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Across The Pond Podcast @acrossthepondbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ahem - here's the link: www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis... Or download it from your favourite podcatching service.
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147. Doireann Ní Ghríofa, "Said the Dead" - Across the Pond
Writer Doireann Ni Ghriofa returns to the podcast to talk about her new book, Said the Dead, a sensitive exploration of a female physician at an Irish mental asylum in the early 1900s and the lives of...
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Across The Pond Podcast @acrossthepondbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Our latest episode is just out - and interview with Doireann Ní Ghríofa about her extraordinary new book Said the Dead- which has also just been shortlisted for the @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social
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The Creative Splurge @thecreativesplurge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize is open until 8 November for stories up to 6,000 words. All the details are here → www.galleybeggar.co.uk/short-story-… #WritingCommunity #WritingContest #TCS @galleybeggars.bsky.social
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X. SHORT STORY PRIZE (Full info) — Galley Beggar Press
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BlogMyWiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’d go with A Month in the Country but I’m probably a lightweight.
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Sam Jordison @samjordison.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham says that Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness is the novel he would “press into someone’s hands to get them reading.” Bold move! samj.substack.com/p/big-heart?...
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Big Heart
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham says that Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness is the novel he would “press into someone’s hands to get them reading.” Bold move!
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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The wonderful Gonzalo C Garcia, author of Telenovela is speaking at Conway Hall on Saturday at this fantastic Zine and Book Fair. He's on at 11am - and the whole day looks excellent: www.tickettailor.com/events/londo...
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Select tickets – London Spanish Book & Zine Fair 2026 – Conway Hall
London Spanish Book & Zine Fair 2026 – Conway Hall, Sat 3 Oct 2026 - The LSBZF returns to Conway Hall, London WC1R 4RL, on Saturday 3rd October 2026 featuring renowned writers and publishers, new voic...
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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Essay writers, creative nonfiction people, my @saloneurope.bsky.social 3-part course, The Personal Essay: From Pitch To Publication, is almost sold out. Perfect if you want to discover essays, try out a book idea, hone your practice. Last few places available but hurry, hurry! Can't wait to see you.
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Sam Jordison @samjordison.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A few quick thoughts on why Meta is afraid of Virginia Woolf: samj.substack.com/p/no-room-fo...
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No Room For Virginia Woolf
Meta has forbidden reference to A Room Of One’s Own. It almost makes you think that techno-fascism might not be good for the world.
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Nick Black @fuzzynick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My "heart is knocking as hard as a bailiff" (to quote it) reading this. My brain knocking, too, if that's possible, though that sounds concussive. @markabowles.bsky.social @galleybeggars.bsky.social
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Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I’m at home feeling lugubrious and listening to Siouxsie and the Banshees. But later I’ll be reading some newly written fiction, along with @susannacrossman.bsky.social and others: www.mothervine.co.uk
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Mother Vine | Wine Shop & Bar in Greater London
Established in November 2021, Mother Vine is Sloane Square’s neighbourhood wine shop & bar on Pavilion Road, and a personal reflection of our journey through the world of wine.
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Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
At the launch of @markabowles.bsky.social great new book 'How Do People Stay The Same' from @galleybeggars.bsky.social, which I recommend to you all
Mark speaking
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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A tremendous, thoughtful review of @markabowles.bsky.social How Do People Stay The Same in @thespectator1828.bsky.social: spectator.com/article/a-su... "A fascinating formal experiment... In its very disjointedness, Bowles’s bracing book gets closer to the messy truth of life than do most novels."
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A succession of selves: How Do People Stay the Same by Mark Bowles reviewed
Readers of Mark Bowles’s All My Precious Madness (2024) will find much that is familiar in How Do People Stay the Same. Both are about a Bradford-born writer with a love of travel, philosophy and espr...
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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A tremendous, thoughtful review of @markabowles.bsky.social How Do People Stay The Same in @thespectator1828.bsky.social: spectator.com/article/a-su... "A fascinating formal experiment... In its very disjointedness, Bowles’s bracing book gets closer to the messy truth of life than do most novels."
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A succession of selves: How Do People Stay the Same by Mark Bowles reviewed
Readers of Mark Bowles’s All My Precious Madness (2024) will find much that is familiar in How Do People Stay the Same. Both are about a Bradford-born writer with a love of travel, philosophy and espr...
