Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line
On MondayΒ morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...
British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got βa few money-saving present ideasβ, such as βconsider not giving presents this holiday seasonβ. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
10.12.2025 13:14 β
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Yes! A very simple mystery but much more depth of character, all heart and empathy rather than quirk/tweeness... she has a great editor too, not incidentally...
08.12.2025 12:55 β
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Hurrah! Also that is much the best review β and the best-written βΒ I can remember having for this book. Love that you like Sally Smith's as well (did you read the first one?) and I so see why it hits the spot for you in particular...
08.12.2025 11:21 β
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The best new paperbacks to read in October 2025
14 great books, now in their cheaper and lighter formats
'Another entertaining whodunnit from the author of Helle and Death'
#HellesHound by @oskarjensen.bsky.social has been selected by the iPaper as a best new paperback to read this October πΎ
inews.co.uk/culture/book...
13.10.2025 09:20 β
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Today! In paperback! With this joyous new cover! The most fun I've ever had with writing!
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/hell...
09.10.2025 08:44 β
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I'm very much in love with this paperback cover... out in October!
08.07.2025 08:31 β
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BBC Radio 3
Sunday Feature: New Generation Thinkers shorts
New Generation Thinker, historian Oskar Jensen, explores the history of lullabies, in search of the power and the know-how that makes Hush-a-bye Baby do what it says in the title.
15.06.2025 18:45 β
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That rarest of things β happy news from America! Hurrah for the Foreword
09.06.2025 10:29 β
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Cover of βHelleβs Houndβ by Oskar Jensen: gold font on black background, with green lines (vaguely resembling the lines of a tube map in how they connect and cross over each other, footprints and paw prints. There are also six gold discs positioned almost randomly on the green lines, each containing one of the following icons (running clockwise): a cocktail glass; a paw print; a hammer and sickle a la USSR; a key with a club-shaped top, vaguely reminiscent of a key that might unlock a centuries old church door; a perfume bottle of the bulbous kind with a balloon puffy thing by the side that were popular in the 1980s, a peacock feather.
βAnd for Val a.k.a. Mummy Willie with great thanks, Oskarβ signed edition
Feel for @oskarjensen.bsky.social, who came along to a scholarly day to talk about his excellent special issue plans & suffered the indignity of being forced to sign a copy of his second detective fiction book to Mummy Willie (a fan)
25.05.2025 18:52 β
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Take part in MARCH by Uri Agnon at New Music Biennial 2025
Contemporary Music for All
For anyone in London or Bradford: www.coma.org/whats-on/tak...
A really great looking musical endeavour by the brilliant @uriagnon.bsky.social.
Maybe of interest to @electricvoice.bsky.social? Spread the word...
10.04.2025 10:53 β
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Win this book!
Helle's Hound by @oskarjensen.bsky.social up for grabs: www.facebook.com/CrimeFiction...
Today only!
05.04.2025 07:51 β
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His old mentor is dead and Torben Helle is on the case in Helle's Hound by @oskarjensen.bsky.social π©π°
If you like a cosy crime story with a few bonkers twists and a sprinkling of Nordic noir, then this is it!
crimefictionlover.com/2025/04/hell...
01.04.2025 17:21 β
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Ain't it gorgeous? And, somehow, potent? Our new book on the (very long) history of protest songs, the culmination (or is it?) of www.oursubversivevoice.com β available for a jolly reasonable Β£25.99 or, you know, get your library to get it...
www.mqup.ca/our-subversi...
17.03.2025 10:40 β
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Aerial view of Newcastle University, featuring classic redbrick buildings and lush greenery. Overlay text highlights the university's ranking in the top 100 for various subjects including Anatomy and Physiology, Archaeology, and more, according to QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025.
π Today we're celebrating as 12 of our subjects have been ranked within the world's top 100 in the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject.
Congratulations to all our colleagues and teams involved in this fantastic achievementπ
#WeAreNCL #QS
12.03.2025 10:17 β
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Reserve a Place β The Future of Sound Studies: Remembering Bruce R. Smith β GR06/07, English Faculty, West Road, Cambridge
Sound studies, sensory approaches and phenomenology are now so established in the contemporary practice of Shakespeare and earl...
What a lineup at this Cambridge event on the future of sound studies, in memory of the great Bruce R. Smith. There's @jennyrichards.bsky.social, Tiffany Stern, Richard Wistreich, @oskarjensen.bsky.social, Katherine Hunt, @racheljwillie.bsky.social β not to be missed if you're in the area!
02.03.2025 07:42 β
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Join Oskar Jensen at Waterstones Newcastle, talking all things #HellesHound with Howard Linskey πΎ
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev... @oskarjensen.bsky.social
17.02.2025 13:04 β
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Oh I love that place, I was there for someone's wedding and heckled one of the speeches, a fine time was had by all...
06.02.2025 08:32 β
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Such a good night, I remember it well! What was the restaurant?
05.02.2025 22:57 β
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I love the chronological span here!
05.02.2025 22:56 β
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π’ Diary Date π’ Super excited for the Viper panel on 1 March at 11am π± @guymorpuss.bsky.social @tariqashkanani.bsky.social @oskarjensen.bsky.social and I are in the firm hands of @emmaflint.bsky.social π΅οΈ It's gonna be a BIG @baytales.bsky.social BLAST! Details below π
baytales.com/product/tick...
03.02.2025 10:47 β
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Your quote was definitely my favourite! π€ππ
03.02.2025 10:25 β
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Thank you dear Philippa! As much as I'm anywhere, which is barely...
03.02.2025 10:23 β
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A proof copy of Helle's Hound by Oskar Jensen on a table.
It felt SO good to be reunited with Torben Helle! π
A complex, witty and thoroughly entertaining mystery with brilliant characters and a baffling new murder to solve. Another triumph, @oskarjensen.bsky.social! Brilliantly done! π
Helle's Hound is out NOW! πΎ
@viperbooks.bsky.social
31.01.2025 14:02 β
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Cover of Helles Hound by Oskar Jensen
ππβ‘οΈ #BookSky OUT TODAY: Helleβs Hound by @oskarjensen.bsky.social Torben Helle returns today in a new mystery as his mentor is found dead, and heβs off to upset the great and powerful to find out who and how!
thecosymoose.com/helles-hound...
30.01.2025 17:11 β
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