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word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

New 30-min soundscape episode of my podcast First Impressions. Feat. spoken word, found sound, and music from Bonbon Experiment & Ocean in a Bottle, the title was inspired by a photo-poetry collab from Brad Cheek, launched earlier in '25. Best listened to through 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/2JXH...

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First Impressions - Northern Textures - Episode 30

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word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

ADRIFT LAUNCH PARTY Massive nice one to all who came along to the Gregson in Lancaster on 18th July. Slides were shown, scones consumed, extracts read, books signed, drinks drunk and heartfelt thanks passed on. DM me to get a signed copy of Adrift for £7.50 + P&P, or find it on Amazon for £7.99 x

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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Our short story prize is open for submissions again! Please share this widely - and please send us your stories: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize Closing date 8 November!

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Prize — Galley Beggar Press

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word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

It’s 1984 and the Egyptian deity Anubis has taken refuge in a lamppost on the Wirral. Who knew? For more tall tales from the ‘80s, darkly comic satire set during Covid, and the murderous plot that binds them together, uncover my new novel Adrift, out now. #adrift #peterhumphreys #speakeasy #chorlton

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word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

SPOKE EASY Great to be back in excellent company at Speak Easy in Chorlton, Manchester reading from my new novel, Adrift, alongside Maria Roberts, artist-organisers @andynartist.bsky.social, Amanda Nicholson & others. You can find Adrift on (the dreaded) Amazon or DM me and I’ll get a copy to you x

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Stuart Walker @stuartwalker.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

VACANCY - DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABILITY We're looking for a Senior #Research Associate in #Design for #Sustainability to work alongside experienced professors with a well-established research portfolio. Location: #Manchester All Saints Campus More details here: manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...

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Research Associate (Design for Sustainability) - (8474) | Manchester Metropolitan University Careers

All about Manchester Metropolitan - an exciting, modern university in the heart of one of the UK's great student cities.

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word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

My new novel has a new cover - come to the book launch party for Adrift on Friday 18 July at The Gregson centre in Lancaster to learn more about the book's design and our nascent publisher, Pine Goat. There will also be (brief) readings, book sales (cash only), scones, drinks, music & nattering x

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word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Looking forward to returning to Speak Easy at Dulcimer this week where I'll be reading from my new novel Adrift & seeing what's afoot in the Chorlton lit scene. Best practise me enunciating x #speakeasy #chorlton #manchester #literature #reading #adrift #novel #peterhumphreys

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word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

New from Pine Goat My BBC-longlisted, Buenos Aires-set s/story Justice for one, or Justice for all? Released as an e-book/paperback on 2 June Available to pre-order now 🇦🇷

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word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Justice, my Buenos Aires-based thriller, set during Covid and longlisted for the BBC Short Story Award is now available to pre-order. Yours for a quid from 2 June! If you enjoy it, please rate and review on Amazon and/or Goodreads to help support my work. Gracias! www.amazon.co.uk/Justice-Pete...

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Justice eBook : Humphreys, Peter: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

ONE YEAR OF PET PROJECTS! x10 episodes in the bag/pet carrier, each of them unique & charming–like our guests and their special animals. Here’s the first in a series of short promo films for the show. If you’re enjoying the pod, don’t forget to rate it on Spotify, iTunes or wherever you listen 😻

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word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Guillermo Kuitca’s atmospheric canvases feat. toppled chairs, flooded stage sets and vast rooms of grief to reflect the grim subject matter: the lost, lonely and disappeared. Began young, transcribing numbers 1-30,000 to reflect the victims of the dictatorship with a steady hand. #MALBA #buenosaires

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word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Biblioteca Nacional in Recoleta, Buenos Aires & guardians #borges and #cortazar. Designed ‘61, completed ‘92. Remembered my ID (passport) this time so could go in, see insightful exhibitions (on prisoners/the disappeared & Argentine film) and drink coffee on a brutal balcony.

