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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 6h

#Edinburgh peeps! We have the hometown gig for @ianrankin1.bsky.social 's upcoming The Heights on October 14th! You can book tickets here www.tickettailor.com/events/theed... #books #livres #BookSky

Poster advertising the launch of Ian Rankin's new novel with the Edinburgh Bookshop

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Jon Courtenay Grimwood @joncg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You think he'd remember what happened the last time he let a hot dog seller arm himself and start a private army...

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The Past and other Places @pastandotherplaces.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Damian Barr "...hopes the Colquhoun and MacBryde families – who will gather together in Kilmarnock for the first time in 60 years – can at last have pride in their brilliant boys." The Two Roberts. Free exhibition, Kilmarnock, #Ayrshire. #art www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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'More will turn up' - Work by Scottish artists unearthed for homecoming exhibition

Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde were among the most celebrated figures in British art.

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Jon Courtenay Grimwood @joncg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Great to see M John Harrison's End of Everything on the Booker shortlist, and also glad to see Rebecca Perry's May We Feed the King...

Photograph of the booker shortlist announcement, showing a wooden bench in a wood against trees.
The list reads.
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The shortlist

The End of Everything
M. John Harrison

The Disappearers
Marlon James

Black Bag
Luke Kennard

May We Feed the King
Rebecca Perry

The Things We Never Say
Elizabeth Strout

John of. John
Douglas Stuart

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Guardian is calling giving pensioners £13,000 a year - one of the lower state pensions in Europe - unaffordable

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Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 19/09/2026

"While parking my car on a hill with the handbrake off it went rogue and autonomously rolled down the hill. We've informed the owners of the vehicles it crashed into. "We bear no responsibility for this incident which just highlights the need to teach cars the Highway Code."

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Edinburgh University created the first ever Chair in Celtic in Scotland in 1882 (Donald Mackinnon of Colonsay). This is a cultural retreat happening before our eyes where there was once leadership.

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised"

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

in every photo I've seen so far of this new cat, it's like 'excuse me, did I ASK to be identified????' I love its annoyed face

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It takes a special skill to make your first contribution on an actual "culture" issue in 11 months and have it be defending Ed Sheeran.

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Rich @rich-bryant.uk · 13/09/2026

Sorry to be lazy and crap but if I’ve forgotten anyone’s #RNLIrecipes, please remind me.

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J @jaseomcn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A dapper elderly gentleman I met in work years ago when I asked him if he golfed, leaned closer to me and said quietly and sincerely “Golf…is for wankers.”

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Jon Courtenay Grimwood @joncg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Um... Not sure 'positive' and 'negative' are really answers to a historical what impact question.

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Jon Courtenay Grimwood @joncg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If only she was wearing a balaclava, blocking roads and shouting at the waves...

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...

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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea

Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.

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Jon Courtenay Grimwood @joncg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

there are fascists pretending to be humanitarians like cannibals on a health kick eating only vegetarians [Roger McGough]

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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I have a feeling we will be coming back to this moment at some point in the next couple of years. They are trying to walk it back but I don't think it can be walked back because it is the only logical position given the current UK constititional crisis that has been playing out over the last decade.

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Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I've read to full houses at festivals such as StAnza (Scotland's biggest poetry festival) and Poetry in Aldeburgh, and I'm now booking slots for 2027...

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I don't know if it's just that this UK government missed the context of growing up in Ireland in the 90s, but they should probably be aware that gangs of lads in balaclavas don't have the best intentions for the public.

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 04/09/2026

Lee Anderson has just told the BBC that the Channel 4 report on Reform’s deliberate law-breaking story is the work of far left agitators & the party is investigating how it was funded. Amazing stuff, primary school level response.

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Jon Courtenay Grimwood @joncg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Hive mind. Anthropic deal. If the book is claimed by three different publishers (say UK, US, France), is that three claims, or one claim with three publishers having filed for a cut? I'm finding all this unnecessarily complicated!

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Jon Courtenay Grimwood @joncg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Has anyone else had a couple of these emails recently? 'Anthropic Copyright Settlement: Action Required - Update Your Claim' It's asking me to log on and I'm wondering if it's legitimate.

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Jon Courtenay Grimwood @joncg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Slightly predictable take on an alternate history of pre conquest England?

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The fallout from the collapse of this glacier - a torrent of mud surging down the valley - killed hundreds of people. Gone, in a flash. Those people were wiped out by anthropogenic climate change. Our governments are simply not responding quickly enough to this disaster which is already upon us.

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Jon Courtenay Grimwood @joncg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Of, for heaven sake... First Dolly, now Tim Curry of all people. Has the reaper been replaced with a bloody intern...

