@maxfarrar.bsky.social
@kiaabdullah.bsky.social great hearing & meeting you in Bradford today! Great interview w Barbara Kingsolver in yesterday’s Guardian magazine, BTW. Her Congo book is The Poisonwood Bible.
July 6, 2025 at 10:20 PM
@kiaabdullah.bsky.social great hearing & meeting you in Bradford today! Great interview w Barbara Kingsolver in yesterday’s Guardian magazine, BTW. Her Congo book is The Poisonwood Bible.
I think this is called venting: I waited 7 minutes to pick up @LeedsBeckettUniversity students in its Rose Bowl carpet. The project visit went well. Then I got a parking fine from CPP who must run the car park for the university. I’d been away for a fortnight so it cost me £100. Ouch.
April 28, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I think this is called venting: I waited 7 minutes to pick up @LeedsBeckettUniversity students in its Rose Bowl carpet. The project visit went well. Then I got a parking fine from CPP who must run the car park for the university. I’d been away for a fortnight so it cost me £100. Ouch.
Rock Against Racism! The most important youth movement this country has seen. Great film & great coverage in LOP …
For more on #RAR in Leeds, including the Potternewton Park event with the Specials, see this great little film from @leedsmuseums.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR01...
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April 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Rock Against Racism! The most important youth movement this country has seen. Great film & great coverage in LOP …
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In an hour, I'm on Radio 4's Saturday Live, talking about my new book Maybe I'm Amazed - about my autistic son James, and how much music connects us - and the whole of humanity
March 29, 2025 at 8:04 AM
In an hour, I'm on Radio 4's Saturday Live, talking about my new book Maybe I'm Amazed - about my autistic son James, and how much music connects us - and the whole of humanity
Would love to see you here in Big Flame’s original city on Wednesday evening (the book will be discounted to £20!)
March 24, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Would love to see you here in Big Flame’s original city on Wednesday evening (the book will be discounted to £20!)
Lively, enlightening discussion followed our talks about our book about #BigFlame (MerlinPress2024) at the excellent #MayDayRooms archive in London. Thanks for hosting us!
March 14, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Lively, enlightening discussion followed our talks about our book about #BigFlame (MerlinPress2024) at the excellent #MayDayRooms archive in London. Thanks for hosting us!
I’m a Caryl Phillips’ superfan & his new novel has had some negative reviews: I really do think it’s well worth your time. (This photo, TBH, is misleading.) … writersmosaic.org.uk/reviews/anot...
Another Man in the Street | WritersMosaic Magazine
Another Man in the Street by Caryl Phillips (Bloomsbury, 2025) Reviewed by Max Farrar, about racism and migration in London, set in the 1960s
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February 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I’m a Caryl Phillips’ superfan & his new novel has had some negative reviews: I really do think it’s well worth your time. (This photo, TBH, is misleading.) … writersmosaic.org.uk/reviews/anot...
Superb cafe/restaurant in #VictoriaIsland #Lagos #crustandcream — aircon & coffee much needed on this hot day
February 16, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Superb cafe/restaurant in #VictoriaIsland #Lagos #crustandcream — aircon & coffee much needed on this hot day
What a treat to hear #CarylPhilips read from his brilliant new novel #AnotherManOnTheStreet & provide eloquent answers to #profJohnMcLeod ‘s stimulating questions at #TheLeedsLibrary tonight
February 12, 2025 at 2:10 AM
What a treat to hear #CarylPhilips read from his brilliant new novel #AnotherManOnTheStreet & provide eloquent answers to #profJohnMcLeod ‘s stimulating questions at #TheLeedsLibrary tonight
Just had an inspiring PM & evening event @wcmlibrary.bsky.social in #Salford, England. Their young ppl are doing amazing work of their #BigFlame archive, & Old Flames united later w new Flames (partly to promote our book abt BF pub by @merlinpress.bsky.social
February 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Just had an inspiring PM & evening event @wcmlibrary.bsky.social in #Salford, England. Their young ppl are doing amazing work of their #BigFlame archive, & Old Flames united later w new Flames (partly to promote our book abt BF pub by @merlinpress.bsky.social
It’s 50 years since I was arrested with 11 black youth during the “Bonfire Night Uprising” in Chapeltown, Leeds. I spoke about this at the excellent Black Power at the Grassroots symposium at Manchester Uni on Friday. I’ve posted my short talk here. www.maxfarrar.org.uk/writing/the-...
