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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

CB editions October newsletter: a brick: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2026/10/news...

Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happy publication day to this new banana, issue 4 of The Little Review. I'm in here, on Reznikoff - translated into Polish, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, but zero in print in the UK until Testimony from CBe next year.

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

CB editions September newsletter, including news of the first ever CBe author tour, archived on the blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2026/09/news...

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Charles Reznikoff was born on this day in 1894 in Brooklyn, NY, to immigrant parents. His Testimony, a landmark work of witness and writing, will be published for the first time in the UK by CB editions in March 2027. Charles Simic: ‘I know of nothing like it in literature.’

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

August Bank Holiday weekend, 1956, 70 years ago, my dad and me at Pateley Bridge in Yorkshire. (The man in the rear-view mirror in the photo on the home page of CBe website, that's my dad too.)

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The young Isaac Newton, a Victorian vicar set on climbing the Matterhorn, and the actor David Niven ... Cover photo here by John Ruskin, 1849. The CBe August newsletter: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2026/08/news...

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

On the street … Next Monday, 20 July, CB editions will be selling from the Emanuel von Baeyer Gallery, 18 Cecil Court, London WC2N 4HE. There’ll be bargain boxes outside: one for £5, three for a tenner. All day from around 10 a.m. - visitors welcome, also water and iced coffee.

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Reznikoff: the CBe July newsletter, as archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2026/07/news...

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

An aside from Paula Fox, The Widow's Children (1976), which sentence by sentence is the best novel I've read this year.

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Could be a history play about a mad king, could be more sonnets. Either way, a late twist in the story of Eng Lit.

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Stendhal (Henri Beyle) died on 23 March 1842. In An Overcoat: Scenes from the Afterlife of H.B. he's still around: jogging in the park, learning to drive, in trouble with women: www.cbeditions.com/robinson4.html

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

The new NOON (ed. Diane Williams) has landed, with cover pic, portfolio and interview with @nataliazt.bsky.social, plus work by Lara Pawson, both of the CBe tribe.

Cover of NOON magazine with artwork by Natalia Zagorska-Thomas

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

CB editions February newsletter - it's been a bad month - as archived on the blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2026/02/cbe-...

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Happy publication day to Farah Ali (www.cbeditions.com/FarahAli.html). Glasses will be raised at @burleyfisher.bsky.social this evening, all welcome.

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

First CB editions newsletter of the year, archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2026/01/cbe-...

Cartoon of Mickey Mouse from a 1956 comic saying: "Better get some work done!"

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Page 1 of the notebook in which my mother recorded every Christmas present she gave, and how much it cost, 1957 to 2003 (she died the next month). The recipients included her hairdresser, the milkman, the postman, the paper boy, the dustbin-men and “Tony’s boy” (toffees, 2s. 6d). She did good.

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

2016 by Sarah Hesketh was named in the Guardian as a Poetry Book of the Year. Booksellers ordering in from Gardners are told “Publisher out of Stock”. The book's in stock both at the distributor and here, within arm’s reach – order from the CB editions website and I’ll post within 24 hours.

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Random re-assembly: a wall with a fresco in a 12th-century monastery in Puglia, Italy, that collapsed after an earthquake; a local street corner, re-laid after roadworks.

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Last Sunday I went to a Leicester Square premiere of the new series of Landman which stars Billy Bob Thornton and I've written about why I'm a little obsessed with that man here: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/11/bill...

Photo of author next to poster of Billy Bob Thornton

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

With a neat new bag for carrying yoga mats and cricket bats CB editions is off tomorrow to the Indie Book Fair at Bath Central Library organised by the wonderful Peirene Press.

Carry-on case with attached bag for yoga mats

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

CB editions October newsletter, archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/10/cbe-...

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Separation anxiety: books I’m fond of that might be hard or expensive to replace if I lose them – if I see another copy of the same edition in a charity shop, I often buy it. This is the most recent, bought at the weekend. Some of these duplicates I’ve given away, some I appear to have lost.

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

The books, yes, but also the shelves - made yesterday from stiff cardboard, they slot together when going up and fold down flat when down. If I designed for IKEA I'd give them a name like Harald.

Display bookshelves made from cardboard, holding 12 books

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

CB editions newsletter, as archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/09/cbe-...

