'Outside Charing Cross Station, July 1916: Casualties from the Battle of the Somme Arriving in London' (1918) by John Hodgson Lobley (Imperial War Museums)

We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025! "Each of these books arrives in English in expert and accessible translations that honour the art and voice of their original authors." tinyurl.com/f9sccz4v

Finished THE BOAT IN THE EVENING, and it's great! A book that makes you slow down and savour its sights, scents, and silences. More elusive and fragmentary than THE ICE PALACE and THE BIRDS, but infused with the same hypnotic, otherworldly feel. Thank you @andrewmale.bsky.social for recommending it.

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The Faber Sales department is looking to recruit a Key Account Manager to oversee established trading relationships with high street retailers, supermarkets, and non-traditional bookselling accounts. Apply by 16 November. faber.co.uk/careers/key-account-manager-maternity-cover/

We’re looking for a Senior Designer to lead the visual direction of our publishing house – from book covers and interiors to branding and marketing. If you’re passionate about design and storytelling, we’d love to hear from you. Applications close 2 February 2026.

Something to perk up your Saturday: 15 minutes of Federico Chiesa being charming as hell. 😄 #LFC youtu.be/tYS__4di0ms?...

It's been a very quiet week. As a small business owner that’s a bit scary heading into my busy season. So, if you're looking for unique #Christmas gifts, I make prints, homewares, cards & accessories inspired by midcentury design, music & architecture. Have a nosy here gailmyerscough.co.uk

Who needs Netflix and Prime? The BBC offers a terrific collection of free movies. Here's our updated list of the best films on iPlayer. filmstories.co.uk/features/the...

‘Burning Down the House’: Riveting book explores systemic and historical trauma www.peoplesworld.org/article/burn...

The government when explaining public finances: Well, we had to cope with a global pandemic and are still feeling the effects. The government when discussing workplace sickness: Pandemic? No mate, don't remember that.

“What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.” —Mike Davis

Beating Real Madrid in the Champions League

There will be a player of the match because such things must be, but really it was all of them. Great team performance. Backed each other to the end. Every time RM tried something they had three or four of us to deal with, it was beautiful to see.

Dunno what everyone was going on about, that was easy 😂 #canweplayyoueveryweek #laligamustbecrap

Didn't expect this to be the way my evening ended when I woke up this morning but I'll take it!

Took myself out of #Whamageddon already today thanks to MTV having a dedicated Christmas channel, which seems a good time to remind you that all the proceeds from Last Christmas go to charity and it's a banger so listen to it all you want. Winter is miserable enough, why deny yourself?

"The only good system is a sound system" Seen in Kadıköy, Istanbul.

We are 5! 🎈 THANK YOU for being part of the mission. At a time when Amazon profits are soaring, and small businesses face ever increasing pressure, WHERE you choose to spend your money makes all the difference in keeping these community spaces on the high street. Bookshop.org

News from the doorstep is Maltesers going super-fast, been left with loads of Milky Ways. To the one kid trying to get three in his hand at once, til his big sister gave him A Look and said 'One!' - my sympathies, kiddo.

If you have a writer in your life and you'd like them to know that you care about their ambitions, may I suggest ordering a copy of my collaborative craft anthology, An Honour And A Privilege, as a Christmas present? (trust me, you'll get the MOST brownie points)

Happy Halloween! A thread on the books that have haunted me , which books will stay with you forever? #booksky #halloween #foreverbooks Wuthering Heights Great Expectations To Kill a Mockingbird Tess of the D’Urbevilles 1OO Years of Solitude House of the Spirits The Bone People Perfume /…

Big accounts On Here that get loads of traction and shared thousands of times but don't use ALT text in their images. Why? It's such an easy thing to do that makes social media more usable for more people. Takes no time at all. Truly cool, suave and debonair people use alt text every time!

“the most damning assumption is that the country is so stupid, so sycophantic and so passive that it won’t mind that Andrew has received no real punishment since Giuffre’s memoir appeared... (1/2)

Supporting India in the women's cricket today, just to give the ghost of Norman Tebbit a few extra shivers.

