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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The introduction to Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition stresses the seismic effect this launch had on the people of the world. She identified the desire now typical among permaboy billionaires to escape earth as a departure from all that makes us truly human

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

*British utility company visits school fair* Stallholder - How many sweets do you estimate are in the jar? Utility Co. - Ooh, probably, a thousand? - A thousand! - Err, err, I mean... a million? - A million!!! - No! No, of course... is it. Is it three?

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I saw the first couple of songs by Oasis at Reading festival 26 years ago, and that was more than enough for me

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

*I type celebrity name* Google: take deep dive into wife of celebrity Me: they're married? *click* G: no, celebrity is not married G: How old is child of celebrity? Me: they have a child? *click* G: no, celebrity has no children G: why did celebrity divorce? Me: PISS OFF!!!

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LJ Pemberton @ljabouttown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What a fantastic literary gathering, POST MODERN, organized by @davidcollard.bsky.social! Theme? Writers who work or have worked in the postal service! Featured: Kevin Boniface, Paul Kavanaugh, Tony White, and Susanna Crossman. (I’ll link their work in 🧵below.)

Screenshot of everyone gathered for “POST MODERN,” an evening of writers who work, or have worked, in the postal service.

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Our 2027 Lunar Calendars have arrived!

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'll be sharing some thoughts on the New Zealand artist Len Lye, who worked for the General Post Office Film Unit in the 1930s, making some dazzling animated shorts such as 'Rainbow Dance'.

Shot from Len Lye's 'Rainbow Dance' (1935)

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Recommended!

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Teenagers won't believe this, but 30 years ago I had friends who's whole house was kitted out using gratis points from cigarettes. Toaster, kettle, teasmaid/made, all procured using vouchers that came with cigarettes

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Thank you @tonywhite.bsky.social and @resonancefm.bsky.social for a fantastic, stimulating show Really enjoyed reading The Discreet Dash over Georgina Starr's shoulder, too. A fellow @sladeschoolucl.bsky.social alumni, with a similar curiosity about playing with typography and sculpting with words

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Tony White @tonywhite.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Join us for Literature Live at 8pm tonight by tuning in to @resonancefm.bsky.social 🫡🙏✊

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm looking forward to joining @tonywhite.bsky.social and Georgina Starr on @resonancefm.bsky.social tonight at 8pm! Currently choosing a couple of readings from my novel Foulness shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params... linktr.ee/smallfortune...

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I'm confused by how Royal Blood songs aren't genuinely heavy. The same equipment heavy bands use. Soundgarden type settings, courting a heavy sound... ends up sounding like something you could use as Paw Patrol incidental music

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

As of today, you can buy my novel Foulness in Australian dollars, saving you 30% Set in the British home of (missionary to Tasmania) John West, the novel touches on penal transportation, genocide under British authorities, and nuclear colonialism shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...

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Foulness: a novel

It is 1957. A Russian jet flies over Foulness Island. The photograph it takes starts a chain reaction alarming London's military officials and unsettling the Essex farming community that endures withi...

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

People say they're going for a '90s aesthetic, but then where's the plastic toilet seat with barbed wire and razor blades inside of it?

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Congratulations to the 22k people of Clacton for re-electing a man who's first act as MP is to lie about a threat to his life so he can avoid their constituency

Mr Farage did not appear after he
claimed that Essex Police informed
him about a threat against him. The
Independent understands that the
force did not advise the Reform UK
leader to stay away

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

For years I've been saying "why I oughtta..." when I'm annoyed, and nobody seems to have noticed

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Sherlock Holmes is always suffering ennui as he waits for a new case. He should have paid for premium

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The long box was our most successful camera obscura for the #eclipse Great focal length

Partial eclipse glowing orange, looks like a jellybean

Crescent of nearly full eclipse, projection

Little white crescent surrounded by cardboard window

Photo of child jumping in front of camera obscura, upside down because of physics

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Tintin (tied to a stake): O MAGNIFICENT SUN, IF IT IS THY WILL...! Priest: Are you talking to the sun? Tintin: IF IT IS THY...! Priest: Is this about the eclipse? Tintin: THY- Priest: Are you pretending...? We're Sun worshippers. We've plotted every eclipse until 3000 Tintin: Ah, fudgeknuckles

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I'm going to turn the sun off at 6.15pm precisely. If you want to see your life-giving orb again, you'll have to pay me £1bn

