Liverpool, 1960s, photo by Karl Hughes.

Now open for submissions of unpublished fiction and non-fiction, poetry, graphic narratives, photo-essays, and short films focussed on the actuality or idea (no matter how abstract) of a journey(or journeys): email to [email protected].

Here’s the cover for LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK, out 16 April with @sceptrebooks.bsky.social Preorder here: lnk.to/LikeaCatLove... Please share! The book doing well means I can write another (and fulfil my dream of owning a pizza oven), so it’s pretty serious 🐈‍⬛ 🐈‍⬛ 🐈‍⬛

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/...

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-...

"+ that is how they change th world without asking for permission" art + copy by @wildtwin.bsky.social via @crossstarchitects.bsky.social

@wildtwin.bsky.social Great chatting with you today Jeff. Thanks for attending and talking with the first year students it was lovely to hear you talk about your work and processes. Thanks Stephen

What did Pasolini know? Fifty years after his brutal murder, the director’s vision of fascism is more urgent than ever

Judith Joy Ross. There is a punctum in this portrait that I feel is a little heartbreaking.

“In Peter Watkins’s world, no amount of time can bury the cry for freedom.” Rest in power Peter Watkins, socialist hero. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/cryi...

Peter Watkins, 1935-2025 The maverick filmmaker and pioneer of the docudrama, whose anti-establishment works redefined political cinema and challenged the very language of mass media, has died aged 90 www.bfi.org.uk/features/pet...

I wrote about this decommissioned lighthouse for the 11th edition of Science & Magic, the Violette newsletter. You can read it here along with my previous Magnetic North missives and you can subscribe. Chock full of delights! www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...

I wrote about this decommissioned lighthouse for the 11th edition of Science & Magic, the Violette newsletter. You can read it here along with my previous Magnetic North missives and you can subscribe. Chock full of delights! www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...

The sharp, dark, dazzling fiction of Beryl Bainbridge is being reissued by @dauntbookspub.bsky.social, starting next year with ‘The Bottle Factory Outing’ and ‘An Awfully Big Adventure’ with new introductions by Yiyun Li and A.K. Blakemore.

There’s a signed copy of Wild Twin in this year’s Children in Read auction. All proceeds are in aid of the Children in Need appeal. Lot 281, get your bids in! @childreninread.bsky.social @littletollerbooks.bsky.social www.jumblebee.co.uk/auction/deta...

It’s two years ago today since my dad Cyril died at the age of 92. Here he is in the early 50’s inventing Post Punk. What a lovely man he was. If you want to know more about him here’s a piece I wrote for The Observer about his final year: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

RIP to David Bellos, a great translator, teacher, scholar and popularizer. Here's a charming little essay about what he learned from his landmark translation of Georges Perec's 'Life: A User's Manual'. online.wsj.com/article/SB10...

Liverpool from New Brighton. Autumn walk.

Enormously proud to be the new UK home of Beryl Bainbridge. In March 2026, we kick things off in earnest by publishing AN AWFULLY BIG ADVENTURE, with an intro by Yiyun Li, and THE BOTTLE FACTORY OUTING, with an intro by A. K. Blakemore. Ruthlessly smart, darkly comic, her novels are sharp-edged gems

Looking for Mr Schwitters - a new book www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/looking-fo...

There's just a day to go until @manchesterup.bsky.social publish my latest book Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London. I thought I should explain a bit about where the book came from. 1/15

Had a great time chatting to @robinallender.bsky.social Do please have a listen loves💖✨💕

NEW ON THE PODCAST 🎧 Lara Pawson and Jennifer Hodgson discuss Samuel Beckett’s fiction, in celebration of Faber’s new editions of 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘺, 𝘔𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘋𝘪𝘦𝘴 and 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j...

New video and sound project -- The House -- you can watch and listen to it here: vimeo.com/1096672240

There’s a signed copy of Wild Twin in this year’s Children in Read auction. All proceeds are in aid of the Children in Need appeal. Lot 281, get your bids in! @childreninread.bsky.social @littletollerbooks.bsky.social www.jumblebee.co.uk/auction/deta...

