Which local councillors have picked up the Nod and Wink award, the Hand in the Till prize, or been named Shit of the Year? Find out in the Rotten Boroughs Awards 2025, in the new Eye, out now. ➡️ www.private-eye.co.uk/rotten-borou...

Have I read this correctly???

I would like to go to every one of these concerts

Happy New Year golden rays here

Meanwhile I saw this big fat moon #astronomy

to think we used to wake up a few years ago and wonder what is tweeting now? #Trump

Very impressive

Great work Before Xmas I found myself shouting at my phone because Gemini was intruding- Managed to disable it. After Xmas google assistant was intruding- Managed to disable that #AI #Google Horrible, annoying tools

I spoke with @luketurner.bsky.social about my exhibition INCOGNITO @humberstgallery.bsky.social absolutelycultured.com. @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

Surfacing after an amazing time in Hull. Huge thanks to everyone who came to the launch of INCOGNITO & the brilliant team @humberstgallery.bsky.social & www.absolutelycultured.co.uk. Gallery opening times Wed 10:30-Thurs 12-7 / Fri–Sun 10:30-5pm. Check out the wonderful unthinkablefilmfestival.com

Really looking forward to this tonight.

Great news

Delighted to be shortlisted for the Scott Moncrieff prize, together with Karen Fleetwood for our translation of Gaëlle Bélem’s There’s a Monster Behind the Door, pub. by @bullaunpress.bsky.social. Congratulations to all those shortlisted for the @societyofauthors.bsky.social translation prizes!

My little book is dedicated to my friends, and its eclectic tour takes off with two of them at the Heaney HomePlace, where the great Iarla Ó Lionáird will sing and talk with the great Neil Hegarty and myself about Heaney, Derry, and the music of what happens. Tickets are on sale Wednesday morning.

Xmas pudding made Phew Only 6 hours of cooking ahead #cooking #Christmas #labouroflove

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

englishpen.org/posts/news/tom-paulin-wins-pen-heaney-prize-2025/ good news to go with this golden autumn morning #poetry @faberbooks.bsky.social

The cover for this week’s issue is “White House of Gold,” by Kenton Nelson. See what’s inside: www.newyorker.com/magazine

This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started

just to say I am doing little this week except make #Christmaspudding

oh sad - education for me at watfordpalacetheatre.co.uk/Watford where I saw 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead' may he rest in peace in all his glories

There is seriously something wrong with this man. Also, he is devoid of any joy. He is bitter and rotten to the core. This post proves it. Basically a shit for brains.

Many thanks to all the booksellers at Waterstones Deansgate Manchester for supporting Indy publishers. There are two shelves of Bluemoose writers which is just brilliant .

Who would have thought it? Hatred on X makes people more politically polarised. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This was the year I returned to Sweden So good news here

Love Louise Erdrich

observer.co.uk/style/featur... Utterly beautiful tribute.

completely agree And never understood why it's sung in England??

So glad @irishbookawards.bsky.social agree with me 'The Benefactors' @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social is colourful, rollicking journey- such memorable characters Congratulations Wendy - what a ride- really enjoyed it

I learnt a lot about this ever expanding area from participating in a focus group

delighted to hear about the fruits of your research

yes - it is odd at lack of media interest i keep getting updates from the library and they don't seem to have fully recovered from cyber attack

Enormously proud to be the new UK home of Beryl Bainbridge. In March 2026, we kick things off in earnest by publishing AN AWFULLY BIG ADVENTURE, with an intro by Yiyun Li, and THE BOTTLE FACTORY OUTING, with an intro by A. K. Blakemore. Ruthlessly smart, darkly comic, her novels are sharp-edged gems

In case you missed it, French Cooking for Two: Seasons of Frienship by Michèle Roberts will be out next month! For charming, witty anecdotes and recipes to share with a loved one along the year, you can preorder here www.lesfugitives.com/cookbooks/fr...

2 lovely people here

terrific that Michele Roberts is back with this gorgeous array of recipes from enterprising @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social

If you missed the limited print edition of The Minute Review's special issue on the Small Publishers Fair, here's a free download: drive.google.com/file/d/1lfb7... Previous issues are also available here: derekbeaulieu.ca/pdfs/ Here's a screenshot of my piece on the 2024 Fair.

Book mail! Very grateful to my lovely editor at @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social for this, it's quoted extensively in Laure Murat's Proust: A Family Affair, which I recently finished translating.

I can barely believe this She was a great journalist Beloved in our house for all her work Especially latterly, on food and cooking Very sad news.

Just discovered Olan Monk so glad

Agree, Nicholas. Wonderful novel with quiet penetrating humour

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

love this series a relief to have focus on one book and its origins poking behind the scenes is great

v moving to see the ballet on BBC 4 last night reminder of what the BBC does so well rbo.org.uk observer.co.uk/news/national/article/i-envy-people-who-can-walk-writer-kureishi-mourns-loss-of-movement-through-ballet #ballet

So excited 2 c this on menu frenchhousesoho.com achilloysters.com #fish #seafood #shellfish

Even Holloway Road tube station looks good in Autumn sun #Autumn #Londontube

Thank you Special Archives for taking on some journals produced in Kerry londonmet.ac.uk

Good to see you keep @chalk-magazine.bsky.social

and you keep contemporary journals

Paul Evans, British (1950- ), The Golden Moon, ink and acrylic on canvas, 61 x 57 cm, private collection