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Adam Weymouth

@adamweymouth.bsky.social

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I'm a writer, and sometime walker - my new book, Lone Wolf, is out now. Books, tickets etc here: https://linktr.ee/adamweymouth

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Adam Weymouth @adamweymouth.bsky.social · May 29

It's in the wild! I've been thinking about this book for 6 years, and today, at last, it's out. It's a story about change, and how we cope with change, and how we think about our future. There's a lot of hope in it, and really, at heart, it's a love story. I hope you enjoy it 🐺 tinyurl.com/yu7y5jn4

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Adam Weymouth @adamweymouth.bsky.social · 4d

Hi Nerve - are you seeking/ accepting submissions?

Adam Weymouth @adamweymouth.bsky.social · 4d

Great example from @davidmacdougall.bsky.social of how wolves so easily & frequently bleed into human politics. "The suggestion that Putin is responsible for the upsetting of the natural order...feeds a common Finnish narrative that nothing good comes from Russia."

www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

Far from the front line, Putin’s war unleashes a pack of killers

Mass conscription of the Russian hunters who live along the border with Finland has left reindeer herders fearing for the lives of their animals

www.thetimes.com

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 5d

A question for Times columnist Sebastian Payne:

What is this cheaper source of "energy" that you speak of?

The world's energy experts would like to know…

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Adam Weymouth @adamweymouth.bsky.social · 5d

Suzanne Simard has worked on this - a bit about it towards the end of Mother Tree - I presume there are papers

Adam Weymouth @adamweymouth.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you!

Adam Weymouth @adamweymouth.bsky.social · 6d

Gosh. Been trying to write something coherent for a bit but I‘m basically just really excited.

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 6d

Tory party’s long journey away from science, reason, responsibility, common sense and truth is complete

Kemi Badenoch vows to repeal Climate Change Act

Tory leader says she would replace it with ‘cheap energy’ strategy, ending decades-long consensus on climate

www.theguardian.com

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Adam Weymouth @adamweymouth.bsky.social · 6d

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

‘Horny wolves, eunuchs and pirates’ among Baillie Gifford prize shortlist subjects

Helen Garner and Richard Holmes among authors of nonfiction books that also encompass international terrorists and ‘ghastly literary men’

www.theguardian.com

Adam Weymouth @adamweymouth.bsky.social · 13d

www.thebailliegiffordprize.co.uk/inside-the-c...

Adam Weymouth Longlist interview

The Baillie Gifford Prize rewards excellence in non-fiction writing, bringing the best in intelligent reflection on the world to new readers.

www.thebailliegiffordprize.co.uk

Adam Weymouth @adamweymouth.bsky.social · 14d

Upcoming wolfish events this autumn - links for tickets in bio

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 20d

In other (important) news: Reform controlled Kent County Council has just rescinded the climate change emergency declaration
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Kent County Council rescinds climate change emergency declaration

The motion was proposed by Reform UK after it took control of Kent County Council in May.

www.bbc.com

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 21d

I wrote an essay on non-fiction and truth for The Author, in which I talk about Capote, Graves and Durrell before concluding that writers just need to stop being full of shit.

Pinches of Salt: Richard Smyth explores fictions within non-fiction.

And of course there is a constant stream of books like The Salt Path: books on travel, nature, place, books about spiritual journeys, high emotion, the relentless exalted dramatisation of the self. Books in this genre might strike some as just another sort of bullshit, confected for profit; they are just not the sort that will ever be the subject of allegations in a national newspaper.

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Adam Weymouth @adamweymouth.bsky.social · 20d

Great title!

Adam Weymouth @adamweymouth.bsky.social · 21d

uk.bookshop.org/lists/nature...

@bookshop.org currently has fantastic nature books for cheap, - plenty I've loved, plenty more I'd like to find the time to read -

Including @benrawlence.bsky.social, @calflyn.bsky.social, @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social !

Adam Weymouth @adamweymouth.bsky.social · 25d

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Adam Weymouth @adamweymouth.bsky.social · 26d

And then my local, Margate Bookie, once again on the Sunday midday slot - October 12 - in the Turner on the seafront: www.ticketsource.co.uk/bookie2025/a...

www.ticketsource.co.uk

Adam Weymouth @adamweymouth.bsky.social · 26d

Next up, this one at Wigtown Book Festival (@wigtownbooktown.bsky.social). I've never been, I've heard it's brilliant, I'm expecting ceilidhs and revelry. 5th October, midday tinyurl.com/ysem28yk

Adam Weymouth, Lone Wolf: Walking the Faultlines of Europe

tickets.wigtownbookfestival.com

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Adam Weymouth @adamweymouth.bsky.social · 26d

Stanfords, on Tuesday evening.
@stanfordstravel.bsky.social
was where I first fell in love with travel writing - they've been brilliantly supportive ove the years, and I love going back there every time... tinyurl.com/2wn4bvfp

Lone Wolf: Walking the Faultlines of Europe with Adam Weymouth

This is a Stanfords, London event

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Adam Weymouth @adamweymouth.bsky.social · 27d

Ha! There's a wolf deep in there somewhere...

Adam Weymouth @adamweymouth.bsky.social · 27d

That's great, thanks so much Chris

Adam Weymouth @adamweymouth.bsky.social · 27d

Brilliant, thank you Charlie

Adam Weymouth @adamweymouth.bsky.social · 27d

I am looking for books/ articles/ interviews etc about travels with donkeys, outside of the obvious (Stevenson). If anyone's got any recommendations? Thanks

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Adam Weymouth @adamweymouth.bsky.social · 27d

Just went to book the sleeper from London to Penzance - £309 just for the cabin, not even including the ticket. Absolutely batshit. Just came back from France where I paid 60 euros for the cabin on the sleeper from Paris to the Pyrenees.

Adam Weymouth @adamweymouth.bsky.social · 27d

Lone Wolf is just £1.99 on Kindle today (not quite the 99p it says here, but almost) - presumably this is a good thing? Anyway, get it here: tinyurl.com/27xy5utr

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 29d

via Global Sumud Flotilla

'Footage from another boat of our Flotilla shows the exact moment the Family Boat was struck from above.'

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