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Title: "Literary ecologists celebrate the successful reintroduction of rare species to the Yorkshire moors." Image: The sun is going down on a bleak windswept moor, various figures and trees are each labelled as one of the following: 1. Classic literary Cathy and Heathcliff 2. Young, carefree Cathy and heathcliff 3. Sexy Hollywood Cathy and Heathcliff 5. Ghost Cathy, tormented Heathcliff 5. Spooky tree

My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com

On feminist librarianship

ICYMI: "Investment in libraries is investment in women."

Read Kirsten MacQuarrie's full Comment piece below 👇 #BookSky

We need a new special relationship

Canada is not just a friendlier version of America, and it is time for publishing to capitalise on that, says Isabella Galbraith in our recent Comment piece 👇 #BookSky

My goal is to take more chances, experiment, and not think of my writing time as work but play.

Not just a gentle niche

Publishing isn't taking the power of older women seriously, says Lesley Kara in our recent Comment piece 👇

Title: Choose your seat in the literary festival event tent. Image: lines of chairs set out in a tent, a stage at the front has two more chairs on it. The chairs are colour-coded and labelled 1. Awkwardly close 2. Too far away 3. Good view / can't hear 4. Good sound / can't see 5. In a cold draught 6. Behind a giant 7. Between a chatter and a shusher 8. Very creaky chair 9. Great seat / wrong event A single yellow chair is labelled: 10. Just right!

Three of my cartoons have been released as prints by @theguardian.com. They are an open edition in two sizes and are available for two weeks only. Get one here:
www.guardianprintshop.com/pages/tom-gaulds-best-cultural-cartoons-of-2025

An illustration of this year's game. Text says: "Hidden Books Game is BACK! Play at nationalbooktokens.com" and "Win £500 to spend on books".

Booklovers, your favourite game is back! 📚🔎

Guess all 20 books in the #HiddenBooksGame and you could win a £500/€500 National Book Token to spend in your local bookshop (the best gift ever, in our opinion).

Play now: buff.ly/460M0aR

The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it

thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz Reuniting for Fourth ‘Mummy’ Movie Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are reuniting for a fourth "Mummy" movie.

Today is a great day!

5pm on November 1: let’s go for a walk, it’s still light out!

5pm on November 2: an early darkness blankets the land. Fallow fields lay bone-bleached by moonlight. The last memories of summer fade into oblivion. The last echoes of hope lapse into baleful silence.

Whether you’re a fan of Hallowe’en or not, you have to give it credit for being the last line of defence against Christmas advancing even earlier into the year, a ragtag gang of goths holding the line against a battalion of baubled barbarians

Sexy Halloween Costume Ideas for Straight Men Sexy Coworker Who Doesn’t Interrupt Sexy Sweatered Man Who Has Worked Through Issues in Therapy Sexy Football Player Who Advocates For Women’s Spor...

"Sexy Sweatered Man Who Has Worked Through Issues in Therapy"

Tips for improving concentration: Make a list of tasks. Take on one task at a time. Take On Me was a fun song. Ooh I found the video.

#MondayMotivation

We’re marking #BannedBooksWeekUK with Margaret Atwood on The Handmaid’s Tale as our free film of the week on Hay Festival Anytime.

Enjoy! www.hayfestival.org/anytime/

Publishing wants debut authors to produce bestsellers. What happens if they don't? | CBC Arts Writers Tajja Isen and Jen Sookfong Lee explore how sales data affects authors.

www.cbc.ca/arts/commoti...

Collective Nouns for Librarians A group of librarians is called a cardigan. A collection of empty chairs is called an author reading. A collection of Eric Carle books covered in s...

Tell it like it is: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/col...

Hungry Heart by Jennifer Weiner, Talking as Fast as I Can by Lauren Graham and The Getaway Car by Ann Patchett

I use the Kobo app on my ipad as well. Works perfectly.

I love my Kobo, and unlike the kindle it works with libraries too.

And Ontario’s 😆

Title: Let's create a Movie for Netflix! Jason Statham is.. [choose path 1, 2 or 3)] 1. THE EDITOR 2. THE LIBRARIAN 3. THE BOOKSELLER A heroic special forces officer retires to a sleepy town to follow his true passion of setting up a... 1. Poetry Anthology 2. Public Library 3. Local Bookshop (image of our hunky hero holding his suitcase looking at a vacant shop) He settles happily into the routine of small-town life, but when the townspeople are menaced by a... 1. Greedy Billionaire 2. Corrupt Politician 3. Evil Corporation (the hero puts doen his morning coffee and looks out the window as a sinister black helicopter lands) He must combine his literary and military skills to protect his new community with the help of... 1. An attractive poet 2. A Young Borrower 3. The Bookshop Cat (The hero runs through a hail of bullets holding a novel and a machinre gun)

My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.

Sanctuary

Read a great @wired.com article today on replacing Meta, google, etc ...digital services. I'm going to try and get my workplace to move to some of the alternatives suggested. www.wired.com/story/trump-...

Done! Glad for the Kobo option for Canadians:)

Save Our Bacon, Save the CBC!

Picture this: a sizzling plate of Canadian bacon… but wait—it's shaped like the CBC logo! Because just like our beloved public broadcaster, it's a national treasure.

The CBC isn’t just radio waves and pixels; it’s the voice that keeps us connected, the stories (cont)

Also found The Storyteller's Daughter and The House on the Water ebooks on Kobo for 3.99 and 0.99 Canadian $. So looking forward to reading!

I wish it were helpful because I do love a glass of wine, but the second I have a drink in my hands I'm looking for the remote control and a bag of chips! It derails motivation and makes me sleepy.

I am still obsessed with this book and re-read once a year - the tension, the setting, the ATMOSPHERE. My 21 year old self probably would have found Max irresistible, but this old lady would run for the hills if I saw him coming now, lol!

2025 in a nutshell…