The Katyogle A1 watercolour

'As if nothing could fall: essays on monuments': very happy to see this, @pva-books.bsky.social - congratulations and thanks. It's monumental. Looking forward to the @booksupstairs.bsky.social launch on Wednesday 25 February.

Seems legit

become less attached Francis Ponge, ‘The Trees Decompose in a Sphere of Fog’, tr C.K. Williams.

Twisty bangle - made this for a friend - couldn't decide which buttons to use so made it reversible #showmeyourknits #knitsky #knitting

Another grey day in the UK, but there's the promise of sunshine coming soon... Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #posted - a bird on a post. And what brighter ray of sunshine could there be than a Rose-coloured Starling basking on a Shetland fencepost? #birds #EastCoastKin #Stunday #photography

On Papay you would say stabbed.. For the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Posted Horse gok on a stab. #Papay #Snipe #Orkney

Really honoured to return to the wonderful @fictivedream.bsky.social with a new story, Creatures of Our Time. Just now and then, the muse needs toning down a bit to become credible fiction…

Sara Baume does it again - this is the book equivalent of a deep life affirming breath and it’s been a joy to read over the last few days. Out in July from @grantabooks.bsky.social

I do love a good impossible quest. This short story takes us around Wales with two Arthurian knights (or are they?). As always with @jolloyds.bsky.social the descriptions of the natural world are gorgeous. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

😍😍😍 I wanted to choose just one non-daunt book to cheer on bar our own EARTH 7 but goddamn this stack is too good, help:

Very nice to see The Cromarty Library Circle on the somewhat daunting shortlist for Bookmark Book Festival's 2026 Book of the year.

Very excited that 'The Matchbox Girl' @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social is on this list. Thanks @walterscottprize.bsky.social and many congratulations to all the other amazing novelists who have been longlisted.

Really delighted to return to this fantastic show for a chat about my forthcoming collection and novella from Ballerini Book Press Thanks so much to Hannah for this kind opportunity. hannahkate.net/north-manche...

Forgive me banging on about this story again - but should you wish to download it, today's the last day (from link below, or Spotify, Apple, etc) - then it's only available on BBC Sounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

Museums are full of really good Creatures (these ones are Mycenaean terracotta). You are required to love them.

Thanks to Amateur Photographer magazine for the 5 page spread in this week’s edition

Absolutely delighted that my novel Boundary Waters has made the longlist for the @walterscottprize.bsky.social in Historical Fiction. I'm thrilled and honoured to see it in such amazing company! www.walterscottprize.co.uk/announcing-t...

"Clutch, a book about friendship and endurance and the ups and downs and trainwrecks of growing up and into midlife together, has a lot of music in it." Emily Nemens shared a playlist for her novel Clutch at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2026/02/04/e...

Only three epigraphs to this novel. I consider that immensely restrained of me.

Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in - Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead (Act 2)

Join us online to launch 'Dirt Rich' by Graeme Richardson on Tuesday 3 February at 7pm BST! 💻📖 The event will be hosted by Jermey Noel-Tod and will feature reading and discussion, alongside time for audience questions. More information and tickets here:🎟️ www.carcanet.co.uk/events/dirt-...

There is a new book by Mark Bowles on the way. It's called How Do People Stay The Same. It is, as you might expect, a thing of beauty and wonder. Details here: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/campaigns/vi...

"Utterance" W.S. Merwin The Rain in the Trees, 1987

I am so excited about this story out today in the fabulous, new @bulbregion.bsky.social! Thank you @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social for choosing this piece and for starting such a great journal. Enjoy (and maybe remember what it was like to be 19!): bulbregion.com/Nine-fucking...

