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“Connection reaches into Rodge’s work not just as a responsibility, but through his writing method as well”

@snackmag.bsky.social speaks to @rodgeglass.bsky.social about moving to Glasgow, meeting Alasdair Gray, & his latest book Joshua in the Sky: A Blood Memoir
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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:
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Glasgow, Loughborough and Heriot-Watt - the UK universities who offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms | Higher education | The Guardian share.google/pVOdWEQjhahF...

Just one highlight from the new Reaktion catalogue
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She writes fiction mostly, but Annie Proulx very much does this.

Don't forget that 41 Tory MPs in the last government took Russian donations. That might account for media reticence to report on the Nathan Gill case.

“He had no doubt that she had earmarked him for future use, in which case she had made a grave mistake. He was not so stupid as to take her on trust or to tolerate any demands she might make of him. No doubt she thought to seduce him into this.” #BookSky 💙📚

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“Every work of art must have about it something not understood to obtain its full effect.” —Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Our friends at the brilliant @littletollerbooks.bsky.social have just launched a new crowdfunding project for 'Looking for Mr Schwitters' — an innovative and finely illustrated book about the émigré artist Kurt Schwitters’ final years in the Lake District www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/look...

#BannedBooksWeek is the perfect time to add a challenged book (or two) to your shelf. We’re partnering with @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social to offer you 20% off select challenged titles from now until October 19: bookshop.org/info/banned-...

A number of Scots are now being held hostage by Israel. The Israeli regime are beyond unhinged. This is terrorism and cruelty for the fun of it and because they know that they can get away with it.

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Keir Starmer’s spokesman asked about Israel detaining British citizens who were on the Gaza aid flotilla, while in international waters, replies that it is a “matter for the Israeli Government”

‘Really shocking’: Independent Dublin bookstore damaged in arson attack

🧵Some real Jilly Cooper quotes from her Rutshire Chronicles, the series of books that Rivals is from.

1) "Her breasts swayed like party balloons when the front door opens"

RIP wonderful Jilly. 🐎❤️ I learnt about sex from reading my mum's copies. Disappointing that more men don't wear jodhpurs...

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.

This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

Picket Fire is a small literary press, but I have no idea how to use Blue Sky or how to find people on here. So if #writers #authors #readers and anyone related to the #writingcommunity or #books community could help by sharing this post, that would be excellent.

A piece I wrote last year about St Francis open.substack.com/pub/drfranci...

On my name day, here’s St Francis of Assisi in a c18th depiction from the Church of the Annunciation in Valkininkai. Wishing a blessed feastday to all Francises and Franceses

To mark the launch of his powerful, timely new book THIS AIN'T ROCK N ROLL, award-winning author @danielrachel.bsky.social has a series of events lined up including an unmissable Rough Trade East date with @billybragg.bsky.social + @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social

Mon 24 Nov: dice.fm/partner/dice...

Explore memory enhancement and how we use objects, archives and history in life writing in our new course:

Things We Think With: Evocative Objects and Social History in Life-Writing with @susannacrossman.bsky.social