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Richard V. Hirst @richardvhirst.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Made another little clip, this time with voice, story and footage from @nicholasroyle.bsky.social

Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Reading these excellent reviews of Hermione Lee’s biography of Anita Brookner by Lucy Atkins and @lauracummingart.bsky.social makes me wish I’d liked Hotel du Lac more than I did.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Porsche wing mirrors snap straight back when you fold them in, on cars parked on the pavement. I write as a pedestrian, not a Porsche owner.

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Many thanks to @nicholasroyle.bsky.social for roping me in.

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Christopher Pittard @christopherpittard.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Bought @nicholasroyle.bsky.social's *Finders Keepers* and started reading it in the pub (pictured). Kept reading as I walked up Banbury Road, Oxford, just as it mentioned Banbury Road, Oxford A bit later (p.31) Oxfam St Giles is mentioned, which is the shop across the road in this picture. Help.

A pub table at a window, with the book *Finders Keepers* on the table next to a pint. A bookshop is distantly visible across the street.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Mum, Exchange Square, Manchester: How you speak to me. Calling me a scruff, after I just bought you summat. Go on. [Gives money to son.] Fuck off. Son: [looks up. Walks off].

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Andy Burnham: ‘I love you, Manchester.’

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Don’t mind admitting I’m excited about this, but two things: as the motorcade drove down the Mall it passed out of view under trees; leaving the Palace, Marie-France van Heel had a handbag. On arrival at Downing Street she did not. It’s possible the couple have been abducted & replaced by imposters.

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Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Very much enjoying Shadow Lines and discovering that I can summon @nicholasroyle.bsky.social to my door by ordering some chapbooks from the wonderful Nightjar Press.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Nice to see Ron Mael of Sparks on VAR last night.

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Liam Bishop @liamhbishopwriting.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

It’s a chilled saturday morning and I’ve just done an archive re-release to set the tone for the day It’s with writer,editor, critic, publisher and all round bookish good guy @nicholasroyle.bsky.social WHITE SPINES:CONFESSIONS OF A BOOK COLLECTOR @saltpublishing.com

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

This Sat in Leeds: @alicejolly.bsky.social Naomi Booth & me talking about short stories www.ticketsource.com/leedslibrary...

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Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Reactions to last month's reading jollity... @nicholasroyle.bsky.social 'Shadow Lines' Pauline Murray 'Life's a Gamble' James Payn 'Lost Sir Massingberd' + 'Alone on the Borderland' ...fun times youtu.be/CKK-obrHXJU?...

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April Reads #peopleapril

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Standards dropping at the BBC. No, at best, it’s a picture of the real face of Anne Boleyn.

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

On Thursday (16th April) join me and author @nicholasroyle.bsky.social for a live online conversation to mark the publication of 'FINDERS KEEPERS: The Secret life of Second-hand Books.' Free, and all welcome. If you haven't already been invited contact me via davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site

The cover of Nicholas Royle's 'Finders, Keepers: the Secret Life of Second hand books' published by Salt: https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/finders-keepers-9781784633417

Author and publisher Nicholas Royle and part of his magnificent Picador collection.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Somehow missed this when it came out. Found this copy today in Oxfam Bookshop Herne Hill. Already up to p85. Partly about how the narrator, a writer, struggles to find the money to write. Not a concern for Gwendoline Riley since she bagged the £130,000 Windham-Campbell Prize. Good for her.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I’m almost too modest to repost this.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

How can I take University Challenge seriously if its makers think hyphens and en-dashes are interchangeable?

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Kid Pensioner @kidnarco.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Now playing. The sound of snow falling forever. Beautiful album.

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

"Finders, Keepers: The Secret Life of Second-hand Books", the new book by @nicholasroyle.bsky.social , is very good. Especially page 166. Also, NR likes BRIAN ( @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social ). As do we all.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

For more info & to book linktr.ee/thunkpresents

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Was Philip Roth ever photographed with a bunch of grapes? Missed caption opportunity if not.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

It’s good that I don’t have to change the battery in my Mini key fob too often.

