Adam Farrer
@adamjfarrer.bsky.social
Essayist, Editor @ The Real Story, Winner NorthBound Book Award for COLD FISH SOUP (Saraband, 2022). BROKEN BISCUITS (HarperNorth, 2025) MD ANT
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Adam Farrer
@adamjfarrer.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Everyone’s introducing themselves, so I'll join in.
I’m an award-winning writer of personal essays living in the north of England. Here are my books (I will talk about them a lot). This is my massive dog (I will talk about her a lot). I’m a pretty harmless presence really.
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I’m an award-winning writer of personal essays living in the north of England. Here are my books (I will talk about them a lot). This is my massive dog (I will talk about her a lot). I’m a pretty harmless presence really.
linktr.ee/adamjfarrer
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TV series of Leonard & Hungry Paul has concluded & the responses have been phenomenal.
We have never ever sold so many copies of a book in a 3 month period like this.
With Rónán appearing on BBC Radio 4 soonish & the TV series on RTÉ next year, fingers crossed it continues!
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We have never ever sold so many copies of a book in a 3 month period like this.
With Rónán appearing on BBC Radio 4 soonish & the TV series on RTÉ next year, fingers crossed it continues!
@thebookseller.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
TV series of Leonard & Hungry Paul has concluded & the responses have been phenomenal.
We have never ever sold so many copies of a book in a 3 month period like this.
With Rónán appearing on BBC Radio 4 soonish & the TV series on RTÉ next year, fingers crossed it continues!
@thebookseller.com
We have never ever sold so many copies of a book in a 3 month period like this.
With Rónán appearing on BBC Radio 4 soonish & the TV series on RTÉ next year, fingers crossed it continues!
@thebookseller.com
If you follow this link and flick through to page 37, you can read an article I’m quite proud of that features a hell of a headline that I’m not so proud of (but find incredibly funny).
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November 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
If you follow this link and flick through to page 37, you can read an article I’m quite proud of that features a hell of a headline that I’m not so proud of (but find incredibly funny).
manmagazineuk.co.uk?utm_source=i...
manmagazineuk.co.uk?utm_source=i...
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I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
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Seems a bit much for one clumsy guy
November 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Seems a bit much for one clumsy guy
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Billionaires. What’s stopping you from making your AI robots look like this?
November 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Billionaires. What’s stopping you from making your AI robots look like this?
They put this list together somehow thinking “yeah, I don’t feel the dads are quite angry enough.”
@billboard.com magazine’s TOP 50 ROCK BANDS OF ALL TIME or “SOMETHING ELSE FOR THE COUNTRY TO FIGHT ABOUT." Sound off!
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
They put this list together somehow thinking “yeah, I don’t feel the dads are quite angry enough.”
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My absolute fav. The caption, the pose. The setting.
Cliff, shit, just remembered we need one more picture for the calendar. Fuck it just grab the Custard Creams and riff with it.
Cliff, shit, just remembered we need one more picture for the calendar. Fuck it just grab the Custard Creams and riff with it.
November 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
My absolute fav. The caption, the pose. The setting.
Cliff, shit, just remembered we need one more picture for the calendar. Fuck it just grab the Custard Creams and riff with it.
Cliff, shit, just remembered we need one more picture for the calendar. Fuck it just grab the Custard Creams and riff with it.
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Somebody posted an old photo in a Facebook local group and asked if anyone could clean it up. Well-meaning people turned to #AI. Lots of responders seemed happy with the results, but this is how you destroy historical records.
November 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Somebody posted an old photo in a Facebook local group and asked if anyone could clean it up. Well-meaning people turned to #AI. Lots of responders seemed happy with the results, but this is how you destroy historical records.
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![[Scene is a MEDIEVAL PLAGUE PIT with all the bodies inside it. On the edge of it is a young peasant woman, in a sack cloth dress, covered in boils. She is lounging glamorously next to the pit. Her boyfriend is standing a few feet away, photographing her with an anachronistic mobile phone]
GIRL:
OK so I'll sit here...
With my hair like this…
Rubbing my cyst with the corpse's hand.
[She produces a whithered severed hand and starts rubbing it on her face.]
[We are treated to a revolting close up of her rubbing the severed hand on her disgusting massive cyst.]
[Her boyfriend takes a photo of her.]
SNAP
GIRL:
OK, now write this:
"Hanging out at the burial pit, rubbing my sebaceous cyst with a severed corpse hand from
#BurtsGraverobbers…”
And then: #selfcare, #metime, #BurtsGraverobbers…
... nails emoji, heart emoji, cyst emoji.
