“Raymond Briggs's forgotten classic is just as charming as The Snowman” Thank you to @telegraphnews.bsky.social for this wonderful review of our new book - The Strange House by Raymond Briggs, introduced by @chrisriddell.bsky.social 💙📚 #booksky manderleypress.com/shop/p/strangehouse

Not long til #GhostsoftheFarm is launched, in convo with Sarah Langford! Tix here, I'd love to see people. Can't wait to bring these pioneering, forgotten farming women into the light. 1940s, 80s cowgirls, the sound of the northern lights, barn owls, horses & more! It's CINEMATIC IN SCOPE! #booksky

I'll be talking at Beyond The Band, an all-access pass to the music industry for 16-25 year olds event in Manchester Oct 2nd at the Co-op Live Arena louderthanwar.com/beyond-the-b... via @louderthanwar

A little video about painting birds on beer mats .

We are pleased to announce the next in our Mini Guide series, Erno Goldfinger, covering the architect's work from 1936-76, exploring his buildings from his own house in Hampstead, to his last projects, the estates with their prominent tower blocks www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/erno-goldfin...

Loved this from @shardcore.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaDa...

Proofs are in. Design by Paul Kelly. ‘Teenage Daydream’ by @debseyonbass.bsky.social is out 25th September “A humorous memoir from the godmothers of indie pop ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️” @mojomagazine.bsky.social RT: tinyurl.com/3cf7y4r2 M: tinyurl.com/78z94zrr HMV: tinyurl.com/yz77z22f R: tinyurl.com/p5wmy5wr

London! Tonight! A Passion for Passion is at Soho Theatre. It's a show about writing a book about romance. If you love romance novels or if you have no idea how anyone could, this is the show for you. 6 - 9 August | 8:45 pm 🎟️ https://sohotheatre.com/events/alice-fraser-a-passion-for-passion/

we are forsaken

Congrats @rinathepublicist.bsky.social and @tigerteamcreative.bsky.social - i am sure a bright future awaits!

Mix some Moss roses with it and you will soon have a rose-hedge so thick and romantic that all the nightingales of the neighbouring woods will come to press their breasts in song against the thorns. #garden #gardening heirloomroses.com/collections/...

This hybrid became the parent of the whole race of Bourbon roses which in turn have given rise to the modern roses we call Hybrid Perpetuals and Hybrid Teas. #gardening historicroses.org/bourbons/

actual finished copies!!! coming from @versobooks.bsky.social on 23 september

i dno, maybe time to let it go

'A delight from start to finish, casting new light on the customs, writing, art and songs that have told the story of these isles for centuries.' Prospect The Lost Folk by Lally MacBeth is out now.

Hey there! My new non-fiction book When Worlds Collide – How Video Games Reinvent Storytelling will be published by Canbury Press on September 25th 2025. Canbury are offering a 10% discount to anyone who orders the book directly - lnkd.in/e3pyXfPU

"At the dawn of UK synth-pop‘s imminent explosion, a little-known electronic quartet called Silicon Teens dropped an audacious cover of Chuck Berry’s ‘Memphis Tennessee’." Read in full: faroutmagazine.co.uk/silicon-teen...

When you reach an age where you no longer understand the spam you are sent...

Lally MacBeth, author of The Lost Folk, interviewed about her new book about the past, present and future of the UK's folk culture on Front Row yesterday. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002db9r

I was very sorry to hear of the death of Douglas McCarthy of Nitzer Ebb. I interviewed him for tQ 15 years ago: thequietus.com/interviews/a...

Happening tomorrow! Get your ticket here: irishculturalcentre.co.uk/event/the-of...

A Brief History of Movies Today Are Too Sexy 🧵

As the #Ukraine #war grinds on (with no #ceasefire in sight), step back to 1990s #Moscow, to #arms reductions and more freedoms — yet also an era that paved the way for #Putin #Soviet collapse, jungle #capitalism, covert #gay love — all in 'Last Dance' in the #Russia section @dauntbooks.bsky.social

Arsenal to play all their WSL fixtures at the Emirates Stadium next season

New Summer Reading @backlisted.bsky.social! Books by Kaliane Bradley, Hervé Le Tellier, Ted Hughes and Alexander Baron, with Una McCormack, Nicky Birch and me. @unamccormack.bsky.social @birchos.bsky.social www.backlisted.fm/episodes/241...

