Lizzy that's wonderful thank you – I'll make a note and, at some point, be in touch!

It does indeed! And if I can persuade/rope you in at some point, I shall do so – you have been warned...

Jobs! Three jobs! I am hiring three full-time, three-year postdocs to research the long history of song at Newcastle, from any disciplinary background (within reason), starting 1 October 2026. Spread the news far and wide – all details in the link below...

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Had a FAB day at @stockportnoir.bsky.social ‬⁩🤩🕵️‍♀️🔎 Thanks to our host ⁦‪lovely @cmacwritescrime.bsky.social ‬⁩and to @clmillerauthor.bsky.social @oskarjensen.bsky.social ‬⁩and @tomhindle.bsky.social for being amazing panel mates 🙏 Finally a big 😘 to all the readers who turned up and made our day ❤️

Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...

British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

Planning a monograph or collection essays on some aspect of #C18th #history & culture? If so, get in touch with @deborahsimonton.bsky.social or me about publishing in our series, Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies. #skystorians 🗃️www.routledge.com/Routledge-St...

Yes! A very simple mystery but much more depth of character, all heart and empathy rather than quirk/tweeness... she has a great editor too, not incidentally...

Hurrah! Also that is much the best review – and the best-written – I can remember having for this book. Love that you like Sally Smith's as well (did you read the first one?) and I so see why it hits the spot for you in particular...

The best new paperbacks to read in October 2025 14 great books, now in their cheaper and lighter formats

'Another entertaining whodunnit from the author of Helle and Death'

#HellesHound by @oskarjensen.bsky.social has been selected by the iPaper as a best new paperback to read this October 🐾

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Today! In paperback! With this joyous new cover! The most fun I've ever had with writing!

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Newcastle University academic hits the right note with UKRI Fellowship Dr Oskar Jensen has been awarded £2m funding to research the history of song.

Some news! Also known as fourth time lucky; I've wanted to do this for the best part of a decade...

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I'm very much in love with this paperback cover... out in October!

BBC Radio 3
Sunday Feature: New Generation Thinkers shorts

New Generation Thinker, historian Oskar Jensen, explores the history of lullabies, in search of the power and the know-how that makes Hush-a-bye Baby do what it says in the title.

That rarest of things – happy news from America! Hurrah for the Foreword

Harvill Secker snaps up Sarah Hilary's two new novels Deputy publishing director Katie Ellis-Brown has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to two new novels by Sarah Hilary from Veronique Baxter at David Higham. The first in the series, The Drowning Plac...

I have book news!

www.thebookseller.com/rights/harvi...

Deputy publishing director Katie Ellis-Brown has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to two new novels from Veronique Baxter at David Higham. The first in the series, The Drowning Place, will be published in April 2026.

Cover of “Helle’s Hound” by Oskar Jensen: gold font on black background, with green lines (vaguely resembling the lines of a tube map in how they connect and cross over each other, footprints and paw prints. There are also six gold discs positioned almost randomly on the green lines, each containing one of the following icons (running clockwise): a cocktail glass; a paw print; a hammer and sickle a la USSR; a key with a club-shaped top, vaguely reminiscent of a key that might unlock a centuries old church door; a perfume bottle of the bulbous kind with a balloon puffy thing by the side that were popular in the 1980s, a peacock feather.

“And for Val a.k.a. Mummy Willie with great thanks, Oskar” signed edition

Feel for @oskarjensen.bsky.social, who came along to a scholarly day to talk about his excellent special issue plans & suffered the indignity of being forced to sign a copy of his second detective fiction book to Mummy Willie (a fan)

Please do join us on May 24th in Cambridge to celebrate the work of Bruce R, Smith, and explore the future of early modern sound studies. We would love to meet you! www.tickettailor.com/events/sound...

For anyone in London or Bradford: www.coma.org/whats-on/tak...

A really great looking musical endeavour by the brilliant @uriagnon.bsky.social.

Maybe of interest to @electricvoice.bsky.social? Spread the word...

Win this book!
Helle's Hound by @oskarjensen.bsky.social up for grabs: www.facebook.com/CrimeFiction...
Today only!

His old mentor is dead and Torben Helle is on the case in Helle's Hound by @oskarjensen.bsky.social 🇩🇰
If you like a cosy crime story with a few bonkers twists and a sprinkling of Nordic noir, then this is it!
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Ain't it gorgeous? And, somehow, potent? Our new book on the (very long) history of protest songs, the culmination (or is it?) of www.oursubversivevoice.com – available for a jolly reasonable £25.99 or, you know, get your library to get it...
www.mqup.ca/our-subversi...

Aerial view of Newcastle University, featuring classic redbrick buildings and lush greenery. Overlay text highlights the university's ranking in the top 100 for various subjects including Anatomy and Physiology, Archaeology, and more, according to QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025.

🎉 Today we're celebrating as 12 of our subjects have been ranked within the world's top 100 in the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject.

Congratulations to all our colleagues and teams involved in this fantastic achievement👏

#WeAreNCL #QS

What a lineup at this Cambridge event on the future of sound studies, in memory of the great Bruce R. Smith. There's @jennyrichards.bsky.social, Tiffany Stern, Richard Wistreich, @oskarjensen.bsky.social, Katherine Hunt, @racheljwillie.bsky.social — not to be missed if you're in the area!

Join Oskar Jensen at Waterstones Newcastle, talking all things #HellesHound with Howard Linskey 🐾

www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev... @oskarjensen.bsky.social

Happy book birthday to the lovely and stylish @oskarjensen.bsky.social for the delectable #HellesHound 🐾 and thank you ⁦
@viperbooks.bsky.social ‬for inviting me to
@dauntbooks.bsky.social ‬⁩ Holland Park for this wonderful launch 💕

Oh I love that place, I was there for someone's wedding and heckled one of the speeches, a fine time was had by all...

Such a good night, I remember it well! What was the restaurant?

I love the chronological span here!

📢 Diary Date 📢 Super excited for the Viper panel on 1 March at 11am 😱 @guymorpuss.bsky.social @tariqashkanani.bsky.social @oskarjensen.bsky.social and I are in the firm hands of @emmaflint.bsky.social 🕵️ It's gonna be a BIG @baytales.bsky.social BLAST! Details below 👇
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Your quote was definitely my favourite! 🖤💚💛