OH MY GOODNESS!

In normal times, it would be a major scandal for the President to direct his AG to criminally investigate his political opponents to deflect from his own involvement in a major scandal — and for the AG to immediately announce she is doing it. The Epstein scandal and cover up just got even bigger.

Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books

I'm getting reports that a firm is cold calling people "offering grants for renewables and quoting that MARTIN LEWIS had encouraged people to engage with the company." The call is UTTER BOLLOCKS! This is not true. Don't trust them. Politely disengage and don't speak to them.

Book mail: November Tales of the Weird from @blpublishing.bsky.social The Haunted Library edited by @tanyakirk.bsky.social This is not a new version of the original Haunted Library book they published (see post 2), but there are some crossover stories #weird #horror #library #books 🩸📚💙

🆓Free things to do in London this weekend! 🆓 From circus workshops for kids in Brent to photo exhibitions and a 'Poetree' walk in Victoria Park. There’s loads happening across the city. 🌳🎪📸 Watch the full roundup 👇🏾

#SpotTheScammer @traceadkins55.bsky.social another blithering idiot impersonating US singer George Strait, and stupid enough to follow me. Profile opened 3hrs ago. Let's see if @support.bsky.team can break a record. www.instagram.com/traceadkins/

Finished my big horror read through, now moving through some classic hardboiled noir and a very early fantasy (1912) which is a bucket list read #devonbookhour

The Witching Hour, a collection of ghost stories featuring new spooky short stories from contemporary authors such as Bridget Collins, Stuart Turton and Kiran Millwood Hargrave looks fun. #devonbookhour

We are really pleased to announce dates for our Spring Tour in 2026. It may seem a long way off but that 'springtime' feeling is just around the corner. We hope to see as many friendly faces as possible along the road XX K+S 🎟️ Tickets and Info: www.kathrynrobertsandseanlakeman.com/tour

Look what arrived, just in time for #FolkloreThursday! Very excited to read this!

Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year. That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare. Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

youtu.be/N_MqfF0WBsU?... THE KINKS 'Waterloo Sunset'

So Hachette are reissuing tons of classic adventure & mysteries under their new Yellowbacks series Incl Max Carrados, Ethel Lina White, Poe, Sherlock Holmes, Bulldog Drummond, Edgar Wallace, Dorothy Sayers, Dr Nikola, John Silence, Bram Stoker, Fu Manchu, Charlie Chan Anyway, I've ordered some ⚡📚💙

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

A quiet #devonbookhour this evening but, as always, thanks for your friendship and company and have a great week. To those who weren't around htis evening, I'd love to hear about classics you would single out as favourites and, of course, about you book news generally

I need five folks to sign up for my Scots Song workshop at Club Passim in Cambridge MA that’s happening TOMORROW. If you’d like to learn to sing some Scots traditional ballads and folksongs, and do some listening to archive and source materials, sign up! Sign up ➡️ www.passim.org/school-of-mu...

youtu.be/lK5zYI86wIw?... LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS 'Baby Please Don't Go'

ROOTS OF MY FEARS contributor's copy has arrived! This snazzy anthology gathers stories of familial horror in grim legacies, and includes my story "Crepuscular," of desperate mothers, dangerous psychic powers, and something that watches from the sea. Out now from @titanbooks.bsky.social

Today marks 2 years since A LIGHT MOST HATEFUL said "run from that small town, girl, they're going to kill you" Normally I don't post 2-year marks for my books, but I just found out this one has earned out on its advance! 🎉🎉 so an ENORMOUS THANK YOU to everyone who's chosen to escape Chapel Hill ⚡

My celebratory book order in full (except the new Gemma Amor which arrives tomorrow). All mostly from Waterstones A mix of modern and classics; covering sci-fi, horror, gothic, historical fiction, non-fiction and noir List in alt text #bookmail #booksky 🪐📚💙 🩸📚 💡📚 ⚡️📚

