A joke for language people 😁

We're hiring! Initially a fixed term contract but with permanent potential. It's 22.5 hours a week (3 days) needing the flexibility to work weekends, week days, bank holidays, & in other local branches. You'd be working with lovely people & for book lovers there are great perks

So good to see the Malvern Book Coop in the Bookseller this week!

Continuing our four-part series of excerpts from Kate Macdonald's debut mythological fantasy THE SHETLAND WITCH, here's part three! Read more: tinyurl.com/2hn9xepp 📚 Handheld Press #TheShetlandWitch

This is shocking abuse by an employer against a staff member taking maternity leave. And it seems any woman will be affected. Bloody enraging.

Everyday brings new horrors in bookselling in India. Today’s arrivals were delivered wet and had been chewed off by rats during transit. Bookselling in India is so challenging at every stage. #bookselling #india #brokensystem

Spain has really played the long game with this one, but respect where it’s due

📚✒️🛠️ If anyone out there would like editorial help, I'm back in the freelance market, in a toe in the water, see if I still like it way. I've been editing for nearly forty years and moving words about is still my favourite thing. Find out more here! katemacdonald.net/editorial-serv…

The Conscientious Objector’s Wife, Ed by Kate Macdonald A post from Bookword blog from 2 years ago. bit.ly/3dLYOjW 📚 Handheld Press

Lots of things that could be posted after such an incredible career but I always thought this was particularly sublime.

It's exciting to see a review of our Recovered Books Boiler House Press collection of the poetry and prose of Genevieve Taggard, To Test the Joy, in this week's Times Literary Supplement. the-tls.co.uk/literature/poe…

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Hey ⁦Boris Johnson⁩ we hear you have a spare hour in your schedule now. Come to the Oh God, What Now studios and we’ll give you a proper interview. And we won’t send you the questions in advance. (Listeners, RT if you want this to happen)

A hobby doesn't earn you much money, but a hobby is something you do now and again for relaxation. It's not a passionately life-absorbing occupation for which all the best that's in you is used to the full for the best of reasons. A vocation might not earn much money either.

Book blogging never went away. Simon Thomas Ali Hope book addict 📚 kaggsy59 📚📚📚😷 Radz Pandit 📚 John W Kropf ExpendableMudge (He/him) Dorian Stuber Caustic Cover Critic Marina Sofia Mookse Michael Orthofer JacquiWine and many others.... (Please tag others in replies.)

Me to my husband - Not everything we do looks gay! Us..👇 @broadwayhusbands #VoteBlue2024ProtectDemocracy

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Of course those 'robots' weren't real. They're part of the Musk cult, controlled by hidden Tesla employees in the back of a van somewhere. Still quite an achievement to make such beautiful Hollywood-friendly puppets, but they're not robots.

She's unable to see her screen because the sun is behind her. Idiots.