Ian Collings
@bookamatic.bsky.social
running | reading | ‘rithmetic
Autistic & ADHD (Inattentive)
Supports Ipswich Town F. C.
Dw i’n dysgu Cymraeg 🏴
Autistic & ADHD (Inattentive)
Supports Ipswich Town F. C.
Dw i’n dysgu Cymraeg 🏴
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Ian Collings
@bookamatic.bsky.social
· Nov 29
a man with a beard and a hat looks at the camera
Alt: Gandalf the Grey is nodding along to unheard music, suggesting that he’s down with the kids in the Shire
media.tenor.com
🎵We’ve got super Ian McKellern,
He knows exactly what we need,
Viggo at the back,
Elijah in attack,
And now we’re going burn the f**king Ring 🎵
#Fellowship #ITFC
He knows exactly what we need,
Viggo at the back,
Elijah in attack,
And now we’re going burn the f**king Ring 🎵
#Fellowship #ITFC
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The best sci-fi and fantasy books coming in December include a dystopian literary crossover, a series-ender, and a collection of paired essays and stories.
Memory Rehab and Future History: December’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books
The mornings are brisker, the evenings are darker—the year is winding down. You may, like me, be reevaluating your TBR from the past year and recalling books you had meant to read when you got them…
buff.ly
December 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The best sci-fi and fantasy books coming in December include a dystopian literary crossover, a series-ender, and a collection of paired essays and stories.
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Dec 1st 1982 - Pay day for the employees of Philadelphia based Duke & Duke Commodity Brokers.
📽️📅 Trading Places (1983)
📽️📅 Trading Places (1983)
December 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Dec 1st 1982 - Pay day for the employees of Philadelphia based Duke & Duke Commodity Brokers.
📽️📅 Trading Places (1983)
📽️📅 Trading Places (1983)
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Dec 1: @jamesbluecat.bsky.social's Pagans got my year off to a great start. it's a police procedural with a difference: set in alternative modern-day Anglo-Saxon London, complete with gods & hackers, seaxes & drones! Full of great characters, historical & imaginative details, lots of fun to read 💙📚🪐
December 1, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Dec 1: @jamesbluecat.bsky.social's Pagans got my year off to a great start. it's a police procedural with a difference: set in alternative modern-day Anglo-Saxon London, complete with gods & hackers, seaxes & drones! Full of great characters, historical & imaginative details, lots of fun to read 💙📚🪐
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SIGNED BOOKS
"White Male Stand-Up" the new memoir by Alan Davies
Following "Just Ignore Him", the bestselling story of Alan's traumatic childhood, this is what happened next.
You can order a SIGNED copy HERE.
biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
#BGBXMAS
"White Male Stand-Up" the new memoir by Alan Davies
Following "Just Ignore Him", the bestselling story of Alan's traumatic childhood, this is what happened next.
You can order a SIGNED copy HERE.
biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
#BGBXMAS
December 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
SIGNED BOOKS
"White Male Stand-Up" the new memoir by Alan Davies
Following "Just Ignore Him", the bestselling story of Alan's traumatic childhood, this is what happened next.
You can order a SIGNED copy HERE.
biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
#BGBXMAS
"White Male Stand-Up" the new memoir by Alan Davies
Following "Just Ignore Him", the bestselling story of Alan's traumatic childhood, this is what happened next.
You can order a SIGNED copy HERE.
biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
#BGBXMAS
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SIGNED BOOKS
Boudicca's Daughter, the new book by the incredible Elodie Harper @elodieharper.bsky.social !
We have a few fancy editions, SIGNED by Elodie, with gorgeous sprayed edges.
LOOK!
Order one HERE (free P+P in the UK).
biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
#BGBXMAS
Boudicca's Daughter, the new book by the incredible Elodie Harper @elodieharper.bsky.social !
We have a few fancy editions, SIGNED by Elodie, with gorgeous sprayed edges.
LOOK!
Order one HERE (free P+P in the UK).
biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
#BGBXMAS
December 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
SIGNED BOOKS
Boudicca's Daughter, the new book by the incredible Elodie Harper @elodieharper.bsky.social !
We have a few fancy editions, SIGNED by Elodie, with gorgeous sprayed edges.
LOOK!
Order one HERE (free P+P in the UK).
biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
#BGBXMAS
Boudicca's Daughter, the new book by the incredible Elodie Harper @elodieharper.bsky.social !
We have a few fancy editions, SIGNED by Elodie, with gorgeous sprayed edges.
LOOK!
Order one HERE (free P+P in the UK).
biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
#BGBXMAS
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SIGNED BOOKS!
SPECIAL SIGNED INDIE BOOKSHOP editions of "No Friend To This House", the latest novel by the brilliant Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social
Sprayed edges, signed and very special indeed!
You can order a copy HERE!
biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
#BGBXMAS
SPECIAL SIGNED INDIE BOOKSHOP editions of "No Friend To This House", the latest novel by the brilliant Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social
Sprayed edges, signed and very special indeed!
You can order a copy HERE!
biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
#BGBXMAS
December 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
SIGNED BOOKS!
