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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

1935 cartoon from feminist periodical Time & Tide Caption: Signor Mussolini: "But Good Heavens! they don't seem to realise that if I say a thing three times it must be true!" Reminds us of....? (Everything changes to stay the same ...)

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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

❤️ ❤️ ❤️ Such a thoughtful synopsis of Malachi Whitaker's "Honeymoon" in Lucy Evan's Introduction to "Stories for Lovers" (British Library Women Writers series, 2026) ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Hull-born Amy Johnson set off on her pioneering flight on this day 1930, becoming the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia. She went on to break many long-distance records.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

If rain promotes culture why are the English so stupid.

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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Malachi Whitaker in 'The Book of Bradford'! "Smoke of the Tide” by Malachi Whitaker is the story of a man, anchored by marriage down South but deeply connected to his city. His wife is derogatory about ‘the North’, so he is alone as he reflects whilst exploring the regular fun fair.

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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

British Library's "Stories for Lovers" -- including "Honeymoon by Malachi Whitaker" -- is in this colourful and varied pile from award-winning bookseller Sam Read. Thanks @samreadbookseller.bsky.social

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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Thanks for including Malachi Whitaker's And So Did I on your eclectic reading list @heavenalibooks.bsky.social Next to Sylvia Townsend-Warner, no less! ❤️

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Ali Hope 📚📚 @heavenalibooks.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

My February reading round-up. 7 books, one was a re-read (though I had remembered nothing). A really excellent mix of books, mainly fiction but each quite different. Full list in alt text. Hard to pick one favourite. So, I call that a good month. What good things did you read in February? 💙📚

February books:
Fanfare for Tin Trumpets by Margery Sharp
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Birding by Rose Ruane
Dancing with Death by Joan Coggin
The Party by Tessa Hadley
And so Did I by Malachi Whitaker
The Flint Anchor by Sylvia Townsend Warner.

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James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark is BOOK OF THE WEEK in The Times, and it's frankly outrageous that a small marching band hasn't trundled into my house to make some little celebratory parps in my honour 😤

A photo of me, holding up a copy of The Times which features a review of my book, accompanied by the headline: ‘A genius with claws - the picaresque life of Muriel Spark’

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Susan DuBose @houseofbast777.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

'Recollect' Winifred Nicholson, 1973

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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The women published by Persephone Books. Malachi Whitaker is 4th from left, on bottom row. The Journey Home & Other Stories (2017; foreword by Philip Hensher) is the only work of Whitaker's fiction currently in print. Thanks to Persephone for the image & for publishing Malachi 💛 💛 💛

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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 18/03/2026

Looking for a great biography to read? You couldn't do any better than read ANY of the ten books long listed for the Plutarch Award, presented annually by @biographersintl.bsky.social. biographersinternational.org/news/2026-pl...

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2026 Plutarch Award Longlist Announced

The 2026 Plutarch Award Longlist Announced by the Biographers International Organization.

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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

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Susan DuBose @houseofbast777.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

'Amaryllis' Piet Mondrian, 1910, watercolour

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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Malachi Whitaker's And So Did I goes stateside! In the window (bottom left) of Phinney Books, Seattle. On the occasion of Boiler House Editor Brad Bigelow's presentation of his new biography of Virginia Faulkner (with a display of beautiful books from @bhousepress.bsky.social) @neglectedbooks.com

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

W.H. Smith bookshop, Victoria station, Manchester, 1925.

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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Excellent choices, if we may say so! ❤️

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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Malachi Whitaker's list of influential authors include her favourite Brontë sister, Emily. "Wuthering Heights for inward physical passion. I mean Emily Brontë, some poems, force behind marrow channel." The brief notes in a 1948 letter describe Brontë's powerful impact on her inner life and work.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Other work of the Ladybird artists. ‘Missel Thrush’, 1937 Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

An engraving looking up at a song thrush in full voice as it perches on a twig against a white sky in early spring

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Exciting news for Anita Brookner fans! #BookSky 💙📚 Hermione Lee’s biography, ANITA BROOKNER: ART & LIFE, is due to be published on 10th September 2026. Details here: www.penguin.co.uk/books/445930...

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Anita Brookner

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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

"When Cathy says: “I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills,” she articulates a truth that resonates with me deeply." Spot on article by Anjelika May in The Guardian www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

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Ali Hope 📚📚 @heavenalibooks.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Last night I started reading a rather lovely little book. And So Did I by Malachi Whitaker, a kind of mix of memoir and journal. First published in 1939, and reissued by Boiler House Press. @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social 📚💙

Book cover. White band toward the bottom bearing the title And so Did I and author Malachi Whitaker. Two thirds of the book blue/grey coloured featuring the image of a woman's eyes.

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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Spotted in Bradford Waterstones 🤍 Bottom left: Malachi Whitaker's The Journey Home (Persephone, 2017) & And So Did I (Boiler House Press, 2025). In the company of: Emily Brontë, JB Priestley, Sairish Hussain, AA Dhand & more. Bradford writing rocks! 🪨 ❤️ 🪨

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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

The documentary (How to Build a Library) about reinventing the Nairobi MacMillan Memorial Library was one of the best things on the programme @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social in 2025. The documentary deserves wider distribution. Great to see this project getting some love. ❤️

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Neil Denny @littleatoms.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

On this week's Little Atoms podcast, Francesca Wade on her brilliant new biography Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife. Out now from @faberbooks.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you find your podcasts or via this link: shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...

