It is perhaps not the best tribute to birthday boy John Foxx that doing the laundry yesterday caused me to sing this classic: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjA-...
Underpass-John Foxx
YouTube video by michaelbarker
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David Quantick
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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE AUSTEN? (French & Saunders, BBC Radio 4) writer. AND OTHER STORIES collection: https://tinyurl.com/msmv7amc. IMAGINE A FRIEND: https://www.starsandsabers.com/books/imagine-a-friend/
The brilliant and beautiful John Foxx. 78 today!
DRESSED TO KILL AND GUESS WHO'S DYING
Cheekysaurus@cheekyian.bsky.social · 1h agoBryan Ferry's birthday? Oh go on then
Bond soundtracks are great for a drive. Moonraker is good for beautiful country roads but Live and Let Die is better for motorways.
Since Simon Armitage seems to be on Substack, here's my Simon Armitage-style poem: quantick.substack.com/p/amis-and-l...
Amis and Larkin
Any excuse.
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My company @cosmiclighthouse.co.uk is putting out a Murderbot graphic novel, All Systems Red, with a new @marthawells.com Mb short story too! @ericaschultz42.bsky.social @garyerskine.bsky.social @stillwintercraft.bsky.social @simonbowland.bsky.social ! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cos...
Coming soon: Murderbot: The First Graphic Novel | Multi-award-winning SF!
The official adaptation of the international bestselling multi-award-winning ALL SYSTEMS RED, part of The Murderbot Diaries series.
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I know they walked differently.
rogueclassicist ~ david meadows@rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 18h agoWere Ancient Egyptians Really Just Like Us? Revelations About Egypt From an Archaeologist, an Art Historian and an Egyptologist | Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian Journeys Smithsonian Magazine www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smiths...
One of those few books that, on finishing, I immediately want to read again.
Season of the (Do not cite the Deep Magic to me) Witch #rockNarnia
I Know What I Like (In Your Lion, Witch and Wardrobe) #rockNarnia
The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Caspian
Suuusan You don't have to put on the lipstick #rocknarnia
Mister Blue Sky Tumnus #rockNarnia
Empire Magazine@empiremagazine.bsky.social · 2d ago🎉NEW ISSUE DAY🎉 Our Narnia: The Magician's Nephew issue is OUT NOW! Inside, Greta Gerwig and her cast open the doors to Narnia detailing her revolutionary rock’n’roll adaptation. BUY NOW: greatmagazines.co.uk/empire-nov-2...
IMAGINE A FRIEND, the novella, is out now. THE HYENA, the novel, is out soon!
I am flattered and delighted.
BlogMyWiki@blogmywiki.bsky.social · yesterdayI've just finished reading @quantick.bsky.social's new book, and it's wonderful, delightful, breathtaking. The story of the greatest artist you’ve never heard of. I'm delighted to announce that closer to its publication, David will be reading an extract on my short story podcast Listen with Other.
I've just finished reading @quantick.bsky.social's new book, and it's wonderful, delightful, breathtaking. The story of the greatest artist you’ve never heard of. I'm delighted to announce that closer to its publication, David will be reading an extract on my short story podcast Listen with Other.
Stars and Sabers@starsandsabers.bsky.social · last wk.Preorders have begun for @quantick.bsky.social's surrealist alternate history novel THE HYENA! Find preliminary links here, with more to come: www.starsandsabers.com/books/the-hy.... Out November 10. #literature #books #fiction
Book passage on the “surreal journey” of THE HYENA, a mind-bending novel by Emmy Award winner @quantick.bsky.social! Preorder today. Out November 10. Thank you to @rflong.bsky.social for the quote. Art by @erniechiara.com. #surrealism #books #literature #alternatehistory #comingsoon
At the Green Goose, by D. B. Wyndham Lewis, is a collection of the monologues of Professor Plodsnitch at his favorite pub, the most absurd things to appear in a newspaper before the Irish Times started publishing Flann O'Brien's Cruiskeen Lawn column. neglectedbooks.com/?...
One of my earliest musical memories is listening to The Shadows’ Greatest Hits with my dad. I grew up on twangy guitar instrumental music, so I was delighted to receive a press copy of Bob Stanley’s new biog of the band, which is a brilliant read, and out today on @newmodernbooks.bsky.social. 🎸 👓
WHAT A BOOK
new modern books@newmodernbooks.bsky.social · 2d agoOUT NOW ‘The Shadows:The Definitive Story’ by @rockingbob.bsky.social “Bob’s book brings alive one of the greatest ever rock n roll bands” Cliff Richard “Thoughtfully told 8/10” @uncutmagazine.bsky.social “Fascinating ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️” @mojomagazine.bsky.social 📚: amzn.eu/d/0e1TWDq6
