Talk staff at my local post office are relatively attentive, however.

That’s a wrap! Creasing from my final Frankfurt Book Fair meeting 2025. Me: what have you got, Viktor? Viktor *exhausted, last meeting*: I will pitch you this. This is … a book. #AWrap #frankfurtbookfair #books

YES to questions and maybe even some answers w/ incredible @lamornaash.bsky.social and Abi Millar 💫Belief in the Age of Uncertainty 🏠 Wimbledon Book Festival 📆 Sat 18 Oct, 3pm 👉 www.wimbledonbookfest.org/events/lamor...

🖊️ JOB OPENING! 🎙️ calling all sales / marketing publishing professionals 📚 looking for your next move in trade publishing? 🧡 please share 👉 saqibooks.com/careers/ @saqibooks.bsky.social

Careers – Saqi Books

Sales & Marketing Executive Salary range: £27,000 – £30,000 Location: West London, Hybrid Contract: Permanent, Full-time Deadline: 7 November 2025 At Saqi Books, we’ve been publishing stories that con...

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Honoured to join @englishpen.bsky.social to talk about translating in a hostile world, with Meera @roundtablebookscic.bsky.social, Nariman @poetrytranslation.bsky.social and others this week for #ITD2025

We are proud to announce 'Love is Resistance': 77 posters by artists, writers & musicians worldwide, standing in solidarity with Palestine. Hang them. Carry them. Remember. All proceeds go to @ajyalfoundation, supporting children in Gaza and displaced communities. Follow link in bio for more.

PREGNANT WOMEN WHO MADE HISTORY. This week I thought, what the heck – one of the great things studying history can do is make you realise that you are never alone; that no problem is new. Powerful women, this one’s for you. 👉 dissenters.substack.com/p/pregnant-w...

Ever wondered why there's a bishop on a chessboard? Well, here's your answer 👇

Checkmate

Ever wondered why there's a bishop on a chessboard?

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Protest in Britain has never been more important. Here’s a surprising history of naked protest, which will make you think twice about who protests, and why.

The Naked Truth: A History of Naked Protest

A four-hundred-year-old history of the protesters baring all for a good cause.

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Not the start to my debut book I had nightmared of, but the silver lining is to have been supported by other writes and literary people throughout. Thank you. 🧡

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The Observer takes on the collapse of Unbound - some truly shocking allegations, almost all of which I have seen compelling evidence of as a member of the Unbound author WhatsApp group and through my own experience of being published by them observer.co.uk/news/busines...

My first substack! Holy Spirits: pubs, churches and the soul of the British village. Includes shots of all kinds. 🍻 PLUS my top 5 dissenting pub recommendations 🍻 Free to read. Thanks so much for the support. 👉 open.substack.com/pub/dissente...

Bombing for peace is like burning books to promote literacy.

The perils of @britishlibrary.bsky.social and red ink ✍️

WE’RE HIRING! Editorial Manager sincerely wanted. Please come and work with me 🥳 info here 👉 saqibooks.com/careers/

a man in a black suit is sitting at a desk with a pen in his hand and smiling .

ALT: a man in a black suit is sitting at a desk with a pen in his hand and smiling .

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Love this. Very into both oaths and swearing this week #sorrynotsorry

There was a long lived Heron at Kew National Archives, named Herod. It would guard the entrance for years, died ~3 years ago. Named Herod by the archivists for the ducklings it would eat every spring 😬

My plans for a major retail emporium are being threatend by wholesalers who won't let me steal the stock.

Art of the Palestinian Poster, at P21 Gallery, London until 14 June

Please join this vigil and readings for Alaa Abd el-Fattah on Thurs 22nd May outside Downing Street. The situation is critical - the UK Government need to do all they can, urgently, to free Alaa. #FreeAlaa

English PEN@englishpen.bsky.social · last yr.

Alaa Abd el-Fattah completed his unjust five-year prison sentence last September. Yet seven months later, he remains in prison. Join us for a vigil in support of Alaa and his mother Laila Soueif, both currently on hunger strike. #FreeAlaa www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...

Every year, my church does a 4 day walking pilgrimage from Trafalgar Square to Canterbury Cathedral. I'm only walking one day of it this time, but I am raising money to help the homeless in London, in aid of The Connection, St Martin's homelessness charity. www.justgiving.com/page/captain...

St Martin in the Fields Annual Pilgrimage

Help Daniel Kaszeta raise money to support The Connection at St Martin-in-the-Fields

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Inspired 🐸

Welcome to our Venue! The origins of this former Episcopal Palace date to c.1200-1235 & it has been added to over the centuries. It hosted James VII/II in 1687, and on 5-6 July 2025, it will host the Stuart History Festival. Coming soon: the festival's schedule & 10 speakers...

@jonathanhealey.bsky.social thank you so much for a fascinating walking tour and talk on Saturday at Burford. And thank you for taking the time to chat at the end 🙏 it means a lot. Looking forward to The Blood in Winter …

Sad because: my best half is away Happy because: half the bed empty means the WHOLE bedside table is available for NEW BOOKS 🩶 #everycloud @troopersnooks.bsky.social @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social

@jonathanhealey.bsky.social hello hello! I’m hoping to join your walking tour of Burford at the levellers day on Saturday. Do we need to sign up anywhere beforehand? Thanks!

FIVE DAYS to go until this ‘very civil’ tea and talk - and five tickets left too! Please join us if you … Like history ✔️ Like tea and cake ✔️ 📆 18 May, 3pm, Mill Hall, Claines 🎟️ Tickets here, or DM me shorturl.at/4jZE1

This is also us. We too have moral ambition in our work. Find a job that rewards you for making other people’s lives better. Be more dog 🐕