Matthew Adams
@matthewadams.bsky.social
Writer. Walker. Critic. Frustrated lighthouse keeper.
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Lovely notice in the Church Times
Book review: The Haunted Wood: A history of childhood reading by Sam Leith
Jem Bloomfield considers formative reading habits
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November 29, 2024 at 10:59 AM
Lovely notice in the Church Times
Really want to write a short story called “Morrissey’s Cardigan”
November 29, 2024 at 11:17 AM
Really want to write a short story called “Morrissey’s Cardigan”
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Reactivating this account now the Other Place is even worse and joyfully, there seem to be lots of people here now! I need to work out who to follow but in the meantime just a PSA that next year at Raven Books is looking🔥🔥🔥
November 27, 2024 at 2:12 PM
Reactivating this account now the Other Place is even worse and joyfully, there seem to be lots of people here now! I need to work out who to follow but in the meantime just a PSA that next year at Raven Books is looking🔥🔥🔥
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Wise advice, of course. Thank you, Holly!
If you haven't already read it, go and get @questingvole.bsky.social new book The Haunted Wood. Wonderfully entertaining must read for anyone interested in #kidlit !
I'm going to be eating mince pies and signing books at Foyles tomorrow night alongside lots of other authors. Free Christmas event. Come along!
November 27, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Wise advice, of course. Thank you, Holly!
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I'm going to be eating mince pies and signing books at Foyles tomorrow night alongside lots of other authors. Free Christmas event. Come along!
Christmas Evening at Foyles Charing Cross Road
It's that time of the year again! The Foyles Christmas Evening 2023 is coming soon! Come along to Foyles Charing Cross Road and meet some of the best authors of the year, get your Christmas g
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November 27, 2024 at 8:48 AM
I'm going to be eating mince pies and signing books at Foyles tomorrow night alongside lots of other authors. Free Christmas event. Come along!
Disconsolately eating a gooseberry fool.
November 27, 2024 at 2:33 PM
Disconsolately eating a gooseberry fool.
MasterChef has gone eschatological.
November 23, 2023 at 10:02 PM
MasterChef has gone eschatological.
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Also my Iliad is on the Audible list as one of the 18 Best Fiction Audiobooks of the year, thanks to the incredible performance by Audra MacDonald. If any book is designed to be heard, it's the Iliad. www.audible.com/blog/article...
The 18 best fiction audiobooks of 2023
With unforgettable performances and life-changing storytelling, here are our top fiction picks of the year.
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November 16, 2023 at 3:17 PM
Also my Iliad is on the Audible list as one of the 18 Best Fiction Audiobooks of the year, thanks to the incredible performance by Audra MacDonald. If any book is designed to be heard, it's the Iliad. www.audible.com/blog/article...
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Also my/Homer's Iliad is a Notable Work of Fiction from 2023, in WaPo. Go Homer!
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/1...
50 notable works of fiction
Highlights from the year’s novels, short-story collections and works in translation
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November 15, 2023 at 9:35 PM
Also my/Homer's Iliad is a Notable Work of Fiction from 2023, in WaPo. Go Homer!
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/1...
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Iliad Book 2:
Greek leaders make leadership slips,
but they crush all dissent with their whips.
Zeus sends a strange dream -
things are not as they seem.
Stay awake for the long list of ships.
Greek leaders make leadership slips,
but they crush all dissent with their whips.
Zeus sends a strange dream -
things are not as they seem.
Stay awake for the long list of ships.
November 14, 2023 at 9:12 PM
Iliad Book 2:
Greek leaders make leadership slips,
but they crush all dissent with their whips.
Zeus sends a strange dream -
things are not as they seem.
Stay awake for the long list of ships.
Greek leaders make leadership slips,
but they crush all dissent with their whips.
Zeus sends a strange dream -
things are not as they seem.
Stay awake for the long list of ships.
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TODAY MY GOOD PEOPLE! In about 12 hours. Look at that speaker line-up 🛰️🔭🧪
Talk is via zoom and free to join. Just register below to get the link.
Talk is via zoom and free to join. Just register below to get the link.
Tomorrow (11/14 @ 9:30pm JST / 12:30 UTC) is the second EXCITING online talk on sample return missions! 🛰️ This one will look at our FAVOURITE space rocks, with scientists from the JAXA Hayabusa2 mission & NASA OSIRIS-REx mission. Register for the (free) zoom here:
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November 14, 2023 at 12:06 AM
TODAY MY GOOD PEOPLE! In about 12 hours. Look at that speaker line-up 🛰️🔭🧪
Talk is via zoom and free to join. Just register below to get the link.
Talk is via zoom and free to join. Just register below to get the link.
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🗃️The JWH has been migrating from that other site to this one. Could you please give us a boost here (and there) to move our followers to this more pleasant place? Thank you!
November 1, 2023 at 12:44 PM
🗃️The JWH has been migrating from that other site to this one. Could you please give us a boost here (and there) to move our followers to this more pleasant place? Thank you!
I am wearing the mackerel sweatshirt. And a Breton top, should the sweatshirt need to be removed. And socks with ANCHORS on them. ⚓️⚓️⚓️
Tomorrow I am travelling to Bath to hear Rick Stein talk at Saint Swithin’s Church.
Is it too embarrassing to wear my mackerel sweatshirt?
Is it too embarrassing to wear my mackerel sweatshirt?
October 31, 2023 at 11:28 AM
I am wearing the mackerel sweatshirt. And a Breton top, should the sweatshirt need to be removed. And socks with ANCHORS on them. ⚓️⚓️⚓️
Tomorrow I am travelling to Bath to hear Rick Stein talk at Saint Swithin’s Church.
Is it too embarrassing to wear my mackerel sweatshirt?
Is it too embarrassing to wear my mackerel sweatshirt?
October 30, 2023 at 8:41 PM
Tomorrow I am travelling to Bath to hear Rick Stein talk at Saint Swithin’s Church.
Is it too embarrassing to wear my mackerel sweatshirt?
Is it too embarrassing to wear my mackerel sweatshirt?
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Very much enjoyed talking to @sannewman.bsky.social about her new novel www.spectator.co.uk/podcast/sand...
Sandra Newman: Julia
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the novelist Sandra Newman, whose new book Julia retells George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four from Julia’s point of view. We discuss the spaces O...
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October 19, 2023 at 11:58 AM
Very much enjoyed talking to @sannewman.bsky.social about her new novel www.spectator.co.uk/podcast/sand...
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I'm planning a course on trees and literature (English-language). I have some 19C poems in mind, Clare and Hopkins and Tennyson. But fiction. . . The Overstory, yes. With Miller's essay in mind I thought of Under the Greenwood Tree. Recs for any other fiction and for contemporary poetry?
October 27, 2023 at 12:05 PM
I'm planning a course on trees and literature (English-language). I have some 19C poems in mind, Clare and Hopkins and Tennyson. But fiction. . . The Overstory, yes. With Miller's essay in mind I thought of Under the Greenwood Tree. Recs for any other fiction and for contemporary poetry?