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Tree House Bookshop

@treehousebookshop.bsky.social

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Second-hand bookshop and music venue in Kenilworth, Warwickshire run by Victoria Mier. Profits to the Kenilworth Centre, Help Musicians UK and Ellis Park Sumatra. Patron is glorious Bad Seed Warren Ellis. Posts by Victoria.

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Tree House Bookshop @treehousebookshop.bsky.social · Jul 1

Want some surprise books in the post? Need a new tea towel? Wondering what to send a bookish friend as a gift? Have a look at our lovely online shop - prices include P&P. All helps us and our cashflow hugely too! #BookSky
www.treehousebookshop.co.uk/shop

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www.treehousebookshop.co.uk

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Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social · 2d

Next up on the online event slate is something very fitting for the season - my WRITING GHOST STORIES course kicks off on the 18th November and runs over four weeks... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-gh... #onlinecourse #onlinecourses #writingcourse #writingcourses #class #classes #course #courses

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Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 6h

Are you somewhere comfy? Are you reading?

If you're not, head to a bookshop and get in a sneaky pre-Bookshop day purchase to start your weekend the right way!

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 7h

I wrote about birds. AGAIN.

This week, a life-saving sandpiper and a disdainful owl, with bonus redstart and albatross.

open.substack.com/pub/levparik...

The Year of A Hundred Birds, Week x

where x is a positive integer between 1 and 52

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 9h

A cold, cruel painting, yet so ordinary: Massacre of the Innocents by Pieter Brueghel the Younger whose day is today after his father Pieter the Great.

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Sue Wilkes @suewilkesauthor.bsky.social · 8h

#wildflower folk on here - this has popped up in the garden near the bird feeder. What is it? And is it poisonous? Thanks.

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Tree House Bookshop @treehousebookshop.bsky.social · 8h

It's amazing what gets through and what gets you into trouble on FB. 😒

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Tree House Bookshop @treehousebookshop.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, always interesting when that happens. I now expect to see it on a regular basis!

Tree House Bookshop @treehousebookshop.bsky.social · 1d

I have not heard the word lede before. #Connections is so educational.

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Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 2d

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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Tree House Bookshop @treehousebookshop.bsky.social · 4d

Haha, Black Country folk don't like being confused with Birmingham! All good though.

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Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 4d

RIP lovely Jilly Cooper, the only subject of a @backlisted.bsky.social episode to write us all thank you letters afterwards. ❤️

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d

Jilly Cooper, author of Rivals and Riders, dies aged 88

The author of 18 ‘bonkbuster’ novels including Riders, Rivals and Bella has died following a fall Jilly Cooper has died at the age of 88, her agent has confirmed. The author, whose 18 novels include Riders and Rivals, “defined culture, writing and conversation since she was first published over fifty years ago,” said her agent Felicity Blunt. “You wouldn’t expect books categorised as bonkbusters to have so emphatically stood the test of time but Jilly wrote with acuity and insight about all things - class, sex, marriage, rivalry, grief and fertility.” Continue reading...

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Tree House Bookshop @treehousebookshop.bsky.social · 5d

Well, Dudley/Black Country rather than Brum...but love this!

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Tree House Bookshop @treehousebookshop.bsky.social · 5d

Haha, I presume you've seen the video, which is fabulous!

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Tree House Bookshop @treehousebookshop.bsky.social · 5d

A much-maligned record! I love it.

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Anna Twigg @annatwigg.bsky.social · 5d

#nowplaying 🖤
'BABE I'M ON FIRE!!!'

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Tree House Bookshop @treehousebookshop.bsky.social · 5d

That's fantastic!

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pumpkin spice Toddé @toddedillard.bsky.social · 5d

daughter just told me every Friday her class has a “burial” for the pencils too small to be sharpened anymore 😭😭 one of her classroom jobs is to give the eulogy 😭😭 THERE IS A SMALL COFFIN 😭😭😭😭

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Tree House Bookshop @treehousebookshop.bsky.social · 6d

This beauty, from the Booker shortlist.

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Katherine Soutar @kateartist.bsky.social · 6d

#inktober day 4 'Murky'

I started from fog and wandered... as I sometimes do, into a place of dreams and memories x

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Tree House Bookshop @treehousebookshop.bsky.social · 6d

Crikey... (Them not you!)

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Angry Algonquin 😸 📚 🧊 🍸 @angryalgonquin.bsky.social · 6d

Absolutely. His bravery in the service of film knew no bounds. www.grunge.com/440244/buste... #BusterKeaton

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 6d

oh wow. this finally happened to me. a piece I wrote lifted wholesale by the Daily Mail, lightly rewritten and without any links back to my original piece of writing.

most amazingly, a weird use of the word 'pacing' suggests to me that they did it with ChatGPT.

archive.ph/LFmzR

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Mathew Lyons @mathewlyons.bsky.social · 6d

Some weekend reading for you!

Mathew Lyons @mathewlyons.bsky.social · 11d

New on the Writer’s Bookshelf: eight questions about writers, books, and reading with the brilliant @djbduncan.bsky.social
– featuring Alistair MacLean, Georges Perec, Charlotte Brontë, Iris Murdoch and much more!

(It also includes a surprise appearance from a would-be prime minister.)

The writer's bookshelf: Dennis Duncan

Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 6d

Out of all the hundreds of Beatrix Potter's illustrations, I think this one, from 'The Tailor Of Gloucester', is probably my favourite. It's just exquisite.
#BookWormSat #BeatrixPotter

A mouse in high 18th century women's fashion examines herself in a mirror, seated on a sumptuous sofa while another mouse is peeping through a gap in the fabric behind her.

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Tree House Bookshop @treehousebookshop.bsky.social · 6d

Not surprised - they are beautiful!