Will Wiles

Will Wiles

@willwiles.bsky.social

Author of several novels. "The Dead Man's Empire" is out now (Angry Robot). And so is the short story collection "The Anechoic Chamber & other weird tales" (Salt). Writes about architecture for @apollo-magazine.com. He/him.

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garin | comms open
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The last few months haven't been easy on me financially, so if you need an artist on your project or would like to request a personal commission, now is the best time. My working schedule is empty rn so feel free to hit me up anytime!

garin | comms open@garin.bsky.social

Hello!! 👋 I'm Garin, a freelance artist and currently I'm looking for work and open for commissions! I can do concepts, sequential art, illustrations and any 2D assets that can be used for your project! Feel free to hit me up anytime! 📩Contact: garincomms@gmail_com 👩‍🎨Portfolio: garin-art.carrd.co

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Mike Bonsall
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Ballard's last novel Kingdom Come was published in September 2006. To celebrate it's 20th birthday, I've used Ballard's text to create an imagined 'shopper experience survey' for the Metro-Centre mall at the heart of the story. (no personal data collected) Have a go here! forms.gle/19PCgLojJpsi...

forms.gleYour Metro-Centre ExperienceWe'd love to know all about you! Please answer these questions to discover your Ballard Psychopathy Quotient Text © JG Ballard - Kingdom Come (2006)
Will Wiles
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I'm sure I remember a time that wasn't punctuated by near-annual knife-edge choices between keeping the show on the road and rapid calamity.

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Following my own advice, I watched this last night and enjoyed it immensely. Do catch it while it's available.

David Hayden@seventydys.bsky.social

Anita Brookner’s scholarly, sharply observant commentaries on paintings by Delacroix, Ingres, Rigaud, Vigée Le Brun, David and Cézanne. On BBC iplayer for the next four weeks. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

bbc.co.ukAnita Brookner on Art: 100 Great PaintingsAnita Brookner shares her unique insights on some of the finest works by the world’s greatest painters in a compilation of her contributions to the 1981 BBC series 100 Great Paintings.
Will Wiles
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Particularly refreshing that it just plunges into its subject matter. No preamble, no shots of Brookner in cafes or walking across Parisian bridges, no "join me as we go on a journey..."

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Of course it might not have been true in 1985, and the "most of us" might specifically address the readers of "The House & Garden book of Romantic Rooms", a select audience

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Rob Palk
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I hope you're all carefully noting the differences between the Salt and Sandstone texts, perhaps preparing your own definitive hybrid version of Animal Lovers for use in the eventual OUP edition

Salt Books@saltpublishing.com

Happy publication day, Rob Palk! 🦡 Animal Lovers is out today: a very funny, quietly devastating novel about a man whose wife leaves him for the badgers. ‘Hilarious, poignant’ – Daily Mail www.saltpublishing.com/products/ani... #AnimalLovers #NewBooks #IndiePublishing

Will Wiles
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Has Badenoch looked into how long it took to build the Palace of Westminster?

Henry Mance@henrymance.ft.com

There's obviously a serious point here, but it's quite funny optics for the Conservative party to complain that it used to be so much quicker to build a stately home.

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Richard Smyth
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This is *such* a good book. Great to see it rebooted. Haven't been this excited since Capcom brought out Street Fighter II Turbo and Total SNES magazine gave it 96%.

Salt Books@saltpublishing.com

Happy publication day, Rob Palk! 🦡 Animal Lovers is out today: a very funny, quietly devastating novel about a man whose wife leaves him for the badgers. ‘Hilarious, poignant’ – Daily Mail www.saltpublishing.com/products/ani... #AnimalLovers #NewBooks #IndiePublishing

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Jan Carson
@jancarsonwrites.bsky.social

These last few months the brilliant singer songwriter Ciaran Lavery has been responding to #NoVacancy with a suite of five gorgeous new songs about hotel life. We premiered our collaboration of songs, tiny stories and hotel chat at a sold out gig as part of BIAF and it was a roaring success.

Will Wiles
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This is excellent

James Bridle@jamesbridle.bsky.social

"What we have is, quite literally, a chair designed by someone who has read a lot about chairs but never actually sat in one." I wrote about AI, carpentry, and Enzo Mari, for @emergencemagazine.bsky.social. You can read (or listen to) it here: emergencemagazine.org/essay/benchm...

