Writer. Latest: Paris Fantastique from @confingopublishing.bsky.social and Finders, Keepers from @saltpublishing.com
Also runs @nightjarpress.bsky.social nightjarpress.weebly.com
Nicholas Royle
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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
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
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YouTube video by Roy Reads Anything
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Reminder: Event at Leeds Central Library this Sat 6 June at 13.00 with me and @nicholasroyle.bsky.social and Naomi Booth. The Art of the Short Story. Hope to see you there.
libraries.leeds.gov.uk/events/the-a...
Standards dropping at the BBC. No, at best, it’s a picture of the real face of Anne Boleyn.
Now playing. The sound of snow falling forever. Beautiful album.
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
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.
This Sat in Leeds: @alicejolly.bsky.social Naomi Booth & me talking about short stories www.ticketsource.com/leedslibrary...
Liam Bishop
How can I take University Challenge seriously if its makers think hyphens and en-dashes are interchangeable?