Chris

Was this message meant for me? Are you thinking of Annie Proulx? The Shipping News is the only one that I have read by her too 👍

EXTREMELY jealous 😍😍😍

1) A Wreath for the Enemy by Pamela Frankau 2) Life and Death of Harriett Frean by May Sinclair 3) The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence 4) The Devastating Boys by Elizabeth Taylor 5) Old New York by Edith Wharton 6) The Skin Chairs by Barbara Comyns 7) Pilgrimage 1 by Dorothy Richardson

A new blog post today on some of my favourite Virago Modern Classics
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I’ll kick myself in a minute when I remember who I’ve missed, but some of my hard-hitters:

Tove Jansson
Margaret Atwood
Deborah Levy
bell hooks
George Elliot
Ann Patchett
Françoise Sagan
Natalia Ginzberg
Elena Ferrante
Tove Ditlevsen
Virginia Woolf
Rose Tremaine
Jane Austen
Judy Bloom (😜🥰)

Cheers! Who would make your list Philippa?

Desperately Seeking Susan Sontag

I hated the Iranian regime, but love Tehran. Some of the nicest people in the world. Terrible to see it (and so much of Iran) bombed. US and Israeli hubris/aggression pretending that they want to improve the lives of Iranians.

Steve Reich’s ‘Music For 18 Musicians’ on CD

#nowplaying #MusicSky

We are going to Seville next weekend. Anyone got any suggestions for things to do or places to eat? We’ve got a plan but always keen to hear from folk who have visited before #seville

An Erato boxset of music by Debussy

#nowplaying #MusicSky

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Dry Cleaning album entitled ‘Secret Love’

#nowplaying #MusicSky

Anthony Burgess’ book ‘Napoleon Symphony’

‘…one of the most glorious chapters in the history of the Russian campaign. Glorious my arse, it was fucking murder. The Corps of Engineers in particular covered itself in glory. In shit.’

#BookSky💙📚

YouTube video by triple j The Go-Betweens talk sexism with Andrew Denton (1988)

Each day we have to battle with sexism -I try to meet it with the style and cool composure of women who did it on the public stage, before us

When a woman is called “loud” or “crazy”, it is usually because she has spoken a truth others would rather silence.

Be awkward & keep being loud

Happy #IWD

#internationalwomensday 💪❤️

YouTube video by euterpis91 X Ray Spex - Oh Bondage! Up Yours! with lyrics

#IWD

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I saw Panic Shack a couple of years back and they were 🔥🔥🔥 live.

Panic Shack’s debut LP

#nowplaying #MusicSky
❤️❤️❤️❤️

#AgainsttheDay
#ThomasPynchon

“This world you take to be 'the' world will die, and descend into Hell…Flanders will be the mass grave of History…you children drift in a dream …imagine the fabric of Time torn open, and yourselves swept through, with no way back, orphans and exiles…”

Plan to turn Irish borderlands into Unesco ‘region of literature’ Arts group proposes literary routes across 11 counties linked to writers from Jonathan Swift to Lisa McGee The border between Ireland and Northern Ireland used to draw smugglers, paramilitaries, police and soldiers, but the landscape of twisting lanes and hedgerows may soon entice a new type of visitor: literary pilgrims. A plan is under way to rebrand it as Ireland’s “northern literary lands” and to create the world’s first Unesco region of literature. Continue reading...

Plan to turn Irish borderlands into Unesco ‘region of literature’

A beautiful collaborative film for International Women's Day made by poet Hanan Issa, Eleeza Khan and some inspiring women from Cardiff to support Athika Ahmed and voice collective rage and rejection of hatred and violence against women.

A graphic with a rainbow gradient background with the text: Happy international women's day to ALL women, 8 March 2026

Today (8 March) marks International Women’s Day 2026.

Wishing a happy IWD to ALL women across the globe. You are important, you are valid and you are glorious.

Elena Ferrante and Bernadine Evaristo 🙏🙏❤️❤️

Here are a few favourites from me:

Jane Austen
Edith Wharton
Jhumpa Lahiri
Bernardine Evaristo
Octavia E. Butler
Mary Shelley
Daphne du Maurier
Charlotte Brontë
Elif Shafak
Elena Ferrante

#booksky #femaleauthors

Home Counties LP ‘Humdrum’

#nowplaying #MusicSky

Great to see Wendy Erskine in that list - a fabulous writer 👍

Here’s a few more faves from me:

Miriam Toews
Gwendoline Riley
Barbara Comyns
Claudia Piñeiro
Helen Garner
Toni Morrison
Ana Paula Maia
Wendy Erskine
Lucy Caldwell
Adelle Stripe
Joanna Pocock
Ann Patchett
Tessa Hadley
Isabel Waidner

She is a fine filmmaker and it is great to see her securing so many plaudits

Petite Maman, Zama, Faya Dayi and Jeanne Dielman