Ian Hagues
@ianhagues.bsky.social
Books and creativity. You matter.
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🎄✨Our Christmas page is officially LIVE and ready for you to browse! Click the lovely green image on our homepage to dive into all things festive.
Even better… buy 3 items and get a 4th FREE with code XMAS25 - plus some Christmas chocolate on us! 🍫🎁
✨http://foxlanebooks.co.uk/christmas-books
Even better… buy 3 items and get a 4th FREE with code XMAS25 - plus some Christmas chocolate on us! 🍫🎁
✨http://foxlanebooks.co.uk/christmas-books
November 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
🎄✨Our Christmas page is officially LIVE and ready for you to browse! Click the lovely green image on our homepage to dive into all things festive.
Even better… buy 3 items and get a 4th FREE with code XMAS25 - plus some Christmas chocolate on us! 🍫🎁
✨http://foxlanebooks.co.uk/christmas-books
Even better… buy 3 items and get a 4th FREE with code XMAS25 - plus some Christmas chocolate on us! 🍫🎁
✨http://foxlanebooks.co.uk/christmas-books
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Comes with a fridge magnet bearing the image of Soviet youths.
SOVETICA www.cbeditions.com/clark.html
SOVETICA www.cbeditions.com/clark.html
November 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Comes with a fridge magnet bearing the image of Soviet youths.
SOVETICA www.cbeditions.com/clark.html
SOVETICA www.cbeditions.com/clark.html
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If only someone had recently published a book that really humanises the impact of bureaucratic malfunctions in the NHS… 😎
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/this-migh...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/this-migh...
November 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM
If only someone had recently published a book that really humanises the impact of bureaucratic malfunctions in the NHS… 😎
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/this-migh...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/this-migh...
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And as always a thousand thank yous to @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social who wrote this astounding and thoughtful review of my book when it first came out, and sent it out into the world with a bang! 😍
www.theguardian.com/books/2023/j...
www.theguardian.com/books/2023/j...
For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain by Victoria MacKenzie review – a pocket epic
This electrifying debut compares the spiritual adventures of Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich
www.theguardian.com
May 8, 2025 at 10:12 AM
And as always a thousand thank yous to @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social who wrote this astounding and thoughtful review of my book when it first came out, and sent it out into the world with a bang! 😍
www.theguardian.com/books/2023/j...
www.theguardian.com/books/2023/j...
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Issue 1.1.2 is now live! We are so excited to start adding to issue 1 with two new texts: a studio visit by Bhanu Kapil and Dawn Chan writing about one detail in Laura Owens's last exhibition
www.draughtjournal.com
www.draughtjournal.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Issue 1.1.2 is now live! We are so excited to start adding to issue 1 with two new texts: a studio visit by Bhanu Kapil and Dawn Chan writing about one detail in Laura Owens's last exhibition
www.draughtjournal.com
www.draughtjournal.com
Book post from the mighty @jantarbooks.bsky.social 📙📙👍
November 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Book post from the mighty @jantarbooks.bsky.social 📙📙👍
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NEXT WEEK!!!
ONE MONTH AWAY!!! Saturday, December 6, 2025! The third Denver Comics and Arts Festival (DeCAF) is happening at Town Hall Collaborative featuring an afternoon with a brilliant collection of artists, cartoonists, publishers, and zine makers from all around Colorado. Be there or be square and all that
November 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
NEXT WEEK!!!
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📊 I'm grateful to Guillermo for including my piece "Scheduling Yeats' Waterfall" in the latest Exacting Clam (Winter 2025) 🩻
@guillermostitch.bsky.social
@exactingclam.bsky.social
@saggingmeniscus.bsky.social
@guillermostitch.bsky.social
@exactingclam.bsky.social
@saggingmeniscus.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
📊 I'm grateful to Guillermo for including my piece "Scheduling Yeats' Waterfall" in the latest Exacting Clam (Winter 2025) 🩻
@guillermostitch.bsky.social
@exactingclam.bsky.social
@saggingmeniscus.bsky.social
@guillermostitch.bsky.social
@exactingclam.bsky.social
@saggingmeniscus.bsky.social
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Review of the newest one here www.brokenfrontier.com/silent-planet/
Silent Planet - Rob Jackson Takes Us on a Visually Led Journey to an Alien World – Broken Frontier
Visit an unknown world with the space probe sent to its surface in Rob Jackson's self-published comic 'Silent Planet'.
www.brokenfrontier.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Review of the newest one here www.brokenfrontier.com/silent-planet/
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Comics for sale, comics for sale robjacksoncomics.blogspot.com/2025/11/comi...
