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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 3h

I’ll introduce you.

Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 8h

Lovely review of Best British Short Stories 2025 up at @manchesterreview.bsky.social @saltpublishing.com www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=13063

Best British Short Stories 2025, edited by Nicholas Royle, reviewed by Paul Anthony Knowles and Sam Cassells - The Manchester Review

A timely reminder of the ability of the contemporary short form to move, shock and surprise its reader in a myriad of ways. Best British Short Stories 2025 | edited by Nicholas Royle | Salt Publishing...

www.themanchesterreview.co.uk

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 5d

Amazing. Great work.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 6d

Remarkable essay in the form of marker posts, a haunting record of a walk through landscape, encountering nature, human activity & industrial archeology & recording evidence of personal endurance & the menace of nationalism & reflecting grief for a lost friend.

Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 11d

A walk from Leeds to Goole, via the River Aire, the Aire and Calder Navigation, the Knottingley and Goole Canal, the New Junction Canal and the Dutch River, 6.45am to 9.52pm Friday 26 September.

An improvised, illustrated thread of indeterminate length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/

Shipping containers on the waterside at Stourton, two miles south-east of Leeds city centre.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 7d

I did like those early stories.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 9d

More of their crap going in the recycling. Might as well get some good out of it.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 10d

Whenever I come across child-killers’ literature in book exchanges, I take it away – and recycle it.

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david-bevan.bsky.social @david-bevan.bsky.social · 11d

Very happy see my story ‘Helium’ in here alongside so many great stories and writers. Many thanks to @nicholasroyle.bsky.social and @saltpublishing.com and @fictivedream.bsky.social

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 11d

A walk from Leeds to Goole, via the River Aire, the Aire and Calder Navigation, the Knottingley and Goole Canal, the New Junction Canal and the Dutch River, 6.45am to 9.52pm Friday 26 September.

An improvised, illustrated thread of indeterminate length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 12d

On a TGV, running a slight delay, which could affect my connection. SNCF have emailed me, saying they’ve booked me on the next one should that be the case. Just sitting here, watching the French countryside fly past, trying to imagine that happening in the UK.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 13d

About time too @mjohnharrison.bsky.social

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 17d

Please don’t worry. Now I know it’s large format I’m not so interested.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 18d

Is it one of those weird large format things?

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 18d

What the hell is that? I’ve never seen it. May we see the spine & back cover?

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 18d

Love that about the buses.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 21d

That book was a bestseller. A fact that makes it stand out rather on my CV.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 21d

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 23d

Every morning, the dustbins would form a semi-circle under her apartment just off the Champs-Elysées & serenade her.

Did this image make it into Paris Fantastique? Oui ou non?

Pre-order from @confingopublishing.bsky.social for free b&w photo postcards.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 23d

I can’t take the credit, Stephen. For Marlowe, yes, but not for Behm.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 24d

😏

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 24d

No, was a smaller charity *looks up LSA vases*

Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 24d

*shakes head*

Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 26d

Weary traveller entering suspiciously smart-looking charity shop in Chelsea: Hi. Do you not sell books?
Volunteer (half amused, half confused): Books? Not at the moment.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Sep 10

Thank you, Marc, you’re a gent.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Sep 7

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Sep 7

😞

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Sep 7

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Sep 7

Did anyone else not receive the emergency alert who wanted to receive it?

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thank you to @dustynewrose.bsky.social for new Paris Fantastique-themed profile pic.

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