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🚨 On 18 Oct @jackaldane.bsky.social will not only be hosting a live #podcast about the 100th anniversary of Kafka’s The Trial, but also speaking about the legacy of Jane Austen at 250 (see below)👇 Don’t miss either! Use code ‘BOOKCLUB’ for 20% off all tickets 🎟️ 🔗 eventbrite.co.uk/e/battle-of-...

🗓️ SAT 18 OCT 25 @jackaldane.bsky.social takes the stage at #battlefest 2025 along with @nickwallis.bsky.social, Maxie Allen of Times Radio, and @johnyorkestory.bsky.social to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Kafka's The Trial. Use code BOOKCLUB for 20% off 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/battle-of-...

🗓️ HOLD THE DATE: SAT 18 OCT 2025 @jackaldane.bsky.social and guests return to this year's #battlefest for a centennial celebration of one of the most disturbing and enduring novels of all time. Any guesses?🤔 Use the code BOOKCLUB for 20% off ALL 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/battle-of-...

🗓️ HOLD THE DATE: SAT 18 OCT 2025 @jackaldane.bsky.social and guests return to this year's #battlefest for a centennial celebration of one of the most disturbing and enduring novels of all time. Any guesses?🤔 Use the code BOOKCLUB for 20% off ALL 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/battle-of-...

Ian McGuire, author of the 2016 novel The North Water, reads from #MartinAmis's The Rub of Time, in which an essay appears on the toll age can take on the writer's 'inner ear', and what Amis belives this meant for John Updike. See 🔗 in the bio for the FULL EPISODE

Such a wonderful episode with John and Ian BTW, I finished listening this morning and immediately had to contact them. Your questions were so good.

"[Martin Amis] said: I'm no longer reading with a pencil in my hand, and I knew that that was probably the closest he'd come to complaining to me about his state of health. I think the pencil represents an idea of the future. About a week later he was dead."’ www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

🚨 Listen to the latest episode with writers John McAuliffe and Ian McGuire of The University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing. Here's John reading from #MartinAmis 's collection of essays 📚The Rub of Time📚, about watching football live. Link to full episode in bio

🚨 NEW EPISODE! John McAuliffe & Ian McGuire of meet @jackaldane.bsky.social to share memories of #MartinAmis you won’t hear anywhere else. 🍎 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m... Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/64Ui... Acast shows.acast.com/6480a754d9a8...

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! 🍎 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/6Pgm... Acast shows.acast.com/5eb2ec99ca79...

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🔊 OUT NOW! Phoebe Greenwood and @jackaldane.bsky.social meet at #hibaexpress Lebanese and Palestinian restaurant to discuss her debut novel 📚 Vulture 📚, a grim satire of the 2012 War in Gaza @europaeditions.bsky.social 🍎 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/6Pgm...

🔊 OUT NOW! Phoebe Greenwood and @jackaldane.bsky.social meet at #hibaexpress Lebanese and Palestinian restaurant to discuss her debut novel 📚 Vulture 📚, a grim satire of the 2012 War in Gaza @europaeditions.bsky.social 🍎 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/6Pgm...

🚨Listen up! Phoebe Greenwood @pagreenwood.bsky.social has something to announce... @jackaldane.bsky.social @europaeditions.bsky.social

🚨Listen up! Phoebe Greenwood @pagreenwood.bsky.social has something to announce... @jackaldane.bsky.social @europaeditions.bsky.social

🔊NEW EPISODE! Geoff Dyer and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss the auspicious power of The War Against Cliché, how Geoff would have fared against #MartinAmis on the 🎾 court, and more! Spotify🔗 open.spotify.com/episode/4qvg... Apple 🔗 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

👀 IT’S HERE! Listen for the first time or relive FICTION FIRST, wherever you get your podcasts. @judecook.bsky.social @jackaldane.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk @serpents-tail.bsky.social @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social

👀 IT’S HERE! Listen for the first time or relive FICTION FIRST, wherever you get your podcasts. @judecook.bsky.social @jackaldane.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk @serpents-tail.bsky.social @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social

