Simon Petherick
@simontpetherick.bsky.social
Writer, ghostwriter.
London and Cornwall.
I write novels and journalism under my own name, and I write memoirs and fiction for clients under theirs.
Www.simonpetherick.com.
London and Cornwall.
I write novels and journalism under my own name, and I write memoirs and fiction for clients under theirs.
Www.simonpetherick.com.
Reposted by Simon Petherick
My book Drystone – A Life Rebuilt is out in just 3 weeks. I’ve poured everything into writing it and getting it out into the world as far as I can.
I’d love your help. A share, a preorder, a message to someone who might love it, it all makes a difference.
Info and links below.
#Scotland #Books
I’d love your help. A share, a preorder, a message to someone who might love it, it all makes a difference.
Info and links below.
#Scotland #Books
July 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Spent today fixing the ignition on our very old gas boiler here in Cornwall. We put it in over 20 years ago and it remains a triumph of engineering over sea air.
June 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Spent today fixing the ignition on our very old gas boiler here in Cornwall. We put it in over 20 years ago and it remains a triumph of engineering over sea air.
Reposted by Simon Petherick
For your weekly two minutes of calm reflection, sign up free at twominutemonk.beehiiv.com
June 9, 2025 at 11:07 AM
For your weekly two minutes of calm reflection, sign up free at twominutemonk.beehiiv.com
I wrote in praise of the 19th century enduring Mutual Societies for Idler magazine in the Mar/Apr 2025 edition, mentioning amongst others The Wine Society and The Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society.
Essay here: simonpetherick.com/simon-pether...
Buy Idler here: www.idler.co.uk/idler-stocki...
Essay here: simonpetherick.com/simon-pether...
Buy Idler here: www.idler.co.uk/idler-stocki...
Where to buy the Idler | Idler
The Idler is available in over 500 outlets.
www.idler.co.uk
February 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I wrote in praise of the 19th century enduring Mutual Societies for Idler magazine in the Mar/Apr 2025 edition, mentioning amongst others The Wine Society and The Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society.
Essay here: simonpetherick.com/simon-pether...
Buy Idler here: www.idler.co.uk/idler-stocki...
Essay here: simonpetherick.com/simon-pether...
Buy Idler here: www.idler.co.uk/idler-stocki...
I just spent half an hour working out how to delete some hideous new Microsoft AI facility called Co-Pilot from Word. If this is the way tech companies plan to to drive us into submission, then they'll have a war on their hands. @microsoft.com : please pay attention.
January 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I just spent half an hour working out how to delete some hideous new Microsoft AI facility called Co-Pilot from Word. If this is the way tech companies plan to to drive us into submission, then they'll have a war on their hands. @microsoft.com : please pay attention.
There you go @fionatribe.bsky.social
Tardises.
Not because it requires Greek, but it’s no less English than praying mantises!
Not because it requires Greek, but it’s no less English than praying mantises!
January 26, 2025 at 9:14 AM
There you go @fionatribe.bsky.social
I think you need a Greek specialist for this . @armanddangour.bsky.social ?
What’s the plural for Tardis? Tardises? Tardies? Tardi?
January 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I think you need a Greek specialist for this . @armanddangour.bsky.social ?
This is a really well-researched series on yet another unpleasant story in the history of Western uptake of Indian yoga rituals: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
As a yoga practitioner, I find these stories so depressing. But you should listen to Miranda’s story - she’s a brave woman.
As a yoga practitioner, I find these stories so depressing. But you should listen to Miranda’s story - she’s a brave woman.
BBC Sounds - World Of Secrets - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of World Of Secrets on BBC Sounds.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This is a really well-researched series on yet another unpleasant story in the history of Western uptake of Indian yoga rituals: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
As a yoga practitioner, I find these stories so depressing. But you should listen to Miranda’s story - she’s a brave woman.
As a yoga practitioner, I find these stories so depressing. But you should listen to Miranda’s story - she’s a brave woman.
Well, you are a splendid fellow to have on the sidewalk.
I will reintroduce myself
* I spew content out
* I’m a curmudgeon
* but I actually like *people*
* though not as much as cats
* I’m always a bit wary about people who could grow a beard yet don’t
* Italian food is my bag
* I’ll read almost anything
* Bookshops and libraries are my temples
deal
* I spew content out
* I’m a curmudgeon
* but I actually like *people*
* though not as much as cats
* I’m always a bit wary about people who could grow a beard yet don’t
* Italian food is my bag
* I’ll read almost anything
* Bookshops and libraries are my temples
deal
January 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Well, you are a splendid fellow to have on the sidewalk.
