📽️ Join me for a walk along Hope Street #Liverpool from one cathedral to the other! 💚 Hope Street is the local high street of the Canning Georgian Quarter. ❤️ It contains various restaurants, hotels and bars and is one of Liverpool's official 'Great Streets' and was also

This reaches the nation’s bookshops on August 15th -‘perfectly balanced between personal remembrance and the historical celebration of a nation’ says ⁦Natasha Carthew⁩ ⁦W&N⁩ In Leeds ? I’ll be ⁦Waterstones on 9th Sept waterstones.com/events/an-even…

You destroyed a library. It was MORE than a library, it was a food bank, a source of heat for people in the winter, a place for kids from low income families to use the internet, or do their homework. Why destroy something so vital? Yeah you’re so patriotic guys.

Victoria Park, London, 1978. 100,000 Skins, Punks, Jews, Blacks, Muslims, Mixed , English, Irish, Hindus, Sikhs, Scots, Welsh, Working Class, Middle Class, trade unionists, unified against racists and fascists. Gen Z, it's your turn.

Liverpool libraries made me a writer and I’ve donated to this.

Delighted to be on the long list for the Nota Bene Prize notabeneprize.com

Delighted to be on this long list chosen by readers.

I know the feeling . . .

Calm down

Interesting event with Linda Grant William Golding

A member of my family on how recent events on the anti-fascist left have taken a dark turn.

In my experience of X/Twitter it’s best for breaking news and quick fire reactions to that news whereas BlueSky contains almost no breaking news but is heavy on informed responses to news seen elsewhere. That’s my timeline anyway.

French riot police break a poets’ brawl in Cocteau’s Orphée.

Sorry X, it’s over. Your owner’s a dangerous troll. Janice Turner witheringly makes the case for severing contact with this site. I’m on bluesky. thetimes.com/article/a9188e…

I’m on bluesky but I think Threads is less clunky. Time will tell. Not deleting my account here yet but not planning to post much.

We have a few tickets remaining for our 2024 #GoldingSpeaker Linda Grant in conversation with Alex Clark on Friday at 7.30pm. Tickets: bit.ly/3XTkmxp With thanks to event sponsor William Golding #MLF2024 #15years

Just finished this wonderful holiday reading - ⁦Linda Grant⁩ is such an engaging and thoughtful writer.

'From the very first page of The Story of the Forest, I was hooked' Sarah Jessica Parker 📚 🌲💫The Story of the Forest is out in the US today! Congratulations Linda Grant Zando & #sjplit

In the next few days I’m going to delete my account here. You’ll find me on bluesky.