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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

“All is recollection save for the slender membrane of now. Every present thought, every present feeling, collides with a league of their familial ghosts.” Read from @fjmozley.bsky.social’s new novel, Awake Awake. lithub.com/awake-awake/

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All is recollection save for the slender membrane of now. Every present thought, every present feeling, collides with a league of their familial ghosts. And if our lives in this moment seem flimsy,…

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Curtis Brown Creative @cbcreative.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

We're so excited that @fjmozley.bsky.social, author of #Elmet & #HotStew, and Becky Walsh, Senior Commissioning Editor at @johnmurrays.bsky.social will be masterclass speakers on Writing Your Novel – Six Months! Find out more & apply by 27th Apr: www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/course/writi...

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Fiona Mozley @fjmozley.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

AWAKE, AWAKE (June 2026) Waterstones discount code OCTOBER25

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AWAKE, AWAKE (June 2026) Waterstones discount code OCTOBER25

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Fiona Mozley @fjmozley.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Picked up some entry-level Pynchon to read on the train. Halfway through and totally lost. Send help.

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Owen Booth @owenbooth.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Idea for a book about a successful nature writer who gets exposed as a fraud but recovers from the trauma by going back to nature again and then writes a book about the experience which turns out to be an even bigger success than the one that got them into trouble in the first place but then

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Next came @souljaleonn.bsky.social on memories and images of memories of the ancient kingdom of Elmet, plugging among many pieces of literature (and osteological reports), the brilliant 2017 novel Elmet by @fjmozley.bsky.social

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 26/06/2025

York City have unveiled next season’s shirt, featuring a rune version of the club name, in collaboration with the Jorvik Viking Centre. Unfortunately you don’t want to mess with York’s fanbase when it comes to runes.

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Fiona Mozley @fjmozley.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Elmet’s been turned into a play by total genius Javaad Alipoor. Known for theatre about Iran & its diaspora, with Elmet he’ll be exploring his Yorkshire roots. 22nd October - 2nd November in Bradford, with live music from Mercury Prize-nominated The Unthanks. bradford2025.co.uk/event/elmet/

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Fiona Mozley @fjmozley.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Selling my tickets for Bright Eyes in London on 25/6 and seeing them in Glasgow instead. Link here secure.ticketmaster.co.uk/rs/3E0060D5B...

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Fiona Mozley @fjmozley.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

In New York for the week, based in Brooklyn (which I don’t know very well). Suggestions welcome! 🙏

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Fiona Mozley @fjmozley.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

In New York for the week, based in Brooklyn (which I don’t know very well). Suggestions welcome! 🙏

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

I know I normally only talk about non-fiction history books, but I had to post my thoughts on ELMET (2017) by @fjmozley.bsky.social (1/?)

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Fiona Mozley @fjmozley.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

This reveals so much, both about Ice and Amazon Prime.

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Nik Gunn @nikgunn.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

If you think intellectual life is already dominated by a narrow elite, I promise you ain’t seen nothing yet.

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The sad thing is that email and admin have taken over academic life so much that many of us have to squeeze in the poisoning of minds on evenings and weekends.

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Fiona Mozley @fjmozley.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Is Radio 4 just going to be non-stop unfunny comedy from now on?

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Elizabeth Baines @elizabethbaines.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Elmet is a fantastic novel.

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optimismofthewill.bsky.social @optimismofthewill.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

For fiction, I particularly recommend NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names, George Saunders' A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, @fjmozley.bsky.social 's Elmet, Ursula LeGuin's The Dispossessed (finally!) and Sunjeev Sahota's The Year of the Runaways.

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Fiona Mozley @fjmozley.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Sometimes I just sit around and imagine what life must have been like for a semi-successful novelist in the 1990s.

