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So looking forward to this for my NEW PAPERBACK!!! Out TOMORROW!!! Sex marriage power rage queerness parenting chaos. Kate Davies is great and I fear it may become riotous. Please come and keep the peace

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Me checking the NASDAQ all the time: "ahhhhh yes I see well well well" Me before April: "NASDAQ is....some sort of....bank.....?"

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Had forgotten THRILL of being picked as one of @waterstones.bsky.social top authors for the next 25 yrs w #maggieofarrell @naomialderman.bsky.social #SusannaClarke #helenoyemi @gautammalkani.bsky.social +19 others, hence my colossal grin, freshly rediscovered. www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...

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"top 3 so far this year." Believe me when I say Julianne reads about a gazillion books a month, so this is real feat. We have signed copies still available of @charlottemendelson.bsky.social's Wife to order if you'd like one: Here's the link: bertsbooks.co.uk/wife

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Did You Know They Keep Sooty In A Display Case On The North Pier In Blackpool Like A Glove Puppet Jeremy Bentham?

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Eighteen hrs from Perth to Heathr...oh. Now 7 hours into a 1975 style coach trip towards but not even AT Calais so help me god

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🧵Dressage horses with funny names. 1. Super Mario

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Hampstead Heath today was a frenzy of cross country runners all going in different directions and it was brilliant. Like being caught among muddy atoms

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I’ve been hacked over in the other place, which in one way is rather a blessing. The process of trying to sort it out is, however, exasperating. This tweet (which a friend screenshot and sent) did make me laugh though, so that’s something!

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What those who raid bookshops, ban books, censor and destroy archives forget is that we have a history of resistance and we will defend our freedom to read. Seized Books! records how @gaystheword.bsky.social and their supporters fought back against customs raids and won.

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People sometimes ask me what English exceptionalism is. In the future I'm going to just hand out laminated copies of this.

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“The only person being excluded from the conference is me. I emailed and texted four different ARC contacts asking for access. No one got back to me. Maybe it's me who is saying the unsayable.”

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Y’all, I really wanna know what happened with this couple. Anyone know THE Liam Smith?

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I'm proud to be involved with an amazing group of LGBTQ+ Asylum Seekers and Refugees, who need your help. Rainbow Lunch Club offers meals supplies & safety for 30 guests a month, who face hardship and isolation. Please give, anything at all to keep it going www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/rainbow-lu...

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Two Men on a Bike. Another bloody programme with a couple of middle aged blokes on a journey of discovery. Maybe there’s a podcast too 😖 ( quite happy to head of on a tv jolly with a girl friend but obvs too old 😂)

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Just had my first Vinted Issue. End stage capitalism much less fun than Gibbons's Fall of the Roman Empire led me to believe

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"The Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in Non-Fiction written by women. The 2025 longlist varies in subject matter, style and genre, and the 16 books make for an incisive and original reading list." womensprize.com/prizes/women...

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Okay friends, you know what to do. Welcome the formidable @louiseadler1.bsky.social to Bluesky. An awkward gesture has brought has brought her from X to greener pastures. Louise is brave, big-hearted, funny and smart. Publisher of my first book on Pell, Cardinal, now runs Adelaide Writers’ Week.

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Nice to see some @shawliterary.bsky.social faces appearing at Adelaide: @eleytherius.bsky.social, @jennifermills.net.au and @emmashortis.bsky.social! www.adelaidefestival.com.au/writers-week...

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Adelaide Writers' Week Director Louise Adler AM has announced the full program for her third event, taking place from Saturday 1 March to Thursday 6 March, 2025 at the Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden. bit.ly/3Ctjauo

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5 authors I’ve read 5+ books by: 1) Enid Blyton 2) Terry Pratchett 3) Iain M Banks 4) Charlotte Mendelson 5) Emily St John Mandel 💙📚

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“If it was really a lucky condom, wouldn’t you have used it by now?” Magnus Mills, Nicola Barker, Mordecai Richler, Charlotte Mendelson, Molly Keane, Timothy Mo and more feature in this piece I wrote about some of the funniest Booker novels:

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All told, I read three great books in 2024: The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright; Wife by Charlotte Mendelson; and Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway.

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This is happening right now about 15 minutes from where I live in Cincinnati. These are the demons that have been unleashed

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There’s been quite an influx here overnight! The great @severincarrell.bsky.social has made a starter pack of Guardian journalists and columnists here go.bsky.app/B6CxPTX

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What shall I have for dinner? So far: 5 gherkins

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I bet doom scroll meant something way cooler in the middle ages.

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I was shitposting about rubbish American politics this week and someone replied all cuntily “instead of just posting about it email your senator” so does anyone know the senator for Surrey?

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All...my novels?

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