The audio version of my Beatles INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon.

This week: Step inside Strawberry Field and Penny Lane, get out of that sour milk sea. 🎶

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Only 5 days to go before the launch of @smwwriting.bsky.social's brilliant debut novel MALC'S BOY! Join us at The Social on Tues 21st April at 7pm for music, readings and an in-conversation between Shaun & Lias Saoudi from Fat White Family. @conduitbooks.bsky.social www.thesocial.com/event/condui...

INVENTORY: AN UNRELIABLE GUIDE TO MY RECORD COLLECTION by Andy Miller

A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon.

This week: A virtual walking tour of the lost record shops of Croydon. Big thanks to @grindrod.bsky.social @brownwindsor.bsky.social and @rockingbob.bsky.social. #CroydonTillIDie

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I could not agree with Rob more sincerely or wholeheartedly. This is a breakthrough book. You must read it.

‘Mimic, practise, repeat’ Someone Like Me is an expanded edition of an essay collection originally published in Australia last year in which thirty-one autistic gender-diverse and

My review of Someone Like Me, an excellent collection of essays by autistic writers, in this week's @thetls.bsky.social
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Life with my autistic sons: ‘How do you explain all the worries, the sleepless nights?’ When James Hunt began posting about his boys online, it was a way to describe the emotions and experiences of their extraordinary lives. In sharing his family’s joy and struggles, he realised they wer...

Really interesting interview with James Hunt, father of two autistic sons. I hadn't come across him before, but my daughter says she's been following him on Insta for ages! Thank you, @johnharris1969.bsky.social
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Out in paperback on April 2nd! Quote from Cameron Crowe and everything!

A piece of memoir for my March Substack: read The Happiest Man Alive: My Iranian Uncle for FREE here: 👇https://judecook.substack.com/p/the-happiest-man-alive

London, Leytonstone a week today
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A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon.

This week: Credits in the Straight World, featuring Young Marble Giants, Hole, death and taxes.

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An audio version this week's INVENTORY is available now via the Backlisted Patreon. Julie Covington pt 2: Rock Follies of 77, Only Women Bleed, and what Julie did next. @backlisted.bsky.social www.patreon.com/backlisted

Top night in East London for the launch of @stuhennigan.bsky.social’s novel Keshed. Savage Northern poetic literature onslaught in darkest Mile End. Perfect 👌

MEET THE BÀRD: Stu Hennigan | Bard Books We are delighted to be hosting the first London event for Stu Hennigan's hotly tipped debut novel 'Keshed', a brutally poetic examination of class, belonging, masculinity, addiction and fatherhood. St...

Last call for this tonight. Do come along to hear @stuhennigan.bsky.social talk about his debut novel, KESHED, with me at Bárd Books this evening at 7pm. Should be a belter. @ortacpress.bsky.social. Tickets here: www.wearebardbooks.co.uk/event-detail...

SEND reforms to 'strip away' children's legal protections, charity says Planned changes to the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system in England were announced last month.

The war sidelined this from the news, but dissent continues www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

MEET THE BÀRD: Stu Hennigan | Bard Books We are delighted to be hosting the first London event for Stu Hennigan's hotly tipped debut novel 'Keshed', a brutally poetic examination of class, belonging, masculinity, addiction and fatherhood. St...

This should be awesome. Do come along to hear @stuhennigan.bsky.social talk about his fierce & moving debut novel, KESHED, with me at Bárd Books this Thursday 12th March, 7pm. @ortacpress.bsky.social Tickets going fast: 👇
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Bon voyage!

More than any other British artist, Paul Nash revived the English landscape tradition in modern terms. In 'The Rye Marshes, East Sussex,' (1932) he brings his understanding of Cézanne on his search for a satisfying compositional design.

#GetKeshed with us in London, it's gonna be a right schmooze.

Art history is too important to be the preserve of the privileged The subject is endangered at A level just as it couldn’t be more essential or universal. Helen Barrett makes the case for its survival in British schools

In a world saturated with images, learning to think about what we see is vitally important.

‘Letting art history become endangered and drift further into elite status is not only unfair, it’s also perilous,’ writes Helen Barrett

They by Helle Helle review – a novel to make the reader slow down and take notice Minimalist but never austere, this mother-daughter portrait from the Danish author finds its power in everyday detail

I reviewed Helle Helle's precise, controlled unforgettable novella, They, in @theguardian.com. Translated by Martin Aitken, published by new small press Akoya. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

INVENTORY: AN UNRELIABLE GUIDE TO MY RECORD COLLECTION by Andy Miller

In a change to our published programme, a new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon.

This week: The Cramps, Live at the Napa State Mental Hospital, 13th June 1978

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Sentimental journey.

Sitting in the White Star last night with @jamesbpcook.bsky.social and @judecook.bsky.social, Penny Lane came on the jukebox (sic), then Strawberry Fields Forever a few songs later. All agreed that while this was 'on the nose', it was also complete magic.

New event alert: Do come along to the @owlbookshop.bsky.social in Kentish town on Thursday 23rd April to hear Shaun Wilson and Sam Mills talk about his brilliant debut novel MALC'S BOY (it's publication day too so should be great!) @conduitbooks.bsky.social Tickets: owlbookshop.co.uk/product/shau...

Having played a gig to just a soundman & his dog before (just the dog when the soundman went for a leak), 15 paying punters to see the fabulous, fierce Stu Hennigan is a pretty good start. Do please swell the throng & see me & Stu in conversation at Bàrd Books on 12th March 7pm (tickets below).

MEET THE BÀRD: Stu Hennigan | Bard Books We are delighted to be hosting the first London event for Stu Hennigan's hotly tipped debut novel 'Keshed', a brutally poetic examination of class, belonging, masculinity, addiction and fatherhood. St...

Still a way to go but I can't believe only 15 of you are coming to this so far. If this ends up like Ghost Signs where everyone flakes out an an anticipated packed house of 60 ends up being barely double figures there's gonna be trouble at t'mill 😂

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Coming of age in New York’s music scene “Every room was to be destroyed”, Mark Ronson writes in Night People, his rapturous account of his early life as a hip-hop DJ in New York in the 1990s.

Mark Ronson’s memoir is a hoot. He makes 90s NYC sound even more exciting than 90s London. My review for this week’s @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/lives/autobi...

Labour’s Send revolution is a high-stakes experiment. It also threatens precious parental rights | John Harris Bridget Phillipson’s 10-year plan is generous in places, but it has its problems. Not least that it could be trashed by a Reform government, says Guardian columnist John Harris

And here it is: the SEND reform plan, and why - for all its good intentions - it threatens a terrifying loss of rights, just when the worst imaginable govt might be newly in power www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The vinyl lp of The Colour of Spring by Talk Talk

'Come gentle spring, come at winter's end.'

Released 40 years ago today.

I fear that Labour’s special needs revolution will instead be a catastrophic letdown | John Harris A familiar Labour story is unfolding: of lofty aims undermined by budgets, constant anonymous briefing – and a drive to remove families’ basic rights, says Guardian columnist John Harris

Latest from me: on the govt's imminent Special Needs revolution, and a familiar (old) Labour story: of lofty aims undermined by meagre budgets, constant anonymous briefings – and a drive to remove families’ basic rights www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...