Today is #HobbitDay because Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were both born on September 22nd. Normally we'd shire a hobbit pun or two but it might just feel like a tolkien gesture and we don't want to embarrass our elves. Anyway it's a good day to come and boromir #Tolkien books. 📚
Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake Tuesday grey and Wednesdaye eke Thursdaye Ich care not for thee Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love [ridiculouslye wondirful lute riff] Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love
My dad's started the spooky season early with his latest batch of wood carvings, including his first ever Pumpkin-Headed Ghoul (my idea, I expect royalties). Available in his shop tomorrow... 👁️ wellswoodcarving.bigcartel.com
'Setting the Land Free - Visions of a Rewilded Ireland' comes out this day next week!! (Thursday the 10th.) The main launch will be on the 9th in Cork @waterstones.bsky.social at 6.30pm, with Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social speaking. If you're around, do drop in!
Eoghan Daltun 🌍@irishrainforest.bsky.social · 5mo agoI'm *wildly* excited to announce that my new book, 'Setting the Land Free – Visions of a Rewilded Ireland', will be published by Hachette on 27 August. We have a stark choice re our collapsing nature: the usual timid, token gestures, or real, gutsy ambition. This book makes the case for the latter.
Naught but a leap to the left And then a clockwyse tread; Put thyne handes on thyne hippes, And be thy knees yn-gatheréd: Lo! It ys the pelvique thruste That maketh mirthe down to rayne - Lat us doon the Tyme Warpe agayne!
It's Monday again and today I'm reading "Art On My Mind" by bell hooks What book(s) are you reading this week? 💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR
Absolute longshot: I'm looking for Euan Smith who drew artwork for White Dwarf magazine in the mid 1980s and therefore is probably British and probably in his late 50s or 60s. Do you or did you know him?
It's #buyastrangerabook day. I have an offer here from @rachaelscotson.bsky.social who'll buy someone a copy of ANY of Tom Cox's books. I've attached a selection here, so if there's one that you'd like, just let us know! UK only
Rachael Scotson@rachaelscotson.bsky.social · 4mo agoHi Simon. I'd like to buy a stranger a book by Tom Cox up to the value of £20. @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social is an awesome contemporary author. All his books are refreshingly original, and his latest novel, Everything Will Swallow You, is particularly joyous.
As the final leg of the cancer journey is (hopefully) coming to an end soon, here are the pieces I've written, in case it helps anyone going through similar. 1. Diagnosis: observer.co.uk/news/opinion... 2. Chemotherapy: observer.co.uk/news/opinion... 3. Surgery: observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
‘He suggested we go to a quiet room to talk. I knew that ...
My cancer diagnosis was the last thing anyone expected or needed – but especially my mum, while going through chemotherapy herself
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For the past three months I started to get outta of burnout and started to just record anything and everything on my phone as a start. Here's a random piece that I improvised a month ago.
It's Wednesday! It's Eid! It's #buyastrangerabook day! And @humanaqvi.bsky.social is offering to buy one lucky person the book of their choice, up to £20! So, if there's a particular book you'd like, get in touch! UK only
Huma Naqvi@humanaqvi.bsky.social · 4mo agoLet’s buy a stranger a book in honour of Eid @biggreenbooks.bsky.social £20 please 🥰
IT'S WEDNESDAY! It's #buyastrangerabook day! The grooviest day of all. I'll give out TWO books. FOR FREE. If you'd like one, let me know. Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know. It's a thing! Look. www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi... UK only
Buy A Stranger A Book. #buyastrangerabook - Stuff you might like... - Big Green Bookshop. @biggreenbooks on Twitter. Cheese fan. My Mum says hi.
The Big Green Bookshop an independent online bookshop in selling awesome titles by awesome authors to awesome people
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IT'S WEDNESDAY! #buyastrangerabook day is EIGHT YEARS OLD! The grooviest day of all. I'll give out TWO books. FOR FREE. If you'd like one, let me know. Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know. It's a thing! Look. www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi... UK only
Buy A Stranger A Book. #buyastrangerabook - Stuff you might like... - Big Green Bookshop. @biggreenbooks on Twitter. Cheese fan. My Mum says hi.
The Big Green Bookshop an independent online bookshop in selling awesome titles by awesome authors to awesome people
biggreenbookshop.com
Big Green Books@biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 5mo agoIt's #buyastrangerabook day's 8th birthday tomorrow. EIGHT YEARS! I've done some maths and I think that thanks to your amazing help, over 12,000 books have been given away since it started! It started here. www.bigissue.com/culture/book... THANKS!
While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.
If you check out the #buyastrangerabook hashtag and you live in the UK, you'll see about 10 unclaimed offers. People are offering to buy people books, but nobody is asking. It's not tricky to do. Essentially, people are being lovely. So check out the hashtag, stop being a doof, and just ask!
Do not pander. Do not dumb down. Trust your audience to be smarter than you. Trust them to be curious. Don’t erase your own voice for spurious bowing down to factors that bring nothing to the stories you need to tell. #Writing
Does anyone else think Jimin looks like the Goblin King from Labyrinth ? 👀
One of the rare occasions I'm glad I'm doing nightshift - so I can listen to this as it drops
If you’ve nothing better to do tonight I’m at Read Holmfirth at 7pm talking Scratch Moss, folk horror and all sorts of stuff. Come along, maybe buy a book or two. to-be-read.co.uk/books/an-eve...
An Evening with David Barnett - Read Bookshop - Holmfirth
We'd love you to try one of our brilliant author events. Why not come to our event with David Barnett, author of Scratch Moss, Withered Hill and Scuttler's Cove.
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Another #buyastrangerabook day offer for you! @jajrobertson.bsky.social is offering to buy someone a copy of The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies. If you'd like it, just get in touch. UK only
Big Green Books@biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 7mo agoIT'S WEDNESDAY! It's #buyastrangerabook day! The grooviest day of all. I'll give out TWO books. FOR FREE. If you'd like one, let me know. Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know. It's a thing! Look. www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi... UK only.
Five days to SCRATCH MOSS. Mines, magpies and multi-generational post-industrial folk horror. More info and buying links here: www.canelo.co/books/scratc...
Some of you like dogs, in which case you may appreciate that guide dogs of Team GB for the Paralympics get official photos
Sometimes I think about the me that almost was. The city I almost moved to. The call I almost made. The person I almost let get closer Now and then, late, I feel the ghost of one of those paths. And got a feeling I’m not the only one But maybe it’s not too late to borrow a little courage from that
