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Barbara Nadel

@barbaranadel.bsky.social
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Author of Cetin Ikmen crime novels, televised as 'The Turkish Detective' on BBC2 Also writes Hakim and Arnold crime novels plus occasional articles for The Guardian. Cats, ruins, magic, manglewurzels. Here for the weird. Agent: Watson, Little

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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Get voting chaps!
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TripFiction @tripfiction.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
SUBMISSIONS for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards Entries until 1 November 2026 www.stanfords.co.uk/edward-stanf... Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year Fiction with a Sense of Place Children's Travel Book of the Year Bradt Best New Travel Writer Award @stanfordstravel.bsky.social
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Doesn't it just.
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... This is who they are. A few 'bad apples' my arse, time and time again, the 'bad apples' turn out to be the norm.
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Reform UK councillors and candidates filmed making racist and misogynist comments
Party faces fresh crisis as three councillors quit after ITV undercover filming exposed violence, misogyny and racist views
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
A lot of us have been saying for years we need to pull away from them. Now it's urgent.
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv... Good. Ukraine always and forever.
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Andy Burnham hosts Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Downing Street – UK politics live
Burnham welcomes Ukraine’s president to No 10 for the first time since he became PM
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Love this poster.
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Early poverty is the beast that won't die. I don't fear it happenning again because it is familiar and so I know I can do it. It's more the certainty it gives me that I will never be good enough that haunts me. No matter how hard I work, it's always there.
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Absolutely. This can and will happen again if people don't get a grip.
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Gob almighty at it again. No, mate, those who seek to destroy are country are not coming here in small boats, they're spouting crap like this.
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Nigel Farage says charities that help asylum seekers reach UK should be prosecuted
Reform leader did not say who should be targeted but party figures have been critical of small boat rescues by RNLI
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... Just when you think that the orange one cannpt sink any lower... this. I think Mr Chapman's relatives and friends are due an apology.
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Family of man killed by tiger criticise online content after Trump reposts video
Relatives of William Chapman say footage of attack shared online ‘deeply offensive’ and causing them ‘severe distress’
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This. Read this.
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Man, this is not what we do here.
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Children and women included in Reform plan to immediately deport 90,000 asylum seekers
Farage’s party says it would ‘embed’ immigration enforcement in UK and use ‘aerial imaging’ to identify people
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The image is of a four panel comic. The title is "Satanic Ritual".
In the first panel we see a little red devil in a bubble bath.
In the second panel we see the devil with a towel wrapped around its head, standing in front of a mirror doing gua sha.
In the third panel we see the devil putting on a face mask.
In the fourth panel we see the devil wearing the face mask sitting on its bed watching a show and drinking a glass of wine.
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
So heartening to hear this.
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o... One of my favourite authors and a really, really nice bloke. Glad he's taking on the super-rich. Can't wait to read the book.
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‘The crime fiction I’m interested in is political’: Ian Rankin on his new novel about the super-rich
The bestselling writer talks about leaving Edinburgh for London in his latest mystery, and what the future holds for Rebus
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I want to see all the enablers out of their jobs. Don't forget Rees Mogg either. He was a prime mover too.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
A little film production company called UNITED ARTISTS was formed by 4 of Hollywood’s biggest stars - Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks - and the most powerful Director at the time, D. W. Griffith. Here they are signing the contract.
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Let me count the days … @simoncosgrove.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Day 2446 of #Brexit: ‘Andy Burnham will put Brexit back on the Commons agenda as MPs return from recess, warning that failing to pursue a better deal with the EU would be a “major dereliction of duty”.’ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Burnham to urge MPs to embrace closer ties with EU
Post-recess statement will focus on damage caused by Brexit and the need to cooperate on immigration and trade
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Good, about time.
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Andy Burnham says it is clear Russia interfered in Brexit referendum
PM says he asked question upon entering No 10 but does not reveal who gave him ‘clear answer’ that Russia meddled
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Utterly predicatable.
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Bucharest is fabulous not just for dark tourism but for its architecture, history, folklore and vibrant cultural life. However if we're talking 'dark' tourism, where's London? Where's Istanbul?
