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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 22h

Sarah Hall's acclaimed new novel Helm is BBC Radio 4's current Book at Bedtime – you can catch up on previous episodes and follow along now 🌬️

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Helm by Sarah Hall, That Brief, Busy Interlude

An elemental story about climate, discovery and the time we have left.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 3d

Recommended viewing: Storyville: The Librarians, BBC4, Tuesday, 7 October. Explores how librarians across the US are risking their safety to defend free speech as book bans and censorship threaten democracy from within. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Four - Storyville, The Librarians

Documentary about the US librarians who are risking their safety to defend free speech.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Clare Simpson @claremsimpson.bsky.social · 1d

No, I want cardamom buns

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 3d

Very much enjoyed hearing @damianbarr.bsky.social talk about his new book The Two Roberts at the @wigtownbooktown.bsky.social. Looking forward to reading it and hopeful that the exhibition of their work makes it to Scotland.

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Clare Simpson @claremsimpson.bsky.social · 3d

The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller

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Clare Simpson @claremsimpson.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve never seen a James Bond movie

Clare Simpson @claremsimpson.bsky.social · 3d

You’ll be fab x

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Clare Simpson @claremsimpson.bsky.social · 3d

That’s great. Primary or secondary?

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Clare Simpson @claremsimpson.bsky.social · 5d

It did. The waiter took it outside.
Doing fine, hope you are too

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Clare Simpson @claremsimpson.bsky.social · 5d

🤣 No, but enjoyed watching it crawl round the table after we’d pulled it out

Clare Simpson @claremsimpson.bsky.social · 5d

Tonight I got something I’d never had before - a ladybird in my drink

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The Edinburgh Reporter @edinreporter.bsky.social · 5d

War Horse – on now at Edinburgh Festival Theatre

War Horse the story of Joey the horse and his owner young Albert is set during the First World War. The story may be well known but the vision on stage remains awe-inspiring and on Friday Joey and his handlers walked onto the stage at Edinburgh…

War Horse – on now at Edinburgh Festival Theatre

War Horse the story of Joey the horse and his owner young Albert is set during the First World War. The story may be well known but the vision on stage remains awe-inspiring and on Friday Joey and his handlers walked onto the stage at Edinburgh Festival Theatre. This tour of War Horse marks 110 years since the start of the First World War and follows the 40th anniversary of the publication of Michael Morpurgo’s global best-selling novel, which has now sold over 2 million copies worldwide and in 44 different languages.

theedinburghreporter.co.uk

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 6d

I wrote a short piece for the Observer on the attacks in Manchester.

observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

My son recently found a swastika drawn on the pavement at...

The Manchester attack didn't come as a shock. The only surprise is it hasn’t happened sooner

observer.co.uk

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Clare Simpson @claremsimpson.bsky.social · 6d

I did find a rather beautiful Hermes silk scarf in a charity shop

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m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · 6d

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

Sarah Hall and Charlie Porter among writers on ‘genre-defying’ Goldsmiths prize shortlist

The £10,000 award, whose judges include Mark Haddon and Megan Nolan, recognises ‘mould-breaking’ fiction

www.theguardian.com

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Clare Simpson @claremsimpson.bsky.social · 6d

Congratulations. Such important aware raising work.

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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 6d

Some good news - huge congratulations to @rorycj.bsky.social and the other Movers and Shakers for this well-deserved award

Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 6d

We won! #Movers&Shakers won the Gold award for Impact at the #BritishPodcastAwards

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Annie Gunner Logan @annieasever.bsky.social · 6d

Our last show sold out completely, so, hey, we're gonna do another one! All in aid of the lovely people at Marie Curie Scotland. Tickets available now, get 'em while they're hot 🔥
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/agl-the-al...

AGL & The Alchemists - EXTRA SHOW!

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 7d

The Climate Fiction Prize celebrates the most inspiring novels tackling the climate crisis.

I will be one of this judges this year and would love to read your work.

The £10,000 prize is awarded annually to a single novel. Submissions now open.

Link here climatefictionprize.co.uk

Please share :)

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Traverse Theatre @traversetheatre.bsky.social · 7d

We have £15 tickets to Black Hole Sign for NHS workers. Use code BLACKHOLE15 online or present your Blue Light Card to our Sales Desk

8-18 OCT
https://www.traverse.co.uk/whats-on/event/black-hole-sign-autumn-25

A Tron Theatre & Traverse production, in association with National Theatre of Scotland

Promotional image offering £15 tickets for NHS workers, with the instruction 'Use code BLACKHOLE15'. The image shows a smiling elderly woman in a hospital gown sitting and holding a mug, while a young NHS nurse in scrubs stands beside her, smiling and holding sparkly silver boots. They are in a clinical setting with a blue curtain and overhead light.

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Child Poverty Action Group @cpaguk.bsky.social · 8d

To reduce child poverty, government must scrap the two-chid limit. And that means fully scrapping it – no benefit cap, no tapers, no new limit. All children deserve the best start in life, and messing around the edges of this policy won’t cut it. 2/2

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Clare Simpson @claremsimpson.bsky.social · 8d

And surely Keith Richards

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Dymphna Flynn @dymphnaflynn.bsky.social · 9d

Tonight! It's the annual BBC National Short Story Award ceremony and how great that 2025 is the 20th year anniversary of this prestigious and important prize which celebrates the power of short form prose. Live on Front Row, BBC Radio 4 1915

Photo shows a book which is the collection of the five shortlisted stories for the 2025 BBC short story award

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One Parent Families Scotland @opfs.org.uk · 8d

The #TwoChildLimit has hit single parent families hardest, forcing impossible choices and deepening poverty. OPFS welcomes Labour’s commitment to lift the policy in the November Budget, a long overdue change.

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Clare Simpson @claremsimpson.bsky.social · 8d

Think you’re sad? I’m excited because I got a new mattress 🤪

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