@timc1986.bsky.social
Writer. Short story collections DARK PLAY and WHERE WE LIVE. Nightjar Press chapbook THE JUDGMENT. Early years teacher, PhD student. From Bridgend, South Wales.
I’ve not finished it yet, but this has got about everything I want in a book. It’s about place, childhood (how odd it is), memory, history, family and more. It’s strange, poetic, unpredictable and scholarly. Seriously good writing…
24.02.2026 21:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Never a big Narnia guy but this 6 seconds typifies everything I love about British television.
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I don’t know where my daughter got this reading material, but she’s making the most of it…
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Choosing four favourite writers is extremely tough. I’m just about happy with these, I think…
20.02.2026 11:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That’s the plan 👍
19.02.2026 21:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sounds like my PhD dissertation.
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View from today’s writing desk.
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Some good books on the go at the moment…
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Really dug @justintaylor.bsky.social's review of a newly-translated Halldor Laxness novel. www.harvardreview.org/book-review/...
18.02.2026 00:20 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0Love this. Independent People is one of the greatest novels I’ve read. I think I’m due another Laxness…
19.02.2026 10:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Brilliant book!
19.02.2026 09:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Snowing in Wales. Think I’ll stay in and write.
19.02.2026 09:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That is amazing!
29.01.2026 14:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tim Cooke’s DARK PLAY, a collection of weird stories
People who like the sort of thing that I like will find this the sort of thing that they like.
18.01.2026 01:19 — 👍 18 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 1This is nice…
18.01.2026 14:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks so much!
18.01.2026 14:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Bela Tarr was in a league of his own.
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Pretty cool Xmas presents from my father-in-law…
04.01.2026 22:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Halfway through Knausgaard’s Wolves of Eternity - so far the Morning Star series has been one of the best, most fascinating weird fiction projects I’ve read. Unbelievably addictive writing.
03.01.2026 21:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lovely run this morning, up the mountain that inspired my collection of stories Dark Play…
31.12.2025 18:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Super Furries and Beta Band tickets booked for next year 👌
03.12.2025 16:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My Tuesday just gone (child a bit older, but it doesn’t change).
01.12.2025 18:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My 9-year-old has just finished reading a history of Alcatraz and now wants a bio of Shane MacGowan. I am very proud.
26.11.2025 17:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I watched The White Ribbon for perhaps the fifth time last night - for something I’m writing - and it remains one of the most perfect and powerful films I’ve ever seen.
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Kids are away, which means a Saturday evening of PhD…
22.11.2025 17:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This new Seamus Fogarty song is 👌 m.youtube.com/watch?v=MSFz...
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Current reads - so far so good…
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Listening to Jeff Tweedy’s brilliant new album has sent me back to this. Man’s a genius… m.youtube.com/watch?v=8yRp...
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Wild stuff from Lankum here… Love it. m.youtube.com/watch?v=aLLn...
02.11.2025 21:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Bought one off a similar table in Walthamstow yesterday…
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