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What I love about this is that it could be very encouraging, or it could read like a terrible indictment. It reflects what is within.

Peter Thal Larsen@petertl.bsky.social

Spotted near the 30km marker at the Antwerp Marathon, a spectator holding a handwritten sign: “Je hebt zelf voor dit gekozen” (= “You chose this for yourself”)

Will Wiles
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The "flying" part of "flying car" is actually relatively trivial. There are lots of ways to make a small vehicle fly. The tricky bit is "car", meaning "safe for widespread adoption in crowded shared space with relatively little instruction". This is a standard that ground cars only barely meet.

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Theo Honohan
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Speaking of changes in level at the NT, let's not forget the impressive technical facilities, including the huge "drum revolve" built into the Olivier's stage @willwiles.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4f1...

youtube.comLondon National Olivier Theatre - Drum Revolve for His Dark MaterialsYouTube video by theatreplan
Apollo@apollo-magazine.com

‘Climbing up to the Olivier Theatre – the largest of the NT’s three theatres – it is still a delightful surprise to find oneself suddenly at eye level with Waterloo Bridge, watching the buses go by.’ Will Wiles on the urban drama of Denys Lasdun’s National Theatre building at 50.

buff.lyHow Denys Lasdun made the National Theatre a palace for the peopleAs it celebrates its half century, the brutalist landmark on London’s South Bank still provokes and delights, writes Will Wiles

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Marsh Davies
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Physical books of GOLD TEETH, hefty enough to smash a lobster, and our FALSE KINGDOM zines are now available: teethrpg.bigcartel.com

Marsh Davies@marshdavies.bsky.social

GOLD TEETH has launched! It's a piratical TTRPG set in a cursed version of the Age of Sail, with 350 pages of briny phantasmagoria, colonial terror and nauseating seafood. It's part Master & Commander, part Blackadder, left to ripen in the sun like a beached porpoise. teethrpg.itch.io/gold-teeth

Will Wiles
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"See, my wife, she's always telling me I should write novels with 'explicitly masculine' themes, I can never tell what she means by that..."

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And GG isn't the only alliterative author included 👀

Salt Books@saltpublishing.com

Out today: Best British Short Stories 2026, edited by Nicholas Royle. Sixteen years on, the annual guide to the very best new fiction includes a Graham Greene discovery, ‘Reading at Night’. £10.99. www.saltpublishing.com/products/bes...

Will Wiles
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Updates are a bit undignified - no ✨mystique✨ - but the next literary novel is at 75% and on course for completion before the end of the year.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

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Jonathan Gibbs
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Great to see M. John Harrison on the Booker shortlist. We were honoured to have him contribute to A Personal Anthology, picking and introducing a dozen favourite short stories, with some writers you'll expect, some you won't and some you just love to see: apersonalanthology.com/category/m-j...

apersonalanthology.comM John Harrison (as editor) – A Personal AnthologyM. John Harrison was born in 1945. He published his first story in 1966 and his first novel, The Committed Men, in 1968. Climbers won the Boardman Tasker prize for Mountain Literature in 1989. His …
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Hinsliff here practically volunteering to give up a few more of our increasingly threadbare rights and freedoms at the first whiff of trouble, and calling herself liberal for being brave about it

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Will Wiles
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No Fantasycon for me this year, I'm afraid - much as I was excited about a trip to Glasgow, a city I adore, the sums didn't add up. Next year, I hope.

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I am sure it's Not As Simple As That but I cannot understand how the BBC, with a guaranteed base income and a dragon's hoard of valuable IP, can get itself into such terrible financial trouble.

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David Hayden
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Anita Brookner’s scholarly, sharply observant commentaries on paintings by Delacroix, Ingres, Rigaud, Vigée Le Brun, David and Cézanne. On BBC iplayer for the next four weeks. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

bbc.co.ukAnita Brookner on Art: 100 Great PaintingsAnita Brookner shares her unique insights on some of the finest works by the world’s greatest painters in a compilation of her contributions to the 1981 BBC series 100 Great Paintings.