I wrote about this house and a memory evoked by Patti Smith’s Birdland at the Lond Palladium. You can read it in the current edition of Science & Magic. Available here along with my previous 9 Magnetic North musings: www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...

* London, obviously!

I wrote about this house and a memory evoked by Patti Smith’s Birdland at the Lond Palladium. You can read it in the current edition of Science & Magic. Available here along with my previous 9 Magnetic North musings: www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...

I just signed the campaign calling to ban politicians hosting shows on UK news channels. act.38degrees.org.uk/act/ban-poli...

Marketa Luskacova. To Remember — London Street Musicians 1975–1990. Marketa captured her images in East and West London from the street markets around Brick Lane or Portobello Rd. You can tell that she had an amazing gift for empathy.

Gwen John. Girl with Bare Shoulders. 1909.

Ladies and gentlepuffins we are floating in space. One small step for puffin, one giant leap for puffinkind, with more Jill McDonald joy for my Sputnik Sweethearts.

Now that most of the contributors have their copies. We are making the rest of sets of this imited edtion project available to buy. Details here: [email protected]

Many thanks to Alexander @wordkunst.bsky.social and @thearsonista.bsky.social for publishing one of my photographs over on Burning House Press >>> #pinholephotography

Straight out of Liverpool, from Jeff Young's wonderful exhibition, 'Haunted Paper', which I was lucky enough to see this past August, accompanied by the artist himself @wildtwin.bsky.social

SOLD OUT! The Athenaeum event for Wild Twin and Catherine Cole's book 'A French House' Athenaeum is now sold out. You can still join the waiting list in case any tickets become available. Thanks to everyone who bought a ticket. See you on Thursday16th www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-pl...

Draught is now live! www.draughtjournal.com Issue 1.1.1 with contributions by Glenn Adamson, Jen Calleja, Don Mee Choi, Mark Cousins, Daisy Lafarge, Mark Manders, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lisa Robertson, Christina Tudor-Sideri and Francesca Wade

For the inaugural issue of Draught Journal @draughtjournal.bsky.social: On Bookmarks and Other Ruins—a reflection on the bookmark as a fragile site of memory, desire, and incompletion, accompanied by images of my own bookmarks. draughtjournal.com/article/on-b...

Very good news to see that an exhibition of Denton Welch's work is on display at John Swarbrooke Fine Art at 11 Fitzroy Square, London from 10 October to 30 October. This portrait of Welch (1935) is by his friend Gerald Leet.

How bloody marvelous! My Ambagious Tactics card amongst some incredibly talented people. Should you want a box to provoke inspiration, creativity, silly-sausageness: fruishon.co.uk/artslab/ #AmbagiousTactics #obliquestrategies #50yearsof

Our friends at the brilliant @littletollerbooks.bsky.social have just launched a new crowdfunding project for 'Looking for Mr Schwitters' — an innovative and finely illustrated book about the émigré artist Kurt Schwitters’ final years in the Lake District www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/look...

Esq Tom Phillips, [no title: p. 343], 1970 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1115204

Fred Ritchin, "Why Don McCullin Doesn’t Want to Be Called a War Photographer" (Aperture, #photography): aperture.org/editorial/wh...

Event! Writing Place. Jeff Young and Catherine Cole discuss their recent books in the Library Reading Room of Liverpool’s Athenaeum. Thursday, October 16 · 6 - 7:30pm www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-pl...

What I value in Meades is not any organised body of opinion, but his attitude.

Parceling up copies of Ambagious Tactics for the remaining contributors of the 123 people who gave a contribution. To reserve a copy of Ambagious Tactics, email us here: [email protected]

ㅤ Evolution of the Cosmos from a single point (Bindu): Tantric painting — India, 18th c. ㅤ

ㅤ Medusa 🐍🐍🐍 ㅤ

@wildtwin.bsky.social Look what just arrived from Dorothy. Wonderful souvenir of a great day. Now it’s time to fire up the Ghost Radio. Transmissions incoming.