The Middlebrow Network highly recommends Recommended!

03.07.2025 11:28 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

BLF 2025

Bradford's Literary Connections

Malachi Whitaker and J. B. Priestley

Showcasing 3 previously unknown letters from J. B. Priestley to Malachi Whitaker

3 July 2025, 2pm. Festival Hub, City Park

Book here:

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07.06.2025 09:44 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Great to meet you too Valerie - thanks @cbcp-unirdg.bsky.social

02.07.2025 08:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Judge, Critic, Saloniére: On Sylvia Lynd, One of the Great Literary Citizens of the 20th Century On Thursday 9 July 1931, Sylvia Lynd hosted one of the biggest parties of her life. When the marriage of James Joyce and Nora Barnacle hit the papers (the Joyces had been living together since 1904…

Sylvia Lynd (1996-1952) Poet, novelist, book critic, celebrity influencer. Fun to write this piece for @literaryhub.bsky.social on her lasting significance: lithub.com/judge-critic...

02.07.2025 08:51 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Great to meet so many brilliant people dedicated to finding new readers for neglected authors at Uni of Reading conf on Republishing & Redesign yesterday.

Thanks to @nicola-wilson.bsky.social @jennyharper.bsky.social & others for organising this exciting and important event! +

02.07.2025 08:02 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

Might be one for @backlisted.bsky.social listeners/readers – much mid-20th century bookish history here:

26.06.2025 15:55 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Nicola Wilson's new book ‘Recommended!’ is available to buy now!

Here’s Nicola introducing the book and speaking on the legacy of the Book Society on the publishing, culture and Britain’s readers ▶️ youtu.be/qHUomI9o29U

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26.06.2025 14:12 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Publication day for Recommended! 📚 I have been working on this project for many years as it’s shifted towards a narrative, character-led story. Thanks to everyone who’s supported along the way.

www.hhousebooks.com/books/recomm...

26.06.2025 14:19 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1

WH Smith once shaped the travel experience – and now it’s returning to its roots After 124 years as a familiar fixture to generations of customers, there will no longer be a place for WH Smith on UK high streets. Modella Capital – a specialist retail investment company – is the new owner of the chain’s high street locations. For a purchase price of £76 million, it will take over […]

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By: Marrisa Joseph, Associate Professor of Organisation Studies & Business History, University of Reading on Friday, April 25, 2025

25.04.2025 22:43 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Recommended! by Nicola Wilson | Waterstones Buy Recommended! by Nicola Wilson from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

Long before BookTok or #BookSky, readers got their hot tips from the Book Society. ‘Recommended!’ by
@nicola-wilson.bsky.social
looks at how these proto-influencers shaped the tastes of the reading public for decades!

In need of some new recs? 📖 rdg.ac/4jhqE3C

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23.04.2025 14:09 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0