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@wiltonsquare.bsky.socialThe Adder Stone book tour starts tomorrow at Cheltenham Literature Festival. Clare Clark’s powerful novel, based on true events, explores land, belonging, identity and the ties that bind us to family and place.
@wiltonsquare.bsky.social“Like all excellent satires, it’s not just funny but also scary.” 📚
Thank you to Anne Cunningham at The Anglo-Celt for highlighting John Healy’s The Glass Cage.
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@wiltonsquare.bsky.socialFrom the Great Flood to the Grundy family farm, discover the stories behind some of the programme’s most memorable moments.
What’s your favourite Archers storyline?
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@wiltonsquare.bsky.socialHow much do you really know about what goes on underneath The Archers? 🌾📻 In Underneath the Archers, Graham Harvey, one of the programme’s longest-serving scriptwriters, takes us behind the scenes of Ambridge, drawing on 30+ years and more than 600 episodes.
@wiltonsquare.bsky.socialRead “Space imperialists are galactically wrong” in UnHerd.
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@wiltonsquare.bsky.socialWhat happens when our fantasies of conquering space start reflecting the politics of Earth? In UnHerd, C. M. Kosemen, author of The Final Inoculation and All Tomorrows, explores the darker ideas behind space colonisation, science fiction and the imagined future of humanity.
@wiltonsquare.bsky.socialA fierce, lyrical novel about freedom, resistance, community and the radical power of collective joy.
What would you risk for the right to gather?
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@wiltonsquare.bsky.socialLooking for your next book club read? Ecstatic by Emily Woof imagines a near-future London where curfews and state control have made gathering illegal. Lois responds by organising an illicit three-day ‘long dance’ in a crumbling East End church.
@wiltonsquare.bsky.socialBlending realism with subtle surrealism, these wry and humane stories find the unexpected in the ordinary.
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@wiltonsquare.bsky.socialWhat if the smallest moments could quietly unravel everything? Set mostly in contemporary Japan, Takoyaki Tales by Christopher Green is a sharp, funny and quietly unsettling collection of stories about connection, alienation, desire and the strange rituals of everyday life.
@mythicalbritain.bsky.socialReposted by @wiltonsquare.bsky.socialMy translation of the poem is published by @wiltonsquare.bsky.social and available through all good bookshops. It’s the only translation of the poem in print and fills the gaps in the Middle English original by translating from the Old French source and rendering that into modern alliterative verse.
@wiltonsquare.bsky.socialA fierce and darkly witty memoir about survival, reinvention and the invisible cage success can build.
@wiltonsquare.bsky.socialNearly four decades on, Healy writes about what happens after literary success, as he finds himself navigating publishing, privilege, class and a world far removed from the streets and prisons that shaped him.
@wiltonsquare.bsky.socialThe Times covers John Healy’s The Glass Cage, the long-awaited follow-up to his acclaimed memoir The Grass Arena. zurl.co/Qs8Dp
@wiltonsquare.bsky.social@wiltonsquare.bsky.socialIn The Glass Cage, John Healy revisits the years after The Grass Arena, when literary success and fragile sobriety pull him into publishing, publicity and a world of middle-class expectations. A memoir about fame, class, reinvention and the invisible cages we carry with us.
@wiltonsquare.bsky.socialWhat happens when you finally escape one world, only to discover you’re trapped in another?
@wiltonsquare.bsky.socialWith more than 600 episodes written over 30 years, Harvey offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes account of Ambridge, rural Britain and the real-life stories that have shaped the programme.
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