Alex White
@alexwhitewrites.bsky.social
Award-winning writer and editor, passionate about books, accessibility, disability rights and oral history. Fan of Norwich City, Sussex and England cricket. Views personal. www.AlexWhiteWrites.com
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New blog post: last in series celebrating the National Year of Reading and my books of the year reaches the 2020s. #Books #BookSky alexwhitewrites.com/2026/07/10/m...
My reading life, 2020s
To celebrate the National Year of Reading and my books of the year since my early reading life, I bring this up to date. Here are the 2020s.
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New blog post: To celebrate the #NationalYearofReading here are my books of the year from the 2010s as I continued my 2-books-a-week commuting life. alexwhitewrites.com/2026/07/03/m... #books #BookSky
My reading life, 2010s
To celebrate the National Year of Reading, here are my books of the year from the 2010s as I continued my 2-books-a-week commuting life.
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New blog post: my reading life in the 2000s #books #BookSky alexwhitewrites.com/2026/06/26/m...
My reading life, 2000s
I remember my Brighton Library card had an expiry date of 2000. This sounded like an impossibly science fiction time. I would be 37! 2000 Skallagrigg by William Horwood I had read Duncton Wood but …
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#Paddington is an ambassador of the National Year of #Reading 2026. This was the railway line where I did most of my 1990s reading alexwhitewrites.com/2025/12/12/m...
My reading life as a commuter 1992 to 1999
I cannot travel on a train without a book. I used to commute 3 hours a day, 5 days a week. This meant I read about 2 books a week. The last time I was on a train, I looked down the compartment and …
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Great list from @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social - hard to choose but for me it is To Kill A Mockingbird #books #booksky #GAN #TBR www.penguin.co.uk/discover/art...
Great American Novels you should read
The Great American Novel, or ‘GAN’, is a broad concept with many contenders. Which ones are worth reading? Here are our recommendations to put on your TBR.
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#Canada were great! Shame that #Qatar tackling was so poor. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba... #WorldCup #BBC #Soccerball #Football #Fun #EnjoyTheRide
World Cup 2026: A day of tears, scuffles & history as injury mars Canada's moment
Canada's first-ever win at a World Cup finals should have been cause for pure joy - but was overshadowed by a horrific injury to Ismael Kone, and the angry and emotional scenes that followed.
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#Croatia goalie was great, the ref was #Turpin, but it would have been highway robbery if #England had not won their World Cup opener. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba... #WorldCup #BBC #Soccerball #Football #Fun #EnjoyTheRide
England vs Croatia - World Cup 2026: England hit four in World Cup opener against Croatia
England make a winning start to their World Cup 2026 campaign, beating Croatia 4-2 in a thrilling match in Dallas.
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#Reading Museum's famous full-size Victorian version of the Bayeux Tapestry. No joke, Richard Herring, this faithful replica is 70-metres long. It was made by 35 skilled Victorian women embroiderers in 1885. #BattleofHastings #1066 www.readingmuseum.org.uk/your-visit/w...
Bayeux Gallery
View Britain's famous full-size Victorian version of the Bayeux Tapestry in its magnificent entirety. This faithful replica is 70-metres long. It was made by 35 skilled Victorian women embroiderers in...
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Do Haaland goals still count for Fantasy League? Just asking for a friend... #WorldCup #BBC #Soccerball #Football #Norway www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
World Cup 2026: Haaland rises to the occasion on World Cup debut
Erling Haaland has made a habit of scoring debut goals in the big competitions. He did it in the Champions League, the Bundesliga and the Premier League. Now he has done it at the World Cup too.
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Freed from the shackles of the student reading list, the next phase of my reading life was as a book reviewer. Some of the highlights were books by JL Carr, Martin Amis and Peter Carey. #books #BookSky alexwhitewrites.com/2025/12/05/m...
My reading life as a book reviewer, 1985 to 1992
When I left university, I thought, “Great. I will never have to read what other people want me to read.” No more Walter Scott’s Waverley and no need to finish Nostromo. Life is to…
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My reading life as a student went beyond my set books like Nostromo and Walter Scott's Waverley. My 'free reading' started my lifelong obsession with George Orwell, Mervyn Peake and Graham Swift. #Books #BookSky alexwhitewrites.com/2025/11/28/m...
My reading life as a student, 1978 to 1985
In this series of posts, I am reviewing my reading life (not my Reading life). Since my early reading life, I have kept a list of nearly 1,500 books I’ve read since 1978. Each year, I choose …
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In the first of a series about my reading life, I talk about my early books from Professor Branestawm, Wind In The Willows and Winnie the Pooh #books #BookSky alexwhitewrites.com/2025/11/21/m...
My early reading life
On Friday afternoons at Middle Street School, our headmaster would smoke his pipe and do a general knowledge quiz with us. I liked the sweet smell of his pipe smoke (this was the 1970s) and of succ…
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My interview with William Horwood about his novel Skallagrigg. The film starred Richard Briers, Bernard Hill, Ian Dury, Billie Whitelaw, Jamie Beddard and Nabil Shaban and won the BAFTA for Best Single Drama in 1995. #Books #BookSky #Disability alexwhitewrites.com/2025/11/14/i...
'Agent Manning' was voted out at the roundtable as a Traitor by the clueless board. Now Norwich City Faithful Stephen Fry must choose between Nick Mohammed (Ted Lasso) and Allen Carr, whose dad used to be a football manager. Who would you choose? #NorwichCity #OTBC #NCFC #Traitors
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Looking back at an article I wrote in the @nujofficial.bsky.social NUJ magazine The Journalist in 1999, I've just posted a blog about the changing language of #disability Sufferer and wheelchair-bound may be on the way out. But what about brave and inspiring? alexwhitewrites.com/2025/11/05/t...
The changing language of disability
I was once introduced at a webinar as “Alex White who has been talking about the language of disability before it was fashionable.” By which they meant until the webinar ma…
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World Cup hero and @canaries.co.uk legend Martin Peters has ghosted in at the back post of the Philip Pullman book. How we could do with him v @swfc.co.uk at Hillsborough tonight! #NorwichCity #Football
Really looking forward to starting the journey of the final volume of The Book of Dust: The Rose Field by Philip Pullman. I'm surprised @foliosociety.bsky.social classes Pullman as 'Young Adult' in their recent catalogue. Genres don't matter, I suppose. #Books #BookSky
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It was great to visit the @kneppwilding.bsky.social and the Tamworth pigs on a glorious sunny Saturday, The best book theme park ever! #books #BookSky #Knepp #Rewilding
I've just finished Hatchet Job by @kermodemovie.bsky.social , a threnody to the film critic. Film criticism is alive and kicking as long as the Kermodian rant survives! #NotDeadYet #books #BookSky
Alison White (no relation) is a mother of a child with #CerebralPalsy. Her Letter to Louis, published by @faberbooks.bsky.social is shocking about the callousness or perhaps carelessness of people’s reactions to a mother with a disabled child. #Books #BookSky - link in my bio
