Great interview with Saul here. He always delivers the goods.

I very much enjoyed the tremendous Adelle Stripe talking about the tremendous Harry Crews on the tremendous Library of Lazy Thinking podcast.

Farewell, Martin Parr. Hebden Bridge O.G. His 1975 photograph of Lord Savile’s gamekeepers is unbeatable.

RIP Martin Parr. Back in 2019 Adelle and I were commissioned by Manchester Literature Festival to write and record fictional pieces in response to his Salford photographs. Best of all, we got to meet the great man too. You can listen to recordings of them here: m.soundcloud.com/manchester-a...

The paperback edition of Base Notes is almost ready to go @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social. Fit new cover by Ola Galewicz w/ ‘Clive Loves Dawn’ number plate. Signed dedications are now available to pre-order at Forum Books (who can post a copy out to you) >> www.forumbooksshop.com/product/base...

This - finally - is the definitive musical history Sheffield so richly deserves. GROOVY, LAIDBACK AND NASTY is @danieldylanwray.bsky.social's authoritative and hugely entertaining story of the city, told through its independent artists, scenes and spirit. Coming May 2026 geni.us/GroovyLaidba...

Finally got hold of a copy of Tribune’s winter edition with Adelle Stripe’s marvellous review of Wild Twin. @adellestripe.bsky.social @littletollerbooks.bsky.social And this one of my favourite bits!

JESUS CHRIST KINSKI is a Book of the Year for 2025 in The Daily Telegraph today. And so is BASE NOTES by Her Indoors (@adellestripe.bsky.social) Double whammy. Thanks for reading. @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social

Pleased to read that Base Notes is a book of the year in today’s Telegraph. In the best of company alongside memoirs and biography by Jung Chang, Catherine Lacey and Richard Holmes... www.telegraph.co.uk/books/author...

I have reviewed Jeff Young’s most excellent Wild Twin in the new edition of Tribune (out in the shops this week)… @littletollerbooks.bsky.social @wildtwin.bsky.social tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/rimb...

"There is more realness in Dennis Potter’s weirdness than in the majority of overwrought series striving for authenticity" An excellent @thequietus.com long read by Darran Anderson on one of the greatest writers ever to work in television thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

I have recorded a podcast on Harry Crews & his masterpiece A Childhood: The Biography of a Place for the Library of Lazy Thinking… lazythinking.substack.com/p/adelle-str...

MISS PYM’s DAY OUT, on the iPlayer for the next 26 days, is delightful! A drama doc about Barbara Pym’s trip to London for the Booker Prize ceremony - featuring Patricia Routledge as Pym, various Excellent Women and cameos from Jilly Cooper & Penelope Lively! #BookSky www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Felicitations to @bookshop.org who are celebrating five years of supporting indie booksellers across the country today. If you are an author, you can sell your own books on there too as an affiliate… uk.bookshop.org/shop/adelles...

Highly recommend this ambient soundtrack if your dog is upset by fireworks. It’s like Brian Eno for canines and really helped our previous hound who had a week-long panic attack each year around Bonfire Night. m.youtube.com/watch?v=iY9m...

Pure truth.

Just under two weeks left to enter the annual GBP Short Story Prize - one of the highlights of our year, and where, for 2025/26, we'll be joined by two brilliant writers and one brilliant literary agent as judges (Sam Mills, Selby Wynn Schwartz, and Sebastian Godwin: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize

Leeds Poly fine art was TOUGH but had a sound studio where people could spend 3 yrs, with a grant, making music. After graduating Marc Almond & Dave Ball still came in to use facilities & no one stopped them. Months later they were number 1. I’m feeling nostalgic for subsidised anarchy in education.

Great interview with Mal Campbell from the Trades Club (ft. footage of King Gizzard playing Rattlesnake in 2018, when it felt like the floor was caving in)... groundupmusic.substack.com/p/theres-som...

Are you beach body ready? A lover of romantasy? A sucker for cosy crime? Only buy books from the 2-for-1 pile? Me neither! In that case the feelbad hit of the autumn might just be for you. JESUS CHRIST KINSKI is published today via @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social uk.bookshop.org/beta-search?...

It’s Dory Previn’s centenary today, here’s a repost of a Quietus feature from 2024 if you‘re curious to find out more. Really enjoyed writing this (and the documentary is excellent too). thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Indeed. How about a big expensive HB for those want them, PB published first — nowt worse than lugging a cumbersome brick-sized edition to bed/work/holiday. The most impractical format.

