Jon Woolcott

Am v excited we're publishing this!

Thank you! Right up your street.

Mad Shepherds.

Just sayin'.

Am RIDICULOUSLY overexcited about Mad Shepherds.

Wow!

Oh my word! I'll be telling the author about that. And it's exactly consistent with his 'practice'.

Schwitters puns incoming.

On hiatus. Much like Little Mix.

Also genuinely twice. I must be genuine.

I'm genuinely sad about this, but what a legacy, genuinely. I have discovered so many books and brilliant people and hope you're both very proud and feel that intense glow of freedom. J x

Well that would be telling... plenty of Merz Barn action, bus tickets, and some more conventional portraits to barter or pay the bills.

This, I think. is right up @lauracummingart.bsky.social street!

A photograph of the artist Kurt Schwitters and friends, in the Lake District.

I'm editing a book, part memoir, part art history, about the German artist Kurt Schwitters' last years in the English Lake District, and it's FANTASTIC. Not read anything like this in years and cannot wait until @littletollerbooks.bsky.social publishes it later this spring. More soon.

A photograph of the small Cross and Hand stone in Dorset, surrounded by snowdrops.

The Cross and Hand, an ancient and mysterious stone, part of the landscape story around Cerne Abbas, photographed yesterday.

More about this in The Tattooed Hills, out in April.

#stoneclub

Newspaper ad board: WORLD'S HEAVIEST CUCUMBER IN BARRY - PICTURE.

Ten minutes later, police escorted Barry from the fruit and veg aisle in Asda.

I accidentally emailed a very famous actor when I meant to email his not famous namesake and misspelled the address. He was charming and just said yes, he was THAT *insert name of famous and loveable actor* .

Thank you! You get a brief mention, as it happens...

A screenshot of a page from The Bookseller Magazine describing The Tattooed Hills as 'Alluring.'

Delighted that excellent nonfiction editor at @thebookseller.com , @carosanderson.bsky.social has chosen The Tattooed Hills as one of her Top Ten April books, with blush inducing comments.

Preorder link in bio etc.

@quartobooksuk.bsky.social

Quote an actor in the wrong film:

'Is it raining? I hadn't noticed.'

Better than mine. I'll stand you a barley water sometime with the proceeds, but not in London.

When I was a buyer for a small chain of bookshops I was invited to meet her for her autobiography. She signed a CD single of this and asked me if the shops I bought for were posh because of my voice. You can probably guess what my nickname became, for a while.

Loving this series.

Best quote of the series: 'as a ghost hunter...'. We've started using that at the start of any conversation. 'As a ghost hunter I emptied the dishwasher'.

Let's do it! Will message you.

Interesting section on Women's Hour yesterday about teaching kids about critical thinking in the age of AI, but I wonder if they're the ones that need the education?

Be great to do something together!

And you may saye to yourselfe
These are not my lone and level sandes
And you may saye to yourselfe
These are not my vast and trunklesse legges of stone

See also Pendle Hill. Hill Hill Hill.

I'm not entirely kind to him tbh.

Ooh Lethbridge. I devote a whole chapter to him in The Tattooed Hills (out soon, kids).