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word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Dream sequence based on real events in Buenos Aires 🍕

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word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

NEW PET PROJECTS pod with HK-based author Stewart McKay who talks about life with his 😻 and his debut novella, the wonderful Ballad of Billy Lopez (out now) Spoiler alert: ONE of us rashly attempts a US accent to relay a vaguely pet-related passage from said book.. open.spotify.com/episode/6tLK...

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Pet Projects - Episode 10 - Stewart McKay

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Anyone who tells you “we need to run government like a business” is secretly calculating how much your organs will sell for after they repossess your house

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word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

LANCASTER TEXTURES Now available after a launch party where some of us featured poets read. Inspired by Brad Cheek's insightful photos, chuffed to have some new work in this visceral collection Buy a copy from Assembly Arts until 15 March/bradverts.co.uk & support a homeless charity too. #BookSky

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Litfest, Lancaster @litfest.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

TONIGHT, Litfest comes back to Lancaster with over 50 ways to get involved (in person or online). It's not too late to book your tickets, we'd love for you to join us: geni.us/Litfest2025

Against a background with elements of the Litfesst cover design, a flatlaid copy of the Litfest 2025 programme.

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word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

A few pics of the paperback edition of the new novel, Adrift (Pine Goat, 2025) With massive thanks to everyone who helped me realise this new project ❤️

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word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

ADRIFT: my new 100% AI-free literary thriller spans x3 time periods over alternating chapter cycles (cargo ship to South America; intrigue in Manchester during Covid; murder mysteries on the Wirral in the 80s) as it hurtles toward a dramatic conclusion. #BookSky www.amazon.co.uk/Adrift-Peter...

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Adrift

Buy Adrift by Humphreys, Peter (ISBN: 9798306421377) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

“I’m deeply worried by the darkening shadow that’s going over the world, a shadow that we have to call fascism” Stephen Fry

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Adam Trilby @adamevolved.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Byline Times are superb, and well worth a subscription.

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word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

An important story about 'mysterious' payments being made to wayward individuals to vandalise mosques and set fire to police cars in the UK. Fairly likely this has been happening across Europe to feed someone's agenda...follow the money etc. Divided we fall. bylinetimes.com/2025/02/18/r...

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Revealed: The Tommy Robinson Supporters Network With Links to Neo-Nazi Groups and a Library of Terrorism Manuals

A Byline Times investigation finds members have access to an online library of bomb-making manuals, and instructions for assembling home-made firearms

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Olga Tokariuk @olgatokariuk.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Viktoria Amelina was a Ukrainian writer who documented Russian war crimes - until she became a victim of one of them. A Russian missile killed her in 2023. Her unfinished book hits the stores today, just as the world is about to turn a blind eye to Russian war crimes and force a bad deal on Ukraine

A cover of Victoria Amelina's book 'Looking at women, looking at war'

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I had insomnia the night Russia invaded Ukraine and watched it unfold in real time. And tonight watching, here in London, that's what it feels like again. A dark, implacable malevolent takeover. That's accompanied by almost total silence amid so much noise. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

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IT IS A COUP

This is what should be on every front page in 150 point banner headlines. All I have is this Substack but I lay it beneath your feet and pray to a higher power that I'm wrong.

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word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

If you heard the last Pet Projects pod you’ll know cellist Margit van der Zwan also plays the musical saw so it was exciting to hear from @sawlady.bsky.social in response. She suggests you feast your ears on this fantastic musical collab in NYC ❤️ in which she plays 🪚🎻 www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6Ph...

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"SIGNAL STRENGTH" the first NYC wifi orchestra, music by Ljova

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Martin McDonald @martymcd.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

This is well worth 12 minutes of your time from Lewis:

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word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

SAY ‘CELLO’ TO MARGIT & CARLO! On Ep. 9 of the Pet Projects pod I talk w/artist, cellist & children's author Margit van der Zwan about her new book, 'I love my maracas!', touring with Elbow, learning the musical saw & her upcoming exhibition. #podcast #petprojects open.spotify.com/episode/6nTi...

