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Jack Aldane
@jackaldane.bsky.social
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✒️ Writer | 🎙️ Host & Producer of The Booking Club and My Martin Amis podcasts | 🥊 Boxing fan SUBSTACK🔗: https://jackaldane.substack.com/ 🎧 @bookingclubpod.bsky.social 🎧 @mymartinamis.bsky.social
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Jack Aldane @jackaldane.bsky.social · Nov 23
If you follow me, love books, and love restaurants, you’re in for copious treats.

Tell me who you’d like me to have on as a guest on @bookingclubpod.bsky.social in 2025

Then hit SUBSCRIBE for the full archive 2018-now👇

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 1d
A message from Lawrence Osborne, author of The Ballad of a Small Player 👀
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Jack Aldane @jackaldane.bsky.social · 1d
"The Founding Fathers feared democracy and they feared monarchy. They wanted a republic where it was safe for white men of business to do business." Gore Vidal
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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 2d
@nickwallis.bsky.social is ready for #battlefest this year. Are you?

Don't miss out on our celebration of Franz Kafka's The Trial at 100 on Saturday 18th October.

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 3d
Another #bookingclubbite with @jackaldane.bsky.social ahjead of #battlefest with @nickwallis.bsky.social Maxie Allen and @johnyorkestory.bsky.social

Join us at Church House in Westminster on Saturday 18 October: www.battleofideas.org.uk/battle-of-id...
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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 5d
Gurkha's in Syndenham was a delight!

Listen to @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social and @jackaldane.bsky.social talk about this South London gem, and the many wonderful books Matthew has both written and read so far this year. @quercusbooks.bsky.social

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 6d
“When you die, it is either the end of everything – you are gone, snuffed out, finished, or there is something. I happen to believe there is something – so I can’t think of a more exciting adventure than finding out what the something is.” - Jane Goodall www.ft.com/content/9600...
‘You must not give up’: the last testament of Jane Goodall
The conservationist, who died yesterday, led a 65-year fight to raise eco awareness. She gave the Financial Times one of her final interviews
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Jack Aldane @jackaldane.bsky.social · 9d
Big thank you to @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social for joining me at Gurkha’s in #sydenham to talk about #bookish on @bookingclubpod.bsky.social – out soon!
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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 7d
🚨NEW EPISODE!

@drmatthewsweet.bsky.social, author of 'Bookish', based on the hit TV series starring @markgatissjp.bsky.social, Polly Walker, Connor Finch, Buket Komur and others, meets @jackaldane.bsky.social at Gurkhas in #Sydenham.

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 8d
We need to talk about Josef K.

On 18 October, @jackaldane.bsky.social will be joined by @nickwallis.bsky.social, Maxie Allen and @johnyorkestory.bsky.social at this year’s Battle of Ideas Festival #battlefest to discuss Franz Kafka’s The Trial at 100. Academy of Ideas

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Jack Aldane @jackaldane.bsky.social · 8d
Nothing says the end of progress like a moral arc you have to bend yourself.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 9d
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.
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Jack Aldane @jackaldane.bsky.social · 9d
Big thank you to @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social for joining me at Gurkha’s in #sydenham to talk about #bookish on @bookingclubpod.bsky.social – out soon!
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Jack Aldane @jackaldane.bsky.social · 9d
Ahead of dinner with @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social for @bookingclubpod.bsky.social...
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Jack Aldane @jackaldane.bsky.social · 9d
Ahead of dinner with @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social for @bookingclubpod.bsky.social...
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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 21d
🚨 On 18 Oct @jackaldane.bsky.social will not only be hosting a live #podcast about the 100th anniversary of Kafka’s The Trial, but also speaking about the legacy of Jane Austen at 250 (see below)👇

Don’t miss either! Use code ‘BOOKCLUB’ for 20% off all tickets

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 22d
🗓️ SAT 18 OCT 25

@jackaldane.bsky.social takes the stage at #battlefest 2025 along with @nickwallis.bsky.social, Maxie Allen of Times Radio, and @johnyorkestory.bsky.social to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Kafka's The Trial.

Use code BOOKCLUB for 20% off
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Jack Aldane @jackaldane.bsky.social · 22d
Was there ever a face more made for the movies? #robertredfordrip
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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 26d
🗓️ HOLD THE DATE: SAT 18 OCT 2025

@jackaldane.bsky.social and guests return to this year's #battlefest for a centennial celebration of one of the most disturbing and enduring novels of all time.

Any guesses?🤔

Use the code BOOKCLUB for 20% off ALL 🎟️
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My Martin Amis podcast @mymartinamis.bsky.social · 26d
Ian McGuire, author of the 2016 novel The North Water, reads from #MartinAmis's The Rub of Time, in which an essay appears on the toll age can take on the writer's 'inner ear', and what Amis belives this meant for John Updike.

See 🔗 in the bio for the FULL EPISODE
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Jo Nightingale @musicandmuseums.bsky.social · Sep 7
Such a wonderful episode with John and Ian BTW, I finished listening this morning and immediately had to contact them. Your questions were so good.
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My Martin Amis podcast @mymartinamis.bsky.social · Sep 7
"[Martin Amis] said: I'm no longer reading with a pencil in my hand, and I knew that that was probably the closest he'd come to complaining to me about his state of health. I think the pencil represents an idea of the future. About a week later he was dead."’

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Ian McEwan at 77: ‘I’d like to be remembered for more than Atonement’
The acclaimed novelist talks about his most disturbing novel yet, crying over his dog — and the last poignant email from his friend Martin Amis
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Jack Aldane @jackaldane.bsky.social · Sep 7
Thank you Jo!
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My Martin Amis podcast @mymartinamis.bsky.social · Sep 5
🚨 Listen to the latest episode with writers John McAuliffe and Ian McGuire of The University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing.

Here's John reading from #MartinAmis 's collection of essays 📚The Rub of Time📚, about watching football live.

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My Martin Amis podcast @mymartinamis.bsky.social · Sep 3
🚨 NEW EPISODE!

John McAuliffe & Ian McGuire of meet @jackaldane.bsky.social to share memories of #MartinAmis you won’t hear anywhere else.

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My Martin Amis podcast @mymartinamis.bsky.social · Aug 25
A spot of cross-pollination here as Martin Locock @mlocock.bsky.social, Amis fan and fellow podcast creator, offers his two cents on Yellow Dog, an underdog novel in the Amis corpus that he argues brings more pleasure than its critics would have you believe.

Here are the 3 reasons why 👇
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