Liam Bishop

I’m in the wonderful @irishtimes.com books section this weekend reviewing Jacqueline Rose @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

👀Take a look

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Fascinating parts of Leeds’ (and the norths) history threaded through Lanre Bakare’s WE WERE THERE

💥Yan Ge is looking for a challenge!

Part 1 of my conversation with Yan Ge is here.

Is it necessary to make life hard on yourself when writing, whether that’s in Chinese or English?

Books from @faberbooks.bsky.social and @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social in this ep.

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✍️It’s Women in Translation Month and I’m speaking to Yan Ge about her life and work

And it’s a two parter!

Join us as we discuss ELSEWHERE, STRANGE BEASTS OF CHINA, happiness and much more!

@faberbooks.bsky.social @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social

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York Gate Garden and Risotto weekend

🎶What is a Fest Noz, and why is it so important to Kimberly?

Find out in the latest bonus episode of the @rippling_pages as we talk about USE THE WORDS YOU HAVE

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Congratulations to Benjamin Markovits for his @thebookerprizes.com nomination!

You can listen to two interviews with Benjamin on his nominated book on the link below!

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Let’s go

🚨 I’ve just released some bonus content with Kimberly Campanello on USE THE WORDS YOU HAVE

In this bonus episode you’re going to hear Kimberly talk about memory, but you’re also going to hear her discussing some objects of influence…

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Thanks to my local indie, Next Chapter Books, for getting this in for me

Long overdue read!

Have you every had a scrapbook of some of your literary heroes

It’s a really powerful scene in Kimberly Campanello’s novel, USE THE WORDS YOU HAVE

I also liked how it related to the writing of the text, a way to speak about influence, culture and autofiction

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What a pic

Enjoying these from @dauntbookspub.bsky.social and @scratchbooks.bsky.social

🌓Joe Brainard - ‘I remember peach coloured evenings just before dark’

🇫🇷Happy Bastille Day to this wonderful novel set in France

Kimberly Campanello are talking about USE THE WORDS YOU HAVE, her work of autofiction set in Brittany, France

So interesting to hear Kimberly weaving and articulating the challenges of memory and fiction

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I’ve been re-reading Middlemarch. I had to have a bit of a break halfway through for other projects, but got some time to finish.

Not sure if I was in a different headspace because I am in bits in the second half!

I’m crying, laughing, wondering!

🎉Kimberly Campanello is here to talk about her novel, USE THE WORDS YOU HAVE

It’s a conversation with a writer I’ve been meaning to have for a while!

🇫🇷We talk francophiles, autofiction, memory and notebooks!

It’s trip through Bretagne and the Midwest!

Listen here:

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Gifted to me - something to help me get (purposefully) lost in London

Listening to two masters of language here!

@jallenpaisant.bsky.social and Kimberly Campanello launching Kimberly’s book, USE THE WORDS YOU HAVE

Having seen her performing poetry over the years, I’m delighted to finally speak to her for the Rippling Pages this week!

Love this write up from Eden at Next Chapter in her newsletter

It’s so refreshing to be able to pop into your local bookshop and see a familiar face who knows your name!

Listen to Eden and I having a chat here before @leedslitfest.bsky.social

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🎬Hope you’re enjoying these longer clips!

Here’s Uttama exploring the idea of Auntie M, Lina’s mother in law, as a feminist.

I was really interested in Uttama’s articulation of a - kind of! - definition

@serpents-tail.bsky.social

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🕶️A hot day the other day and I was reading someone who slowly seems to becoming a star. Good news too, they’re going to be a pod guest! Perhaps I was feeling a little sleuthy after all with the sunglasses on - you’ll have to wait and see who it is!

New episode of Rippling Pages is here with Uttama Kirit Patel!

We’re talking about THE SHAPE OF AN APOSTROPHE @serpents-tail.bsky.social , and we do a deep dive into Uttama’s novel, looking at:

🤗 Motherhood
🇦🇪 Novels in Dubai
🐟 Sea life

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🎉Uttama Kirit Patel is joining me on the Rippling Pages to discuss THE SHAPE OF AN APOSTROPHE @serpents-tail.bsky.social

🌅We discuss some of the personal experiences that inspired the Uttama’s main character, Lina, reproductive rights, and motherhood

Here tomorrow!

🕣A time travel novel that doesn’t mention time or place?

Hear how and why Roisin Dunnett made it difficult for us to figure out where we are in time and place in her novel, A LINE YOU HAVE TRACED @oneworldbooks.bsky.social

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Andrew McMillan and Maria Ferguson in conversation with Matt Abbott at @leedslitfest.bsky.social

🍀Happy Bloomsday!

With my very own bar of lemon soap bought from the actual Sweny’s pharmacy in Dublin.

🏝️And, did you know, we celebrated Bloomsday on the pod with Helen Palmer discussing her Blackpool-set Ulysses, PLEASURE BEACH @prototypepubs.bsky.social

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Leeds ✊

Always wanted to read David’s book!

BONUS- it’s @leedslitfest.bsky.social and Indie Bookshop Week - I wanted to speak to another curator at the heart of it.

I spoke to Eden Barnes, owner of Next Chapter Books in Leeds

😊A job in London to a shop in Leeds

🏘️Community

📚Diverse voices!

Listen👇

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🚨New episode out today with Roisin Dunnett on A LINE YOU HAVE TRACED! @oneworldbooks.bsky.social

“I don’t mention time and place at all!”

🛣️ Past present and future

⏱️Messages through time

🙏Personal values driving the novel

Listen here!
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