Found a hidden gem in Caerhays Castle in Cornwall today. Then on to Truro to beautiful Boscawen Park and the cathedral, with a quick trip into @waterstones in Truro to drop off @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social catalogue and proofs. Now settled with a gorge view of the sea in sunny Penzance.

📚💙 if you love an authentic bit of historical fiction, this one is for you. Swings from high society 1920s Scotland to the gritty mean streets of Glasgow.

📚💙🌈 #Manchester A book should make you feel something. The 1st time I read DA, I cried. The 2nd time I read it, I cried. The 3rd time... Yes, again. It's one of those books. Go along and find out why.

So delighted to see the wonderful @badsvillebroad.bsky.social on this shortlist! Congratulations and so well-deserved! @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social

Join us at the @northernfiction.bsky.social book fair at #hydeparkbookclub @leedslitfest.bsky.social on June 13th! Just show up :D @commapress.bsky.social #bookfair #leeds

Lavrov urged Marco Rubio to evacuate the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv.

This looks like being a really interesting evening. Da by Arathi Menon is about a boy growing up in India whose father is gay. The author and publisher @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social will be in conversation on the 9th June in Manchester’s Social Refuge: www.socialrefuge.com/event-detail...

The Angel of St Piran launches in hardback in 100 days. So why not pick your favourite local bookshop and preorder a copy. You'll be doing me a favour, the bookstore a favour, and yourself a favour. This sticks it to trophy hunters in a gruesome but satisfying way. @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social

Don’t miss this event on the 9th June! ‘A beautifully cut gem of a novel. Ved’s unforgettable voice makes this story come to life in so many funny, moving and unexpected ways.’ - Mahesh Rao, Author of 'Half Light' www.socialrefuge.com/event-detail...

www.socialrefuge.com/event-detail... 🌈📚💙 #booksky #Manchester #Pride Manchester June 9th 7pm.

📌 ICYMI — How ‘Anonymous Quotes’ Are Used by Political Journalists and Spin Doctors to Deceive the Public A startling admission by a Times journalist has revealed how…… https://bylinetimes.com/2026/05/22/how-anonymous-quotes-are-used-by-political-journalists-and-spin-doctors-to-deceive-the-public

The more we learn about Reform's Makerfield candidate, Robert Kenyon, the more deeply unpleasant he becomes.

The smell of BS in the morning…. Farage is clearly very worried about this £5m bung from Harborne. And rightly so - British voters really don’t like big money in politics, Reform voters as much as anyone So Farage is trying everything to distract from the crypto bros bankrolling Reform.

'Only four people in the world' knew about the £5 mn gift says Farage and the Mail. Why so secretive, Nigel, if it was all legitimate?

Not scientific certainly, but I thought it was interesting. From Facebook. Poll asked who you wanted to be PM by end of year. Overwhelming response is, surprisingly, Keir Starmer.

Excellent article. Highly recommend reading in full.

Leeds Lit Fest on the DA book tour. Monday 8th June. leedsinspired.co.uk/events/arath... 💙📚🌈 #booksky #Leedslitfest DA is the poignant story of a teenage boy growing up in India under Section 377. His adoptive father is gay, when to be so is illegal. A book to break your heart.

'Closed mouths don’t get fed...' '...and respectability doesn’t make those with power actually take notice of you.' - Teddy Webb (Anthology 'Woman, Mapped') Friday newsletter is out! flyonthewallpress.substack.com/p/closed-mou...

If you love a book that makes you laugh and cry, and leaves a lasting impression long after the final page, try Da by Arathi Menon. Out June 1st, here's an interview with the author to give you an idea of what we hope will be a big hit read this summer. www.desiblitz.com/content/arat... 💙📚 #booksky

www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev.... Author Miha Mazzini will be discussing his book Erased at Waterstones Sheffield next Thurs. A Kafkaesque tale about the violence of a bureaucracy that stole people's identities and turned lives upside down. #Sheffield 📚💙 #booksky @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social

Leeds Lit Fest on the DA book tour. Monday 8th June. leedsinspired.co.uk/events/arath... 💙📚🌈 #booksky #Leedslitfest DA is the poignant story of a teenage boy growing up in India under Section 377. His adoptive father is gay, when to be so is illegal. A book to break your heart.

www.socialrefuge.com/event-detail... 🌈📚💙 #booksky #Manchester #Pride Manchester June 9th 7pm.

EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK’s Makerfield by-election candidate, Rob Kenyon, had a SECOND deleted social media account, and the archived posts are damning. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/05/21/r...

www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev.... Author Miha Mazzini will be discussing his book Erased at Waterstones Sheffield next Thurs. A Kafkaesque tale about the violence of a bureaucracy that stole people's identities and turned lives upside down. #Sheffield 📚💙 #booksky @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social

Proofs of Nice Things have arrived!!! So exciting. The video could be better, but I’m too happy about being able to share it to fiddle with it. Nice Things is my debut collection, stories of disquiet, desire & displacement which will be published by @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social in December!

