Hayley Anderton
@desperatereader.bsky.social
Reads books, sell books, buys books, knits, grumbles a bit, cooks a bit.
Say what you want about a labour govt but thanks to 2 good increases in minimum wage and my employer being generous about keeping the margins between job roles this is the first year where there will be no day where turnover is higher than my annual salary - and that's really motivating
December 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Say what you want about a labour govt but thanks to 2 good increases in minimum wage and my employer being generous about keeping the margins between job roles this is the first year where there will be no day where turnover is higher than my annual salary - and that's really motivating
Please give me the patience to get through the next 3 days of pre Christmas retail. And if you're thinking of shoving your phone in someone's face to ask if they sell something, don't. We have not memorised a stock file that extends to tens of 1000s of lines or have any idea of what sold today
December 22, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Please give me the patience to get through the next 3 days of pre Christmas retail. And if you're thinking of shoving your phone in someone's face to ask if they sell something, don't. We have not memorised a stock file that extends to tens of 1000s of lines or have any idea of what sold today
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The latest in the Salt Path scandal. TV doc made by the brilliant team @candourtv will be on Now and Sky tomorrow.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
‘Don’t look for the money. I’ve taken it all’: Salt Path author Raynor Winn’s ‘confession’ that she stole from her family | The Observer
observer.co.uk
December 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
The latest in the Salt Path scandal. TV doc made by the brilliant team @candourtv will be on Now and Sky tomorrow.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
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This is really fascinating especially the tiny bit about the establishment’s fascination with the exotic and that exotic changing fashion. So the orientalism of the Brighton Pavillion becomes Balmoral Castle.
Plus ça change
open.spotify.com/episode/6Y6Q...
Plus ça change
open.spotify.com/episode/6Y6Q...
Romantic History: Balmoral
open.spotify.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:56 AM
This is really fascinating especially the tiny bit about the establishment’s fascination with the exotic and that exotic changing fashion. So the orientalism of the Brighton Pavillion becomes Balmoral Castle.
Plus ça change
open.spotify.com/episode/6Y6Q...
Plus ça change
open.spotify.com/episode/6Y6Q...
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Loved by booksellers and readers from day one, THE ARTIST by Lucy Steeds is our #BookOfTheYear 2025 & THE CAFE AT THE EDGE OF THE WOODS by Mikey Please is our Children's #BookOfTheYear! 🎉
& Gift of the Year is Tim Siadatan's PADELLA! 🎁
Find them here: www.waterstones.com/category/cul...
& Gift of the Year is Tim Siadatan's PADELLA! 🎁
Find them here: www.waterstones.com/category/cul...
November 27, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Loved by booksellers and readers from day one, THE ARTIST by Lucy Steeds is our #BookOfTheYear 2025 & THE CAFE AT THE EDGE OF THE WOODS by Mikey Please is our Children's #BookOfTheYear! 🎉
& Gift of the Year is Tim Siadatan's PADELLA! 🎁
Find them here: www.waterstones.com/category/cul...
& Gift of the Year is Tim Siadatan's PADELLA! 🎁
Find them here: www.waterstones.com/category/cul...
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The Ghost Story for Christmas Eve this year is M R James's "An Episode of Cathedral History".
It'll be livestreamed at 7pm (UK) but available to watch anywhere, anytime after that. Simply register and pay-what-you-can here
christmascathedralghosts.eventbrite.co.uk
art by Paul Lowe
It'll be livestreamed at 7pm (UK) but available to watch anywhere, anytime after that. Simply register and pay-what-you-can here
christmascathedralghosts.eventbrite.co.uk
art by Paul Lowe
November 23, 2025 at 10:49 AM
The Ghost Story for Christmas Eve this year is M R James's "An Episode of Cathedral History".
It'll be livestreamed at 7pm (UK) but available to watch anywhere, anytime after that. Simply register and pay-what-you-can here
christmascathedralghosts.eventbrite.co.uk
art by Paul Lowe
It'll be livestreamed at 7pm (UK) but available to watch anywhere, anytime after that. Simply register and pay-what-you-can here
christmascathedralghosts.eventbrite.co.uk
art by Paul Lowe
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Murder in a West End boutique? 🛍️👠 Inspector Charlesworth’s on the case. This month’s Crime Classic, Death in High Heels, dives into fashion, ambition, and fatal secrets.
Available today: shop.bl.uk/products/death-in-high-heels
Ed: @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social
Available today: shop.bl.uk/products/death-in-high-heels
Ed: @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Murder in a West End boutique? 🛍️👠 Inspector Charlesworth’s on the case. This month’s Crime Classic, Death in High Heels, dives into fashion, ambition, and fatal secrets.
Available today: shop.bl.uk/products/death-in-high-heels
Ed: @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social
Available today: shop.bl.uk/products/death-in-high-heels
Ed: @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social
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George I need you to do to these companies what you could never do to your books and finish them.
Massive win and beginning of the end for generative ai
October 30, 2025 at 12:54 AM
George I need you to do to these companies what you could never do to your books and finish them.
