Say what you will about this app but at least people here don’t seem to be baffled by the idea that AI is built upon plagiarism

New blog entry: On the non-use of AI in my writing process: www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...

We're joining the Creators' Rights Alliance (CRA) in calling on Government to protect creators from the existential threat of GenAI. Fairness and transparency must be at the heart of the UK's approach to AI. Help our mission by signing the petition buff.ly/j7NooKw

Next WEIGHTY TOMES and TASTY FOAMS = Thu 25th June! We'll have our (excellent) selection of books, and if you buy any, then you can get a £3.50 pint Birdhouse Brewery, Herne Hill - 630-9pm

Join us tonight for this month's Weighty Tomes and Tasty Foams! 630-930pm, Birdhouse Brewery, Herne Hill (and if you can't tonight, we're there roughly once a month)

SUNSHINE!

We are delighted to announce the opening of The Book Hotel in Ramsgate! The bookshop will open inside The Falstaff Hotel from early March, and we will celebrate the full launch of the new-look literary hotel with a week-long non-fiction festival. Details to follow...

Happy New Year! (2026? Hmm.)

Happy what-day-is-it, everyone! We are here, except on New Years Day, and then back to normal from the 2nd January And then... 2026 ??? x

Happy nearly-Christmas, everyone! We're here today & tomorrow, then closed for 2 days, back on the 27th Thank you to all our lovely customers, and hope everyone has a good festive time x

Treat yourself to some Autumn reading and you could win a £250 gift card! Every sale supports real independent bookshops, rather than one specific guy with a LOT of warehouses uk.bookshop.org/lists/win-a-...

I've seen some articles in the last few weeks about 'performative reading' Seems to be a few journalists who have convinced themselves that (younger) people don't read, so they must be pretending to NONSENSE People are reading more fiction, and there's a real enthusiasm around - its a good thing!

Some very lovely reissues this week - Mermaids collection (Penguin) & Weird Girls (Vintage)

Thank you to whoever recommended I read THE GOD OF THE WOODS by Liz Moore - yep, its great! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The God of the Woods a book by Liz Moore.

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF 2024 WINNER OF GOODREADS MYSTERY & THRILLER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 ...

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'Paradise will be a kind of Library.' -Borges * * * The Library by Edouard Vuillard, 1911.

See his film! Buy his books! www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/a...

Tim Key: ‘I imagine Alan Partridge smells lightly of Brut aftershave’

The comedian, actor and poet behind The Ballad of Wallis Island on stalking an England cricket captain, being evicted in Edinburgh and his love for fig rolls

theguardian.com

Hope everyone having a good day! What are you reading? I've just finished The Bee Sting by Paul Murray - been out a couple of years, but only just got to it So good! Up next - maybe something silly

We are beyond excited to be producing a special edition set of The Copper Cat trilogy by Jen Williams @sennydreadful.bsky.social in association with @headlinebooks.bsky.social 🐉😍 This beloved backlist series will be available in hardback for the first time! 🥳

The Sleepless is officially out in the UK today! 🐉🐉🐉 This book has been a wild ride, from writing the first draft in a loved up haze to celebrating its existence with lovely foreign publishers in Bologna 💖 It’s my twelfth published novel (can you believe??) and I’m feeling very proud today.

Bookish friends are great because you can be all "read this, it will absolutely crush your soul and tear your beating heart into a million little pieces and you will literally never recover from it" and they'll be like omg yaaaasssss

Writers: before you sign a contract with a publisher, make sure AI isn't replacing your illustrator, your translator, your editor, your jacket designer. Readers: if you're thinking of buying a book, do the same. Refuse. Resist. If AI garbage doesn't sell, people will stop making it.

Happy Wednesday, Clapham & world! Hope everyone enjoying/hiding from the weather

We are disappointed but not surprised that Meta has used millions of pirated books to develop its AI systems. As a matter of urgency, Meta needs to compensate the rightsholders of all the works it has been exploiting. But what can authors do? Read here: societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...

Children’s writer and author of the award-winning Crongton series, Alex Wheatle MBE, has died of prostate cancer at the age of 62. 👇 #BookSky

'Beloved' author Alex Wheatle MBE dies aged 62

thebookseller.com

Happy International Women's Day! Lots of great women represented in this collection - who are your favourites? (Fiction, non-fiction, new, old...) #InternationalWomensDay

And that means I get to share the amazing US cover for The Sleepless too! The light! The scales! The pink page edges! The SERPENT! 😍😍😍😍 The jacket was designed by Kerri Resnick, and Tom Roberts provided the amazing illustration. Out in the US September 30th 🐍🐉🐍 bit.ly/THESLEEPLESSGR

Writers, musicians, actors & other creators strongly oppose upending copyright law to favour AI companies, as suggested in the UK's AI Opportunities Action Plan. As Kate Mosse says, seeking economic growth "cannot be on the basis of theft of our work". www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

tech bros: we built a machine that can tell you stuff loudly and confidently! us: cool. is it right about stuff? tech bros: we cannot stress enough how loud and confident it is!

AI is a big complicated subject, and obviously we’re not experts - but - we choose our stock very carefully, and we will always do it ourselves. AI can do a lot of things - pattern recognition, plagiarism & fraud seem like the main ones We will never stock anything we know to be AI-generated