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kerraway.bsky.social @kerraway.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks. Must have a listen.

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Kabul's Intercontinental Hotel remains 'a monument to Afghan resilience & to the bravery of its staff,' says @willdalrymple.bsky.social. In Lyse Doucet, '& her witty & sometimes heartbreaking book, they have found a worthy chronicler.'
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

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𝔻𝕖𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕟 𝕆'𝔻𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝 @jacqbetula.bsky.social · 6d

A previously unpublished poem by Seamus Heaney, along with an essay by Rosie Lavan, giving the context for the poem.
I will be speaking to Rosie and Bernard O'Donoghue, co-editors of The Poems of Seamus Heaney, at The Source Arts Centre, Thurles, on Nov. 1st.

www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Seamus Heaney’s Ribbons: A beautiful poem about his sisters, published for the first time

The reader is transported by Heaney’s illuminating memory: we’re in a school, a photographer is visiting and the girls are having their picture taken

www.irishtimes.com

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Catherine Fletcher @cathfletcher.bsky.social · 8d

The Anthropic settlement list is up. Authors, check here to see if your books are included: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

ANT Homepage | ANT

www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 12d

Husband is reading a political biog which contains this fantastic anecdote about George Brown, the boozy Deputy Leader of Harold Wilson’s cabinet:

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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 16d

Sorry, but book is out next week & promo I must. You know - 3 yrs work & all that, & through some big stuff. And the wonderfully kind @joannacdobson.bsky.social has said this about it; & I’m utterly made up: “there’s a universality about it …I’ve never read anything quite like it.’ #booksky

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Annie Worsley @annieworsley.bsky.social · 16d

Such an important book. Pubd by @littletollerbooks.bsky.social edited by Anna Chilvers & Clare Shaw. I'm thrilled to be alongside a bevvy of wonderful writers & poets. My New Guinea bit is a far cry from Walshaw but highlights bog significance globally. We must fight to protect them all. #BookofBogs

Little Toller Books @littletollerbooks.bsky.social · 16d

Just arrived from the printers.

The Book of Bogs began as a community response & has grown beyond the Walshaw Moor into a wider celebration & campaign for bogs & other peatland ecologies.

This was the most brilliant crowdfunded project, with over 40 contributions from artists & poets.

OUT NOW.

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Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @fivebooks.com · 16d

"There were five of us judges. Stanfords put together the shortlist, then we read the six books over a couple of months before coming together to discuss them."
fivebooks.com/best-books/b...

Five Books: The Best Travel Books of 2025, recommended by Tom Parfitt

The six-book shortlist for the title of Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year, as recommended by judge and author Tom Parfitt

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Susie Dent @susiedent.com · 17d

To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.

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kerraway.bsky.social @kerraway.bsky.social · 17d

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kerraway.bsky.social @kerraway.bsky.social · 20d

‘Potus, in full manuka honey-hued visibility, appeared thrilled with the spectacle in his honour.’ — @jemima.bsky.social, in today’s @financialtimes.com, captures the Trumpery in Windsor.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23d

I toured UK council estates and learned this: all our lives are poems just waiting to be written | Rowan McCabe

I knocked on doors, spoke to people about hopes and concerns, and wrote poetry to share with them. It could and should be an art form for everyone, says poet Rowan McCabe

www.theguardian.com

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Royal Society of Literature @rsliterature.bsky.social · 23d

Our Giles St Aubyn Awards for Non-Fiction remain open for submission until 5pm on Monday 22 September.

Apply online today for your chance to win a prize of up to £10,000 to support your first commissioned work of non-fiction: rsliterature.org/rsl-giles-st...

RSL Giles St Aubyn Awards for Non-Fiction - Royal Society of Literature

RSL Giles St Aubyn Awards for Non-Fiction Three annual awards — of £10,000, £5,000 and £2,500 — are available for authors engaged on their first commissioned works of non-fiction. The RSL Giles St Aub...

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kerraway.bsky.social @kerraway.bsky.social · 24d

Not at all, Peter. Looking forward to reading the book.

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kerraway.bsky.social @kerraway.bsky.social · 24d

New and forthcoming books on travel and place: @peteralanross.bsky.social journeys through Ancient Britain & Ireland; Miles Morland goes round the world -- twice -- on a motorcycle; and
@bfox.bsky.social spends the Covid pandemic with curanderos in Peru.
deskboundtraveller.com/new-books-on...

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SEJ — Society of Environmental Journalists @sejorg.bsky.social · 25d

The final deadline to enter the #SEJAwards is tomorrow, September 16, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. PT. Enter now! www.sej.org/initiatives/...

SEJ — Society of Environmental Journalists @sejorg.bsky.social · Aug 15

🚨 Submissions are OPEN for the 2025 #SEJAwards for Reporting on the Environment! These awards honor the best in environmental journalism across the globe—from features to investigations, student work to books.

Deadline: Sept 2 | Late: Sept 16
Enter now: sej.org/awards

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kerraway.bsky.social @kerraway.bsky.social · 25d

How did I miss Saturday's Guardian Country diary? Two campers settle down for the night, the farmer arrives in a Range Rover... and Eben Muse (@ebenmyrddin.bsky.social) overturns expectations.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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The Wainwright Prizes @wainwrightprize.bsky.social · Sep 10

We’re delighted to announce the 2025 #WainwrightPrize Winners!

From powerful storytelling to vital conservation work and bold illustration, this year’s winners reflect the richness, urgency, and joy of writing about the natural world.

wainwrightprize.com

#StoriesThatConnect

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kerraway.bsky.social @kerraway.bsky.social · Sep 4

Strong long list for the £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, including 'Lone Wolf' by @adamweymouth.bsky.social & 'The Finest Hotel in Kabul' by Lyse Doucet:
deskboundtraveller.com/weymouth-and....

Weymouth and Doucet on Baillie Gifford long list – Deskbound Traveller

deskboundtraveller.com

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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · Sep 1

‘Israel is committing genocide in Gaza’, say world’s leading experts

www.channel4.com/news/israel-...

‘Israel is committing genocide in Gaza’, say world’s leading experts

The world's leading genocide scholars association has passed a resolution saying the legal criteria has now been met to establish that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

www.channel4.com

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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 28

In 2006, Joanna Pocock traveled from east to west across the United States by Greyhound bus as she mourned her miscarriage. Seventeen years later, now in her midfifties, she did it again.

Greyhound

Geography, capitalism, and America by bus

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kerraway.bsky.social @kerraway.bsky.social · Aug 27

Dipping again into the work of Byron Rogers, who died earlier this month. Reminded that he was a journalist, author, biographer, part-time speechwriter to the Prince of Wales... and a master of the drop intro.

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kerraway.bsky.social @kerraway.bsky.social · Aug 26

Sam Freedman nails it.

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · Aug 26

Imagine doing a deal with a bunch of fundamentalist crazies with no interest in the rule of law. Don't know what the Taliban are thinking.

Jack Surfleet @jacksurfleet.bsky.social · Aug 26

Wednesday's DAILY TELEGRAPH: Taliban to give Farage deal on migrants
#TomorrowsPapersToday

kerraway.bsky.social @kerraway.bsky.social · Aug 25

From a lost horizon in Worthing to Shangri-La...
deskboundtraveller.com/from-a-lost-...

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kerraway.bsky.social @kerraway.bsky.social · Aug 25

Fifty years since Springsteen released 'Born to Run', and it's still helping me hit the road...

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