Richard Castlemaine
@richardcastlemaine.bsky.social
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No matter where you are, laughter travels — discover three books that unite the world in humour.
Amazon: bit.ly/4hA0B7W
Apple: bit.ly/3K6WdB9
Amazon: bit.ly/4hA0B7W
Apple: bit.ly/3K6WdB9
November 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
No matter where you are, laughter travels — discover three books that unite the world in humour.
Amazon: bit.ly/4hA0B7W
Apple: bit.ly/3K6WdB9
Amazon: bit.ly/4hA0B7W
Apple: bit.ly/3K6WdB9
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Every Christmas, when I see Santa Claus for the first time, I always say, "Hi Santa, how long has it been?" And he always replies, “A year!
December 5, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Every Christmas, when I see Santa Claus for the first time, I always say, "Hi Santa, how long has it been?" And he always replies, “A year!
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One of my sister’s kids has just brought me two bottles of bourbon and said, "Here's your Christmas juice uncle Rob," and now she's the one I'm leaving everything to.
December 22, 2024 at 8:42 AM
One of my sister’s kids has just brought me two bottles of bourbon and said, "Here's your Christmas juice uncle Rob," and now she's the one I'm leaving everything to.
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Next January, Simon Winchester joins us @blackwells.bsky.social discussing 'The Breath of the Gods'
Tickets now on sale
Tickets now on sale
December 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Next January, Simon Winchester joins us @blackwells.bsky.social discussing 'The Breath of the Gods'
Tickets now on sale
Tickets now on sale
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Our Holiday Issue is now online, with Frances Wilson on Patricia Lockwood, @luxante.bsky.social on Joe Brainard’s comics, Susan Tallman on plundering museums, @paisleycurrah.com on the attack on trans rights, @agordonreed.bsky.social on Thomas Jefferson and liberty, and much more.
December 18, 2025 Holiday Issue
Table of Contents
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November 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Our Holiday Issue is now online, with Frances Wilson on Patricia Lockwood, @luxante.bsky.social on Joe Brainard’s comics, Susan Tallman on plundering museums, @paisleycurrah.com on the attack on trans rights, @agordonreed.bsky.social on Thomas Jefferson and liberty, and much more.
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Issue 47.22 is now online, featuring:
@jamesmeek.bsky.social on the green energy transition and North-East England
Clare Bucknell on Robert Frost
@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on American post-liberalism
and Maureen N. McLane on Claire-Louise Bennett’s new novel.
Read online at www.lrb.co.uk
@jamesmeek.bsky.social on the green energy transition and North-East England
Clare Bucknell on Robert Frost
@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on American post-liberalism
and Maureen N. McLane on Claire-Louise Bennett’s new novel.
Read online at www.lrb.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Issue 47.22 is now online, featuring:
@jamesmeek.bsky.social on the green energy transition and North-East England
Clare Bucknell on Robert Frost
@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on American post-liberalism
and Maureen N. McLane on Claire-Louise Bennett’s new novel.
Read online at www.lrb.co.uk
@jamesmeek.bsky.social on the green energy transition and North-East England
Clare Bucknell on Robert Frost
@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on American post-liberalism
and Maureen N. McLane on Claire-Louise Bennett’s new novel.
Read online at www.lrb.co.uk
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On this day in 1641, Nürnberg poet & jurist Georg Philipp Harsdörffer, sent 3 polemic pamphlets on the Ottoman Empire to Calvinist Prince Ludwig of Anhalt-Köthen, which led to the publication of these remarkable graphic and typographic artefacts, early examples of colour printing.
#otd #rarebooks
#otd #rarebooks
November 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
On this day in 1641, Nürnberg poet & jurist Georg Philipp Harsdörffer, sent 3 polemic pamphlets on the Ottoman Empire to Calvinist Prince Ludwig of Anhalt-Köthen, which led to the publication of these remarkable graphic and typographic artefacts, early examples of colour printing.
