Book announcement! A Guardian Country Diary anthology is to be published by Faber on 26/9. It features our finest nature writers as they track the ebbs and flows of UK wildlife across the seasons, from Cornwall to Orkney. Pre-order it here with 25% off: guardianbookshop.com/Under-the-Chan…

Welcome our new joiners - First Artists, Swanice Luong, Madison Whiteley, and Artists of the Company, Alexandra Terry, Anri Sugiura, Marta Monesi, Martinho Santos, Nathaniel Ritter-Magot, Paulo Gonzalez, Thalina Chapin and Vincent Philp. 🙌 We’re thrilled to have such amazing

Percival Everett and Rachel Kushner make the 2024 Booker prize shortlist theguardian.com/books/2024/sep…

Friends! It's the feast day of St. Hildegard of Bingen, an abbess, polymath, mystic, & eel truth-teller. Medieval thinkers agreed that eels reproduce asexually. But Hildegard suggested that eels mate at sea, where we can't watch. No one listened to her. But she was right! 1/2

One of our favourite things is when authors give us copies of their books so we were delighted when a very little girl called Robin gave us this copy of a book she had made. SHARKMANIA! was published in an exclusive edition of 1 and is available to read in the library now! 🦈

This week's full Moon is a Harvest Moon, supermoon and lunar eclipse. All you need to know in our complete guide skyatnightmagazine.com/news/super-har…

Longfellow, The Harvest Moon poets.org/poem/harvest-m…

“Under the summer roses When the flagrant crimson Lurks in the dusk Of the wild red leaves,” Under the Harvest Moon by Carl Sandburg - Poems | Academy of American Poets poets.org/poem/under-har…

The Harvest Moon by Ted Hughes All Poetry allpoetry.com/8495327 “And all the moonlit cows and all the sheep Stare up at her petrified, while she swells Filling heaven, as if red hot, and sailing Closer and closer like the end of the world.”

Supermoon and lunar eclipse delight stargazers bbc.com/news/articles/…

QuietManDave Prize | Manchester Metropolitan University Flash fiction and flash non-fiction. mmu.ac.uk/qmdprize

I love this account of moving from east to west and building a relationship with local stone. It’s the great beauty of the west and the foundation of its spirit.

The opacity of academic prose arises from the epistemological imperative to operationalize disciplinary jargon, facilitating intra-specialized discourse while obfuscating heterogenous interpretive accessibility and perpetuating a recursive dialectic of erudition and exclusion.

Hilary Mantel was my mentor. Here are seven things she taught me about writing – and life theguardian.com/books/2024/sep…

Thread of the world's most beautiful libraries 1. Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading, Brazil

More lovely people at the events than you can shake a book at - pre & post session chats, food, drinks and company ........

UK’s first ever bison bridges under construction in Kent woodland theguardian.com/world/2024/sep…

Soaring spires and floods in Europe: photos of the day – Thursday theguardian.com/news/gallery/2…

Five of the best books shaped by lists theguardian.com/books/2024/sep…

Fall,leaves, fall; die,flowers,away Lengthen night and shorten day Every leaf speaks bliss to me Fluttering from the autumn tree I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow I shall sing when night’s decay Ushers in a drearier day poetryfoundation.org/poems/52330/fa…