Jo Lloyd 🌍🐎
@jolloyds.bsky.social
Writer
The Earth Thy Great Exchequer Ready Lies UK
Something Wonderful US
BBC National Short Story Award #bbcnssa
O Henry
She/her
Ally
The Earth Thy Great Exchequer Ready Lies UK
Something Wonderful US
BBC National Short Story Award #bbcnssa
O Henry
She/her
Ally
Pinned
I have to replace my landline, my mobile and my email address over the next month - so if you can't find me, I'll be in the nineteenth century
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I love this book SO MUCH - I've been banging on about it to friends and Team Daunt, thrilled I can finally bang on about it to everyone else. I felt it cracked my heart wide open and poured golden sunlight into it (a good thing):
Thrilled to announce that in July 2026, we are publishing the magical EARTH 7 by Deb Olin Unferth. A love story set against both a love letter to planet Earth, and a portrait of its slow demise, EARTH 7 is a novel for our times, and for all times dauntbookspublishing.co.uk/book/earth-7/
November 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM
I love this book SO MUCH - I've been banging on about it to friends and Team Daunt, thrilled I can finally bang on about it to everyone else. I felt it cracked my heart wide open and poured golden sunlight into it (a good thing):
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Not content with the Missa Solemnis & the Ninth or his plans for the staggering late quartets, the absurd, tempestuous Maestro, in squalid rooms, strewn with bedpans, food detritus & drink dregs, manuscripts & ink, sat at a keyboard whose broken strings he cannot hear, writes the Opus 126 Bagatelles
Beethoven - 6 Bagatelles, op. 126 (Audio+Sheet) [Kempff]
YouTube video by PianoJFAudioSheet
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November 27, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Not content with the Missa Solemnis & the Ninth or his plans for the staggering late quartets, the absurd, tempestuous Maestro, in squalid rooms, strewn with bedpans, food detritus & drink dregs, manuscripts & ink, sat at a keyboard whose broken strings he cannot hear, writes the Opus 126 Bagatelles
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1776: White frost, grey, frost all day, grey, frost.
November 27, 2025 at 7:00 AM
1776: White frost, grey, frost all day, grey, frost.
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It's high time for a side-quest thread.
When I began listing all the books I finished, in 1994, the first book I wrote down was To the Lighthouse.
I kept up this practice until linear time ended, "as you may recall", in 2020.
I am resurrecting the practice by rereading "To the Lighthouse", slowly:
When I began listing all the books I finished, in 1994, the first book I wrote down was To the Lighthouse.
I kept up this practice until linear time ended, "as you may recall", in 2020.
I am resurrecting the practice by rereading "To the Lighthouse", slowly:
November 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
It's high time for a side-quest thread.
When I began listing all the books I finished, in 1994, the first book I wrote down was To the Lighthouse.
I kept up this practice until linear time ended, "as you may recall", in 2020.
I am resurrecting the practice by rereading "To the Lighthouse", slowly:
When I began listing all the books I finished, in 1994, the first book I wrote down was To the Lighthouse.
I kept up this practice until linear time ended, "as you may recall", in 2020.
I am resurrecting the practice by rereading "To the Lighthouse", slowly:
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This is awkward - no one has bid for a signed copy of my novel, FOR THY GREAT PAIN... yet. 😬
Go on, you can get a personalised present for someone AND help raise money for such an important cause! 🙏
app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
Go on, you can get a personalised present for someone AND help raise money for such an important cause! 🙏
app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
November 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This is awkward - no one has bid for a signed copy of my novel, FOR THY GREAT PAIN... yet. 😬
Go on, you can get a personalised present for someone AND help raise money for such an important cause! 🙏
app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
Go on, you can get a personalised present for someone AND help raise money for such an important cause! 🙏
app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
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Description of a book out next year: "Laxness somehow blends epic form with the day-to-day realism of loan negotiations and herring and haircuts."
HERRING AND HAIRCUTS
HERRING AND HAIRCUTS
November 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Description of a book out next year: "Laxness somehow blends epic form with the day-to-day realism of loan negotiations and herring and haircuts."
HERRING AND HAIRCUTS
HERRING AND HAIRCUTS
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1776: This is the first great frost. Gathered in all the grapes. Grapes are good.
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM
1776: This is the first great frost. Gathered in all the grapes. Grapes are good.
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I have to replace my landline, my mobile and my email address over the next month - so if you can't find me, I'll be in the nineteenth century
November 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I have to replace my landline, my mobile and my email address over the next month - so if you can't find me, I'll be in the nineteenth century
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👇🏻!!
All My Precious Madness by Mark Bowles JUST WON best audiobook fiction at The Speakies! This is delightful! So pleased for @markabowles.bsky.social , @spiracleaudiobooks.bsky.social , wonderful reader Paul Hilton. And for us! www.thebookseller.com/british-audi...
Best Audiobook: Fiction Shortlist | The British Audio Awards
The shortlist for the Best Audiobook: Fiction category at The British Audio Awards 2025
www.thebookseller.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:41 PM
👇🏻!!
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What a gorgeous poem. #poetry #DerekMahon
November 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
What a gorgeous poem. #poetry #DerekMahon
I have to replace my landline, my mobile and my email address over the next month - so if you can't find me, I'll be in the nineteenth century
November 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I have to replace my landline, my mobile and my email address over the next month - so if you can't find me, I'll be in the nineteenth century
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Dooneen will be published next June, by Fitzcarraldo Editions here, and New Directions there. And this is the New Directions cover, by Paul Sahre, and I love it.