Comics for Sale
Have you had a look in my comics shop recently? Here it is . There's loads of comics for sale and there's still plenty of time to get any f...
robjacksoncomics.blogspot.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Comics for sale, comics for sale robjacksoncomics.blogspot.com/2025/11/comi...
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Or - you know the score by now - subscribe to Series Twelve at bit.ly/colossiveS12 and get all six #zines in the set for just a tenner...
November 27, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Or - you know the score by now - subscribe to Series Twelve at bit.ly/colossiveS12 and get all six #zines in the set for just a tenner...
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IT'S NEW COLOSSIVE CARTOGRAPHY TIME!
The Badly Drawn Girl Climbs Out of the Drawing and Runs into the Entrance of Turnpike Lane Tube Station is the second contribution to the series from @patrickwray.bsky.social.
And yes, that is our longest title yet.
Buy the #zine for £2 at bit.ly/colossive70
The Badly Drawn Girl Climbs Out of the Drawing and Runs into the Entrance of Turnpike Lane Tube Station is the second contribution to the series from @patrickwray.bsky.social.
And yes, that is our longest title yet.
Buy the #zine for £2 at bit.ly/colossive70
November 27, 2025 at 7:58 AM
IT'S NEW COLOSSIVE CARTOGRAPHY TIME!
The Badly Drawn Girl Climbs Out of the Drawing and Runs into the Entrance of Turnpike Lane Tube Station is the second contribution to the series from @patrickwray.bsky.social.
And yes, that is our longest title yet.
Buy the #zine for £2 at bit.ly/colossive70
The Badly Drawn Girl Climbs Out of the Drawing and Runs into the Entrance of Turnpike Lane Tube Station is the second contribution to the series from @patrickwray.bsky.social.
And yes, that is our longest title yet.
Buy the #zine for £2 at bit.ly/colossive70
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And now five years and one day old! Thanks to everyone who liked and reposted.
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A very very happy 5th birthday to Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel.
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Thanks to @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social for believing in me, getting it out there, and releasing a brand new edition!
www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store...
🎉🥳🎈🎊🎉🥳🎂🎁🎈🎊🎈🎁🎂
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Thanks to @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social for believing in me, getting it out there, and releasing a brand new edition!
www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store...
November 27, 2025 at 8:28 AM
And now five years and one day old! Thanks to everyone who liked and reposted.
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Pssst… keep 'em peeled tomorrow morning for the launch of our latest Colossive Cartography.
This one has the longest title to date, and features a guest appearance from Turnpike Lane Tube Station.
What more could you ask for?
#colossivecartographies #zines #bookarts
This one has the longest title to date, and features a guest appearance from Turnpike Lane Tube Station.
What more could you ask for?
#colossivecartographies #zines #bookarts
November 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Pssst… keep 'em peeled tomorrow morning for the launch of our latest Colossive Cartography.
This one has the longest title to date, and features a guest appearance from Turnpike Lane Tube Station.
What more could you ask for?
#colossivecartographies #zines #bookarts
This one has the longest title to date, and features a guest appearance from Turnpike Lane Tube Station.
What more could you ask for?
#colossivecartographies #zines #bookarts
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It's Wednesday evening and officially NEARLY the weekend... and A Personal Anthology! This week's guest editor, picking and introducing a dozen favourite short stories, is @ailsacox.bsky.social, author of Precipitation (short stories) and Writing Short Stories (Routledge).
Details and sign up:
Details and sign up:
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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November 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
It's Wednesday evening and officially NEARLY the weekend... and A Personal Anthology! This week's guest editor, picking and introducing a dozen favourite short stories, is @ailsacox.bsky.social, author of Precipitation (short stories) and Writing Short Stories (Routledge).
Details and sign up:
Details and sign up:
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Happy birthday to architect Richard Seifert, BOTD in 1910, who put a roof over the head of Croydon's municipal space programme
#croydonspaceport
(colossive.com/product/croy... - and we'll throw in the AFA one)
#croydonspaceport
(colossive.com/product/croy... - and we'll throw in the AFA one)
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Happy birthday to architect Richard Seifert, BOTD in 1910, who put a roof over the head of Croydon's municipal space programme
#croydonspaceport
(colossive.com/product/croy... - and we'll throw in the AFA one)
#croydonspaceport
(colossive.com/product/croy... - and we'll throw in the AFA one)
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Review of my latest comic here www.brokenfrontier.com/silent-planet/
Silent Planet - Rob Jackson Takes Us on a Visually Led Journey to an Alien World – Broken Frontier
Visit an unknown world with the space probe sent to its surface in Rob Jackson's self-published comic 'Silent Planet'.
www.brokenfrontier.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Review of my latest comic here www.brokenfrontier.com/silent-planet/
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Comics for sale, comics for sale robjacksoncomics.blogspot.com/2025/11/comi...
