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Nige Tassell

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Paperback writer. Final Destination, Searching For Dexys Midnight Runners, Whatever Happened To The C86 Kids?, Field Of Dreams, The Bottom Corner, The Hard Yards, Boot Sale, Three Weeks Eight Seconds etc #MDANT too, apparently.

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Nige Tassell @nigetassell.bsky.social · 2h

How many different editions have there been of your books? Got to be several hundred...

Nige Tassell @nigetassell.bsky.social · 2h

I don't. But the dog will.

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Nige Tassell @nigetassell.bsky.social · 2h

Yet to be written of course, but no plans for hawks nor walks, I'm afraid.

Nige Tassell @nigetassell.bsky.social · 2h

Thank you Ian. Currently 'in talks' about the one after those two, so best make room for three... 😉

Nige Tassell @nigetassell.bsky.social · 2h

👍

Nige Tassell @nigetassell.bsky.social · 2h

And I've had two bowls of muesli to celebrate. Living the dream.

Nige Tassell @nigetassell.bsky.social · 2h

Deal just agreed for the book after the next one.

#keeponkeepingon #thatsnotthetitleofthebook

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Nige Tassell @nigetassell.bsky.social · 4h

A masterclass of oral history.

new modern books @newmodernbooks.bsky.social · 4h

PINK FLOYD SHINE ON by Mark Blake is OUT NOW!

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#pinkfloyd

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 17h

There’s lot of Covid going around at the moment, again. I don’t qualify for NHS jabs, which are now very restricted, but I just paid £90 for one at my local pharmacy. As a freelancer, that’s a lot less expensive than having to take a week or two off if I get ill, let alone risking long term issues.

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Nige Tassell @nigetassell.bsky.social · 14h

Let's just say I was. Let's say I was there every time.

Nige Tassell @nigetassell.bsky.social · 14h

Sorry to have not been in Coach B this time.

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Nige Tassell @nigetassell.bsky.social · 14h

Brilliant.

Nige Tassell @nigetassell.bsky.social · 14h

V good.

Nige Tassell @nigetassell.bsky.social · 20h

My pal Rob Williams (@robwilliams71.bsky.social) was once invited to go on German TV to make sandwiches with his feet. He declined. Further investigation revealed that the current world record-holder was also called Rob Williams.

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Nige Tassell @nigetassell.bsky.social · 20h

Clegg can do one. He's already put our kids' generation into serious debt because he didn't keep his promises and didn't have the backbone to say no to Cameron. Held the cards but folded pathetically.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Nige Tassell @nigetassell.bsky.social · 20h

Also Whitby.

Nige Tassell @nigetassell.bsky.social · 1d

Mention of Porter Wagoner requires further mention that I was the last person to interview him. True fact.

Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 1d

I think I've now heard enough Porter Wagoner spoken interludes

Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 1d

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Nige Tassell @nigetassell.bsky.social · 1d

This morning I learned that the whole coastline of the Netherlands is shorter than that of Essex.

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Nige Tassell @nigetassell.bsky.social · 1d

New arrivals from New Modern Towers. A pleasure working on both of these.

@newmodernbooks.bsky.social

Nige Tassell @nigetassell.bsky.social · 1d

I have to say... His show might be at an ungodly hour, but no interviewer does more prep than Paul Ross. Where some others base their questions on what's in the first couple of chapters, Paul clearly reads the whole book and quizzes you accordingly.

Keith Cameron @keithcameron2.bsky.social · 1d

Attention all Manics-loving insomniacs – I’ll be talking 168 Songs Of Hatred And Failure with Paul Ross on @talksport.com Extra Time later.

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Nige Tassell @nigetassell.bsky.social · 1d

What a last line.

Eamonn-Forde @eamonn-forde.bsky.social · 1d

Making Doctor Doolittle in 1967.

Nige Tassell @nigetassell.bsky.social · 1d

I remember telling you about that when I copyedited it... *looks at calendar* ...more than a year ago!

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Nige Tassell @nigetassell.bsky.social · 21d

The next book has cameos from Didion and Capote and Pynchon.

But also Paul Daniels and Roland Rat.

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Nige Tassell @nigetassell.bsky.social · 1d

Plus, it would give a boost to the imminent (and terrific) Ringo biography from Tom Doyle.

Paul Frame @paulframe85.bsky.social · 2d

Amazingly, the only Beatle to have appeared on the programme as a castaway is Paul. Ringo would be an amazing person to have on. Snap to it BBC!

Nige Tassell @nigetassell.bsky.social · 2d

I suspect it's something of a single-skin-colour neighbourhood around his Grade I-listed manor house in rural Hertfordshire.