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Nightjar Press @nightjarpress.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Special offer: order the four new Nightjars from the website & we’ll throw in two backlist titles. Offer lasts until end of March. Like or respond to this post to get the offer. As well as placing an order obvs.

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Dan Lockton @danlockton.com · 26/03/2026

Very excited to have this little @nightjarpress.bsky.social story out in the world nightjarpress.weebly.com/halls-of-res... — sitting alongside three other new Nightjars. Thanks @nicholasroyle.bsky.social!

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Halls of Residence

Halls of Residence Dan Lockton Author bio Cover photograph: Nicholas Royle ISBN 978-1-917965-06-4 Publication date: March 2026

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Tesco Clubcard don’t know me as well as they think they do.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Heartening sight on London Overground today.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Yesterday I read Practice by @rosalindbrown.bsky.social walking into town & back (ten miles total) & was surprised by this line, p89: ‘Be damned the series of historical moves which created reading as a stationary activity. She wants to be walking all day.’

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Andrew Windsor to star in remake of Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451 in Cyril Cusack role.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I’ve finished my new book-about-books. These can go in the recycling.

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Anna Aslanyan @anna-aslanyan.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Absent or present? Gothic or uncanny? Fantastic or fantastique? My @thetls.bsky.social review of Paris Fantastique by Nicholas Royle www.the-tls.com/literature/f...

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Between the pages

Collections of short stories are sometimes made from previously published material, offering few surprises beyond the sequencing of the pieces. Paris

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SimonRead @simonread.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Leslie Neilsen took his fart machine to every TV interview ever did. Watching him work it is a joy. Low humour? Sure. But in dark days that's exactly what you need. youtu.be/YBsPOHKOU7c?...

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The Best of Leslie Nielsen Farting on TV

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

My story about Michael Haneke’s films and @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social originally published in Paris Fantastique @confingopublishing.bsky.social is now online at Barcelona Review www.barcelonareview.com/114/e_nr.html

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NICHOLAS ROYLE: MICHAEL HANEKE’S FILMS RANKED

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 13/12/2025

Opening a dvd case and finding you have something in common with it.

dvd case with intentionally empty on a sticker

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

The term ‘aga saga’ caused Joanna Trollope ‘some irritation’, so @theguardian.com subs put it in obituary standfirst

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Thanks @newstatesman1913.bsky.social for celebrating & supporting the rich culture of the short story in the UK today by publishing a story by… Anton Chekhov.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

2025 & 2026 Booker Prize judging panels. Can we look forward to novelists & short story writers being invited to join judging panels for Golden Globes & Mercury Prize?

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confingopublishing.bsky.social @confingopublishing.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Thank you to Jonathan Coe (The Proof of My Innocence) for selecting Paris Fantastique by Nicholas Royle for the Observer’s ‘Writers recommend: the best books of 2025’ feature: observer.co.uk/culture/books/article/writers-recommend-the-best-books-of-2025

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

I wonder if Avanti West Coast’s delay repay portal crashes on a day like today under sheer weight of traffic, or if they take it down in the hope that a good percentage of today’s frustrated passengers will forget to claim tomorrow.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Tears flowing in Storm Claudia-tossed Manchester, not for @iancritchley.bsky.social’s choosing Colette de Curzon’s @nightjarpress.bsky.social story in his Personal Anthology hosted by @jonathangibbs.bsky.social, nor for his kind words about me & The Cast, but for *his* story about his twin brother.

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A Small, Good Thing @smallgoodpodcast.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

New Episode! Listen to @nicholasroyle.bsky.social talk about his latest short story collection “Paris Fantastique” (@confingopublishing.bsky.social), his passion for second-hand books and much more! Listen here: www.spreaker.com/episode/like...

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