Excited to finally reveal the cover for Myrthali Book 2: The Dream-Pedlars’ Parade. Stunning artwork by
@streamofstars
. I’ll need all your help to get this book out there - pls do pledge if you can!
#yafantasy
#coverreveal
British political parties as Doctor Who monsters.... 🧵
Tories = Daleks
Shouty, pimpled Nazi wannabes who will exterminate anything. Have mad plans that obvs won't work - sending refugees to Rwanda / removing the earth's core to pilot it around the cosmos, etc.
Cannot believe the spoof Timmy Mallett article I wrote (really lamenting that laminated typo!) has been reposted over 200 times - if only something I'd written under my own name could be this popular!
You’ve got to worry about the state of your country’s press when a woman who’s trying to make sure people can afford to eat is portrayed as the villain.
Solidarity with the awesome
@BootstrapCook
.
I’ve invented a cocktail called a Liz Truss:
1. Take a pint glass
2. Fill half with gin
3. Fill half with vodka
4. Add a dash of Tabasco sauce
5. Take one sip
6. Smash glass against wall & scream
Please enjoy responsibly.
I really hope Timmy doesn’t hate me - was meant to be a loving spoof of someone I loved watching as a kid! I feel he’d be just as wacky & self-deprecating if he’d actually written this. Don’t hate me
@TimmyMallett
!
Cannot believe the spoof Timmy Mallett article I wrote (really lamenting that laminated typo!) has been reposted over 200 times - if only something I'd written under my own name could be this popular!
@DrMatthewSweet
@GBNEWS
The Honor Oak is one of my old locals & got a read there once too - so proud of all the counter protesters who turned up to tell a small group of fascists to get stuffed!
@PaulRidd
His best roles are clearly Ethan Impossible in Mission: Impossible, Vincent O’Money in Color of Money, Jiminey Sky in Vanilla Sky or Jerry Maguire in…actually scratch that last one.
Following yesterday’s article in the Guardian/Observer regarding the ‘hounding’ of Kate Clanchy, branding it a ‘witch-hunt’, I’d suggest reading
@monisha_rajesh
’s article in the Guardian from last August, the highlighted paragraph in particular.
We’ve listened to so much You’re Dead to Me that someone dropped & smashed a glass in a pub the other day & my partner automatically said ‘THE NUANCE WINDOW!’ Excited to hear the new series,
@greg_jenner
!
Morning! Our new series started yesterday in podcast form, and you can hear the shorter radio edit of Catherine the Great on Radio 4 this morning at 10am
@thetimes
Dear
@thetimes
- I think it’s great that you’re focussing on white voices in reaction to the news that racism in books still gets published. If I was concerned about a rise in the no. of deaths by bow & arrow, first person I’d hand the mic to is an archer.
@greg_jenner
/
@athenakugblenu
- just to let you know, our Haitian Revolution doc is free to watch for 1 week from today on
@HistoryHit
to celebrate the anniversary of Haitian independence:
Cannot believe the spoof Timmy Mallett article I wrote (really lamenting that laminated typo!) has been reposted over 200 times - if only something I'd written under my own name could be this popular!
A quick thing on casting & people having the worst takes. There were a lot of trolls complaining about the casting of 2019's David Copperfield, which is odd because it's one of the most immaculately cast films I've seen in years. It really plays on being...well...a play. 🧵
Thanks to all my new followers - so glad you enjoyed my spoof Timmy Mallett article! Usually I tweet a mix of film & book stuff pls a good slice of lefty politics. Feel free to unfollow if you’re not a fan of ceasefires.
Cannot believe the spoof Timmy Mallett article I wrote (really lamenting that laminated typo!) has been reposted over 200 times - if only something I'd written under my own name could be this popular!
@DrPragyaAgarwal
God, that’s really awful, Pragya. I’m sorry to hear this. With Young V&A also being a bit section 28y with their bookshop it doesn’t bode well for the V&A
@SawbonesHex
Colin, have you ever thought of going through passport control with a picture of Peter Davison taped over your own pic? You’d get a funny look & say ‘it’s an old photo’. You’d probably be in trouble but the stories…
@SoozUK
Thinking that Johnson is the solution is like folk on the sinking titanic thinking ‘you know what we need to get us out of this s**t, lads? Another iceberg.’
@sarahditum
Monisha, Chimene & Sunny are the 1s you’re censoring. Why are you shutting down vital & long overdue debates when they’ve barely had a chance to gain traction? Especially in the wake of horrific racial abuse all 3 received, which could have been the focus of your article.
If you’ve just tuned in to the UK: the understudy’s understudy’s understudy is now in charge - after killing the Queen, she’s decided the most effective way to feed the poor is to give the rich more money. The insurrection will be led by a coalition of wildlife charities.
Make no mistake - we are also incredibly angry. We stand with
@RSPBEngland
in calling out the unprecedented attack on nature launched by UK Government over the last few days. We’ll be challenging this together and asking for our supporters to stand with us.
@amandapalmer
@neilhimself
“I give you the WHOLE OCEAN and you want to hang around in a cave?!”
“Yeah. Unless there’s a graveyard nearby.”
“……………………You need to stop reading my books.”
“No.”
“Good boy.”
The bullying of
@ProfSunnySingh
by the British press needs to stop. To be be gaslit by the press for a full year for calling out racist & ableist in a book is so, so wrong - solidarity with & love to Sunny x
Just broke down weeping in my class.
I know women of colour do not matter in the UK. And indeed our suffering brings joy to many.
So to everyone who has played a part in this public bullying campaign: Well done.
