@rachelmalik.bsky.social
Writes, reads, watches, worries. 1st novel Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves - SL for Walter Scott prize. LL for V S Pritchett Short Story. Second novel, A Fire of Stalks and Feathers, coming soon I hope https://linktr.ee/rachel.malik99
⚡ It’s alive! Our Frankenstein month is here! In “Frankenstein: Introducing the Madness,” Keri leads us through Mary Shelley’s iconic novel—unpacking obsession, ambition, creation, and consequence.
🎙️ The experiment has officially begun. Listen now and prepare for the madness.
💙📚⏰ 📽️🎬 #bookclub
It's World Book Day and if you fancy helping an independent cooperative bookshop during a tricky month, this is great timing...
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Gift, Estate of Katherine S. Dreier, 1953 © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Mz 163 with Woman, Spraying by Kurt Schwitters, 1920
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137243
Congratulations!
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I humbly
Beseech you, sir, to spare me, till I may
Be by my friends in Spain advis’d, whose counsel
I will implore.
Misty background with faint outlines of trees. Dog colliding with ground in the foreground.
Misty morning on Hampstead Heath with happy dog
04.03.2026 08:27 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
a white fawn in the night forest
this night, you will sleep, you will dream
Ph. Sarah Wilmer
‘A brilliant and devastating debut.’
Jordan Abel
Half-Bads in White Regalia by Cody Caetano – out now in the UK and Europe! 🎮👾🔊
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/half...
Happy Publication Day Barbara Byar for #InTheDesert! There's a great interview here with Barbara and Jennifer from @frazzledlit.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2s3pykrn
It’s bloody grim. Take care of your Anna x
03.03.2026 11:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Or British
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#gorse12 (Language is a virus) has just arrived in the house from the printers and I flick open on this illustration by @badaude.bsky.social! Lord, it must be a sign that the world will survive after all 😃
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Brilliant interview with Francis Spufford about his new novel Nonesuch which has gone straight to the top of my tbr. Will be trotting to the bookshop this weekend methinks.
27.02.2026 08:43 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The problem with the whole 'post a woman author you've read 5 books by' is how many women don't get a second book, let alone five.
Anyway, carry on.
New on my blog: My Women's Prize for Fiction 2026 Wish List alifeinbooks.co.uk/2026/02/my-w... #BookSky
25.02.2026 08:28 — 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0Definitely!
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HAWKWOOD'S 2026 PROGRAMME 🎉
We're so excited to unveil our January - June 2026 Programme - and a vibrant new look to go with it: full of colour, energy and the creative spirit that makes Hawkwood unique!
Scroll through our brochure here: hawkwood.s3.eu-central-1.wasabisys.com/ae945f97bc4b...
Join us for three days of Nature and Environmental Writing at @hawkwoodcft.bsky.social March 12-15. @nickhuntscrutiny.bsky.social and I will be leading writing workshops, tutorials and giving support to writers of all ages and stages. If you mention Nick or myself while booking, (1)
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Mark Bowles
Author of All My Precious Madness
One-to-one feedback for fiction writers
focused on voice, pressure, and precision.
£50 / hour
£45 / hour when booking 3+ sessions in advance
Online
✉️ bowles.mark@gmail.com
"What if it's a prince?"
"What if it's Prince Andrew?"
"I’m not the first translator to say that translation can feel like a seance. There are all these voices and references at play in the text, and then you channel them like a medium – what do you hear, what do you mishear?"
Michelle & I interviewed by English PEN pentransmissions.com/2026/02/19/n...
One of my favourite books of all time which I love all the more because I hated it when we read it at school when I was about young Leo’s age
19.02.2026 11:16 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Many a springing step down our way right now.
19.02.2026 10:58 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Beautiful!
18.02.2026 22:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You are very right
18.02.2026 20:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In Succession, the ambitious Tom tries to teach his assistant about gourmet food and dives under a napkin to munch his ortolan. Happens in S1 but it is a SIGN
18.02.2026 18:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Come to Berlin! You won't believe how vibrant the writing community is there...
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Four Days in Copenhagen and One Book alifeinbooks.co.uk/2026/02/four...
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We're so excited to welcome Jon Repetti to Deep Vellum as our new Marketing Director!
Jon is a book marketer and literary critic whose work has appeared in LARB, Cleveland Review of Books, Review31, and elsewhere. He has a PhD in English from Princeton and grew up in NYC.
Even better.
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