Jon Woolcott
@jonwoolcott.bsky.social
Author Real Dorset (Seren), The Tattooed Hills (Aurum 2026), editor Going to Ground, works Little Toller, editor The Clearing. Events/writing/buy: linktr.ee/jonwoolcott
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Jon Woolcott
@jonwoolcott.bsky.social
· Oct 8
Here it is, the gorgeous cover of The Tattooed Hills by the talented illustrator Jon McCormack. It's just perfect!
The book is out next spring and you can preorder a copy here: geni.us/TheTattooedH...
The book is out next spring and you can preorder a copy here: geni.us/TheTattooedH...
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
This is so lovely and sad, by Anthony Quinn, on Rachel Cooke, his wife.
observer.co.uk/style/featur...
observer.co.uk/style/featur...
‘Her amazing smile was undimmed, and I would try anything to summon it’ | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
This is so lovely and sad, by Anthony Quinn, on Rachel Cooke, his wife.
observer.co.uk/style/featur...
observer.co.uk/style/featur...
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Good Morning!
We’ve got wonderful news for you!
Absolutely delighted that Horatio Clare’s We Came by Sea has been shortlisted for the 2025 #NeroBookAwrds. It’s a very impressive shortlist.
The paperback is now at the printers and is available for pre order!
@horatioclare.bsky.social
#BookSky
We’ve got wonderful news for you!
Absolutely delighted that Horatio Clare’s We Came by Sea has been shortlisted for the 2025 #NeroBookAwrds. It’s a very impressive shortlist.
The paperback is now at the printers and is available for pre order!
@horatioclare.bsky.social
#BookSky
November 20, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Good Morning!
We’ve got wonderful news for you!
Absolutely delighted that Horatio Clare’s We Came by Sea has been shortlisted for the 2025 #NeroBookAwrds. It’s a very impressive shortlist.
The paperback is now at the printers and is available for pre order!
@horatioclare.bsky.social
#BookSky
We’ve got wonderful news for you!
Absolutely delighted that Horatio Clare’s We Came by Sea has been shortlisted for the 2025 #NeroBookAwrds. It’s a very impressive shortlist.
The paperback is now at the printers and is available for pre order!
@horatioclare.bsky.social
#BookSky
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A splendid 2 days exploring the mysterious and not so mysterious Chiltern chalk figures.
Had a lovely visit to an iconic Chilterns monument today with @jonwoolcott.bsky.social , the man who's bringing us a brilliant new book in April!
In between rain deluges, we captured the impressive Vale below the Chilterns Scarp, and even managed to see and hear one of my favourite things
In between rain deluges, we captured the impressive Vale below the Chilterns Scarp, and even managed to see and hear one of my favourite things
October 31, 2025 at 7:21 PM
A splendid 2 days exploring the mysterious and not so mysterious Chiltern chalk figures.
The Andrew previously known as Prince. (Joke credit: my v funny wife).
October 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The Andrew previously known as Prince. (Joke credit: my v funny wife).
You know you want to.
A little autumn offer for this week! 15% off books bought on our website until 1st November. Use code LTB15G at the checkout. Maybe try Edward Thomas' Icknield Way, Caro Giles' Unschooled or Peter Hahn's memoir of life on a vineyard...
www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/
www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/
October 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
You know you want to.
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If you’re confused about which way the clocks go in which season, here’s an easy mnemonic:
SPRING: your phone will do it for you
FALL: your phone will do it for you
SPRING: your phone will do it for you
FALL: your phone will do it for you
October 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
If you’re confused about which way the clocks go in which season, here’s an easy mnemonic:
SPRING: your phone will do it for you
FALL: your phone will do it for you
SPRING: your phone will do it for you
FALL: your phone will do it for you
I wrote about a segment of the beguiling South Downs Way for The Observer. Warning: contains chalk hill figures.
The best of (below the radar) British and Irish holiday destinations trib.al/6FvyRf0
The best of (below the radar) British and Irish holiday d...
Four writers reveals their favourite less-visited spots, all of which are ideal getaways at this time of year
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October 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I wrote about a segment of the beguiling South Downs Way for The Observer. Warning: contains chalk hill figures.
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Our next Nature Classic: The Icknield Way by Edward Thomas. For a long time we've wanted to add to our library of Thomas' prose, and here it is, complete with a new introduction by Jack Cornish! Cover by Spencer Gore. Out in the spring.
