The Divorce Horse … title to stash away 👍

On Monday Bruna Martini will be speaking about her work at LDC and giving a glimpse of her #GraphicStory due in next week's #spring issue.

She'll be appearing online with Myfanwy Nixon and Fionnuala Doran.

Tickets are at:

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#books #comics #reading #writing #events

I appreciate Tommy Fleetwood’s commitment to the wider trouser

It’s standing in shallow water and has its head thrown back and mouth open.

Animals doing human things, a very occasional and frankly unnecessary series.

No. 1: Gull Steps On Lego

Historical buildings types: was there an earlier equivalent to Pevsner's Architectural Guides in the Thirties? Something you could have looked a stately home up in before visiting, sort of thing? Pevsner didn't start his guides until 1945, which scuppers something I'm writing a tiny bit.

This week's Book Pitch Doctor's Surgery is about origin stories and finding your deeeeep motivation: mailchi.mp/b6804d723b0d...
#booksky

Yesterday I heard a publishing corporate merger being described in trope terms: "rivals become allies" lol

#booksky

Playing along with Last One Laughing, at home, is *excellent* (and torture)

Have you read this book, @iammilliam.bsky.social ? It occurred to me you might like it, and not just because it includes Anthea Bell references ...

Musos of a certain age insist on saying 'New Musical Express' in full, the same way Liverpool fans say 'Liverpool Football Club'. That is all. #InconsequentialSky

Ha! No harm done I’m sure slash hope :)

lol

Maybe surf an Audubon down the stairs to pick up pace and take out, say, a mature llama or similar?

Good save 😂

This book is such a feat of diligent research and unflinching reporting. It’s based on deep care for the victims and provides the accurate record they and their surviving relatives deserve.

This book by Stephen McGinty is the definitive, forensic, deliberately unsensational telling of a tragedy that destroyed lives, devastated a town & - thanks to the tireless campaigning of the parents- changed the law/ the country. It feels important that events have been recorded so meticulously.

This week's Book Pitch Doctor's Surgery picks some favourite tips from @dominiccolenso.bsky.social excellent book IMPACT. Link here: mailchi.mp/db1ebd036729...
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still haven't recovered from Kathy Burke's verdict on Kerry Fox, in her memoir 🔥😂

This is THIS WEEKEND, wtf. Please say hello if you come along!

If you'd like to come work for us at Good Law Project we are currently recruiting four new roles!

(Please do share.) 🧵

Randomly remembered that excellent editorial line from The French Dispatch: 'Just try to make it sound like you wrote it that way on purpose'

Glad Maggie finally got a shout out

“dainty”?

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Hello Andy the archaeologist from Bury St Edmunds I signed a hardback for today. Currently he is mainly digging up Saxon graves, I think for work, but maybe just for a laugh.

Meant it tho 😂

Thanks! I'm a @xigxaguk.bsky.social man myself, but it'll probably be the same situ there, so I appreciate the warning :)

That's good to know. I'll probably go audio for the LBJ. Let me know what you make of The Power Broker!

… and the obsession continues

been working with a few other booksellers from different shops to compile a contemporary dictionary of book trade slang. here is how it stands at the moment - please, if you are "in the trade", let us know what we've forgotten. (NOT lingo specific to just one shop, pls - only widely-understood terms