Me and @joannapocock.bsky.social about old film cameras on the Rippling Pages I love film photography - this is a cheap little point and click i found on eBay. Not sure they measure up to Joanna’s! 🤣 Listen to more on GREYHOUND @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social 👇 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

Hoping Alan wins - can’t see it happening!

Prof Gary Younge lecture at Leeds Uni this evening - ‘the man who photobombed De Gaulle’

High praise! Thank you!

Great conversation and great pod. I’ve been binging episodes 🎧📚

Artful weekend

Catching Jean Vigo’s L’Atalante this afternoon

📸Photographs are like writing - they’re all about editing and what you choose to leave out! Bonus content with @joannapocock.bsky.social is now out - we’re talking more about objects of influence and GREYHOUND @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social Come and listen👇 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

#Saraswati by Gurnaik Johal has been selected by Waterstones as a best fiction book of 2025 🌊 A holy river returns, seven lives change course. Saraswati is a masterpiece debut novel from one of the UK's most exciting young writers. www.waterstones.com/blog/the-bes...

It is full of gossip, though she doesn't reveal much about her affair with Nelson Algren... though it's all there if one reads between the lines. (The book is beautifully translated by Carol Cosman)

Love this cover from de Beauvoir’s reissue of America Day by Day As @joannapocock.bsky.social says, ‘it’s full of gossip’ Joanna mentions it in her book GREYHOUND @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social Which we spoke about on RP (doing some bonus content to release tomorrow!)

Anna’s pain is spiritual as much as it is physical Here, Agnes made me think a lot about how we’re trying to find fulfilment, and how we place responsibility in other people’s or ideas of other people to fulfill ourselves. How do break from that? podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

Happy Sunday

Clocks turning back. Finding light where I can

“It’s like scrap paper - you can’t make anything of it” This is a painfully sweet metaphor for how Agnes writes about time in her novel This such a skilful aspect of SUPPORTING ACT and how people experience time differently Agnes reminded of Ernaux podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

One of the books I’ve received for next year @noreenmasud.bsky.social and Octavia Bright in particular looking forward to reading

Autumn trees Sometimes in the most unlikely of places This is why I love autumn 🍁

People clearly feel strongly about this book! Listen to my conversation with Agnes Lidbeck, as we discuss SUPPORTING ACT tr. by Nichola Smalley Writing frustration and major life adjustments - that clearly inspire others to make life adjustments! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/rip…

Here’s Agnes Lidbeck and I doing a quick soundcheck before our guests arrived on Friday! Some kind words about Leeds that I had to keep in! The full episode is going to be with you tomorrow

'Packs a serious emotional punch.' Daily Telegraph The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits, now shortlisted for the Booker Prize, is only £1.49 on Kindle today 🚗 www.amazon.co.uk/Rest-Our-Liv...

Sunday cinema session

We are so pleased that Ishion Hutchinson’s School of Instructions has won the Rilke Prize for Poetry. english.unt.edu/creative-writing/unt-rilke-prize.html

Life on the edges - you don’t want to be too sentimental or unrealistic in your portrayal @joannapocock.bsky.social talks about the challenges of writing kindness, and the acts of kindness she sees in her North American road trip @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

Some of the books I mention in the latest Ask the Host episode! A great autumn selection, with books from @scratchbooks.bsky.social @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social @noreenmasud.bsky.social @dauntbookspub.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social 👂 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

Apples and cinnamon stewing…northern list fest tickets booked…blowing a gale…October baseball 🍁

This was a really fun conversation. Thank you @liamhbishopwriting.bsky.social 🙏🙏🙏

New episode of the Rippling Pages is out now with @joannapocock.bsky.social on GREYHOUND @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social This one is finding kindness and perspective while out on the American Road and much more It’s a journey Joanna’s done twice! Find out why here: linktr.ee/ripplingpage...

Read SUPPORTING ACT by Agnes Lidbeck (tr. Nichola Smalley) over the weekend. It had me thinking how do we, as children, rely on our mother’s touch, but mirror this in other relationships later in life Come see me live in conversation with Agnes www.nextchapterleeds.co.uk/events/p/the...

