Brian Edwards
@brianftang.bsky.social
Novelist, playwright, webmonkey, T1 diabetic. Fiction represented by David Grossman Literary Agency.
Went into Waterstones in the Whitgift Centre the other day and saw a table piled with this hugely fun book. Glad I took a punt, it’s a joyous celebration of the bizarre history of my adopted home.
January 9, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Went into Waterstones in the Whitgift Centre the other day and saw a table piled with this hugely fun book. Glad I took a punt, it’s a joyous celebration of the bizarre history of my adopted home.
This is the maddest thing I’ve ever bought off the internet because of an advert by a Chinese based nonsense factory. Or Temu, as I believe the cool kids are calling it. Chris Sievey, if he were still alive, (I hope) would find it amusing. But I want to burn them to the ground anyway.
January 8, 2026 at 12:25 AM
This is the maddest thing I’ve ever bought off the internet because of an advert by a Chinese based nonsense factory. Or Temu, as I believe the cool kids are calling it. Chris Sievey, if he were still alive, (I hope) would find it amusing. But I want to burn them to the ground anyway.
One of my very favourite things about the more recent Slow Horses books is that Mick Herron’s love of John Finnemore and Cabin Pressure has become a running joke there too.
December 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
One of my very favourite things about the more recent Slow Horses books is that Mick Herron’s love of John Finnemore and Cabin Pressure has become a running joke there too.
The BBC Sounds app possibly needs a better way of condensing what’s in the news without implying a new headline.
December 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The BBC Sounds app possibly needs a better way of condensing what’s in the news without implying a new headline.
I love how close Eric and Michael from the Pythons were to George Harrison. I just saw a man who was the spit of Arthur Sultan, “Surrey Mystic” and it suddenly occurred to me that that Rutles joke in 1978 was a really deep and personal mickey-take.
December 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I love how close Eric and Michael from the Pythons were to George Harrison. I just saw a man who was the spit of Arthur Sultan, “Surrey Mystic” and it suddenly occurred to me that that Rutles joke in 1978 was a really deep and personal mickey-take.
Enjoying this alternative timeline from Stephen Baxter’s World Engines book wherein the manager of The Rutles appears to have been a minor public school teacher in the mid-80s.
December 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Enjoying this alternative timeline from Stephen Baxter’s World Engines book wherein the manager of The Rutles appears to have been a minor public school teacher in the mid-80s.
You will be visited by three spirits.
December 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
You will be visited by three spirits.
Saw this by @deldridgewriter.bsky.social tonight. It was glorious and I feel emotionally wrung out. A wonderful end to the trilogy. Grab a ticket if you can.
November 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Saw this by @deldridgewriter.bsky.social tonight. It was glorious and I feel emotionally wrung out. A wonderful end to the trilogy. Grab a ticket if you can.
Hello what no sorry I can’t hear you I’m saving up to buy this now and everything else is a footnote. £349 is a perfectly reasonable price to spend on an ornament what no sorry can’t hear you.
November 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Hello what no sorry I can’t hear you I’m saving up to buy this now and everything else is a footnote. £349 is a perfectly reasonable price to spend on an ornament what no sorry can’t hear you.
TIL the cat “Charley” in the Charley Says PIFs was voiced by Kenny Everett.
October 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
TIL the cat “Charley” in the Charley Says PIFs was voiced by Kenny Everett.
Timelines colliding again.
October 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Timelines colliding again.
Did someone say beveragino?
October 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Did someone say beveragino?
I don’t want to set the world on fire, I just want to keep my nuts warm - by Ernest Borgnine.
October 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I don’t want to set the world on fire, I just want to keep my nuts warm - by Ernest Borgnine.
Finally getting around to watching Culloden. It’s insanely brilliant. The hand held reportage style is so wonderful. From 1964! Why aren’t history dramas and documentaries done like this more often? Or ever? It’s superb.
September 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Finally getting around to watching Culloden. It’s insanely brilliant. The hand held reportage style is so wonderful. From 1964! Why aren’t history dramas and documentaries done like this more often? Or ever? It’s superb.
Hello. Today I am 50 years old. Crikey.
August 31, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Hello. Today I am 50 years old. Crikey.
Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally
August 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally
Farewell to Jim Lovell, who went to the moon and back TWICE, becoming one of tiny number of the most travelled humans in history. 93 a pretty good age RIP
August 8, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Farewell to Jim Lovell, who went to the moon and back TWICE, becoming one of tiny number of the most travelled humans in history. 93 a pretty good age RIP
People forget how different the world was before smartphones.
July 31, 2025 at 9:37 AM
People forget how different the world was before smartphones.
Meanwhile on Facebook Meta AI is being helpful with @fesshole.bsky.social posts.
July 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Meanwhile on Facebook Meta AI is being helpful with @fesshole.bsky.social posts.
RE the Bond casting. We need to go back to the books and cast someone who looks like Hoagy Carmichael, who Fleming says Bond looks like. Several times. In more than one book.
June 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM
RE the Bond casting. We need to go back to the books and cast someone who looks like Hoagy Carmichael, who Fleming says Bond looks like. Several times. In more than one book.