Ágota Kristóf There’s a long piece (6,759 words) by Sarah Resnick in the new issue of the LRB on Ágota Kristóf, following the publication by Penguin las...

I wrote about the piece on Ágota Kristóf in the new issue of the LRB: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2026/04/agot...

CB Editions @cbeditions.bsky.social will have a desk at this poetry Fair on April 25th.

St Columba’s Hall, Pont Street, London, SW1X 0BD (near Knightsbridge & South Kensington tubes). 12pm-6.30pm. Free entry.

Newsletter April 2026: new book, and news of another Here is Axholme by Mike Bradwell, to be published in June on what will be his posthumous birthday (he died in April last year). Bradwell f...

This is the archived-on-the-blog version of the April CBe newsletter: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2026/04/news...

That, and men standing talking outside pubs who'd suddenly go quiet as I walked by.

Could be a history play about a mad king, could be more sonnets. Either way, a late twist in the story of Eng Lit.

From here: www.cbeditions.com/ErinVincent....

Stendhal (Henri Beyle) died on 23 March 1842. In An Overcoat: Scenes from the Afterlife of H.B. he's still around: jogging in the park, learning to drive, in trouble with women: www.cbeditions.com/robinson4.html

TELEGRAPHY by Farah Ali (@cbeditions.bsky.social) reviewed by Kit Maude necessaryfiction.com/reviews/tele...

Cover of NOON magazine with artwork by Natalia Zagorska-Thomas

The new NOON (ed. Diane Williams) has landed, with cover pic, portfolio and interview with @nataliazt.bsky.social, plus work by Lara Pawson, both of the CBe tribe.

But there are still plenty of copies from the original (2008) print run ...

CB editions February newsletter - it's been a bad month - as archived on the blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2026/02/cbe-...

My thanks to David Caddy @tearsinthefence.bsky.social for permission to post Nadia Vikulina‘s full review of SOVETICA (from issue 82).

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Available here: www.cbeditions.com/mcguinness.h...

Happy publication day to Farah Ali (www.cbeditions.com/FarahAli.html). Glasses will be raised at @burleyfisher.bsky.social this evening, all welcome.

Cartoon of Mickey Mouse from a 1956 comic saying: "Better get some work done!"

First CB editions newsletter of the year, archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2026/01/cbe-...

Available here: www.cbeditions.com/mcguinness.h...

"If you see something that doesn't look right, speak to staff or text the British Transport Police. See it. Say it. Suck it."

My mother's notebook of Christmas past For 46 years, Charles Boyle's mother kept details of every Christmas present she gave. He explains why he'd brave a burning building to save her list

I wrote about this notebook before (14 years ago!): www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Page 1 of the notebook in which my mother recorded every Christmas present she gave, and how much it cost, 1957 to 2003 (she died the next month). The recipients included her hairdresser, the milkman, the postman, the paper boy, the dustbin-men and “Tony’s boy” (toffees, 2s. 6d). She did good.

'Telegraphy' at Burley Fisher Books, on January 15.
Lara Pawson (of Spent Light) and I will be there.
Come by.

6:30pm
400 Kingsland Rd, London E8 4AA
burleyfisherbooks.com/products/lau...

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2016 by Sarah Hesketh was named in the Guardian as a Poetry Book of the Year. Booksellers ordering in from Gardners are told “Publisher out of Stock”. The book's in stock both at the distributor and here, within arm’s reach – order from the CB editions website and I’ll post within 24 hours.

Random re-assembly: a wall with a fresco in a 12th-century monastery in Puglia, Italy, that collapsed after an earthquake; a local street corner, re-laid after roadworks.

Teeth: On negative reviews One of the funniest episodes of last month was a friend telling me that, coming on the Tube, he’d read one of the Poems on the Underground ...

On negative book reviews: "a whiff of iconoclasm, of smashing a statue in a church": sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/12/teet...

CBe newsletter December 2025 Christmas. Presents. Books are even easier to wrap than bottles. See the home page of the website and bear in mind the Season Tickets: 6 b...

CB editions December newsletter, as archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/12/cbe-...

Something wrong with "soccer"? I doubt I'd give the time of day to any elevated intellectual kind of person unless they were invested in at least one form of sport.

Photo of author next to poster of Billy Bob Thornton

Last Sunday I went to a Leicester Square premiere of the new series of Landman which stars Billy Bob Thornton and I've written about why I'm a little obsessed with that man here: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/11/bill...

Carry-on case with attached bag for yoga mats

With a neat new bag for carrying yoga mats and cricket bats CB editions is off tomorrow to the Indie Book Fair at Bath Central Library organised by the wonderful Peirene Press.

Where to start with: Paul Bailey The novelist and poet, who died a year ago, left a huge body of work distinguished by its melancholy wit and warmth. These are some of the highlights

Good piece by @john-self.bsky.social on Paul Bailey, who died a year ago, who happened to live down the road and was the best of neighbours, whose last 2 books are published by CB editions: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

10 years today since my poetry collection New Life—a companion to War Reporter—was published by @cbeditions.bsky.social in London (and not long after by @hangingloosepress.bsky.social in Brooklyn) 🙏🏻 Here’s a lovely review in The Rumpus therumpus.net/2016/01/29/n...

CB editions October newsletter, archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/10/cbe-...