Okinawa: For 100+ yrs, young Welsh folk have created an annual Global Peace and Goodwill Message - this year, it is translated into the endangered Okinawan language, Uchinaaguchi, for the first time. Kudos to 比嘉光龍（ふぃじゃ　ばいろん）
okinawatimes.co.jp/articles/-/135…
#Heddwch2024 #Urdd #平和の詩

Some really nice news... I'm v excited to share that in August I'll be joining the amazing team at Hutchinson Heinemann as editorial director. 🐧

Reversion to Japan has been disastrous and can only be remedied by Ryukyu independence. 😢mainichi.jp/english/articl…

Israel is heavily bombing Rafah, Gaza’s last place of refuge, in the middle of the night, killing scores of civilians, most of them children.

There are many others injured and buried under the rubble.

Don’t stop talking about Rafah.

surreal + exciting to see Glass Houses (and my 'give pensive' face) in The Observer today... Thank you so much! Guardian Books

Reading a lot of new and wonderful short story collections at the moment, and this is an absolute stand-out. Reporting from the borderlands of continued human existence on earth. Bleakness opens out into something tender, and funny and beautiful. To be read urgently.

Birding by @regretteruane follows two women, untangling the damaging details of their past in the hope for a better future, trying to take flight on clipped wings.

Out today: brnw.ch/21wJoiz

The author vote went against the Society of Authors condemning a genocide. Reminder that writers, poets, journalists have been killed. Libraries destroyed, books burned, schools and universities bombed.

But, nope, the authors voted against any solidarity or condemnation. 🤢🤢🤢🤢

Disappointed that the Society of Authors members voted down a statement on Gaza, and that the management committee don't see solidarity – the basic organising principle of unionism – as a function of the institution.

This gorgeous thing has just arrived - huge congratulations Salena Godden - the first poem I read left me struggling to breathe #WithLoveGriefandFury

Paul Auster as a student participating in the 1968 occupation of Columbia University, as seen in Peter Whitehead's The Fall (1969).

safe travels

🍭 I’m in this moreish book-hamper of delectable selectables! Bite me

“Dreamtime” by Venetia Welby. Is this good peri-ecopocalyptic world's edge quest 4 postcult postcare family's near hope earned? Hard to say.

'These vivid, candid diaries describe a lifetime of searching for dangerous pick-ups'

Terrific first review of Hugo Greenhalgh's 'fascinating' new book The Diaries of Mr Lucas in The Times and The Sunday Times Kirsty Doole Eli Keren aimee 🅾️🅿️
thetimes.co.uk/article/diarie…

‘The perilous porousness between our online and offline worlds is the spark for Nicolas Padamsee’s tinderbox thriller … deeply astute and devastating.’ ENGLAND IS MINE reviewed in Guardian Books ✨ theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

ENGLAND IS MINE is out now! 🎉

PROOF REVEAL 🎉

THE WATERMARK is Sam Mills's kaleidoscopic, book-surfing adventure of love and fate. Publishing in August.

‘Playful, romantic and very, very clever. Like Inception for booklovers' Clare Pollard

Cover (as seen on back) by Nathan Burton
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-wa…

In 2021, a friend wrote saying he was having a medical catastrophe and didn’t know if he'd make it.

He said he'd been taking finasteride, a baldness drug that thousands of men say has caused them devastating side effects.

This is my friend’s story:

economist.com/1843/2024/04/0…

'My brief for being in Italy was a strange one. I was there to follow in the footsteps of someone whose identity I didn’t know and didn’t want to know either.'

I travelled to the island of Ischia in the footsteps of Elena Ferrante for @FTWeekend.

on.ft.com/4cL8p46

Everybody!
Scratch Books are thrilled to be publishing the amazing The Unreliable Nature Writer by Claire Carroll on 6th June

Saba Sams says it is: “Ominous yet deeply tender, surreal yet undeniable. I could not look away.”
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