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Nicholas Royle

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11 months

This sort of thing raises my spirits.

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4 years

Going out for walk. Don’t really want to, but anything to possibly make life more difficult for Dominic Cummings.

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4 years

Picador collection (1972–2000), from Achebe to Zorn, incomplete, close to 1000 books.

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8 months

Rae Donaldson died suddenly on his way to work at Vinyl Exchange this morning, according to VE’s instagram. Lovely man with huge appetite for life, he will be greatly missed. It was – is – his 64th birthday. He was celebrating, he told me by text this morning, by going to work ❤️

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5 months

Given to me by my parents, Christmas 1987. Thirty-odd years later I started collecting copies of The New York Trilogy that were in some way distinguished.

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3 years

Found Bourchier Street, Soho, Monday night.

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5 months

RIP Paul Auster

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3 years

Dear The Guardian, please will you review my book? No, we need the space for our three-page interview with TV star turned novelist Richard Osman. Ah OK, thanks.

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2 years

Ballard Penguins from 70s. Illustrations by David Pelham.

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5 years

#ShowUsYourShelves

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4 years

This, MA students & all other authors, is how to use a semicolon.

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4 years

Friend asked me if I’d had a bad review & how I’d coped with it. 3 ways of coping: 1) 🤷 2) Send reviewer email yrs later saying simply ‘TWAT’, as 1 author quite rightly did to me, or 3) create characters in yr next book with 1st & 2nd names of reviewer so you can do this.

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3 years

I doubt it.

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1 year

Book not dead shock.

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4 years

Everyone using the Penguin Classics Cover Generator to create Penguin Classics titles that would never exist in the real world. Thought I’d have a go.

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4 years

Just nipping out for an eye test.

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1 year

To the man in the street who, when I passed him earlier, said, in a slow, unpleasant voice, ‘Rupert the Bear,’ I say, ‘Not even close.’ Shirt vs scarf & trousers. And anyway, it’s not Rupert the Bear. It’s Rupert Bear. So there.

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3 years

How it started… How it’s going.

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2 years

This is doing my head in.

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1 year

Can’t stop looking at this small-format photo found inside second-hand copy of Sylvie Germain’s Le Livre des Nuits bought from a street seller in Paris on Monday for 1€.

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Nicholas Royle

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3 years

Thanks @saltpublishing for continuing to support the short story & short story writers. This series now in its 11th year.

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4 years

Longest story I’ve found so far among my allotted entries to Manchester Fiction Prize (max wordcount 2500): 96,838 words.

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6 months

RIP Lynne Reid Banks

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6 years

The man looked pale and drawn.

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4 years

God I hate whilst. And amidst and amongst as well of course.

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2 years

Covers from surrealist Yves Tanguy.

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1 year

Some of Romek Marber’s brilliant cover designs for Penguin Crime. Marber, who survived Auschwitz, died in 2020 aged 94.

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4 years

Just wrote on student’s work, ‘It makes me so happy to see a correctly used semicolon I could almost cry.’ I actually think I mean it.

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4 years

Brief interruption to album covers series to respond to request from colleague @FictionFox

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1 year

I know these are not most people’s favourite Martin Amis books, but they are mine. I met him in a snooker club under the Westway. He was a real gentleman & will be greatly missed.

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3 years

Thanks to Observer @guardian for commissioning & @mirandeee for writing. Boom time for short stories.

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2 years

Bought for the cover. Paul Delvaux’s Train du soir (detail).

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4 years

Request from @ChaRoyle

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4 years

When critic Harry Ritchie gave one of my books a nasty, personal review, in my next novel I named one character Harry & another Ritchie so that I could contrive a line of dialogue, ‘Harry, Ritchie’s a c**t.’

Oliver Darkshire 🌈

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4 years

what is the pettiest revenge you've ever taken? my housemates at school called me a faggot from 11-16 because I had no interest in girls or football and when I finally figured out it was (in fact) true I just started putting up gay pinups everywhere and no-one knew what to do

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6 years

I mean, I’m happy to walk, but if they insist...

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4 years

My new short story collection may now be pre-ordered.

Cōnfingō Publishing

@Confingo

4 years

We're delighted to announce that @nicholasroyle 's new collection of short stories, London Gothic, will be published by Confingo on 10th November. 15 stories, including 7 brand-new pieces. RRP £12.99 but available to pre-order for £9.99 (plus p&p) at

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6 months

Novelist & founder of Ambit, Martin Bax has died. He was 90. His contribution to literature was incalculable.

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8 months

RIP Christopher Priest.

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3 years

I am a book lover & this is a book about being a book lover @saltpublishing #NationalBookLoversDay

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3 months

I don’t think one of my books has popped up in a summer reading round-up before, so if you’ll forgive me… Thanks to @GuardianBooks & @jonathancoe

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3 years

Train stuck in station waiting for driver who is stuck on train outside station. His train can’t get in because train in station in its way.

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5 years

Quiet coach drama. Passenger X reminds Passenger Y, who’s just made a phone call, he’s in the quiet coach. Y: I’m sorting out the order of service. My mum’s just died. X: yes, but you’re in the quiet coach.

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6 years

At the dentist, where receptionist just gave patient appointment at 2.30. To my great regret she said ‘half past two’. Opportunity missed.