BOYFRIEND:
Um...
Should we really be promoting this?
I mean… does rubbing a corpse's hand on a cyst actually work?
GIRL:
Look, Burt's done research, OK?
And he's paying us four groats.
BOYFRIEND:
Hmm.
[Boyfriend dutifully taps out the post on his phone]
TAP TAP TAP
BOYFRIEND:
Cyst emoji?
GIRL:
Just use a fried egg.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreifyvq2vzehtutrj7ild2dd7kkljmkbcby7yompicekbbpa2bqpluq@jpeg)
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Once again, with feeling:
AI IS NOT FUCKING INEVITABLE
AI IS NOT FUCKING INEVITABLE
AI will reshape publishing jobs, from editorial and production to marketing, sales and operations. The question is not whether this happens, but who shapes these changes, says Bec Evans 👇 #BookSky
Knowledge is power
ebx.sh
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Once again, with feeling:
AI IS NOT FUCKING INEVITABLE
AI IS NOT FUCKING INEVITABLE
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I have always been terrified and mesmerised by Udo Kier. 🧛♀️
Once, in a gay bar in Palm Springs, I turned around and he was just standing there, holding a drink. I checked in the bar mirror to see if he had a reflection. He saw me checking and smiled. It was perfect.
Once, in a gay bar in Palm Springs, I turned around and he was just standing there, holding a drink. I checked in the bar mirror to see if he had a reflection. He saw me checking and smiled. It was perfect.
November 25, 2025 at 8:26 AM
I have always been terrified and mesmerised by Udo Kier. 🧛♀️
Once, in a gay bar in Palm Springs, I turned around and he was just standing there, holding a drink. I checked in the bar mirror to see if he had a reflection. He saw me checking and smiled. It was perfect.
Once, in a gay bar in Palm Springs, I turned around and he was just standing there, holding a drink. I checked in the bar mirror to see if he had a reflection. He saw me checking and smiled. It was perfect.
It's a sobering moment as a writer when you learn that Poop and Learn by Willy Wiper is outselling not only your book but those of most of the authors you know.
November 25, 2025 at 9:02 AM
It's a sobering moment as a writer when you learn that Poop and Learn by Willy Wiper is outselling not only your book but those of most of the authors you know.
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God, those look like @ symbols, as if it’s her social media. RIP Thora Hird, you would have loved Twitter
November 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
God, those look like @ symbols, as if it’s her social media. RIP Thora Hird, you would have loved Twitter
Hird is the wird.
November 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Hird is the wird.
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Come hear from David Hartley and 'The Subtle Art of Short Fiction' along with brilliant authors from the #NorthernFictionAlliance @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social Thu 4th Dec!
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November 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Come hear from David Hartley and 'The Subtle Art of Short Fiction' along with brilliant authors from the #NorthernFictionAlliance @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social Thu 4th Dec!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/northern-f...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/northern-f...
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Can't spell whatever without hate
November 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Can't spell whatever without hate
You can buy someone both of my books for Christmas if you like. I won't mind.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
You can buy someone both of my books for Christmas if you like. I won't mind.
www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Adam-...
www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Adam-...
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Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
Be careful with geolocation parking apps. I just got a £100 fine because I was in a hurry and didn't realise that, when I was paying, my app had picked up the location of a car park down the road and not the one I was in.
November 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Be careful with geolocation parking apps. I just got a £100 fine because I was in a hurry and didn't realise that, when I was paying, my app had picked up the location of a car park down the road and not the one I was in.
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November 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Someone told my mum about Furries and she didn’t believe they were real, so messaged me to verify. It felt oddly like the opposite of telling someone that Santa doesn’t exist.
November 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Someone told my mum about Furries and she didn’t believe they were real, so messaged me to verify. It felt oddly like the opposite of telling someone that Santa doesn’t exist.
Popped into Manchester yesterday and these were the images that persisted for me.
1. A Freddo tragedy.
2. THIS PAINTING.
3. Everywhere that was once cool now looking like this.
1. A Freddo tragedy.
2. THIS PAINTING.
3. Everywhere that was once cool now looking like this.
November 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Popped into Manchester yesterday and these were the images that persisted for me.
1. A Freddo tragedy.
2. THIS PAINTING.
3. Everywhere that was once cool now looking like this.
1. A Freddo tragedy.
2. THIS PAINTING.
3. Everywhere that was once cool now looking like this.
This was the choice in my hotel room.
November 22, 2025 at 8:04 AM
This was the choice in my hotel room.
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There was a cat guarding the beach this morning
November 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
There was a cat guarding the beach this morning