Michael Imperioli and Warren Ellis having a sit down
Franz Kafka and Thomas Pynchon celebrating #WorldBookDay…
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Michael Imperioli and Warren Ellis having a sit down
Franz Kafka and Thomas Pynchon celebrating #WorldBookDay…
A French version of Kafka’s Metamorphosis. Gregor Samsa as a giant insect.
Sent my imaginary child in for #WorldBookDay dressed as Gregor Samsa…
Last day for this absolute bargain!
What price the rock 'n' roll dream? From 90s record shops to present day Manchester To Rise in the Dark by Nick J Brown SALE 99p ebook 'For anyone who asks, we're all over eighteen and have got the fake IDs to prove it.'
For just 99p bag yourself over 300 pages of:
90s gigs, Manchester boozers, Salford contrarians, Teenage Kicks (and punches), the word ‘cock’ as an extreme form of punctuation, militant trade unionists, a Ghost of Christmas Past, a Road to Nowhere, and heavy sarcasm.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DDCGL2MG
A montage of Manchester icons, pubs and venues with the book To Rise in the Dark in the middle.
For just 99p bag yourself over 300 pages of:
90s gigs, Manchester boozers, Salford contrarians, Teenage Kicks (and punches), the word ‘cock’ as an extreme form of punctuation, militant trade unionists, a Ghost of Christmas Past, a Road to Nowhere, and heavy sarcasm.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DDCGL2MG
A montage of Manchester icons, pubs and venues with the book To Rise in the Dark in the middle.
For just 99p bag yourself over 300 pages of:
90s gigs, Manchester boozers, Salford contrarians, Teenage Kicks (and punches), the word ‘cock’ as an extreme form of punctuation, militant trade unionists, a Ghost of Christmas Past, a Road to Nowhere, and heavy sarcasm.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DDCGL2MG
Mr Bronson from Grange Hill stood in front of a wall with his briefcase.
Born on this day in 1882, Irish novelist James Joyce…
Read it; enjoyed.
A montage of Manchester icons, pubs and venues with the book To Rise in the Dark in the middle.
For just 99p bag yourself over 300 pages of:
90s gigs, Manchester boozers, Salford contrarians, Teenage Kicks (and punches), the word ‘cock’ as an extreme form of punctuation, militant trade unionists, a Ghost of Christmas Past, a Road to Nowhere, and heavy sarcasm.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DDCGL2MG
A fella with a funny little tache on the cover of Othello
The works of Shakespeare were, in fact, written by Ron Mael from Sparks…
9/9/1930
Dear Putnam,
I am working all day & most of the night to get this fucking Proust finished.
25/8/1930
My dear Tom (McGreevy),
I started writing this morning, worked like one inspired for 2 1/2 hours, then tore everything up and made a present of it to the panier.
‘It would be a pity, as there was talk of Alec Guinness for the role of Estragon.’
Big Sam Beckett on the postponement of a West End Godot production, 1954.
Giotto di Bondone recreating THAT Manchester scene back in 1320…
If any real Manchester/Salford kebab shops would like to pay me good money it would save me having to make up fictional ones.
3 books. Molloy, Malone Dies and the Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
Molloy by Samuel Beckett in paperback
Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett in paperback
The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett in hardback
Spent all my Christmas money rounding out my aged editions of the Beckett trilogy:
Molloy (The Olympia Press, 1955)
Malone Dies (Penguin Books, 1962)
The Unnameable (Grove Press, 1970)
A screenshot of my Storygraph 5-star reads in 2025.
Storygraph collage of all books I read in 2025
My Storygraph 2025 wrap: 36 books read, I gave 10 of them ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ including 2 from @nicolaupson.bsky.social, 2 from @orlaowenwriting.bsky.social, @northernmailman.bsky.social’s hilarious “Hunter” (eagerly awaiting the next one Nick!), and @mrsimonraymonde.bsky.social’s wonderful memoir 🙏📚❤️ #BookSky
Four books read in 2025 & worthy of recommendation…
A balding writer carrying booze and carrier bag with car and pretty woman in tow.
I always find it funny in Tarkovsky’s Stalker that the writer rocks up in a fancy car with an attractive younger woman in tow.
That his carrier bag might contain the unpublished “masterpiece” he’s spent years shopping round literary agents with no interest seems far more realistic.
Do treat yourself.
The Kindle ebooks of both of these are now only 99p on Amazon!
See links in the posts. Sale lasts until 1st January.
A dachshund and a copy of Hunter by Nick J. Brown
A dachshund and a copy of Hunter by Nick J. Brown
A dachshund and a copy of Hunter by Nick J. Brown
A surprise guest turned up on Christmas Day…
The Kindle ebooks of both of these are now only 99p on Amazon!
See links in the quoted posts. Sale lasts until 1st January.
The Kindle ebooks of both of these are now only 99p on Amazon!
See links in the posts. Sale lasts until 1st January.
‘Pinter’s Krapp didn’t half cause a stink at the Royal Court.’
Big Sam Beckett looking impossibly cool Photo by Erika Rabau
Hereunder lies the above who up below,
So hourly died that he lived on till now.
First Love, 1946
Samuel Beckett 13/04/1906-22/12/1989
S. B. Beckett c & b Godot 83
A Thomas Pynchon novel snowman
A snowman comprising all the novels of Thomas Pynchon because it’s what Big Tom would want.
To Rise in the Dark paperback by Nick J. Brown
Hunter paperback by Nick J. Brown ‘…a very funny detective story on the Pynchon tip…’
Christmas gift ideas for book lovers!
Treat your friends, treat your family, treat yourself…
(Links in posts below)