"Even then, that familiar murmur, the buzz that travelled with him everywhere, had risen in pitch and volume and become audible. The echo of a whisper he’d first heard when he was five, he said, and had been echoing in his ears ever since." An extract from Faiqa Mansab's The Sufi Storyteller:

Little known fact: Gerald from Clarkson's Farm went out with Grace Jones when he was younger.

What if Taste the Difference referred to the product being worse

AI being constantly wrong is old hat now but this bit of crap Google just threw up made me laugh for being so completely at odds with reality.

Amazing tunes from @jamesendeacott.bsky.social on Soho Radio this morning sohoradiolondon.com/profile/morn...

I've become slightly obsessed with this video of the Swedish Björndans (that's bear dance, I believe). Everything about it. Before, during and after. The sheer seriousness of the business being executed. The sonorous music. Just magnificent.

INTRODUCING : THE NIGHTINGALES PILLBOX The awful truth is... A quarter of UK adults take several prescribed medicines every week but now with the Nightingales’ new stylish pill box - tablets can be arranged and dispensed with great panache Order today nightingales.bigcartel.com/product/pill...

Great interview with Mal and Chris Watson from Cabaret Voltaire in The Guardian today talking about their first ever gig and reuniting for shows this year…. 🖤 www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

Look what's just arrived. Proofs of: BEAST by @luluallison.bsky.social Publishing 31.7.25. Don't they look grand. @thebookseller.com @booksaremybag.bsky.social @bookcornerhx.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social @theguardian.com

#nowplaying c/o @rockville-records.bsky.social. 🙏

Bit more work done after hours last night on this self portrait.

Pop stars doing their bit.

Morning all! I've just published a new post on the blog for you: 4 Scone Recipes. This is the recipe I used throughout my market stall and restaurant days, so it's definitely tried-and-tested! britishfoodhistory.com/2025/05/21/f...

Did you know about the @voidmerchstore.bsky.social Writers Are Metal As Fuck shirt collection? Some of your favorite DEAD writers imagined as hand-drawn metal logos! Check em out! https://voidmerch.threadless.com/collections/writers-are-metal-af/ Tell all your friends, enemies and whathaveyous

I was unable to work between December & April due to a breakdown. Every single RT here helps put my creative & mental health workshops in front of more eyes & helps me get back on my feet financially. It would help *so* much if you could RT my workshop below if you have a few seconds. Thankyou 🌿

Now for something completely different … tickets are free, but places limited … www.eventbrite.com/e/a-night-of...

And it wasn’t just the Crick… we had huge institutional expertise in the UK as the pandemic washed up on our shores, and it was all buried. Buried beneath no plan, and then a plan that would involve companies with no track record pocketing our past taxes and future taxes.

This rather adorable little book on trolls by @profcarolyne.bsky.social has just arrived! Lots of lovely bits of artwork and lore, newly produced by @blpublishing.bsky.social 💙📚🪐 #NewBooks

6 new small Brushpen and watercolour paintings on paper on my shop. Heavy on the dolmen. petefowlershop.com Here's a selection.

I've been in touch with Bernard Szajner (Zed), who has confirmed that this beautiful poster was designed by Moebius (yes, THE Moebius) for Bernard's company Laser Graphics in 1977, around the time they were doing light shows at the Planetarium at the Palais De La Découverte in Paris.

Need to curse someone? Write their name on an onion, stab it with pins, and place it in your chimney. This one was aimed at John Milton, a cobbler. #MythologyMonday For more food curses see my book A Feast of Folklore here: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-fe...

Thinking about this cover and this first strip and what a thing to put in the hands of a young teen or pre-teen. “Where did she go? OUT What did she do? EVERYTHING” Now, off you go.

We both really like Europe.

Been rereading Derek Jarman's Dancing Ledge this weekend. I miss his brilliant thinking and his brilliant writing.