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Tree House Second-hand Bookshop

@treehousebookshop.bsky.social

Read, Recycle, Rediscover Second-hand bookshop and music venue in Kenilworth, Warwickshire run by Victoria Mier. Profits to charity. Patron is glorious Bad Seed Warren Ellis. Posts by Victoria.

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Maria Popova@mariapopova.bsky.social · 2w ago

Kafka's approach to creative block and the four psychological hindrances that keep the gifted from living up to their gift www.themarginalian.org/2024/10/22/k...

Kafka’s Approach to Creative Block and the Four Psychological Hindrances That Keep the Gifted from Living Up to Their Gifts

The most paradoxical thing about creative work is that it is both a way in and a way out, that it plunges you into the depths of your being and at the same time takes you out of yourself. Writing i…

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JacquiWine@jacquiwine.bsky.social · 2w ago

New on the blog today, my thoughts on THE GENTLEWOMEN by Laura Talbot. I enjoyed this merciless portrait of a monstrous character. It's a cautionary tale of the dangers of delusion and spitefulness towards others - a great choice for #SpinsterSeptember! 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/09/17/t...

The Gentlewomen by Laura Talbot

If you follow Nora (Pear Jelly) on Bluesky or Instagram, you’ll know that she’s currently hosting #SpinsterSeptember, a themed reading event showcasing books featuring unmarried women, from the cla…

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Linda Grant@lindasgrant.bsky.social · last mo.

I’ve belatedly discovered that the UK and US editions of Evelyn Waugh’s A Handful of Dust have completely different endings. In the US edition Tony Lastdoesn’t set off to South America and one of the bleakest denouements in fiction.

Ross Johnson@rosserford.bsky.social · last mo.

We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.

John Self@john-self.bsky.social · last mo.

The Psalms: A Companion by Susan Gillingham - a reproduction of and commentary on all 150 psalms, with the references in the index running from Bono and Buzz Aldrin to Evelyn Waugh and Oscar Wilde. Out next month.

Green cloth hardback with black lettering of title and author, and a line illustration of a lyre, a bird and two deer.
Claire Willett@clairewillett.bsky.social · last mo.

her very existence was an indisputable reminder of how many things framed as inevitabilities were actually just someone’s choice. there actually is enough money for everything. the wealthy could fully fund literacy and public health and the arts and child welfare. they just won’t

Luke O'Neil@lukeoneil47.bsky.social · last mo.

By almost any measure Dolly embodied "the American Dream." Some people will come from nothing and make it big and consider the problem now solved. Others will remember that there are still others with nothing and use what they have to help.

Andrew Male@andrewmale.bsky.social · last mo.

People are amazed when I tell them how unloved the Beatles were in 70s Liverpool. This terrific long read from @grantmcphee.bsky.social explains it all.

At the Cavern reopening in July 1966 young women parade outside the venue waving banners proclaiming “Beatles Are Dead, Seftons Are Great” and “Where Are The Beatles Today? We Don’t Need Them - Stay In London”. Yes, I would like this image on a t-shirt.
Grant McPhee@grantmcphee.bsky.social · last mo.

There are still untold Beatles stories The one I wanted to know was how Liverpool fell out of love, and then back in again with The Beatles This is a lengthy Substack on Liverpool's attitude to them in the 70s and the rebirth of Mathew St as Beatle Street grantmcphee.substack.com/p/beatle-str...

Simon Spanton@simonguy.bsky.social · last mo.

"Then Dame Cecilia began to have fits and to prophesy. This infuriated Richenda de Foley, to whom any talk of the end of the world after she had worked so hard and so successfully to put the convent on a good footing for the next century seemed rank ingratitude."

A photo of the 2020 Penguin Modern Classics edition of The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner. The cover art is by Georges Barbier.
Jane@janiesprogget.bsky.social · last mo.

Fab Enid Marx exh at Compton Verney atm to satisfy the inner moquette nerd. www.comptonverney.org.uk/whats-on/eni...

Enid Marx – Modern British Textile Design at Compton Verney

Explore the bold patterns of Enid Marx and her creative community in this major exhibition of modern British design at Compton Verney.

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Al Kennedy@alkennedy.bsky.social · last mo.

Genuinely think if she started posting here she would be elected queen within a fortnight

Mark Walsh@markwalsh.bsky.social · last mo.

My favourite theory about why Bob Dylan has his hood up onstage now is from Daniel Lanois’s new Rolling Stone interview, where he said that maybe Bob “doesn’t like his hair right now”.