Preorder
www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...
Preorder
www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...
October 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Our next Nature Classic: The Icknield Way by Edward Thomas. For a long time we've wanted to add to our library of Thomas' prose, and here it is, complete with a new introduction by Jack Cornish! Cover by Spencer Gore. Out in the spring.
Preorder
www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...
Preorder
www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...
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I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.
October 20, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.
Great book. Get in early on the paperback action.
Land Beneath the Waves paperback has been chosen for Waterstones pre-order promotion!! Pre-orders make such a difference & if you could support & share, I'd be so grateful.
Enter “OCTOBER25” at checkout for 25% off RRP.
www.waterstones.com/campaign/oct...
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#WPreorder
Enter “OCTOBER25” at checkout for 25% off RRP.
www.waterstones.com/campaign/oct...
@summersdalebooks.bsky.social
#WPreorder
October 15, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Great book. Get in early on the paperback action.
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we’ll we’ll we’ll if it isn’t my old friend autocorrect
October 14, 2025 at 10:47 PM
we’ll we’ll we’ll if it isn’t my old friend autocorrect
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So many times. And the only two writers who have ever told me they don’t like being edited were a) men b) assholes and c) wrong.
repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
October 9, 2025 at 4:26 AM
So many times. And the only two writers who have ever told me they don’t like being edited were a) men b) assholes and c) wrong.
Here it is, the gorgeous cover of The Tattooed Hills by the talented illustrator Jon McCormack. It's just perfect!
The book is out next spring and you can preorder a copy here: geni.us/TheTattooedH...
The book is out next spring and you can preorder a copy here: geni.us/TheTattooedH...
October 8, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Here it is, the gorgeous cover of The Tattooed Hills by the talented illustrator Jon McCormack. It's just perfect!
The book is out next spring and you can preorder a copy here: geni.us/TheTattooedH...
The book is out next spring and you can preorder a copy here: geni.us/TheTattooedH...
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This looks great from @littletollerbooks.bsky.social – a campaign to crowdfund a book on the Cumbrian home and work of Kurt Schwitters. I popped into his Merz Barn there a few years ago, a really crackers place then run by people no longer with us
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/looking-fo...
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/looking-fo...
Our friends at the brilliant @littletollerbooks.bsky.social have just launched a new crowdfunding project for 'Looking for Mr Schwitters' — an innovative and finely illustrated book about the émigré artist Kurt Schwitters’ final years in the Lake District www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/look...
October 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This looks great from @littletollerbooks.bsky.social – a campaign to crowdfund a book on the Cumbrian home and work of Kurt Schwitters. I popped into his Merz Barn there a few years ago, a really crackers place then run by people no longer with us
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/looking-fo...
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/looking-fo...
What's your sign?
September 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
What's your sign?
"Age yourself with a movie you saw in theatres as a kid."
September 29, 2025 at 2:53 PM
"Age yourself with a movie you saw in theatres as a kid."
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September 24, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Acorns & Autumn.
These colours always remind of my 1st yr out of university.
I was living in a remote cottage in the New Forest nr Beaulieu.
Such a sudden shock of loneliness.
As @jonwoolcott.bsky.social writes "Nature doesn't care about us, or how we feel about it - it's purpose is not to heal us".
These colours always remind of my 1st yr out of university.
I was living in a remote cottage in the New Forest nr Beaulieu.
Such a sudden shock of loneliness.
As @jonwoolcott.bsky.social writes "Nature doesn't care about us, or how we feel about it - it's purpose is not to heal us".
September 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Acorns & Autumn.
These colours always remind of my 1st yr out of university.
I was living in a remote cottage in the New Forest nr Beaulieu.
Such a sudden shock of loneliness.
As @jonwoolcott.bsky.social writes "Nature doesn't care about us, or how we feel about it - it's purpose is not to heal us".
These colours always remind of my 1st yr out of university.
I was living in a remote cottage in the New Forest nr Beaulieu.
Such a sudden shock of loneliness.
As @jonwoolcott.bsky.social writes "Nature doesn't care about us, or how we feel about it - it's purpose is not to heal us".
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One year old today, and what a year!
Happy Birthday Wild Twin, one year old today. Shortlisted for the Stanford Travel Book Award/ winner of the TLS Ackerley Prize. It’s done ok! Thanks to everyone who’s read it and if you haven’t yet you can buy it here:
www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 7:52 AM
One year old today, and what a year!