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Byung-Chul Han’s enquiries into the different regions of contemporary experience, including work, time, love and art, yield a relentless critique of digital capitalism and how it creates hollowed-out lives.

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Who wants to read about the first woman keeper of insects at London Zoo, and how she cut her way out of a giant spider's web with her nail file? Evelyn Cheesman, the second of the five women in my book: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/03...

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We must imagine Sisyphus happy

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Toyo Miyatake, behind the lens, c.1932

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A very special essay out with @grantamag.bsky.social. It’s about worship, China, patterns, food deliveries, burials, divinations, gorges, moths, padded bras, and silk worms. To see how it all connects, please give this a read — and share if you enjoyed it 🙏 granta.com/the-secret-p...

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made earlier

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Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #StDavidsDay #Wales

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Plate from La plante et ses applications ornementales, Eugène Grasset, 1896.

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Happy second anniversary to WE THE PARASITES, published in February 2023!

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I'm absolutely thrilled to share the cover for my next book, LIFELINES, to be published by the wonderful Elliott & Thompson in the UK in May 2025. It's a book of homecoming that's been nearly a quarter of a century in the making and it's available to pre-order now. eandtbooks.com/books/lifeli...

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Language of the Sea

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Hello! I've got my pen ready to write a message in a copy of my book, to you or someone of your choice 😃 🖋️ We're down to the last copies of this print run so I've teamed up with the fabulous @biggreenbooks.bsky.social to offer my book with a personal message inside. Here: tinyurl.com/Big-Green-Bo...

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Ooh! My latest @biggreenbooks.bsky.social purchase has arrived! (Cc: @moudhy.bsky.social ; hedgehog for scale)

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Want books? Simon at @biggreenbooks.bsky.social can get you books. Lots of lovely books! I've just signed up for a 12 month subscription and am very much looking forward to seeing what pops through my door.

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Regular service announcement that if you’re looking to escape from the abysmal state of the mainland world today there’s a little book called ISLAND waiting to take you away 😱🏝️😮‍💨

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Morning all. Hattersley Kids 1970s. Photographer Thomas Blower -British Culture Archive. britishculturearchive.co.uk/product-cate...

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beautiful cat-spiration today as I pen my CAT novel!

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🔴 Sold - from the Wave series - very grateful

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MOTHER NAKED is on the longlist for the 2025 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction! Thank thee to all at Prize for recognising my work, and to Peninsula Press for taking a punt on auld Mother in the first place. www.walterscottprize.co.uk/news-and-media

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In further fun, Mother Naked also made the shortlist for the 2025 Republic of Consciousness Prize. A shortlist reading is March 13th in London. Links below. And the prize is announced on the 1st April. If you're down there, it'll be nice to see you x libraries.lewisham.gov.uk/events/199794

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Plato knew. #plato #therepublic #reality

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I’m absolutely beyond delighted by this wonderful review of ‘Lie of the Land ‘ from the very, very kind @bluebookballoon.bsky.social Many, many thanks 😊. @saltpublishing.com

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Delighted to have a story in Anglo Files: Journal of English Teaching #Denmark

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I love that birding requires you to get your head round adjacent things such as weather, tides and the moon. I failed to get these things lined up for a pink-footed goose spectacular in Norfolk this weekend, but still had a brilliant time at RSPB Snettisham, Titchwell, & NWT Cley Marshes #UKbirding

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For this weekend's FT I reviewed Mood Machine, Liz Pelly's urgent and persuasive book on the negative impact of Spotify on musicians and listeners: www.ft.com/content/431a...

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I wrote about the Booker Prize, Samantha Harvey's triumphant 2024 win, as well as pleasure and pain-principle novels. Read The Wrong Paul for free here: judecook.substack.com/p/the-wrong-...

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🗣️ Join us this April as we welcome renowned author Claire Keegan to Granard for an in-depth conversation with acclaimed writer Sinéad Gleeson. . 🎫 Tickets go on sale from 07/03/25, exclusively through our website. 🎫 . #granardbooktown #books #literature #writing #novels #longford #arts

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Dydd Gwyl Ddewi/St David’s Day #Llangennith #Gower #Wales #myhappyplace #amwriting #amwalking

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Noodsy

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My story 'My Secession' is in the latest issue of @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social (along with the inaugural London Magazine crossword). For fans of micronations and inscrutable family dynamics

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A morning of rereading favorites. "...the way love finds us in our bodies when we're lost" Jan Zwicky

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Yorkshire Times Poem of the Week: 'To Be Mindful (Type A+)' by Emily Cotterill @serenbooks.bsky.social @emilycotterill.bsky.social www.yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

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beautiful cat-spiration today as I pen my CAT novel!

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Now on iPlayer for 29 days www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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The thwarted Marxist of Balliol

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The purr-ect cat-spiration by Frederic Lenormand as I write my cat novel.

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Jennie Lee's trailblazing white paper for the arts was published 60 years ago today. It insisted that the arts should be central to everyday life and publicly supported for the benefit of all. www.campaignforthearts.org/news/jennie-...

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Make sure, amid all the tumult, you have a little something to eat.

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Word of the Day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet individual whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

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Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

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The play that changed my life: Sing Sing’s Clarence Maclin on lessons from Sophocles in prison

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These beauties arrived today. SIGNED copies of "Twist" by the amazing Colum McCann. It's published next week, but ooh la la, we've got copies early. Blurb in the ALT text. Order one HERE www.biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie... (i'd also recommend his book "Let the Great World Spin"btw)

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Re-upping this because things take time

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🔊Are you an SoA member in Scotland and wish to improve conditions for authors? SoAiS committee has 3 vacancies. Please send a headshot, biography, and short paragraph (500w max) to [email protected] if you are interested. Deadline March 6.

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#WhatWereReading : Joe loved @wiswell.bsky.social 's delightful fantasy with dark humour and a lovely monster in love with a human romance, Someone You Can Build a Nest In, from @quercusbooks.bsky.social #books #livres #Fantasy

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Thank you, Iain MacDonald, for dropping by and signing the beautiful William Alister MacDonald: Watercolours From Thurso to the Thames from @unicornpublishing.bsky.social #books #art #livres

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