Prudence and the Crow

That's just the nicest thing, reading out loud is my very favourite - efficient or otherwise❤️

"We lay in a tent for three days in a blizzard. After the first morning we had each told our life stories, and we lay there gazing at the roof of the tent, wondering what to do next. Luckily Mark had brought a copy of Jilly Cooper's Rivals, a breathily written romance, and Brice had a penknife. We carefully cut it up into three parts. Mark, as owner, was allowed to read it in sequence: A, B, then C. Brice got B, C, then A, but I - as the youngest - was lumbered with C, A, then B, and struggled to comprehend both the plot and the characters. On our return Mark contacted Jilly Cooper and told her the story. She was delighted to have been able to satisfy three large men at once with only one book."

My favourite Jilly Cooper story is recounted in Graham Hoyland's 2013 book Last Hours on Everest. What a trooper.

Absolutely so for me, but the other half is very much an audiobook person and I wish I could just download it straight into her brain at this point because it will take *forever* for her to have the space to read it in hard copy!

I understand that it's the longest book but it is wild to me that there's still no audiobook for Mariana Enriquez' Our Share of Night...

@mmeguillotine.bsky.social you have done it again: this is marvellously immersive, savouring the details.

Hi hi! Very excited to settle in with Melanie Burrows' latest on the life of Marie Antoinette, just right for right now...

18 Well-Read People on How, Exactly, They Find the Time We ask book critics, authors, Substackers, New York staffers, and more.

Very much enjoyed this collection of readers recounting how they read, and how they make time for it: indeed, I find it the MOST pleasing thing to hear about.

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Just caught up with Slow Horses and sorry but there's no WAY Diana Taverner doesn't use bookends in that arrangement

FULL Episodes | Jim Henson's The Storyteller - YouTube

I hope this finds the person who needs it: every episode of Jim Henson's The Storyteller is available for free on YouTube.

[Publishing] Horrible pun title collection Hit recently by the realisation that I had put out enough short stories individually to fill a full-length book, I sat down and undertook to: fill that full-length book. What can you expect from th…

Wonderful news! PatC favourite @derekdesanges.bsky.social has just released a book of short stories (including glorious SF short Vessel 151-B, which keen PatC postcard collectors will have seen recommended!): do not delay, shop, read and enjoy! #bookrec

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Sold! ❤️🥂

Booth's Handbook of Cocktails and Mixed Drinks Booth's Handbook of Cocktails and Mixed Drinks. Pan 1966 FIRST EDITION.Paperback. By appointment to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. No cocktail cabinet is complete without a copy of this classic Booth...

NEW in the #patcshop - Booth's Handbook of Cocktails and Mixed Drinks.

1966 FIRST EDITION. By appointment to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

No cocktail cabinet is complete without a copy of this classic Booth's handbook!

£5.75 inc UK P&P. #bookmail 💙📚

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always repost <3

All the better - our appreciation has been more distant, alas, but no less enjoyable XD

Oh wonderful! Big fan of Stone Club :)

I'm 2/3 through Michael Palin's latest on Venezuela and just finishing up the TV eps that go with it (quite different tone between the book and C5 show which is interesting to perceive!). I love that he's been showing me the world for forty years.

Adjacent, if you've not got to them, I would always recommend Mary Stewart's Merlin chronicles, written with similar ease and depth, and hugely enjoyable once you get into the swing of them...

Heroes of Greece and Troy, retold from the ancient authors : Green, Roger Lancelyn : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 337 pages 24 cm

Small!me would certainly have said Roger Lancelyn Green's Heroes of Greece and Troy, which may have been stretching the concept of non-fiction, or maybe not...

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The Hugo Awards (2026)

One thing the Hugo Award rec sheet struggles with is artists. Are you an SFF artist, or do you know any that have done work in 2025? Our professional artist and fan artist categories need some love. #art #HugoAwards

An image of my book. The Manchester University Press logo and 'Returning December 2025'

Remember all my mad book drama?

(If not, buy me a pint and I'll sing you the ballad of the dodgy ex-publisher...)

Well, I'm absolutely delighted to say it's over!

An enormous thanks to my wonderful new publisher @manchesterup.bsky.social

Queer As Folklore will be back in the wild! 🧜🏼‍♂️

Dorita Fairlie Bruce - The School on the Moor - 1934 Dorita Fairlie Bruce's The School on the Moor. Oxford University Press. 1934. Hardback with pictorial cover. Illustrated frontispiece. Condition: Some scuffing to edges. Several very small green paint...

NEW in the #patcshop - Dorita Fairlie Bruce's The School on the Moor.

Oxford University Press. 1934. Hardback with pictorial cover. Illustrated frontispiece.

Condition: see listing please!

£12 inc UK P&P. #bookmail 💙📚

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Figure detail from THE GUNSLINGER ON THE BEACH featuring Roland, the last Gunslinger, staring contemplatively across the sea at sunset. Footprints can be seen in the damp sand leading to where he sits, pistol unstrapped at his hip and bedroll at his side. The sun hangs low but intense, blazing a line of orange across the horizon.

This scene is where we leave Roland at the end of the book, so it seemed appropriate as the back cover illustration for the first edition of THE DARK TOWER: THE GUNSLINGER, published by Donald M. Grant.

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I dunno, I feel like I'm getting the exact future that all the sci-fi I was consuming as a teenager warned me about.

And some amazing covers! Sometimes it feels like we've seen all the paperbacks over the years, but none of these have come my way or they would be on my shelf right now! Fantastic.

As it's Suedetember, I've been revisiting Mat Osman's The Ruins, and very much enjoying it. I know many authors (including Mat!) prefer not to read their own audiobooks but this is one of so many cases where I'm glad they did: I really do like to be *told* a story sometimes.

I'm going to have to remember how to bookstagram especially for it XD Also my mum is in line to borrow it after me...

Your books are such a proper, "I'm going to sit down with a pot of tea in an aesthetic way and I might even wear the Good Soft Clothes and Have a Good Read" situation x

This is going to be such a treat of a read, really looking forward to it x

Text mounted on a screen reads as follows: WHAT IS SCIENCE FICTION? 1. DOESN'T MATTER 2. WHO CARES 3. MARKETING DEPARTMENT'S PROBLEM 4. NOT YOURS

Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction

it's this, this is how you end up with floorboards bowing under their very weight (books, not pigs)