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Swans Pool #portellen #isleofislay

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A beautifully written book about what it feels like to live with OCD. Hugely recommended, particularly if you know people with this condition, as it will give you a very good idea of just how tremendously brave they are forced to be on a daily basis. Scorpions by Tuppence Middleton, out on Feb 27th

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Les premiers retours sur Toutes les créatures de Sarah Louise Butler sont dithyrambiques ! Au cas où vous chercheriez un cadeau de Saint Valentin de dernière minute… ❄️🌲🐾 Éditions Phébus www.babelio.com/livres/Butle...!

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En librairie aujourd’hui ! #publicationday #BookSky 📚 💙

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Seen a few folks astonished by my lack of support for ChatGPT and similar. Because AI, right? Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it.

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Omar El Akkad is absolutely right that the West’s support of genocide in Gaza fundamentally undermines its claim to moral superiority, for many of its own citizens as well as people around the world. www.channel4.com/news/omar-el...

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When the Times Darken When the times darken will there be singing even then? There will be singing even then. Of how the times darken. Bertolt Brecht, translated by Edwin Morgan

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Still my favourite place on earth #lossitbay #islay

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Great article by @kotrynagaranasvili.bsky.social about the various things literary translators actually do www.thebookseller.com/comment/tran...

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Carraig Fhada and the Singing Sands #Islay

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— Margaret Atwood

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Toutes les créatures, magnifique premier roman canadien de Sarah Louise Butler, dans toutes les bonnes librairies le 13 février 🇨🇦

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And it’s only the beginning 😳 #portellen #islay #stormeowyn

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We are very excited to welcome our brilliant new festival co-ordinator Dawn Geddes! 📚 Dawn has a real passion for books and has dedicated her career to championing Scotland’s thriving literary scene through her journalism, PR and digital communications work.

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The sunrise looking like a painting this morning #islay

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What a day! 😍 #islay #portellen #swanspool

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Discovering Kim Moore’s poetry and just, wow! 💙📚 #BookSky

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Quick walk in snow showers on the Big Strand #islay

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That’s what you call a good start to the new year 💙 #islay #northernlights

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This 👇 I cannot wait to read AL Kennedy’s new book, coming out in January with the excellent @saraband-books.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/commen...

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@theceltichouse.bsky.social in The Sunday Post 📚🎄 Photo pinched from our colleagues over at The Wedale Bookshop, also featured, along with The Edinburgh Bookshop (typically, there were no Sunday papers for us because of this weekend’s storm) #choosebookshops 💙📚 #BookSky

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Many thanks to The Booksellers Association for featuring my story in their winter issue of Bookselling Essentials! ❄️ 📚 #booksellerstories #choosebookshops @booksaremybag.bsky.social

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On Thursday the 2024 issue of @theneweuropean.bsky.social comes out and they have given me the platform to explain why Gisèle Pelicot is my hero and how she radically changed the conversation about shame and sexual assault It is my proudest writing. app.theneweuropean.co.uk/2024/10/26/v...

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Quote of the day: ‘—but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life: they build a heaven before us, whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.’ —Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I do love our new Makar’s style: “We’ll just have to see how the next couple of weeks and months go,” he says. “And – in the words of RuPaul – try not to fuck it up.” 😆🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...

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We've just arrived on Bluesky, just in time to show you our wonderful selection for all your Christmas gift ideas! Please share 🤗 #shopindependent #shoplocal #choosebookshops #islay #highlandsandislands #scotland www.theceltichouse.co.uk

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Share the love with this lovely Hebridean independent bookshop! Do give them a follow and pop in for a browse, and coffee & cake if you’re ever on Islay! 💙📚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Sorrow remembers us when day is done. It sits in its old chair gently rocking and singing tenderly in the evening… —Iain Crichton Smith, “When Day is Done” published in DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS, ed. @greeningpoet.bsky.social (@carcanet.bsky.social 2021) www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...

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So in awe of Samantha Harvey’s Booker Prize winner ‘Orbital’ that I followed it up with her no less astonishing ‘The Shapeless Unease’. Her prose reads like poetry.

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Words To Live By Number 136

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Someone’s growing her winter coat. Airmid looking fairly regal tonight #blueskycats

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Threw together some quick thoughts about today's latest AI stramash in The Bookseller, remembering the "Writing the wrongs of AI" workshops I was part of earlier this year: open.substack.com/pub/epitomeo...

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The Big Strand looking pretty spectacular today #Islay

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I love this definition of translation by Daniel Hahn, from his book Catching Fire - A Translation Diary: "Writing someone else's book, but backwards and in high heels" I highly recommend this book to all translators (and to anyone who thinks AI can replace translators). #translation #xl8

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I’m hard to cheer up at the moment, but this definitely has. Most exciting book news of my year #graemearmstrong #raveheart www.thebookseller.com/rights/4th-e...

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Feeling the love tonight. From ‘She Is Fierce; Brave, Bold and Beautiful Poems by Women’, edited by Ana Sampson @panmacmillan.bsky.social

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Wholesome pic of the day: Swans Pool, complete with a swan. So lucky to have this beautiful, peaceful place practically on my doorstep now #swanspool #theard #portellen #islay

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Our full lineup for Islay Book Festival 2024, taking place from 29th August - 1st September! #IBF24

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#InternationalWomensDay is a doubly special day for me, because I officially moved to #Islay on March 8th, 2018. Six years of living in my happy place, and here’s to many more 💗

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Did you know that we have a newsletter? Well, you do now! If you would like to receive exciting updates about #IBF24 you can sign up via our website. Our first newsletter of 2024 will be hitting inboxes soon 📥 The full lineup for Islay Book Festival 2024 will be announced very soon! 📚

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