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Ian Collings
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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · Nov 29
🎵We’ve got super Ian McKellern,
He knows exactly what we need,
Viggo at the back,
Elijah in attack,
And now we’re going burn the f**king Ring 🎵
#Fellowship #ITFC
a man with a beard and a hat looks at the camera
Alt: Gandalf the Grey is nodding along to unheard music, suggesting that he’s down with the kids in the Shire
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3h
British.
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 3h
My strongest book-related belief is that the paperback should come first and then the hardback after for people who want a fancy edition.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 7h
I've had to rebuild this a bit - & my following - since moving away from Substack & losing a lot of oddly Substack-loyal people, but I relish the challenge as it means I have to work hard & write well. Huge archive of work on there. All of it can be read for £2 a month/£20 a year: www.tom-cox.com
Tom Cox
New writing by bestselling author Tom Cox.
www.tom-cox.com
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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 6h
Are the UK's problems caused by immigration? Don't think so. Here I channel the spirit of, of all people, the great Age of Enlightenment explorer and scientist Alexander von Humboldt, on whom I am forming quite a crush...
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The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration
In 1799, the German adventurer-scientist Alexander von Humboldt set out on what would prove to be a five-year exploration of South America. Young, independently wealthy and almost absurdly energeti…
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Nige Tassell @nigetassell.bsky.social · 7h
Yes, I've got pals on both sides of the camera on this, but Game – the first release from Geoff Barrow's Invada Films – promises to be ace. Screenings with Q&As across the country. And here's the trailer...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZbC...
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Jonathan Wilson @jonawils.bsky.social · 7h
Want 25% off the paperback of The Power and the Glory (released next May)? Pre-order from Waterstones NOW!
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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 8h
Much A-Who About Nothing
Two Hearted Gentlemen Of Verona
As Who Like It
Cybermon of Athens
#doctorshakespeare
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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 9h
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Cartoon of a Venn diagram. Two circles intersect, the intersecting area is a wedge shape so that the left hand circle looks like a pie chart. Caption under the left circle: Pie charts that wish they were Venn diagrams. Caption under the right circle: Venn diagrams that wish they were pie charts
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 17d
I have just a small pile of first edition hardbacks here which I can sell signed to anyone (in the UK) who emails me at [email protected] in time.

All of you will also receive one of these handmade bookmarks made by my mum, Jo.

Review (for info): thinkaboutreading.wordpress.com/2025/09/28/e...
My most recent novel, Everything Will Swallow You, sitting on a lichen-blotched bench. A selection of beautiful bookmarks made by my mum, Jo.
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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 10h
( )TF?
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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 12h
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 14h
The name for the emotion experienced when moving effortlessly forward on one side of a motorway and seeing traffic in the opposite direction at a standstill is "strassenfreude".
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Dr. Melissa Schuh @melissaschuh.bsky.social · 1d
I’ll #BuyAStrangerABook
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Personalised recommendations are my thing, so don’t forget to mention what kinds of things you like to read and I’ll suggest accordingly 📚

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Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 1d
IT'S WEDNESDAY!

It's #buyastrangerabook day.

The best of all the days.

I'll give out TWO books.

FOR FREE.

If you'd like one, let me know.

Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know.

It's a thing! Look.

www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...

UK only
Buy A Stranger A Book. #buyastrangerabook - Stuff you might like... - Big Green Bookshop. @biggreenbooks on Twitter. Cheese fan. My Mum says hi.
The Big Green Bookshop an independent online bookshop in selling awesome titles by awesome authors to awesome people
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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 1d
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Adam Farrer @adamjfarrer.bsky.social · 2d
If you fancy getting 25% off the paperback of my book (due out on January 29th 2026) you could go to this link and pre-order it, entering the code OCTOBER25. I’m not pressuring you, but you probably should. Paperbacks are great.

www.waterstones.com/book/broken-...
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Moonflower Books @moonflowerbooks.bsky.social · 2d
🎭 Samuel Pepys is BACK in the new mystery from @jackjewers.bsky.social. Investigating a brutal double murder leads him to in the glamorous yet unexpectedly dangerous world of the Drury Lane theatre. Pre-order now from @waterstones.bsky.social to get 25% off: www.waterstones.com/book/seethin...
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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 2d
Boom! Ordered.
And if the option to pre-order the third was offered, I'd snap Waterstones/your/Moonflower's hand off.
I might gift my signed Hardback copy of Pagans out into the wild or pop it on eBay for charity.
If anyone wants to nominate, please reply...
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children of the corncob @bisk.sureis.sexy · 2d
fuck off with this shit you racist cunts.

i forgot the word "tumbledryer" the other day so i called it a tumbley bumbley and english is my only fucking language.

abolish the home office.
Changes to the English language requirement were first reported in May when the government published their early plans in the immigration white paper. The new standard requires people to express themselves “fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expression” and to be able to communicate flexibly in social, academic and work situations.
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Ian Collings @bookamatic.bsky.social · 2d
Wait? What?
#PagansSequel
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Alt: a picture of Hugo Weaving dramatically turning around at the news that Pagans sequel opening chapter to be included in the paperback edition of Pagans - available in all good (and bad) bookshops Feb '26
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Moonflower Books @moonflowerbooks.bsky.social · 2d
🚨Exciting news for fans of Pagans by @jamesbluecat.bsky.social...🚨

1. The paperback is available for pre-order
2. If you order it now from @waterstones.bsky.social with the code OCTOBER25, you'll get 25% off
3. IT'S GOT THE FIRST CHAPTER OF THE SEQUEL IN IT

www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/...
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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 2d
This is tomorrow @deadinkbookshop.bsky.social. I'm really looking forward to it. Do come along if you want to see how much an author can age between the release of their first and second novels. deadinkbookshop.com/products/the...
15 OCT The Definitions: Book Launch - Matt Greene in conversation with
15 October6pm - 7pmTickets from £5 at the Dead Ink Bookshop:375 Smithdown Rd, Liverpool L15 3JJ   The Definitions is a short, thoughtful, and ultimately terrifying novel about the vitality of language...
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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 2d
Pre-order ‘My Bags Are Big’ by Tibor Fischer today, with 25% discount off at Waterstones – use code OCTOBER25 in the checkout 👉 www.waterstones.com/book/my-bags...
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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 2d
Until midnight this Friday (17th Oct), Waterstones are giving 25% off the preorder of the paperback edition of Pagans (due Feb '26) if you use the code OCTOBER25, so that's a thing you could do if you wanted.

www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/...
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