Was a pleasure to contribute a short story to this portrait of Ivan Smagghe, which is not really a book about him at all. 160 pages. Full colour. Limited edition of 500. Even the paper smells sexy. donlonbooks.com/products/nil...

You can now listen to last night’s Unclassified on BBC Sounds. We recorded the Listening Chair at home, on the knackered sofa, with a dog snuffling in the background (which was fitting). Thanks to Elizabeth for the invite. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

New House Mascot. He’s very small and impossibly cute.

Tune into Radio 3 Unclassified on Sunday night, where I’ll be in the Listening Chair talking about the beauty of John Martyn’s Small Hours, a track as close to perfection as it gets. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

They suck you up, your mum & dad.

My 2017 novel (which was recently republished by Virago) is this week’s selection at Small Distractions / Hyde Park Book Club in Leeds. Nice to see it having a second wind.

Sad to hear this news. RIP Tony Harrison.

She's not on here but my pal Terri White has made this powerful and moving documentary about child poverty full of heart and muscle. Please watch it, we should all watch it – vital viewing: www.theguardian.com/society/vide...

Heading to Leeds next month for Small Distractions Literary Salon, where I’ll be in conversation with Amy McCarthy. Come one and all. www.seetickets.com/tour/small-d...

'Her outrage, in the act of expression, seems to feed on itself. If a point is conceded, she finds another hair to split, by return of post.' Gwendoline Riley on Muriel Spark’s irrepressible creative drive

Calling all scholars of Punk…

The fierce new paperback cover of Base Notes has just landed courtesy of @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social -- and is now available to preorder at your local independent bookshop. If you squint, you’ll see ‘Clive Loves Dawn’ written on the number plate… store.whiterabbitbooks.co.uk/products/bas...

Roll up for signed editions, defaced and scribbled on just a few weeks ago.

A balanced (long-form) view of the Constance Marten trial, far better than the sensationalist take on this case that has appeared in so many places.

A helpful guide has just been published by the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain for those writing nonfiction (concerning legal, defamation and copyright etc). It’s free and available here> writersguild.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Heard Laurie Anderson play this on her 6Music show and was stopped dead in my tracks. Not sure if it ever had an official release. Lou wrote it for their wedding day. It’s sublime. m.youtube.com/watch?v=0RDc...

Looking forward to the inaugural Whitby Lit Fest in November, where I'll be discussing Bram Stoker's Dracula at the Working Class Library Podcast's live event... It's a great programme with loads of interesting writers holding court. Tickets here: whitbylitfest.org.uk/event/the-wo...

Starting work on the paperback edition of Base Notes, due out in February. The new cover is smoking hot and I cannot wait to share it. Soon, I hope? If you're curious, there's an extract from the Old Spice chapter @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social... www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/02/adel...

Wow. This is quite something. A mushroom burial. I approve. Via @luketurner.bsky.social

Well done, Jeff! Read the first chapter of this last night and it blew my socks off. Tremendous writing.

We’ve Just opened our first open submissions window for working-class writers. We’re looking for stories that capture something about being working class in Britain in 2025. Can be fiction or non-fiction, & 500-3000 words long. Please pitch us. Details here: thebeemagazine.com/open-call-fo...

Berlin, 1971. Opening night. Ben's new novel has been announced today. I've read it, and think it's his best. A wild ride through the deranged mind of Klaus Kinski, and a writer who is grappling with this most impossible subject.

🚨🚨 NEW AMY LIPTROT BOOK KLAXON 🚨🚨

A century after his death, BBC R3 have produced a special feature on the composer Erik Satie, the subject of Ian Penman's latest book. Listen to the episode here and find ERIK SATIE THREE PIECE SUITE on our website: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I'll be heading to the splendid Mrs Lofthouse's Emporium in Scarborough on Saturday 5 July with @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social to sign books, drink tea and loiter with intent. If you are in the vicinity, pop in and say hello. We'll be there from midday for an hour or so...

"Tender, bittersweet... I loved this memoir and have never read anything quite like it." Thanks to @steelydass.bsky.social at RNZ for her thoughtful review of Base Notes. This really made my day. www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro... @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social

Delighted to see Joe Brainard’s I Remember being reissued by Daunt. If you know, you know…