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Books (Eyes On The Prize - Booker etc blog; ontheprize.co.uk), Music (Data/Insight), Beer, etc.
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Merry Christmas to all except whoever at the BBC decided a few years to deny us the small joy of Xmas Top of the Pops.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Love this sort of data. Not sure how much it actually tells you beyond confirming the obvious though (I.e. Love Actually is massively Tory)

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Finished this, loved it. Excellent debut. www.ontheprize.co.uk/blog/we-pret...

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Have to admit I did a double take at SJP being on here. But apparently she's a book publisher now. Who knew? (Not I, despite having read a book she's apparently published)

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

"In the course of my conversation with Helen she listed her criteria for a good novel, and the last of them was 'It must be ideologically correct'." David Lodge, Booker chair in 1989, thought Amis's London Fields a frontrunner for the prize. Here's when he realised it wouldn't even get shortlisted.

submitted 81 days ago • 10 comments

Quite intrigued by this as a concept. Looks like they've got the right lineup for it too.

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

STOP TELLING ME WHAT TO DO

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

Great read (via @curiouslyp.bsky.social) - agree with most of it especially the love for Sheffield and SMOD

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

It’s the most wonderful time for a beer (or 24)

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Aside from all the usual (valid) debate, surely this is just a right old mess?

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Having enjoyed Creation Lake on this year's Booker shortlist, I've dipped in to a little more Kushner via her 2018-shortlisted The Mars Room, which is probably even better (if slightly less bonkers) www.ontheprize.co.uk/blog/mars-ro...

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Incredible book which this makes me want to reread (I never reread)

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Moth Club is one of the very best small venues in the whole of the UK. The fact that it's under threat is appalling. Please sign. www.change.org/p/moth-club-...

submitted 96 days ago • 5 comments

Apparently I’m 8 years old. I maintain this is a surprisingly decent lineup!

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Not a surprise but great to see regardless!

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Not that I would remotely ever go to this festival (drinking pens lol) but this looks like a fairly major improvement on recent years at a glance?

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Magnetic Fields @npr.org Tiny Desk, lovely stuff. Taking me back to the beautiful Barbican shows a few months back youtu.be/wnFQn7GD1rg?...

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

Really great article looking at some of the books that were shortlisted for the Booker in the 70s but didn’t win. Saving this for later as there are MANY of these I need to check out…

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

Here is an album I am currently enjoying which came out last week on @stonesthrow.bsky.social - for fans of slick synthy pop, moderately quirky but largely just very good tunes open.spotify.com/album/0F0HgZ...

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

It’s that time of year again… Only a few days left to manipulate your Spotify Wrapped… 😅

submitted 99 days ago • 2 comments

I know there are a lot of strong opinions on AI on here but this is an interesting story to follow for both books and music.

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

Just started this upcoming debut via Netgalley. Written in impressively well rendered Doncaster dialect. Having grown up a few miles down the road from Donny, in the same era (roughly), it’s quite the evocative experience so far… #booksky www.penguin.co.uk/books/460689...

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

Here is an intersection of my interests in one post, by further way of introduction!

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Should all of that have been one thread? Probably. Still learning! Anyway hi, this place seems nice so far.

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Audio me can occasionally be found waffling about literary prizes on the lovely Book Club Review podcast (who I’m hoping will join us here soon!) www.thebookclubreview.co.uk/portfolio/it...

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Latest read: a rather enjoyable transatlantic family saga by debut novelist Catherine Airey www.ontheprize.co.uk/blog/confess...

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

However I’m also here for music related stuff I guess, since that’s my day job! (Audience / data insight, at Sony for a long time but now helping out awesome Indies over at Merlin) merlinnetwork.org/about/

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Hello! I suspect I’m largely here for book-related matters. Over on #bookstagram I post mainly about literary fiction and prizes. Especially the Booker, since I read and ranked all the winners over here: www.ontheprize.co.uk/booker-prize...

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments