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INVENTORY: AN UNRELIABLE GUIDE TO MY RECORD COLLECTION by Andy Miller

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Jude Cook discusses his new novel, Time Being by Tim Relf With the countdown on to publication of Jude Cook’s ‘existential’ literary thriller, Time Being, House catches up with the acclaimed author to find out what makes him tick 1. Tell us a lit...

Novelist @judecook.bsky.social discusses his forthcoming existential thriller, Time Being, with @timrelf.bsky.social in House Magazine!

Reborn as a poem Caleb Klaces’s first novel, Fatherhood (2019), was a lyrical, emotional deep dive into the turmoil and euphoria of early parenthood, with its often

I reviewed Mr Outside, Caleb Klaces superb second novel of fathers, sons & dementia in the new issue of @thetls.bsky.social @prototypepubs.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/literature/f...

Next week - Walthamstow @keithcameron2.bsky.social on The Manics
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My childhood memoir turned two yesterday. Thank you to all who’ve been reading (& listening to the audiobook) 🙏🏻 @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social A nice review here by @jamesbpcook.bsky.social in the @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...

OTD 40 years ago, 9th October 1985, I watched @waterboysmusic.bsky.social , supported by @delamitri.bsky.social , play a transcendental show at the Town & Country Club (now the Forum). I later wrote about it in my book Memory Songs. #waterboys #waterboysband #80smusic #80sgigs

KESHED LONDON LAUNCH IS CONFIRMED.

Thursday 12th March, Bard Books, @judecook.bsky.social in the host's chair, tix link as soon as i got one. News incoming on the official online launch, more as soon as i have it.

#BookSky #GetKeshed 📚📚📚

‘There was comedy at all times’: Andrew O’Hagan on 15 years of funny, frank and champagne-fuelled friendship with Edna O’Brien In the last decades of her life, the two novelists became close friends. He recalls their intense bond, their last trip to Ireland and her memories of being romanced by Richard Burton

I was bawling long before the end of this.
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Great to celebrate the launch of Yann Chateigné Tyltleman’s Blackout at Veranda Books last night, expertly chaired by @clementoctober.bsky.social. Out now from @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social

A September Substack essay from me on the last day of the month. Read What I Love There: On Literary Subjectivity for FREE here: judecook.substack.com/p/what-i-lov...

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After last week, UK ministers should know this: a huge rebellion is coming – we will fight for our children's rights | John Harris From mooted Whitehall cost-cutting to the bigoted views of Reform, parents of children with special needs see the latest threats, and we are mobilising, says Guardian columnist John Harris

#SEND parents will not give up without a fight.

#SaveOurChildrensRights

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The invincible Andy Miller. Providing a reason to check your social media every Wednesday.
These Neko Case entries are lightning in a bottle.

Low Culture Podcast: Withnail & I | The Quietus With John away, Luke gave tQ regular and all-round excellent scribe Jude Rogers a shout to see if she’d be up for coming on a special edition of the Low Culture podcast about Withnail & I, Bruce Robin...

A joy to discuss Withnail & I with @juderogers.bsky.social for tQ's pod: masculinity, the complexity of Uncle Monty, the lie of the Nature Cure, the grim 90s & how the film is relevant today in our age of oomska, still "shat on by Tories, shovelled up by Labour..."

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🎨 #GeraldHoltom, English artist and graphic designer (Nuclear Disarmament (ND) logo, which later became an international peace symbol), #DOTD 18 September 1985. #Art #GraphicDesign

This is what she’s like…

#nowplaying This has 80 tracks on it, or 80 singles in old money, every one of which is very good to great, perfectly sequenced and mastered. You can buy it for a tenner. Fiftysomething friends, this is the time for action.

Hounds of Love at 40 Sinead Gleeson and Graeme Thomson on Kate Bush's celebrated 5th studio album, "Hounds of Love," which was released 40 years ago.

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"Echobelly pissed all over Oasis as a live band"

A choice quote of @jamesbpcook.bsky.social's in this double interview we did for @drownedinsound.org about the *other* Britpop... 🙌

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Inside the other Britpop 30 years since Blur beat Oasis in the Battle of Britpop, two authors explore being both inside and outside the mid-90s music explosion

New: 30 years on from the britpop wars, two authors in the thick of it, one a teenage fan, the other in a band you’ve somehow never heard of

@annadoble.bsky.social and @jamesbpcook.bsky.social on The Other #Britpop www.drownedinsound.org/inside-the-o...

How autism shapes adult life “If it takes a village to raise a child”, writes Caroline Elton in Looking After, “it takes a small town” to care for an autistic adult. A psychologist

I wrote about Caroline Elton's 'Looking After', a vitally important addition to the tiny corpus of literature about autistic adults, for the new-look @thetls.bsky.social
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This installment is about searching ... for a music scene, a sense of home and something much deeper. My favorite INVENTORY yet.

Inside the other Britpop 30 years since Blur beat Oasis in the Battle of Britpop, two authors explore being both inside and outside the mid-90s music explosion

Two authors speak out about Britpop! My joint interview with the brilliant @annadoble.bsky.social www.drownedinsound.org/inside-the-o...

The Strange World Of… Saint Etienne | The Quietus In the April 1993 issue of Select (a key text in the run-up to Britpop) the first band interviewed in its famous ‘Yanks Go Home’ feature wasn’t its cover stars, Suede. It was Saint Etienne, a trio nam...

“Britpop’s best foundational band. From day one – in the post-perestroika summer of Italia 90 – their approach to music, lyrics, and films has always crossed borders, been open-minded, and kept time-travelling.” Thank you Jude Rogers. thequietus.com/interviews/s...

'Rights matter'. Essential reading from @johnharris1969.bsky.social about the proposed changes to SEND provision. #autism

The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin

New episode up now. The Tombs of Atuan (1970) by Ursula K. Le Guin, the second part of Earthsea, with guest Frank Cottrell-Boyce in conversation with Una McCormack and Andy Miller. @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0sc5...

The days of asking are all gone as LA LA LAND RECORDS announce a two-disc dive into the unreleased cues and alternate songs of THUNDERBALL! With only 5000 copies available, go break your turntable's heart without regret...
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#Thunderball #JohnBarry #JamesBond

Seascraper by Benjamin Wood review – a story that sings on the page A young shrimp fisher’s horizons are broadened by the arrival of a stranger in this atmospheric Booker-listed tale

I reviewed Benjamin Wood's lyrical, Hardyesque @thebookerprizes.com 2025 longlisted novella, Seascraper, in @guardianbooks.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...