With the wintry nights drawing in, what better time to curl up with a collection of spooky folktales? MONSTROUS TALES is out now in hardback and audio. Such great stories, and all so different. @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social 💙📚 #books

Yesterday, I was writing a very difficult chapter (will require trigger warnings) while sheltering from showers on the allotment. Today, wielding a sledgehammer to bang in stakes to repair the raised beds. My brain aches; my arms ache. Can you believe I'm still picking ripe tomatoes in November? 💙📚

Waking up, again, to the sound of two white men on the radio arguing about whether it is ok to be made "mad" by the very sight of black and Asian people on TV. 😒

"Goldman Sachs has estimated that the average ChatGPT query uses nearly 10 times as much energy as a Google search." "A midsized data center uses as much water in a day as 1,000 American households, about 300,000 gallons, one research scientist told NPR." More: share.google/BOXHTwok4Ltr...

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Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

I think about this in how the guy who ran MySpace sold his company and then traveled the world doing photography, while the guy who runs Facebook never let it go and has gone out of his way to destroy democracy in order to gain more power.

Here's Harlands Primary School, the first recipients of books courtesy of "Big Green Books 500 Club" I sent them £500 of books, thanks to the dosh we're raising each week through the club. You can read about it HERE. biggreenbookshop.com/big-green-bo...

Next week peers will vote for or against swift bricks to be incorporated into all new builds. To help please email [email protected] & [email protected] who are crucial to the decision. Ask them to SAVE OUR SWIFTS ‼️put SWIFT BRICKS in the subject line 🙏 Such a small thing.

Time to vote for the oddest book title of the year! ‘Self Recognition in Fish’ sounds like an excellent contender, but nothing here is as good as the 2013 winner ‘How to Poo on a Date’… Voting open till Nov 17. #books 💙📚 www.thebookseller.com/comment/axe-...

It's publication day for the deliciously spooky collection of MONSTROUS TALES from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social - stories from a brilliant line-up of authors celebrating the weird and wonderful legendary creatures of the British Isles. Perfect reading for Hallowe'en! #books 💙📚

This isle is full of noises... From the Finfolk of Orkney and the plague monsters of the Welsh mountains, to the Beast of Bodmin Moor, Britain is home to many monsters of folklore. A deliciously chilling collection from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social Out October 23! #Books 💙📚

This isle is full of noises... From the Finfolk of Orkney and the plague monsters of the Welsh mountains, to the Beast of Bodmin Moor, Britain is home to many monsters of folklore. A deliciously chilling collection from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social Out October 23! #Books 💙📚

The vaccine does not prevent infection or transmission.Pay attention to the people being careful: they're cautious for good reason. Brain damage, early Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, cancer, early diabetes, heart, kidney, immune system damage. Reservoirs of virus left throughout the body to reactivate.

Without doubt the weirdest thing I have ever seen growing. It's Clathrus ruber - basket stinkhorn - and it lives up to its name. "Although the edibility of the fungus is not known with certainty, it has a deterrent odour..." (You'd have to be mad.) In rural France it's known as cœur de sorcière 😁

Nice to see the paperback of SECRETS OF THE BEES included in the Waterstones pre-order promotion! I’ll drop a link into the comments. You just select your book from the landing page and enter code OCTOBER25 to get your 25% off. Lots of wonderful books to choose from. 💙📚

Nice to see the paperback of SECRETS OF THE BEES included in the Waterstones pre-order promotion! I’ll drop a link into the comments. You just select your book from the landing page and enter code OCTOBER25 to get your 25% off. Lots of wonderful books to choose from. 💙📚

#TalkingLocationWith ... @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social Author of Secrets of the Bees set in CORNWALL www.tripfiction.com/talking-loca... "..a novel about the coming together of old Cornwall.." #blueskybooks #booksky

The veneration of Books As Objects misses the point entirely. If you're reading a book, turn the corners down, break the spine, spill soup on it. It's your book, go nuts. A pristine, unread book is a tragedy in a way that a beloved, much-read book that looks like the dog's been at it could never be.

NEW: We need to talk about Russia. So, yes, that's why we need to talk about Nigel Farage. My personal newsletter on the story behind the story. Brexit, Trump, Russia & now...Nathan Gill. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Brilliant discussion about migration with Amol Rajan. She is right. We have to change the way we think about migrants and climate change, accept the inevitable and make it work. Buy her book NOMAD CENTURY. 💙📚 #books

Well, this has come out of the blue. Financially, we’ve had an excellent year. I’ll miss Charlie - an affable fellow, elder brother of Eddie Redmayne. Kate is a publisher to her core, though. A very safe pair of hands who will keep the giant ship steady. #books www.thebookseller.com/news/harperc...