February 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
It’s 50 years since I was arrested with 11 black youth during the “Bonfire Night Uprising” in Chapeltown, Leeds. I spoke about this at the excellent Black Power at the Grassroots symposium at Manchester Uni on Friday. I’ve posted my short talk here. www.maxfarrar.org.uk/writing/the-...
This book about #BigFlame won’t sell itself, so I’m a (temporary) marketeer. Here’s something about a lovely meeting we did at #CaracolBooks in #Norwich — among those of 25 to 75 years of age, the flame still burns labourhub.org.uk/2025/01/20/t... Thanks, #LabourHub
The relevance of the Big Flame experience today
Max Farrar introduces some upcoming events around his new book, co-authored with Kevin McDonnell, Big Flame: Building the Movements, New Politics, published by Merlin Press. “I met Big Flame women …
labourhub.org.uk
January 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
This book about #BigFlame won’t sell itself, so I’m a (temporary) marketeer. Here’s something about a lovely meeting we did at #CaracolBooks in #Norwich — among those of 25 to 75 years of age, the flame still burns labourhub.org.uk/2025/01/20/t... Thanks, #LabourHub
So, this is Christmas, and what'd have you done, asked John & Yoko; War is Over, they hoped . . . and I posted this (about Xmas) on Substack, advertising our book at the same time, cos I'm a marketeer just like everyone else. open.substack.com/pub/maxfarra...
Christmas and sensuous materialism
And a bit of a plug for our book about Big Flame
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December 25, 2024 at 12:44 PM
So, this is Christmas, and what'd have you done, asked John & Yoko; War is Over, they hoped . . . and I posted this (about Xmas) on Substack, advertising our book at the same time, cos I'm a marketeer just like everyone else. open.substack.com/pub/maxfarra...
Whoop! Super pleased to see our #BigFlame book included in this most excellent of festive lefty reading lists compiled by the imaginative, irreverent and most excellent lefty @mark-perryman.bsky.social: labourhub.org.uk/2024/12/20/t...
Twelve Reading Days of Christmas
Mark Perryman provides his annual seasonal reading guide. OK – twelve books in twelve days in-between welcoming Santa down the chimney, preparing the nut roast for Christmas dinner, sabotagin…
labourhub.org.uk
December 23, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Whoop! Super pleased to see our #BigFlame book included in this most excellent of festive lefty reading lists compiled by the imaginative, irreverent and most excellent lefty @mark-perryman.bsky.social: labourhub.org.uk/2024/12/20/t...
If you live in the north of England & libertarian socialism is an interest of yours (I can feel attention dropping) check out this event on 6/2/25 about #BigFlame bit.ly406B9jkO
December 22, 2024 at 4:01 PM
If you live in the north of England & libertarian socialism is an interest of yours (I can feel attention dropping) check out this event on 6/2/25 about #BigFlame bit.ly406B9jkO
If you’re into books about politics & culture well to the left of centre, & you’re thinking what buy for yr friends, may I suggest my co-authored book BIG FLAME, new movements, new politics (Merlin Press) and/or SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER (Hansib Publications) ?
December 21, 2024 at 3:48 PM
If you’re into books about politics & culture well to the left of centre, & you’re thinking what buy for yr friends, may I suggest my co-authored book BIG FLAME, new movements, new politics (Merlin Press) and/or SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER (Hansib Publications) ?
Ok, with zero followers, let me start the way I mean to go on:: tonight I’m at the launch of a book about genuinely progressive political praxis in the 1970s — please ask your library to buy it!
November 22, 2024 at 2:04 PM
Ok, with zero followers, let me start the way I mean to go on:: tonight I’m at the launch of a book about genuinely progressive political praxis in the 1970s — please ask your library to buy it!