Benjamin Myers
@benjaminmyers76.bsky.social
Extremely humble legend. Writer of JESUS CHRIST KINSKI. RARE SINGLES, CUDDY, THE OFFING, THE GALLOWS POLE (BBC/Shane Meadows), THE PERFECT GOLDEN CIRCLE etc. Books: https://bio.site/benjaminmyers
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Special signed limited versions of JESUS CHRIST KINSKI (with sprayed edges) can be bought from indie shops only.
A selection of them can be found here:
jesuschristkinski.cmpgn.page/KRfQts
Or support your local shop via @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/jesu...
A selection of them can be found here:
jesuschristkinski.cmpgn.page/KRfQts
Or support your local shop via @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/jesu...
Oh, to have the confidence of the American male podcasters who talk for an error-strewn hour on subjects they know nothing about.
November 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Oh, to have the confidence of the American male podcasters who talk for an error-strewn hour on subjects they know nothing about.
Every day for months Youtube has been hammering me with adverts for:
a) an electric toothbrush (I have one, thanks)
b) an A.I. writing programme (I'm not a twat, thanks).
a) an electric toothbrush (I have one, thanks)
b) an A.I. writing programme (I'm not a twat, thanks).
November 25, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Every day for months Youtube has been hammering me with adverts for:
a) an electric toothbrush (I have one, thanks)
b) an A.I. writing programme (I'm not a twat, thanks).
a) an electric toothbrush (I have one, thanks)
b) an A.I. writing programme (I'm not a twat, thanks).
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'In the North, we don't wait for handouts or to be given permission because that rarely comes. We just get on and do it.'
A special episode of Northern Voices today featuring the legendary @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social on his new novel, the North & more. @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
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A special episode of Northern Voices today featuring the legendary @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social on his new novel, the North & more. @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
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November 25, 2025 at 2:15 AM
'In the North, we don't wait for handouts or to be given permission because that rarely comes. We just get on and do it.'
A special episode of Northern Voices today featuring the legendary @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social on his new novel, the North & more. @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
rb.gy/tmsjtd
A special episode of Northern Voices today featuring the legendary @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social on his new novel, the North & more. @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
rb.gy/tmsjtd
The richest man in the world seems like the loneliest man in the world.
November 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The richest man in the world seems like the loneliest man in the world.
Why would anyone still be on Twitter in 2025?
It’s hilarious and revelatory that a bunch of giant MAGA/America First X accounts are actually based in Eastern Europe and Nigeria.
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Why would anyone still be on Twitter in 2025?
Post a movie where you're from.
November 24, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Post a movie where you're from.
50 days until I'm 50 years.
November 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
50 days until I'm 50 years.
It's baffling to me that a film THIS good can completely disappear for 40+ years.
As folk horrors go, it's right up there.
God bless the BFI and all that they do. Now available on DVD and streaming.
As folk horrors go, it's right up there.
God bless the BFI and all that they do. Now available on DVD and streaming.
November 22, 2025 at 12:39 PM
It's baffling to me that a film THIS good can completely disappear for 40+ years.
As folk horrors go, it's right up there.
God bless the BFI and all that they do. Now available on DVD and streaming.
As folk horrors go, it's right up there.
God bless the BFI and all that they do. Now available on DVD and streaming.
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The excellent @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social (which has done such great reporting on the flag epidemic over the last few months) delivers the goods again today with this deep dive into the Midlands mythology of Penda's Fen.
Penda’s Fen reinvents Mercia for the modern age
How an experimental British 1970s television play pioneered a folk horror revival
www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The excellent @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social (which has done such great reporting on the flag epidemic over the last few months) delivers the goods again today with this deep dive into the Midlands mythology of Penda's Fen.
Can I shock you?
I LIKE Christmas songs.
I LIKE Christmas songs.
November 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Can I shock you?
I LIKE Christmas songs.
I LIKE Christmas songs.
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Finally got hold of a copy of Tribune’s winter edition with Adelle Stripe’s marvellous review of Wild Twin. @adellestripe.bsky.social @littletollerbooks.bsky.social
And this one of my favourite bits!
And this one of my favourite bits!
November 19, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Finally got hold of a copy of Tribune’s winter edition with Adelle Stripe’s marvellous review of Wild Twin. @adellestripe.bsky.social @littletollerbooks.bsky.social
And this one of my favourite bits!
And this one of my favourite bits!
I just paid a four-figure sum to have a steroid injection in my neck, in case you ever wondered about the perils of writing.
November 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I just paid a four-figure sum to have a steroid injection in my neck, in case you ever wondered about the perils of writing.
I had a chat to Sam Leith (@questingvole.bsky.social) on The Spectator podcast. When it comes to books, he knows his onions.
Available from ye old podcaste shoppe.
(I refuse to say 'wherever you get your podcasts')
open.spotify.com/episode/19QQ...
