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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 38m

Utterly necessary. Yet how mad that it should be so...

@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 2h

Here's the stamp on the back!

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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 2h

Here's the stamp on the back!

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Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 2h

I wish it weren't necessary, but I love this stamp

@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 2h

Here's the stamp on the back!

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Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social · 1h

Looking forward to reading this!

@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 2h

And please! If you want to support us - and get a wonderful book - we're taking pre-orders: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/paperback-sh...

Waterstones too: www.waterstones.com/book/telenov...

And bookshop.org : uk.bookshop.org/p/books/tele...

Or your local bookshop.

TELENOVELA — Galley Beggar Press

This is a pre-order . Telenovela will be shipped on publication, in November 2025. All pre-orders will be signed first editions, and come with a book mark and three limited edition postcards. RE...

www.galleybeggar.co.uk

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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 1h

Merci beaucoup!

@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 2h

It's a beautiful, funny, serious, loving novel - and it also sticks it to The Man.

!Gonzalo!

We love him.

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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 2h

And please! If you want to support us - and get a wonderful book - we're taking pre-orders: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/paperback-sh...

Waterstones too: www.waterstones.com/book/telenov...

And bookshop.org : uk.bookshop.org/p/books/tele...

Or your local bookshop.

TELENOVELA — Galley Beggar Press

This is a pre-order . Telenovela will be shipped on publication, in November 2025. All pre-orders will be signed first editions, and come with a book mark and three limited edition postcards. RE...

www.galleybeggar.co.uk

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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 2h

Info on Books By People here: booksbypeople.org

Books By People | Defending Organic Literature in an AI world

Books by People's mission is to safeguard human creativity in modern literature by helping publishers and authors to certify their books as human-authored, with a process readers can trust.

booksbypeople.org

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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 2h

… And so we sink back into the sea…

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2h

I dust my house. My AI Robot watches.

"It should be you doing this."

"Can't. I'm writing a novel for Primark."

"That's not why you were invented."

"These 153,000 fan letters say otherwise."

"They're all from upcycled toasters. And you programmed them."

"Literary snobbery will get you nowhere."

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Rob Myatt 🍉 @robtranslates.bsky.social · 2h

LOVE this

@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 2h

We're very proud to be the first publisher to have the Books By People stamp - and that it should be going to Telenovela, a book about the fight against authoritarianism and all the associated nonsense:

www.thebookseller.com/news/uk-star...

Startup launches ‘industry-first’ certification for human-made books

UK start-up Books By People has launched a new certification – the Organic Literature Certification – with a group of independent publishing houses to “counter AI-generated books”.

www.thebookseller.com

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Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · 2h

Love this.

@alicejolly.bsky.social

@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 2h

Here's the stamp on the back!

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Tom Irwin @tomirwin.bsky.social · 2h

Yes please, love it

@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 2h

We're very proud to be the first publisher to have the Books By People stamp - and that it should be going to Telenovela, a book about the fight against authoritarianism and all the associated nonsense:

www.thebookseller.com/news/uk-star...

Startup launches ‘industry-first’ certification for human-made books

UK start-up Books By People has launched a new certification – the Organic Literature Certification – with a group of independent publishing houses to “counter AI-generated books”.

www.thebookseller.com

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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 2h

Cover too, because it's very cool:

Front cover of Telenovela, a book you are going to want to read, oh yes.

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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 2h

Here's the stamp on the back!

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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 2h

We're very proud to be the first publisher to have the Books By People stamp - and that it should be going to Telenovela, a book about the fight against authoritarianism and all the associated nonsense:

www.thebookseller.com/news/uk-star...

Startup launches ‘industry-first’ certification for human-made books

UK start-up Books By People has launched a new certification – the Organic Literature Certification – with a group of independent publishing houses to “counter AI-generated books”.

www.thebookseller.com

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 18h

Latest in tech-pessimism: On my podcast, The Ned Ludd Radio Hour, I spoke to James Marriott and @samjordison.bsky.social about why literacy is declining and whether there's anything that can be done about it.

The Death of the Authors

open.spotify.com

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Sam Jordison @samjordison.bsky.social · 1d

Had a fascinating conversation with I Love Dick author Chris Kraus on Across The Pond: www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis... Her new novel is a terrifying vision of America. She explains why here, alongside the kind of trenchant thoughts you’d expect on social media, feminism, the monsters in power…

122. Chris Kraus, "The Four Spent the Day Together" - Across the Pond

Chris Kraus is our guest as we explore her new book, The Four Spent the Day Together, a riviting account of a murder in rural Minnesota that complements a novelistic reflection of Kraus's own childhoo...

www.buzzsprout.com

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Across The Pond Podcast @acrossthepondbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Chris Kraus! Talking about her scorching new novel The Four Spent The Day Together, alongside thoughts on how feminism should work, how social media doesn't - and more.

www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis...

122. Chris Kraus, "The Four Spent the Day Together" - Across the Pond

Chris Kraus is our guest as we explore her new book, The Four Spent the Day Together, a riviting account of a murder in rural Minnesota that complements a novelistic reflection of Kraus's own childhoo...

www.buzzsprout.com

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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 5d

"What is at stake if we cannot continue?"

Simultaneously very happy and crestfallen to be part of this Open Letter (written to the industry, as well as readers, writers, and - well - everyone who cares).

Please read, and share:

www.thebookseller.com/comment/open...

Open letter on the future of small press publishing in the UK

The industry must work together to ensure the longevity of the UK’s independent presses.

www.thebookseller.com

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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 8d

This weekend’s charity shop find:

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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 9d

("Recently Hillary seemed to cum later and later, like the Christmas postman.")

God Bless Jilly and RIP

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · Oct 18

🧵Some real Jilly Cooper quotes from her Rutshire Chronicles, the series of books that Rivals is from.

1) "Her breasts swayed like party balloons when the front door opens"

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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 9d

I've read or listened to Rivals at least once every other year since the age of 16, and watched the TV show three times. What a wonder she was!

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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 9d

Other people either laugh, or look quizzically at me and hurry away. It sometimes feels as if I’m in a Jilly Cooper novel ... one of her caricature academics – who tend to be bearded, left-wing and ‘bootfaced’, with dubious personal hygiene and ineffectual yearnings." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

Ian Patterson · Miss Dior, Prodigally Applied: Jilly Cooper

www.lrb.co.uk

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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 9d

Jilly! 💔

"Jilly Cooper ’s work is not, so far as I know, much studied in universities. In the [SCR] recently, when I mentioned that I was writing this review, a Very Senior Person slumped forward with his head in his hands, muttering: ‘Oh no, soft porn!’..." 1/2

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