Reposted by Simon Petherick
Willem Dafoe for GQ Italia.
Photographer
Szilveszter Mako.
Photographer
Szilveszter Mako.
January 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Willem Dafoe for GQ Italia.
Photographer
Szilveszter Mako.
Photographer
Szilveszter Mako.
I volunteer once a week for the London charity Doorstep Library, encouraging children from economically disadvantaged families to engage with reading. Doorstep is expanding and needs more volunteers — see the attached flyer. Do consider, it is such a joy and a privilege.
January 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I volunteer once a week for the London charity Doorstep Library, encouraging children from economically disadvantaged families to engage with reading. Doorstep is expanding and needs more volunteers — see the attached flyer. Do consider, it is such a joy and a privilege.
Reposted by Simon Petherick
Our co-founder Teena Lyons is mentioned in this fascinating piece from novelist Mark McCrum on his past ghostwriting experiences. Read on!
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/...
I was Prince Harry's ghostwriter. Here's the truth about what I wrote
When shoppers see all those celebrity autobiographies piled up for sale how many of us realise that most have not been written by the famous name on the cover?
www.dailymail.co.uk
January 15, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Our co-founder Teena Lyons is mentioned in this fascinating piece from novelist Mark McCrum on his past ghostwriting experiences. Read on!
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/...
Another fascinating piece from @henrywismayer.bsky.social in @noemamag.com on the potential of geothermal energy. Fascinating when one of the industry’s proponents describes his difficulties in talking to Green audiences - the idea of putting even a probe into the ground conflicts with them.
⚡My latest article for @noemamag.com is a deep-drill into the extraordinary untapped potential of geothermal power - a subject that has obsessed and exhilirated me like few topics I've ever written about before. ⚡
www.noemamag.com/searching-fo...
www.noemamag.com/searching-fo...
Searching For Climate Salvation In Deep Hellfire | NOEMA
Advanced geothermal energy could provide universal, stable and equitable electricity access. So what stands in the way?
www.noemamag.com
January 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Another fascinating piece from @henrywismayer.bsky.social in @noemamag.com on the potential of geothermal energy. Fascinating when one of the industry’s proponents describes his difficulties in talking to Green audiences - the idea of putting even a probe into the ground conflicts with them.
A friend knew an old country gent. He owed lots of money. The bank came to see him about his unpaid overdraft.
“I have a clear policy,” he said. “Every month I put my creditors names into a hat and I pay the one I pull out.
“If you carry on like this, you’re not even going in the hat.”
“I have a clear policy,” he said. “Every month I put my creditors names into a hat and I pay the one I pull out.
“If you carry on like this, you’re not even going in the hat.”
January 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
A friend knew an old country gent. He owed lots of money. The bank came to see him about his unpaid overdraft.
“I have a clear policy,” he said. “Every month I put my creditors names into a hat and I pay the one I pull out.
“If you carry on like this, you’re not even going in the hat.”
“I have a clear policy,” he said. “Every month I put my creditors names into a hat and I pay the one I pull out.
“If you carry on like this, you’re not even going in the hat.”
Reposted by Simon Petherick
Ivor Cutler was born 102 years ago today. To celebrate the great man (who I was lucky enough to see perform once, at the Midland Group, Nottingham in the mid 80s. Wonderful evening) here's a great interview by @alastairmckay.bsky.social from, I think, 1993. alastairmckay.substack.com/p/poetry-ful...
January 15, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Ivor Cutler was born 102 years ago today. To celebrate the great man (who I was lucky enough to see perform once, at the Midland Group, Nottingham in the mid 80s. Wonderful evening) here's a great interview by @alastairmckay.bsky.social from, I think, 1993. alastairmckay.substack.com/p/poetry-ful...
Reposted by Simon Petherick
The Homestead and the Forest, cot quilt, May Morris, embroidered by Jane Morris, 1889.
January 11, 2025 at 11:23 AM
The Homestead and the Forest, cot quilt, May Morris, embroidered by Jane Morris, 1889.
You can follow and support traveller @ccohanlon.bsky.social and his wife Given in text and photography on Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/ccohanlon
January 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
You can follow and support traveller @ccohanlon.bsky.social and his wife Given in text and photography on Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/ccohanlon
Visions of plump middle-aged men in pink corduroy trousers wielding vintage spanners in a threatening manner.
At 7.15 at Land's End we were attacked by the MG Owners Club.
