Got Elizabeth Taylor's 'The Devastating Boys' in the post today and just read the title short story. Pretty devastatingly good for sure. Love her way of writing. Thanks again @backlisted.bsky.social for advocating so much for her fiction

I LOVED this episode (obviously). Not sure if I have a favorite Earthsea book, but The Tombs is up there.

Start to finish is the way to go. 'Love Letter' is one of the most beautiful ballads ever crafted. Think I'll wake the teen with the album this morning vs alarm. O when the soft drumbeat kicks in, summoned by those sweeping violin strings of Warren Ellis. ❤️ Perfection. youtu.be/-9_WVhF5JKE

Happy birthday to the mighty Nick Cave, the best songwriter since Bob Dylan, at 68 still the greatest live performer on the planet, magnificent in every way. I love him. This is possibly my favourite Bad Seeds song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZlp...

Tried to go to Whipsnade Zoo today but there was a chimp loose - so couldn't get in.

What a wonderful idea! 📚 🎄 🗓️

The @the-rsc.bsky.social is struggling financially and the thought of losing it is too awful to contemplate. Successive philistine governments have cut and cut arts funding. Please support if you can. A world-renowned theatre, great educational resource, a jewel in our crown. www.rsc.org.uk/support

Just 6 tickets left for our gig with lovely Alex Hart on Friday - go snap them up, anyone within striking distance of Kenilworth! It's going to be a beautiful evening. www.treehousebookshop.co.uk/events/2025/...

Royston Arts Festival kicked off on Friday night with a superb concert by folk musicians Bird in the Belly and Tin Giants. If you haven't come across them yet, do check them out. #Royston #Hertfordhire www.tingiants.co.uk

Bob Dylan's tour closer in Alpine Valley - a transcendent show in a gorgeous venue that was a welcome break from the corporate vibes at most venues this tour. My review: open.substack.com/pub/adamchic...

Winter Haunts marks the peak of spooky season with a massive day of ghost stories and Gothic fiction, with a stellar line-up joining us on the day! And it's all happening online, so you can join us from anywhere... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/winter-hau...

Hans Holbein Detail from The Ambassadors, 1533.

The Radio 4 “In our time” archive is a goldmine and the range is astounding. In the last week or so I’ve listened to the Industrial Revolution (x 2), Typology, Pope Joan and Bacteriophages www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

Call of the Wilde I can draw one of these for you if you like. All my cartoons are drawn to order, they're not prints. www.worldofmoose.com/products/cal...

Why are the late night comedians doing the job of journalists by standing up to the bullies?? Another reason artists are the soul of humanity.

The brilliant They came from beyond space is on Talking pictures at midday. Look at these awesome posters

Just 6 tickets left for our gig with lovely Alex Hart on Friday - go snap them up, anyone within striking distance of Kenilworth! It's going to be a beautiful evening. www.treehousebookshop.co.uk/events/2025/...

Didn't get a single row on Connections today. It was all a bit too American for me, mind.

#JimmyKimmel #StephenColbert

The @the-rsc.bsky.social is struggling financially and the thought of losing it is too awful to contemplate. Successive philistine governments have cut and cut arts funding. Please support if you can. A world-renowned theatre, great educational resource, a jewel in our crown. www.rsc.org.uk/support

Compendium #229- Song 10 The Little Unsaid - Stay Fragile All Across This Cold Frontier Album: Stay Fragile All Across This Cold Frontier Date: 26th September 2025 Web: www.thelittleunsaid.com Blue Sky: #TheLittleUnsaid

RIP Robert Redford. And thank you, @variety.com, for this glorious photo, though I am not sure who took it.

Here are four ways anyone can support and help their local library: • Get a library card ⭐️ • Use your library card 🌟 •Visit the library 💫 •Tell everyone to get a library card and support their local library ✨

New piece: Life After Spotify: What Musicians Lose — and What They Gain. A field report for any musicians wrestling with leaving Spotify — the playlist trap, the illusion of “discovery,” and what you really gain by stepping away. www.jonwilks.online/blog/life-af...

Our popular and increasingly famous Advent calendars of books are now available to order - seems early, but they involve a bit of work! We are in full wrapping mode. UK shipping only, I am afraid. #BookSky www.treehousebookshop.co.uk/shop/details...

I’ve signed up for this. Will be sharing with @tenisonblue.bsky.social #BookSky

What an amazing present 🎁 #BookSky #AdventCalendar

“Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.” ― Barry Lopez

If you see this, repost with a vampire that's not Dracula.

Merry Christmas!

Slade in Flame IS NOW UP ON BFI PLAYER

Our popular and increasingly famous Advent calendars of books are now available to order - seems early, but they involve a bit of work! We are in full wrapping mode. UK shipping only, I am afraid. #BookSky www.treehousebookshop.co.uk/shop/details...

Melvyn Bragg has been one of the last standard-bearers for a really important, and unfashionable, idea: that good conversation, between people who really know their stuff, on complex or difficult subjects, can be fantastic radio - and that the national broadcaster should do this. I hope it endures.

IT'S WEDNESDAY! It's #buyastrangerabook day. The grooviest of all the days. I'll give out TWO books. FOR FREE. If you'd like one, let me know. Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know. It's a thing! Look. biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi... UK only

Such a good episode!!!

The Eric Ravilious Wood Engraving Postcard Collection (No. 1 – Selborne). Six beautiful postcards featuring wood engravings for ‘A Natural History of Selborne’, by the 17th century naturalist, Gilbert White. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/eric... #ericravilious #Selborne #selborne #woodcut

Hit me up with your favourite contemporary/recent female poets. I have a list but keen to discover some I may not know! #BookSky

And all these years later, I too am still around - and giving a talk (with Dylan tracks) at the Seamus Ennis Arts Centre at Naul, Dublin, on Friday Sept 26: Details and tickets now on sale: tseac.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

‘The measure of my dreams’: Rainy Night in Soho lives on, almost 40 years after its release www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

A good day to watch out Michael Gray YouTube playlist: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The Guardian: ‘We ask, can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times.’ No, they can’t and no, it isn’t. Stop trying to pretend this stuff is alive. Either learn what it is or stop commenting on it. Next question?

This sounds incredible everyone buy tickets for it hope the night sells out just helping out 🙂

The only newsworthy aspect of the far-right anti-migrant protests currently is how pathetically small they are. Last summer 60,000 people came to the Restore Nature Now protest in London, and the BBC didn’t even report on it. bsky.app/profile/sund...

6 September here at the bookshop - do come! An evening of professional live music in an intimate, bookish setting - can't beat it. www.ticketsource.co.uk/tree-house-b...

One evening in 1889, the Countess Eugenie Kapnist climbed into her carriage at St Petersburg but was shocked to see a #ghost in her seat. It was that of an odd man she'd met at a party who'd insisted he'd known her in a past life. That man was still alive - but died two days later. #PhantomsFriday

Fashion roundup for factory workers, Chicago 1943

Always fascinating - Michael Caine: Acting in Film: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001k2q4 via @bbciplayer - available for the next four weeks...

'favourite' excuses for not paying invoices -i've been planning a wedding -i have anxiety so i can't do admin -i can't be expected to check my bank account btw, #3 still owes £200+ to us. That's sales & royalties to our author that haven't been collected If you want to support authors, buy direct

The Owl Bookmark Collection. This collection comprises 'Owl on a Large Screen' by Jan Mankes, 'Hollow Lane' by Eric Ravilious, and 'The White Owl', by William James Webbe. £5.95. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/owl-... #owlbookmark #ericravilious #owlart