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m john harrison

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New novel: The End of Everything Serpent's Tail, June, 2026. Blog: https://ambientehotel.wordpress.com/about

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m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · Nov 29

Landscapes are written about, but there will be no landscape writing. Ghosts appear, but not in the ghost stories. Animals feature heavily, but there is nothing here that might be described as “animal fiction”.

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m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · 14m

effect, obvs

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www.the-tls.com/literature/f...

Geometry, precision, perfection in ‘a little object of meditation’

László Krasznahorkai is perhaps best known as the author of the bleak, often incomprehensibly weird Satantango (1985) – the winner of the 2013 Best

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m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · 21m

click for full efect

Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · Mar 23

this cat looks like one of the Old Master painters who's just slept with three servants, argued viciously with his annoying patron about the inferior ham he receives, and then painted his masterpiece out of spite

Collection of paints, brushes and pots on an old table. In the corner a large very fluffy cat sprawls in decadence

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 4h

In autumn light. #Hildy

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Benjamin Myers @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social · 8h

JESUS CHRIST KINSKI is here.

I'm celebrating with a gaucho poncho (from Buenos Aires) and a fedora (Kirkby Lonsdale).

Credit to @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social for backing this sonic blast with such enthusiasm.

Fight fascism of all forms.

I am forever your humble servant & co.

B. D. Myers

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 10h

John Atkinson Grimshaw‘s Moonlight Wharfedale

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exapnsive landscape. two people leaning on a fence in a hedgrow as a river in the distance threads its way across the land

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Myriam Frey @dustynewrose.bsky.social · 5d

My first collection of short stories is out this month (17 October) on @nightjarpress.bsky.social ! Very excited. And nervous. But mostly excited.

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 1d

Yes

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · 1d

the thing I fear most is losing the sense that I'm a placeholder; I stand in for something I don't quite understand (but the next book might).

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 1d

Weather by Raymond Briggs, vibes by Samuel Beckett, soundtrack by a small child outside, wailing like an ambulance

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 1d

It's a dream I always have.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 3d

‘If you set aside the “raunchy” cover pictures and the publicists’ emphasis on wall-to-wall sex, you do find something worth reading and worth thinking about, which is pleasure, that most ticklish of subjects.’

Ian Patterson on Jilly Cooper, from 2017: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

Ian Patterson · Miss Dior, Prodigally Applied: Jilly Cooper

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Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social · 3d

Off to Hastings in December to inspire & support other writers. Promise to smile & laugh more than the photo suggests! Please spread the word, literally & metaphorically!
@hastingswrites.bsky.social

Mining For Material — Hastings Writers Workshop

A writers workshop focusing on finding material for writing

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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 3d

ruins and roots irl

Ruined stone barn with ivy taking root near Birtley, Hexham

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m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · 5d

A weekend full of the good stuff. Looking forward to my chat with Sam Leith & Leon Craig. events.bl.uk/events/tales...

Tales of the Weird: An Autumnal Festival | British Library

Tales of the Weird: An Autumnal Festival is back for a full weekend at the British Library. Inspired by the Library’s cult Tales of the Weird series of got

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m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · 5d

Some fine company to be in. I love Claire Keegan. Thanks!

m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · 6d

you used to be able to wildly burn the old you at midnight, now you have to sort the fragments so they can be cast into the correct bin at the municipal dump, somehow it's not the same vibe

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Guillermo Stitch @guillermostitch.bsky.social · 6d

When a shortlist includes @cdrose.bsky.social and @benpester.bsky.social someone knows what they’re doing.

m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · 6d

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Sarah Hall and Charlie Porter among writers on ‘genre-defying’ Goldsmiths prize shortlist

The £10,000 award, whose judges include Mark Haddon and Megan Nolan, recognises ‘mould-breaking’ fiction

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m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · 6d

spectacular!

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 7d

A joy of a sight for #ThrowbackThursday - A ghost gable 👻 - caught like a fly in amber at Wirksworth in Derbyshire

Weathered medieval timber frame set into a patchwork wall of brick and stone at Wirksworth, Derbyshire, showing ghostly remnants of a lost building frontage.

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m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · 6d

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Sarah Hall and Charlie Porter among writers on ‘genre-defying’ Goldsmiths prize shortlist

The £10,000 award, whose judges include Mark Haddon and Megan Nolan, recognises ‘mould-breaking’ fiction

www.theguardian.com

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Benjamin Myers @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social · 7d

I'm sick of sitting 'round here trying to write this book.

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m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · 7d

Why do I keep all these clothes I don't wear. (No need to answer that. It's a commentary rather than a question, like I'm standing in front of the clothes rail shaking my head at my own weirdness & you haven't anything you can add so you shake your head too & go downstairs & make a cup of tea.)

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