🚨 OUT THIS WEEK! New episode lifted from Fiction First, our summer live show featuring six of this year’s most outstanding debut novelists. @serpents-tail.bsky.social @europaeditions.bsky.social @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk @judecook.bsky.social @hachetteuk.bsky.social

🚨 OUT THIS WEEK! New episode lifted from Fiction First, our summer live show featuring six of this year’s most outstanding debut novelists. @serpents-tail.bsky.social @europaeditions.bsky.social @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk @judecook.bsky.social @hachetteuk.bsky.social

Fabulous evening at 21 Soho for Fiction First! Thanks @jackaldane.bsky.social & @bookingclubpod.bsky.social for a nuanced exploration of the novel with 6 brilliant debut writers: Harriet Armstrong, Lisa Smith, Rowe Irvin, Thomas Peermohamed Lambert, Nicolas Padamsee & William Rayfet Hunter👏

Still a few tickets left for this tomorrow night at 21 Soho 7pm. Do come along to hear six brilliant debut novelists talk about their books and paths to publication. Not to be missed! @jackaldane.bsky.social Tickets 👉 www.tickettext.co.uk/cHPHYTmiv5

🚨 NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Screenwriter and novelist @nivenj1.bsky.social meets @jackaldane.bsky.social at #ScottsMayfair to discuss📚 The Fathers 📚, his heart-rending eleventh novel where two worlds collide in Glasgow. 🔗 shows.acast.com/5eb2ec99ca79...

🚨 NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Screenwriter and novelist @nivenj1.bsky.social meets @jackaldane.bsky.social at #ScottsMayfair to discuss📚 The Fathers 📚, his heart-rending eleventh novel where two worlds collide in Glasgow. 🔗 shows.acast.com/5eb2ec99ca79...

🔊We've just wrapped Ep.80 of The Booking Club with the brilliant @nivenj1.bsky.social who chose to meet at Scott's in Mayfair to speak to @jackaldane.bsky.social about his new novel The Fathers. @canongate.co.uk @emmafinniganpr.bsky.social Listen out for this new episode, coming soon in July ☀️

Looking forward to speaking about England Is Mine and the status of the modern novel as part of the Fiction First panel event at 21 Soho on 16 July hosted by @judecook.bsky.social and @bookingclubpod.bsky.social ✨ Tickets available here: tickettext.co.uk/cHPHYTmiv5

🔊We've just wrapped Ep.80 of The Booking Club with the brilliant @nivenj1.bsky.social who chose to meet at Scott's in Mayfair to speak to @jackaldane.bsky.social about his new novel The Fathers. @canongate.co.uk @emmafinniganpr.bsky.social Listen out for this new episode, coming soon in July ☀️

What a line up! Come along to 21Soho next Wed July 16th 7pm for FICTION FIRST: a live recording of @bookingclubpod.bsky.social with 6 brilliant debut novelists. Nicolas Padamsee, William Rayfet Hunter, Rowe Irvin, Harriet Armstrong, Thomas Lambert & Lisa Smith. www.tickettext.co.uk/cHPHYTmiv5

Fiction First is delighted to announce that Nicolas Padamsee, author of England is Mine, will be speaking on 16 July at 21Soho @serpents-tail.bsky.social @judecook.bsky.social @europaeditions.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk 🎟️🔗 in replies

Author of Shibboleth, Thomas Peermohamed Lambert, is one of the debut novelists due to appear at Fiction First at 21Soho on Weds 16 July. Don't miss it! 🎟️ 🔗 in replies! @judecook.bsky.social @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social @europaeditions.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk @serpents-tail.bsky.social

Author of Sunstruck, William Rayfet Hunter, is one of the debut novelists due to appear at Fiction First at 21Soho on Weds 16 July. Don't miss it! 🎟️ 🔗 in replies! @judecook.bsky.social @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social @serpents-tail.bsky.social @europaeditions.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk

