Justine Crow
@swimble.bsky.social
South London born co-owner of the Bookseller Crow on the Hill in Crystal Palace, chippy
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📚For a few brief decades, Birmingham had a bookshop scene that reflected the city back to itself: diverse, political, practical, trade unionist, academic and scientifically forward looking.
January 31, 2026 at 8:48 AM
📚For a few brief decades, Birmingham had a bookshop scene that reflected the city back to itself: diverse, political, practical, trade unionist, academic and scientifically forward looking.
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If the jackboot fits...
Bovino: "When politicians, community leaders, & some journalists engage in that heated rhetoric we keep talking about, when they make the choice to vilify law enforcement calling law enforcement 'Gestapo' or using the term 'kidnapping,' that is a choice & there are actions & consequences."
January 25, 2026 at 8:19 PM
If the jackboot fits...
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Great artist paints great writer: portrait of Emile Zola, 1868, by Edouard Manet, born OTD 1832. Filled with reminders of their friendship.
January 23, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Great artist paints great writer: portrait of Emile Zola, 1868, by Edouard Manet, born OTD 1832. Filled with reminders of their friendship.
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These wonderful people not only have a great shop window but they now have a pile of books signed by me. I did also write the books, if you’re worried – I don’t just go in and sign random books, they frown on that. Anyway, get your books from them.
@booksellercrow.bsky.social booksellercrow.co.uk
@booksellercrow.bsky.social booksellercrow.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
These wonderful people not only have a great shop window but they now have a pile of books signed by me. I did also write the books, if you’re worried – I don’t just go in and sign random books, they frown on that. Anyway, get your books from them.
@booksellercrow.bsky.social booksellercrow.co.uk
@booksellercrow.bsky.social booksellercrow.co.uk
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#London 📚✒️🎤🍺
Come and join us at @booksellercrow.bsky.social in Crystal Palace on Thurs 11 Dec with the team from @deserterblog.bsky.social, to launch and celebrate both our new books. I will be interviewed about my #IntoTheGroove book by @clairywoowoo.bsky.social. It will be fun. Please come!
December 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
#London 📚✒️🎤🍺
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Nativity photo from Seattle.
December 2, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Nativity photo from Seattle.
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Listen to the crows, the crows know…
November 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Listen to the crows, the crows know…
Stepped out of the house this
morning and finally realised what the daughter had left on the step
morning and finally realised what the daughter had left on the step
November 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Stepped out of the house this
morning and finally realised what the daughter had left on the step
morning and finally realised what the daughter had left on the step
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True Welsh poetry
October 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
True Welsh poetry
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I really enjoyed answering a few questions about my book for the Bloomsbury website. Read it here: 👇
“Cartoons are a powerful medium for self-expression and fostering connection”
In her new graphic memoir, This Might Surprise you, @hayleygullen.com details her fight for individuality during the toughest time of her life after her breast cancer diagnosis.
Read more: tinyurl.com/3becx6na
In her new graphic memoir, This Might Surprise you, @hayleygullen.com details her fight for individuality during the toughest time of her life after her breast cancer diagnosis.
Read more: tinyurl.com/3becx6na
October 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I really enjoyed answering a few questions about my book for the Bloomsbury website. Read it here: 👇
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If you're in Liverpool next month and fancy hearing me think out loud then please come along to the launch of THE DEFINITIONS. I'm occasionally cogent and, if you get me on the right topic, borderline interesting, and there'll be wine, good people and great books. deadinkbookshop.com/products/the...
15 OCT The Definitions: Book Launch - Matt Greene in conversation with
The Definitions is a short, thoughtful, and ultimately terrifying novel about the vitality of language. How we use it, how we weaponise it, and what happens when we rely on other to define ourselves. ...
deadinkbookshop.com
September 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
If you're in Liverpool next month and fancy hearing me think out loud then please come along to the launch of THE DEFINITIONS. I'm occasionally cogent and, if you get me on the right topic, borderline interesting, and there'll be wine, good people and great books. deadinkbookshop.com/products/the...
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13 Aug 1942 // Two former French drifters in #RoyalNavy service, Pierre Descelliers and Intrepide, were bombed and sunk at Salcombe, Devon, in an air raid. Three men on the Pierre Descelliers were killed, along with a local woman who had come aboard from her boat to deliver water. #WW2
August 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
13 Aug 1942 // Two former French drifters in #RoyalNavy service, Pierre Descelliers and Intrepide, were bombed and sunk at Salcombe, Devon, in an air raid. Three men on the Pierre Descelliers were killed, along with a local woman who had come aboard from her boat to deliver water. #WW2
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Therapist: …like right now, what’s in your head
(don’t say it, don’t say it)
Me: Zombie
(don’t say it, don’t say it)
Me: Zombie
August 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Therapist: …like right now, what’s in your head
(don’t say it, don’t say it)
Me: Zombie
(don’t say it, don’t say it)
Me: Zombie
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Not everyone is impressed with the latest Chat-GPT update
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/gpt-5-is-a...
