A statement on my having left Unbound/Boundless.
John Mitchinson
@johnmitchinson.bsky.social
Writer, co-host of Backlisted, writer for Byline Times, former publisher.
New episode up now. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend, with guest Nina Stibbe @ninastibbe.bsky.social in conversation with @johnmitchinson.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social and @birchos.bsky.social. Just my luck! www.backlisted.fm/episodes/240...
240. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ by Sue Townsend — Backlisted
The wonderful Nina Stibbe , award-winning novelist and diarist, joins us for a discussion of Sue Townsend's classic comic creation . When it was first published in 1982, the confidential journal of ...
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Tuesday 27th May. Lined up new episode of Backlisted for my commute. It was bloody brilliant! I thought Secret Diary of A. Mole 13¾ was just funny but intellectuals like @ninastibbe.bsky.social have convinced me it is actually searing critique of Mrs Thatcher etc. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/240...
240. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ by Sue Townsend — Backlisted
The wonderful Nina Stibbe , award-winning novelist and diarist, joins us for a discussion of Sue Townsend's classic comic creation . When it was first published in 1982, the confidential journal of ...
backlisted.fm
A new @backlisted.bsky.social in which we discover why guest @ninastibbe.bsky.social refused to review her fave book The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 at the time... with @iammilliam.bsky.social and @birchos.bsky.social (who has never laughed so much)... www.backlisted.fm/episodes/240...
240. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ by Sue Townsend — Backlisted
The wonderful Nina Stibbe , award-winning novelist and diarist, joins us for a discussion of Sue Townsend's classic comic creation . When it was first published in 1982, the confidential journal of ...
backlisted.fm
A short report on an event at Mostly Books in Abingdon on Friday: The lovely Joe Dunthorne in conversation with @johnmitchinson.bsky.social, on his new Jewish family memoir Children of Radium. annabookbel.net/an-evening-w...
An evening with Joe Dunthorne at Mostly Books
Joe Dunthorne is probably best known for his debut novel Submarine, published in 2008, which I read -pre-blog, and the 2010 film adapted from it by Richard Ayoade. Two more novels followed, Wild Ab…
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John Mitchinson@johnmitchinson.bsky.social · last yr.I'm very pleased and not a little relieved that this fine book is published today by @unboundsocials.bsky.social . It's GOLDENGROVE the fourteenth novel by the great Patrick McCabe. uk.bookshop.org/a/2773/97818...
The bliss of going rogue. A wonderful interview with Patrick McCabe in the @irishtimes.com on the publication of GOLDENGROVE by @unboundsocials.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Patrick McCabe: ‘This whole idea of making money out of novels started in the 1980s with Martin Amis and Ian McEwan’
McCabe, who found himself adrift in the 21st-century book business despite his huge impact on the culture in the 1990s, on the bliss of going rogue
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I'm very pleased and not a little relieved that this fine book is published today by @unboundsocials.bsky.social . It's GOLDENGROVE the fourteenth novel by the great Patrick McCabe. uk.bookshop.org/a/2773/97818...
Goldengrove a book by Patrick McCabe.
‘Wild, anarchic, and wonderfully head-spinning’ Neil Jordan, award-winning film directorA dark theatrical comedy about the vexed and violent relationship between Britain and Ireland, from twice Booker...
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"So this is my England and a part of yours too – so different from the English Defence League versions of bigotry or the white Etonian dream of exclusion and superiority"
This is My England, and Yours: Reclaiming Englishness
Now that English Nationalism has been unleashed, Peter Jukes argues that we must all try to restore England's buried civic tolerance and historic diversity.
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"Somehow, I found myself elected to the infamous Bullingdon Club – surely the only state school-educated candidate ever to have been so embarrassed. I should have rejected it with contempt but I was curious"
From Sunderland to the Bullingdon Club: Englishness Unravelled
Unsatisfied with George Orwell's description of patriotism, John Mitchinson digs deep into his own personal history to untangle the complex roots of his Englishness.
bylinetimes.com
A reminder that @backlisted.bsky.social has its own Backlisted Bookshop on @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social where you can buy all the books mentioned in today's episode (and all the 238 previous ones). Buying there supports the podcast & indie bookshops uk.bookshop.org/lists/episod...
Episode 239: The Image of Her by Simone de Beauvoir
To discuss The Image of Her (1966) by Simone de Beauvoir we are joined by writer and translator Lauren Elkin, whose previous books include Flâneuse: Women Walk the City, Scaffolding and Art Monsters: ...
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New episode up now. Les Belles Images (The Image of Her) by Simone de Beauvoir, with translator Lauren Elkin @laurenelkin.bsky.social in conversation with @iammilliam.bsky.social and @johnmitchinson.bsky.social. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/239...
239. The Image of Her by Simone de Beauvoir — Backlisted
To discuss The Image of Her (1966) by Simone de Beauvoir we are joined by writer and translator Lauren Elkin , whose previous books include Flâneuse: Women Walk the City ; Scaffolding and ...
