When the Amazon algorithm manages to miss something that a human employee would spot.

Great to hear 'Song to the Siren' chosen by Chris Packham with Ken Bruce on BBC Radio 2 A real treat for a Thursday morning. youtube.com/watch?v=HFWKJ2…

Sometimes, unfortunately, the conspiracy theory turns out to be true. If I had put this into a contemporary thriller, I can imagine people would have dismissed it as not feasible. theguardian.com/world/2023/feb…

#WritingCommunity Did you see this? I guess it is in many of our dreams: theguardian.com/books/picture/…

Is it just me or does Google's drawing today of Alan Rickman look much more like Matthew Macfadyen?

#NEWBOOKS! #LookToTheWest Volume VI "The Death of Nations" enters a prose style as war engulfs the world; "Atomic Secrets" features a #ColdWar with the #Nazis; and can one modern man sent to 1938 save Poland in "Hurry Up Living"? #AlternateHistory #WhatIf sealionpress.co.uk/post/new-books…

#WritingCommunity #detective Had one review that complained my police detective, in what is a police procedural novel, did not do sufficient detecting. What do you consider the minimum amount of detecting featured for a book to count as a detective/police procedural novel?

Anton Lesser.

Hello!! I am well aware that because I don't post anything controversial, my tweets don't get seen like they used to. If you see this tweet, please RT it. I'm still here!! Thank you very much.

#WritingCommunity Has anyone had a customer/reader buy the same book repeatedly just to return it at the end of the day? I am getting this with one book that someone has bought and returned multiple times this week. It is not that expensive. I wondered if this is now a trend?

In the USA in 1943 they produced a film 'Don't be a Sucker' about fascism. It perfectly explains Nigel Farage, Suella Braverman, Tommy Robinson and the entire Right. x.com/GreeneyOfficia…

BREAKING Biggest waste of all Tory PPE deals. £1.4 billion of PPE, believed to be compliant, ordered from Full Support Healthcare has been destroyed Equivalent to 35,000 nurses salaries up in smoke Tories staying quiet!! 😡 ⁦BBC News (UK)⁩ bbc.com/news/articles/…

Why am I just seeing this? 🤣🤣🤣 x.com/THSResister/st…

Yes, even into the 1970s children were often played by adults on TV (at least in sitcoms) and in movies (most famously those in 'The Railway Children').