Today’s book post. New stories by @andrewhook.bsky.social @dancoxon.bsky.social and Aliya Whiteley. These are from a very handsome new series of single-story chapbooks called ‘ Infidelities‘, from the excellent @salopress.bsky.social….

On my blog today, my review of the excellently creepy gangster hideout novel Paradise by @bentufnell.bsky.social @influxpress.bsky.social @annerandomthings.bsky.social blog tour annabookbel.net/paradise-by-...

When the ‘omnilingual’ Anthony Burgess met Jorge Luis Borges, they apparently ‘chatted in Anglo-Saxon’! From ‘Visiting Mrs Nabokov’ by Martin Amis

New episode of Uncanny Landscapes is out now. On alls the platforms. Ben Tufnell discusses his new novel Paradise - a brilliant slice of pastoral-noir fiction inspired by his decades as a curator of contemporary landscape art in London.

This is a great initiative by @uncertainstories.com - a series of beautiful little chapbooks each containing a single short story, given away for free in independent bookshops. I picked up this spooky tale by the great @daveyfrankel.bsky.social in @goldenharebooks.bsky.social in Edinburgh….

Any writers currently feeling less than productive can thank themselves they're not in the shoes of pulp author Alfred J Burks, who at his peak in the 1930s set himself a target to write 18,000 words a day. A day.

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

It is here! Huge thanks to @influxpress.bsky.social @dan.coxon.belly.social @charlotteseymour.bsky.social, Luke Bird and Vince Haig, and profound gratitude to the blurbers: @aetwigg.bsky.social @charlieratpig.bsky.social @seanbirnie.bsky.social, James Miller and Aliya Whiteley In bookshops now!

I was just wondering what to read next when this popped through the door. Will read straightaway! @bentufnell.bsky.social @influxpress.bsky.social

'Poppy' c.1852 by Anna Atkins, UK pioneer in botany and photography whose photographs created by the cyanotype process were the first ever to be published #womensart #WomensHistoryMonth

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@bentufnell.bsky.social chooses six books that influenced the upcoming PARADISE for Interzone www.patreon.com/posts/six-bo...

THE NORTH SHORE TO PARADISE @bentufnell.bsky.social will be appearing at the Norfolk & Norwich Festival in May, in conversation with Tracee Findlater about his two books, THE NORTH SHORE and his brilliant new novel, PARADISE. Thursday 14 May 6pm 🎟️ £15 nnfestival.org.uk/whats-on/the...

PARADISE, the new genre-defying eco-thriller combining elements of noir, folk horror and nature writing by @bentufnell.bsky.social, is published early March! Interested reviewers please get in touch. Pre-order here: www.influxpress.com/shop/paradis...

Excited to have a story in the new issue of @the4facedliar.bsky.social Thanks to Roisin and everyone at the magazine!

an incredible window from the Church of St John in Whitbourne, Herefordshire

We asked Aliya Whiteley for her best books of 2025, a book she'd love for Xmas & her anticipated reads of 2026. Read the full article https://geni.us/SolarisBks2025 to find out why she picked @vajra.me @bentufnell.bsky.social & @annecharnock.bsky.social ! https://geni.us/misheardw

For 2026 let’s remind ourselves what really matters: weird fiction

Great piece by @chuckwendig.bsky.social

PARADISE by @bentufnell.bsky.social is published March 2026 www.influxpress.com/paradise

Many thanks to @charlieratpig.bsky.social for these words…..

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Salvador Dali, ‘Portrait of Luis Bunuel’ (1924), Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid

Royal Natural History, Richard Lydekker, originally published in 1893. #OwlishMonday

Excellent book post thanks to @undertow.bsky.social and @uncertainstories.com. Looking forward to these. And ‘Broken Ground’ came with a free single story booklet by @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social!!

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

I’ve got a new story in The Brussels Review. It’s about an academic called Ben Tufnell, writing a paper on ‘that bastard, Kant’, haunted by ‘BenTufnell’, his namesake who is doing research on doubles and doppelgängers…. @thebrusselsreview.bsky.social

Very happy to have a new story in the ever-brilliant Interzone... shop.interzone.press/b/E76yw

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Many thanks to @seanbirnie.bsky.social for the kind words….

*Very* mixed feelings about Alien: Earth but wtf, this guy is definitely the most terrifying ‘herbivore’ since Black Philip….

I’m really very happy to be working with the brilliant Influx Press!

'Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months.' One of the great opening lines.....

Many thanks to the tree that grew the apples! Last year’s cider is drinking very nicely…

Peanut butter is the crack cocaine of spreads….

Anselm Kiefer, ‘Sweet golden clime (for William Blake)’ (2023-25), Emulsion, oil, acrylic, gold leaf and ash on canvas, 280 x 190 cm. At White Cube, Mason’s Yard….

Mike Perry’s ‘Reverse Sod Swap’ exchanges a circle of turf from a field in Wales with a circle of turf from a wildflower meadow in Springfield Park, Hackney. There are 39 species of flora in the turf that went to Wales and only 4 species in the sheep grazed turf that now resides in London. 1/2

Heading for the beach this summer and after some holiday reading? May I suggest my wintery, Gothic, melancholy, storm-lashed book, variously described as 'weird, astonishing' and 'Folk horror at its most intelligent and beautiful.' The perfect holiday companion!

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