Bookshop tour to drop off proofs visiting #lighthousebookshop @argonautbooks.bsky.social #theportobellobookshop #theedinburghbookshop @goldenharebooks.bsky.social

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If you love a book that makes you laugh and cry, and leaves a lasting impression long after the final page, try Da by Arathi Menon. Out June 1st, here's an interview with the author to give you an idea of what we hope will be a big hit read this summer. www.desiblitz.com/content/arat... 💙📚 #booksky

Asked if Kemi Badenoch had changed her view on last weekend’s Tommy Robinson-led far right march and whether it was OK in the light of some of the racist/antisemitic banners on it, her spokesperson described the march as being “pro British” rather than explicitly seeking to generate hate.

Interesting that Reform announced their Makerfield candidate today via press release and not a press conference. Almost like there is something that Nigel Farage would quite like to avoid answering questions about.

"Tice’s comments came in a combative interview where he threatened to walk out when presented with information from the [IPCC]. Tice…declined to name advisers who convinced him the scientific consensus was wrong." Extraordinary interview by @akshatrathi.bsky.social & @oliviarudgard.bsky.social

people are acting like Labour asking supermarkets if they might voluntarily cap the price of a handful of products is some kind of Stalinist state intervention but Boris Johnson did something similar in 2022 without facing the same criticism here’s a reminder

NEW: The Trump administration plans ​to tell NATO allies this week it will shrink the pool of military capabilities it would make available ‌to help in a crisis, three sources tell Reuters. By @gramslattery.bsky.social @jonathanlanday.bsky.social & Reuters colleagues on both sides of the Atlantic.

To be fair to Kemi, after this month's triumph at the local elections, it's clear that her bold approach is winning back voters everywhere.

I have brewed on this 🧵. A midterm change of PM comes with big risks and costs: electoral, reputational, and actual with bond markets. The equation only makes sense if the change of leadership is profound. Throwing the dice for someone who may be a marginal improvement presentationally is not smart.

Imagine: a woman in labour arrives at hospital to find her existence has been erased from the system. Over 25k people were erased just this way in Slovenia in 1992. Miha Mazzini, author of Erased, is on UK tour next wk: @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social Sheffield. #booksky 💙📚

Shadow energy secretary Claire Coutinho keeps saying the "UK is the only country in the world banning new oil and gas licenses". It's completely untrue. Denmark, France, Spain & Ireland have all done the same. She went completely unchallenged on Talk this AM when she repeated it.

Erased is a Kafkaesque tale about how over 25k people lost their citizenship and identity overnight in 1990s Slovenia. Zala goes into hospital to give birth, only to discover she no longer exists. And so the nightmare begins. Fiction reflecting reality. 📚💙 Events in Sheffield, Manchester and London.

Nigel Farage’s claim that he paid for a £1.4mn house with his fee from a reality TV show has been challenged by corporate accounts that appear to show that the income remained on his company’s balance sheet after the property purchase. www.ft.com/content/88ce...

FT Exclusive: Nigel Farage’s claim that he paid for a £1.4mn house with his fee from a reality TV show has been challenged by corporate accounts that appear to show that the income remained on his company’s balance sheet after the property purchase. ft.trib.al/dtJOxC3

One of the interesting tangential aspects of Trump's visit to China is that he can't control the media output. Some of the photos are UNREAL. Had to check this carefully suspecting it was altered or AI gen, but I have found it on three known press outlets with credit to a global photo agency. 😱

Imagine: a woman in labour arrives at hospital to find her existence has been erased from the system. Over 25k people were erased just this way in Slovenia in 1992. Miha Mazzini, author of Erased, is on UK tour next wk: @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social Sheffield. #booksky 💙📚

📚💙 #booksky for lovers of #shortstories

China switched on the world’s largest open-sea offshore solar farm in late 2025. 2.3M panels. 2,934 steel platforms. Built offshore to survive force-11 gales & sea ice. Powers ~2.67M people. And yes… they’re farming fish underneath it too. Solar above. Food below. Fossils below both.

On energy, again all he has is words. What does he mean to bring energy under public control? Our existing Labour government are doing that. Changing Sizewell C so that the public have a major 45% stake in it. Fully owning and operating the new Small Modular Nuclear Reactors, like at Wylfa. 4/5

At this point in Eurovision, I feel like they should all just be given the same song to perform and give it their own interpretation. It couldn't be any worse than this.

"A new National Programme to Redistribute Surplus Food has been announced today. As part of the programme, a number of UK food charities and social enterprises are committing to triple the amount of surplus food available for redistribution." www.edie.net/uk-governmen...

Robert Jenrick is facing renewed scrutiny over whether he knew about illicit US donations to his Tory leadership campaign, after revelations that his wife worked as a lawyer for the British donor who allegedly arranged the money. www.ft.com/content/53e6...

We have now approved enough clean energy projects to power the equivalent of over 18 million homes across the UK. We are driving further and faster for clean homegrown power that we control to protect the British people and bring down bills for good. renews.biz/111634/uk-gr...

Erased is a Kafkaesque tale about how over 25k people lost their citizenship and identity overnight in 1990s Slovenia. Zala goes into hospital to give birth, only to discover she no longer exists. And so the nightmare begins. Fiction reflecting reality. 📚💙 Events in Sheffield, Manchester and London.