There's this: www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n... Although a 'gourmet crisps firm' is unlikely to recognise R S Thomas.

Anyway the World Cup final between these two…. Quite a thing.

www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/... www.waterstones.com/book/the-fat...

This book has all the hallmarks of Peaky Blinders, with a rich cast of characters, a gritty setting and a vast canvas of history on which to paint its bloody marks. www.thebookseller.com/rights/harpe...

Huge congratulations to Professor Sir Tony Redmond KCMG OBE, who has been made Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG). So honoured and proud to have published his memoir FRONTLINE: Saving Lives in War, Disaster and Disease. www.linkedin.com/posts/uk-med...

"The ultimate choir is a football terrace, because it's a lot of people who can't really sing, singing together and in harmony. "That's quite a beautiful thing." @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social, author of LIVE FOREVER on Oasis www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I ciudad stayed up late to watch the Mexico game

Trying to recreate conditions by repeatedly holding my breath.

BATCAM!

How about Minister for Pub Quiz Questions? www.thetimes.com/article/a515...

Storm protocols activated at the Azteca. Lightning strikes and bucketing rain. Play would be suspended if it kicked off now. Luckily it doesn’t. 3 hours to go.

Hydration break #ParFra

Hydration break #ParFra

4th of July in one image from @orr_photo for @reuters…the modern KKK in Washington DC and a lone Black Woman saying it all with one look.

What an extraordinary set of images www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

How can we resist the far right in Britain? @nicklowles.bsky.social has thoughts:

This evening.

Hydration break #EngDRC

this is very nicely done

The case for Ed Miliband as Chancellor.

If you think the coming week is hot You ain't seen nuthin' yet We are rewinding the climate clock back millions of years Our world is in the throes of rapid prehistorification and it is not going to end well

🌊HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY🌊 A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE COAST IN 100 OBJECTS by bestselling author Sally Coulthard is out now. ‘A compelling and brilliant compendium’ Philip Hoare ’A delight of a book to dip into, although once you start you won’t be able to stop’ Country Life

Disgraced footballer and agent try to explain away match fixing scandal #Makerfield

Reaping what you sew news

Don't want to brag, but I've just published a bestseller in molluscs

A beautiful window for Matt Sewell's A LITTLE BIRD TOLD ME in the window of Booka bookshop in Bridgnorth. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-li...

'“Summer temperatures could certainly be impacted, possibly this year, but more likely next, as the planet heats up,” says @profbillmcguire.bsky.social, author of The Fate of the World. “I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see 40C-plus heat.”' www.independent.co.uk/life-style/s...

Marvellous to see everyone at the Fate of the World launch party at the Gower Street @waterstones.bsky.social in London last night. And hugely inspiring to have so many like-minded - and right-minded - people gathered together in one place @harpernorth.bsky.social

I'll be at Booka Bookshop in Oswestry on 18/6 as part of #independentbookshopweek I've never been there before and it's a 3hr round trip from my house, so do come along and hang out. #booksky

Do you want to read a writer? Someone who can really write? This guy can write. Buy his book. It’s about birds, but it’s about so much more.

⭐️My book Sunday Best is only 99p on Kindle at the moment. You can't even get, er, a 99 ice cream for that. 🔗 shorturl.at/nGdFm

'This is a book that is both instructive to the general reader and corrective to those who would use junk science in an attempt to deny climate change.' @theobserveruk.bsky.social on THE FATE OF THE WORLD by Prof Bill McGuire www.amazon.co.uk/Fate-World-h... observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Thursday writing inspiration

Infinite Jeffs is an actual physical book you can buy in which “every one of the ~550,000 words in Infinite Jest [is replaced] with ‘Jeff’ while preserving punctuation, line breaks, etc.” [amazon.com]

“Summer temperatures could certainly be impacted, possibly this year, but more likely next,” says Bill McGuire, author of the new book The Fate of the World: A History and Future of the Climate Crisis. “I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see 40C-plus heat.” www.independent.co.uk/life-style/s...

Those in South Wales can catch Ben Giles at @waterstones.bsky.social Swansea on Wednesday next week. It'll be unforgettable. www.waterstones.com/events/the-s...

How to get rid of stains at home, by a crime scene cleaner www.thetimes.com/article/7955...

Bob Dylan played the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, on this day 1966 prompting a shout of ‘Judas’ from the audience for playing an electric set. Dylan replied: ‘I don’t believe you, you’re a liar!’ Photo by Mark Makin.

Fair play to Villa for their Benjamin Zephaniah tifo, it’s really fucking good.

It's publication day for my memoirs! It’s in the shops and if you want signed copies mail order from here… membranes.bandcamp.com/merch/john-r...

All the "is Miliband popular/competent/acceptable after losing 11 years ago" is missing the most crucial point: that the most dramatically satisfying ending is that the guy who lost the election after which everything went wrong comes back and fixes it all. Ask Chekov. Ask Aristotle

It's been drawn to my attention that somebody has been impersonating me to approach authors, writing from [email protected] That email address is not mine, and you should ignore anything sent from a domain name other than @harpercollins.co.uk Do please notify me if you receive anything.

A lovely piece about the Women’s Timber Corps or Lumberjills — who were part of the Women’s Land Army — in today's Sun from @tessadunlop.bsky.social's brilliant LEST WE FORGET, out not in paperback. www.amazon.co.uk/Lest-We-Forg... www.thesun.co.uk/news/3904278...

You have to read this book to believe it, coming 21 May Pre-order it here: www.amazon.co.uk/Specialist-c...