Anyone who is bereaved lives in the shadow of a myth about what a ‘good grief’ looks like. Look at almost any film or story about losing a spouse and there is a distinctive timeline, in which the same old landmarks crop up.

THE SCRAPBOOK is published today by Pantheon Books. Thank you to everyone who has supported me on this long road. It wasn’t easy to research and write a novel about the Nazis’ lingering legacy of hate, but I’m glad I did. This is a book for our times

I would love to see this happen theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

Iconic anti-war poster, originally by US printmaker Lorraine Schneider, 1966 #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Great to see this in today’s The Times and The Sunday Times #StopCalderdaleWindFarm #KateBush #WutheringHeights #MassWuther #TeamPeat #Bronte #Brontë #peat #Haworth #Walshaw #moor #windfarm #blanketbog #TeamNature #wuther #runningupthathill #SaudiArabia #Heathcliff

Danielle Clough, contemporary fibre artist and designer from Cape Town, South Africa #womensart #Wimbledon

Calderdale creatives: a free one-day symposium 'exploring the intersection of creativity, place and the natural world'. Thurs 17 July, Hebden Bridge. More info and tickets: tinyurl.com/y7stf7d7

Join The Elmet Trust for an evening of poetry ... The Dusty Miller , 17th August, 7.30pm 😊

Calderdale Sphagnum Project, funded by The National Lottery, has been shortlisted for the Best Climate Action or Decarbonisation Initiative in the Association of Public Service Excellence awards 2025. The awards ceremony takes place in Glasgow in September. Fingers crossed!

Many thanks to the wonderful booksellers at The Bookcase in Hebden Bridge for supporting Bluemoose and all our authors. Booksellers Association

Did I tell you that The second Bluemoose book to be adapted for TV. Leonard and Hungry Paul by Rónán Hession Is coming to your BBC screens. Marvellous! The Bookseller The Times and The Sunday Times Financial Times The Guardian

Bumble bee brooches, from textile artist Lisa Toppin of Agnes and Cora, based in Scotland #WomensArt #Monday

From photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's 'Writing In The Sand' series, a celebration of the life of beaches in the North East of England, 1973-1998 #womensart

I'll be talking about 'Made in Manchester' at Hebden Bridge Local History Society, Weds Sept 24th, 7.30pm, Methodist Church, Market Street. Visitors welcome, £4.

#September by Eugene Grasset, from The Months, an #artnouveau calendar (1896). #autumn #1stSeptember #September1 #FolkloreSunday #BookChatWeekly

“And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.” ― Oscar Wilde

Library staff, Moss Side, Manchester, 1925 (Manchester Libraries).

New open access article: Jon Goodson & I in Annals of Tourism Research on #historicalfiction, #mediatourism & ‘lieux d’imagination’. Using #TheGallowsPole & the Cragg Vale Coiners, we show how narrative & reality status shape the visitor experience. authors.elsevier.com/a/1lnwDaZ3EmtJ2

Good morning. Together with Little Toller we publisher a very important book. The destruction of our peat lands is of international concern. You can order here: littletoller.co.uk 40 writers incl. Rob Macfarlane - Amy Liptrot - Horatio Clare & music legend Patti Smith

Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." youtu.be/cXR5HLodsT8?si…