@angerj.bsky.social
Have mostly been a bookseller so you'll see some booky stuff here. Also trained in horticulture. Now doing art among other things. UK
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“The plot is sublime, spiralling out into the city’s nooks and crannies, intricate, but always firmly anchored by Lawrence’s soulful characters.”
@lawrencepatrice.bsky.social
The final Elemental Detectives is out! Perfect MG for history geeks&dragon-seekers.
www.letterboxlibrary.com/product-page...
@lawrencepatrice.bsky.social
The final Elemental Detectives is out! Perfect MG for history geeks&dragon-seekers.
www.letterboxlibrary.com/product-page...
THE CASE OF THE DREAMING DRAGON | Letterbox Library
by Patrice Lawrence We’ve waited ever so long. But the wait was so worth it. The Elemental Detectives, Marisee Blackwell and Robert Strong, are back on the case in the conclusion to Patrice Lawrence’s...
www.letterboxlibrary.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:38 AM
“The plot is sublime, spiralling out into the city’s nooks and crannies, intricate, but always firmly anchored by Lawrence’s soulful characters.”
@lawrencepatrice.bsky.social
The final Elemental Detectives is out! Perfect MG for history geeks&dragon-seekers.
www.letterboxlibrary.com/product-page...
@lawrencepatrice.bsky.social
The final Elemental Detectives is out! Perfect MG for history geeks&dragon-seekers.
www.letterboxlibrary.com/product-page...
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#DiscoverFirst gives you the chance to get the next big book before it hits bookshops.
This month, we're offering 100 early copies of Belgrave Road by Manish Chauhan – a tender celebration of first love and portrait of contemporary Britain – before it's out. 📚
Get your copy: buff.ly/9QiHEA4
This month, we're offering 100 early copies of Belgrave Road by Manish Chauhan – a tender celebration of first love and portrait of contemporary Britain – before it's out. 📚
Get your copy: buff.ly/9QiHEA4
November 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
#DiscoverFirst gives you the chance to get the next big book before it hits bookshops.
This month, we're offering 100 early copies of Belgrave Road by Manish Chauhan – a tender celebration of first love and portrait of contemporary Britain – before it's out. 📚
Get your copy: buff.ly/9QiHEA4
This month, we're offering 100 early copies of Belgrave Road by Manish Chauhan – a tender celebration of first love and portrait of contemporary Britain – before it's out. 📚
Get your copy: buff.ly/9QiHEA4
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Honestly, I think I could do a better job running Downing St communications and the BBC as a job share. Am available.
November 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Honestly, I think I could do a better job running Downing St communications and the BBC as a job share. Am available.
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Distant shores of the River Ore, Suffolk, seen from the Maybush Inn, Waldringfield.
November 12, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Distant shores of the River Ore, Suffolk, seen from the Maybush Inn, Waldringfield.
Hurrah! The book is beautiful work of art. Looking forward to seeing the calendar.
Somehow it’s time for The Beach Today 2026 calendars 🐚
Available to pre-order along with other underwater things, it’s a Looking Down at the Stars theme this year christinariley.bigcartel.com
(I lost so many lovely Beach Today folk in the move here so any shares are much appreciated thank you)
Available to pre-order along with other underwater things, it’s a Looking Down at the Stars theme this year christinariley.bigcartel.com
(I lost so many lovely Beach Today folk in the move here so any shares are much appreciated thank you)
November 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Hurrah! The book is beautiful work of art. Looking forward to seeing the calendar.
This will be interesting. Tonight, 6.30pm. On Hopper's drawings. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/edward-hop...
EDWARD HOPPER: INTERIOR LANDSCAPES IN CHARCOAL
London Drawing Group welcomes back guest tutor Laura Smith, exploring the iconic world of American Realist EDWARD HOPPER
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 10:22 AM
This will be interesting. Tonight, 6.30pm. On Hopper's drawings. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/edward-hop...
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massive blazing foghorn noise to make sure everyone knows that Benediction – Terence Davies' final film, one of the best of the decade so far, not available to buy in any physical format beyond DVD anywhere except France for some reason – is up on iPlayer for a full year
Benediction
The story of English poet, writer and soldier Siegfried Sassoon.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
massive blazing foghorn noise to make sure everyone knows that Benediction – Terence Davies' final film, one of the best of the decade so far, not available to buy in any physical format beyond DVD anywhere except France for some reason – is up on iPlayer for a full year
Another free Talk on the book with be held in Birmingham, UK
Wednesday 19th November
Birmingham School of Art
Margaret Street Birmingham
You are invited!! 🧡 www.cphc.org.uk/events/2025/...
