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Rachel Malik

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Writes, reads, watches, worries. 1st novel Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves - SL for Walter Scott prize. LL for V S Pritchett Short Story. Second novel, A Fire of Stalks and Feathers, coming soon I hope https://linktr.ee/rachel.malik99

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Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · Nov 14

Some of you will know I've written a novel, Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves, based on the life of my black sheep grandmother, Rene Hargreaves and her partner Elsie Boston.

I was sent this recently by a relative of Elsie's. Elsie far right, elusive as ever, garden theatricals.

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Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 23h

Love this

Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 23h

... which is why this spectacle serves well for the decoration of a fan:

Italy, 18th century (unknown artist)

Fan Design with Views of Mount Vesuvius and the Tomb of Virgil

(www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...)

Photo of a design for a fan: Big panel in the middle shows the eruption of a volcano at night, dark sky, red fire, a lighthouse and two sails lit up by the volcano.

Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 23h

Very different I’m sure but I had a similar uncertain, wary pull to see a once close friend after my mum died. We did meet and it was great. We haven’t seen each other since or been in contact but that also feels ok.

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 2d

"The Book Censor's Library" by Bothayna al-Essa was a great read for me and it's so shockingly timely. I've read it a second time recently and found it even more pertinent for our times.
This interview was interesting because I don't know much about her, for example ...

Book cover of "The Book Censor's Library" by Bothayna al-Essa

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Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social · 1d

breaking: man who got over £10million book advance doesn't known the price of a book

Indie bookshops absolutely CANNOT discount a £30 to £20. We'd be making a loss. We sell books at RRP, unlike big chains.

www.thebookseller.com/comment/richard-osmans-sums-dont-add-up?

Osman's sums don't add up

Despite widespread belief, indies just can't afford to discount books.

www.thebookseller.com

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Remi Kanazi @remikanazi.bsky.social · 1d

If a ceasefire holds, you boycott Israel HARDER, you divest, you push for sanctions. You don't perform for apartheid. You don't whitewash genocide. You don't pretend like Israel isn't still a violent occupier stealing land and collectively punishing Palestinians daily

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1d

Goodnight

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Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 1d

When I was very young, we went to eat in the restaurant at the top of the have no memory of it except fear that it was going to spin out of control. Was never adventurous clearly.

Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 1d

Must read this.

Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 1d

Article rather good on the absurdity of the mantra of ‘showing both sides’

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 1d

Dublin small press fair on 28 & 29 November at Pearse St library. Free and open to the public.

dublinsmallpressfair.com

dublinsmallpressfair.com

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Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 1d

Brilliant

Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 1d

"Over in one corner, I saw one nondescript extra who looked like Al Pacino's brother's friend. Someone told me later that he was Robert De Niro."
#NYRBWomen25

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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 1d

Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who has shared our fundraiser – your cash will fund more authors & their work. A BIG part of what we do is helping writers in mid-career – so thanks on behalf of them. If you can share our link, please do! Every pound is invested in writers. #Booksky #IndiePublishing

Donate to Keep Independent Publishing Alive – Support Salt Books 2026, organized by Christopher Hamilton-Emery

New books and reprints arrive daily at Salty Towers – and we'… Christopher Hamilton-Emery needs your support for Keep Independent Publishing Alive – Support Salt Books 2026

gofund.me

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Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 1d

For #BannedBooksWeek

‘They didn’t even read the book’: How children’s authors are being canceled over Palestine

Authors tell of book bans, cancellations and harassment – ‘they’re trying to disconnect us from our stories’

www.theguardian.com

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Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 1d

Oh yes!

Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 1d

Am approaching the end of Mrs Palfrey and there is much that is cutting there too. Also reminded me of Spark’s Memento Mori - thematically at least.

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · Nov 2

Oh, this is a great endorsement of my little debut. Nicolas is preparing a BFI Classics volume on Billy Wilder’s masterpiece The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, the film behind the book. A new edition of The Continuity Girl will be available in 2025. Meanwhile, I’m working on a sorta prequel.

Instagram story from Nicolas Pillai. Image of my novel The Continuity Girl. “Thoroughly enjoyed this charming, clever novel by @patrickkincaidauthor”

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Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 1d

Ouch

JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 1d

"He almost loved her, and would have married her had she been slightly but essentially different. He thought that she probably felt the same about him. Each was too loyal to admit that something else was desired, something less sedate." #BookSky 💙📚

jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/a...

A Private View by Anita Brookner

I’ve been making my way through Anita Brookner’s exquisitely written novels slowly but steadily over the past eight years. As a long-term reading project, I’m finding it fascinating to see how Broo…

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Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 1d

They’ve given it to some pretty awful people and some who simply didn’t deserve it.

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The Broken Spine @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 1d

Something Gothic this way comes… Submissions are OPEN for The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry. We want poems of neon dread, fractured love, haunted minds.

Closing date: October 31st

#PoetrySubmissions #SubmissionWindow #TheHavishamSteps #ModernGothicPoetry

Something Gothic This Way Comes: Submit to The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry - The Broken Spine

Submissions Open Throughout October 2025 | Publication in 2026

thebrokenspine.co.uk

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Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 1d

A serious weasel but too early in the day to be sure?

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Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social · 1d

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

www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=13063

@saltpublishing.com

An Orange Back Ground, with Bold White Writing, giving the books title and editor.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 2d

Disinformation, now in 3D.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Simon Thomas @stuckinabook.bsky.social · 2d

I ranked Rose Macaulay's books, because someone has to do it

Unnecessary Rankings! Rose Macaulay

Time for some more rankings! Today is a very prolific writer – Rose Macaulay – so I’ve read 12 of her books, but barely dinted the surface. I have a lot more waiting on my shelves…

www.stuckinabook.com

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Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 2d

He should definitely have won.

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 3d

It’s a sad (and chilling) day when legacy media cannot be trusted to follow even the most basic tenets of journalism.

But when one of the world’s most influential and ubiquitous news sources uses a photo from the 1992 LA uprisings to characterize events in 2025 Portland, we’re at that point

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