Rachel Malik

Or British

#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 😃

Little Atoms 988 - Francis Spufford's Nonesuch Podcast Episode · Little Atoms · 27 February · 32m

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.

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.

My Women's Prize for Fiction 2026 Wish List - A Life in Books Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.

New on my blog: My Women's Prize for Fiction 2026 Wish List alifeinbooks.co.uk/2026/02/my-w... #BookSky

Definitely!

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)

Mark Bowles

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focused on voice, pressure, and precision.

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"What if it's a prince?"

"What if it's Prince Andrew?"

Nothing Is Real, Everything Is Real: An Interview with Michelle Steinbeck and Jen Calleja Michelle Steinbeck and Jen Calleja on fascism, femicide, and ghosts.

"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

Many a springing step down our way right now.

Beautiful!

You are very right

In 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

Come to Berlin! You won't believe how vibrant the writing community is there...

Four Days in Copenhagen and One Book - A Life in Books Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.

Four Days in Copenhagen and One Book alifeinbooks.co.uk/2026/02/four...

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.

Would helpful if you published the salary for the job @lrb.co.uk

We’re hiring!

More details about the position here: www.lrb.co.uk/jobs

Only if a war is settled via a dance off & I’m representing humanity

After god knows how many years of hearing Mark Regev interviewed on BBC radio, I have learnt that the best thing to do is switch my very loud kettle.

Liking this tale of a girl growing up with a drunkard father then meeting the wrong man at school a banned Swahili classic from Tanzania

#ReadIndies and #HungarianLitMonth: Metropole Ferenc Karinthy: Metropole, transl. George Szirtes, Telegram Books, 2007. The book was originally published in 1970 in Hungary but needed over 35 years to get translated and published by a literary…

The city spread over a plain into distances further than the eye could see. Whichever way he turned there was no end to it, nothing but houses and apartment blocks, streets, squares, towers, old and new quarters...
#ReadIndies #HungarianLitMonth
findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/r...

Brassai’s photograph of Kiki de Montparnasse. Born Alice Prin (Châtillon-sur-Seine, 1901 - Paris, 1953), in the background, with her friends Thérèse Treize de Caro (Paris, 1900 -Épinay-sur-Orge, 1988), in the middle, and Émilie Carlu (Tubesent, 1902 - Cucq, 1988), known as Lily, in the foreground 1932

Good morning or is it goodnight from Kiki and friends.

One of my favorite tombstones at Washelli Cemetery here in Seattle

for the night crowd: @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social on money, music, and SINNERS

Necessary reading