We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025! "Each of these books arrives in English in expert and accessible translations that honour the art and voice of their original authors." tinyurl.com/f9sccz4v

Proud to be an early adopter

Surely James Bond just regenerates again?

come on though, Skyfall is *about* the inevitable death of the Queen and her replacement with a bit of an awkward balding man who we don't like as much

PRE CREDITS MINOR VILLAIN (as alarms blare and muffled explosions go off in the depths of his HQ): James Bond? But he’s dead! JAMES BOND (stepping from behind a curtain and shooting him through the ear): Don’t believe everything you ‘ear *OPENING TITLES*

Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell

Remembrance Day is now dominated by performative nonsense. You don't need a house sized poppy and a model spitfire to show you care about the sacrifices made for the country. Where's the sense of dignity and the quiet respect gone?

The Archbishop of York was forced to cut short a visit to a family in the south Hebron hills on Saturday, after Israeli police ordered the Church of England delegation to leave the area. #WestBank #Israel #Palestine #ArchbishopofYork

I just dropped the only copy of my autobiography into a vat of glue. That’s my story & I’m sticking to it

It's just occurred to me that it's now more expensive to read about the TV (£286 per year) than it is to watch the TV (£174.50 per year). diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...

THREAD Tonight is the 83rd anniversary of Kristallnacht- night of 9 November 1938 during which hundreds of German Jews were murdered and thousands of synagogues burnt. Contrast in Spanish Republican + Francoist press could not have been greater; the former despite its own desperate situation, CONT'D

Two big jobs going at the BBC, and Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly with a lot more time on their hands. Surely this problem solves itself.

This is also how come techbro grindset types believe so easily that AI can replace artists and creatives. Art and narrative are just meaningless lights and sounds to them.

✨🪞HAUNTED MIRRORS 🪞✨ A man acquires an antique mirror with a bloodthirsty ghoul trapped in the glass. This is the premise of From Beyond the Grave’s “The Gatecrasher” (1974), based on a short story by Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes.

Enjoy the Sunday caption contest. Give away ❤️s, retweet to encourage more competitors, include #GirlsOwnCC

Lovelies, if your Sunday needs a cosy, nerdy chat about Robert Holdstock's Mythago Wood, then the latest episode of Starship Alexandria can help! starshipalexandria.com/episode-8-my... Also features @aptshadow.bsky.social mentioning insects and me NOT mentioning ST:TNG (shocking, I know!)

Archaeologists have discovered a stone tablet at a Tartessian site in southwestern Spain that depicts battle scenes in the center and a partial alphabet in a Paleo-Hispanic script along the edges (21 signs total). www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Out this evening at the theatre. Intrigued to know what the middle-aged themes are.

Nice charity shop find earlier, this atmospheric, elegant little charcoal and watercolour work, a shade of the uneasy & uncanny about it that I find quite compelling, a pall of gloom, something brooding

Right, enough of James Watson - who's a senior academic you've met who's been an utter delight? I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Having a dog involves many poo-related humiliations

What would we no longer have if fireworks were banned? Terrified pets, yet more pointless plastic released into the environment, antisocial moronic noise. Call me crazy but I reckon we can just about cope with that kind of loss, as a species.

#BookReview Little Secrets by @victoriagoldman.bsky.social 'Packed with twists and turns, Little Secrets is an intelligent, suspense-filled murder mystery – this compulsive thriller kept me guessing until the dramatic conclusion.' hairpastafreckle72.blogspot.com/2025/11/litt... #Booksky 💙📚

One of the worst things to happen to a person is a failed dog poo bag

It’s the weekend and you need some reviews and one line articles you read? Fear not Wombling Along is here to settle back with a nice cuppa and the you may just possibly need a book? www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/11...

Nov 8: Feast of Willehad (†789), bishop. Northumbrian who preached among the Frisians and Saxons. He abandoned his post in the face of the Saxon leader Widukind’s rebellion against Charlemagne in Westphalia in 782. In 787, he was appointed first bishop of Bremen. 📸A Savin #medievalsky

Finally nailed the promotional photo for my East Anglian remake of Don't Look Now, which tells the same story, but using all the locations from Whistle And I'll Come To You.

Part 2 of our history of the remarkable flight of the California Clipper in WW2 is now available. To get back to the US after Pearl Harbor, Ford and his crew are asked by Pan Am to do something no commercial aircrew or passenger plane has done before: Circumnavigate the world. #history #aviation

Aaaaand here's the UK version. Gone for less Tim Burton more a classic 1930s feel which I also love and fits the book really well as it's a whodunnit. I love them both.

The Silver Book by Olivia Laing: ‘We are all in danger’ alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/11/the-... @penguinukbooks.bsky.social

Tune in at 18:10 to see Thora Hird founding Antifa in Went The Day Well

Out now in paperback is this gorgeous story of magic, digital ghosts, communities and even a cat - I strongly recommend All The Ghosts In The Forest by @rainewilson.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2024/12...

I like properties where spirits have thrown their ectoplasmic weight around to the point the owners have fled. More so, I adore a property so phantom-plagued no estate agent can find a willing renter. Ghosts that defy the property market are worth studying. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts

A Happy publication day to this very interesting sounding epic science fiction novel now in English for the first time - Ice by Jacek Dukaj out now! #Ice www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/11...

I'm back with more Dragonlance! Today, I'm talking about Dragons of Summer Flame by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. #Dragonlance #DragonsOfSummerFlame #margaretweisandtracyhickman #booksky

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

This is exactly my position. Licensed displays only. No bloody idiots setting them off in the street or back garden, sometimes in the small hours, terrifying animals and people, causing injuries or damage that are totally avoidable

I think this constant push for immigrants to feel & act ‘grateful’ is so insidious. Let’s change the narrative. Migration is a normal part of human behaviour, not a charity case. If you’re doing your best to do your best, you don’t need to do even more to be accepted. It’s your right to be accepted.

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Such a mystery, what MASS DISABLING EVENT could have happened after 2019 to cause this?

1/ My day on the blog tour for "The Winter Job" by Antti Tuomainen, who turns a seemingly mundane cross-country furniture delivery into a darkly humorous thriller which was SO much fun to read! @orendabooks.bsky.social @annerandomthings.bsky.social www.angryalgonquin.com/the-winter-j...

Algerian-born train hero saves train passengers from attack. Since the right-wing press loves reporting criminals’ race and religion, surely they should report heroes’ too. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I know I say this every year, but you can't beat flagshagger poppyganda by oversimplifying shit to the other extreme. You beat it by actively encouraging people to understand that narratives around war and remembrance are COMPLEX. And that this is GOOD. Because it makes them interesting.

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Freedom of religion in America now

🌞 Morning! 🌞 New book review on the blog today for HEAVENLY BODIES by Imani Erriu in which “a prophecy claims Elara will fall for the King of Stars, but it will kill them both.” Really enjoyed this romantasy! 🪐📚💙 aliteraryescape.com/2025/11/03/h...

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My debut novel, Tombstoning, is back from the dead. The book was first published in 2006, so next year is its twentieth birthday. To celebrate, my publisher @orendabooks.bsky.social are reissuing it with a lovely new cover and an introduction by Chris Brookmyre. Pre-order here: geni.us/Mb0bqB

I forgot to take mine

Watching ”Down Cemetery Road” and it reminded me that there WAS an explosion in Oxford a few years back with as far as I remember very little follow-up or subsequent news. Presumably the inspiration for this.