Tim Cooke

Writer. Short story collections DARK PLAY and WHERE WE LIVE. Nightjar Press chapbook THE JUDGMENT. Early years teacher, PhD student. From Bridgend, South Wales.

[Tim Cooke @cooketim2]

Thank you so much to everyone at @newwelshreview. I can’t tell you how chuffed I am to have won the New Welsh Writing Award!

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Bloody hell, finished…

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My daughter found this very old-looking horse shoe in Epping Forest a while back - any thoughts on date or how to date it?

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Just started reading this to my daughters. Had forgotten how good it is…

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My 7-year-old daughter draws the coolest pictures…

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Four extraordinary books here…

[Faber Books @FaberBooks]

Faber is marking twenty years since the death of John McGahern with a revitalising year of publishing to introduce one of Ireland’s greatest novelists to a new generation.

https://t.co/0SJ3DV1fo3

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@BLERoom1 Oh, looks good! 👍

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Hard to choose! Literary Mt Rushmore…

[Aaron Gwyn @AmericanGwyn]

My Literary Rushmore:

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@BLERoom1 I’d try The Emigrants - perhaps a better place to start.

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@BLERoom1 Haha! Each to their own…

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@BLERoom1 Yeah, quite personal choices! There’s WG Sebald, Annie Ernaux, Karl Ove Knausgaard and Niall Griffiths.

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My 9-year-old has just finished reading a history of Alcatraz and now wants a bio of Shane MacGowan. I am very proud.

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I 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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This new Seamus Fogarty song is 👌 https://t.co/20pk86EDTz

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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… https://t.co/aoISXDRkZ6

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@ForteanLondon @stu_neville Lionel Fanthorpe was my sixth form media studies teacher and we’d occasionally watch Fortean TV in class - great lessons!

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You can now get my story ‘The Judgment’ from @deadinkbookshop…

[Nightjar Press @nightjarpress]

Our publications are now stocked at @deadinkbookshop in Liverpool. Read all about it here https://t.co/Kvw41M3Ih1

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So excited I don’t think I’ll sleep for the next eight months… @superfurry @gruffingtonpost

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@ClashMagazine @gruffingtonpost @rockactionrecs Great article. Loving the new album!

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@juliangrenier @tes Tell Me and The Reading Environment by Aidan Chambers 👌