You need to see this… Just so we’re all clear on the gravity and historical significance of what Trump has done to the East Wing of the People’s House.

Best British Short Stories 2025, edited by Nicholas Royle, reviewed by Paul Anthony Knowles and Sam Cassells www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=13063 @saltpublishing.com

If you're wondering why so many of my generation ended up with the eyes and ears and minds that we did it's because we could watch stuff like this on schools programme. This is simply astounding. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gED...

Unfortunately, Neil Broadfoot can no longer join us this Wednesday evening. However, our @nickquantrill.bsky.social and @nicktriplow.bsky.social will present 'Three Book Wednesday'. We hope you can still join us for what will be a lively evening of book chat at @hulllibraries.bsky.social 📚

More #authorevents posting, as later in the month (the 13th tae be exact) I'll be in Hull (You could say I'll be going to Hull and Back...) talking all things THE FRIDAY GIRL @hullnoir.bsky.social & trying not make any puns that could ruin my noirish reputation* *this is almost guaranteed to happen

The new Hal Hartley trailer has dropped! youtu.be/VNw6Su_TeDA?...

This is perfect.

Jürgen Vollmer's extrordinarily portenteous portrait of Astrid Kirchherr and Stuart Sutcliffe, taken in early 1962 about three months before Sutcliffe's death. He would have been 85 today. In Hamburg last year a friend took me walking around Beatles-related places including the door.

We're thrilled to be working with @hulllibraries.bsky.social to present a special screening of 'Brighton Rock', 5th July (7pm). Our guide for the evening will be Cathi Unsworth. She'll be in conversation with @nicktriplow.bsky.social before we show the film. Tickets £5 (link in the comments) 🎬👇

One of these days I'll make the Hull pilgrimage I've wanted to since reading Getting Carter by @nicktriplow.bsky.social - til then, there's always the livestream of the @hullnoir.bsky.social @hulllibraries.bsky.social crime fiction sessions hosted by Nick T & @nickquantrill.bsky.social #BookSky 📚💙

Bowker's going to nail Crawford... unless Crawford can nail Bowker first! 🚓 Z CARS (1977) 🚓 7pm featuring #RayLonnen #DouglasFielding #BrianGrellis #NormanRossington 'Rip Off' #TPTVsubtitles

New piece: been working on this for the best part of a year. But really it's trying to draw on everything I've seen and thought about since I first started reporting on far right politics in the late 2000s. Online now and in tomorrow's LRB. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

From the day I first played it out 35 years ago to the last DJ gig I did a few weeks ago, this tune’s guaranteed to hit the spot. Goes brilliantly with Kris Ife’s “Hush”, Alan Hawkshsw’s “Studio 69”, “She Lives In A Big House” by Offspring and Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger’s “Indian Rope Man”.

"However significant Johnny Rotten has been, it’s worth remembering that he nicked much of his shtick from the greatest of all the pub rockers." Today we shall also be remembering Ian Dury, born 12 May 1942, the greatest artist to emerge from the pub-rock scene of the 1970s. wp.me/p6lzJb-6ZF

Good morning. Lottie walked. Shirt ironed and shoes polished. Off to The British Book Awards tonight at The Grosvenor Hotel in London. Time for a proper brew. #Nibbies @thebookseller.com

The metaphor of a country whose fresh and coastal water is choked with pollutants and excrement by a privatised industry that is apparently financially incontinent eludes everyone in Labour HQ.

This is very special. @hullnoir.bsky.social @hulllibraries.bsky.social

London in 1975, a glimpse into a lost world by David Granick. If you are a young photographer remember to photograph the ordinary things around you, the people, places and events we all take for granted. Eventually time will make those photographs extraordinary.

We're thrilled our next guest will be AA Dhand. Amit will be talking about his thrillers, 11th June (7pm). It's free to attend at @hulllibraries.bsky.social (Central) or via the online stream. Please reserve your space on the link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hull-noir-...

Really classy Daily Mirror front page on the 80th anniversary of VE Day. This Philip Zec celebrated cartoon was in the paper on this day in 1945

We're underway! Our May guest is the brilliant Charlotte Philby talking about 'Dirty Money' 📚

@rorywaterman.bsky.social & @nicktriplow.bsky.social are venturing to merry Scunthorpe for a Lincolnshire Folk Tales Reimagined anthology event. Book your spot here: www.opac.northlincs.gov.uk/events#/even...

‘A drug friend could really be anybody.’ Fiction by Gary Indiana. granta.com/remission-in...

‘Gary intended “Remission” to be similar, on the surface, to the books in his great “American crime” trilogy, at least in the sense that the story would revolve around a real, high-profile case.’ Jesse Barron introduces ‘Remission’ by Gary Indiana. granta.com/los-angeles-...

‘A friend of this magazine died while the issue was in production.’ Today we publish Granta 171: Dead Friends, which includes an excerpt from the final book from Gary Indiana (1950 - 2024). We have collected his contributions to Granta below. granta.com/dead-friends...

