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Rachel Malik

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Writes, reads, watches, worries. 1st novel Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves - SL for Walter Scott prize. LL for V S Pritchett Short Story. Second novel, A Fire of Stalks and Feathers, coming soon I hope https://linktr.ee/rachel.malik99

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Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · Nov 14

Some of you will know I've written a novel, Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves, based on the life of my black sheep grandmother, Rene Hargreaves and her partner Elsie Boston.

I was sent this recently by a relative of Elsie's. Elsie far right, elusive as ever, garden theatricals.

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · Nov 2

Oh, this is a great endorsement of my little debut. Nicolas is preparing a BFI Classics volume on Billy Wilder’s masterpiece The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, the film behind the book. A new edition of The Continuity Girl will be available in 2025. Meanwhile, I’m working on a sorta prequel.

Instagram story from Nicolas Pillai. Image of my novel The Continuity Girl. “Thoroughly enjoyed this charming, clever novel by @patrickkincaidauthor”

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Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 4h

Ouch

JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 5h

"He almost loved her, and would have married her had she been slightly but essentially different. He thought that she probably felt the same about him. Each was too loyal to admit that something else was desired, something less sedate." #BookSky 💙📚

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A Private View by Anita Brookner

I’ve been making my way through Anita Brookner’s exquisitely written novels slowly but steadily over the past eight years. As a long-term reading project, I’m finding it fascinating to see how Broo…

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Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 4h

They’ve given it to some pretty awful people and some who simply didn’t deserve it.

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The Broken Spine @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 4h

Something Gothic this way comes… Submissions are OPEN for The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry. We want poems of neon dread, fractured love, haunted minds.

Closing date: October 31st

#PoetrySubmissions #SubmissionWindow #TheHavishamSteps #ModernGothicPoetry

Something Gothic This Way Comes: Submit to The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry - The Broken Spine

Submissions Open Throughout October 2025 | Publication in 2026

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Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 4h

A serious weasel but too early in the day to be sure?

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Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social · 4h

Best British Short Stories 2025, edited by Nicholas Royle, reviewed by Paul Anthony Knowles and Sam Cassells

www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=13063

@saltpublishing.com

An Orange Back Ground, with Bold White Writing, giving the books title and editor.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 16h

Disinformation, now in 3D.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 19h

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Simon Thomas @stuckinabook.bsky.social · 21h

I ranked Rose Macaulay's books, because someone has to do it

Unnecessary Rankings! Rose Macaulay

Time for some more rankings! Today is a very prolific writer – Rose Macaulay – so I’ve read 12 of her books, but barely dinted the surface. I have a lot more waiting on my shelves…

www.stuckinabook.com

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Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 18h

He should definitely have won.

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 1d

It’s a sad (and chilling) day when legacy media cannot be trusted to follow even the most basic tenets of journalism.

But when one of the world’s most influential and ubiquitous news sources uses a photo from the 1992 LA uprisings to characterize events in 2025 Portland, we’re at that point

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 19h

Update: two book sales in eighteen days. "The end of the work is the possibility of connection, that the book, if it has been made well, might become 'a site of exchange', that it might have use and value to others, whether the others are many or few."

Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 1d

One book sale in seventeen days. Yikes. Help us to avoid the worst of all possible fates - the crowdfunder - by buying our scrupulously edited, meticulously designed, handsomely produced and fastidiously packaged books here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Ten Longbarrow hardbacks, stacked on a diagonal, spines facing outwards.

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Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 1d

A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, read the epic story of a decades-in-the-making diss track, support the podcast. VIVA PET!

This week: Petula Clark, 'George Orwell' (1984)

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INVENTORY: AN UNRELIABLE GUIDE TO MY RECORD COLLECTION by Andy Miller

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Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 1d

Sticky residues. Ugh

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Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 1d

💙 Barbara Comyns 💙

Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 1d

#NYRBWomen25 I finished THE JUNIPER TREE this morning, Barbara Comyns’s final novel published when she was 77yo. It’s everything I love about her writing. Here are a few rabbit holes I went down while reading this enchanting retelling.

Barbara Comyns and her daughter, Caroline, circa 1937

Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 1d

The drain is never good.

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Valarie Smith @valarie.bsky.social · 1d

I try to keep politics off here, but I really appreciated what this veteran had to say and the conviction with which he said it.

Dr Farbod @emergencybod.medsky.social · 1d

US Army veteran has a message for ICE and the military being deployed to American cities. 1/2

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Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely. Thanks for sharing x

Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 1d

I bought a second hand copy of this last year and it is astonishingly brilliant, like so much of Comyns’s writing. I have yet to read The Juniper Tree - saw your posts - have been limiting my Comyns habit because I don’t want to run out.

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 1d

This Hamlet looks shit

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Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 1d

Same. I have to do something good with it.

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Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 1d

Just booked. Gonna shape my rage

European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 2d

✨EWS DOUBLE BILLING✨

Writing From Rage: Turning Fury Into Form
with Mark Bowles
26 November 2025
6-7:30pm GMT

&

Pop-up Salon: London with Insurgent Press
26 November 2025
8-10pm GMT

Both at:
The Queens Larder, 1 Queen Square WC1N 3AR

🎟️Tickets together or separate – see below

Black text. Top half is peach background, bottom half is teal
All copy is event details repeated in post

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Jo Lloyd 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 1d

Reading between the lines, they don't have enough good stuff yet - so a good opportunity if you've got a masterpiece almost ready - reasonably generous word limit and some cracking judges (although the way this is laid out makes it look like they're awarding 1st 2nd and 3rd prizes to the judges 🙂 )

The London Magazine @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social · 9d

We have extended the deadline for our Short Story Prize by two weeks to give any last minute writers a chance to submit.

Entries close midnight on Sunday October 12th.

Further details and link to submit here: thelondonmagazine.org/short-story-...

The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2025 - The London Magazine

The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2025 is now open for submissions. We are looking for unpublished short fiction, no longer than 4000 words.

thelondonmagazine.org

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Julie Randles @julierandles.bsky.social · 2d

Sylvanian @backlisted.bsky.social in memoriam : Imogen by Jilly Cooper

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Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social · 2d

Catching up on this recent piece in the Irish Times, I see that the New Yorker's editors are reading @post45.bsky.social

"It’s hard to imagine New Yorker fiction without the contributions of the many Irish writers who have been published in the magazine, but the first notable Irish story didn’t appear until 1945, two decades after the magazine’s founding. That was Frank O’Connor’s News for the Church, which is set chiefly in a confessional in Ballygrogan, Co Cork.

A couple of years earlier, as the scholar Ben Fried has noted, one of the magazine’s fiction editors, William Maxwell, rejected a story from a Tennessee-born writer with the somewhat rueful observation: “The story belongs to a world that is essentially remote from New York City. The editors have in their minds an imaginary map of Manhattan which includes, strangely, all of Connecticut and Long Island, Florida, New Jersey, Hollywood, and wherever New Yorkers go.”

Quote from Cressida Leyshon, deputy fiction editor of the New Yorker

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 3d

There is a tree in Nashville that I'm pretty sure was pulled up into a tornado when it was a sapling, but it had strong roots and it survived. I visit it every time I'm at Centennial Park. When I first moved here, it was barely taller than me, and now it's an adult!

Catalpa Tree is TWISTED. Parthenon in the background.

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