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Ian Hagues
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DOUBLE POINTS UNTIL MIDNIGHT!

📚✨ We have Bear’s Nap by Emily Gravett in stock, and not only are they #SIGNED, each copy comes with a #FREE art print! 🐻💤

A fantastic, funny story from the brilliantly talented, multi-award-winning creator of Meerkat Mail

Find these an more at:
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December 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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britneyspheres.bsky.social
Here's my latest for TCJ... so flaunt it, baby!
See: the origins of the mighty Avengers' pointilism!
Look: at Lil Dot's Kirby krackle!
Witness: Surfin' sisters in galaxies like grains of sand!
It's all in there, and even more, it's sustainable and kind to the environment!
Plus: Masculine energy!
Plant-Based Monster Trucks - The Comics Journal
According to my fellow country-man Goethe, the Gretchen question always goes straight to the core of an issue. In this case the issue is entitled Plant-Based Monster Trucks. The title alone perfectly ...
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August 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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@patrickwray.bsky.social @colossive.com 👍
December 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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drewgum.bsky.social
I wrote about my year in writing.

#WritingLife

open.substack.com/pub/drewgumm...
On a year in writing
This is my year in writing although I feel I have spent very little time writing this year.
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December 1, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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patrickwray.bsky.social
Published one year ago. The End of the Beginning: Some Drawings and Paintings 2020-2024' Available @goshcomics.bsky.social as well as @ www.patrickwray.com/p/comic.html
December 1, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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patrickwray.bsky.social
My glowing review of Darren Hayman live on the Theatre Ship last month is in the neu Record Collector. The accompanying drawing is from a book am currently working on of illustrated concert reviews.
December 1, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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saltpublishing.com
Kate Nicholls’ extraordinary fictionalisation of Maria Dmitrievna Mendeleeva – forthcoming from Salt
Salt signs 'evocative' debut novel
The Maternal Element by Kate Nicholls is 'a richly imagined portrait of motherhood and female strength' set in 19th-century Siberia
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December 1, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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tomhumberstone.com
Today is Black Friday. Why not buy something full price from an independent artist or creator you like? Or shop in your local indie store?

My comics, zines and prints are here: tomhumberstone.com/shop

No discounts or price drops. Any orders this weekend will get a small sketch though
Shop | Tom Humberstone
Shop for comics, prints and more by award-winning comic artist and illustrator Tom Humberstone, creator of the graphic novel Suzanne.
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November 28, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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patrickwray.bsky.social
My new cartography @colossive.com 'The Badly Drawn Girl Climbs Out of the drawing and runs into the Entrance of Turnpike Lane Tube Station' aka TBDGCOOTDARITEOTLS. £2! Perfect size to slide into an xmas card. My royalties go to St Christophers Hospice Charity. £2!!!!!!!
colossive.com/product/badl...
November 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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NEWS JUST IN!* The wonderful @patrickwray.bsky.social is now donating all royalties - that's £1 per copy - from sales of both his #ColossiveCartographies to St Christopher's hospice.

Grab the #zines for £2 each at bit.ly/colossivepatrick

*Actually, it came in on Thursday. But we're not CNN...
November 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Paperback of the week: We Live Here Now by CD Rose | The Observer
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November 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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drewgum.bsky.social
Thanks to @davidcollard.bsky.social @iancritchley.bsky.social @adamjfarrer.bsky.social and Madeline for these kind Saltburn words and you can pick it up free shipping @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social #IndieBlackFriday

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Wonderful, and cheerfully rude, with bums of all sorts gracing every page. I grew up in a place like this. Spending this bank holiday weekend in Saltburn This collection of interwoven stories is like a fever dream and Gummerson is an English Vonnegut. I assure you that this statement will make complete sense to you by the time you've reached, I'd say, page 6. What a bloody delight. This by @drewgum.bsky.social is so good - bold, imaginative and properly funny. Book a trip to Saltburn today @renardpress.com D madeleine_write Saltburn by Drew Gummerson. A collection of overlapping short stories set in a fictionalised version of Saltburn-by-the-Sea, featuring mermaids, a foetus museum, and a psychic piece of ass, among other bizarre elements. Yes, this book is surreal, but it's also a biting commentary on capitalism, war & homophobia. At its heart is the outsider, a boy who doesn't fit in, sometimes because of his sexuality, sometimes because he turns into a girl at midnight. It has some very bleak moments but also parts that made me laugh out loud. A great read if you enjoy the bizarre, and aren't squeamish about gay sex (which there's a LOT of) #reader #readersofinstagram #books #booklover #bookstagram
November 30, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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lucysullivan.bsky.social
In select cinemas now!
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THE THING WITH FEATHERS | Official UK Trailer | In Cinemas 21 November
YouTube video by Vue Lumière
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November 30, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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saltpublishing.com
We’ve launched a new page on Salt’s design and typography — the craft behind every book we make. From bus timetables to Cromer, it’s been quite a journey in type.

Take a look: www.saltpublishing.com/pages/design...

#BookDesign #Typography #IndiePublishing #SaltPublishing
Design and Typography at Salt
Chris Hamilton-EmeryDesigner, Salt Design as the Soul of Salt Design has always been at the heart of Salt’s publishing identity. From the outset, we’ve always understood typography to be both form and...
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November 30, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Ruth Asawa ❤️‍🔥
November 30, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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In Extremis

Published 9th September 2025

@saggingmeniscus.bsky.social

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IN EXTREMIS JAKE GOLDSMITH book cover
July 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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davidcollard.bsky.social
My December newsletter is sent out to around two thousand clued-up subscribers tomorrow. If you're not already on the mailing list and would like a free copy, contact me via my website (scroll dowjn for email address): davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site
Home | My Site
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November 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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womenintranslation.bsky.social
The judges have also highly commended ‘Too Great A Sky’ by Liliana Corobca, translater from Romanian (Romania) by Monica Cure and published by @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social.

Read the full announcement here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
The book, Too Great A Sky, is stood upright on a table against a blank background. The cover is facing the camera.
November 27, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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joannapocock.bsky.social
Thank you to NPR @npr for choosing GREYHOUND in its favourite books of 2025. Very grateful to Bridget Bentz for selecting my strange hybrid road trip of a book!

“"An engaging combination of the profound and the profane—much like the country Pocock traverses."

#greyhound #npr #bookreviews
November 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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My review of the winning book is here.

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
November 29, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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hayleygullen.com
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May I also be cheeky and suggest you might be interested in my book…
November 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Some warm up sketchbook illustrations, based on an old photo: May 10, 1925, Public Gardens, Boston, MA.
A sketchbook illustration based on an old photo: May 10, 1925, Public Gardens, Boston, MA.
November 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Wonderful to see Leonard and Hungry Paul by @ronanhession.bsky.social

At the front of store in @waterstones.bsky.social Deansgate Manchester and he’s in great company too.

Marvelous!
November 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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cdrose.bsky.social
London and environs - come along!
November 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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regretteruane.bsky.social
Today could be a really good day to buy a copy of Birding from an independent bookshop, or perhaps even its poor neglected older sibling This Is Yesterday
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Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌
November 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM