ten million hardbacks

“I love writing and have learnt from experience that even when it’s not going well there is often some bit that is worth coming back to another day.” John Maguire interviews Emma Morgan, author of Beggars Would Ride: 10mh.net/2025/07/06/e... @northodoxpress.bsky.social

Heading into UK cinemas this Friday is Guillermo del Toro's #PansLabyrinth, celebrating its 20th birthday. Take a look at this new poster art too!

I just can't omg Yeeeeessssszssssssss #fleetwood #arsenal #football

Ahhhhhh the magic of the cup isn't it

To penalties we go Heart in mouth #fleetwood #arsenal #upthecods

Annie Ernaux talks student protests, Nobel Prizes, and giving away “absolutely everything” in Vulture today www.vulture.com/article/anni...

Many thanks to @beelitmag.bsky.social 'This historical fact underpins Sharon Duggal's extraordinary Light Across the Plains, an epic novel that tracks women from two generations of a Punjabi family across India and Europe between the 1940s and the present.' @newwritingnorth.bsky.social

What do we want from Tokyo? We’ve been here before, but there is no way any visitor can “know” one of the biggest cities in the world, however many times they visit. So we decided to pick two contrasting neighbourhoods and go for a stroll to see what we could find…

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Positively delighted to share that EYE OF THE MONKEY by Krisztina Tóth, translated from the Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet (@ottiliemulzet.bsky.social), was shortlisted for the 2026 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation (@womenintranslation.bsky.social) “Unsparing, unforgettable.” —Merve Emre

Think Carrick just needs to be given a bit more time to work things out

Cherubim and Seraphim (the 'rave episode' of Morse) is on ITV3 now if you fancy watching a document of Ye Olden Times.

Palmer should have been off after the first one and anyone who argues should be going off with him.

This is from earlier in the day before the rain started coming in sideways 😢☔

The Royal Liver Building in Liverpool during construction.

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Jack Byrne @Jackbyrnewriter · Now bit.ly/3reFWjR Tired of a dead woman or child at the start of mysteries, and hero cops who solve everything? Try the Red Detective a Scouse lad who opposes crimes against his class and humanity, while sorting shit out.

There are parts of the world where this advice has been the norm for years (what do you do if the elecky or water goes off?) and it would be nice if the UK could just be sensible about it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"Founded by workers, stolen by the rich! Save the 60 jobs." 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 A protest by anti-fascist #Arsenal fans against the club management's decision to lay off 60 employees in order to "cut costs." 👇

We will donate 10% of ALL sales 22-25 October to the charity Bookbanks, getting books into food banks. As ever, every sale supports independent bookshops. Buy ANY book 22-25 Oct and support this fantastic charity: uk.bookshop.org/lists/books-...

NATIONAL CREATIVE WRITING INDUSTRY DAY '26 🎉✍ Comma invites you to NCWID26, with Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. Ft. Keynote, Panels, Workshops & 1:1s with agency reps & editors 👀 📅 5 Dec (9am-5pm) 📌 Grosvenor East, M15 6BG 🎫 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-nation...

'She pulled off her jersey, crushed it into ball, and threw it into the corner of the room. Then deliberately she unbuttoned her breeches and stepped out of them. In a moment she was standing naked by the hearth.' #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/10/20/r...

Happy birthday to Ursula K. Le Guin. "We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."

Lovely to see the young Reds making their mark, as well as seeing Rush on his birthday. Up the never bet against us Reds! #LFC

Yes, lad! #wirtz

Saw Trent play in person in May and he was worse than anyone you've been howling at all season. If we pay Real Madrid more than €0 for him every club in Europe will know we are total mugs. Of course they want to get rid: he's on 300k/wk. There is no need to indulge their 🐮💩.

Really loved these disquieting, slightly surreal short stories about humans and nature being at odds with one another. 👏👏#translatedliterature

A little late but here are a few thoughts on A Wreath of Roses by Elizabeth Taylor for the #1949Club which is an excellently observed novel with a dark edge 💙📚 #BookSky https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/8b719540-34ab-4735-8031-283ff69d85e6

Surprising takeaway is that it’s possible it’s City’s fault Spurs were a banter club and not just Tottenham. by @80couches.bsky.social via @liverpooloffside.bsky.social

This is nuts pressgazette.co.uk/news/faceboo...

"I don't think the far right is a positive thing for our society. It must be combated through education, in schools and at home, as well as in the media." 🇫🇷 Youssouf Fofana, French midfielder for Sevilla, on loan from AC Milan. 👇

Kinda galling watching Leeds players kick people up in the air with no consequences while Gravenberch got sent off for breathing in the wrong direction last weekend.

Longing for the days when I didn't need to know or worry about who was doing the VAR for #LFC matches.

‘Despite his condition, John Clare wrote scores of poems during his four years at High Beech; later, during his 23 years at Northampton, he composed more than five hundred, mostly in the 1840s.’ Camille Ralphs on the ‘peasant poet’. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The book is officially out today, after ten years of me faffing about and not getting shit done! Here’s a celebratory photo from Fukuoka.

Shortly after taking this, there were hailstones so severe I had to duck under the stand for shelter

It's really quite extraordinary how far one can run with this. I think s15(3) would potentially criminalise purchasers of the books still sat on the shelves...

We wanted to assure you that Sally Rooney's books are still available to buy and to order online!

The way Sally Rooney consistently and firmly holds the line and puts her money where her mouth is should be an example to everyone.

There is no "ethical use of AI in the creative industries", so jot that down for starters.

City 2, PSG 4, is it?