Tim Curry as the devil stands on the edge of a cliff. He wears huge horns and his chest red, his legs covered with hair. He holds a spear. The light around his is of hell. Film still or publicity shot from Legend.

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Jack @jacklikesfilm.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Sainsbury's Redundancies 2025: Around 3,000 Roles

Last updated: 23 August 2026

Sainsbury's has announced a restructuring that removes thousands of roles across the business as part of its published cost-saving strategy.

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Alec MacKinnon @alecmackinnon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

BRILLIANT words

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Jon Courtenay Grimwood @joncg.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I did a quick, in my head, breakdown of their disciplines. I wish the groupings weren't quite as clichedly predictable.

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pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The Equality and Human Rights Commission would like the Scottish government to stop giving human rights to the wrong sorts of people

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Jon Courtenay Grimwood @joncg.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Novelist: Deciding he doesn't have time to finish his tea, he puts the cup aside. PhD student: if the enclosed space of the cupboard from which the cap was taken represents family, then the cup itself must...

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Jon Courtenay Grimwood @joncg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Accept no substitutes... A Matter of Life and Death If Quadraphenia Local Hero Company of Wolves Chicken Run The Crying Game Billy Elliot Paddington 2 Skyfall

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Paul McAuley @unlikelyworlds.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

FYI Radio 4, 4pm this afternoon, M John Harrison on Take Four Books.

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Jon Courtenay Grimwood @joncg.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I'm pretty sure the reason Scotland didn't get the emergency alert isn't because the UK govt wants everyone here to burn to death, but because they know the reply would be, the climate's utterly buggered, you've held a Cobra meeting, and that's the big, let's save the globe answer you come up with?

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Jon Courtenay Grimwood @joncg.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

And after much sawing, hammering and clanking (literal), and a mostly 1980s in-theatre soundtrack that ranged from Hot Chocolate* to Wham and Bowie, I have a new knee. Massive hat tip to NHS Scotland, and the Golden Jubilee Hospital in Glasgow. *might have hallucinated this one.

Legs hidden by grey hospital blanket in small waiting area. A glass wall is in the background. A copy of the TLS lies on the bed.

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Alexander Glass @alexanderglass.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

'If they valued what they stole, if they only knew what they were destroying, then I would be consoled' - Michael Moorcock

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Simon Glendinning @simonglend.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If you haven’t already done so, please sign the petition to save the Philosophy programme at Dundee. c.org/5Smh96VnfG

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Sign the Petition

Save the Philosophy Programme at Dundee University

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Every six months a writer goes on parental leave, is driven insane by watching 10,000 hours of Paw Patrol, and writes another one of these articles, and they're always great.

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Jon Courtenay Grimwood @joncg.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Because 'building better products' is manifestly what the last two decades has been about, right? Any company that requires you to cancel by telephone and offers no other way has already introduced a mechanism to hinder you from leaving.

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Jon Courtenay Grimwood @joncg.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Think the problem is that people who don't write find it hard to believe that anyone would put in that many grindingly thankless and poorly paid hours on something that might not work anyway, and think there must be a magic short cut and we're just keeping it a secret ...

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Jon Courtenay Grimwood @joncg.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

She's Lynda La Plante for heaven sake. I'm sure they'd be prepared to come to meet her.

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Jon Courtenay Grimwood @joncg.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

So the main moral of East Palace is that everyone needs a psychopathic teddy bear as an ally?

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Jon Courtenay Grimwood @joncg.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

'Growing up, I lived in a house without art: no picture books on the shelves, no visits to museums, no posters on the bedroom wall.' Thrilled to have an advance copy of this. The definitive collected edition of John Burnside's poems. He was, and remains, a force of nature @jonathancape.bsky.social

A duck egg blue copy of John Burnside's new collection of poetry lies on a kitchen work surface. A press release lies under it. Slightly out of focus editions of the TLS and LRB are at the top.

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I've confirmed that the UK's new Sovereign AI Fund does no due diligence on whether AI companies use copyrighted work without permission before investing in them. It took me 3 Freedom of Information requests to find this out: 🧵 1/10

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Jon Courtenay Grimwood @joncg.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

If you thought the Trojan Horse was exciting, wait until you see the Cows of Cooley...

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Jon Courtenay Grimwood @joncg.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Great list. One glaring omission*. Really glad to see The End of Everything on There, and @serpents-tail.bsky.social and @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social holding their own. [*imagine everyone has one wtf absence)

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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

the ideal academic life is being an eccentric Victorian lord. Invent a stamp licking machine at 22. Get elected to the Royal Academy for counting the beetles on your estate. Die in an arsenic explosion. The perfect life.

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