January 8, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Visions of plump middle-aged men in pink corduroy trousers wielding vintage spanners in a threatening manner.
Reposted by Simon Petherick
In the 1917 board game “Suffragetto,” two players compete as either police or suffragettes to defend their political bases — the House of Commons or Royal Albert Hall, which suffragettes rented out around 30 times between 1908 and 1913 to rally for women’s votes.
hyperallergic.com/271362/playi...
hyperallergic.com/271362/playi...
January 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM
In the 1917 board game “Suffragetto,” two players compete as either police or suffragettes to defend their political bases — the House of Commons or Royal Albert Hall, which suffragettes rented out around 30 times between 1908 and 1913 to rally for women’s votes.
hyperallergic.com/271362/playi...
hyperallergic.com/271362/playi...
My Christmas reading has been Robert Service’s life of Trotsky. Despite the odd editorial glitch, it’s interesting that, despite his clear and pretty much stated antipathy to Trotsky, the sense of admiration for his subject flows through the book.
January 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
My Christmas reading has been Robert Service’s life of Trotsky. Despite the odd editorial glitch, it’s interesting that, despite his clear and pretty much stated antipathy to Trotsky, the sense of admiration for his subject flows through the book.
Reposted by Simon Petherick
What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2025: Hemingway’s "A Farewell to Arms," Faulkner’s "The Sound and the Fury," Early Hitchcock Films, Tintin and Popeye Cartoons & More
What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2025: Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, Early Hitchcock Films, Tintin and Popeye Cartoons & More
Each Public Domain Day seems to bring us a richer crop of copyright-liberated books, plays, films, musical compositions, sound recordings, works of art, and other pieces of intellectual property. This...
www.openculture.com
January 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2025: Hemingway’s "A Farewell to Arms," Faulkner’s "The Sound and the Fury," Early Hitchcock Films, Tintin and Popeye Cartoons & More
A very happy new year to everyone. From a bar in south west France. Peggy the dog has been the perfect company into 2025.
December 31, 2024 at 8:41 PM
A very happy new year to everyone. From a bar in south west France. Peggy the dog has been the perfect company into 2025.
Excellent. I've been a member of Chiswick Library for several years and it's such a pleasure. The staff are brilliant and they can find books from across libraries all over the south east.
December 29, 2024 at 6:13 PM
Excellent. I've been a member of Chiswick Library for several years and it's such a pleasure. The staff are brilliant and they can find books from across libraries all over the south east.
Reposted by Simon Petherick
The strange and even stranger world of Nightjar Press: Fabrication by Imogen Reid and Old Tutor, New Tutor by Arthur Mandal @nightjarpress.bsky.social @imogenreid.bsky.social @arthurmandal.bsky.social
roughghosts.com/2024/12/26/t...
roughghosts.com/2024/12/26/t...
The strange and even stranger world of Nightjar Press: Fabrication by Imogen Reid and Old Tutor, New Tutor by Arthur Mandal
There is something very precious about the chapbook format. The presentation of a single short prose piece or sequence of poems in a single bound volume, often printed as a defined, numbered run, i…
roughghosts.com
December 27, 2024 at 6:19 AM
The strange and even stranger world of Nightjar Press: Fabrication by Imogen Reid and Old Tutor, New Tutor by Arthur Mandal @nightjarpress.bsky.social @imogenreid.bsky.social @arthurmandal.bsky.social
roughghosts.com/2024/12/26/t...
roughghosts.com/2024/12/26/t...
Reposted by Simon Petherick
Jan Tschichold
'Penguin books concept work and design, c.1947.
He also wrote Penguin Composition Rules which were the guidelines for composing the pages and typography of Penguin Books. The rules were embodied in a four page booklet of typographic instructions'
dan-alexander.com/design/jan-t...
'Penguin books concept work and design, c.1947.
He also wrote Penguin Composition Rules which were the guidelines for composing the pages and typography of Penguin Books. The rules were embodied in a four page booklet of typographic instructions'
dan-alexander.com/design/jan-t...
December 27, 2024 at 6:08 PM
Jan Tschichold
'Penguin books concept work and design, c.1947.
He also wrote Penguin Composition Rules which were the guidelines for composing the pages and typography of Penguin Books. The rules were embodied in a four page booklet of typographic instructions'
dan-alexander.com/design/jan-t...
'Penguin books concept work and design, c.1947.
He also wrote Penguin Composition Rules which were the guidelines for composing the pages and typography of Penguin Books. The rules were embodied in a four page booklet of typographic instructions'
dan-alexander.com/design/jan-t...