Fantastic night with Telegram Sam at Bognor’s 70’s festival!

Always listen to @orlaowenwriting.bsky.social and thank you.

Happy post. My friend Tony Christie was presented with the Music Icon award last night and a framed handwritten lyric by Neil Sedaka and Tony’s key to the city of Amarillo raised £20,000 for the Nordoff-Robbins music charity!

Something hopefully uplifting for a change 🙏 youtu.be/UAW2zFLaRVM?...

Good morning. Here is the latest from the AI creative Writing Lit Hub. " ." If you are able, please buy your books from Indie publishers. @foylesforbooks.bsky.social @thebookseller.com

Good morning. Back from my travels. Lottie walked. Time for a brew.

It’s been quite the week, so really lovely to see this on social media today - thank you @bertsbooks.bsky.social 💜📚💜 #books #BookSky @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social

Huge good luck to @jomcmillan.bsky.social @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social tonight!! Have a brilliant evening 👏💙💙👏 #books #booksky #TheAccidentalImmigrants @orwellprize.bsky.social 💙💙

I am chairing two events @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social 29th June - 2.30 pm - Writing The North 5th July - 4.30 pm - Careers in Publishing @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social @newwritingnorth.bsky.social It would be lovely to see you. www.bradfordlitfest.co.uk

Was just doing a quick search to check cos i'm 99% sure Ghost Signs is three years old today, and discovered it's in the Wellcome Collection 😱😳 wellcomecollection.org/works/fpew7kxb

It always happens doesn't it? Billions splurged on tech and science to create the perfect book. Tik Tokery & algorithms do not butter any parsnips. Writing is hard graft. Together with great booksellers and librarians and word of mouth. We put books into readers' hands. @thebookseller.com

These are bought on Amazon - heads-up to any carers/guardians that may have needed to get one.

Right, #Booksky, used to get 100's of replies to these on Twitter so.... My day job is buying books for 34 libraries, help me and my customers out by telling me the best fiction book(s) you've read in 2025. Rules: can be any genre and doesn't have to be new, but NOTHING self-published gogogo! 📚

In a weeks time I'll be at Conway hall in London for the @orwellprize.bsky.social Awards ceremony. I've bought 2 new T shirts. @thebookseller.com @newwritingnorth.bsky.social @beelitmag.bsky.social @northernfiction.bsky.social

Good morning BlueSkyRiders! I’m assuming it’s Tuesday.. it’s Tuesday isn’t it?

Brilliant!! @orwellprize.bsky.social @nybooks.com @financialtimes.com

Heavens to Murgatroyd. What a bin fire. I know it can't solve everything but Leonard and Hungry Paul by @ronanhession.bsky.social Is a literary salve for the soul.

I concur. This is every bit as bleary-eyed and melancholy as cover suggests, but free from the cliches that too easily conflate problem drinking with a kind of lush romanticism as the writer tries to reassemble the disparate shards of memory and selves shattered by life at the bottom of a bottle.

This is why we publish. The Accidental Immigrants @jomcmillan.bsky.social First they came for... @orwellprize.bsky.social @theguardian.com @thetimes.com @newstatesman.com @prospectmagazine.co.uk

Just received the invite to the Orwell Prize Awards. Conway Hall on 25th June. The Accidental Immigrants by @jomcmillan.bsky.social Finalist for Political Fiction. Marvellous. @orwellprize.bsky.social @theguardian.com @newstatesman.com @thebookseller.com @irishtimes.com

Over the moon to see this - thank you for sending the photo @petekeeley1.bsky.social 💙 I LOVE @bertsbooks.bsky.social What an honour - thank you so much - best way to start the weekend!!! 💙❤️💙 #ChristOnABike #books #booksky @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social

Fabulous fun tonight chatting about #ChristOnABike with a great bookclub in Waterloo. Such fantastic questions, & I think I’ve persuaded them all to go on a road trip to West Wales, & to read Leonard and Hungry Paul by @ronanhession.bsky.social 💙💚📚💚💙 #bools #booksky @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social

youtu.be/hi_uV6ojDSs?... Happy 71st birthday, Jerry Dammers.

Last week I met the director Andrew Chaplin On the set of Leonard and Hungry Paul. He'd just won a @bafta.org for the BBC drama _Alma's not normal_ I saw the scene between Shelley (Jamie -Lee) and Leonard (Alex) post Gracie's wedding and it moved me to tears. @thetimes.com

🚨🌱 The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. Please join me in signing the @campaignforthearts.org petition to remind the UK Govt: the arts make our lives happier & our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them. www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...

Very important.Please visit Southwark Council's website and voice your objections. Thanks, everyone.

Doesn't this look grand. BEAST by @luluallison.bsky.social Rabbit's, Demons & Desires. Publishing 31st July. @thebookseller.com @thetimes.com

youtube.com/watch?v=DxeO... Happy birthday, Brian Eno.

'In the Shadow of the Shard' film screening 11 Jun, about Marklake Court, a #communityleddevelopment of council rent homes on existing estates, we often use as an example for councils. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-the-sha... @jpcookie50.bsky.social

youtu.be/pEoE2UQXduA?... Happy birthday, Stevie.

youtube.com/watch?v=mlru... Born on this day, 1952, Lee Brilleaux.

Many thanks to the wonderful booksellers @waterstones.bsky.social Deansgate Manchester. Ghost Mountain by @ronanhession.bsky.social On the new fiction table. #blueskybooks

Publishing has a serious class problem. It is one of the most socially exclusive of all creative industries. Please, if you can, read this. @thebookseller.com @ipghq.bsky.social thebeemagazine.com/publishings-...

Solar Power Surges Around The World cleantechnica.com/2025/04/26/s...

Train tickets booked for National Book Awards. Northern Publishers of the year 2023 & 2025. #Nibbies #BritishBookAwards @thetimes.com @theguardian.com @theobserveruk.bsky.social @thebookseller.com

Private landlords and hotels ‘cashing in’ on England’s hidden homelessness crisis Source: The Guardian search.app/Qu3S6 Shared via the Google App

youtu.be/4m4MpVSmGl8?... Happy birthday Cuba Gooding Snr.

youtu.be/Xgjdm5qXTX4?... Happy birthday to the wonderful, peerless Joni Mitchell.