Comics for Sale
Have you had a look in my comics shop recently? Here it is . There's loads of comics for sale and there's still plenty of time to get any f...
robjacksoncomics.blogspot.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Comics for sale, comics for sale robjacksoncomics.blogspot.com/2025/11/comi...
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coming soon: an anthology of Hungarian women's poetry, to be published by Seagull Books in January
Under a Pannonian Sky: Ten Women Poets from Hungary, ed. by Ottilie Mulzet
Under a Pannonian Sky: Ten Women Poets from Hungary, ed. by Ottilie Mulzet
November 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
coming soon: an anthology of Hungarian women's poetry, to be published by Seagull Books in January
Under a Pannonian Sky: Ten Women Poets from Hungary, ed. by Ottilie Mulzet
Under a Pannonian Sky: Ten Women Poets from Hungary, ed. by Ottilie Mulzet
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Want to know more about my 6 Month Writing Course? Here's the lowdown.
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open.substack.com/pub/kitdewaa...
The lowdown
The 6 Month Writing Course
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Want to know more about my 6 Month Writing Course? Here's the lowdown.
open.substack.com/pub/kitdewaa...
open.substack.com/pub/kitdewaa...
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On the vital importance of small presses:
‘…like an underground river they are a source of deep life for the literary industry. However, they are facing a severe crisis that is now draining them dry, down to the riverbed…’
Indispensable article #booksky
www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
‘…like an underground river they are a source of deep life for the literary industry. However, they are facing a severe crisis that is now draining them dry, down to the riverbed…’
Indispensable article #booksky
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 25, 2025 at 8:27 AM
On the vital importance of small presses:
‘…like an underground river they are a source of deep life for the literary industry. However, they are facing a severe crisis that is now draining them dry, down to the riverbed…’
Indispensable article #booksky
www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
‘…like an underground river they are a source of deep life for the literary industry. However, they are facing a severe crisis that is now draining them dry, down to the riverbed…’
Indispensable article #booksky
www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
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Thanks to all those who joined us yesterday evening for the relaunch of The Barbellion Prize, a book prize for chronically ill and disabled authors founded by @jgoldsmith.bsky.social. Our generous audience raised more than £400 on the night! You can donate here: barbellionprize.org/donate/
donate | The Barbellion Prize
barbellionprize.org
November 2, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Thanks to all those who joined us yesterday evening for the relaunch of The Barbellion Prize, a book prize for chronically ill and disabled authors founded by @jgoldsmith.bsky.social. Our generous audience raised more than £400 on the night! You can donate here: barbellionprize.org/donate/
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New poetry magazine just dropped from a former student of mine - open to submissions & free if you’re interested www.stoatmagazine.co.uk
Stoat Poetry
Stoat Poetry is a new magazine which aims to publish the best original poetry from new and established writers.
www.stoatmagazine.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
New poetry magazine just dropped from a former student of mine - open to submissions & free if you’re interested www.stoatmagazine.co.uk
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A round of applause for @jgoldsmith.bsky.social following tonight's relaunch of The Barbellion Prize, which he founded. You can donate to this unique and essential literary award here: barbellionprize.org/donate/ Thank you! (You may wish to note the above)
November 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM
A round of applause for @jgoldsmith.bsky.social following tonight's relaunch of The Barbellion Prize, which he founded. You can donate to this unique and essential literary award here: barbellionprize.org/donate/ Thank you! (You may wish to note the above)
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🚴♂️ On Weds, Nov 5th, we’re back @yorkbarbican.bsky.social
with @faneproductions.bsky.social
for an evening with the legend himself, Sir Bradley Wiggins!
Hear him discuss his new memoir, The Chain, about life on & off the bike.
www.yorkbarbican.co.uk/whats-on/an-...
with @faneproductions.bsky.social
for an evening with the legend himself, Sir Bradley Wiggins!
Hear him discuss his new memoir, The Chain, about life on & off the bike.
www.yorkbarbican.co.uk/whats-on/an-...
November 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
🚴♂️ On Weds, Nov 5th, we’re back @yorkbarbican.bsky.social
with @faneproductions.bsky.social
for an evening with the legend himself, Sir Bradley Wiggins!
Hear him discuss his new memoir, The Chain, about life on & off the bike.
www.yorkbarbican.co.uk/whats-on/an-...
with @faneproductions.bsky.social
for an evening with the legend himself, Sir Bradley Wiggins!
Hear him discuss his new memoir, The Chain, about life on & off the bike.
www.yorkbarbican.co.uk/whats-on/an-...