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Jessica Lee @jessofarabia.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Just listened to this & it's great ⬇️* *completely unbiased view as a NZer obvs. 🙃
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Sam Jordison @samjordison.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Not content with stealing our books, the AI industry has also started stealing our identities. My latest Substack on the new ways AI is wasting the time of everyone in publishing: samj.substack.com/p/at-last-a-...
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At last a use for AI
Wasting everyone’s damn time.
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Across The Pond Podcast @acrossthepondbooks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This week, Lori and Sam discuss The Garden Party and other stories by Katherine Mansfield. Did we like it? Did Sam think it's one of the greatest things ever? Can we not quite believe we've only just read it? I think you can guess the answers: www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis...
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145. Katherine Mansfield, "The Garden Party and Other Stories" - Across the Pond
In this special episode, Lori and Sam dig deep into the life of Katherine Mansfield and discuss three of her wonderful stories: At the Bay; The Garden Party; and, The Daughters of the Late Colonel.
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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
London book people, readers & writers. 10th September the immensensly talented @markabowles.bsky.social will launch his extraordinary novel Why Do People Stay The Same published by brilliant @galleybeggars.bsky.social. I WISH I could be there so do go, promise you won't regret it! luma.com/xe3uwolv
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Book Launch: How Do People Stay The Same · Luma
London launch for How Do People Stay the Same. Mark Bowles will be reading from his book and talking to Ella Clark of Goldfinch books. There’ll be music,…
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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Like Wil E. Coyote on Roadrunner Short Story September is upon us. Here I talk all things short story, practice, a festival, favourite collections, and the @galleybeggars.bsky.social short story prize drewgummerson.substack.com/p/on-short-s...
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On Short Story September
Prizes, prompts, collections and all that.
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Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
10th September at Nest and Vine, Queens Rd Peckham. If you haven’t already, please dm or email me if you’re coming. Bowles.mark@gmail.com Hope to see you there!!
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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Only just seen this, but Peter was an example of the small press spirit. Before we set up, and with such generosity, he spent an afternoon guiding us through the A-Zs of publishing - from AI sheets to typesetting, contracts to the importance of a good distributor: www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
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Peter Tolhurst obituary
Other lives: Founder of Black Dog Books, publishing titles celebrating East Anglia’s cultural landscape
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Nick Black @fuzzynick.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Now on order for my library too so I can get it into other readers' hands. @galleybeggars.bsky.social
Mark Bowles - HOW DO PEOPLE STAY THE SAME
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Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Playlist. All songs mentioned (with one exception) in How Do People Stay the Same: open.spotify.com/playlist/3Pr...
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Playlist · Bowles.mark · 15 items
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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Exquisite photo, hilarious text: “[Woolf told Vita Sackville-West] that I was a ‘devil woman’” … (Gisele Freund, Life in Photographs)
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Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It was an absolute thought-inciting pleasure speaking to the brilliant and amusing @susannacrossman.bsky.social for the online launch of How Do People Stay the Same @galleybeggars.bsky.social, and here it is online so you can listen too: app.box.com/s/pu14ca4v5v... #howdopeoplestaythesame
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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Latest Substack is up: On Marketing Yourself and Being Exhausted. Including: @galleybeggars.bsky.social In Praise of Booksellers, some praise of booksellers, @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social, a little bit about being exhausted, indie presses. Etc. drewgummerson.substack.com/p/on-marketi...
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On Marketing Yourself and Being Exhausted
Don’t believe everything you read. Just some of it.
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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I am now regretting that I missed the obvious headline: "Be More Beach." But I'm sharing it here because it also strikes me as an admirable approach to life.
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Sam Jordison @samjordison.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
An article in praise of booksellers. (Features some high-register prose for an article that is also about cash-registers... and business rates. But, you know what? I really mean it.) samj.substack.com/p/in-praise-...
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In praise of booksellers
Why the UK government (and everyone else) should support bookshops.
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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Join us tonight, for the online launch of @markbowles.bsky.social brilliant new novel How Do People Stay The Same. I’ll be in conversation with Mark talking about the self and time and novels and more. for info contact @galleybeggars.bsky.social . All details below.