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On today's @backlisted.bsky.social we discuss a book with the penetrating clarity of May sunshine - Lauren Elkin @laurenelkin.bsky.social joins @iammilliam.bsky.social & me to discuss her new translation of Les Belle Images (The Image of Her) by Simone de Beauvoir. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/239...
239. The Image of Her by Simone de Beauvoir — Backlisted
To discuss The Image of Her (1966) by Simone de Beauvoir we are joined by writer and translator Lauren Elkin , whose previous books include Flâneuse: Women Walk the City ; Scaffolding and ...
backlisted.fm
Dugin, Surkov, Rykov - the Trio at the Head of the Trojan Horse A new opening to this epic saga starts at the Olgino Troll farm in St Petersberg circa 2012 open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
Dugin, Surkov, Rykov - the Trio at the Head of the Trojan Horse
A new opening to this epic saga starts at the Olgino Troll farm in St Petersberg circa 2012
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Bursting with pride (like may blossom from a hedgerow) at the publication of this beautifully written, important book, WORDS FROM THE HEDGE. Hail to the hedgelaying word-hewer Richard Negus @troopersnooks.bsky.social! Out now from: @unboundsocials.bsky.social unbound.com/products/wor...
Words from the Hedge: A Hedgelayer’s View of the Countryside
The definitive insider’s guide to one of the most essential yet often overlooked elements of the British countryside – the hedgerow.
unbound.com
The story of Monkey, Pigsy, Sandy & Tripitaka is transformed by Julia Lovell's 'witty and charismatic' translation, according to ace @backlisted.bsky.social guest Kaliane Bradley, whose bestselling debut The Ministry of Truth shares these qualities. @sceptrebooks.bsky.social @mariagluc.bsky.social
Just over a week to go before my SOLD OUT event at @goldenharebooks.bsky.social with @annehamilton.bsky.social. Can't wait. My author copies of #lovelaydown have got lost in the post so it will be the first time that I see a physical copy of my memoir. Will try not to cry 😁
New episode up now. Journey to the West by Wu Cheng’en, with Kaliane Bradley in conversation with @johnmitchinson.bsky.social and @iammilliam.bsky.social. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/238...
238. Monkey King: Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en — Backlisted
Kaliane Bradley, author of The Ministry of Time , joins John and Andy for a tour of Monkey King: Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en , the sixteenth-century fable widely regarded as one of the ...
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The book that spawned 'the punkiest monkey that ever popped' now has its own @backlisted.bsky.social. Join debut novelist and Penguin Classics editor Kaliane Bradley, @iammilliam.bsky.social, Nicky Birch and me for an hour of Monkey Magic. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/238...
238. Monkey King: Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en — Backlisted
Kaliane Bradley, author of The Ministry of Time , joins John and Andy for a tour of Monkey King: Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en , the sixteenth-century fable widely regarded as one of the ...
backlisted.fm
"When suburbia features in British fiction, if it features at all, it is usually as somewhere that isn’t the countryside and isn’t the city, a location which only exists to be escaped from." @iammilliam.bsky.social www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/millions-u...
Millions unlike us: looking for suburbia in British fiction
Andy Miller on stories from the suburb that deserve to be told
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"JG Ballard referred to the residents of suburbia as ‘dormant people … docile cattle’ in his novel Kingdom Come (2006), though presumably he didn’t do this to their faces e.g., when borrowing a neighbour’s lawnmower." @iammilliam.bsky.social on fine form. www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/millions-u...
Millions unlike us: looking for suburbia in British fiction
Andy Miller on stories from the suburb that deserve to be told
boundlessmagazine.com
The first UK edition of Lore Segal’s 1985 novel Her First American, out in July from Sort Of Books. Cover art by Bill Bragg (channelling Edward Hopper?).
My 2011 film about John Healy, ex-wino, chessmaster & author of The Grass Arena, went through a lot of versions in the five years I spent making it. This is a very rare chance to see an early, hugely different version. The final version is on Netflix & Disney+ if you want to see it first!
Rico Charges@nochorus.bsky.social · last yr.Big news: showing a rare extended cut of Barbaric Genius, a fantastic documentary about John Healy. Q&A with director @paulduane.bsky.social before and noise set in response by @vsevolodplotkin.bsky.social and Niall Murphy of ohboland.bandcamp.com after Daylight D11TX99 - May 10th - €5/members free
Line up our new episode on Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled for the journey by tram to the childhood home you recognise only as you pass your stop, before being recognised by a stranger who begs you to make good on a promise you cannot recall. #relateable www.backlisted.fm/episodes/237
237. The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro — Backlisted
“A masterpiece I don’t fully understand—and don’t need to.” This week’s book is The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro, a bold, baffling, and darkly funny novel that has confounded and enchan...
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New episode up now. The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro, with guest Chris Chibnall @chrischibnall.bsky.social in conversation with @iammilliam.bsky.social and @johnmitchinson.bsky.social. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/237
237. The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro — Backlisted
“A masterpiece I don’t fully understand—and don’t need to.” This week’s book is The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro, a bold, baffling, and darkly funny novel that has confounded and enchan...
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