Also while @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social I interviewed author Mark Wormald about his moving book THE CATCH: Fishing for Ted Hughes. Here's Hughes's writing advice to his daughter Frieda and a link to the interview: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...

While at @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social I had the pleasure of interviewing William Leith on the art of writing confessional memoirs and getting a good interview out of a celebrity. Here's a highlight and a link to the interview: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...

Colin Burrow fascinating and funny in @lrb.co.uk on Orwell (from a couple of years ago).

My book ABANDONED PLACES has been lightly updated and is republished today by Amber Books.

First published in 2016, it was featured on the front page of the Guardian and widely translated - German, French, Japanese, among others - as well as launching a whole series of Abandoned books.

Happy publication day to the new edition of my book FORESTS which explores, in 200 photographs, woodlands around the world. Published by Amber Books Ltd.

Ten questions for writers and editors. #writing #editing #publishing #screenwriting

Sidi Kaouki Beach, Morocco, 2017

Berlin, Alexanderplatz, 1992.

An old photograph of mine - the remains of the Berlin Wall in 1992 - but it's new to Bluesky.

I wrote a novel, SNAKES & LADDERS, with my Dad, Ray Connolly. Yes, we're still talking.

When a landlord tries to bully tenants out of the flats they have the legal right to stay in, and the police and the law can't help them, what can they do? Just how far would you go to save your home?

Happy paperback publication day to Ian Goldin's The Shortest History of Migration - the book to read if you want to understand the trends, the numbers, the benefits and the costs of migration around the world. @iangoldin.bsky.social

'Cuts through the rhetoric to look at the facts' FINANCIAL TIMES

This year's Oli Bennett Charitable Trust Secret Postcard Fair will take place on the evening of Thursday 19 June. Admission is free, but capacity is limited. @oli_charity Previous contributors have included Antony Gormley. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oli-bennet...

Colin Jones's The Shortest History of France (out in hardback in March)
Lesley Downer's The Shortest History of Japan (out in paperback in June)

Ten questions I put together for writers working on books or scripts.

If you could only show one scene from your script or novel, which would it be? (This should reveal, or reaffirm, what for you is the heart of the story.)

And similar questions.

More here: www.kieronconnolly.com/editorial-co...

Originally published in a landscape format, my book FORESTS will be republished on 14 May by Amber Books in a portrait edition.

Almost nine years on, my book ABANDONED PLACES will be republished by Amber Books on 14 May. Same photographs, updated text.