Ben Tufnell
@bentufnell.bsky.social
Writer. Curator. Owl. Art stuff mostly over on Instagram. Stories in BBSS2024, Conjunctions, Interzone etc. THE NORTH SHORE is published by Fleet (Little, Brown). PARADISE coming from Influx Press in March 2026.
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Many thanks to @charlieratpig.bsky.social for these words…..
'A powerful novel of psychogeography set between two landscapes, urban and rural, in a world palpably on the brink of collapse. Febrile with paranoia and alienation, Paradise confronts the crucial, intimate matter of our time: how ‘to be’ at the end of all things.’
– Charlotte Tierney
– Charlotte Tierney
December 12, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Many thanks to @charlieratpig.bsky.social for these words…..
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Avoid Amazon. Shop Small!
Tomorrow is Small Business Saturday. We hope you can get down to a brilliant local indie bookshop. If not, snap up a book and support indie booksellers with us - and you're in with the chance of winning a £250 Bookshop.org gift card.
Support bookshops, not billionaires.
Tomorrow is Small Business Saturday. We hope you can get down to a brilliant local indie bookshop. If not, snap up a book and support indie booksellers with us - and you're in with the chance of winning a £250 Bookshop.org gift card.
Support bookshops, not billionaires.
December 5, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Avoid Amazon. Shop Small!
Tomorrow is Small Business Saturday. We hope you can get down to a brilliant local indie bookshop. If not, snap up a book and support indie booksellers with us - and you're in with the chance of winning a £250 Bookshop.org gift card.
Support bookshops, not billionaires.
Tomorrow is Small Business Saturday. We hope you can get down to a brilliant local indie bookshop. If not, snap up a book and support indie booksellers with us - and you're in with the chance of winning a £250 Bookshop.org gift card.
Support bookshops, not billionaires.
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December 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Salvador Dali, ‘Portrait of Luis Bunuel’ (1924), Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Salvador Dali, ‘Portrait of Luis Bunuel’ (1924), Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid
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Royal Natural History, Richard Lydekker, originally published in 1893. #OwlishMonday
October 20, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Royal Natural History, Richard Lydekker, originally published in 1893. #OwlishMonday
Excellent book post thanks to @undertow.bsky.social and @uncertainstories.com. Looking forward to these. And
‘Broken Ground’ came with a free single story booklet by @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social!!
‘Broken Ground’ came with a free single story booklet by @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social!!
October 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Excellent book post thanks to @undertow.bsky.social and @uncertainstories.com. Looking forward to these. And
‘Broken Ground’ came with a free single story booklet by @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social!!
‘Broken Ground’ came with a free single story booklet by @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social!!
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Reposted by Ben Tufnell
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
I’ve got a new story in The Brussels Review. It’s about an academic called Ben Tufnell, writing a paper on ‘that bastard, Kant’, haunted by ‘BenTufnell’, his namesake who is doing research on doubles and doppelgängers….
@thebrusselsreview.bsky.social
@thebrusselsreview.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I’ve got a new story in The Brussels Review. It’s about an academic called Ben Tufnell, writing a paper on ‘that bastard, Kant’, haunted by ‘BenTufnell’, his namesake who is doing research on doubles and doppelgängers….
@thebrusselsreview.bsky.social
@thebrusselsreview.bsky.social
Now open. Featuring major artists alongside new talent, the show offers a timely exploration of the ways in which artists are looking at and thinking about nature in the 21st century.
Visit www.closeltd.com for more info.
Thurs & Fri 11am-4pm | Sat 11am-3pm | Or by appointment
Visit www.closeltd.com for more info.
Thurs & Fri 11am-4pm | Sat 11am-3pm | Or by appointment
September 20, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Now open. Featuring major artists alongside new talent, the show offers a timely exploration of the ways in which artists are looking at and thinking about nature in the 21st century.
Visit www.closeltd.com for more info.
Thurs & Fri 11am-4pm | Sat 11am-3pm | Or by appointment
Visit www.closeltd.com for more info.
Thurs & Fri 11am-4pm | Sat 11am-3pm | Or by appointment
Many thanks to @seanbirnie.bsky.social for the kind words….
PARADISE by @bentufnell.bsky.social is published March 2026 and pre-orders are now open.
www.influxpress.com/shop/paradis...
www.influxpress.com/shop/paradis...
September 19, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Many thanks to @seanbirnie.bsky.social for the kind words….
*Very* mixed feelings about Alien: Earth but wtf, this guy is definitely the most terrifying ‘herbivore’ since Black Philip….
September 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
*Very* mixed feelings about Alien: Earth but wtf, this guy is definitely the most terrifying ‘herbivore’ since Black Philip….
I’m really very happy to be working with the brilliant Influx Press!
Delighted to announce PARADISE, the stunning new novel by @bentufnell.bsky.social – an uncategorisable Kafkaesque eco-thriller combining elements of noir, folk horror and nature writing, addressing the most urgent of contemporary issues.
PARADISE is published March 2026 and pre-orders are now open.
PARADISE is published March 2026 and pre-orders are now open.
August 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I’m really very happy to be working with the brilliant Influx Press!
'Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months.'
One of the great opening lines.....
One of the great opening lines.....
August 17, 2025 at 10:50 AM
'Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months.'
One of the great opening lines.....
One of the great opening lines.....
Many thanks to the tree that grew the apples! Last year’s cider is drinking very nicely…
August 10, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Many thanks to the tree that grew the apples! Last year’s cider is drinking very nicely…
Peanut butter is the crack cocaine of spreads….
July 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Peanut butter is the crack cocaine of spreads….
Anselm Kiefer, ‘Sweet golden clime (for William Blake)’ (2023-25), Emulsion, oil, acrylic, gold leaf and ash on canvas, 280 x 190 cm. At White Cube, Mason’s Yard….
July 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Anselm Kiefer, ‘Sweet golden clime (for William Blake)’ (2023-25), Emulsion, oil, acrylic, gold leaf and ash on canvas, 280 x 190 cm. At White Cube, Mason’s Yard….
Mike Perry’s ‘Reverse Sod Swap’ exchanges a circle of turf from a field in Wales with a circle of turf from a wildflower meadow in Springfield Park, Hackney. There are 39 species of flora in the turf that went to Wales and only 4 species in the sheep grazed turf that now resides in London. 1/2
July 11, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Mike Perry’s ‘Reverse Sod Swap’ exchanges a circle of turf from a field in Wales with a circle of turf from a wildflower meadow in Springfield Park, Hackney. There are 39 species of flora in the turf that went to Wales and only 4 species in the sheep grazed turf that now resides in London. 1/2