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
BL Publishing brings out some absolutely scorching books. This I think will be one of them. Perfume history and lore, bring it on.
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Excellent thread from Carole here. We all, I think, need to see this film as a matter of urgency.
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh rules don't apply to THEM. No. They're better than us and so they 'deserve' things like second homes. Typical Reform bullshit.
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Manul twins have arrived! Huge thank you to @jellyrollp.bsky.social . Called Kedi and Altay, both gorgeous little scamps.
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/culture/2026... The Voynich manuscript has fascinated me for years. Now some new research indicates it may have been mis-bound.
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A medieval manuscript has confounded scholars for centuries. Have they been reading it wrong all this time?
Researchers argue incorrect binding of Voynich manuscript radically changes ideas about its drawings and indecipherable text
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman No.
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The sound mirrors still invoke an eerie power. Forever waiting.
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/money/2026/o... I'd love to move in to one of these and just do what I normally do. Put my own bins out, go down the shops, grow strange veg in the garden. Wonder how long it would take for the oligarchs to realise I wasn't a servant?
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‘People are deserting it’: why are London mansions struggling to sell?
For decades, the capital’s house prices raced ahead of the national average – but now they are falling in prime areas
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M Dv-us @drdvus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Richard Kaczynski @richardkaczynski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Victor Neuburg’s The Water Bearer collects nearly 100 stream-of-consciousness prose poems dictated to him by spirits in 1924. Unpublished & unknown outside of his family, this book is being published as a limited edition with a cover illustration that Austin Spare drew for Neuburg in 1915.
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The Lost Occult Books of Victor Neuburg
Publishing never-before-seen books of poetry by legendary British occultist Victor Neuburg.
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Me too. Bastards.
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... I am pleased about this. Although I can hear the Brexiteers now, 'They're betraying Brexit!' like it's a religion or something.
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Andy Burnham: UK could ‘go all the way’ by rejoining EU
PM says he is looking at all options and ministers will examine ‘what is doable’ and the ‘pros and cons’
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I just find the whole thing insulting. Do they really think we're daft enough to be fooled by a cute squishy thingy?
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Monday's Manul @manulmonday.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Behold! Manul Monday.
A seemingly young manul sitting upright and staring intently at a spot just above the camera's position.
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wise words.
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Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hallowe'en Season approaching, so now's the time to buy your copy of NIGHT FEARS: WEIRD TALES IN TRANSLATION paradiseeditions.net/products/nig...
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Night Fears: Weird Tales in Translation
With its unique blend of fantasy, horror, and science fiction, Weird Tales was the quintessential pulp magazine of the early 20th century. While classic American writers like H.P. Lovecraft and Robert...
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
No, Zuckerberg, no. Your cute little recording devices leave me cold.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 28/09/2026
👏 Sadiq Khan: “We talk about productivity, we talk about growth, we talk about jobs, we talk about wealth. The single best way to get that is by joining the European Union.”
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/galler...
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Paws for applause: the Feline Oscars – in pictures
More than 200 cats came to compete in the Romania International Cat Show, an international feline beauty contest, in Bucharest
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thanks Ethel.
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Finally finished my latest Hakim and Arnold book A GOOD DEATH. Published next year. Now off to a darkened room.
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Interesting.
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Oh God help us!
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Thank you David. Long live the wide and wise spaces where imagination dances.
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
For those of you who love folklore but don't like the nationalist rightwing spin some put on it, @hookland.bsky.social is the place for you. Absolute joy.
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s... I think a lot of writers can relate to this whatever their age. If you're a storyteller your tales ache to be told and yes, it is obsessional.
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‘My generation of novelists is dying’: Rose Tremain on 70 years of writing, and late-life inspiration
As her latest novel about Daphne du Maurier is published, the bestselling author reflects on age and creativity – and why at 83 she has no plans to stop
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What a fantastic initiative. And free! So anyone can go. Art is for everyone!
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Mmm. With my psychologist's hat on, this is very bad for your mind. With my human being hat on 'holy bananas we need to stop this shit now!'
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