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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Excellent. Very gratifying to hear. Welcome to the rabbit hole.

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I can only do so much to convince you to read this wonderful book. A time will come when you'll be on your own.

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Post-it Notes from Underground by Simon Crump is: a) superb and b) suddenly out in paperback

Post-it notes from Underground by Simon Crump. If you don't have a copy, you need to sort it out.

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

London people: you don't have to choose between ABBA Voyage and this. Look at the start time – you can go to both.

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There's a new game taking the internet by storm: Cornell or Carvery?

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Washington Squares = superb. Billy Ficca.

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh no. Sorry. I missed this one, but saw her last time she came over. Wonderful, of course. Maybe you could go and see her in France...

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Excuse accepted. Good luck...

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

London people: if I see you on here tonight wittering on about The Traitors, I'll know you're not at the Vanessa Paradis concert. My opinion of you will be downgraded.

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

NO SCREAM QUEENS NO UGLY BETTY

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Justine Harvey @justineharvey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just finished Saltwater Mansions by David Whitehouse 💙📚 The best book I've read for quite some time Thanks @danrhodes.bsky.social for drawing my attention to it

Book Saltwater Mansions by David Whitehouse

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It was such a treat. If you ever have the opportunity...

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I've just seen Sweep sing Nessun Dorma at an actual opera house. Glorious, of course.

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

All good here. I absolutely loved the book. Bought it off a table in Derby Waterstones.

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

There's a ten-part podcast in there.

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It's been out of print for years, and probably isn't in the libraries any more, but there's nothing stopping you from tracking down a second hand copy. It was great fun to write, and I still love it. Not that I wrote it.

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Thank you. I'm glad to hear it's still out there doing the rounds. Most people want my guts for garters after reading it...

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

That's perfect. We all know a Robert...

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Great, thank you very much for this.

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I've been watching a septuagenarian defy the laws of physics.

A ticket to see the mighty Richard Thompson at the magnificent Buxton Opera House. Front row!!!! It was incredible.

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Thanks. Looking back, I see there was a lot of help/guidance that I didn't get. Plenty of money went missing too. I recovered some of it, but I'll never get to the bottom of it.

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I get the feeling I should have had one years ago when my US editions made me some modest sums. But nobody mentioned them. Ah well. Good luck with getting your payment this time around.

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Thanks Sarah. I can't really afford that. I only have one title on this list, so it hardly seems worth the expense. I just wish it would all go away...

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Niche thing from the Anthropic settlement. Not being American I don't have a TIN or an SSN so will presumably have to leave this blank, and have the meagre payment delayed? Anyone else in this boat? AI sux.

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Excellent. Let me know how it goes. (It will go well.)

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Saltwater Mansions by David Whitehouse is out in paperback. Anyone who hasn't read it by midnight on Hallowe'en will turn to dust, like something out of Avengers: Infinity War.

Saltwater Mansions by David Whitehouse. Its cover photo of a tower block would make a good jacket for a different book.

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Bearing in mind Human Bloomsbury thinks it's OK to publish Johann Hari, maybe Robot Bloomsbury will be a rare example of AI being an improvement.

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Just worked my last shift for seventeen whole days. The place will grind to a halt without me.

A window sill masquerading as a 'safety shelf', whatever that is. Your guess is as good as mine.

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Superb. Didn't know this was happening – long may it run.

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I see a fair proportion of bookchat, but that could have something to do with judicious use of the mute button...

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

He may as well have founded the NRA. Terrible man. He's going straight to Oxfam.

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Almost all good things are born of self pity – the world would be a dismal place without it. This Siobhan rarity will sort you out.

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Siobhan Donaghy - Don't Know Why

YouTube video by gormiffelstump

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

If you're looking for a motivational song, Robin Gibb has one. He says you can do curtains in August, October, mid-April, November or May. And possibly autumn. Or Friday.

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ROBIN GIBB - August October

YouTube video by WebTwinkle

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

It was peculiar that they published the final Kaga book with so many earlier ones still untranslated. There are plenty of untranslated Detective Galileo titles too. Hopefully they'll keep them coming.

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Aztec Camera's ignored final album is, perhaps predictably, a masterpiece.

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Kevin Boniface @kevinboniface.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Just back from the preview for the excellent Post Office Cultures exhibition at the Bath House Gallery, Huddersfield. My Round About Town film 2010-2020 is screening there which is very cool : )

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

What a great clip. I love the Sputnik.

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

He's left us. Jacked it in. Early retirement.

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Only a small fraction of his work has been translated into English, but it's all tremendous. And you never know quite what you're going to get – it could be a painstaking police procedural, a sentimental fantasy or a daytime soap.

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I always thought it was because it was invented by a man called Roy.

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

RIP Keigo Higashino. One of my all-time favourite authors.

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