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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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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Oh dear. Is Fruit Book the latest addition?

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Funnily enough, Steve, I came to this post immediately after sending an email to author in which I’d mentioned not being the author of The Uncanny, which is by the other NR. Now, that’s uncanny.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It’s not that I wish they weren’t still living, you understand.

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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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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I do indeed love John Holmes’s covers, so much so, I got permission to use a couple for @nightjarpress.bsky.social

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

When you are next at home, look out of your window. Do you see the dark grey car?

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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

I mean, it’s about him going to matches in the World Cup. But it’s about more than football.

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

I’ve read it. It’s not really about football.

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

On most copies of The Colour Blood, including mine, the red type has faded. I do collect those Paladins. Imitation/flattery etc.

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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 · 26/06/2026

This is true. Thanks Patrick. I’m glad you’re reading it & enjoying it.

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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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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Oops. You should be able to take it back & get a new one.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I’ll take relaxing, honest and funny. Thanks Kieran.

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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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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Thank you, Roy. You have great taste & I enjoyed all of it. Not just the bit about my book 😉

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

Over 55 gets a senior discount at NASA? Makes me feel positively ancient.

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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

2012, and my copy is a 2014 paperback.

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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 · 10/04/2026

What a lovely bit of bookshelf. I edited Burnt Island, which I loved. I also love Housekeeping. And then there’s my three books… ☺️

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

I did like the suggestion that the trilogy might turn into a tetralogy… 😉

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

Thank you, Kaggsy. That’s more than made my day. You are very generous.

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

I’m almost too modest to repost this.

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