#otd #rarebooks
#otd #rarebooks
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It is a pleasure to present our catalogue for #FirstsHongKong. Almost 50 interesting #rarebooks #maps #manuscripts, etc, concerning Art, Asia, China, History, Linguistics, Music, Natural History, Religion, Science & Medicine, Trade, Travel & Exploration, and more. Check our website for more info.
December 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
It is a pleasure to present our catalogue for #FirstsHongKong. Almost 50 interesting #rarebooks #maps #manuscripts, etc, concerning Art, Asia, China, History, Linguistics, Music, Natural History, Religion, Science & Medicine, Trade, Travel & Exploration, and more. Check our website for more info.
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Random highlight from our catalogue for #FirstsHongKong: #firstedition (Venice, 1590) of famous work by Cesare Vecellio (ca. 1530-1600) on ancient and modern costumes, with hundred of woodcuts, bound in splendid gold-tooled morocco by Hardy-Mennil with arms of Prince d'Essling.
#rarebooks
#rarebooks
December 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Random highlight from our catalogue for #FirstsHongKong: #firstedition (Venice, 1590) of famous work by Cesare Vecellio (ca. 1530-1600) on ancient and modern costumes, with hundred of woodcuts, bound in splendid gold-tooled morocco by Hardy-Mennil with arms of Prince d'Essling.
#rarebooks
#rarebooks
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Upcoming Events at Blackwell's, Oxford
October 30, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Upcoming Events at Blackwell's, Oxford
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Upcoming Philosophy in the Bookshop dates with @philosophybites.bsky.social (and guest chaired by Mette Hoeg and @philosofemme.bsky.social )
Featuring @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social Clare Carlisle @manongarcia.bsky.social and @anthonygottlieb.bsky.social
Book now @blackwells.bsky.social
Featuring @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social Clare Carlisle @manongarcia.bsky.social and @anthonygottlieb.bsky.social
Book now @blackwells.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Upcoming Philosophy in the Bookshop dates with @philosophybites.bsky.social (and guest chaired by Mette Hoeg and @philosofemme.bsky.social )
Featuring @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social Clare Carlisle @manongarcia.bsky.social and @anthonygottlieb.bsky.social
Book now @blackwells.bsky.social
Featuring @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social Clare Carlisle @manongarcia.bsky.social and @anthonygottlieb.bsky.social
Book now @blackwells.bsky.social
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If you’re in Oxford TODAY, it will be lovely to see you @blackwelloxford.bsky.social at 5.30pm 📗 #Economica #womenwealthpower
I’ll be back in #Oxford on Monday to talk about my new book - #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power - at Blackwells bookshop. If you’re free at 5.30pm, it would be lovely to see you there. Tickets are still available: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/victoria-b... #EconHist #womenwealthpower
Victoria Bateman ECONOMICA
Economica rewrites our understanding of women's role in the economy, and tells a more accurate economic history of us all.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 12:14 PM
If you’re in Oxford TODAY, it will be lovely to see you @blackwelloxford.bsky.social at 5.30pm 📗 #Economica #womenwealthpower
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Join us on Sunday 14th December at 11am for a free and festive morning with @acaseforbooks.bsky.social as she takes us back to Wonderland @blackwells.bsky.social
Anna will discuss the bestselling 'Alice with a Why' @harpercollins.bsky.social
Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1975814044...
Anna will discuss the bestselling 'Alice with a Why' @harpercollins.bsky.social
Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1975814044...
November 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Join us on Sunday 14th December at 11am for a free and festive morning with @acaseforbooks.bsky.social as she takes us back to Wonderland @blackwells.bsky.social
Anna will discuss the bestselling 'Alice with a Why' @harpercollins.bsky.social
Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1975814044...
Anna will discuss the bestselling 'Alice with a Why' @harpercollins.bsky.social
Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1975814044...
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If you’re looking for books that play with your perception of reality while leaving you in stitches, then these books by Rob Gotobed are an absolute must-read. The collections of short stories are as funny as they are intellectually engaging, with humour that’s both surreal & cerebral. I loved them.
