Look at this beautiful thing! Scrimshaw III (which launches today), entirely edited and curated by our brilliant 3rd-year ATU Writing and Literature @ ATU Sligo students (also, we've a pretty decent view from the office...)

Important style note (for everyone, not just historians...)

UPDATE: thanks 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺 📚 for noting that the word ‘Israeli’ has been silently replaced (no word of explanation or apology to me, obv)

I wrote about what I’d been reading, for the The Guardian. Now: editing’s important. I’m happy to be edited and I welcome it. But isn’t it funny how it’s always the same word that gets edited out? theguardian.com/books/2024/may…

Tickets still available for my event next Thursday 9th May with Peter Owen-Jones at Waterstones in Lewes. Book free tickets online at Waterstones.com/events. #eventlewes #lewes #eventsuk #bookshop #waterstones #naturewriting #pilgrimage #travelwriting Sophie Lambert Headline Books

Nice to be quoted on the cover of Tim Hannigan's paperback The Granite Kingdom - from my review in
The TLS

This is an excellent book, Tim's an excellent author, an easy choice!

I am partial to all things Cornwall (having spent a brief and glorious period living there) and partial to Tim Hannigan's fine writing.

'The real Cornwall (™)' no less!
Out in paperback next week...

Trampled by Turtles - Wait So Long...
Just because it's a properly hectic week, and the world's punkest bluegrass band will help me get to the end of it...
youtu.be/vGh-EvmZVCQ?si…

Any idea what's messing up Jane Johnson 〓〓💙🇲🇦's allotment?

This is going to be a problem with the shorter OED & other dictionaries. Rather than replace one simplification with another, surely space to complicate what Raymond Williams described as ‘the most complex word in the language’.

#WeAreNature

Fascinating thread on the economics of author events...

'Radical re-imaginings of our natural world.' Bookshop.org has chosen Going to Ground as a pick of new books! Little Toller 🇺🇦🇵🇸

Delighted with this review from latest Foreword Reviews Baraka Books

'Breathtaking and immersive, The Thickness of Ice is a snowbound, heartwarming mystery novel marked by love and beauty, friendship and betrayal, and the darkness of the human heart.'
forewordreviews.com/reviews/the-th…

Who plays your parents in your biopic. Maybe these two?

‘A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.’
- David Almond

Stanfords is just that place
❤️🌎📖

Ghaith Tim Hannigan Levison Wood Alex Bescoby Mary Novakovich Leon McCarron Rebecca Lowe

1. For anyone who fancies a free online course about how country houses are connected to the British Empire. By my Colonial Countryside project. Course link in the post below
youtube.com/watch?v=xb1yt8…

Ah - the great literary leveller that is the charity shop bookshelf!