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Pet Projects - Episode 9 - Margit van der Zwan

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word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Seeing off the black dog of January...with a black dog

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

So we’ve got to Episode 6 of Sergei and the Westminster Spy Ring - the ramifications of Brexit, and the Mueller Investigation into Russian meddling in the election of Trump podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

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The Professor and the Trolls

Podcast Episode · Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring · EP6 · 32m

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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

This podcast, Sergei and The Westminster Spy Ring is just so epic. Short episodes told well. If you want to understand the last fifteen years, this story is key. 🔑🔥 Listen and share. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...

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Digital Barbecues

Podcast Episode · Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring · EP3 · 37m

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word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

An interesting read in The Namibian, I was lucky enough to live in Namibia briefly when independence was being celebrated and optimism In the air, but just a few years before..and in the shadows... www.namibian.com.na/how-the-root...

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How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa

... Elon Musk grew up with the privileges of a stratified racial order and Peter Thiel lived in a city that venerated Hitler When Elon Musk’s […]

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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

20% off a Byline Times subscription with the discount code: TRUTHNOTTRUMP ... what's not to love? 💝

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 23/01/2025

The world’s richest man is promoting the far right in Europe. Don’t buy a Tesla . Location: Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjWl...

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Heil Tesla

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

This is so inspirational. Saying the words to his actual face

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The Dukes Cinema @thedukescinema.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

What's on at the Dukes Cinema this week🥤🍿 🎥 The Girl With The Needle (15) 🎥 Conclave (12A) 🎥 Vermiglio (15) 🎥 Architecton (U) 🎥 Mystery Film (18) 🎟️ loom.ly/d648AgA

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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 21/01/2025

Possibly the best political historical novel of the past decade. ‘The Night-Soil Men is an electric piece of writing, deft and funny and occasionally obscene.’ —Will Dunn, New Statesman

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The Night-Soil Men, Bill Broady

A major work of historical and political fiction exploring the birth of the Independent Labour Party, its development in the early twentieth century and its for

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word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Boltonian Dan Lever is a musician & wordsmith with a passion for communication, Emjay his faithful mog. Together, they kick off a new series of Pet Projects that, as ever, mixes insight, humour, and advice. Curl up & enjoy 🎧❤️https://open.spotify.com/episode/3ASUrckPv7lAuqnNVmj2LT?si=79e65c1e17034cdc

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Pet Projects - Episode 8 - Dan Lever

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr

In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance

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word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Only a mile or so out of Lancaster the countryside takes over. Accompanied by the echoing thud of distant shotguns and sci-fi hum of overhead pylons I walked three miles (& three back) to collect a part for our stove from a farm. An unexpectedly satisfying way to spend a Saturday morning!

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word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

A good book & a special dog = bliss for the latest guest on the Pet Projects pod. Dip into a fascinating chat with author @jennashworth.bsky.social about her life, work and pet love by following the link in bio. Brand-new episode coming soon. As ever, best listened to through 🎧 #podcast #petprojects

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The Onion @theonion.com · 05/01/2025

'How Bad For The Environment Can Throwing Away One Plastic Bottle Be?' 30 Million People Wonder theonion.com/how-bad-for-...

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word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

x3 ads shown during US sporting match-up, 4 Jan. - Feeling unwell? Call this Amazon helpline and speak to an advisor who will sell you the meds you need. - Forgot what you're paying for? Pay us to check your direct debits. - Thinking about shaving your hair off? Wait! We can grow it back for you.

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word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

'While [the "liberal democratic" political-media class] are comfortable attending Spectator parties, pontificating on podcasts, going on tour, and offering hot takes, the country risks sleepwalking into a dangerous abyss.' bylinetimes.com/2024/12/20/t...

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The Cosy and Comfortable Liberal-Democratic Political-Media Class and the Darkness Ahead

Who will – truly – hold the line with the prospect of a more extreme politics coming to Britain via the ballot box?

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