Author of Life Cycle of a Moth, Rowe Irvin, is one of the debut novelists due to appear at Fiction First at 21Soho on Weds 16 July. Don't miss this superb literary experience! 🎟️ 🔗 in replies! @judecook.bsky.social @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social @europaeditions.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk

Author of Life Cycle of a Moth, Rowe Irvin, is one of the debut novelists due to appear at Fiction First at 21Soho on Weds 16 July. Don't miss this superb literary experience! 🎟️ 🔗 in replies! @judecook.bsky.social @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social @europaeditions.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk

Fiction First is delighted to announce that Nicolas Padamsee, author of England is Mine, will be speaking on 16 July at 21Soho @serpents-tail.bsky.social @judecook.bsky.social @europaeditions.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk 🎟️🔗 in replies

Had a ball and a hell of a time talking to @jackaldane.bsky.social of the @bookingclubpod.bsky.social about Lost Boys and the manosphere www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttNi...

Lisa Smith, author of Jamaica Road, is one the debut novelists due to appear at Fiction First at 21Soho on Weds 16 July 🎟️ 🔗 in replies! @judecook.bsky.social @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social @europaeditions.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk

🚨NEXT UP on The Booking Club, novelist and screenwriter @nivenj1.bsky.social joins @jackaldane.bsky.social at his favourite restaurant to discuss his new work of fiction 📚The Fathers 📚

🚨NEXT UP on The Booking Club, novelist and screenwriter @nivenj1.bsky.social joins @jackaldane.bsky.social at his favourite restaurant to discuss his new work of fiction 📚The Fathers 📚

This promises to be a wonderful evening!

Looking forward to having Harriet Armstrong, author of To Rest Our Minds and Bodies, at Fiction First on Weds 16 July at 21 Soho. Readers of the novel cannot miss this! @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social @judecook.bsky.social Book your tickets via 🔗 in replies!

Come along to Fiction First, The Booking Club podcast's first live show on 16th July🎟️ You'll hear from lots of fantastic debut authors including Nicolas Padamsee, author of #EnglandIsMine, out now in paperback 📚 tickettext.co.uk/cHPHYTmiv5 @npadamsee.bsky.social @bookingclubpod.bsky.social

📚Nicolas Padamsee, @profilebooks.bsky.social 📚Thomas Peermohamed Lambert, @europaeditions.bsky.social 📚Lisa Smith, @johnmurrays.bsky.social 📚Harriet Armstrong, @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social 📚 @willhunterr.bsky.social, @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social 📚 Rowe Irvin, @canongate.co.uk

🔊 On WED 16 JULY, @jackaldane.bsky.social will be hosting a live show for The Booking Club - FICTION FIRST - featuring six celebrated debut novelists. Join us at 21 Soho for the best literary evening event of the season. @judecook.bsky.social TICKETS 🎟️ AND LINE-UP IN COMMENTS!

Delighted to announce that @bookingclubpod.bsky.social will be hosting FICTION FIRST on Wednesday 16th July - a fresh look at the novel featuring six standout debut authors. See line-up in comments! TICKETS ON SALE NOW: tickettext.co.uk/cHPHYTmiv5

From our latest episode with @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social on his new book Lost Boys, #adolescence and his personal journey through the #manopsphere. If you tuned into last night’s #bbcqt, time to hit play.

🚨 NEW EPISODE: LOST BOYS, with @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social is OUT NOW! Listen to James and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss the 30-year gestation of a movement, and the men it has embittered and enriched. 🔗 shows.acast.com/5eb2ec99ca79... 🔗 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Happy days to all the fathers #fathersday @nivenj1.bsky.social

☀️☀️☀️COMING THIS SUMMER!☀️☀️☀️ Journalist, novelist and essayist Ross Barkan joins @jackaldane.bsky.social in London to re-open📚 Inside Story📚 and discuss his own work as a 30-something novelist, journalist and New Yorker. Catch them later...🍸🍸