Julia Roberts narration of the BBC TV adaptation of Leonard and Hungry Paul @ronanhession.bsky.social is in the can as they say. Transmission date is confirmed and I'll let you know very, very soon. We established BM in Nov 2005 and now our second book is made into a TV drama. Bloody Magic!

How wonderful does this sound! @newislandbooks.bsky.social is launching The Hare's Corner by @janeclarke.bsky.social and Catherine Cleary, illustrated by Jane Carkill. Books Upstairs, Friday 26 September at 6.30pm www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

Discussing Dirty Linen on France 24 ahead of my evrnt with Neil Hegarty at the @centreculturelirlandais on Thursday as part of my month’s residency. If you’re in Paris , come along www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/...

A great pleasure to meet Michael and Tania Hanna on the tour. Tania's uncle Nuri Rufail was of two Iraq's to fight in the International Brigades, and among the ~800 Arabs to fight against Franco. Last week they put up a plaque to him at Hill 705 at the memorial to the Ebro battle

V interesting ‘Irish Distillers publishes historic business records of Cork farmers dating back 200 years’ www.irishexaminer.com/business/com...

High Uintas Pass, Sunday 9/21/25 #landscapephotography #photography #photography #Leica #mountains #Utah

And some hidden beauties

Wildly behind in my dead-heading but plenty of life in the garden yet, tomatoes, peppers, basil, asters, salvia, Turk’s cap, dahlias, butterflies and hummingbirds

I was away and the asters came up, among my favourites

I'll just say #OrangeSun for this pic of an Anna's #hummingbird feeding on Grevillea at the UCSC Arboretum 🌱 #JBCFlowers #birds #avian #bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #ColorADay

Loch Voil

Sometimes you go looking for nature, and sometimes nature comes looking for you 😆 I just sat in the boat with my iPhone 11 and kept filming. #nature #photography #whales

New England is quite like old England

And then from the edge of woods

My son is in a book shop in New Orleans

So, the book has a cover, thanks to the kindness of Colin Davidson. Out in January 26 with some events in Ireland the end of February, start of March. Will be available in the US slightly later. Thanks to you all for encouragement along the way. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Belfast Lough an echo of Galway Bay on this beautiful day

For all that, for me, the north of Ireland seems stuck in a certain kind of history, there are places, like the remains of the dual court tomb at Ballybriest in the Sperrins, where the deep river of time opens up into something else entirely.

Rather than live in a village where people talk a great deal, I should have gone along with the geese that called this morning. -Imperial Princess Tajima (tr. Hiroaki Sato)

Little dragon

Spirits

And for us, descending into the vale, The altars burn Anna Akhmatova

Virgil, Eclogue VIII Trans. David Ferry ‘Farewell to woods, let all be ocean now’

Nanzenji Temple, Kyoto

Jewish cemetery, Cluj

We heard mass in the Orthodox cathedral in Cluj, exquisite

Icarus

Seek only light and freedom Vincent Van Gogh to ‘My dear Theo’, Paris, 14 October 1875 View of Paris from Montmartre (1886)