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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I held out a long time, but goodbye red, pre-Brexit passport 😭

Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

This is central Paris. It’s an authorised bathing place. You can’t even swim in the sea much of the time near London. Fuck the water companies and the governments that let that happen.

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Typography fail / my new favourite brunch place.

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

22/2026 With a cover like this, how could it be anything other than great?

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

It’s not an ibex that’s for sure.

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Always find it bananas that I can be doing this and 50km away it’s 29C and people are swimming in the Med. 🍌🍌🍌

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Just beat a whole lot of French people at pétanque 💅🏼

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

21/2026 Perplexed as to how this was so popular. Great revival cover tho.

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

20/2026. Slight to say the least.

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

70km to lunch with a change of clothes and a bottle on an unexpectedly nice day 👌🏼

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

19/2026. Even the finest writing cannot make me care about e.g. baseball.

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

18/2026. Some great passages, but I think I would have enjoyed this more when I was a teenager.

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Tell all your Spanish friends! :)

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

17/2026. Re-read this as I’m republishing it later this year. Pretty out there and just as good as I remembered. Excited!

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Still loving 'Bone Games'…

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

In other news have started stamping my books with date finished. Should I also stamp with date acquired, or date started? Or both?

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

16/2026. Enjoyed this. Made 15 look like a dead end.

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

15/2026. Honestly the prose was tiresome at points. I guess you had to be there.

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

14/2026. A few to catch up on. Pitch perfect.

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Discovery of the day: the hyrax. A rodent-like African mammal that is actually most closely related to elephants and manatees.

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

13/2026. A good yarn but it kind of fluffed the punchline in assuming that everyone reading knew the result…

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

12/2026 “Whatever one thinks of the arrogance of the dollar or the multinationals, it is this culture which, the world over, fascinates those very people who suffer most at its hands, and it does so through the deep, insane conviction that it has made all their dreams come true .”

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Yeah it’s great, I make a pilgrimage every year! First time in winter, it’s completely different…

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Vallée des Merveilles in the snow

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

11/2026. Academic intrigue and clash of egos written as thriller. Not as good as 3/

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Spot the “I haven’t been cycling in a while” mistake.

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

10/2026. The new one by the guy who wrote Empire of Pain and Say Nothing. Very readable, but he seemed sort of surprised that London is full of oligarchs and gangsters… 🤷‍♂️

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

9/2026 Tiny book by a climber/fisherman/poet living in deep west Cornwall. Salty, visceral and brilliant.

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

8/2026 Something something AI robots. Not for me.

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

47. How old is he gonna look when he leaves?

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Never a dull moment at the library. Harris hawk on duty to stop pigeons pooing on the Grade 1-listed brickwork.

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I however seem to be in the ‘Awkward to Define’ section.

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Lots of familiar faces in the Sport section…

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

There's an interview with me in the latest @faustomagazine.bsky.social (faustomagazine.com). If I'd known they were going to run the photo so big, I would have given them one from even longer ago! mdr

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

7/2026. Apocalypse/sport/war. Bleak but very funny. A re-read and first fiction of 2026.

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

6/2026. Very French, and not always in a good way. Great first line: “Walking is not a sport”!

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Definitely something going on because some sprinklers are dousing the (rain-slick) roof. Doesn’t feel like an emergency tho, it took the fire brigade a while to arrive and there weren’t many of them.

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

5/2026. Why economic theory only gets you so far/how behavioural economics and evolutionary psychology help explain why e.g. we buy Rapha or PNS over dhb (or don’t). Fun but not too much magic within, sadly.

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Looking forward to getting stuck into this.

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

4/2026. A re-read, for work, but that’s allowed. Midlife crises collide with post-genocide redemption and the quest to find great African cyclists. Tim Lewis is such a great storyteller.

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

3/2026. Stranger-than-fiction account of sociopaths and journalistic ethics… and there’s a murderer in there too. Brilliant writing on human motivations and behaviour.

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

America’s secret nuclear base under the ice floe in Greenland (in the 1960s!)

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

2/2026. I wanted to love this and did more as it went on. Sometimes didactic, but on bears, forests and (occasionally) Zen it was wonderful.

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Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

1/2026. How the outdoor industry convinced America that buying things was the only way to escape from consumerist society. Super interesting.

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