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Martin Fitzgerald @4hundredblows.bsky.social · 3h

Read more Orwell, listen to more Clark

Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 13h

A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, read the epic story of a decades-in-the-making diss track, support the podcast. VIVA PET!

This week: Petula Clark, 'George Orwell' (1984)

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INVENTORY: AN UNRELIABLE GUIDE TO MY RECORD COLLECTION by Andy Miller

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Jon Dennis @jondennis.bsky.social · 10h

Lots to enjoy here ("it is hard not to see the name of Clark’s first television series, Petula Clark’s Pets Parlour, as a sly dig at George Orwell’s Animal Farm") ... if not the music.

Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 13h

A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, read the epic story of a decades-in-the-making diss track, support the podcast. VIVA PET!

This week: Petula Clark, 'George Orwell' (1984)

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Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 13h

A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, read the epic story of a decades-in-the-making diss track, support the podcast. VIVA PET!

This week: Petula Clark, 'George Orwell' (1984)

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Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 5h

Lovely to receive an email invitation to a cocktail party at UEA (‘you may be too busy with Booker stuff of course!’) but I have had to decline. ‘RSVP: Unfortunately for all concerned, I am the wrong Andrew Miller’.

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Anna Tuckett @annatuckett.bsky.social · 6h

I’ve had it on my wish list ever since I’ve heard of this book on @backlisted.bsky.social, so thank you very much!

Dean Street Press @deanstpress.bsky.social · 2d

This week's free Kindle
A House on the Rhine by Frances Faviell #freetillfriday
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#furrowedmiddlebrow #booksky

Print of girl's face looking pensive as she clutches an envelope. There is a port with boats and a church behind her.

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Gordon Baird @mungo2434.bsky.social · 10h

Another Wednesday morning delight from @iammilliam.bsky.social. An Easter egg filled study of a musical oddity. Thanks to @backlisted.bsky.social I have both heard of and read Hapworth 16, 1924, but I know there are other references that have escaped me. Sign up. These alone are easily worth it.

Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 13h

A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, read the epic story of a decades-in-the-making diss track, support the podcast. VIVA PET!

This week: Petula Clark, 'George Orwell' (1984)

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Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 11h

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Mart @martriley.bsky.social · 12h

By the time I got to ‘fuck this shit, thinks Petula Clark’ I was laughing out loud. Excellent work!

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 11h

Reader, I hooted.

Beware the savage lure
Of Pet Clark’s rotogravure.

Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 13h

A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, read the epic story of a decades-in-the-making diss track, support the podcast. VIVA PET!

This week: Petula Clark, 'George Orwell' (1984)

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Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings @kaggsy59.bsky.social · 13h

Hugely looking forward to this one! Worth being a Backlisted patreon member just for the INVENTORY! 😊

Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 13h

A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, read the epic story of a decades-in-the-making diss track, support the podcast. VIVA PET!

This week: Petula Clark, 'George Orwell' (1984)

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Valarie Smith @valarie.bsky.social · 23h

Excellent thread. Here's the Backlisted episode on Comyns as well: www.backlisted.fm/episodes/14-...

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Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 15h

“No, it’s the books that are wrong.” etc

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Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 15h

Just the latest way in which technology is enabling people who don’t actually like reading to diminish the cultural relevance of those who do.

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 21h

Abridging has always been in vogue. Now, apps like Blinkist take entire books and crunch them down to a series of what are called Blinks—which amount to around 2,000 words. “Is that what books are coming to, a handy social lubricant?” Anthony Lane asks.

Can You Read a Book in a Quarter of an Hour?

Phone apps now offer to boil down entire books into micro-synopses. What they leave out is revealing.

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Alex MacFarlane @aghowes.bsky.social · 1d

I used to listen to a podcast that put out a bonus episode during a fundraiser, specifically for backers, of all the "umm" and "uh"s etc etc that they'd edited out of normal episodes

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charlotte @tambourine.bsky.social · 1d

listening to a podcast that’s put out an episode with an unedited ad read in the middle. like, multiple takes, host saying “nope”, lots of dead air, laughing at the lines she has to say. a modern horror story lol

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Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social · 1d

To clarify, she wasn’t even a guest on the show; one of her novels was discussed by us and our guests. But she still wrote individual notes of appreciation. - Andy

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Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social · 1d

To clarify, she wasn’t even a guest on the show; one of her novels was discussed by us and our guests. But she still wrote individual notes of appreciation. - Andy

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Gargarin @gargarin.bsky.social · 1d

Drove down to Norwich listening to this,I can confirm that although the book is hyperlocal to Kent it worked in the flatlands too , ancient forgotten places , isolated murder bungalows, obscure factory units and as it finished I pulled up next to a heavily fly tipped Lover's lane. #booksky

Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social · 8d

New episode up now. All the Devils Are Here by David Seabrook: part 2, with guest Jason Hazeley in conversation with Andy Miller, Una McCormack and Nicky Birch. @jasonhazeley.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/6ZlW...

All The Devils Are Here by David Seabrook part 2

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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 1d

“I’d rather have my mind expanded than my taste confirmed.”
Well, I took @iammilliam.bsky.social at his word and plunged into the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen multiverse - I’m glad I did - I didn’t love everything but it was a rich reading experience which I’d recommend

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Bingo Little @bingolittle.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to a memorable @backlisted.bsky.social episode on Tove Jansson a few years back, her book caught my eye in this free little library in front of the Finnish embassy in Washington a couple of days ago. Now if only I could read it! @iammilliam.bsky.social

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Julie Randles @julierandles.bsky.social · 2d

Sylvanian @backlisted.bsky.social in memoriam : Imogen by Jilly Cooper

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Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social · 2d

And here is that episode, on Imogen by Jilly Cooper, with guests Daisy Buchanan and Ian Patterson. In Jilly’s own words, “it was all such terrific fun”. RIP. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/84-...

Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 2d

RIP lovely Jilly Cooper, the only subject of a @backlisted.bsky.social episode to write us all thank you letters afterwards. ❤️

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Jilly Cooper, author of Rivals and Riders, dies aged 88

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Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 2d

Not a peep out of Alan Moore. Or Shirley Jackson. Or whoever wrote Beowulf. #disappointing

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Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote 500 words for Inventory this morning that I found so funny, they almost certainly aren’t funny at all.

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ooOOOoona McCormack 🎃 @unamccormack.bsky.social · 2d

Saw him steal the show as the Player King in Hamlet from right under the noses of Patrick Stewart and David Tennant.

Hilary Fawcett @hboomer.bsky.social · 2d

RIP, John Woodvine. A very fine actor, and son of South Shields

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