Yes, twenty-one exactly. Not one more, not one less. Thank you to Minor Literature[s] and editor Tobias Ryan for publishing this cautionary tale 💊🦩💊🦚

Tystie incoming. On a rare calm day, even in summer. #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Reflections #Papay #greatauks #blackguillemot #redfeet

it might seem silly & I accept this but a gifted green man has come with us to rents 20 years & went today to retreive it & see the mark it left

@fictivedream.bsky.social is a wonderful compendium of the short story, as is the A Personal Anthology series curated by @jonathangibbs.bsky.social. It was a joy to revisit and reflect on stories by @grahammort.bsky.social, @david-bevan.bsky.social, and ten other superb examples of the form.

It was actually 48 hours before it was finished, but here's my short thread on Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman, an impulse buy from @burleyfisher.bsky.social on Friday evening.

From It Lasts Forever And Then It’s Over by Anne De Marcken

“Surely I knew that already, I said. Surely you did, she said. So in fact I’ve learned nothing, I said. Maybe not, she said, but you’ve learned it thoroughly.” – Emily Hall, The Longcut

An interesting coincidence. This morning I took down from a shelf a book that's been there for a few years: Stories from the New Yorker 1950-1960. I'd decided to do something I'd intended for a while: read it cover to cover, with perhaps a reading thread to accompany it.

My short story ‘How It Works’ @grantamag.bsky.social granta.com/how-it-works/

As today is the day of the hellebore according to @sansculottid.es here are some more Olga Wisinger-Florian commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ol...

Thanks to @jolloyds.bsky.social for sharing the link to this story by Ben Shattuck. It’s available to read for free on The Common’s website. Brilliant piece of work. I saw the film last night - it didn’t bring me to tears, but reading the story did. www.thecommononline.org/the-history-...

As today is the day of the hellebore according to @sansculottid.es here are some more Olga Wisinger-Florian commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ol...

Other Americas are available… #Walden: Paul Farley’s evocative dramatisation of #Thoreau’s classic memoir of paying attention & attempting to live lightly on the Earth. Stars the wonderful Matthew Needham. A huge pleasure to make this one. 3pm Sun 1 Feb @bbcradio4 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Today is Primidi the 11th of Pluviôse in the year 234. Pluviôse is the month of rain. Today we celebrate hellebore.#JacobinDay More information on hellebore

A view from a trip on the ice earlier today. The photograph is taken in a small crevice which is now called Buskebjønneskøra, which means "squirrel's cleft", since squirrels come here to eat hazel nuts. (Buskebjønn, "bush-bear", is a nickname for squirrels, the ordinary word is "ekorn" or "ikorn".)

Tell them to bring us the wine, and the perfume, and all-too-brief petals of lovely roses, while the world, and the years, and the dark threads of the three fatal sisters allow. A.S. Kline's translation because freely available online here: 🙏 www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/...

My favourite poem 🦔 www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Hey you all, I really enjoyed the story by @josephoneill.bsky.social in the last issue of the New Yorker. Check it out. I love the interesting concept of “light secrets” that he discusses in the story. Now I have to read his book.

Great news - The Expansion Project was the best new novel I read last year.

Day 29 of my ‘getting through January, vintage floral plates from books. Last three ! A spring posy from Floriculture 1880 #botanicalillustration #books

The gorgeously-titled Only Sing - 152 previously unpublished Dream Songs by John Berryman - comes out today. This is by its editor Shane McCrae (may or not be the intro to the book) is the most thrilling piece of criticism I've read for a while www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/09...

You may have heard of Enheduanna, the princess, priestess, and poet who is also the earliest named author in history. Well, a tiny broken artefact made of lapis lazuli preserves the name of Ilum-pālil, her hairdresser. It is a fragmentary cylinder seal, excavated from a tomb in the city of Ur.

Brilliant but deeply depressing thread Sadly @kolektiv.xyncro.com 's findings are entirely predictable if you've ever worked for a company that forces you to sit through tick-the-box training apparently designed by bots for drunk toddlers - "You're a future rockstar!" takes me right back

Look at this! New Ben Pester short story collection - this June

Wudja look at this!! Very proud to be published by The Lilliput Press, and am in love with my book's beautiful cover ❤️‍🔥