It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.

Less a guard dog than an avant-garde dog

It’s what she would’ve wanted.

For #StationsSaturday, this marvellous early C20th ceramic sign at Cardiff. I’m particularly in love with the comma, and fingernail.

This is riveting. Thoroughly engaging. Thoroughly horrifying. Can/will the food system move away from greed & exploitation towards nourishing people & planet? By the excellent Stuart Gillespie who I heard speak most powerfully at OxfordLitFest. #foodsystem #futureoffood

The bear is a symbol of rebirth. It will always symbolically die in the cave at the end of autumn to be born in spring like nature around us. #FolkloreSunday

Tonight’s the night! 📚 Story fans and library-lovers, join us for the Story Radio Writers’ Salon at The Colony Room Green – The Library 📅 Monday, 9 June 2025 • 🕖 Evening at Colony Room Green, 4 Heddon Street, London W1B 4BS #BookTwitter eventbrite.co.uk/e/story-radio-…

Experiments with ‘Invisible Ink’ Martin Aitchison (1967)

Remembering that time we catalogued a Collins Nature Guide to the seashore and found all the new insults we could ever need.

This is great to see.

Valid

I'm sorry but you'll find more wisdom in myths, fairy-tales, a Jane Austen novel, an hour communing with an old tree, than in almost any book in this pile. Self-help isn't going to help you. You need poetry, history, beauty. You need fiction that jolts you awake.

The rotating book rack - the original version of having too many tabs open.

Join us in the beautiful surroundings of Holland Park’s Daisy Green cafe to write and record your own #FlashFiction on the 30th June, 28th July or 18th August - £30 with tea and coffee included eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-flas…

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Nothing to see here, just a chicken Oh, and the ONE THOUSAND year old Bowthorpe Oak, Lincolnshire Photo: Ed Parker

It's out. Baroness Casey has published her rapid review into grooming gangs. It's 197 pages long. Here's some of the major observations so far scanning through. Thread 🧵

One of the Georges - I forget which - once said that a certain number of hours' sleep each night - I cannot recall at the moment how many - made a man something which for the time being has slipped my memory.