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Selzero @selzero.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The Welsh told the Saxons this hill was called "pen" (meaning "hill"). The Saxons added their word for hill, "tor," and called it Torpen (hill hill). Later the Norse added their world for hill. So it became Torpen Haugr (Hill Hill Hill). Now the English call it Torpenhow Hill (Hill Hill Hill Hill)

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 25/01/2025

Ae fond kiss, and then we sever; Ae fareweel, and then forever! Deep in heart-wrung tears I’ll pledge thee, Warring sighs and groans I’ll wage thee… —Robert Burns SELECTED POEMS & SONGS (OUP, 2013) #BurnsNight Listen to the song performed here by Robyn Stapleton www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax02...

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“Ae Fond Kiss”

Ae fond kiss, and then we sever;
Ae fareweel, and then forever!
Deep in heart-wrung tears I’ll pledge thee,
Warring sighs and groans I’ll wage thee.
Who shall say that fortune grieves him,
While the star of hope she leaves him?
Me, nae cheerfu’ twinkle lights me;
Dark despair around benights me.

I'll ne’er blame my partial fancy,
Naething could resist my Nancy;
But to see her was to love her;
Love but her, and love forever.
Had we never lov’d sae kindly,
Had we never lov’d sae blindly,
Never met—or never parted—
We had ne’er been broken-hearted.

Fare thou weel, thou first and fairest!
Fare thee weel, thou best and dearest!
Thine be ilka joy and treasure,
Peace, Enjoyment, Love, and Pleasure!
Ae fond kiss, and then we sever;
Ae fareweel, Alas! for ever!
Deep in heart-wrung tears I’ll pledge thee,
Warring sighs and groans I’ll wage thee.

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Fiona Mozley @fjmozley.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Actually pretty scared about this.

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Linda Maynard @lindamaynard.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

This is going to be special.

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Creative PEC @creativepec.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Very excited to hear about this from one of Creative PEC's Industry Champions!

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Fiona Mozley @fjmozley.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

***NEWS KLAXON*** ELMET is going to be a play, adapted by the incredible Javaad Alipoor for Bradford City of Culture 2025. www.javaadalipoor.co.uk/our-work/elmet

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Fiona Mozley @fjmozley.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

***NEWS KLAXON*** ELMET is going to be a play, adapted by the incredible Javaad Alipoor for Bradford City of Culture 2025. www.javaadalipoor.co.uk/our-work/elmet

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Fiona Mozley @fjmozley.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

My Instagram is full of people baking intricate cakes and shearing sheep.

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Fiona Mozley @fjmozley.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Just finished Orbital. I’ve encountered a lot of bad reviews on social media but I liked it a lot more than I thought I would. Actually, I found it to be really beautiful. Yes, the characters are voids but the impersonalisation worked for me.

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I've always loved the fact that the word 'sneeze' is the result of a historical accident. The original form, in the Middle Ages, was 'fnese', but someone mistook the 'f' for the long medieval 's' and wrote down 'sn-' instead. Fneezing sounds much more like a proper, nasal sneeze.

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Fiona Mozley @fjmozley.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Does anyone have any ideas about staying in Brooklyn? Where’s good/ where to avoid? I know Manhattan pretty well and I’ve stayed in Greenpoint before but I know nothing of Brooklyn… (Accompanying academic partner on a research trip)

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Fiona Mozley @fjmozley.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I thought Wicked was boring and inane.

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Fiona Mozley @fjmozley.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I read some more Roth over the holidays. After being dazzled by his mind-bending genius, I have lately been wading through the dregs. Very much love/hate. Thinking of writing a long essay on all of this… 🤷‍♀️

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Prof. Pragya Agarwal @drpragyaagarwal.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Hope Santa visited wherever you are. This is from a 1598 map ‘William Barentsz's Map of the Polar Regions’

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Fiona Mozley @fjmozley.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

1) Watching Christmas Bake-off 2) Saw Natalie Cassidy 3) Googled “Sonia best scenes Eastenders” 4) Watched a video of teenage Sonia giving birth to a Christmas baby she didn’t know she was pregnant with.

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