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Louise Spencely 📚📚

@louisespencely.bsky.social
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Mother 💗. Editor and project manager of academic encyclopedias and textbooks. Marlborough LitFest committee member (Author Selection Group Chair, Print Publicity Editor). Also 🌷🌳🦉🧶

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Plug-in solar panels are coming to the UK from August 27th! It's been in the pipeline for a while & it's already common in Germany. But it's BRILLIANT because it opens up these technologies to renters & ppl w/o their own roof. Plugs into a normal socket & supplies ~ 10-20% of household needs. ☀️🎉
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UK households free to install plug-in balcony solar panels from end of August
Law change means renters and flat owners may be able to cut bills as energy costs soar amid Iran war
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
In celebration of World Book Day, here’s a poem called ‘Book Group’.
Book Group

The last Thursday of every month was Book Group,
when the books would gather together to discuss Brian.

“It’s no fun here any more,” remarked Bleak House, glumly.
“Why doesn’t he read us?” whined the Grapes of Wrath. “It makes me so angry!” 
“I’m sure he only bought me so he can show me off to his friends,”
complained Ulysses, in a stream of self-consciousness.

“I bet he can’t even remember my name, The Idiot,”
muttered a voice from the Russian literature section.
“That’s because he avoids you like The Plague,” said another.
“C’est vrai!” came a cry. “It is like I do not exist.”

“Let’s not give up on him yet.” It was Brave New World.
After some Persuasion, they agreed to give him one last chance.
“Be quiet!” cried Waiting for Godot with Great Expectations.
“Here he comes now!”

Brian entered the room, with his phone.
He sat down and watched some videos of baby pandas falling over.
After an hour or so, he started googling cats dressed as celebrities.

On the shelf, the books waited with uncracked spines,
their silence speaking volumes.