Really looking forward to this new HBO adaptation (coming in January). These stories are wonderful, set around 90 years before A GAME OF THRONES, and I'm so proud to have published them. #books 💙📚

Magnificent.

Lovely tributes to poet Brian Patten throughout the news and press, as there should be. His wife Linda Cookson reminded me yesterday that he had been afforded the Freedom of the City of Liverpool, which made him so proud. www.itv.com/news/granada...

I'm so sad to have lost my brilliant, mercurial friend, poet Brian Patten, with whom I worked for 39 years. This is how he signed off his last email to me: "It's dragonfly time here. The lake down the lane is alight with them..." Brian, you left the world alight with your words. Obit in comments. 💙📚

Oh no. RIP Brian Patten. Unwittingly but significantly, Patten had a huge influence over the high summer of superhero comics in the 80s. Alan Moore loved Patten’s poem “Where Are You Now, Batman?” & it strongly influenced his Marvelman stories & more. Which then influenced just about everyone else.

Many claims are made for the power of poetry to change lives. All I can offer on the death of Brian Patten is a simple truth. This poem - sent to me by my not-then-wife - is the reason I am with her 40 years on. RIP Brian. x

I'm so sad to have lost my brilliant, mercurial friend, poet Brian Patten, with whom I worked for 39 years. This is how he signed off his last email to me: "It's dragonfly time here. The lake down the lane is alight with them..." Brian, you left the world alight with your words. Obit in comments. 💙📚

Beautiful walk today ... but there's a story behind it. Settle in. Cornwall is beautiful, a lovely place to grow up, a lovely place to visit. But it can be a hard place to live in. I was walking through these woods to reach a friend in need.... 1/6

Beautiful walk today ... but there's a story behind it. Settle in. Cornwall is beautiful, a lovely place to grow up, a lovely place to visit. But it can be a hard place to live in. I was walking through these woods to reach a friend in need.... 1/6

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

Good morning from Cornwall! Beautiful sunrise here today.

My reading for fun list recently has been … eclectic: A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY John Irving THE YELLOW ADMIRAL Patrick O’Brian BABEL RF Kuang ATMOSPHERE Taylor Jenkins Reid HIDE AND SEEK Wilkie Collins THE SAFEKEEP Yale van der Wouden LOST AND NEVER FOUND Simon Mason 💙📚 #books

Excellent article from Jonny Geller - one of the UK's top top literary agents - about the dangers of AI. "The single biggest threat to the livelihood of authors and, by extension, to our culture, is not short attention spans. It is AI." #books 💙📚 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Good morning!

Yesterday's evening walk, all the bracken on the turn from green to russet, which flares in the low-spectrum light. #cornwall

This woodland archway could take you anywhere, or anywhen. Step through the circle of light into another world, someone else's story... #cornwall

Novel set in CORNWALL (and Cyprus) www.tripfiction.com/novel-set-in... Secrets of the Bees by Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social "A thoroughly enjoyable book, which I am excited to recommend.." @headofzeus.bsky.social (Apollo) #blueskybooks #booksky

This is outstanding. God knows what Labour is doing: legitimising the racism that'll be its undoing, losing the coalition which put it in office, trying to secure voters who will never support it, digging its own moral grave. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

I have grown a mutant dahlia! #gardening

Love being part of this spooky venture: a collection of original folk horror stories commissioned by Bloomsbury Books covering the monsters of the British Isles (mine of course being the Beast of Bodmin 🐈‍⬛). Great line-up of writers, gorgeous design, out in Oct! 💙📚 #books #horror #cornwall

Buried in The Observer yesterday was this: UK police knocking on doors demanding details of social media accounts of people, to pass to a foreign government, simply because they happen to live near where a US politician wanted to have a holiday observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Rupert Lowe-Life’s all consuming hate of migrants blinds him so much that he posted a pic of Charity Rowers saying "Dinghies coming into Great Yarmouth, RIGHT NOW" causing locals to gather on the shore following the 4 rowers menacingly.. 1 of them raising £100,000 for Charity is an ex Royal Marine

Hmm, what do ‘central camps’ and ‘final plan’ remind you of? 🤷🏽‍♂️👇🏽

Go and see this show and become enraged by all the rights that were stripped from you and your ancestors. Allotments included. threeacresandacow.co.uk

With Labour encouraging councils to sell off centuries-old allotments to the highest bidder, I reckon it's time for a new Diggers movement! The 17th century Diggers believed in "digging" on common land to provide for themselves and others, establishing a "community of goods". #radical #gardening

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