Kind review of 'Pets and their People' in @TheTLS
the-tls.com/politics-soc... @bodleianlibs @ExeterCollegeOx

Pets & their People Free exhibition at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford. Discover the relationship between humans and their pets - or pets and their humans

I've curated an exhibition at @bodleianlibs - shortly to open. Do come:
visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/pets-a... @ExeterCollegeOx @BodPublishing

Thank you so much, dear A.

Bat stories ‘spiced up’ with human anecdote Philosophy begins with wonder, according to Plato and Aristotle. As for philosophy, so, and more so, for biology, which should begin and end with wonder

We should have confidence in the wonder of the world - not in ourselves: a review by me in @theTLS The Genius Bat by Yossi Yovel | Book review | Charles Foster www.the-tls.com/science-tech...

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Audiobook of 'The Edges of the World' now out. Preview here: tinyurl.com/2j2epuew

Speaking about Edges on 23 February @5x15stories
Do join me if you can: tinyurl.com/ywwx463b
@doubledaybooks @ExeterCollegeOx

'The Edges of the World' available here: tinyurl.com/yjnfxfav

Publication day for 'The Edges of the World' - far and away the most significant book I've written (and the hardest to write).
@doubledaybooks @alex_christofi @ExeterCollegeOx

A fascinating programme here: www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/conversation... Please join us if you can.

What pets can teach us about life Pets are expensive and reservoirs for diseases. So why do we care so much? Where do I begin? asks Charles Foster.

Pets as teachers: a piece by me in @BigIssue: tinyurl.com/489pvpkm @BodPublishing @ExeterCollegeOx

The Edges of the World We tend to think that everything important comes from the centre: from big cities, from established orthodoxies in the sciences and the arts, from the Establishment in all its forms. We think this bec...

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The Edges of the World We tend to think that everything important comes from the centre: from big cities, from established orthodoxies in the sciences and the arts, from the Establishment in all its forms. We think this bec...

Some of you have kindly asked for some more details of the book. There's something about it here: www.penguin.co.uk/books/454189...

That's very kind, Aggy. Thank you!

Thank you so much, Lew!

It is written, and indeed printed: it will be published in January.

Place of invocation One day Byung-Chul Han, the South Korean born, Berlin-based philosopher, felt a sudden “deep longing, even a pressing need, to be close to the earth”. And

My review of Byung Chul Han's splendid 'In Praise of the Earth': www.the-tls.com/regular-feat... @thetls.bsky.social @byungchulhan.bsky.social

Soon my next book, 'The Edges of the World' will be published. It's the most important thing I've written. I'm told that preorders are particularly important to the eventual success of a book. So perhaps you might.....https://tinyurl.com/277bth3p
@TransworldBooks

@PenguinUKBooks

An endorsement of Land Beneath the Waves with the cover and the endorsement above: A taut, unself-pitying inquiry into the nature of nature, the nature of suffering, the caprice of memory and the slipperiness of identity. Charles Foster, author of Cry of the Wild.

I wasn't sure what @tweedpipe.bsky.social would make of #LandBeneaththeWaves, so I was made up when he gave such generous feedback. I particularly liked his comments "This one's different" and "It will endure long after more emollient books have been pulped." Thanks Charles!

#naturewriting #booksky

Looking for something A Greek Orthodox morning prayer goes: “Holy Spirit, giver of life, present in all places and filling all things, come and abide in us”. “All places” and

My review of Living in Wonder by @Roddreher
and The Spirituality Gap by @abi-millar.bsky.social
in @TheTLS
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From the-tls.co.uk

You'll learn lots of amazing swift science too, and while reading this I have certainly been looking up into the spring skies with an extra dose of awe and respect. 3/4

And beautiful illustrations by @JonathanMPomroy and tactile, high-quality and pleasingly tactile production by @LittleToller. Highly recommended 4/4

This year I chose two Books of the Year.

Paul Donald's @Alauda123 Traffication
and
Charles Foster's @tweedpipe Cry of the Wild

Very different books except for being equally superb. More info and full reviews markavery.info/2023/11/26/this-blogs-bo...

I just finished "The Screaming Sky". An amazing book. It's about swifts, and about the author's obsession with them (and @tweedpipe IS obsessed!). More than that it is a deep dive into the perfection & miracle of any and every species, each an equal product of evolution 1/4..

"The name real ale says it all. It is real stuff for real people, drunk in real places for real reasons" http://t.co/jzD9I9XqQy @tweedpipe

‘Real ale is like many rare & sensitive animals. It is driven out by noise & smoke & bright lights. It thinks that pubs are places in which to drink, talk, laugh, sing & play darts, rather than places for standing sullenly, fighting, & catching herpes from teenagers.’ @tweedpipe

"Have you ever wondered why the lager producers market their stuff as best drunk ice-cold? Cold anaesthetises your taste buds!" - @tweedpipe

Good morning. Very mild isn't it? It is here. A week from Christmas Eve. Long nights. Time to settle down with a good book?

My joint books of 2023 were Traffication by @Alauda123 and Cry of the Wild by @tweedpipe Reviews of many other 'nature' books of 2023 here

Shortlisted authors who are also on Twitter include: @StephenMoss_TV @KeggieC @GarryBagnell @TZBirder @tweedpipe @Alauda123 @DrRJWarren @ChrisGPackham @alicksimmons @elvirawerkman @LulahEllender @drkierachapman @forallthebirds1...

This week’s #InspirationAleQuote comes from the great Charles Foster (@tweedpipe). Sadly, this sentiment is as true today as it was in 2011. https://t.co/soMAZLsklX