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Venetia Welby

@vvwelby.bsky.social

Novelist: DREAMTIME, MOTHER OF DARKNESS Escape artist | Shapeshifter | Cat demon www.venetiawelby.com

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Martin Koerner@koernputer.bsky.social · last wk.

This book is absolutely miraculous. Delighted to say we have an event at Foyles on the 13th August with @amykey.bsky.social @regretteruane.bsky.social Alice Vincent and Megan Hunter- also 🤞🏼, we shall be recieving a phone call from Joan Barfoot during the event! www.foyles.co.uk/events/unear...

Unearthing a Classic: The Rediscovery of Gaining Ground

Alice Vincent, Amy Key, Megan Hunter and Rose Ruane explore the rediscovery of 'Gaining Ground' half a century after its initial release

foyles.co.uk

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.

Gaining Ground by Joan Barfoot review – Anne Enright celebrates a landmark feminist novel

Stu Hennigan@stuhennigan.bsky.social · 2d ago

Scuse the clickbait headline which i didn't write, but the iPaper asked for some thoughts on the non-listing of Keshed despite huge public clamour. Actually a piece about diversity in publishing and advocating for small presses. This link sans paywall archive.is/QghKz inews.co.uk/culture/book...

The Booker is a shambles - and everyone in publishing knows it

Plenty thought my novel would make the list – it didn't. Here's why I don't give a toss

inews.co.uk

Heidi James@heidijames.bsky.social · last mo.

Get Keshed in progress…. There’s been laughter, tears and lots of love for Keshed. We’ve talked about the influence of Tristram Shandy, class, writing complex characters, literary style choices and refusing an easy redemption. Recording will be available if you missed out. @stuhennigan.bsky.social

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David Collard@davidcollard.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In a terrifying reversal of tradition, the author will be interviewing me, the reader, about his life and work. Brace for revelations.

June Caldwell@junec.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Brilliant #HotPress feature on Guillermo Stitch, whose astonishing novel *The Coast of Everything* launches in @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social tomorrow at 6pm. I'm so looking forward to chatting with him & @davidcollard.bsky.social Honestly, this book is 🔥 I haven't read anything as immersive in years.

Sam Byers@sambyers.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Will Self is currently writing one of the best regular politics and culture columns you’re likely to read, and for reasons that remain a mystery doing so exclusively on Facebook and X. This week he has weighed in on the AI writing crisis, and his thoughts are typically piercing and brilliant.

The web has become a realm of disavowal. Human beings enter it in order not to become more fully themselves but less so. They use it to evade embodiment, evade continuity, evade consequence. That literary institutions proved so permeable to this environment demonstrates not merely incompetence but philosophical exhaustion. Publishing ceased to believe sufficiently in literature to defend the conditions under which literature remains possible.To write with genuine style requires embodiment plus all the linguistic capacities already approximated statistically by the machine. It requires the encoding of lived temporality into symbolic form capable of being… [tea break]…reanimated by another embodied consciousness at a later historical moment. Once one understands the complexity of this operation, one also understands how fragile literary civilisation truly is.The scale of the crisis is therefore monumental. The Granta affair is not simply an embarrassing editorial oversight. It is the first genuinely literary manifestation of a much larger civilisational fracture: institutions charged with preserving style can no longer reliably recognise it.
Ortac Press@ortacpress.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Ever left a book event wishing they could talk properly about the book, without worrying about spoilers? If you’ve read Keshed by @stuhennigan.bsky.social, or plan to before July, this is for you. Stu and @heidijames.bsky.social will do a deep dive into the book + audience Q&A. Don’t miss this!

Stu Hennigan@stuhennigan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. 2nd July, 7 p.m, an online event exclusively for peeps who've already read Keshed. The great @heidijames.bsky.social asking the questions. Don't miss this, it's gonna be fucking fire, @ortacpress.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/stuhenni...

Salt Books@saltpublishing.com · 3mo ago

Salt’s top 10 comic fiction titles to read in 2027 Ten novels that prove the form is alive – from a Brexit-era apocalyptic farce to a Belfast literary annexation, with new books from Tibor Fischer, Rob Palk, Bill Broady, Guy Ware, Rosemary Jenkinson and more.

Salt’s top 10 comic fiction titles to read in 2027

Ten novels that prove the form is alive – from a Brexit-era apocalyptic farce to a Belfast literary annexation, with new books from Tibor Fischer, Rob Palk, Bill Broady, Guy Ware, Rosemary Jenkinson a...

saltpublishing.com