Charles Boyle

Pick'n'mix: newsletter July 2025 Pick’n’mix: choose – from any of the books in the photo or on the website – six for £50, ten for £75: see the Season Tickets on the home p...

Pick'n'mix: CB editions July newsletter archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/07/pick...

Sheila Ramage ran this bookshed for 45 years. “The loveliest person in the trade” – Marius Kociejowski. I’ll be talking about her (5 mins) at 2pm on Saturday, 26 July in this very place, now the Bouda Gallery (W8 4RT), at an event organised by Steven Fowler: london.czechcentres.cz/en/program/p...

From the trailer for Four Letters of Love (whose plot features a poetry competition). Helena Bonham-Carter: “What are you doing?” Brooding man: “I’m writing a love poem.” HB-C: “What is the MATTER with everyone in this house?”

All the CBe covers 2007-2026 on a poster, free to takers of Season Ticket 2 (10 books of your own choice for £75) on the website www.cbeditions.com

Endings, signing off, in novels, are so often tacky. I've written about this, I've argued that 'Everyone lived happily ever after' is metafictional. Here's a good one (Elmore Leonard, Get Shorty):

Sorry about this. I've checked and it works for me ... Maybe if you try a different browser (I'm using Firefox)? This solves the problem sometimes, no idea why.

Pic shows books in fridge and on shelves of fridge door

Serve cool: bookshelves for another hot day

Pottery giraffe broken in many places, mended

Mended. Since the bones I fractured in my neck in March have now healed, thanks to the NHS, I owed it to this giraffe to put her/him back together.

"Run up the colours": newsletter May 2025 Early books, above … 176 Interruptions , scheduled for July, is a revised and expanded edition of 99 Interruptions (published in 2022 and n...

"Run up the colours" - CB editions newsletter, as archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/05/run-...

Nor, back in 2007, did I ever expect this. Thank you.

All the CB editions covers, 2007 to now, on one A1 poster.

"Umarell": see the Wiki entry: men of retirement age watching roadworks, arms akimbo or hands clasped behind back, offering unwanted advice. Here's me watching a new speed bump being put in in my street.

Short reading 🧵from last night. Book 28 of 2025 Reading: Seesaw by Carmel Doohan, from the redoubtable @cbeditions.bsky.social, where else?

Shock horror, the new pope is a man.

That seems a good reason to agree to the interview. What a very strange piece.

The Silly Season The non-story so far … A man announces he’s setting up a press that will ‘focus on literary fiction by men’. He says he plans to publish th...

Blog post about THAT new publisher: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...

Me (with ancient author photo) on style, English puritanism, advice and Invisible Dogs: auraist.substack.com/p/was-updike...

CB editions will have a stall at this fair on Saturday: do come and chat, buy or haggle.

Last call to stream — must “close” April 22! —this reading of my adaptation of The Other Jack by @cbeditions.bsky.social. Directed by James Dacre, performed by Jasmine Blackborow & Nathaniel Parker, and produced by @csvich.bsky.social for the @lorteltheatre.bsky.social 🙏🏻 lortel.org/the-other-ja...

Just a week (well, six days) left to stream this reading of The Other Jack via the @lorteltheatre.bsky.social — directed by James Dacre & produced by @csvich.bsky.social, starring Jasmine Blackborow & Nathaniel Parker, and based on the book by @cbeditions.bsky.social 🙏🏻 lortel.org/the-other-ja...

Just 6 days left to stream for free a reading on Vimeo of @bydanobrien.bsky.social's stage adaptation of these books: register here: lortel.org/the-other-ja...

Screenshot from a reading of the stage adaptation by Dan O'Brien of The Other Jack, based on the book by myself (CBe, 2021). The reading can be streamed free on Vimeo until 22 April – you’ll need to register with the Lortel Theatre (lortel.org/the-other-ja...), who will send a link.

YouTube video by Marc Nash Recent Reads Early April

My #Booksky #Booktube lates video, reviewing 4 novels, 4 poetry collections & a hybrid work. Authors include Robert Perisic, Bolano, Vincent Delecroix, @cbeditions.bsky.social Natalie Diaz, Fredericke Mayröcker, Nick Laird www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7e5...

Newsletter April 2025 [Photo of early CBe books by Martina Geccelli] Invisible Dogs was on the shortlist for the Republic of Consciousness Prize and that was a...

Bears can be grumpy when they've just woken up. New CB editions newsletter, archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/04/news...

Book cover of 99 Interruptions showing showing Goya's c.1816 drawing of a man falling head-over-heel down stairs

"Showing off? Remember your age": Goya's title to this drawing of me tumbling down the kitchen stairs last Friday. Back from hospital today. Normal service (posting, emails, etc) will resume gradually.

RSVP link for the free online reading April 8-22 of my adaptation of ‘The Other Jack’ by @cbeditions.bsky.social is now live via the @lorteltheatre.bsky.social — w/ actors Jasmine Blackborow & Nathaniel Parker, directed by James Dacre, and produced by @csvich.bsky.social 🙏🏻 lortel.org/the-other-ja...

Two books: on the left a tan and yellow paperback Spring Journal: after Louis MacNeice by Jonathan Gibbs. On the right, a green Faber Library hardback edition of Autumn Journal by Louis MacNeice with a quote from Cyril Connolly: “He completely captures the atmosphere of the year of Munich. He tolls the knell of the political thirties with melancholy triumph.”

Five months later, to my great surprise, I had written this (L), very much modelled on this (R).

Spring Journal was published by @cbeditions.bsky.social in December of the same year, nine months from first tweet to bookshelves.

He's a local poet. With praise from August Kelinzahler on the cover of his book.

The market stall in Shep Bush Market that now sells CBe books

Delivery today of CBe books to the only bookshop in Shepherds Bush (the Waterstones in Westfield doesn't count): stall 64, Shepherds Bush market. Alongside the fabrics, kitchenware and the fish: I want to belong here. Guy in the pic has a great quote from Kleinzahler on his book. Local produce.