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6 years

Delighted that my second short story collection, Ornithology, first book published by @Confingo , is longlisted for @EHUShortStory

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1 year

They’ve just released his profile mugshot.

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7 months

All joking aside, I’m very grateful to Ian Sansom & @TelegraphBooks & @saltpublishing for that matter, for giving this book a chance.

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4 years

How my best friend & flatmate @supercity & I passed those long unemployed afternoons of 1986.

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4 years

There’s a wall in Harringay Passage between Falkland Road & Frobisher Road (Harringay Ladder, north London) that’s mind-blowing.

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1 year

Solo writing week in isolated, remote & beautiful part of France. What could possibly go wrong?

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3 years

Happy birthday #JamesJoyce

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2 years

Hilary Mantel was completely lovely & one of our best short story writers.

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Just arrived @saltpublishing

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3 years

My printer seems determined to change my PhD student’s novel into avant garde poetry.

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4 years

Thrilled to be shortlisted. Congratulations to fellow shortlisted translators.

Daniel Hahn

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4 years

Stunning shortlist for the 4th TA First Translation Prize, thanks to the @Soc_of_Authors @LitBritish and judges @maxjohnporter & Maureen Freely. Featuring translators @annielmcd @nicholasroyle Nicholas Glastonbury @lauralofrancis @OwenDGood @ruthldiver and their editors.

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Nicholas Royle

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5 years

Dream come true. Wanted to translate Vincent de Swarte’s novel about psychopathic lighthouse keeper since it came out in France in 1998. Finally, first English translation from @Confingo – official publication next month. Pre-order available now.

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Nicholas Royle

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3 years

Am looking after @GreenHouseB00ks just for today. If you’re anywhere near Cheadle, come in & watch me struggle with the online card payment system. Coffee’s off but could probably stretch to herbal tea.

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2 years

Found yesterday dumped by bin on boulevard des Batignolles, life of Disraeli signed & dedicated by André Maurois.

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4 years

Four celebrities I have gone out of my way to look like.

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2 years

It was a year ago today that my wife & I started identifying as Captain & Tenille.

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@nicholasroyle

6 years

You could spend hours coming up with anti-Trump slogans but it’s hard to beat ‘FUCK OFF’. Having said that, actually, ‘FUCK OFF Wotsit Hitler’ probably beats it.

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Nicholas Royle

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8 months

If you liked White Spines, you’ll like Shadow Lines. If you weren’t sure about White Spines, don’t worry, Shadow Lines is completely different. Out next month from @saltpublishing

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2 months

#EdnaOBrien

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@nicholasroyle

3 years

This is why we need the vocative comma. There are, as far as I know, no Sainsbury’s offers in me.

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2 years

This might be the funniest joke ever.

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3 years

They like this time of day #WhiteSpines

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1 year

When you get inside @Bottbooks the warren of bookshelves doesn’t extend as far back as that block on the right. It extends further. It never ends.

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Nicholas Royle

@nicholasroyle

4 years

Tip no.1 definitely sit on the floor. Sit on the floor & try to write on a laptop. Really good for your back. Desk, chair? Forget it.

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Nicholas Royle

@nicholasroyle

4 years

Thanks to @mjadamson15 for alerting me to slanderous comments on @BacklistedPod suggesting that my bookshelves are colour-coordinated. I invite @johnmitchinson & @i_am_mill_i_am to gaze upon these shelves & realise their error. Is colour really the defining element here?

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@nicholasroyle

7 months

Waking up to a lovely, generous Telegraph review, by Ian Sansom, of Shadow Lines. Good start to weekend.

SALT · Independent trade publisher, est. 1999

@saltpublishing

7 months

★★★★ ‘In Shadow Lines, Nicholas Royle tracks down the owners of objects slipped into second-hand books – with amusing and surprising results…’

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2 years

It was a year ago today that my wife & I started identifying as Gina Coladangelo & Matt Hancock.

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4 years

Amazing skies yesterday. Taken in the same minute in the same spot, different directions.

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Other small UK independent publishers that have made huge efforts to support the short story that I could & should have mentioned when I had the opportunity @Confingo @GalleyBeggars @andothertweets @TTApress @Ofmooseandmen @valleypress @TitanBooks @thefictiondesk & many more.

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Barlow Moor Road, Didsbury. 1st old bloke, pushing buggy full of shopping, talking to second old bloke about 3rd bloke: ‘What a gentleman he was!’ 2nd old bloke: ‘What a man he was!’ Pause as both old blokes stare off into distance. Second old bloke: ‘His two sons were cunts.’

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1 year

‘Writers write to find out who they used to be, then predict who they might be next.’ There’s something you want to write down on every page @mjohnharrison @serpentstail

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11 months

Bowie, Blyton, universities & second-hand bookshops. Other Nicholas Royle couldn’t have written a more this Nicholas Royle book if he’d tried. I did not write this book. Sounds great though & can’t wait to read it. Any commissioning editors out there, I’d happily review it.

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@nicholasroyle

5 years

Judging short story competition. Maximum wordcount 2500 words. Prize £10,000. About 85% of entries come in just under 2500. Shortest story so far 100 words, longest 41,000.

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Nicholas Royle

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3 years

Exciting book post today. Thank you @saltpublishing