SPECIAL SIGNED INDIE BOOKSHOP editions of "No Friend To This House", the latest novel by the brilliant Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social
Sprayed edges, signed and very special indeed!
You can order a copy HERE!
biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
#BGBXMAS
SPECIAL SIGNED INDIE BOOKSHOP editions of "No Friend To This House", the latest novel by the brilliant Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social
Sprayed edges, signed and very special indeed!
You can order a copy HERE!
biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
#BGBXMAS
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From this day in 2016.
December 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
From this day in 2016.
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On the idea of “labels”
Talking about my book on Sunday Morning Live yesterday
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/norm... #adhd #autism #neurodivergence #neurodiversity #books
Talking about my book on Sunday Morning Live yesterday
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/norm... #adhd #autism #neurodivergence #neurodiversity #books
December 1, 2025 at 1:08 PM
On the idea of “labels”
Talking about my book on Sunday Morning Live yesterday
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/norm... #adhd #autism #neurodivergence #neurodiversity #books
Talking about my book on Sunday Morning Live yesterday
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/norm... #adhd #autism #neurodivergence #neurodiversity #books
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The Roundworld year for 2026 shall be known as [FX Drum Roll] : The Year of the Curious Squid. Artwork by Discworld artist Paul Kidby.
December 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The Roundworld year for 2026 shall be known as [FX Drum Roll] : The Year of the Curious Squid. Artwork by Discworld artist Paul Kidby.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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This poem is dedicated to anyone making a start on their advent calendar today.
December 1, 2025 at 8:05 AM
This poem is dedicated to anyone making a start on their advent calendar today.
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After a very close vote, both on Twitter and on Instagram, the winner of #TheBerties for this year - as voted by you - is The Eights by @joannamillerauthor.bsky.social
Congratulations Joanna!
Congratulations Joanna!
December 1, 2025 at 9:56 AM
After a very close vote, both on Twitter and on Instagram, the winner of #TheBerties for this year - as voted by you - is The Eights by @joannamillerauthor.bsky.social
Congratulations Joanna!
Congratulations Joanna!
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I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
December 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
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If you subscribe to my writing, ever have done, ever have any vague intention of doing so, I'd appreciate if you took a quick read of this..
I'm not going back to Substack. I will continue to post my newsletters from Ghost. But I did have to get back in there, just to post this and let people who thought I'd vanished know about this utter nightmare: substack.com/home/post/p-...
An Explanation (Which I Would Be Very Grateful If You Took The Time To Read)
What follows is a minor modern horror story.
substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:40 AM
If you subscribe to my writing, ever have done, ever have any vague intention of doing so, I'd appreciate if you took a quick read of this..
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Thanks for asking this. It's always best to buy from independent bookshops or @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social. But for a limited time I'm also selling a few of them myself with a free bit of my mum's art, if anyone wants to email me at [email protected] for details.
December 1, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Thanks for asking this. It's always best to buy from independent bookshops or @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social. But for a limited time I'm also selling a few of them myself with a free bit of my mum's art, if anyone wants to email me at [email protected] for details.
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Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books
#BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books
November 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books
#BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books
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I sell books by the way.
If you'd like to buy one from me, that'd be great.
I'd really appreciate it.
Ta.
If you'd like to buy one from me, that'd be great.
I'd really appreciate it.
Ta.
November 30, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I sell books by the way.
If you'd like to buy one from me, that'd be great.
I'd really appreciate it.
Ta.
If you'd like to buy one from me, that'd be great.
I'd really appreciate it.
Ta.
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My cartoon for this week’s New Scientist.
p.s. I have a new book of science cartoons: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
p.s. I have a new book of science cartoons: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
November 30, 2025 at 11:40 AM
My cartoon for this week’s New Scientist.
p.s. I have a new book of science cartoons: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
p.s. I have a new book of science cartoons: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
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There are now only FOUR signed first edition hardbacks of Everything Will Swallow You left at Blackwell's, in case anyone wants to snap one of them up, with free delivery:
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Blackwell's will of course continue to stock non-signed copies after this.
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Blackwell's will of course continue to stock non-signed copies after this.
Everything Will Swallow You
Have you ever been curious about how people live when nobody is watching? Have you wondered whether there's more going on than meets the eye? Eric and Carl live
blackwells.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 7:51 AM
There are now only FOUR signed first edition hardbacks of Everything Will Swallow You left at Blackwell's, in case anyone wants to snap one of them up, with free delivery:
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Blackwell's will of course continue to stock non-signed copies after this.
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Blackwell's will of course continue to stock non-signed copies after this.
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In case anyone happens to be in or near Derby today I'll be at the Well-Dressed event at the Quad, chatting about Everything Will Swallow You at 6pm, then DJing some massively danceable psych-soul bangers from 8pm-9pm.
www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/darkp...
www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/darkp...
November 29, 2025 at 9:29 AM
In case anyone happens to be in or near Derby today I'll be at the Well-Dressed event at the Quad, chatting about Everything Will Swallow You at 6pm, then DJing some massively danceable psych-soul bangers from 8pm-9pm.
www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/darkp...
www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/darkp...
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