Very exciting news. Can confirm James Cameron is not only a brilliant director and very nice man but he has very good taste in books!

Photo of the Sunday Times bestseller list

Congrats to @joeabercrombie.com on his number one spot!

Excellent good to hear!

What a venue! Hope it went well, would’ve loved to be there

Step away for a bit if you can. It is incredibly stressful and overwhelming.

Agreed! Brilliant.

Screenshot of a email from Meta about objection to AI

Don't forget to register your objection to Meta using your posts to train their AI.
Too late for my and everyone else's books however...

This is really good. The piece on Saruman is a wildly dissembling bit of corporate PR but huge fun. The piece on Tyrion? Is just and true.

Independent Bookshop Chart: Better The Devils you know – Joe Abercrombie tops the chart In a week that’s seen Joe Abercrombie deliver his best sales to date, the author finds his latest offering The Devils (Gollancz) at the top of the Independent Bookshop chart.

So happy for Joe!
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Un-fucking-believable!

Good luck to all the students taking their English lit gcse exam this morning.
You can go back to enjoying reading after this…

Oh wow that is beautiful!

Lol. It so it. Get so little interaction on here, I'm just not bothering any more, or at least visiting much less regularly!

Interview: Joe Abercrombie talks The Devils, grimdark fantasy humor, Best Served Cold and more Sometimes holy work requires unholy deeds, a fact which the cast of misfits at the heart of Joe Abercrombie's new book The Devils knows all too well. Abercrombi

Happy UK release day to THE DEVILS! I interviewed @joeabercrombie.com about creating this raucous grimdark fantasy about a group of misfit monsters on a dangerous mission, how he designed its alternate-history world, wrote the distinctive voices of the Devils, his work on the sequel, and more:

Absolutely!

Yeah rents are insane now!

Yep £27K as a manager in 1998. This is so depressing. I saw that as a good salary then! It isn't now.

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No! I will be scrupulously choosing where I source all my chicken from and will not choose chicken products from the supermarket or restaurants unless they are sourced British

As two of my children begin their GCSE and Alevel exams today, I note that @joeabercrombie.com book tour has been meticulously planned to coincide with it!
#soloparenting #YouOweMe

Love Gladstone's Library. Would happily write there more often if it wasn't so far to go!

Work at Gladstone's Library - Gladstone's Library Current Vacancies Reading Room Assistant: Gladstone's Library Application deadline: Friday 16th May 2025, at 10am An exciting new opportunity has opened

Job going here at the loveliest place with the loveliest people. A residential library with a restaurant cafe and no tv in the gorgeous bedrooms. Perfect place to write! Or read.

Please share:)

Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

One thing to consider is what education would look like if it were free with no grades and no punitive frameworks that make learning about fear.

Im not too proud to admit that Pieces of Us seems to be struggling to make its mark at the moment

Any shares would be appreciated. Its a book about grief, friendship, toxic love and redemption.

I promise i will repay you with virtual hugs xx

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“I want to say that I got it wrong and I condemn Israel for what it is doing to the Palestinian people in Gaza”

🔵 Conservative MP Mark Pritchard symbolically 'withdraws' his support for Israel over war in Gaza

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Ooh enjoy!

Hasn’t it just. Amazing how eager people are to give it up. I don’t think they realise how critical it is to their brains!

Yep I’ve noticed a lot of them too. So depressing.