No matter where you are, laughter travels — discover three books that unite the world in humour.
Amazon: bit.ly/4hA0B7W
Apple: bit.ly/3K6WdB9
Amazon: bit.ly/4hA0B7W
Apple: bit.ly/3K6WdB9
November 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
If you’re looking for books that play with your perception of reality while leaving you in stitches, then these books by Rob Gotobed are an absolute must-read. The collections of short stories are as funny as they are intellectually engaging, with humour that’s both surreal & cerebral. I loved them.
If you’re looking for books that play with your perception of reality while leaving you in stitches, then these books by Rob Gotobed are an absolute must-read. The collections of short stories are as funny as they are intellectually engaging, with humour that’s both surreal & cerebral. I loved them.
No matter where you are, laughter travels — discover three books that unite the world in humour.
Amazon: bit.ly/4hA0B7W
Apple: bit.ly/3K6WdB9
Amazon: bit.ly/4hA0B7W
Apple: bit.ly/3K6WdB9
November 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
If you’re looking for books that play with your perception of reality while leaving you in stitches, then these books by Rob Gotobed are an absolute must-read. The collections of short stories are as funny as they are intellectually engaging, with humour that’s both surreal & cerebral. I loved them.
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‘The world may be waiting for the war to start,’ Patrick Cockburn wrote, ‘but here it's been going on for 20 years.’
Episode 2 of our new podcast series ‘Aftershock’ looks at the unravelling of the occupation, Iraq in chaos, and the genesis of the Forever Wars.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Episode 2 of our new podcast series ‘Aftershock’ looks at the unravelling of the occupation, Iraq in chaos, and the genesis of the Forever Wars.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Episode 2: The Frog and the Scorpion
Podcast Episode · Aftershock: The War on Terror · EP2 · 1h 9m
podcasts.apple.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
‘The world may be waiting for the war to start,’ Patrick Cockburn wrote, ‘but here it's been going on for 20 years.’
Episode 2 of our new podcast series ‘Aftershock’ looks at the unravelling of the occupation, Iraq in chaos, and the genesis of the Forever Wars.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Episode 2 of our new podcast series ‘Aftershock’ looks at the unravelling of the occupation, Iraq in chaos, and the genesis of the Forever Wars.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
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A reimagining of The Snow Queen, set in England, Eire and Scandanavia.
www.amazon.co.uk/Snow-Queen-S...
www.amazon.fr/-/en/Suzy-Da...
www.amazon.ca/Snow-Queen-S...
www.amazon.com/Snow-Queen-S... #paranormal #occult #kufree #freebooks #yabooks #christmasbooks #christmasromance #magic #teenreads
www.amazon.co.uk/Snow-Queen-S...
www.amazon.fr/-/en/Suzy-Da...
www.amazon.ca/Snow-Queen-S...
www.amazon.com/Snow-Queen-S... #paranormal #occult #kufree #freebooks #yabooks #christmasbooks #christmasromance #magic #teenreads
November 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
A reimagining of The Snow Queen, set in England, Eire and Scandanavia.
www.amazon.co.uk/Snow-Queen-S...
www.amazon.fr/-/en/Suzy-Da...
www.amazon.ca/Snow-Queen-S...
www.amazon.com/Snow-Queen-S... #paranormal #occult #kufree #freebooks #yabooks #christmasbooks #christmasromance #magic #teenreads
www.amazon.co.uk/Snow-Queen-S...
www.amazon.fr/-/en/Suzy-Da...
www.amazon.ca/Snow-Queen-S...
www.amazon.com/Snow-Queen-S... #paranormal #occult #kufree #freebooks #yabooks #christmasbooks #christmasromance #magic #teenreads
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#Bluesky #SelfPromoThursday #writingcommunity
I would love to write a book but I'm nobody special. Probably only my cat would read it. I wouldn't even know where to start! But WAIT! "You don't Have to Be a Star to Shine" was written for you! Follow link to find out! amazon.com/author/shann...