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/gpt-5-is-a...
GPT-5 is a joke. Will it matter?
How the fraught release of the most-hyped AI product yet clarifies the stakes.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
August 13, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Not everyone is impressed with the latest Chat-GPT update
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/gpt-5-is-a...
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/gpt-5-is-a...
And a good time was had by all
August 11, 2025 at 10:40 AM
And a good time was had by all
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On the morning of July 31, Israeli military forces, accompanied by bulldozers, arrived at the site of one of the two propagation units of the Palestinian National Seed Bank in the West Bank city of Hebron.
They then used bulldozers to demolish the structure.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
They then used bulldozers to demolish the structure.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
This was one of the last bridges between Jews and Arabs. Israel demolished it, too
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www.haaretz.com
August 10, 2025 at 7:39 AM
On the morning of July 31, Israeli military forces, accompanied by bulldozers, arrived at the site of one of the two propagation units of the Palestinian National Seed Bank in the West Bank city of Hebron.
They then used bulldozers to demolish the structure.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
They then used bulldozers to demolish the structure.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Nah, you’re alright.
‘Aggressively provocative’: first screening of Saltburn director’s Wuthering Heights gets mixed reaction
‘Aggressively provocative’: first screening of Saltburn director’s Wuthering Heights gets mixed reaction
An early test showing of the forthcoming Brontë adaptation starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi reveals film features horse rein sex, suggestive egg yolks and necrophile nuns
Equal parts intrigue and scepticism had already dogged the forthcoming adaptation of Wuthering Heights from Emerald Fennell – whose first two films, Promising Young Woman and Saltburn, displayed a love of mordant and explicit envelope-pushing.
As reported by World of Reel, a first test screening for the film, which stars Margot Robbie and Saltburn’s Jacob Elordi, took place earlier this week in Dallas, and audience reaction was “mixed”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Nah, you’re alright.
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I am up at @edfringe again and I will be administering the prestigious 🥄Accoladles🥄 once more.
These go to the EQUAL BEST SHOW on the Fringe and I award them to shows I’ve seen.
All other shows are also EQUAL BEST.
Everyone is equally worthy so everyone gets prizes.
These go to the EQUAL BEST SHOW on the Fringe and I award them to shows I’ve seen.
All other shows are also EQUAL BEST.
Everyone is equally worthy so everyone gets prizes.
July 29, 2025 at 8:17 AM
I am up at @edfringe again and I will be administering the prestigious 🥄Accoladles🥄 once more.
These go to the EQUAL BEST SHOW on the Fringe and I award them to shows I’ve seen.
All other shows are also EQUAL BEST.
Everyone is equally worthy so everyone gets prizes.
These go to the EQUAL BEST SHOW on the Fringe and I award them to shows I’ve seen.
All other shows are also EQUAL BEST.
Everyone is equally worthy so everyone gets prizes.
Hell yeah
Officers have appealed to find the owners of the scooters
'Joyriding' mobility scooters chased down by police in 'low-speed pursuit'
www.nottinghampost.com
August 5, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Hell yeah
“Down at yer local nick… He’ll ring you back..”
David Calder is your friendly Crime Prevention Officer in this late seventies PIF.
August 1, 2025 at 8:12 AM
“Down at yer local nick… He’ll ring you back..”
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The depressing, awful reality of where we are as a society.
People are made to feel guilty for literally saving human lives.
People are made to feel guilty for literally saving human lives.
Lifeboat crew members who are called out to migrants crossing the Channel in small boats have told the BBC they make no apologies for saving lives at sea.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
RNLI crew makes no apologies for saving migrants' lives in English Channel
It says it has saved the lives of 58 people crossing the Channel
www.bbc.co.uk
July 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The depressing, awful reality of where we are as a society.
People are made to feel guilty for literally saving human lives.
People are made to feel guilty for literally saving human lives.
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Hear, hear!
This is the kind of terror surge we need to block.
That lady could have put crochet all over the nearby post boxes if the police hadn't cracked down on it.
That lady could have put crochet all over the nearby post boxes if the police hadn't cracked down on it.
July 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Hear, hear!
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We published the story in a measured and unsensational way because we take our responsibility towards contempt very seriously as publishers
A man's been charged with rape. Speculation could collapse the case
www.nottinghampost.com
July 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
We published the story in a measured and unsensational way because we take our responsibility towards contempt very seriously as publishers