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I made a camera obscura to film and photograph tomorrow's eclipse Also two more out of pringles tubes

Cardboard box made into a camera obscura mounted on a travelling easel in my kitchen

Inside the box, a projection of a small glowing white sun

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Angry that I ordered guaranteed delivery of eclipse glasses starting 3 weeks ago, 3 different suppliers, none are going to turn up. Sick of drop shipping Expecially at Royal Museums Greenwich who've continued to sell them over the counter until today, but haven't honoured much earlier orders

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The hard-to-find adaptation of important British writer Ann Quin's novel Berg (Killing Dad, 1989, feat. Julie Walters and Richard E Grant) leaves Netflix on Sept 1st No idea where it's going

Julie Walters lounging on a huge red sofa with uptight Richard E Grant in a tatty Southend hotel room

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

British scientist William Penney ("the smiling killer") helped select this target and advise on maximising destruction with geographical features. He went to the destroyed cities and brought back Japanese belongings; £450 worth of excess baggage (over £17,000 today). He developed the UK's first bomb

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This link is now active so you can order a copy of Foulness, an astonishing debut novel that ticked all my boxes and created new boxes to tick (which it also ticked).

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

A good poem to read before bedtime. This is by Ryler Dustin from a Green Linden Press chapbook entitled "Something Bright."

A poem by Ryler Dustin

BAPTISM AT AGATE BAY MOBILE HOME PARK

Before you go for good, walk past the crooked pines and truck too rusted to run. Light a stolen cigarette

among stumps of hemlocks, Douglas firs, false cedars the landlord sold for lumber, then watch the sun sink

into Lake Whatcom, its fire tonguing the shore. From one trailer comes war on the nightly news,

from another, a TV preacher yells about our sins, his anger muffled by tin walls as if underwater.

At dusk, when the park's dim lamp clicks on, push past nettles and broken branches to the beach

with its rotted, half-sunk dock, constellations you have no names for rising above the dark hills.

Though it's cold-summer at its end-strip in the wind, hold your breath, and dive

into that other sky.

The cover of "Something Bright" by Ryler Dustin shows a glowing sun partially hidden by the stump of a fallen tree with new leaves growing from it.

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I feel privileged to have someone spend their reading time with my story This book has absolutely no promotion besides word-of-mouth If you think you'd also enjoy a story with great characters, infused with historical narratives, this edition: shop.ingramspark.com/b/084

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

*Captain Picard voice* Stardate 41273.4 We will meet a delegation of Stradivarians from Beethoven 5, a race who evolved to look and sound much like earth violins Some consider them to be the finest singers in the galaxy, yet they live in isolation because their children sound incredibly annoying

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This last hour, I was feeling hollow, hopeless. Ennui? Then I realised we'd seen the Minions movie at lunchtime, and its sheer lack of story, imagination, and consequence had left me feeling empty

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Children Medievalists in the 🤝 in the holidays library Spending too long staring at devices

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

In one episode he's patiently watching some guys who said they can make fire, but then admit they never have. They rely on matches from abusive loggers. He tells them not to be embarrassed and reintroduces them to the local technique, and they're delighted they won't have to put up with those dicks

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Don't miss Claudia Rankine's return to Between the Covers to discuss her powerful new book TRIAGE Audio⚡: milkweed.org/between-the-... @graywolfpress.bsky.social

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

My novel Foulness is now available globally in various formats from the shop below: 📸 full colour (limited edition of 500) £30 📖 paperback (b/w) £12.99 👩‍💻 epub £9.99 linktr.ee/smallfortune...

A book cover showing colour photo of Essex coast with tide out. Black and white photo in a birds wing cutout shows tide in and lonely male figure staring out to sea. Title Foulness above, Author David Henningham below

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

A Beckettian novel of Joycean girth is such a good perspective on the novel I'm currently reading. Great review

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

On the best news ever. The Bearded Badger is back and opening a new bookshop. @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/drewgumm...

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On a new indie bookshop - the Bearded Badger is back.

Last week I was chatting to Paul Handley, chief guru and bookworm of all he surveys at Bearded Badger Books.

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

In C D Rose's letter below, you'll find a rich reading list headed by women who "write like it matters." In turn, this list reveals that the original reviewer drew upon a shallow reading list composed of much-hyped books (not their fault, of course), books he judged by their spines

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