I would love to write a book but I'm nobody special. Probably only my cat would read it. I wouldn't even know where to start! But WAIT! "You don't Have to Be a Star to Shine" was written for you! Follow link to find out! amazon.com/author/shann...
November 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
#Bluesky #SelfPromoThursday #writingcommunity
I would love to write a book but I'm nobody special. Probably only my cat would read it. I wouldn't even know where to start! But WAIT! "You don't Have to Be a Star to Shine" was written for you! Follow link to find out! amazon.com/author/shann...
I would love to write a book but I'm nobody special. Probably only my cat would read it. I wouldn't even know where to start! But WAIT! "You don't Have to Be a Star to Shine" was written for you! Follow link to find out! amazon.com/author/shann...
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NASA Recorded Lightning Crackling on Mars For The First Time buff.ly/9wMRaYm
Captured 55 times over two Martian years of observation, this interesting report explains how the recordings were collected. Skip to the last 3 paragraphs for the implications.
#Mars #Space #SpaceExploration
Captured 55 times over two Martian years of observation, this interesting report explains how the recordings were collected. Skip to the last 3 paragraphs for the implications.
#Mars #Space #SpaceExploration
NASA Recorded Lightning Crackling on Mars For The First Time
A lonely rover toiling among the sands of Mars has now answered an age-old question: If lightning crackles on the red planet and no one hears it, does it still make a sound? In recordings obtained by…
www.sciencealert.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
NASA Recorded Lightning Crackling on Mars For The First Time buff.ly/9wMRaYm
Captured 55 times over two Martian years of observation, this interesting report explains how the recordings were collected. Skip to the last 3 paragraphs for the implications.
#Mars #Space #SpaceExploration
Captured 55 times over two Martian years of observation, this interesting report explains how the recordings were collected. Skip to the last 3 paragraphs for the implications.
#Mars #Space #SpaceExploration
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Pearl is bringing an outdoor ice-skating rink to San Antonio, & the first-ever Taste of Pearl Festival. Skating, lights, music, food, shopping.⛸️🎄
#SanAntonio #PearlSA #HolidaySeason #IceSkating #TasteOfPearl #SATXEvents #FamilyFun #SAHolidays
Get the full scoop 👇
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#SanAntonio #PearlSA #HolidaySeason #IceSkating #TasteOfPearl #SATXEvents #FamilyFun #SAHolidays
Get the full scoop 👇
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Holiday Magic Arrives at Pearl With New Ice-Skating Rink and Festival
Pearl launches a first-ever outdoor ice rink. Photo: Pearl, used with permission. Pearl Unveils New Outdoor Ice-Skating Rink for the 2025–26 Holiday Season SAN ANTONIO — Pearl is bringing even more…
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November 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Pearl is bringing an outdoor ice-skating rink to San Antonio, & the first-ever Taste of Pearl Festival. Skating, lights, music, food, shopping.⛸️🎄
#SanAntonio #PearlSA #HolidaySeason #IceSkating #TasteOfPearl #SATXEvents #FamilyFun #SAHolidays
Get the full scoop 👇
saexaminer.org/2025/11/28/h...
#SanAntonio #PearlSA #HolidaySeason #IceSkating #TasteOfPearl #SATXEvents #FamilyFun #SAHolidays
Get the full scoop 👇
saexaminer.org/2025/11/28/h...
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Greater Flamingo
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#bird #oiseaux #nature #capture #naturephotography #naturelovers #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #planetbirds #waterbirds #wildlife #art #photography #photographie #foto #bluesky #PhotographersOfBluesky #flamant #flamingo
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Greater Flamingo
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#bird #oiseaux #nature #capture #naturephotography #naturelovers #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #planetbirds #waterbirds #wildlife #art #photography #photographie #foto #bluesky #PhotographersOfBluesky #flamant #flamingo
@mybirdcards.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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November 27, 2025 at 9:46 PM