacks.bsky.social · 3d

True, Murakami seemed genuinely shocked when Mieko Kawakami told him that the way he wrote women was hard to read as a woman. Whereas Houellebecq wouldn't be in a similar scenario.

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mulboyne.bsky.social @mulboyne.bsky.social · 3d

An interview with academic Toshio Mizuuchi looks at the foreign population in Osaka's Nishinari Ward, as this poor area of the city, and home to day labourers, undergoes gentrification. jbpress.ismedia.jp/articles/-/9...

外国人が激増する大阪・西成で進む外国人との共生、出身国・地域ごとに異なる日本の永住資格獲得までのルート【StraightTalk】西成労働福祉センターの水内俊雄氏に聞く、入国ビザで分かる日本に住む外国人たちの仕事と生活 | JBpress (ジェイビープレス)

1980年代に難民認定制度導入から入管法の制定があり、在留資格が職業・活動別に細分化されました。また、1991年に制定された特別永住層（従来の旧植民地出身者とその子孫の人々）に加え(1/4)

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ten million hardbacks @10millionhardbacks.bsky.social · 3d

I don't think it's about being offended, more that he's given many people (me) the ick over the last few years.

ten million hardbacks @10millionhardbacks.bsky.social · 3d

Really not here for any Salah negativity. The ingratitude of it! Can't wait to see him shut them all up.

a soccer player with the number 11 on his jersey

Alt: Liverpool's Mo Salah in a white football shirt and black shorts pretends to fire an arrow after scoring a goal

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ten million hardbacks @10millionhardbacks.bsky.social · 4d

Now Konate's scored, I want everyone else that's been getting grief off all the keyboard warriors to get one too.

ten million hardbacks @10millionhardbacks.bsky.social · 4d

Exactly, especially with the Zanzibar closing, there must be a lot of bands looking for a space

ten million hardbacks @10millionhardbacks.bsky.social · 4d

Years and years ago my cousins' band won a battle of the bands thing and the prize was to play at the Cavern. Don't know if they still do that kind of thing. It would be a great way to give people a way in other than covers bands.

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ten million hardbacks @10millionhardbacks.bsky.social · 4d

Signed and shared!

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Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 4d

Google wants to build an enormous new data centre in Essex - emitting 570,000 tonnes of CO2 and concreting a local wildlife site. Tell the local council to refuse planning permission! www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/th...

Thurrock Council - say no to Google's plan for a monster new Data Centre

Google wants to build an enormous new data centre in Essex - emitting 570,000 tonnes of CO2 and concreting a local wildlife site. Tell the local council to refuse planning permission!

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Rob Goss @robgoss.bsky.social · 4d

Work updates are like buses. For a while, there’s nothing, then several come at once. So, I’m happy to say National Geographic’s annual Best of the World list is out today, with a bit of #Japan on it. My latest Lonely Planet is out too: a co-written book about bike rides in Japan.

A screenshot from Nat Geo, introducing a story about Yamagata Prefecture in Japan.

The cover of a Lonely Planet book called Best Bike Rides Japan.

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ten million hardbacks @10millionhardbacks.bsky.social · 5d

Been to see one of the aged relatives in hospital (scheduled surgery, they're doing great!) and it's not news at all but there are some lovely people in the NHS, aren't there. Was sitting there on the ward chatting while little acts of kindness happened all around.

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 5d

Just been reading about the Pakistani mill-workers in Bradford who were hired right off the bus to work 12-hour shifts and then 20, 30 years later were the first to be made redundant when the industry hit the wall. Many - having few other skills - were on the dole for the rest of their lives.

Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 5d

It looks like Labour are saying that refugees must be net economic contributors or face deportation. Or that members of the Windrush Generation, who were invited to permanently settle here by the government, get deported if they fall on hard times or suffer long-term sickness. Get in the bin.

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 5d

“We welcome those who come to this country, legally, and give more than they take. We believe the right to stay here must not be automatic, but that those who play their part should be able to earn that right."

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 5d

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

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James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social · 5d

Proofs are in! A huge thank you to @sceptrebooks.bsky.social for sending these my way. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK will be out in April, and these proofs will be going out into the world imminently. Terrifying! Exciting! Mostly terrifying!

A photo of me, holding a cover of Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of a Muriel Spark in front of my face. The book has a cat on the front cover, and has been positioned to look like the cat’s face forms half of my own.

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ten million hardbacks @10millionhardbacks.bsky.social · 5d

That's my experience too. My mum was a schoolgirl at the time and always has that same reaction.

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 6d

Hello 👋 from the audiobook company that shares profits with 4,000+ independent bookshops across the globe, is an employee-owned Certified B Corp, and really, truly cares about booksellers and readers everywhere 💓

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 6d

3,300 of you braved the rain and almost a million leaflets of hope were delivered around the country for the #WeekendofHOPE. We reached 578 out of 650 constituencies!

Next time, with your help, we'll get to them all.

Thank you so much. 💛

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ten million hardbacks @10millionhardbacks.bsky.social · 7d

Whaaaaaaa? Didn't hear that
And there's Klopp saying he hadn't been the cinema or to a mate's wedding for 25 years

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TheCenci @thecenci.bsky.social · 7d

Positives

1) Fede
2) Hugo
3) Amorin in.

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ten million hardbacks @10millionhardbacks.bsky.social · 7d

I'm sorry to hear it, and yes, it won't be a quick recovery. So much is in flux and we've got to give them grace and stick together. This isn't going to be like last season at all but there's no place for negativity yet. We're a long way from crisis, whatever the media/podcasts want to spin it as