Also delighted to that I’m going to be doing a live podcast with one of Sweden’s most exciting writers I’ll be with Agnes Lidbeck live at Next Chapter Books in Leeds Intimate, cosy recording in the shop - small number of tix available! 👇 Come join us! www.nextchapterleeds.co.uk/events/p/the...

Come and have a coffee with me this Sunday morning as I settle down to answer some of your questions! Including: Latest reads with books from @dauntbookspub.bsky.social @scratchbooks.bsky.social @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social What’s my favourite bookshop? More here: linktr.ee/ripplingpage...

In brief with a review of BIG TIME by Jordan Prosser in @irishtimes.com last week @deadinkbooks.bsky.social Check out 👍 www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

✨ 'The very best of traditional literary fiction. . . We loved it. You: read it.' The Times We are so thrilled that The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025. Huge congratulations to Ben and all the fellow shortlistees 🎉

Bonus content with Gurnaik Johal is now live on Rippling Pages! We’re talking objects of influence and we’re talking why Buster Keaton helps Gurnaik to not take the writing too seriously Come have a listen as we talk SARASWATI @serpents-tail.bsky.social linktr.ee/ripplingpagesp…

Amazing time in Munich 🇩🇪 A devils footprint, Cy Twombly and Will Rees in Hypochondria

I’m running giveaway on my instagram Why not come have a look and enter with the chance to win one of these! Find me on @rippling_pages

Autumn is coming - time for some big hardback books! I’ve got a big on the latest episode of the Rippling Pages with Gurnaik Johal on SARASWATI @serpents-tail.bsky.social ! Always sad to say bye to summer (although it’s pretty balmy), but it’s exciting book season linktr.ee/ripplingpage...

Really enjoying this from Sasha Debevec-McKenney @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social I feel like I’m walking through New York. The poem based on the REAL HOUSEWIVES intros is a particular favourite.

☕️Come and have a coffee Gurnaik Johal and me as we discuss his novel SARASWATI @serpents-tail.bsky.social A village in India and then the world debate the return of a holy river We discuss rivers, idea of reclamation and writing tips and tricks 👂Listen here: linktr.ee/ripplingpagesp…

👀I’ve just finished putting this episode together Which means it’s going to be in your feeds tomorrow! Time to find out the personal inspiration behind one of the most anticipated debuts this year SARASWATI by Gurnaik Johal @serpents-tail.bsky.social

THE BOOK OF BRADFORD 📚 Edited by @saimamir.bsky.social 📅 Oct 2 (Pre-Order Now) The stories gathered here remind us that anyone who tries to dismiss Bradford does so at their peril. Specially commissioned for @bradford2025.co.uk 📚 commapress.co.uk/books/the-bo...

🧑‍🏫What I learnt from Yan Ge! Writing in one language is hard, but two is harder! Communicating with our pasts through writing can be a challenging but beautiful journey Find balance in your writing routine 👇Two episodes for Rippling Pages are here: linktr.ee/ripplingpagesp…

Last of the summer vines

Lovely Saturday afternoon with Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and David Wojnarowicz - among others! @leedsartgallery.bsky.social

A couple of @prototypepubs.bsky.social reads to get through this week!

Lorna Goodison is in Manchester! On Saturday 6th September at 2.30pm, please join us at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation to celebrate Lorna's recent publication, Dante's Inferno.🔥 No tickets required, but for more information see the link below:⬇️ www.carcanet.co.uk/events/lorna...

Afghanistan +100 call out. Editor Q&A, Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM | Eventbrite www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/afghanista...

Absolutely flown through this weekend. Green tea and sat outside on a balmy evening to finish it off 🤌

Lovely evening at @nathbrudenell.bsky.social Vermont based folk artist Hannah Frances. Had to see her! What a voice.

This is what Israel has lowered itself to in defence of its genocide: arguing about how thin the arms of children under 5 years old have to be to meet the criteria of STARVING TO FUCKING DEATH.

Fellowship from Bloomsbury for early career academics who are Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...