Writer of the Beatles biographical history trilogy All These Years. The first volume, Tune In, is out. Volume 2 is taking an age but still progressing steadily. www.marklewisohn.net
Author of bestselling novel Freebourne. Cabinet Member for Culture & Public Spaces on Hounslow Council. CEO of Carter Fleet. Journalist. FRSA
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Blogger & award-winning crime fiction author. MWA. Noir, pulp, monsters, fiction, jazz, writing, film, comics. Went by @LBoxGraveyard at that other place.
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Author of 8 books of fiction & poetry. Recent:The Thickness of Ice (novel, Baraka Books, 2024);The Death Poems (Salt, 2023).Winner of Rubery Award for Fiction. Shortlisted Danuta Gleed Award, Bord Gais Irish Book Awards, & Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award.
Random selections of pages from vintage UK catalogues.
Also:
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Pinko leftie/angry middle aged man/hoping this place might help restore my faith in humanity.
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Waterstone's UK Children's Laureate
Ideas lead to idols. Only wonder leads to truth.
Swinging a hammock on the Island of Brilliant podcast
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Husband of Máire. Bass guitarist in House of all. Oh! Brother podcast. Big Midweek book. Made - making some great albums.
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Husband of Julie, Dad of 3 fantastic human beings. Writer: Leave the Capital’,’HAVE A BLEEDIN GUESS' & ‘Sixteen Again’ published by Route. Podcaster: ‘Oh! Brother’ available everywhere. Drummer: HOUSE Of ALL(Tiny Global). POPSTOCK Records.
Bookhoarder. Soi-disant intellectual of the outer suburbs.
therapist; once publisher & indie bookseller; art on the side; peddling own blend of weird since the late 70s; here for all of it (ish)
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'John Niven is a fucking idiot. Who needs him?'
Michael Winner, RIP.
Surprisingly calm in the circumstances.
We host great author events and have a podcast called Music Maps @musicmaps.bsky.social
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Walthamstow, London and beyond…
Filmmaker Writer Director https://amp.theguardian.com/film/2024/oct/05/mark-kermode-on-carol-morley-typist-artist-pirate-king-the-alcohol-years-dreams-of-a-life-the-falling-out-of-blue
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He/him.
There Are Infinite Universes and All of Them Are Boring, published by ELJ Editions:
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Short fiction editor at @foofarawpress.bsky.social
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Novelist with Penguin Viking, creative writing teacher with the University of Manchester and Faber Academy. Hiking, gardening, crochet, coeliac disease: old-person stuff.
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Liverpool FC, music, cats, politics and despairing at English cricket.
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"The melody always finds me, whenever the thought reminds me, breaking a chain inside my head"
I rant about things, usually music, sometimes for money. Bylines seen in PopMatters, Bandcamp, the Georgia Straight, and Exclaim! Longtime juror for the Polaris Prize and Juno Awards.
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Northener in London
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Established 1976. Reviews, news, features on Irish books and writing, database of all upcoming books each month. Podcast #BurningBooks. Editor
Ruth McKee.
Journalist on culture and news, author of The Sound Of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives, radio programme maker, public arts project leader. Ten Sunday Spells for you every week on juderogers.substack.com
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Tories, TERFs, GenAI users and suchlike get blocked on sight. And yes, that includes headers and profile pics: get fucked.
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Writer, composer, editor, musician, record producer.
Photographer, writer, pop culture devourer. Beatles historian. Love is the meaning of life.
I am a writer and translator. I am from Buenos Aires, Stockport and Sheffield, and a bit of Concepción del Uruguay. I am the 41st-best Scrabble player in the world in Spanish, which isn't all that much. I have a wife, a dog, and a daughter, in that order
Man of many talents-some of them useful. Multiple monomaniac. Author, 'Pink Floyd: The Music & The Mystery'.
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Everything is interesting.
Music & Politics & Science
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I say we nuke the entire site from orbit
It's the only way to be sure
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Full-spectrum creative dilettante. Appearing in ‘Dick Whittington’ at the Rondo Theatre, Bath, 15-18 January. https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/bath/the-rondo-theatre/dick-whittington/e-mqjgmk
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Singist. Wordstuff. Ranting a speciality.
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Writer, cat lady, John Ruskin obsessive, wrote a novel about medieval mystics. Aspiring anchoress. https://victoriamackenzie.net/
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Curator, Bristol. Art, text, film, music.😤
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Small thoughts and big ideas. Tour guide, researcher, reader, procrastinator. Nottinghamshire & environs. WatsonFothergillWalk.com
Writes about writing, especially for PhDs and researchers: poetry, music, food. Blogs at Research Degree Insider
Features journalist - NYTimes, Financial Times, Telegraph. On a book break.
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Writer. Typewriter nerd. Artist & Typewriter artist. Chess enthusiast. Parent.
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BAFTA + WGGB Award-winning writer/producer/performer. Writer of TV and John Lennon book, Give Me A Chance. Treasurer of WGGB. Opinions mine
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Professor of Ignorable Objects at Toxteth University of Surrealist Kinetics
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Bradfordian actor, filmmaker, and author of 📚 My Ego Screwed My Acting Career, Based on a True Story, and 📚 Bradford, Eh? — a nostalgic snapshot of '70s, '80s, ’90s Bradford.
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European. Music fan. Maker of Top Fives. Still dancing badly & losing my specs in mosh pits. Play ukulele, bass & kazoo.
I like books. Wrote ‘The Year of Reading Dangerously’. Now writing ‘Inventory: An Unreliable Guide to My Record Collection’, available weekly via Backlisted patreon.com/backlisted. I don’t only like books. No DM please.
NancyKay or NK. New Yorker, lady of a certain age, ever curious, queer, flaneuse.
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Writer of To Rise in the Dark (2024) and Hunter (2025)
“He speaks in your voice, Salfordian, and there’s a pie in his hand bought half-price from the Co-op.”
Mostly here to post about music with like minded nerds..
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2 bookshops, Crickhowell and Abergavenny. Known for ranting, banging on about books and the odd humorous observation since 2010….
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Linguist, reader, educator and a beginning writer. Lover of non-fiction and translated fiction. University of Nottingham graduate - BA Hons Modern Languages & PGCE.
Purveyors of ambience and crown green bowling, and other music based excursions
Hebden Bridge
It was dark as i drove the point home
I work all day, and get half-drunk at night
England seemed to him to be nothing but horrors and misery now. The very shapes of the trees were like frozen screams.
Writer, teacher. Novels. Memoir, My Family and Other Rock Stars, 'best of year' Sunday Times, Guardian, Mail, Independent. Hounds. Slightly repetitive. Rep Cathryn Summerhayes
Just siftin' & shiftin'
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