If you want to know why I’m dismissive of the phrase ‘cancel culture’ - here’s a list of almost 150 articles within in the last year or so about the same ‘cancelled’ author, many scapegoating 3 women of colour who had called her book out for racism/ableism. It’s simply awful.
This is what being a scapegoat actually looks like: A list of the articles in this last year against 3 women of colour for pushing back against racist language and imagery.
@Louiestowell
Greenwich Park is the best park in London. In fact, I generally feel that SE is my favourite part of London. It’s always easy to say when you’ve lived there but I love it!
‘So is this really what we're going to do now? Just sit back and watch a genocide happen on the telly? Then decades from now, when it's in the history books, all look round at each other and ask, 'how did that happen?'’
🇵🇸
#Gaza
: This statement by Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola’s daughter, Maria Guardiola has put a lot of politicians, celebrities, journalists and others with a platform to shame:
‘My God.
So is this really what we're going to do now? Just sit back and watch a genocide
Cannot believe the spoof Timmy Mallett article I wrote (really lamenting that laminated typo!) has been reposted over 200 times - if only something I'd written under my own name could be this popular!
This whole article, from the headline to the 1st section & a half, could have been reversed to focus on
@chimenesuleyman
,
@monisha_rajesh
&
@ProfSunnySingh
highlighting racism & ableism in a book & receiving vile racial abuse.
Kate Clanchy says she "got many things wrong" amid accusations of racial and ableist stereotyping in her 2019 memoir
Author Chimene Suleyman told the BBC that it may take time for publishers to "rebuild trust" with their readers and writers of colour
Just finished The Angel of Redemption by
@nktgill
. This is an absolute masterpiece & the first time in a while I’ve read a book in a day. An epic origin story for the Angels told by an Angel - it’s beautiful, lyrical, dark & touching - hope you all grab a copy & devour it!
@SoozUK
‘She IS Harry’ reminds me that JKR wrote 7 books about a teenage boy then starting writing under a man’s name & now has serious beef with anyone who wants to change their pronouns
@ProfSunnySingh
She’s a witch not a wizard - let’s not mix up the pronouns of a woman who wrote 7 books about a young boy then started publishing crime novels under a man’s name 👀
@Louiestowell
London is a great city to walk around. If you have time & know the backstreets that avoid Charing Cross Rd / Oxford St it’s great. I reckon I could walk from Lewisham to Hampstead Heath without looking at a map
After 4 years’ work, my debut fantasy novel The Boy Who Stole Time is published today! Took this pic in
@WaterstonesPicc
at the desk in the cafe where I was redrafting the book in January. If you love YA fantasy, grab a copy here!
@Unbound_Digital
Are you wondering why these 2 ladies are drawing bottoms on a white board? Well so you should wonder. Stay tuned for more... Love the mad things I ask people to do while filming!
@LaurakBuzz
@bethklewis
I loved that the entire premise of this episode was ‘Atlantis isn’t real…but here’s a list of people who think it was & why they are very silly’. Great episode
@greg_jenner
@sophiedukebox
@ejnagouse
Hi, I'm Mark - a writer & filmmaker. I made 3 award-winning narratives shorts & produced 17 docs for
@historyhit
, inc chart-toppers such as 'The First Britons'. Currently pitching narrative&doc projects. Proudly dyspraxic author of 'The Boy Who Stole Time'
@SoozUK
Why is ‘Britain’s toughest headteacher’ cracked out like it’s a good thing? Trunchbull was Britain’s toughest headteacher & she weren’t the goody
Palestinian friend & colleague Sarah Agha speaking on Sky News. I would very much recommend her BBC series with Rob Rinder ‘The Holy Land & Us’ for a pretty vital history lesson.
"Palestinians have been suffering for 7 decades or more under a brutal occupation, so context is key to understand Palestinian people and their struggle."
Palestinian writer and actor Sarah Agha on the Israel-Hamas war
#SJUK
📺 Sky 501 / Youtube
For anyone’s just followed me because of the spoof Timmy Mallett article I wrote - hi! I’m Mark. I’m a freelance writer & filmmaker. I wrote YA fantasy book The Boy Who Stole Time. If you don’t want a ceasefire in Gaza, you’re welcome to unfollow
@MaxKashevsky
I love its accidental arc - Unearthly Child featuring the Doctor going ‘f**k it - just gonna brain this dude to death with a rock’ & by survival he’s like ‘actually, that’s a terrible idea, my bad’
Some MASSIVE book news! Both Myrthali books will be released by
@BBookCollective
! A re-release of The Boy Who Stole Time & the sequel The Dream-Pedlars’ Parade! I’m massively proud of these books & really hope you’ll enjoy them!
#BookNews
! We are thrilled to announce that we will be publishing the first 2 books in Mark Bowsher's brilliant Myrthali series.
This stunning YA fantasy is ideal for fans of Philip Pullman, Neil Gaiman and Leigh Bardugo.
Stay tuned for more details.
Forget about that election thingamy - my Hatshepsut doc just launched on
@HistoryHit
! It’s an incredible story of female power & its erasure - pls give this & my Culture of Memory doc a watch! Feat.
@KaraCooney
,
@monznomad
& Lucia Gahlin.
@RabbitIslandPro
I should probably come clean at this point & say that shortly after the Timmy Mallett tweet went viral I was approached by a publisher to write a whole book of them. It fell through but I had, for the first time, been offered a ‘small’ advance. It was bigger than Liz Truss’s.
@MarkBowsherFilm
@Jonathon_Carley
Did you see she got a £1500 advance for her book? What makes this very funny is Nadine Dorries got a six figure advance for a three book deal ten years ago.