Benjamin Myers
@benjaminmyers76.bsky.social
Extremely humble legend. Writer of JESUS CHRIST KINSKI. RARE SINGLES, CUDDY, THE OFFING, THE GALLOWS POLE (BBC/Shane Meadows), THE PERFECT GOLDEN CIRCLE etc. Books: https://bio.site/benjaminmyers
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Special signed limited versions of JESUS CHRIST KINSKI (with sprayed edges) can be bought from indie shops only.
A selection of them can be found here:
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Or support your local shop via @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social
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A selection of them can be found here:
jesuschristkinski.cmpgn.page/KRfQts
Or support your local shop via @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/jesu...
It's 3 weeks since JESUS CHRIST KINSKI was unleashed into the wilds of the imagination.
Have you spotted it out there?
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
Have you spotted it out there?
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 12:48 PM
It's 3 weeks since JESUS CHRIST KINSKI was unleashed into the wilds of the imagination.
Have you spotted it out there?
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
Have you spotted it out there?
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
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wrote an article for @thebookseller.com outlining to the industry why small presses are the lifeforce & future of book production. Pls share esp w people who may not know what small press publishers do!
www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
Don’t invest in AI, invest in the future of the book
Why the publishing industry must back small presses, rather than LLMs.
www.thebookseller.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
wrote an article for @thebookseller.com outlining to the industry why small presses are the lifeforce & future of book production. Pls share esp w people who may not know what small press publishers do!
www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
Young Sandy at sundown.
November 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Young Sandy at sundown.
It's not the sheer ugliness of the new village-sized "major logistics opportunity" that has appeared in the fields outside Durham that bothers me.
It's the fact they've called it Integra 61.
It's the fact they've called it Integra 61.
November 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
It's not the sheer ugliness of the new village-sized "major logistics opportunity" that has appeared in the fields outside Durham that bothers me.
It's the fact they've called it Integra 61.
It's the fact they've called it Integra 61.
I've never had someone write a review of a review of one of my books before.
November 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I've never had someone write a review of a review of one of my books before.
I'm very pleased to be doing some work with these diamonds.
Great piece by @juderogers.bsky.social:
observer.co.uk/culture/film...
Great piece by @juderogers.bsky.social:
observer.co.uk/culture/film...
Sheffield goes to Hollywood | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 8:22 AM
I'm very pleased to be doing some work with these diamonds.
Great piece by @juderogers.bsky.social:
observer.co.uk/culture/film...
Great piece by @juderogers.bsky.social:
observer.co.uk/culture/film...
I'm obsessed with Robert Hardy's over-acting.
November 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I'm obsessed with Robert Hardy's over-acting.
Apologies for the Daily Mail link, but for those of us who are fans of The Incredible String Band, this is pretty wild.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
What REALLY happened to troubled wildchild Licorice McKechnie?
Licorice McKechnie's mesmerising performance with The Incredible String Band at the most celebrated concert of the decade turned her into a sixties icon
www.dailymail.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Apologies for the Daily Mail link, but for those of us who are fans of The Incredible String Band, this is pretty wild.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
JESUS CHRIST KINSKI is a Book of the Year for 2025 in The Daily Telegraph today.
And so is BASE NOTES by Her Indoors (@adellestripe.bsky.social)
Double whammy. Thanks for reading.
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
@whiterabbitbks.bsky.social
And so is BASE NOTES by Her Indoors (@adellestripe.bsky.social)
Double whammy. Thanks for reading.
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
@whiterabbitbks.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
JESUS CHRIST KINSKI is a Book of the Year for 2025 in The Daily Telegraph today.
And so is BASE NOTES by Her Indoors (@adellestripe.bsky.social)
Double whammy. Thanks for reading.
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
@whiterabbitbks.bsky.social
And so is BASE NOTES by Her Indoors (@adellestripe.bsky.social)
Double whammy. Thanks for reading.
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
@whiterabbitbks.bsky.social
Didn't I always say @questingvole.bsky.social had impeccable literary taste?
This, from @thetls.bsky.social Books of the Year.
This, from @thetls.bsky.social Books of the Year.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Didn't I always say @questingvole.bsky.social had impeccable literary taste?
This, from @thetls.bsky.social Books of the Year.
This, from @thetls.bsky.social Books of the Year.
A good series, this.
I was embarrassed for all involved in this debacle.
Spoiler: everyone is left traumatised and miserable.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I was embarrassed for all involved in this debacle.
Spoiler: everyone is left traumatised and miserable.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Shadow World - Anatomy of a Cancellation - 4. The Defence of Kate Clanchy - BBC Sounds
We hear from some of Kate’s supporters.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
A good series, this.
I was embarrassed for all involved in this debacle.
Spoiler: everyone is left traumatised and miserable.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I was embarrassed for all involved in this debacle.
Spoiler: everyone is left traumatised and miserable.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
November 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
Trying to win the Omaze house is a full time job.
November 13, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Trying to win the Omaze house is a full time job.
Get in quick: the limited edition signed 'spredges' editions will be gone before Christmas.
(And some are already going for £50 secondhand...)
(And some are already going for £50 secondhand...)