Wednesday 19th November
Birmingham School of Art
Margaret Street Birmingham
You are invited!! 🧡 www.cphc.org.uk/events/2025/...
Reframing Women Print Makers — CPHC
Book Launch
www.cphc.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 7:16 AM
EVENT 🧡 !! You are invited!
Book Talk with Cheryl Robson, publisher & editor of the book
'Reframing Women Printmakers'.
Saturday 15th November 3-4pm Bankside Gallery, London.
www.banksidegallery.com/events/234/
Book Talk with Cheryl Robson, publisher & editor of the book
'Reframing Women Printmakers'.
Saturday 15th November 3-4pm Bankside Gallery, London.
www.banksidegallery.com/events/234/
November 12, 2025 at 7:16 AM
A reminder that some of the money you spend at Amazon this Christmas will be used to build a tacky ballroom for billionaires.
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
November 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
#Booksky 📚💙
We are pleased to say that @corinnefowler.bsky.social will now be chairing our forthcoming event with Dan Hicks on November 19th - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/dan-hicks/.
Only a few tickets left.
Only a few tickets left.
Every Monument Will Fall with Dan Hicks, in conversation with Corinne Fowler – Five Leaves Bookshop
fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
#Booksky 📚💙
#Booksky 📚💙
Ah, @nicolawriting.bsky.social , such a delightful read. Beautifully written, and the exhausting research was well worth the effort. How wonderful to have such a story on your doorstep and be able to bring it, and the lovely characters, to life and make us think about how much we have lost. Bravo!
November 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
#Booksky 📚💙
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An analysis of BBC news coverage over the last 4 years shows a shameless bias against Vladimir Putin, with BBC reporters insisting on calling the Special Military Operation in Ukraine “an invasion”
November 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
An analysis of BBC news coverage over the last 4 years shows a shameless bias against Vladimir Putin, with BBC reporters insisting on calling the Special Military Operation in Ukraine “an invasion”
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We might also wonder why the BBC entrusts episodes of its leading current affairs strand to outside producers. But that takes us back to Conservative govmt demands, under the guise of market liberalisation, that they shift spending to independents. The slow death of the BBC was planned long ago…
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November 10, 2025 at 11:05 PM
We might also wonder why the BBC entrusts episodes of its leading current affairs strand to outside producers. But that takes us back to Conservative govmt demands, under the guise of market liberalisation, that they shift spending to independents. The slow death of the BBC was planned long ago…
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One strange thing about the BBC/Trump row is that the programme in question was actually made by an independent production company. Yes, the BBC producers and Panorama’s editor should have checked everything before it was broadcast. But…
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November 10, 2025 at 11:02 PM
One strange thing about the BBC/Trump row is that the programme in question was actually made by an independent production company. Yes, the BBC producers and Panorama’s editor should have checked everything before it was broadcast. But…
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An intelligent, interesting piece raising a number of interesting points about fibre arts in general and local traditions in particular 🧶
LETTER: Shetland Stitch Club’s Helen Barwick asks Channel 4 to apologise for Game of Wool’s misrepresentation of Fair Isle knitting share.google/8w5M8JpC28Mp...
LETTER: Shetland Stitch Club’s Helen Barwick asks Channel 4 to apologise for Game of Wool’s misrepresentation of Fair Isle knitting share.google/8w5M8JpC28Mp...
LETTER: ‘You’ve misrepresented an entire culture’ - Open letter calls for TV show to apologise for its “blatant disregard” of Fair Isle knitting
Shetland Stitch Club’s Helen Barwick has asked Channel 4 to apologise for “misrepresenting an entire culture” in Game of Wool: Britain’s Best Knitter
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November 10, 2025 at 11:44 AM
An intelligent, interesting piece raising a number of interesting points about fibre arts in general and local traditions in particular 🧶
LETTER: Shetland Stitch Club’s Helen Barwick asks Channel 4 to apologise for Game of Wool’s misrepresentation of Fair Isle knitting share.google/8w5M8JpC28Mp...
LETTER: Shetland Stitch Club’s Helen Barwick asks Channel 4 to apologise for Game of Wool’s misrepresentation of Fair Isle knitting share.google/8w5M8JpC28Mp...