Stack of new copies of Ghost Stations by Patrick McGuinnes

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Sheila Ramage ran this bookshed for 45 years. “The loveliest person in the trade” – Marius Kociejowski. I’ll be talking about her (5 mins) at 2pm on Saturday, 26 July in this very place, now the Bouda Gallery (W8 4RT), at an event organised by Steven Fowler: london.czechcentres.cz/en/program/p...

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

All the CBe covers 2007-2026 on a poster, free to takers of Season Ticket 2 (10 books of your own choice for £75) on the website www.cbeditions.com

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Endings, signing off, in novels, are so often tacky. I've written about this, I've argued that 'Everyone lived happily ever after' is metafictional. Here's a good one (Elmore Leonard, Get Shorty):

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Serve cool: bookshelves for another hot day

Pic shows books in fridge and on shelves of fridge door

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Mended. Since the bones I fractured in my neck in March have now healed, thanks to the NHS, I owed it to this giraffe to put her/him back together.

Pottery giraffe broken in many places, mended

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

All the CB editions covers, 2007 to now, on one A1 poster.

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

"Umarell": see the Wiki entry: men of retirement age watching roadworks, arms akimbo or hands clasped behind back, offering unwanted advice. Here's me watching a new speed bump being put in in my street.

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Me (with ancient author photo) on style, English puritanism, advice and Invisible Dogs: auraist.substack.com/p/was-updike...

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

CB editions will have a stall at this fair on Saturday: do come and chat, buy or haggle.

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Just 6 days left to stream for free a reading on Vimeo of @bydanobrien.bsky.social's stage adaptation of these books: register here: lortel.org/the-other-ja...

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Screenshot from a reading of the stage adaptation by Dan O'Brien of The Other Jack, based on the book by myself (CBe, 2021). The reading can be streamed free on Vimeo until 22 April – you’ll need to register with the Lortel Theatre (lortel.org/the-other-ja...), who will send a link.

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

"Showing off? Remember your age": Goya's title to this drawing of me tumbling down the kitchen stairs last Friday. Back from hospital today. Normal service (posting, emails, etc) will resume gradually.

Book cover of 99 Interruptions showing showing Goya's c.1816 drawing of a man falling head-over-heel down stairs

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Delivery today of CBe books to the only bookshop in Shepherds Bush (the Waterstones in Westfield doesn't count): stall 64, Shepherds Bush market. Alongside the fabrics, kitchenware and the fish: I want to belong here. Guy in the pic has a great quote from Kleinzahler on his book. Local produce.

The market stall in Shep Bush Market that now sells CBe books

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

A decade ago Wiki renamed me as a road in the Midlands and gave me a new pseudonym. They did get my birth year right; my current entry has me 4 years younger.

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

More dogs. Invisible Dogs (CB editions) is on the shortlist for the RoC Prize: readings & chat at the Deptford Lounge, SE8 4RH, tomorrow, free, come. A pdf of this piece I wrote last year on independent publishing can now be downloaded from the CBe website: www.cbeditions.com/about.html

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Next Thursday, 13 March: 9 Giffin Street, SE8 4RH. Free.

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Yves Klein lives here, in a house backing onto the Overground track near Willesden Junction.

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

CB editions February newsletter, as archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Here's a link to an online show of my wife's art, put up today: organthing.com/2025/02/25/c... She was artist in residence at the National Gallery, way back, and more. We keep on going.

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Anyone read this? Many of the books that I read at a formative age were by pretty lousy human beings & I'm seriously interested but I'm put off by 'playful' and 'exhilarating' on the cover. (My own immediate answer to the subtitle question is: pay zero attention to it.)

Book cover: Monsters: What We Do with Great Art by Bad People?

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Congratulations to the small presses and writers on the Republic of Consciousness Prize longlist, announced today on Substack: therepublicofconsciousness.substack.com/p/announcing.... The RoC isn't on BlueSky, so here's the list:

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Here is Marjorie Ann Watts on her 98th birthday reading from Mrs Calder and the Hyena, which is glowingly reviewed in this week's Spectator. Amazon, bless them, promise delivery "within 6 to 7 months". Or you could buy from the website (www.cbeditions.com/watts2.html) and I'll post today.

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Today Marjorie Ann Watts celebrates (at Daunt Books in Hampstead) both publication of her book and her 98th birthday. (Her grandmother founded PEN International in 1921; + organisations to help young writers and help women into work; + at age 24 published an epic poem supporting women's rights.)

Book cover featuring black hyena on a jade green background.

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

This book is a manifesto - in the writing, in the politics, inseparable - for my publishing: www.cbeditions.com/berg.html

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