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I'm delighted to reveal the cover of my new book, Upon A White Horse: Journeys in Ancient Britain and Ireland. It will be published by @headlinebooks.bsky.social on 11 September. Available to pre-order here: linktr.ee/UponAWhiteHo... If you are happy to share this post, please, I'd be grateful.

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They just can't get rid of me... On Sunday I'll be switching to the new book. Appropriate in the city where some of my most boring Sundays happened. Hopefully you won't feel the same if you come along ⬇️

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See you there, Daniel. Get down there if you can. We're hopefully popping down Brew York's tap afterwards.

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Just finished @danielgraywriter.bsky.social very entertaining 'Food of the cods', an odyssey of Britain's fish and chip shops. Highly recommended . Just reading it made me feel hungry.

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This Saturday I'm back on home, er, concrete doing an event to make you really, really miss football. It's free, pop in and let us sit in a circle and talk about turnstiles ⬇️

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Lovely to appear at Derby Book Festival today, and then I popped in on the King of Rome. Without The Unthanks I wouldn't know this brilliant story and beautiful song. There is something very 'Sunday' about pigeon racing. "Come on down, my lovely one/You made my dream come true..."

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'Stevie May charged around in the pulsating fashion of a Not In Service bus on its way back to the depot at midnight...' My latest Slow Match Report - Livingston v Ross County - is up now: tinyurl.com/te9fkkev

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🚨 THE SLOW MATCH REPORT🚨 ⚽ Livingston 1 Ross County ⚽ 🪲 "Livi closed everything down, scurrying like woodlice from a lifted brick" 💥 @danielgraywriter.bsky.social takes in the Premiership Play-off final first leg ✍️ tinyurl.com/te9fkkev

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FA Cup Final day always brings memories of singing "Three points! Three points!" at Prince Charles after our deduction, and also of this banner which seemed to imply that The Jackson 5 were a miscarriage of justice.

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A glorious day for hanging around one of the finest grounds on earth.

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We hope everyone had a great weekend, but don't put away your Sunday Best quite yet because this Wednesday @danielgraywriter.bsky.social will be guiding us through our love affair with the day of rest! Tickets here: www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.com/collections/...

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💛 @danielgraywriter.bsky.social

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Podcast episode 119: Rochdale's birthday wishes, alphabet floodlights and the Brexit keeper @andylyons.bsky.social / @camsell59.bsky.social / @danielgraywriter.bsky.social Listen FREE! Site wsc.co.uk/podcast/ Apple apple.co/2R61BGD Spotify spoti.fi/33WKGdg

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Just over a week until our event with @danielgraywriter.bsky.social! He's coming to talk about his brilliant new book Sunday Best - an evocative celebration of the seventh day in all its rich variety, chock full of nostalgia and affection! Tickets here: www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.com/collections/...

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Just a lovely letter.

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An excellent reason to go to Leeds! 😉. Next Friday, the @leedslibraries.bsky.social & @britishlibrary.bsky.social football fanzine expo, Voice of the Fans, opens. Cracking events leedsinspired.co.uk/collection/v... Quality video. Nailed what 'zines are about. Can't wait. Is that the programme? NO😅

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30 years today since the last game at Ayresome and me managing to drag my massive curtain hair on for the pitch invasion. Coincidentally, after Saturday's retro day, the items I'm wearing then are on the line right now. Football: making us keep stinking nylon garments forever.

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Oh yeah! It's @danielgraywriter.bsky.social at @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social. Looking forward to booking on this celebration of football. You around @nickquantrill.bsky.social?

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In May we'll be welcoming @danielgraywriter.bsky.social to Linlithgow to discuss his book Sunday Best! Part travelogue, part history, and written with love for the seventh day, Sunday Best rings with the faint sound of church bells. Tickets here: www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.com/collections/...

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It's the last Sunday of April! We have a variety of events coming up next month including When We Were Killers by C F Barrington and Sunday Best by Daniel Gray! so why not pop in and grab yourselves a copy, we are open from 12-4pm!

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Very chuffed with these words about my Sunday words from the wonderful Ian McMillan, a man I admire an awful lot.

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Boro's season in a half-time photo. The great burst beachball of life.

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Thanks so much to @portybooks.bsky.social for a great Sunday Best launch event last night. When I am dictator all shop windows shall look like this.

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Brilliant #booklaunch @portybooks.bsky.social tonight for #SundayBest by @danielgraywriter.bsky.social, chaired by @alanmccredie.bsky.social. Here's a wee reel with an appropriate piece of music! www.instagram.com/reel/DIzeGmQ...

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Three weeks until we're joined by @danielgraywriter.bsky.social to discuss his new book Sunday Best! In it, Gray travels through the history of the seventh day and encounters a question - have we forgotten how to do Sunday? Tickets available now: www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.com/collections/...

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Still a few spaces for this tonight if you fancy popping down to the marvellous @portybooks.bsky.social and hearing me and @alanmccredie.bsky.social talk Sundays, Yorkshire puddings and owt else that comes up. www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/danie...

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This week we’re hosting not one, not two, but THREE events! ✨ - Tues 22nd: A @404ink.bsky.social Inklings Showcase - Wed 23rd: @danielgraywriter.bsky.social launches Sunday Best - Thurs 24th: @niamhsquared.bsky.social launches Ordinary Saints 🎟️ Sign up here: www.theportobellobookshop.com/events

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'This engaging and quirky piece of social history is the perfect read between a Sunday roast and a post-prandial snooze.' Really nice review of Sunday Best from Country Life magazine. Pop into a shop and get yours in time for an Easter nap.

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Popped into the ace Stripey Badger bookshop in Grassington and spotted a Sunday Best on the table. It's just around the corner from James Heriot's practice. Lovely to think of Siegfried reclining in his chair with a single malt on the go while reading it. Possibly.

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Adding to my @danielgraywriter.bsky.social collection. #booksky

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Can’t wait to read this from the hugely talented @danielgraywriter.bsky.social This Sunday I’ll be having a pub lunch in one of my favourite Lanarkshire towns (Strathaven) with some relatives I haven’t seen for a while and Ethel the Pug.

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Slow Match Report: Rangers v Athletic, now on Nutmeg FC. 'Two kids with beetle-black hair kicked a ball around and made a goal from Gladstone’s plinth. If it weren’t for a snappy breeze hurling around empty Tennent’s cans like bowling skittles we might have been in, well, Spain'

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