📚Avec son premier roman sidérant de noirceur, « Le Sang des collines », l’écrivain anglais remporte le titre de l’édition 2026.

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Can't believe ChatGPT is ruining the reputation of em dashes.

Starting to look like astroturfing by big grammar and big Latin to get me to use semicolons — you'll take my run-on sentences from my cold, dead hands!

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Why are there so many sad songs about Ohio? What happens there?

Pigeon Football: The Beautiful Game YouTube video by Pigeon Network

"Pigeons. They're intelligent but they've nah got the concept of teams."

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Slugs YouTube video by Conner O'Malley

"Love is a bullet into the mind of loneliness/
Spraying lonely blood all over the wall of regret."

Somebody needs to give Conor O'Malley a Pulitzer already. Greatest mind of the 20th century.

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This is DVD (2000) Promo (VHS Capture) YouTube video by retro VHS trailers

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Whatever happened to DVD?

Stoked to see The Borrowed Hills made it onto the
Authors' Club Best First Novel Award shortlist. Some incredibly impressive books to be alongside here! 🧡🐑

Readers on Writers: Scott Preston - Young Writer of the Year Award

Had a lot of fun doing this interview for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year shortlist talking about Westerns, Cumbria and getting published 🐑

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So thrilled to see The Borrowed Hills among this great longlist of first novels! 🐑🐑🐑

Photo of four books shortlisted for the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award. The books are Rural Hours by Harriet Baker, Fast by the Horns by Moses McKenzie, The Borrowed Hills by Scott Preston and Strange Relations by Ralf Webb

The shortlist for the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award was announced today @thetimes.com
Congratulations to Harriet Baker, Moses McKenzie, @scottprestonauthor.bsky.social and Ralf Webb www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

Beautiful sandhill cranes sound YouTube video by Animal lovers Tv

Saving for future reference 🪶

Still too early to tell, more of a summer purchase

Thanks Review Man - glad you enjoyed it! 🐑

100 Best Field Recordings 2024 Playlist · Scott Preston · 100 items

For whatever reason, my long playlists of field recordings are about the most popular thing I’ve done. So here’s one for new releases in 2024 to listen to while you taxidermy roadkill or study the anatomy of flightless birds.

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Don’t even think I’m just being nostalgic. American Pie, Juno, Superbad, Napoleon Dynamite. It was losers all the way down. And even with something like Clueless. It’s all in the title. She was meant to be Queen Bee but was lost. Today, she’d be our gowky protagonist with no sense of irony about it.

The best example of what I mean is the Mean Girls remake musical. It didn’t work because the plastics actually felt more dorky and more sympathetic than the trio of ‘outcasts’ we’re meant to root for. Who were clearly the coolest, whip-smart kids around.

I don’t get coming-of-age films these days. They feel so alien. The teenagers talk like Marvel characters, have $1,000 outfits and are so, so cool. They’re Instagram stories come to life. What happened to losers trying to fit in? Y’know, that strange thing we used to call adolescence.

The Loneliest Cowboys in the World Playlist · Scott Preston · 100 items · 5 saves

Writing a book about lonely men doing lonely work has led to odd conversations about how men express themselves. Or don’t. My feeling is they do, but we don’t really want to listen, and to prove it, here’s 100 rough-tough cowboys singing 100 songs about loneliness.

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Thanks so much Joe! Really means a lot. The next one’s halfway done now, so hopefully not too long to wait.

100 Best Songs from Northern England (2024)

Here’s my final list of the 100 Best Songs from Northern England in 2024.

May as well have to something to show for all the time I spend making lists of UK music releases by region.

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I can’t stop looking at this album cover.

Still can’t wrap my head around this poptimism stuff, and I don’t think I ever will. Sure, maybe we didn’t give Britney and the Spice Girls their due but weren’t the piles of money enough? How much ghostwritten teen pop am I supposed to listen to?

100 Best Songs of 2024 Playlist · Scott Preston · 100 items

Here’s my list of the 100 best songs of 2024.

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First year that I’ve felt like a cloud-yelling millennial. Lots of the hipster trash from my youth making an appearance. Lots of confusion about what’s cool.

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Hope you enjoy it!

Great to see The Borrowed Hills on here! “A pitch-black western set amid the sheep farms of Cumbria, striking and powerful.”

Fiction runner-up: The Borrowed Hills, Scott Preston (Scribner)
Nonfiction runner-up: Every Valley, Charles King (Doubleday)

This should have been on many more award lists this year.

 8.⁠ ⁠The Running Man – Why did Edgar Wright remake that 80s Arnie film? 5 stars.
 9.⁠ ⁠Relay – David McKenzie is back after 6 year with one of his best films yet.
10.⁠ ⁠28 Years Later – Can’t believe they did the whole thing on Camcorder this time. Brave and stunning.

 5.⁠ ⁠Harvest – A drama set in medieval England based on the novel by Jim Crace. Caleb Landry Jones has an incredibly unsettling presence. Tsangari’s best film since Attenberg.
 6.⁠ ⁠Mickey 17 – Bong Joon-Ho and R-Pats. Forever Team Edward.
 7.⁠ ⁠Frankenstein – The film del Toro was born to make...