Signed. c.org/7MK4MwbTHv
We Can Make an Impact.
Stop the suspension of undergraduate music courses at The University of Nottingham
c.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Signed. c.org/7MK4MwbTHv
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Each drawing takes about ~50 minutos to draw.
Experimental animation, machine drawing, china ink on found pages. #penplotter #machinedrawing
November 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Each drawing takes about ~50 minutos to draw.
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So I chaired a panel at Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair yesterday, about #WeirdPride and unruliness, with two fantastic queer, neurodivergent, nonbinary writers and activists: @acaciathorns.bsky.social and @cjdebarra.bsky.social.
I loved hearing their thoughts on this.
www.youtube.com/live/vTW_j-H...
I loved hearing their thoughts on this.
www.youtube.com/live/vTW_j-H...
November 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
So I chaired a panel at Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair yesterday, about #WeirdPride and unruliness, with two fantastic queer, neurodivergent, nonbinary writers and activists: @acaciathorns.bsky.social and @cjdebarra.bsky.social.
I loved hearing their thoughts on this.
www.youtube.com/live/vTW_j-H...
I loved hearing their thoughts on this.
www.youtube.com/live/vTW_j-H...
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An essential precondition for authoritarianism is the neutering of sources of real news.
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 AM
An essential precondition for authoritarianism is the neutering of sources of real news.
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Look at this great fund. £200 for really small charities to spend on boring things. Easy, quick to apply.
Link below.
Please share :)
Link below.
Please share :)
Boring Fund | Christina Poulton
Applications now open!
£200 grants available for small charities, CICs and voluntary groups towards some of those boring but hard-to-fund costs.
www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Look at this great fund. £200 for really small charities to spend on boring things. Easy, quick to apply.
Link below.
Please share :)
Link below.
Please share :)
Time correction! This is now coming up on the listings as being on at 9pm, not 10pm as in original publicity.
On Sunday at 10pm, Sky Arts are showing the fabulous film about women war artists. It's really worth watching. tveveryday.com/war-paint-wo...
War Paint - Women At War Airs November 9 2025 on Sky Arts - TV Everyday
"War Paint - Women At War" is set to air on Sky Arts at 10:00 PM on Sunday, November 9, 2025. This compelling documentary shines a light on the significant
tveveryday.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Time correction! This is now coming up on the listings as being on at 9pm, not 10pm as in original publicity.
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Ah, @nicolawriting.bsky.social , such a delightful read. Beautifully written, and the exhausting research was well worth the effort. How wonderful to have such a story on your doorstep and be able to bring it, and the lovely characters, to life and make us think about how much we have lost. Bravo!
November 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Ah, @nicolawriting.bsky.social , such a delightful read. Beautifully written, and the exhausting research was well worth the effort. How wonderful to have such a story on your doorstep and be able to bring it, and the lovely characters, to life and make us think about how much we have lost. Bravo!
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UK electricity bills up 163% since 2008. Wages haven't.
6.1m households in fuel poverty, £4.43bn debt
Profiteering: Energy sector average profit margin 23%, grid sector 38%, gas extraction 58%.
Profit last year £30bn. 128,000 a year die in fuel poverty.
No govt checks profiteering.
6.1m households in fuel poverty, £4.43bn debt
Profiteering: Energy sector average profit margin 23%, grid sector 38%, gas extraction 58%.
Profit last year £30bn. 128,000 a year die in fuel poverty.
No govt checks profiteering.
Electricity bills increased 163 per cent since 2008 as energy price cap rises - research - Insider Media
New analysis of UK energy costs showed that the average annual household electricity bill increased by 163 per cent between 2008 and 2024, reflecting a steep rise in household energy costs…
www.insidermedia.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:54 AM
UK electricity bills up 163% since 2008. Wages haven't.
6.1m households in fuel poverty, £4.43bn debt
Profiteering: Energy sector average profit margin 23%, grid sector 38%, gas extraction 58%.
Profit last year £30bn. 128,000 a year die in fuel poverty.
No govt checks profiteering.
6.1m households in fuel poverty, £4.43bn debt
Profiteering: Energy sector average profit margin 23%, grid sector 38%, gas extraction 58%.
Profit last year £30bn. 128,000 a year die in fuel poverty.
No govt checks profiteering.