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European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Don’t miss this conversation with friends of EWS @susannacrossman.bsky.social and @markabowles.bsky.social ✨
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Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Very much enjoyed this chat with Sam and Lori. Have a listen!
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Across The Pond Podcast @acrossthepondbooks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The wonderful @markabowles.bsky.social is on the podcast talking about his (in my very unbiased opinion) MAGNIFICENT new novel How Do People Stay The Same: www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis... Out now from @galleybeggars.bsky.social
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Across the Pond
Across the Pond is a podcast about the most discussed and anticipated books on both sides of the Atlantic. Texas indie bookstore owner Lori Feathers and UK publisher Sam Jordison bring their unique pe...
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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 17/08/2026
More than 200 independent booksellers have called on the government to give small bookshops the same business rates relief as pubs as part of prime minister Andy Burnham’s plans to rid the high street of “vape shops, betting shops and rogue operators” 👇
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Bookshops call on PM Andy Burnham to offer them same tax relief as pubs
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Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Delighted to be interviewed by @susannacrossman.bsky.social for the online launch of How Do People Stay the Same. A few places left!!
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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Booked!
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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Roll up, roll up! I will be interviewing @markabowles.bsky.social for the online launch of the excellent How Do People Stay The Same 20/08 7pm BST. @galleybeggars.bsky.social are opening up 15 extra places, on first-come-first-served basis. To claim a place email info@galleybeggar.co.uk - be quick!
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Ian Mond @mondyboy74.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Genuinely one of the best podcasts I’ve stumbled across this year. (How I missed that Sam was doing a pod and has been for five years is beyond me). What’s great is that the contemporary books they chose are those that are doing something interesting with the form while I’ll telling good stories.
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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
1/ "Putting things online is a horrible combination of all too permanent and worryingly ephemeral" -
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Sam Jordison @samjordison.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Posted this at the weekend on the fragility of digital culture, the fact that very little online lasts forever (except the stuff that shames and/or embarrasses you.) Also features vague memories of various lost websites… samj.substack.com/p/digital-de...
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Digital Death
Is anything you've written online going to survive?
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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Currently reading, rereading the brilliant new novel How Do People Stay The Same by Mark Bowles published by @galleybeggars.bsky.social . ❤️🔥. Highly recommend my friends.
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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Teatime!
Cake, a big one
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Sam Jordison @samjordison.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Something cheery for the weekend. The fact that nothing you write is going to survive. Look on our works and despair! (Also has pictures of Hadrian’s Wall.) samj.substack.com/p/digital-de...
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Digital Death
Is anything you've written online going to survive?
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Owen Booth @owenbooth.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Stop writing your stupid novel and get on this
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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize 2026-2027 is now open for submissions: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
Info about the prize. £3000 to the winner. £200 Shortlisted. £50 longlisted
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Richard Strachan @richardstrachan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I would definitely enter this if I could remember how to write short stories.
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Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
🙏
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 25/07/2026
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How Do People Stay the Same by Mark Bowles: The making of the man
A tender novel whose meditations on the self’s uncertain parameters urge excavating the past to better understand the present
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Independent Lit @independentlit.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Check it out:
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Depression and Dimwits in Mark Bowles’ How Do People Stay The Same
More acerbic wit from the author of All My Precious Madness
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petipaw @petipaw.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Started #HowDoPeopleStaytheSame by Mark Bowles – and the first few pages just blew my mind. Honoring it with a deliciously bitter #espresso as a tribute to the author’s previous novel. @galleybeggars.bsky.social #Booksky
An espresso and a book
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Turnaround Books @turnarounduk.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Our choice for July BOTM is this sharply witty yet beautifully tender novel HOW DO PEOPLE STAY THE SAME by the inimitable @markabowles.bsky.social, from @galleybeggars.bsky.social This fearsome and uplifting novel has won over us and Lilli the cat. She thoroughly recommends it. buff.ly/530yCyx
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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Terrific review for Alex in Interzone: "Alex Pheby’s Cities of the Weft [...] novels continually justify their size and indulgences; [they are] works of sinuous prose, dense with extravagant worldbuilding, intriguing formal interventions, brimful with imagination..."
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