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Alison Hennessey @alisonhennessey.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I still haven't seen Wuthering Heights yet but this, from @theonion.com, made me cackle theonion.com/bookseller-s... 'At press time, sources confirmed Mueller was on his hands and knees pleading with the Wuthering Heights director to check out their vast array of Colleen Hoover titles'
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Bookseller Scrambles To Hide All The Classics After Seeing Emerald Fennell Approaching Door
LONDON—Calling for all hands on deck as he seized an armful of paperbacks, local bookshop owner Colin Mueller was reportedly scrambling to hide the classics Monday after he spotted filmmaker Emerald F...
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
It's the February Rainy Day(s) Sale! Announcing a 25% discount sale on all postcards, board prints and bookmarks, including recent additions such as our Owls collection, our John William Waterhouse collection, our Ian Archie Beck collection, and our Hasui Kawase collection. www.rathergoodart.co.uk
A panel of paintings from artists featured in our 25% discount sale, including Hasui Kawase, John William Waterhouse, and owl collection, and a collection from Ian Archie Beck.
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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Last day for this - and also a reminder of why this has taken so long. The hardback was published by Unbound, who promptly collapsed, having spent all my earnings from the book on dubious tech schemes. So although a lot of people bought it, I never saw the royalties.
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Marlborough.news @marlborough-news.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Sir Anthony Seldon and Kit De Waal announced as first authors for LitFest 2026 marlborough.news/news/sir-ant...
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Sir Anthony Seldon and Kit De Waal announced as first authors for LitFest 2026
Kit de Waal and Sir Anthony Seldon Marlborough LitFest is delighted to announce its first confirmed authors for 2026 as historian and educationalist Sir
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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 29/01/2026
Confidence in Trump dips, and fewer now say they support his policies and plans. Read more here:
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Confidence in Trump Dips, and Fewer Now Say They Support His Policies and Plans
Only 27% of Americans say they support all or most of Trump's policies – down since last year, with the change coming entirely among Republicans.
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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 20/01/2026
Ooof.
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Psychology Today @psychologytoday.com · 19/01/2026
Many highly sensitive, intelligent, and gifted adults are stuck in toxic relationships without knowing why. The answer could lie in a history of parentification and prioritizing the needs of others. This is how. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/livi...
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Why Highly Intelligent People Stay in Toxic Relationships
You can see that the relationship is no longer working, and still, you struggle to walk away. Your high empathy and ability to hold multiple perspectives may explain why that is.
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
This makes no sense… An MP can wake up one morning, ditch the party you elected them for, & sign up to a completely different manifesto… No thanks If they defect to a different party, we should get a vote Sign the petition & help make that law. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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Petition: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party
When an MP decides they want to defect to another party a by-election should be automatically triggered to allow the constituents the opportunity have their democratic right to agree or not with their...
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Louise Spencely 📚📚 @louisespencely.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
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Louise Spencely 📚📚 @louisespencely.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
If this article had existed in late April 2019, when I was asked a "why?" question I didn't have the knowledge to answer, perhaps I'd have been able to make a difference. Seeing through the Eyes of the Alienated Child open.substack.com/pub/shorteni...
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Seeing through the Eyes of the Alienated Child
Learn how to recognize what your child needs without them telling you - STRT May 2025
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Louise Spencely 📚📚 @louisespencely.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I love editing ancient history, but good grief 😲 Cassander was a nasty piece of work. Looking forward to having my lunch break away from all the machinations and murder!
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Adele Zeynep Walton @adelewalton.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Take 2 mins to demand that Meta stop targeting you with creepy personalised ads and content! goodlaw.social/gk0i
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Meta: this time it’s personal
Take 2 mins to write to Meta now!
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Profile Books @profilebooks.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
'Drawing from extensive research and filled with jaw-dropping revelation' Read the full @waterstones.bsky.social blog piece by @shaunwalker7.bsky.social on his process of writing #TheIllegals here: tinyurl.com/5ue62u8d
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Shaun Walker on Writing The Illegals | Waterstones.com Blog | Waterstones
The author of The Illegals talks about researching the Russian deep-cover spy programme.
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Bookaholic Bex @bexbookaholic.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Save the date boys and girls! I was given a little sneak peak into some of the authors speaking at this year's @marlboroughlitfest.bsky.social last night and OMG I am excited! You definitely want to make sure you can be there #booksky ❤️
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Louise Spencely 📚📚 @louisespencely.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I finished reading this proof 10 days ago & have had 🤞 since then that @kitdewaal.bsky.social would be available to come to Marlborough LitFest. Sadly she isn't, but now I can say how much I LOVE this book & exhort anyone who enjoys excellent, compassionate fiction to read it. Out on 10 April.
Cover of The Best of Everything, the new novel by Kit de Waal
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Louise Spencely 📚📚 @louisespencely.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
At 2 mins 50 seconds. Heartbreaking. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcXS...
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Alienated child reunites after 12 years - tips for alienated parents
YouTube video by Charlie McCready
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Louise Spencely 📚📚 @louisespencely.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
👇 if only
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Marlborough LitFest @marlboroughlitfest.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
We're so excited to announce our first headliner for this year's LitFest: #AlanHollinghurst @panmacmillan.bsky.social will be our 2025 #GoldingSpeaker With thanks to event sponsor @williamgolding.bsky.social Save the date for our 16th festival: 25-28 September! More info: bit.ly/4g8gW1e #MLF2025
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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
"Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world." ~ John Milton
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Louise Spencely 📚📚 @louisespencely.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
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Louise Spencely 📚📚 @louisespencely.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Back to work today, editing a fascinating book on the cultural history of apocalyptic movements. It's months since I worked on a history title and I've missed them, but now I have two weeks of history to look forward to 🙂.
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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 29/12/2024
It’s likely that you’ll have some bits of card or paper knocking about after Christmas, and here’s a great way to use up some of it: simply trim a piece to the right size and stick it on your screen to block out Google’s “AI Overview” results