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Little Atoms 954 - Francesca Wade's Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife | Little Atoms

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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

❤️ Intelligent stories for Valentine's day (& not only) by the likes of Virginia Woolf & Malachi Whitaker! ❤️ British Library Women Writers series @blpublishing.bsky.social

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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Malachi Whitaker's 1st book, Frost in April, was sold at WH Smith stall, Bradford Forster Sq Station, in 1929. JB Priestley's Good Companions came out the same year. The stallholder, a friend, repositioned JBP's 'By a local author' labels to advertise Malachi's book. Did the stall look like this?

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Mathew Lyons @mathewlyons.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

My review of The Boundless Deep, Richard Holmes' biography of the young Tennyson, a man struggling with familial demons and both excited and terrified by the implications of geological and astronomical science. Thanks as always to @engelsbergideas.bsky.social. engelsbergideas.com/reviews/tenn...

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Tennyson was young once

A new biography of the formative years of the Victorian poet illuminates an unparalleled historical moment of vulnerability and wonder.

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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Fabulous biography of the great man

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gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

'Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark' is live! open.substack.com/pub/gabriell... @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

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gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

'Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife' open.substack.com/pub/gabriell... @faberbooks.bsky.social

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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

"Biography can be a glib genre." What a glib remark! But Judith Mackrell's biography of Gwen and Augustus John has been long listed for the 2026 Women's Prize. And it sounds magnificent! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

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Artists, Siblings, Visionaries by Judith Mackrell review – the remarkable lives of Gwen and Augustus John

Gwen’s talent vastly outshone her brother’s – but both are treated with subtlety in this outstanding dual biography

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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Speaking about Malachi Whitaker to the highly-engaged attendees @litcamb.bsky.social was one of the highlights of my quest to bring Whitaker's brilliant writing to public attention. Thank you for the opportunity. (Valerie) ❤️

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Literature Cambridge @litcamb.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Mitchell Alcrim writes about Clare Harman’s book about Katherine Mansfield on our Blog page. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/news/alcrim-km And join us for our new course on Katherine Mansfield: Love Stories, live online, 19 March-20 April 2026. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/km-course-26

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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Two amazing nights this week with engaged readers of Book Club members at Grove Bookshop, Ilkley, reading Malachi Whitaker's And So Did I (@bhousepress.bsky.social). One of the groups gave it their highest ever aggregate score!

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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

1/2 Pssst. "Someone" rearranged the dedicated stand at Waterstones, Bradford to show off 3 recent books featuring Malachi Whitaker. All are now back on their rightful shelves 😎 1. And So Did I, Malachi's 1939 memoir, reissued Sept 2025 by @bhousepress.bsky.social 2. Book of ...

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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Yay! And So Did I (Boiler House Press, 2025) is now on the dedicated Malachi Whitaker stand at Waterstones, Bradford. Alongside The Journey Home & Other Stories (Persephone, 2017) and Benighted by JB Priestley (who went to the same Bradford school).

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 11/01/2026

Join me, Will Fellows, and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Debby Applegate for the virtual launch of Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts. January 15, 7-9PM GMT/2-3PM EST Register on Eventbrite and receive a code for a 40% discount on the book.

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Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts - Virtual Book Launch

Join Brad Bigelow, Pulitzer Prize winner Debby Applegate, and Will Fellows to launch the first biography of the remarkable Virginia Faulkner

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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Grove Book Club event, Ilkley, on Malachi Whitaker's 'And So Did I' is now full on 19 & 20 Jan, 2026. There is a waitlist. With wonderful Grove Bookshop host, Nikki. Special Guest: Malachi Whitaker's Literary Executor, Valerie Waterhouse www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-grove-...

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The Grove Book Club (Monday)

A friendly monthly book club, hosted at The Grove Bookshop, Ilkley.

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

New newsletter about sculptor Barbara Hepworth, born today in 1903. In 1943, she outlined to art historian Herbert Read why she was overlooked for Touring Exhibitions: “1) Being a woman. Being abstract. Being young. Being a wife and mother, etc..” momentsofrecognition.substack.com/p/on-artisti...

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

The area of Bradford known as little Germany comprises commercial buildings from around the 1850s onwards. They were built in the main by merchants from mainland Europe, especially Germany who constructed large warehouses and offices. The newcomers tended not to manufacture the

Nineteenth-century stone warehouse and office buildings in Bradford’s Little Germany district, with tall sash windows, decorative classical detailing, and pale sandstone façades lining a quiet street.

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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Gems in The Book of Bradford include Malachi Whitaker's Smoke of the Tide on a man returning to his Bradford roots. His wife "could not see the astonishing beauty of the industrial north..The blue-grey landscapes with their design of mill chimneys..the rolling hills, the mingling of smoke & cloud"

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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

"Let 2026 be Bradford's biggest and boldest year yet" by Si Cunningham Will City Library move to Britannia House this year? Will Bradford Archives find the perfect new home? Could former Central Library really be turned into a fancy boutique hotel? www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/2573155...

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City of Culture has shown that Bradford can deliver the big and the bold

THE year 2025 has been one of the most memorable in Bradford’s recent history. The famous political quote, “There are decades where nothing…

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