Musicians in art

If you like this book by Norman Lewis, please read the wonderful recent novel THE TRAITOR’S WIFE by Sarah Steele. Sarah used Lewis’s book as inspiration. I learned a lot from her novel.

Maurice Sendak died on this day, 8th May, in 2012. As well as illustrating books, he worked extensively on set designs for opera. Below is part of The Magic Flute (1978).

Everyone is welcome to join our event tonight for The Blake Society

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Emma Flint @emmaflint.bsky.social📚💀💙🖤💙📚 Jo Unwin This is super useful. And such a great insight from both of you. Thank you Emma and Jo! #difficultsecondnovel

you should get a certain number of “reading days” per year along with your allotted sick days, so that you can phone your boss and say “I can’t come in to work today, I’m reading in bed” and then you spend the day reading in bed

you stay up an hour later than usual to finish an enchanting book

This is so important. Politics really CAN make a difference. Shabby, flawed and cynical it may often seem, but it's still ours - and if we give up on it, we just leave it all to the worst possible people.

Bringing a Victorian child back to life.... Dr Barnardo's opend its first home for orphaned & homelss children in 1870. From their archive comes this photo of 16-year-old James Alex Lindsey who, after his mother's death, found himself penniless on the streets of London in 1887.…

As part of the The Eve Appeal 💋 #GetLippy campaign, here’s a short video on vulval cancer and what to look out for

It’s one of the least talked about gynaecological cancers, so let’s talk about it!

A reminder that Kylie Minogue is the same age Anne Haddy was when she started playing Helen Daniels

I often think about how amazing and wonderful the world would be if we had a universal income and people could create what they wanted without worrying about might sell. The art, music, poetry, cooking, writing etc would be utterly wonderful to see.

Looking forward to this so much. May still be a couple tickets left so grab them quick if you’re a #crimefiction fan around #Newcastle tomorrow!

Nicola Coughlan is posting almost exclusively about Rafah on her IG knowing folks are going to be searching for her for the Met Gala.

#WritingPrompt

A baby seal experience first time in water 🦭

Pic of friend of friend's daughter at World Book Day as Hockney always cheers me up...

Happy birthday to one of the most imaginative, innovative, and fearless writers. Angela Carter was #BOTD in 1940, wrote nine novels, over forty short stories, a large body of essays, screenplays and radio plays, and more. Often controversial but always engaging, and much missed.

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Celebrate publication day with Colm Tóibín, live in London and online, as he introduces Long Island, the long-awaited sequel to his modern masterpiece, Brooklyn buff.ly/4aWrXRE

This is incredibly moving.

Alzheimer’s has reached its AZT moment