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New novel: The End of Everything Serpent's Tail, June, 2026. Blog: https://ambientehotel.wordpress.com/about

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m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · Nov 29

Landscapes are written about, but there will be no landscape writing. Ghosts appear, but not in the ghost stories. Animals feature heavily, but there is nothing here that might be described as “animal fiction”.

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 1h

Weather by Raymond Briggs, vibes by Samuel Beckett, soundtrack by a small child outside, wailing like an ambulance

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 8h

It's a dream I always have.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 2d

‘If you set aside the “raunchy” cover pictures and the publicists’ emphasis on wall-to-wall sex, you do find something worth reading and worth thinking about, which is pleasure, that most ticklish of subjects.’

Ian Patterson on Jilly Cooper, from 2017: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

Ian Patterson · Miss Dior, Prodigally Applied: Jilly Cooper

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Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social · 2d

Off to Hastings in December to inspire & support other writers. Promise to smile & laugh more than the photo suggests! Please spread the word, literally & metaphorically!
@hastingswrites.bsky.social

Mining For Material — Hastings Writers Workshop

A writers workshop focusing on finding material for writing

www.hastingswritersworkshop.com

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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 2d

ruins and roots irl

Ruined stone barn with ivy taking root near Birtley, Hexham

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m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · 4d

A weekend full of the good stuff. Looking forward to my chat with Sam Leith & Leon Craig. events.bl.uk/events/tales...

Tales of the Weird: An Autumnal Festival | British Library

Tales of the Weird: An Autumnal Festival is back for a full weekend at the British Library. Inspired by the Library’s cult Tales of the Weird series of got

events.bl.uk

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m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · 4d

Some fine company to be in. I love Claire Keegan. Thanks!

m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · 5d

you used to be able to wildly burn the old you at midnight, now you have to sort the fragments so they can be cast into the correct bin at the municipal dump, somehow it's not the same vibe

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Guillermo Stitch @guillermostitch.bsky.social · 5d

When a shortlist includes @cdrose.bsky.social and @benpester.bsky.social someone knows what they’re doing.

m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · 5d

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Sarah Hall and Charlie Porter among writers on ‘genre-defying’ Goldsmiths prize shortlist

The £10,000 award, whose judges include Mark Haddon and Megan Nolan, recognises ‘mould-breaking’ fiction

www.theguardian.com

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m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · 5d

spectacular!

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 6d

A joy of a sight for #ThrowbackThursday - A ghost gable 👻 - caught like a fly in amber at Wirksworth in Derbyshire

Weathered medieval timber frame set into a patchwork wall of brick and stone at Wirksworth, Derbyshire, showing ghostly remnants of a lost building frontage.

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m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · 5d

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Sarah Hall and Charlie Porter among writers on ‘genre-defying’ Goldsmiths prize shortlist

The £10,000 award, whose judges include Mark Haddon and Megan Nolan, recognises ‘mould-breaking’ fiction

www.theguardian.com

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Benjamin Myers @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social · 5d

I'm sick of sitting 'round here trying to write this book.

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m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · 6d

Why do I keep all these clothes I don't wear. (No need to answer that. It's a commentary rather than a question, like I'm standing in front of the clothes rail shaking my head at my own weirdness & you haven't anything you can add so you shake your head too & go downstairs & make a cup of tea.)

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m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · 6d

In the old days I could have had a three day bonfire going in the back garden to get rid of a lot of this stuff. Then I would have felt like Audsley King staring into the flames etc (niche).

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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 6d

on.ft.com/42X20zf Adapt or die: the architects pioneering a new wave of building reuse

Adapt or die: the architects pioneering a new wave of building reuse

Thanks to innovators and smart policy initiatives, demolition is becoming more unfashionable. But is the tide changing fast enough?

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 6d

Abandoned boats at Salen, Isle of Mull

Three derelict boats leaning against each other

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m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · 6d

It's one of the lethal ones with 11mil & 9mil slots, encouraging the 9 to fail when you tried to brake with it.

m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · 6d

Check. Took the spring off in about 1978.

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m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · 6d

Such nostalgia.

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m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · 6d

Have now got rid of 4 maybe 5 shelves of books, mainly review copies 1990 to 2012. Now starting on yellowed magazines, mss, obsolete cables & plugs, dusty souvenirs & etc. I bet I keep the climbing gear, flagship of which is a 9 mil rope last used for anything at all in the 1980s.

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m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · 6d

Getting in well with Caroline Faser's Murderland.

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 6d

TV VOICEOVER, SCREEN SHOWING MISTY FERN FOREST: "The pre-Anthropocene, when paleontologists roamed the Earth."

James Lamsdell, PhD @fossildetective.bsky.social · 7d

Actual highlight of yesterday was having a woman in the botanical gardens overhear us talking about work and say "Oh, I didn't think paleontologists existed anymore".

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