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That this exquisite chalk stream should be polluted with e-coli, pesticides, cleaning products, industrial chemicals, medicines + toiletries is a tragedy beyond words that could be prevented by improving sewage systems so wastewater is treated 3 times - enough to remove most chemicals + pathogens
September's RIVER OF THE MONTH is…… The River Itchen 🎉
Flowing through the heart of Hampshire, the River Itchen is one of the world’s rare chalk streams and is home to the endangered Atlantic Salmon. 🐟
But this iconic river is in trouble.... 🧵👇
🔗- kit.riveractionuk.com/rotm-the-riv...
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Flowing through the heart of Hampshire, the River Itchen is one of the world’s rare chalk streams and is home to the endangered Atlantic Salmon. 🐟
But this iconic river is in trouble.... 🧵👇
🔗- kit.riveractionuk.com/rotm-the-riv...
🧵(1/8)
River of the Month - The River Itchen - River Action: River Rescue Kit
Welcome to River of the Month! Every month, we spotlight a different river, sharing its wonders, its challenges, and the incredible people fighting to protect it. This month is…
The River Itchen
By ...
kit.riveractionuk.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
That this exquisite chalk stream should be polluted with e-coli, pesticides, cleaning products, industrial chemicals, medicines + toiletries is a tragedy beyond words that could be prevented by improving sewage systems so wastewater is treated 3 times - enough to remove most chemicals + pathogens
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Thanks to @adamjfarrer.bsky.social for this brilliant review of Saltburn @renardpress.com - ‘an English Vonnegut’ 😊
October 30, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Thanks to @adamjfarrer.bsky.social for this brilliant review of Saltburn @renardpress.com - ‘an English Vonnegut’ 😊
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No I don’t, you chucklefucks, I want Norma Jean to be able to rest in peace without a bunch of technoghouls turning her corpse into a marionette.
Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies
Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon
Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies
www.scientificamerican.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:40 AM
No I don’t, you chucklefucks, I want Norma Jean to be able to rest in peace without a bunch of technoghouls turning her corpse into a marionette.
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In #JapaneseFolklore jubokko are #yokai trees often found on the sites of old battlefields. It is believed that because they absorbed the blood of slaughtered bodies through their roots, they developed supernatural powers, including a vampiric taste for blood. Considering...
#LegendaryWednesday
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October 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Endorsed happily. See the film, it is a delight. It *brings* delight.
I wasn’t sure about I Know Where I’m Going the first time I watched it. Now I am. It is perfect. boxd.it/bkJTol
A ★★★★★ review of I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
I remember watching this the first time and being a bit baffled by it. It seemed weirdly theatrical, the Scotland unconvincing and clichéd, and I didn’t pick up on any chemistry between Wendy Hillier ...
boxd.it
October 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Endorsed happily. See the film, it is a delight. It *brings* delight.
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once again, please hire historians
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September 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM
once again, please hire historians
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Came back from Scotland today after 2 weeks away. Every bridge we passed had union or George cross flags on it as soon as we crossed the border. It wasn't like that going up. Depressing
August 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Came back from Scotland today after 2 weeks away. Every bridge we passed had union or George cross flags on it as soon as we crossed the border. It wasn't like that going up. Depressing
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Will talk more on this in the coming weeks. but I'll be back at the TALES OF THE WEIRD festival this November. Thrilled to have been asked back, and you'll be able to buy my 'lost' Christmas Ghost Stories anthology ILLUSIONS OF PRESENCE and get them signed by me there.
August 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Will talk more on this in the coming weeks. but I'll be back at the TALES OF THE WEIRD festival this November. Thrilled to have been asked back, and you'll be able to buy my 'lost' Christmas Ghost Stories anthology ILLUSIONS OF PRESENCE and get them signed by me there.
Absolutely loving the Shetland weather, and it smells incredible here - floral and salty
August 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Absolutely loving the Shetland weather, and it smells incredible here - floral and salty
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I mean, this bear has SEEN THINGS
August 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I mean, this bear has SEEN THINGS
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ILLUSIONS OF PRESENCE has a cover!!
Really happy with how this one has turned out, it's going to be *THE* book to get this Christmas!!
Links to order below! Please share this one far and wide!
#christmasghoststories #santasshinyshiny
Really happy with how this one has turned out, it's going to be *THE* book to get this Christmas!!
Links to order below! Please share this one far and wide!
#christmasghoststories #santasshinyshiny
August 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
ILLUSIONS OF PRESENCE has a cover!!
Really happy with how this one has turned out, it's going to be *THE* book to get this Christmas!!
Links to order below! Please share this one far and wide!
#christmasghoststories #santasshinyshiny
Really happy with how this one has turned out, it's going to be *THE* book to get this Christmas!!
Links to order below! Please share this one far and wide!
#christmasghoststories #santasshinyshiny
Been buying yarn, its so pretty
August 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Been buying yarn, its so pretty
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just saw someone sincerely arguing that they need AI bc they don't have "natural" artistic talent and idk how to make you understand that nobody comes by this shit naturally. it's just...work. it's being bad at it for a really, really, really long time. it's intention, pursued over time! wtf!!!
August 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
just saw someone sincerely arguing that they need AI bc they don't have "natural" artistic talent and idk how to make you understand that nobody comes by this shit naturally. it's just...work. it's being bad at it for a really, really, really long time. it's intention, pursued over time! wtf!!!
Early morning Shetland behind those clouds
August 17, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Early morning Shetland behind those clouds