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Jon Woolcott

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Author Real Dorset (Seren), The Tattooed Hills (Aurum 2026), editor Going to Ground, works Little Toller, editor The Clearing. Events/writing/buy: linktr.ee/jonwoolcott

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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · Mar 7

I've been sitting on my hands about this for a while, but here’s some news. My book The Tattooed Hills; journeys to Chalk Hill Figures, will be published in 2026 by the excellent folk at Aurum.

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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 19h

Thanks Helen! I was very pleased with myself. As usual.

Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 20h

Here it is, the gorgeous cover of The Tattooed Hills by the talented illustrator Jon McCormack. It's just perfect!

The book is out next spring and you can preorder a copy here: geni.us/TheTattooedH...

The cover of The Tattooed Hills, a white horse on a chalkand landscape.

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 2d

This looks great from @littletollerbooks.bsky.social – a campaign to crowdfund a book on the Cumbrian home and work of Kurt Schwitters. I popped into his Merz Barn there a few years ago, a really crackers place then run by people no longer with us

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/looking-fo...

Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 8d

Our friends at the brilliant @littletollerbooks.bsky.social have just launched a new crowdfunding project for 'Looking for Mr Schwitters' — an innovative and finely illustrated book about the émigré artist Kurt Schwitters’ final years in the Lake District www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/look...

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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 5d

Extraordinary! Not seen it in years, suspect it's 'of its time.'

Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 6d

A photograph of Jane Goodall with a chimpanzee.

Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 8d

What's your sign?

Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 8d

Now reading.

Copies of Storm Damage and Love Poems by Brian Patten

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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 9d

"Age yourself with a movie you saw in theatres as a kid."

A film poster for The Return of the Pink Panther.

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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 9d

TBH my late mum was fond of saying 'LADY AUHORESS' in crowded places in her best telephone voice when describing someone who had lived in her village. I think she thought it made her sound posh and literary.

Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 10d

Although whether one can accurately describe it as nonfiction is another matter.

Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 10d

The Usborne 'World of the Unknown: Ghosts' freaked me out as a kid and I'm not the only one, given its recent reissue.

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Little Toller Books @littletollerbooks.bsky.social · 14d

For those who might like a copy! 😉

www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...

#BookSky

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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 15d

I wonder also if some of it has to do with those forever brown interpretation boards or 1970s museum displays? Like the artist only had beige to work with. Always looked so grim.

Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 16d

I mean, I would say this, but Luke is right on Worpole, and many other things.

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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 16d

Especially alarmed by '20% discount on collection' tagline .

Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 18d

What these mathematical tests from your childhood look like now: you won't believe the eight times table!

Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 19d

I don't actually! Have a good supper! Went to the Dorset Romantics today, v good.

Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 19d

Amazing!

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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 19d

Extraordinary that it was still possible, but hard, to travel overland then, and you must be delighted, now, you did so. Hotels in new cities are the epitome of loneliness I think.

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Ian Denton @iand777.bsky.social · 19d

Acorns & Autumn.
These colours always remind of my 1st yr out of university.
I was living in a remote cottage in the New Forest nr Beaulieu.
Such a sudden shock of loneliness.
As @jonwoolcott.bsky.social writes "Nature doesn't care about us, or how we feel about it - it's purpose is not to heal us".

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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 19d

What memories this season must summon for you! I had a moment like that today too, as summer reappears.

Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 19d

Shit, I've been rumbled.

Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 19d

Just my favourite film.

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Little Toller Books @littletollerbooks.bsky.social · 20d

One year old today, and what a year!

Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 20d

Happy Birthday Wild Twin, one year old today. Shortlisted for the Stanford Travel Book Award/ winner of the TLS Ackerley Prize. It’s done ok! Thanks to everyone who’s read it and if you haven’t yet you can buy it here:
www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...

@littletollerbooks.bsky.social

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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 21d

I heard he was hot. Not sure where.