Available from ye old podcaste shoppe.
(I refuse to say 'wherever you get your podcasts')
open.spotify.com/episode/19QQ...
November 19, 2025 at 8:17 AM
I had a chat to Sam Leith (@questingvole.bsky.social) on The Spectator podcast. When it comes to books, he knows his onions.
Available from ye old podcaste shoppe.
(I refuse to say 'wherever you get your podcasts')
open.spotify.com/episode/19QQ...
Available from ye old podcaste shoppe.
(I refuse to say 'wherever you get your podcasts')
open.spotify.com/episode/19QQ...
It's 3 weeks since JESUS CHRIST KINSKI was unleashed into the wilds of the imagination.
Have you spotted it out there?
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
Have you spotted it out there?
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 12:48 PM
It's 3 weeks since JESUS CHRIST KINSKI was unleashed into the wilds of the imagination.
Have you spotted it out there?
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
Have you spotted it out there?
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
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wrote an article for @thebookseller.com outlining to the industry why small presses are the lifeforce & future of book production. Pls share esp w people who may not know what small press publishers do!
www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
Don’t invest in AI, invest in the future of the book
Why the publishing industry must back small presses, rather than LLMs.
www.thebookseller.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
wrote an article for @thebookseller.com outlining to the industry why small presses are the lifeforce & future of book production. Pls share esp w people who may not know what small press publishers do!
www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
Young Sandy at sundown.
November 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Young Sandy at sundown.
It's not the sheer ugliness of the new village-sized "major logistics opportunity" that has appeared in the fields outside Durham that bothers me.
It's the fact they've called it Integra 61.
It's the fact they've called it Integra 61.
November 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
It's not the sheer ugliness of the new village-sized "major logistics opportunity" that has appeared in the fields outside Durham that bothers me.
It's the fact they've called it Integra 61.
It's the fact they've called it Integra 61.
I've never had someone write a review of a review of one of my books before.
November 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I've never had someone write a review of a review of one of my books before.
I'm very pleased to be doing some work with these diamonds.
Great piece by @juderogers.bsky.social:
observer.co.uk/culture/film...
Great piece by @juderogers.bsky.social:
observer.co.uk/culture/film...
Sheffield goes to Hollywood | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 8:22 AM
I'm very pleased to be doing some work with these diamonds.
Great piece by @juderogers.bsky.social:
observer.co.uk/culture/film...
Great piece by @juderogers.bsky.social:
observer.co.uk/culture/film...
I'm obsessed with Robert Hardy's over-acting.
November 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I'm obsessed with Robert Hardy's over-acting.
Apologies for the Daily Mail link, but for those of us who are fans of The Incredible String Band, this is pretty wild.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
What REALLY happened to troubled wildchild Licorice McKechnie?
Licorice McKechnie's mesmerising performance with The Incredible String Band at the most celebrated concert of the decade turned her into a sixties icon
www.dailymail.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Apologies for the Daily Mail link, but for those of us who are fans of The Incredible String Band, this is pretty wild.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
JESUS CHRIST KINSKI is a Book of the Year for 2025 in The Daily Telegraph today.
And so is BASE NOTES by Her Indoors (@adellestripe.bsky.social)
Double whammy. Thanks for reading.
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
@whiterabbitbks.bsky.social
And so is BASE NOTES by Her Indoors (@adellestripe.bsky.social)
Double whammy. Thanks for reading.
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
@whiterabbitbks.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
JESUS CHRIST KINSKI is a Book of the Year for 2025 in The Daily Telegraph today.
And so is BASE NOTES by Her Indoors (@adellestripe.bsky.social)
Double whammy. Thanks for reading.
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
@whiterabbitbks.bsky.social
And so is BASE NOTES by Her Indoors (@adellestripe.bsky.social)
Double whammy. Thanks for reading.
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
@whiterabbitbks.bsky.social
Didn't I always say @questingvole.bsky.social had impeccable literary taste?
This, from @thetls.bsky.social Books of the Year.
This, from @thetls.bsky.social Books of the Year.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Didn't I always say @questingvole.bsky.social had impeccable literary taste?
This, from @thetls.bsky.social Books of the Year.
This, from @thetls.bsky.social Books of the Year.
A good series, this.
I was embarrassed for all involved in this debacle.
Spoiler: everyone is left traumatised and miserable.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I was embarrassed for all involved in this debacle.
Spoiler: everyone is left traumatised and miserable.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Shadow World - Anatomy of a Cancellation - 4. The Defence of Kate Clanchy - BBC Sounds
We hear from some of Kate’s supporters.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
A good series, this.
I was embarrassed for all involved in this debacle.
Spoiler: everyone is left traumatised and miserable.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I was embarrassed for all involved in this debacle.
Spoiler: everyone is left traumatised and miserable.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...