All we ever wanted to do with the Home event (and the book) was raise awareness and raise funds for three Gaza charities. Here's how to donate to one of those charities, Medical Aid for Palestinians: map.org.uk/donate/donatio…

Couldn't sleep last night so read a few bits on Granta. This James Scudamore piece about James Joyce's grandson is absolutely class granta.com/ecce-senex-ste…

The conditions will never be perfect. You have to just sit down and make something. There will always be a valid excuse to not do it that day. Do it anyway.

ENGLAND IS MINE is out now! 🎉

England Is Mine by Nicolas Padamsee - an The Observer New Review Top 10 Debut of 2024 is out now: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/englan…

Launched today, the British debut of the year so far, in my unbiased opinion - congratulations Nicolas Padamsee for his extraordinary ENGLAND IS MINE serpentstail.com/2024/04/08/qa-…. If you're in London come and party with us tonight at Burley Fisher Books

This book has been one of the best £1.50's I've ever spent. Check this bit i just read about Jerry Lee getting expelled from the Southwestern Bible Institute, aged 15.

Once people start taking action, others join in too. 💪 Loving this amazing effort to plant thousands of trees to recreate lost woodlands in Lake District. 🌳 Time to deliver more of this. ✅ bbc.com/news/articles/…

RIP Paul Auster. I read the New York Trilogy in the 2nd year of my English degree, must have been about 2007. I had never read anything so mysterious before. I didn't know books like that existed. I remember turning to his author photo and thinking how dark and glamorous he was.

"America is about the synthesis of a lot of different cultures, and beauty arises out of that synthesis... Is it a gangster samurai hip-hop Eastern western? I want it to have elements of all those things, but not be any" one" Jim Jarmusch ~ Ghost Dog's 25th anniversary

I read a proof of Glen's book and can confirm that it is mint

I was wondering what China Miéville had been up to. I saw him at a Pages of Hackney event back in 2012. l vividly remember him nailing Boris Johnson's soaking up of the London Olympics goodwill at every conceivable opportunity. He referred to him as a "ninja of bumptiousness" haha

I'm posting a lot (unlike me) but it's PUBLICATION DAY for 💚 MOTHER NAKED 💚 (!) [1/4]

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Couple of sightings out in the wild. Sanderson's Isle in @CityBooksinHove, The Litten Path in News From Nowhere. The Litten Path turns 5 this year. I was 28 when I started it, 31 when I finished. 2 years later it was out. Big up Salt Books for taking a chance on it

One of many great bits from Gwendoline Riley's debut Cold Water, published when she was 23 so I assume written earlier. An unbelievable talent

I wrote this about why men should read novels thetimes.com/article/61ea74…

Important documentary ‘Strike - An Uncivil War’ on Netflix from Wed 18 Sept. Hear directly from the miners & others about the preplanned state & police violence at #Orgreave Read our latest report here: otjc.org.uk/orgreave-truth… #OrgreaveJustice #OrgreaveInquiry #MinersStrike

Superb, must-watch documentary about South Yorkshire police brutality at Orgreave during the 1984-85 miners strike, and prosecution of miners described as "the biggest frame up ever", now on Netflix.