Just watched The Residence - 8 episodes in 3 sittings - and loved it. Fantastic female detective. The journey more fun than finding out whodunit, but that's often the way. Sadly cancelled because it was too expensive, but maybe better not to push it into a new story. www.imdb.com/title/tt8740...

There can't be many systems in the world in which the consumer pays nothing but the creative gets paid. USE YOUR LIBRARIES

A family of foxes by Franz Marc, 1913. #fox #foxes #FranzMarc #artsky

Other work of the Ladybird artists. ‘St Michael’s Mount’ Artist: Ronald Lampitt

I DON'T THINK MUCH OF PARIS.

I watched The Life of Chuck this evening and loved it. And now I have something new to watch when I need to smile! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqTG...

Evaporation experiment

Happy birthday, Bob Dylan. He'll be 85 on May 24. An honor to write this for my local paper, Woodstock's The Overlook News. Thanks to Barry Feinstein Photography for the use of a previously unpublished, instantly iconic 1966 image of Dylan. theoverlooknews.com/the-woodstoc...

In the garden today

I finished Muckle Flugga this morning - could have read it more quickly but didn't want it to end! Very nearly started again the minute I'd finished. What a wonderful book. Gorgeous writing. Going to miss it. Still pondering the ending - not in a critical way, just thinking about it all! #BookSky

Oh, you're saying I'm a Luddite like it's a BAD thing...

Wall-to-wall Bob at the bookshop today in honour of the great man's 85th birthday. And this, one of the finest clips on youtube, always gets an outing on this day (and many others). HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOB DYLAN! #BobDylan www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwSZ...

We have sold our first tickets for this gig @roberthazle.bsky.social THE SHOWS WE USED TO KNOW, is coming to @treehousebookshop.bsky.social in September - and we are very excited about it!

There's a statue of Queen Victoria here in Hastings. You often see her with a pair of sunglasses on, or similar. But never before have I seen her with a giant walnut whip on her head. Until today.

Saw The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at Stratford last night, with Mark Gatiss and a wonderful cast generally - brilliant. Staging was amazing. And live music! My A-level German play, so good to see it performed (there were some additions!).

Hello! 👋 I’m Gail, a one woman design studio, based in #Manchester My online shop is full of bold & colourful prints, homewares, T-shirts and stationery. Go on, have a nosy gailmyerscough.co.uk

I couldn't let the late David Burke's death go not commemorated so its an episode of Granada's classic Sherlock Holmes with The Solitary Cyclist this Wednesday from 8pm! #thefilmcrowd youtu.be/Jz0aRVFbENM?...

I haven't been on Bluesky much lately...but we still have some plants and other things, if anyone wants to come along and support @radioabbey.bsky.social and the Kenilworth Centre.

Today @treehousebookshop.bsky.social raising money 4 The Kenilworth Centre. Plants and wool @ bargain prices. tKC runs wonderful progs for the community, incl fantastic music ones 4 Children. @radioabbey.bsky.social is part of their operation, THB sponsors Showtune will be hosting our first gig.

I’m rapturously chuffed to announce that I’ll be talking to the marvel STEPHEN FRY about my novel, 𝙈𝙪𝙘𝙠𝙡𝙚 𝙁𝙡𝙪𝙜𝙜𝙖, on the 27th May at @hayfestival.bsky.social 🥲💘. If you fancy seeing me bubble & fawn in the company of a giant, then this is the show for you. 🎫: www.hayfestival.com/p-23680-mich...

I mean, just look at him...

#NextOnFC - JOIN US! this Monday, the 11th of May at 8pm BST, for one of those legendary "What The Hell Did I Just Watch?!" Movies. #TheFilmCrowd are doing DEATH BED: THE BED THAT EATS! Link👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nIO...