Wise words from Alexander Chee We may be conditioned to think of moving against fascism as a big all or nothing Hollywood style battle and it is also about showing up for people in ways that might make for a boring story but bring much love and satisfaction

...nearly a decade after the gibbet-post had blown down in storm. See lincolnshirefolktalesproject.com/2024/02/20/t.... Anne Zouroudi's story in Lincolnshire Folk Tales Reimagined, published recently by @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social, asks whether Otter was framed: fiveleaves.co.uk/product/linc....

Been reading or rereading some biographies in the last couple of weeks as i'm trying to write one. Been rereading Getting Carter by @nicktriplow.bsky.social. Blimey it's good! Forgot how good it was.

As well as examining the new season of Daredevil on the Mean Streets podcast, Matthew Booth is a writer to whom attention must be paid...

Very proud to say that The Serpent's Fang, the latest in my Everett Carr crime series, is OUT NOW! If you like Poirot, Wimsey, and the Golden Age, you'll love Carr. Published by Level Best Books and available on Amazon and elsewhere. Be sure to catch the first three books, too!

Really good evening over at The Rabbit Hole bookshop in Brigg listening to @nickquantrill.bsky.social and @nicktriplow.bsky.social talk about their books. Love indie bookshops and chatting books. Looking forward to diving into these two.

✨ CRUTCH WORDS AND PHRASES ✨ It's no secret that most writers have 'crutch' words and phrases. That is words and/or phrases that they fall back on throughout their manuscript. As editors, it's our job to weed them out and suggest alternatives. 🧵

Settling down to the best-cast British film of the 1950s ...

Two events this week 📚 16th April - The Rabbit Hole, Brigg with @nicktriplow.bsky.social, talking 'Cast No Shadow' and 'The Last Days of Johnny Nunn', 7pm. 17th April - online with @ukcrimebookclub via Facebook. Both free. Be good to see you (in-person or through a screen).

Delighted to be part of the ‘Not of This Wold’ Festival. Many thanks to Dr Kate Cherrell @katecherrell.bsky.social for including my poem ‘Autumn Ambush’ and a short fiction ‘The Dream Carver’ in the festival anthology. Launch is on Sat 12 April 2025 at Louth Town Hall, UK

My favorite classic Soviet joke is the guy who always goes to the newspaper stand, reads the front page and leaves one day, newsie asks him what he's doing, he says he's looking for an obituary. newsie says obits are in the back "Not the one I'm looking for"

Great to hear from Jane Thynne tonight. Thanks as always to those who joined us 📚

Underway at @hullnoir.bsky.social @hulllibraries.bsky.social with Jane Thynne and @nickquantrill.bsky.social #MidnightInVienna

On hatred.

I haven't seen any of the Top Of The Pops stuff tonight because I am mixing the flip out of some stuff. Can't say what exactly yet because, well, it's not quite ready. When it comes out it'll knock your socks off. Me and a special guest, romping through British pop's rich history on LP, CD & digital

Never go wrong with The Clash open.spotify.com/track/6bbQuT...

Society of Authors anti-LLM AI protest tomorrow in London. If you write, don’t bother looking up whether Meta stole your stuff. They did. It’s barely “content” to them. It’s soup. Arseholes. Protest corporate colonialism / parasitic tech capitalism, or just come and shout. I’m going to.

Is this open to musicians too? I’m reeling at the discovery that there’s generative AI being used to create entire “authentic” 60s soul tunes that some charlatans are passing off as “original” and flogging at fifteen quid a 7” without a single human appearing on them.

When I used to write Reel History I wrote about two previous Beatles biopics, Nowhere Boy and Backbeat. They’re both really quite good! Paul McCartney was very annoyed by both of them www.theguardian.com/film/filmblo... & www.theguardian.com/film/2014/ju...

****Publishers**** Pitching for #baytales26 opens Tues 1 April and closes Sat 31 May. For more info, DM us.

‘A Hundred-Acre Wood where the Beatles will always be playing.’ Me on Ian Leslie’s new Fab Two book, for @thespectator1828.bsky.social. www.spectator.co.uk/article/acro...

Worth sharing with alt text. Brian Eno's response to the Quaker arrests.

We're really looking forward to sharing this on the big screen with you 📽️ Our @nicktriplow.bsky.social will guide you through the book-to-film process before we all watch it together. April 5th, @hulllibraries.bsky.social (Central), 7pm. Tickets £5 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/get-carter...

I'm amazed that these robber barons also stole one of my academic papers. Maybe three people read it? It's extremely niche and boring! But it's MY extremely niche and boring work. You can't just take it.

“Go back to Jersey, boyo. This is the city of angels and you haven’t got any wings.” My 4th or 5th viewing of L.A. CONFIDENTIAL and it gets better every time. Crowe, Spacey, Pearce, Bassinger & Cromwell, all in absolutely top form. The pacing, the narrative & character interplay, all excellent.