@ndbooks.bsky.social
@ndbooks.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Dooneen will be published next June, by Fitzcarraldo Editions here, and New Directions there. And this is the New Directions cover, by Paul Sahre, and I love it.
@ndbooks.bsky.social
@ndbooks.bsky.social
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1824: I have often been struck with astonishment at the tales old men & women relate in their remembrances of the growth of trees the elm grooves in the Staves Acre Close at the town-end were the rooks build & that are of giant height my old friend Billings says he remembers them no thicker than...
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 AM
1824: I have often been struck with astonishment at the tales old men & women relate in their remembrances of the growth of trees the elm grooves in the Staves Acre Close at the town-end were the rooks build & that are of giant height my old friend Billings says he remembers them no thicker than...
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“I’m not a serious thinker. I’m a writer: that’s very different. I think a writer’s intelligence has to be alive, has to be incomplete. It has to carry contradiction. It has to be sort of haphazard and amateur.”
- Benjamín Labatut
- Benjamín Labatut
November 23, 2025 at 10:02 PM
“I’m not a serious thinker. I’m a writer: that’s very different. I think a writer’s intelligence has to be alive, has to be incomplete. It has to carry contradiction. It has to be sort of haphazard and amateur.”
- Benjamín Labatut
- Benjamín Labatut
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I read Caren Beilin’s Sea, Poison on recommendation of Josh from @portersqbooks.bsky.social and it was so good I immediately read Revenge of the Scapegoat. Now @davidnaimon.bsky.social drops the latest conversation with Beilin, which means I get to listen to her talk about both books back to back.
November 23, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I read Caren Beilin’s Sea, Poison on recommendation of Josh from @portersqbooks.bsky.social and it was so good I immediately read Revenge of the Scapegoat. Now @davidnaimon.bsky.social drops the latest conversation with Beilin, which means I get to listen to her talk about both books back to back.
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"Without play, we risk being overwhelmed by an inhuman world."
- Peter Brooks, Seduced by Story
- Peter Brooks, Seduced by Story
November 24, 2025 at 12:40 AM
"Without play, we risk being overwhelmed by an inhuman world."
- Peter Brooks, Seduced by Story
- Peter Brooks, Seduced by Story
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You've heard of Chekhov's gun, but did you know it shoots out a little clown flag that says "bang"?
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
‘He was just trying to earn a few kopecks’: how newly translated stories reveal Chekhov’s silly side
With daft jokes and experimental wordplay, the first comprehensive translations of his lesser-known stories show Anton Chekhov in a new light
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 AM
You've heard of Chekhov's gun, but did you know it shoots out a little clown flag that says "bang"?
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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A murmur about a great short story collected in Michael Kelly's The Best Weird Fiction of the Year Vol. 1, @undertow.bsky.social. Among other things, Charlotte Tierney's "A Woman's Place Is in the Haunted Home" reveals things about anxiety that only fiction can.
www.weirdmurmur.com/2025/11/a-wo...
www.weirdmurmur.com/2025/11/a-wo...
A Woman's Place Is in the Haunted Home
Weird Murmur Blog by Grant Dowell. Weird Fiction, Pulp Tales, and Horror Story Discussions.
www.weirdmurmur.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:25 AM
A murmur about a great short story collected in Michael Kelly's The Best Weird Fiction of the Year Vol. 1, @undertow.bsky.social. Among other things, Charlotte Tierney's "A Woman's Place Is in the Haunted Home" reveals things about anxiety that only fiction can.
www.weirdmurmur.com/2025/11/a-wo...
www.weirdmurmur.com/2025/11/a-wo...
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Bought this at Edinburgh Book Festival and then forgot to read it! Another masterful collection of stories - my only complaint about Schweblin is that I wish she would write more.
November 23, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Bought this at Edinburgh Book Festival and then forgot to read it! Another masterful collection of stories - my only complaint about Schweblin is that I wish she would write more.
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Here at the end of the world: The Sorrow of Angels by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, translated by Philip Roughton @biblioasis.bsky.social
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roughghosts.com/2025/11/23/h...
Here at the end of the world: The Sorrow of Angels by Jón Kalman Stefánsson
The boy sticks his head all the way out and his black hair whitens, the ground lies everywhere beneath a thick layer of the sorrow of angels, no grazing either in pasture or on beach, all the lives…
roughghosts.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Here at the end of the world: The Sorrow of Angels by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, translated by Philip Roughton @biblioasis.bsky.social
roughghosts.com/2025/11/23/h...
roughghosts.com/2025/11/23/h...
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One week to publication of ELLE: a verse novel. Online launch and publication details here: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/10/my-n...
My new book Elle: A Verse Novel is published by Broken Sleep Books
My new book Elle: A Verse Novel is published by Broken Sleep Books in November 2025 Details for PRE ORDER: Robert Sheppard - Elle, a ...
robertsheppard.blogspot.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:24 AM
One week to publication of ELLE: a verse novel. Online launch and publication details here: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/10/my-n...
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Dostoevsky really will just end a paragraph with a line that comes from outer space and makes you reread the entire paragraph:
November 22, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Dostoevsky really will just end a paragraph with a line that comes from outer space and makes you reread the entire paragraph:
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Today is Duodi the 2nd of Frimaire in the year 234.
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate cattle turnips.#JacobinDay
More information on cattle turnips
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate cattle turnips.#JacobinDay
More information on cattle turnips
November 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Today is Duodi the 2nd of Frimaire in the year 234.
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate cattle turnips.#JacobinDay
More information on cattle turnips
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate cattle turnips.#JacobinDay
More information on cattle turnips
It was another gorgeous morning
November 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
It was another gorgeous morning