'In our Time: Joseph Roth'. Listen to Misha Glenny and guests discussing one of the great writers on Central Europe after the First World War and on the dying of the old orders with the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Along with the Rev. Malcolm Guite, I shall be on the BBC Radio 4 "faith" programme Beyond Belief on Sunday May 19, discussing Bob Dylan, his Jewishness and Christianity, and his career-long resourceful use of biblical text. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

Try and get hold of a copy of 'House Mother Normal' by B S Johnson (1971) if you can. Set in an old people's home, it's one of the most original, gruesome, hilarious black comedies I've read - and with an ending so shocking and disgusting even I didn't see it coming. #WyrdWednesday #BookChatWeekly

Karl Marx was born on this day in 1818. We've put together a reading list that offers a comprehensive exploration of Marx's own writings and contemporary interpretations. All books on are site are up to 40% off for our Red May Sale!

If I’m being honest, I’m feeling pretty down about my small business. I’m working so hard but it’s been very quiet. It’s bloody difficult at the moment. Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk

I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

We are open today for the bank holiday, normal times - 10am-5pm. Come and browse, local - lots of lovely bank holiday reading! Treehouse for kids to sit in, dogs welcome (on a lead).

Helena: you have betrayed ALL women! Hermia: but HOW? #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... I've always had a soft-spot for Cherith Mellor's Helena (L) in the 1981 BBC Shakespeare Dream: here with Demetrius (Nicky Henson), Lysander (Robert Lindsay) & Hermia (Pippa Guard).

‘Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice.’ Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

Curtains up for bigger drama festival #Warwickshire #StratfordUponAvon

If you need to go somewhere and not spend any money, please visit your local library. Library crawls are awesome. Every library is its own little world.

Happy birthday, Dad. Wish you were here. You’d know what to do. Or at least you’d know what to write. ❤️

I’d be glad to look that up for you.

Lillian Gish by Edward Steichen, 1934

No Jackson Browne? No Bill Callahan? 🤔 I give this list a hoot, a hello and a fuck all y’all…

Today I am doing a sponsored art history marathon - art talks through the day, pay what you like, to raise funds for the bookshop. Drop in if you are local, or book via the link below to sponsor from afar! See next post for another way to help! #BookSky www.ticketsource.com/tree-house-b...

What is the most underrated Bob Dylan album, and why is it this one?

Somebody's goin' home with a copy of Great Expectations

Thinking about Holbein, if you happen to be in London, go visit the National Gallery and have a gander at "The Ambassadors". I saw it in the late 1990s after they'd restored it and it's a remarkable work. The anamorphic skull is a startling effect when you view it from an angle.

'Whatever lost ghosts flare, Damned, howling in their shrouds across the moor Rave on the leash of the starving mind Which peoples the bare room, the blank, untenanted air.' 📕 Sylvia Plath, November Graveyard 🖼️ Leonora Carrington, Samain #BookWormSat #poetry #haunted

Cyclistes à Paris avec Notre-Dame au fond. Beaucoup de cyclistes. Une cinquantaine en trente secondes.

I'm making one last push to let people know about this online talk -- sponsored by the British Library in conjunction with their current exhibition on fairy tales. The live stream starts at 7:30 tonight, but if you buy a ticket *before* the event you can watch it any time over the next 7 days.

It's Robert Smith's 67th birthday today. I've spent much of the last night fortnight listening to, and writing about, the Cure for tomorrow's INVENTORY. My thoughts on Faith etc, available only via www.patreon.com/backlisted. @backlisted.bsky.social

I‘m on my nonsense again. This week’s Six Things: – Mystery Art – Wurlitzers – Clocks – Tickets – Sand – Suffering

ICYMI today we're delighted to be featuring Heavy Duty by Greta Stoddart #shortstory #fiction #readingcommunity. Please click on the link below and enjoy

Cloudburst franksfilmreview.com/2026/04/11/c... Every so often, a film quietly slips into your life and steals your heart, leaving you astonished that it managed to fly under the radar. Cloudburst, directed by Thom Fitzgerald and starring the incomparable Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker...

Finishing off the #1961Club with a novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett: www.stuckinabook.com/the-mighty-a...