News article that reports Amazon have been forced to withdraw sponsorship from a literary festival after the French booksellers association boycotted. Amazon call it an absurd controversy. Well, quel frickin dommage Jeff.
French book industry has actual balls. Unlike ours.
“…the small town of Horley, near Gatwick airport, became a gay paradise in the 1980s thanks to the high concentration of cabin crew residents … two first world war soldiers, Gerald and Phil, who fell in love after meeting on a boat returning from Le Havre.” John Grindrod’s book sounds fun
We have been made aware of a distressing image doing the rounds today, suggesting Tottenham have beaten us 3-1.
This has clearly been photoshopped, and we will be taking this up with the relevant authorities.
Even we'd beat Spurs...
Classic Novel Merch. The scarlet letter opener. Neither wind nor snow nor puritan hysteria stops the mail from coming. Nineteen eighty-four slice toaster. Make enough for everyone watching. Lawn Quixote. Attack those giant weeds like a crazy old man. Lord of the Flies swatter. Prevent that unruly swarm from taking over. Moby Dickie. Look stylish while obsessively seeking revenge on marine life. Jane Eyre Freshener. When some things just don’t pass the smell test.
All is right with the world
I just remembered there used to be Mr Benn bot on the Twit that popped up pleasingly when someone referred to him. Lucky we got Mark O’Neill x
I think I’ve been promoted. Just heard someone call me the shopkeeper.
I did the same with the paperback of “Why Don’t Things Fall Up?”
I've just told my publishers to remove the Daily Mail quote they were going to put on the cover of the paperback of my latest novel. I don't care if the Daily Mail gave it a good review. The name of that shitrag is not going on the cover of my book.
Which reminds me of the time a dad with a baby were at the till and the baby was going “Mama, mama” and the said “who’s a Jedi warrior?” And the babe didn’t miss a beat “Dada”
Pouncing through a book tho? Compliment n’est pas. Nuff said. If that was a quote on the cover, it would work for me
Roadworks with digger behind safety barrier hung with a Lest We Forget remembrance sign and a traffic cone. Idiots.
On my walk up the hill today. Because nothing shows respect for the war dead quite like a corrugated plastic sign hung beside an empty digger next to roadworks, complete with poignant cone.
I’ve had enough of stupid news and stupid football and stupid Olympics. I’m doing the cryptic crossword instead. That will learn me.
“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video
Gutted
Bloke flogging old tut including 2 books in the doorway of the ex-Spoons. No change there then.
Ay-up lads. Looks like the competition has moved in.
Soz. Meant Six Pillars. Rubbish at Bluesky threads! As you were..
Jon was very good friends with the guy who owned it in the 90s to mid 2000s. He came to Jon’s funeral in fact. I can do some asking if you like.
📚For a few brief decades, Birmingham had a bookshop scene that reflected the city back to itself: diverse, political, practical, trade unionist, academic and scientifically forward looking.
If the jackboot fits...
Great artist paints great writer: portrait of Emile Zola, 1868, by Edouard Manet, born OTD 1832. Filled with reminders of their friendship.
Jon loved it.
Good times
The shop window of Bookseller Crow in Crystal Palace. Festivally decorated and full of interesting books, it positively invites you in.
These wonderful people not only have a great shop window but they now have a pile of books signed by me. I did also write the books, if you’re worried – I don’t just go in and sign random books, they frown on that. Anyway, get your books from them.
@booksellercrow.bsky.social booksellercrow.co.uk
#London 📚✒️🎤🍺
A nativity scene with Mary, Joseph, and Jesus in separate ICE cages. A Threads user says "And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and seperated them from the babe lying in a manger. They threw them each in cages, because they were not native to Bethlehem and foreigners were not welcome there." -Luke 2:16 CNV (Christian Nationalist Version)
Nativity photo from Seattle.
Loon
Listen to the crows, the crows know…
Pumpkin with Jon’s sign off - Fight Evil, Read Books
Stepped out of the house this
morning and finally realised what the daughter had left on the step
True Welsh poetry
