@imo_char@lemnsissay@AndyBurnhamGM There’s some terrible replies to this, @imo_char, aren’t some people just lovely… it’s a great story and more power to you for daring to put your head above the parapet for something that means something to you, and for what you believe in
I was lucky enough to get this early as a subscriber to the @CharcoPress bundle and it is *fabulous*. An unflinching and darkly humorous account of a savage environment
Coming in August: ON EARTH AS IT IS BENEATH by Ana Paula Maia, translated by Padma Viswanathan!
"Fast-paced and impactful...Ana Paula Maia treads her own path, and it's a brutal one. All the better for us." - Escotilha
Preorder: https://t.co/QRVUmSSVMo
@beyondzeropod@WednesdayErskin Looking forward to listening to this one. Wendy is always a brilliant and engaging interviewee, and The Benefactors is going to the top of the TBR pile. No spoilers please!
@HarrySword Have you read The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers Guild by Mathias Énard (Trans. Frank Wynne)? I have an inkling you would *love* the banquet section especially
I ordered my copy of The Night-Soil Men last night and could have bought much more from a great catalog, were it not for financial prudence and a to-read pile that’s more of a to-read fort ATM
I wondered why they had so many signed @BenMyers1 books @LitRiponBkshop today. I should have guessed. Anyway, I’m dead chuffed as I got Pig Iron and These Darkening Days which I *never* see in indie bookshops
Before Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation, BBC sound technicians measured the loudness of Westminster Abbey’s toilets to ensure flushing sounds wouldn’t be heard during the ceremony.
@therimaahmed I went to a child’s birthday party at a soft play place in Seacroft, where they played the whole of Pantera’s Vulgar Display of Power album once. Halcyon days
@StuHennigan So much good stuff around right now, it’s hard to fit into a tweet but:
Clean by Alia Trabucco Zerán
Mammoth by Eva Baltasar and The Hunger of Women by Marosia Castaldi, both on @andothertweets
Private Rites by Julia Armfield
Ali Milar’s Ava Anna Ada on @WhiteRabbitBks
The moles in our local churchyard are so well established they’re adding their own signage. Although I can’t tell if they’re pro dog ownership or not #moles#crayke#hambletonhills#dogs