@AlanJParks @PolarVerlag Very cool. Giving me Dylan album sleeve vibes
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Francis Bickmore
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Francis Bickmore
@Kinhead
Publisher at Large 🅒🅐🅝🅞🅝🅖🅐🅣🅔 🅑🅞🅞🅚🅢 home of stay-up-all-night reading
Katılım Mart 2009
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@JaneyGodley Janey, I love your work and your spirit. Sending love and happiness and joy as you make this courageous journey.
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I’m now at end of life care - palliative care-and will be going into a hospice for the foreseeable - thanks to everyone who sends me love and support- you’ve been amazing
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@lemnsissay Sending courage and resolve. We lapse and we learn. Love.
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I smoked twenty cigarettes each day for the past 3 days. I stopped yesterday at noon. Up until then I had two years six months smoke free. I won't smoke another.
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Very pleased to finally be able to say - it's Publication Day!
Black History for Every Day of the Year - written with my siblings Yinka and Kemi Olusoga. 366 stories of people achievements, inventions and events. Out now.
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A huge thanks to @gavinfranc and @Kinhead for an all-encompassing conversation about The Bridge Between Worlds to celebrate its launch last night. Thanks also to everyone who joined us and snapped up a book or a cupcake (or both)! 🌉
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Lovely motor. Lovely hair. Lovely clothes. Doing very well for himself … as Musk knows, and as plenty of journos know, there is money to be made in stirring up hatred and telling people all their problems will be solved if we just other the others and see where it leads
Joshi Herrmann@joshi
As mobs attempt to burn down hotels housing asylum seekers, don't forget Nigel Farage led a campaign to publicise these hotels. He recorded himself turning up at a series of them in 2020 and asked his followers to identify more hotels, saying some residents "might be ISIS".
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@ScribePedersen @EdinCityofLit @LLCatEdinburgh @FaberBooks @LittleBrownUK @BirlinnBooks @CorsairBooks @scotlit @thebookseller @ByLeavesWeLive @PoetrySociety Wow. That’s awesome. Congrats on the new hat!
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@BenMyers1 @canongatebooks You’re awesome. I would love to see you and KB paired at an event. Let’s try and make that happen.
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@johnypitts Delighted to hear that, johny. And that it got your juices flowing. @WinterPapers
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Always nice to stumble upon a Canongate review in my Saturday reading - but more so when it’s as dazzling a write up as this Kevin Barry review from @sannewman:
“I doubt that anyone will publish a novel this year that is at once so beautiful, so lovable and so much fun.”
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@guyware @lokiscottishrap Kickstarter is certainly an idea. And people might chip in a little. A little easier when the target is £5000 than say £500,000.
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Wherever you stand on FFB and BG I would encourage you to read Anna’s thread. We have a problem to solve together cc @FerretScot
Anna Frame@annaframe
This is a really useful thread from Andrew, who’s been organising literary festivals in this country for longer than most - and, as former director of the much-missed @bristolideas - knows better than most the funding options available, and the pain of seeing a festival close.
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Me sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
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@LukeTurnerEsq Haha. ‘I could totally dance, I just don’t want to’
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@john_self @agent_luck @RavindraM @samjordison @AlexandraPring @ShehanKaru @DGALitAgents Great piece. Thanks for reminding us of the serendipity involved in established masterpieces.
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With thanks to @agent_luck, @RavindraM, @Kinhead, @samjordison, @AlexandraPring, @ShehanKaru, @DGALitAgents, Anna Stein and Yann Martel for their time and their candour in talking to me about Shuggie Bain, Life of Pi, Seven Moons, Ducks Newburyport and Swimming Home.
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Which @TheBookerPrizes novel was rejected because some people at the publishing house didn't like the characters?
What winner chose his publisher as "I had not many other options, frankly"?
I had great fun writing this piece about rejected Booker books:
thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…
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