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Jon Woolcott

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Author Real Dorset (Seren), The Tattooed Hills (Aurum 2026), editor Going to Ground, works Little Toller, editor The Clearing. Events/writing/buy: linktr.ee/jonwoolcott

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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 6d

Here it is, the gorgeous cover of The Tattooed Hills by the talented illustrator Jon McCormack. It's just perfect!

The book is out next spring and you can preorder a copy here: geni.us/TheTattooedH...

The cover of The Tattooed Hills, a white horse on a chalkand landscape.

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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 1h

we’ll we’ll we’ll if it isn’t my old friend autocorrect

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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 3h

Absolutely, but not then.

Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 3h

Absolutely consistent with her behaviour. Also told my friend Mark, who loved The Stranglers, that I was deep into Sade.

Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 3h

My mum came to pick me up from school and asked the passing rugby team at the gates to let me know 'his mummy is waiting and it's burgers for tea.' I was 15.

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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 3h

That's kind! I hope readers like it too.

Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 3h

Yes, it's been an excellent excuse to indulge my passion. I think I've found some interesting digressions but deliberately avoided it being comprehensive. Newman is great, well written and opinionated!

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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 4h

Marples especially is excellent and I have a soft spot for Paul Newman's (not that one) Lost Gods of Albion. But Bergamar fits more neatly into a rucksack!

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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 5h

Just sayin'.

A poster promoting The Tattooed Hills, 25% off the RRP at Waterstones.com until 17 October only.

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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 2d

A photograph of Diane Keaton as Annie Hall.

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 5d

So many times. And the only two writers who have ever told me they don’t like being edited were a) men b) assholes and c) wrong.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 6d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 6d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks Helen! I was very pleased with myself. As usual.

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 8d

This looks great from @littletollerbooks.bsky.social – a campaign to crowdfund a book on the Cumbrian home and work of Kurt Schwitters. I popped into his Merz Barn there a few years ago, a really crackers place then run by people no longer with us

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/looking-fo...

Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 14d

Our friends at the brilliant @littletollerbooks.bsky.social have just launched a new crowdfunding project for 'Looking for Mr Schwitters' — an innovative and finely illustrated book about the émigré artist Kurt Schwitters’ final years in the Lake District www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/look...

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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 11d

Extraordinary! Not seen it in years, suspect it's 'of its time.'

Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 12d

A photograph of Jane Goodall with a chimpanzee.

Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 14d

What's your sign?

Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 14d

Now reading.

Copies of Storm Damage and Love Poems by Brian Patten

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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 15d

"Age yourself with a movie you saw in theatres as a kid."

A film poster for The Return of the Pink Panther.

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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 15d

TBH my late mum was fond of saying 'LADY AUHORESS' in crowded places in her best telephone voice when describing someone who had lived in her village. I think she thought it made her sound posh and literary.

Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 16d

Although whether one can accurately describe it as nonfiction is another matter.

Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 16d

The Usborne 'World of the Unknown: Ghosts' freaked me out as a kid and I'm not the only one, given its recent reissue.

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Little Toller Books @littletollerbooks.bsky.social · 20d

For those who might like a copy! 😉

www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...

#BookSky

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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 21d

I wonder also if some of it has to do with those forever brown interpretation boards or 1970s museum displays? Like the artist only had beige to work with. Always looked so grim.

Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 21d

I mean, I would say this, but Luke is right on Worpole, and many other things.

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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 22d

Especially alarmed by '20% discount on collection' tagline .