Stuart Charlesworth

Tbf everything is just recommending Small Prophets to me at the moment and it is good.

I read this during lockdown, a rich and tightly constructed novel- ideal for when you cannot get out into nature so much!

Have you ever considered audiobooks? I am running out of looks unfamiliar eps!

I watched Penda’s Fen because of one of your podcasts and will therefore forever be in your debt!

Help is not the greatest movie in the world but a massively underrated album

Stand up for trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️

Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision:https://goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8

I fell asleep to this last night, but it was fascinating up to the point where i lost consciousness! Will need to try to pick up the second half. Resisted the temptation to snuggle down in the duvet and start saying ’postman’!

A rust-coloured, tall sculpture by Halima Cassell in the garden of the Hepworth Gallery, Wakefield, with Stu - a blonde haired person squeezing their face in the corner for a selfie

Halima Cassell sculptures are ace!

@elizabethlovatt.bsky.social I’m ❤️ing your Lesbian Line book! Got about 80 pages left & am a bit narked that I have to go to work tomorrow instead of finishing it.

That 12” of 2 Tribes was great. chilling even with Mr Brittas narrating most of it. Is it the best 12” ever though? Does it have Stealin’ as a b side?

I read Galatea by @madelinemiller.bsky.social yesterday and then watched Mannequin again.

Title page of the memoir’Nina Simone’s Gum’ by Warren Ellis, signed by the author

I read #NinaSimone ‘s Gum by @warrenellis.bsky.social today. Fabulous book i have meant to read for ages. Just gone for a run listening to her Philips recordings and heard Pirate Jenny in a whole new light. Wondering if the recording of the Meltdown concert has appeared yet.

I have seen her play twice, she is so good! Her first album is also more than worth your time

Photograph of Esther Morgan, the First prize winner of the 2025 Cafe Writers open poetry competition

please join us tonight to celebrate our competition winners! details in the link! mailchi.mp/d6293af64caa...

Four books on a yellow tablecloth next to a pair of glasses: exit Strategy by Patrick Wright, Tides Elemental by Helen Taith Curtis, infections of loss, by Rushika Wick, Opening Line, ed Aaron Kent.

One of the best sounds in the world is that of books dropping from a letterbox! Have just received these from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social ! Read poetry! Support small presses! Literacy is power! @rushikawick.bsky.social @arainbowpoet.bsky.social #HelenTaithCurtis

“I have in my hand a piece of paper”

My mum died of alzheimer’s early Tuesday. My head is a mess. I wrote this poem after visiting the @foundlingmuseum.bsky.social @poetrywales.bsky.social published it. It’s weird to be posting this. I am reading Joyce’s Dubliners at the moment, in a roundabout way it has prompted me to do so.

I am currently using this photo to argue why we should get a cat

@vickymackenzie.bsky.social finished your book this afternoon. So beautiful to read, so well balanced. I live about a 10 min walk from Julian’s church - could picture the streets so well. The line about the cabbages when Margery is travelling to Norwich made me laugh!

That Hot Chocolate track is great. I can see Bowie ripping it off. Good to hear Pank again!

I finished the Anne Brontë this tea time. Such brilliant prose, sharp, punchy & witty.

Interesting conversations in our house when Ricken from Severence gets confused with Dicken from The Secret Garden

So sorry Laura, only just seen this. We have had a few problems with the log ins through eventbrite

The heating broke down i. The hall where it should have been! They played very loud!

The poet Pascale Petit looking fabulous in a red floral top and matching beads

The poet Simon Maddrel looking fabulous in a blue floral shirt and chain necklace accessories. Reading aloud from a book

Tomorrow night we have @pascalepetit.bsky.social and @simonmaddrell.bsky.social with us! How cool is that?! Details in the link: mailchi.mp/e0187a65a6b8...

Some pics from @listencambridge.bsky.social last night. Elliot Galvin, Ruth Goller, Sebastian Roachford & Mandhira De Saram made some incredible sonic art! The original congregation of the beautiful Unitarian Church would be amazed to hear such sounds from instruments they recognise.

BBC Radio 4 - CS Lewis: That Hideous Strength, The people from NICE Lewis's 'modern fairy tale for grown-ups' warns of a world where technocrats are kings.

We're not in Narnia anymore. #CSLewis's 'modern fairy tale for grown-ups' warns of a world where technocrats are kings. That Hideous Strength, dramatised by Melissa Murray, with a great cast led by Anneika Rose & Joel MacCormack 3pm Sun 9 Feb @BBCRadio4 #audiodrama www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

A Hardback copy of The Space Trilogy, by C S Lewis, on a yellow tablecloth.

I read the Space Trilogy over Christmas. They are not perfect books, but when they are good they are good. That Hideous strength was my favourite of them, evoking memories of reading Wyndham, Orwell and Susan Cooper. Will tune in!

A woodcut style print of Oscar Wilde

Just received a brilliant print of #OscarWilde by the artist Katherine Anteney. ❤️ do you recognise it @hazardpressuk.bsky.social ?!