A picture of a screen with Google’s terrible AI Overview blocked out by a piece of cardboard
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Giles Paley-Phillips @eliistender10.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
For anyone who is being hard on themselves right now.
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Louise Spencely 📚📚 @louisespencely.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
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Louise Spencely 📚📚 @louisespencely.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
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Louise Spencely 📚📚 @louisespencely.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
@bexbookaholic.bsky.social 😁
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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Upon my sickle I catch the sun And by my power I cast it on Across the sky The light to bring To rouse the gods To send the spring #WinterSolstice #Solstice #Midwinter #PlaymobilInfestation
Playmobil Druid with the dawning sun over his upraised sickle
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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Happy Winter Solstice to all in the northern hemisphere. The turn of the year's tide, a pivot-point, a day of hope—when the dark stops rising & after which the Sun begins its slow climb back. A day I celebrate more than Christmas or New Year. Fiat lux! 📷 by @annieworsley.bsky.social
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Marlo Garnsworthy @icebird.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
One thing many people don’t realize about Antarctica: just how HUGE it is! Compare the mainland USA, for example. Find out about our work there by following @swais2c.bsky.social 🧪 🎨 by me #Antarctica #SWAIS2C
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Louise Spencely 📚📚 @louisespencely.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Coldplay and Dick van Dyke All My Love ❤️ youtube.com/watch?v=o4Ol...
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Louise Spencely 📚📚 @louisespencely.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
100% this 👇 "Don't throw away your printed books: A meta-analysis on the effects of reading media on reading comprehension." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Don't throw away your printed books: A meta-analysis on the effects of reading media on reading comprehension
With the increasing dominance of digital reading over paper reading, gaining understanding of the effects of the medium on reading comprehension has b…
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Adam Grant @adamgrant.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Great minds don’t think alike. They challenge each other to think differently. The people who teach you the most are the ones who share your principles but not your thought processes. Converging values draw you to similar questions. Diverging views introduce you to new answers.
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Louise Spencely 📚📚 @louisespencely.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Not leaving the house today! ☔🌧️🌧️ Staying in and making Christmas marmalade instead, filling the house with the smell of oranges, and listening to Heart 80s' Band Aid 40th-anniversary programme 🙂.
Marmalade pan on the stove
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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 04/12/2024
Hey. There's zero percent chance of your brain falling out if you choose to have open-ended, philosophical discussions that don't conform to rigid categories & institutionally provided parameters. In fact, stretching the mind regularly will make your best & brightest synapses even stronger. 🧠
Don't be afraid to be open-minded. Your brain isn't going to fall out.
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Happy birthday Hanif Kureishi! In this first biography of the author, @ruvaniranasinha.bsky.social sheds new light on how his life animates his work, and offers a vivid portrait of a major talent who has inspired a new generation of writers: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526147394/ #OnThisDay
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Manchester University Press - Hanif Kureishi
Hanif Kureishi - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Hanif Kureishi by Ruvani Ranasinha
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
US artist Sue Beatrice who creates steampunk sculptures and jewellery out of old watch parts
Photo of a gold coloured watch on a chain with an image inside the glass of a winged figure, upper half facing right, created with tiny metal cogs, nuts and coils, above a white fingertip props up the watch on a cream surface
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Louise Spencely 📚📚 @louisespencely.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Will be very interested to see how the restoration of the Eagle & Child progresses.
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Emma Weird Wiltshire @weird-wiltshire.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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Sign the petition: Britain is not for sale: don't let the likes of Elon Musk meddle in our democracy
🚨 WORLD’S RICHEST MAN BUYING OUR DEMOCRACY 🚨 Elon Musk is set to pump £78m into Nigel Farage’s party—a sum that would allow Reform to flood our politics with targeted ads. Maybe other countries allow ...
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Louise Spencely 📚📚 @louisespencely.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Brilliant to see that theweek.com have chosen @marlboroughlitfest.bsky.social as one of the best UK literary festivals 🎉🎉 theweek.com/culture-life...
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Best UK literary festivals of 2025
From Hay and Cheltenham to Henley and Oxford, here are some of the year's top events for book lovers
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
An ancient bowl with human feet to bring a smile to your face this weekend! It tips slightly forwards as if offering its contents! Predynastic Egypt, Naqada period c. 3700-3450 BC. At the Met: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... 📷 by me #Archaeology
A hemispherical red pottery bowl with supports in the shape of a pair of human feet. Made from Nile clay, polished to give a light surface sheen. The bowl tips slightly forwards as if offering its contents. Made in Egypt around 5,500 years ago, during the Predynastic Naqada period
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Giles Paley-Phillips @eliistender10.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
For anyone in the UK, If you text ‘SHOUT’ to 85258 when you are in a dark place or suicidal, a trained crisis volunteer will text you back. This is great If you find talking on the phone challenging. It’s completely free 24/7. Please Repost, you never know who might need this support
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Ethics in Bricks @ethicsinbricks.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
"Those who do not move, do not notice their chains." - Rosa Luxemburg
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Canongate @canongate.co.uk · 26/11/2024
So if you're a writer think about why you write, and why you want to publish (if you do!). Know that real, talented human beings exist who can help you on your way (whatever it may be) if you want them to.
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Little Toller Books @littletollerbooks.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
This is why I am going to show you how we make a book. It’s a process, it’s a lot of work, it’s done by humans!! It’s incredibly rewarding wonderful work. Follow my daily journey as I show you how it’s done every step of the way.
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Canongate @canongate.co.uk · 25/11/2024
What's interesting about this trend for book marketing AI companies—who secure £Xmil in seed funding, get a write-up in the Bookseller, and will now wither away, leaving only a slime trail of AI generated goop across the surface of culture—is mainly what it says about capital’s engagement with books
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Tobi @tobifrenzen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
1/ 🚨 Conspiracy theories about the 2024 election miss the bigger picture. The truth? It wasn’t one night, one hack, or one fraud. It was a system rigged in plain sight – right in front of us. The playbook was out in the open for years. But hardly anyone paid attention. Here’s how they did it... 🧵
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