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m john harrison
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New novel: The End of Everything
Serpent's Tail, June, 2026.

Blog: https://ambientehotel.wordpress.com/about
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Was there two or three years ago (pic by Cath Phillips)--
white bearded old man in a hat stands against the wall of a holloway. behind him tree roots have forced themselves through a crack in the sandstone. a distorted face seems to have forced its way out too. on the left, cryptic signatures & dates.
November 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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left to right, M John Harrison 2020 & CD Rose 2025, displaying their respective Goldsmiths trophies
November 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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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
Predominantly orange book cover, featuring an out-of-control truck, perhaps on fire, on what looks like a desert road, viewed from another truck, of which only the spare tyres are visible. Book title: FAST LANES. Author: Jayne Anne Phillips. 1988.
November 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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November 3, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Halloween Barnes
Night from under Barns Bridge, pouring rain full of light, roaf full of reflections, a car approaching fast from the direction of the Bull's Head. someone says: "More water on the road than in the river."
November 3, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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scaffolding at night, looking out, a flared-out streetlight top right, a lit up cottage top left. metal poles catch the light from a window behind the camera
October 30, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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In Comer Woods
a cottage in woods... ...with a chained & padlocked gate... ...and moss on the roof. fungus colony dead tree
October 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Post you from a different era

Templo Mayer, Mexico City, with Bruce & Chris, 2009
black & white, very bright sunshine in the centre of Mexico City, 2009: left to right: Bruce Sterling, Chris Priest, M John Harrison
October 13, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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October 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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October 6, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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a graden, with trees & bushes, seen through scaffolding, early twilight scaffolding & gate. walls. part of a lawn. scaffolding & ladders. a view out over a garden & car park to buildings
September 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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19.09.25: Inside a 1st Class compartment on the Severn Valley Steam Railway, Bridgnorth to Bewley. We had a brief interlude on a two-coach rattletrap diesel shuttle & came back by 3rd. Niche & comforting.
September 21, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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this morning's vibe
pic by Cath
an old man struggles wearily up the path behind Pavey Ark, Gt Langdale, August 2023. it's all very green, with boulders in the foreground, the lower shoulder of the crag to the right. a stream cuts the middle ground. dirty yet luminous cloud in the distance
September 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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current vibe
man trudging tiredly up a path at the back of Yr Wyddfa on a big sunshine & cloud day 2023
September 8, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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11th September: @paftersnu.bsky.social in the form of a book. Calm, sly wit & accumulated political wisdom. Knowledge as a form of epicureanism. You'll feel the library all round you as you read, then it's supper in a garden & quiet laughter.
September 7, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Hallucinating old geezer somehow got into Waterstones Putney yesterday evening, but Julia Armfield managed to talk him down & he even had some interesting tales to tell.
September 5, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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At the same shoot in 2017, Hugo did this one--me & Tim Etchells with Tim's neon of YOU SHOULD COME WITH ME NOW
Two men in a darkened area stand either side of an orange neon that reads YOU SHOULD COME WITH ME NOW
September 3, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Profile Books catalgue, Spring 2026, via @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social
Ad for a novel, "The End of Everything" from Profile Books, June 2026, including synopsis, bio & a photograph of the author by Hugo Glendinning
September 3, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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we have our own little table at Streatham Waterstones, too
a small round black table on which are displayed eight copies of a book with a blue cover and, above, the sign "A Cult Classic Reborn"
September 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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September issue of the Literary Review has a page on CotH by the remarkable N.S. David (www.ns-david.com)
picture of the Serpent's Tail reissue of The Course of the Heart, with a quote from an N.S. David appraisal of the book in September's Literay Review: "The Course of the Heart is a deeply unsettling work, but it is also an exhibition of verbal mastery"
September 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Goat in a jar, cats on a card: thanks Claire & Richard; Biata, Evan & Esther
A goat in a jar. A birthday card with startled cats. In the background, a photo of a man about to go climbing in Halifax circa 1978.
August 26, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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mysteries of wolverhampton station
photo Cath Phillips
man in cheap sunglasses standing in front of a breeze block wall, Wolverhampton train station
August 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Reading from The Course of the Heart at the Festival, photo Philippa McEwan. Thanks to everyone who came and to Camilla Grudova for chairing, Rowan Cope & Serpents Tail for supper and Jon Courtenay Grimwood for advice. (Hey Sam Fisher, hope your event well!)
author reads from his 40 year old novel under the lights in Edinburgh. heads in foreground.
August 17, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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here's a thing: window display, Waterstones in Putney
Waterstones, Putney window display of The Course of the Heart
August 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM