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“He speaks in your voice, Salfordian, and there’s a pie in his hand bought half-price from the Co-op.” Novels To Rise in the Dark and Hunter available now on Amazon or DM for details.

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · Nov 18

30 years after a teenage band imploded, their late singer's daughter leads the surviving members on a booze-fuelled odyssey through Manchester in search of a secret they would rather remained buried…
Available in ebook and paperback.
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0DD...

To Rise in the Dark by Nick J. Brown.
A dead cult singer, a man with an uncertain future, and a daughter looking for the truth about the past…
Available now in ebook or paperback from Amazon. Or DM to buy from me.

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 1h

Ghost of Christmas Pastry.

Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 1h

A Tale of Two Pork Pies

“It was the best of pies, etc.”

Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 1h

All great novels should feature pork pie subplots.

Daniel Tunnard @danieltunnard.bsky.social · 15h

Have you ever heated a pork pie? Someone did it in a novel and now I'm hot pork pie curious.

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 1h

Call me what you like. But don’t call me too late for dinner.

Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 1h

I’ll investigate. Cheers.

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 1h

All great novels should feature pork pie subplots.

Daniel Tunnard @danieltunnard.bsky.social · 15h

Have you ever heated a pork pie? Someone did it in a novel and now I'm hot pork pie curious.

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 1h

Yes! What was the novel?

Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 2h

Richard M. Nixon
Gravity’s Rainbow (1973)

Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 2h

What?

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 2h

Yes! I keep meaning to go back and reread that but the month to do so keeps evading me.

Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 2h

I’ve not read that but will give it a look. Ah yeah, the watch face!

Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 2h

It’s great but huge. With electric light I wonder if it’s the sweet spot for Pynchon where this almost magical power meets unscrupulous business?

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 3h

Loved Shadow Ticket. Read it twice already. Was there a strand about electric light in Against the Day as well?

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 3h

Unsolicited Vic pic

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 4h

Amazing how difficult it is to find a horse in Manchester city centre…

Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 4h

Cheers! Mine is arriving at some point today as well.

Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 4h

For the morning shift…

Land: Horses / Land of a Thousand Dances / La Mer by Patti Smith in an old iPhone

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 16h

distracted boyfriend meme with johnny cash as the woman in the foreground and dylan and springsteen as the two headed girlfriend

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 16h

Mr Style!

Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 16h

Priest mustn’t have wanted him exciting the parishioners.

Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 16h

Can’t wait to watch it on video.

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 17h

Dublin isn’t at all like I imagined it.

Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 17h

Mr Heartbeat himself.

Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 17h

I never watch it but always wonder who people are talking about.

Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 17h

I beg your pardon?

Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 17h

Samuel Beckett shorts story…

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Black Cheeseburder #MDANT Band Naming Expert @blackcheeseburger.bsky.social · 20h

If anyone deserves the Nobel Peace Prize it's this guy.

Mickeyundertone @mickeyundertone.bsky.social · 9d

Look! A book!!!
Those kind people at Omnibus have reissued this, with a great new foreword by Roddy Doyle.
Ireland's greatest living writer *
It's out now.
I think.

*well, he is. Roddy Doyle, I mean.

@omnibuspress.bsky.social

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