Been called 'Queen' already today. Feel about 12 feet tall 👑

🤣 sorry meant to share the link: open.substack.com/pub/tomkinst... #LFC

Got multiple group chats FREAKING OUT over tonight's line up so I'm trying to be all chill about it meanwhile....

If Crystal Palace beat Liverpool (in 90 mins) this evening, one lucky person to repost this will win the super sexy TUFAC antifascist tea towel set. #LIVCRY tufac.bigcartel.com/product/tufa...

It must be spooky season because England are doooooooooomed! #CWC25 #ENGWvSAW

When your team has taken an absolute thrashing, you have to respect the player who caused it. Hats off to South Africa women's captain Laura Wolvaardt who bludgeoned England's bowlers for 169 runs off 143 balls in the World Cup semi final. As good as you'll ever see in any cricket #CWC25 #ENGWvSAW

Every executive planning to put "AI" into a consumer product should be forced to watch this video on a cinema screen, on repeat, with their head forcibly held in position facing the screen and their eyes taped open.

Step beyond the red gates to discover the history of Strawberry Field and learn why a children's home run by The Salvation Army was special to a young John Lennon. ❤️ EXPLORE NOW: buff.ly/4gZ8XVh

Our Halloween sale is on all week! Grab yourself one of our stonking new titles, or maybe one of our weirder, creepy reads! All titles have 15% off with the code HALLOWEEN25, including preorders! share.google/GZelDk6ryHMV...

This is a great article by @ceilidhann.bsky.social which is mainly focused on the US but I wonder how much of the ire directed at football players in the UK at the moment is from people losing money on bets www.pajiba.com/celebrities_...

#booksky, can you help? In so many ways this has been a glorious week of collaboration and support, but it’s ended on a downer…

Heading to Sydney to visit my ye olde Dad - I bought #NobodysGirl because Virginia Giuffre matters. She mattered when she was alive. She matters now. #justice #believeher #BookSky

A really brilliant Elizabeth von Arnim novel for the #1925Club: www.stuckinabook.com/love-by-eliz...

An interview with academic Toshio Mizuuchi looks at the foreign population in Osaka's Nishinari Ward, as this poor area of the city, and home to day labourers, undergoes gentrification. jbpress.ismedia.jp/articles/-/9...

Really not here for any Salah negativity. The ingratitude of it! Can't wait to see him shut them all up.

Now Konate's scored, I want everyone else that's been getting grief off all the keyboard warriors to get one too.

Google wants to build an enormous new data centre in Essex - emitting 570,000 tonnes of CO2 and concreting a local wildlife site. Tell the local council to refuse planning permission! www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/th...

Work updates are like buses. For a while, there’s nothing, then several come at once. So, I’m happy to say National Geographic’s annual Best of the World list is out today, with a bit of #Japan on it. My latest Lonely Planet is out too: a co-written book about bike rides in Japan.

Been to see one of the aged relatives in hospital (scheduled surgery, they're doing great!) and it's not news at all but there are some lovely people in the NHS, aren't there. Was sitting there on the ward chatting while little acts of kindness happened all around.

Just been reading about the Pakistani mill-workers in Bradford who were hired right off the bus to work 12-hour shifts and then 20, 30 years later were the first to be made redundant when the industry hit the wall. Many - having few other skills - were on the dole for the rest of their lives.

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

Proofs are in! A huge thank you to @sceptrebooks.bsky.social for sending these my way. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK will be out in April, and these proofs will be going out into the world imminently. Terrifying! Exciting! Mostly terrifying!

Hello 👋 from the audiobook company that shares profits with 4,000+ independent bookshops across the globe, is an employee-owned Certified B Corp, and really, truly cares about booksellers and readers everywhere 💓

3,300 of you braved the rain and almost a million leaflets of hope were delivered around the country for the #WeekendofHOPE. We reached 578 out of 650 constituencies! Next time, with your help, we'll get to them all. Thank you so much. 💛

Positives 1) Fede 2) Hugo 3) Amorin in.