Special signed limited versions of JESUS CHRIST KINSKI (with sprayed edges) can be bought from indie shops only.
A selection of them can be found here:
jesuschristkinski.cmpgn.page/KRfQts
Or support your local shop via @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/jesu...
A selection of them can be found here:
jesuschristkinski.cmpgn.page/KRfQts
Or support your local shop via @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/jesu...
November 13, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Get in quick: the limited edition signed 'spredges' editions will be gone before Christmas.
(And some are already going for £50 secondhand...)
(And some are already going for £50 secondhand...)
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#NewBookDay I've read all of @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social books so would be absolutely remiss of me not to read #JesusChristKinski wouldn't it?
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
#BookSky 📚💙
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
#BookSky 📚💙
November 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
#NewBookDay I've read all of @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social books so would be absolutely remiss of me not to read #JesusChristKinski wouldn't it?
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
#BookSky 📚💙
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
#BookSky 📚💙
I am nothing.
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I am nothing.
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The two Kevins on:
Diaries of Note
Jesus Christ Kinski
Being John Smith
Joe Brainard's I Remember
A Dogfish in Ilfracombe
A Coffee Shop in Hebden Bridge
Minimalist Punctuation
News from Bluemoose
Kevin D's I.T. Disaster
shows.acast.com/67a24dbe81e6...
Diaries of Note
Jesus Christ Kinski
Being John Smith
Joe Brainard's I Remember
A Dogfish in Ilfracombe
A Coffee Shop in Hebden Bridge
Minimalist Punctuation
News from Bluemoose
Kevin D's I.T. Disaster
shows.acast.com/67a24dbe81e6...
Episode 7 | The Last King of Elmet
A Dogfish in Ilfracombe
shows.acast.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 AM
The two Kevins on:
Diaries of Note
Jesus Christ Kinski
Being John Smith
Joe Brainard's I Remember
A Dogfish in Ilfracombe
A Coffee Shop in Hebden Bridge
Minimalist Punctuation
News from Bluemoose
Kevin D's I.T. Disaster
shows.acast.com/67a24dbe81e6...
Diaries of Note
Jesus Christ Kinski
Being John Smith
Joe Brainard's I Remember
A Dogfish in Ilfracombe
A Coffee Shop in Hebden Bridge
Minimalist Punctuation
News from Bluemoose
Kevin D's I.T. Disaster
shows.acast.com/67a24dbe81e6...
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This US goverment poster is from 1943. The Nazis burned books - this US goverment is banning them. Hard to imagine such a poster being produced now.
November 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
This US goverment poster is from 1943. The Nazis burned books - this US goverment is banning them. Hard to imagine such a poster being produced now.
November 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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If you like the band GOAT there’s a very good price on their magnificent soundtrack to the Shane Meadows directed TV show Gallows Pole , coloured vinyl with a bonus 7” for £12.49 . Pagan psych/folk ,an favourite LP of mine this …. 🖤🧡
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rocketrecordings.com/products/the...
The Gallows Pole: Original Score (Expanded Ltd Edition)
Rocket Recordings · Goat – The Gallows Pole: Original Score LP Following the original, digital only, release of Goat’s score for ‘The Gallows Pole’ TV series, we are now thrilled to announce an expand...
rocketrecordings.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
If you like the band GOAT there’s a very good price on their magnificent soundtrack to the Shane Meadows directed TV show Gallows Pole , coloured vinyl with a bonus 7” for £12.49 . Pagan psych/folk ,an favourite LP of mine this …. 🖤🧡
rocketrecordings.com/products/the...
rocketrecordings.com/products/the...
1. This is the greatest thing that has happened to me (since I got my belly out on Countryfile).
2. I am intolerable.
3. God bless Dobbie, the BBC and @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
2. I am intolerable.
3. God bless Dobbie, the BBC and @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 7:55 AM
1. This is the greatest thing that has happened to me (since I got my belly out on Countryfile).
2. I am intolerable.
3. God bless Dobbie, the BBC and @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
2. I am intolerable.
3. God bless Dobbie, the BBC and @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
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I have reviewed Jeff Young’s most excellent Wild Twin in the new edition of Tribune (out in the shops this week)…
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
@wildtwin.bsky.social
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/rimb...
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
@wildtwin.bsky.social
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/rimb...
Rimbaud of Maghull
Liverpool writer Jeff Young has attracted a dedicated readership in recent years, following publication of two books that powerfully and hypnotically catalogue late-1970s Europe and his native Merseys...
tribunemag.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I have reviewed Jeff Young’s most excellent Wild Twin in the new edition of Tribune (out in the shops this week)…
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
@wildtwin.bsky.social
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/rimb...
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
@wildtwin.bsky.social
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/rimb...
BBC: "Sorry for suggesting Trump isn't very nice."
Fox: "UK now under sharia law as knife gangs control Birmingham; Prince Andrew a great guy."
Fox: "UK now under sharia law as knife gangs control Birmingham; Prince Andrew a great guy."
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
BBC: "Sorry for suggesting Trump isn't very nice."
Fox: "UK now under sharia law as knife gangs control Birmingham; Prince Andrew a great guy."
Fox: "UK now under sharia law as knife gangs control Birmingham; Prince Andrew a great guy."