Evening. Currently working through the spooky season pile. Currently reading Eleanor Scott's 'Randalls Round' horror stories from the 1920s. Extremely good it is too

The new books that I've started are ... #devonbookhour

#31daysofhalloween #spookybook #booktober Ghosts: A Natural History, Roger Clarke

Baksey Cham Krong - B. C. K. [Cambodia, Surf Rock, Khmer Oldies] (1960s), Regarded as Cambodia's first rock band. https://redd.it/g1hf2y https://youtu.be/2F_GgPjZj4Q

I just finished Stefan Zweig's wonderful 'Beware Pity.' Such a closely observed exploration of human action and values - with a plot that is very light but packed with character development. He was such a fabulous writer. Anyone else read him? #devonbookhour

Today is #InternationalMaritimeDay so here’s a song called Braw Sailin on the Sea. Found in the Greig-Duncan Folksong Collection. Joined by Graham Rorie and Jack McRobbie 🎻⚓️🌊

Danny Thompson 1939-2025 RIP youtu.be/fontGpi8yr0?...

Today is European Folk Day and yesterday was the autumnal equinox 🍁🍂 A song known across the world, Wild Mountain Thyme, a variant of the Braes o Balquhither, was adapted by Belfast musician Francis McPeake and recorded by his family in the 1950s.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Rest in Peace Harold Dennis “Dickie” Bird. Mr. Cricket.

Happy book birthday to @raforall.bsky.social WHY I LOVE HORROR, the perfect love letter for people who love spooky.

Going live with this week's #devonbookhour. We talked about Robert Galbraith's latest book last week. This week The Hallmarked Man has been topped by Dan Brown and his latest Robert Langdon thriller, The Secret of Secrets (Bantam). Anyone a Dan Brown fan? #devonbookhour

Hi! A bit of this and that, I like to explore different genres. I found you after searching if anyone else was currently reading the last Comoran Strike book. Our Australian National Broadcaster, ABC, currently has a poll for our Top 100 Books of the 21st Century. Below was my submission.

While every country needs some sort of immigration control system....this is where Farage crosses the line from "stop the boats" populism to something more sinister. They'll be many people hearing this, not as being tougher on "illegal" immigrants, but, rather as a policy to rid UK of brown people.

Amanaz - Kale [Zambia - Psych Soul, Traditional Folk] (1975) Five working class men from Lusaka involved in the anti-colonial freedom fighters movement who, in 1973, after saving some money traveled to Chingola (one of Zambia https://redd.it/17jeswt https://youtu.be/an9xutIHB5s

youtu.be/ZGT0P0XJRFM?... CROSBY STILLS AND NASH 'Suite: Judy Blue Eyes'

youtu.be/m_0WNprb8D8?... BUDDY GUY 'Stone Crazy'

youtu.be/uK_7AqH1VGQ?... FAIRPORT CONVENTION 'Matty Groves'

It was this month’s subscription stop from British Library publishing #devonbookhour

I finished The Emperor Of Lies. A grim account of the Jewish ghetto in Lodz. It is a novel but reads as NF, it draws so heavily on real accounts. I don't know why I'm still shocked by the inhumanity of the nazis but it inevitably had that effect and continues to serve as a warning #devonbookhour

This story feels like it’s going to have huge repercussions

Forgot is was back on tonight. Just swinging past and leaving this here as my top August read and prob top read of the year. Animals of farthing Wood meets Godfather meets Silence of the Lambs. Indie pub from the North of England too #devonbookhour

Autumnal lighthouse time :) #art #illustration

6 September 1933 | A Czech Jewish girl, Marie Borská, was born in Litomyšl. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 19 October 1944 and murdered in a gas chamber.

His plan for Brexit was "blue passports and fish." You'd have to be thicker than a whale sandwich rammed in a submarine door to vote for this absurd human being. Tragically, such people exist.