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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

(It did not arrive)

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Don’t remember this Penguin Classic…

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

To anyone who has read and enjoyed my books - or not enjoyed, taste is a funny thing - I would be overjoyed if you could please leave a short review or even just a rating on Goodreads or Amazon (links in replies). A big thank you to those who have already done so!

Two books in front of some records.
To Rise in the Dark and Hunter both by Nick J. Brown

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I seem to have logged into the Yorkshire library system by mistake…

A sign for audiobooks with the word eAudiobooks underneath

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Thomas Pynchon responds 42 years earlier…

The knitting machines which provoked the first Luddite disturbances had been putting people out of work for well over two centuries. Everybody saw this happening - it became part of daily life. They also saw the machines coming more and more to be the property of men who did not work, only owned and hired. It took no German philosopher, then or later, to point out what this did, had been doing, to wages and jobs.

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

‘Full of laugh out loud one-liners.’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘Devoured in 24 hours.’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘Highly entertaining.’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Looking for a summer read? Meet your new favourite detective! www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0F4...

‘Most things turn up…. Except those that don’t.’

Hunter by Nick J. Brown in ebook and paperback

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Rare colour photo of James Joyce celebrating #Bloomsday

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

A look back at three glorious days of Prole Art Treats… northernmailman.substack.com/p/the-fall-f...

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The Fall Futures & Pasts Festival

A celebration of 50 years of The Fall

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

We don't normally see each other's headers. Here's mine. Buy my books! Please…

Two books by me
To Rise in the Dark and Hunter

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Nicola Blackwell @nicolablackwell.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

nicolablackwell.substack.com/p/fascinatin...

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

‘It’s so hot I’ve just fried an egg on Jane Eyre’s bonnet. I didn’t even know they had cars back then…’

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Always nice to find myself on a bookshelf… @chorltonbookshop.bsky.social

Me in a bookshop holding a copy of To Rise in the Dark, a paperback book you really should buy.

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Wishing Thomas Ruggles Pynchon a big 89th birthday!

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Mike @hemjefc.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Worth it for the Everton references alone

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Published a year ago today and only 99p on Kindle til May!

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Incendiary Books @incendiarybooks.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Only 99p on Kindle ebook! A disgraced author goes missing in Manchester, a dachshund disappears, a death cult may or may not be on the loose. When all seems lost, call Hunter... www.amazon.co.uk/Hunter-When-...

A dog and a book with the words ‘only 99p on Kindle!’

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Detective comedy bargain! Think The Big Lebowski but from Salford…

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Incendiary Books @incendiarybooks.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

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Nicola Blackwell @nicolablackwell.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

So excited that THE MIDSUMMER GIRLS will be coming out with Dead Ink books in the UK in May 2027! 🥳🖤 Can't wait to share this dark and twisty revenge thriller with readers!

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

“His coccyx also, and adjacent gear, performed their little annual revolution, as appeared from an examination of the sheets (changed regularly on Saint Patrick's Day)…”

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

The publishing industry's lack of confidence in authors and its own ability to create careers for them is pathetic and, in the end, self-defeating.

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Franz Kafka and Thomas Pynchon celebrating #WorldBookDay…

Michael Imperioli and Warren Ellis having a sit down

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Sent my imaginary child in for #WorldBookDay dressed as Gregor Samsa…

A French version of Kafka’s Metamorphosis. Gregor Samsa as a giant insect.

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Last day for this absolute bargain!

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

For just 99p bag yourself over 300 pages of: 90s gigs, Manchester boozers, Salford contrarians, Teenage Kicks (and punches), the word ‘cock’ as an extreme form of punctuation, militant trade unionists, a Ghost of Christmas Past, a Road to Nowhere, and heavy sarcasm. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DDCGL2MG

What price the rock 'n' roll dream?
From 90s record shops to present day Manchester

To Rise in the Dark by Nick J Brown

SALE
99p ebook

'For anyone who asks, we're all over eighteen and have got the fake IDs to prove it.'

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

A montage of Manchester icons, pubs and venues with the book To Rise in the Dark in the middle.

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Incendiary Books @incendiarybooks.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Born on this day in 1882, Irish novelist James Joyce…

Mr Bronson from Grange Hill stood in front of a wall with his briefcase.

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Rick Walton @waltwriting.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Read it; enjoyed.

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

The works of Shakespeare were, in fact, written by Ron Mael from Sparks…

A fella with a funny little tache on the cover of Othello

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Yours Sincerely, Samuel Beckett @yourssambeckett.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

9/9/1930 Dear Putnam, I am working all day & most of the night to get this fucking Proust finished.

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Yours Sincerely, Samuel Beckett @yourssambeckett.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

25/8/1930 My dear Tom (McGreevy), I started writing this morning, worked like one inspired for 2 1/2 hours, then tore everything up and made a present of it to the panier.

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

‘It would be a pity, as there was talk of Alec Guinness for the role of Estragon.’ Big Sam Beckett on the postponement of a West End Godot production, 1954.

Alec Guinness as George Smiley with the words ‘Dreadful privation’

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Giotto di Bondone recreating THAT Manchester scene back in 1320…

The Epiphany by Giotto di Bondone.
Various figures lounging, standing, crouching and pointing.

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

If any real Manchester/Salford kebab shops would like to pay me good money it would save me having to make up fictional ones.

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Spent all my Christmas money rounding out my aged editions of the Beckett trilogy: Molloy (The Olympia Press, 1955) Malone Dies (Penguin Books, 1962) The Unnameable (Grove Press, 1970)

3 books. Molloy, Malone Dies and the Unnamable by Samuel Beckett

Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett in paperback

The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett in hardback

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Andy ❤️⬆️％🇺🇦 @andymoorhouse.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

My Storygraph 2025 wrap: 36 books read, I gave 10 of them ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ including 2 from @nicolaupson.bsky.social, 2 from @orlaowenwriting.bsky.social, @northernmailman.bsky.social’s hilarious “Hunter” (eagerly awaiting the next one Nick!), and @mrsimonraymonde.bsky.social’s wonderful memoir 🙏📚❤️ #BookSky

A screenshot of my Storygraph 5-star reads in 2025.

Storygraph collage of all books I read in 2025

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Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Four books read in 2025 & worthy of recommendation…

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

I always find it funny in Tarkovsky’s Stalker that the writer rocks up in a fancy car with an attractive younger woman in tow. That his carrier bag might contain the unpublished “masterpiece” he’s spent years shopping round literary agents with no interest seems far more realistic.