saul leslie
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writer; remarks in TLS, Poetry Review; novel forthcoming (Repeater Books, 2026); PhD @LivUni in disability and employment in literature
Joined May 2021
Pleased to say that the book tour for my novel is kicking off at @Waterstones in Liverpool city centre, with @hering_david . April 21st. Get it in the diary:
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Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Saul Leslie discusses A Working Title I Want To Change today.
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Y’all, I am so excited to bring you my new translation of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain soon. After years of work (beginning in 2019!), I have finally completed the translation, written my preface, and even finished translating the French dialogue for the appendix. 1/2
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.@jackaldane with a short message before the year’s festivities begin 🥂🎄 Thanks to all our listeners, viewers & event-goers in 2025. Special thanks to @alysdenby, @questingvole, @j_amesmarriott, @realzoestrimpel, @BarneysRubble0, @RossBarkan, @finn_mcredmond, @leorobsonwriter,
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"Flat Earth will make you want to quit social media and only engage with the culture wars through novels written about them". One of many reasons to read AJL's debut
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#MartinAmis's dispatch from the 1977 Tory Conference for @NewStatesman "These [Young Conservatives] are not silk-hatted brayers, with the decibel-count of the natural Tory: they are of the petit bourgeoisie; they have cautious, experimental beards, gingery moustaches, bum-fluff
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Here's my OUP review of a few important books in Disability Studies scholarship from 2024:
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Abstract. Of the wide variety of disability studies scholarship published in 2024, much of the field was preoccupied with representations of disability in
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Wednesday 10 September 2025, 19:00 - 20:30 Free, Online Acclaimed author Philip Hoare joins us to discuss his new book, William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love.
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Still a few tickets left for my event with @bookingclubpod, @judecook_, and a whole panel of some of the most exciting new writers come on to the scene this year. Don't miss it. Tickets here: https://t.co/oM8arQHVJP
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Tickets for our first fiction-focussed live podcast event are on sale now. Be quick before 16 July! Six debut novelists join @jackaldane onstage at @21soho to discuss the status and future of the novel. Meet fiction’s rising stars next week!👇 🎟️
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What a line up! Come along to @21Soho next Wed July 16th 7pm for FICTION FIRST: a live recording of @bookingclubpod with 6 brilliant debut novelists. @nicolaspadamsee @willhunterr @peermohambert @bog__daughter Lisa Smith & Harriet Armstrong. Tickets 👉 https://t.co/kR7IlbGGiB
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Some good news has come this way, with more updates to follow once the front cover's been decided: Working Title by Saul Leslie: 9781917516235 | https://t.co/9iJMTifMJP: Books
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The West Kirby Bookshop (@WestKirbyBooks), based on the Wirral, Merseyside, is expanding and moving to premises more than five times the size of its current shop 👇
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The West Kirby Bookshop, based on the Wirral, Merseyside, is expanding and moving to premises more than five times the size of its current shop.
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Battling autocorrect to deliberately misspell ‘Nietzsche’ is a nightmare, but I managed it in this week’s @TheTLS when remarking on Lydia Davis and disability
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🎙️Yesterday the @mymartinamis podcast drew an audience of 90 people to @21Soho for the first live show of the series. It was a stonking success. Thank you to everyone who showed up, not least of all our exceptional panellists: @j_amesmarriott @questingvole @realzoestrimpel John
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A short piece on our @brianglenney @texturologies recent article on skateboarding and sound...
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It is as if the skateboard is an extended sensory appendage, to feel and hear the world at large.
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I'm looking for two PhD candidates in my new research project Wording America: How Play Shaped the United States from New Media to Politics, 1503-2028! Please share widely ❤️ https://t.co/yPkhOFJ9K9
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Happy birthday Octavia Butler, here with a great eg of how to back yourself
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100 years after his death, there are still new approaches to Kafka. Here's mine @ConversationUK
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The author’s work and life were punctuated by illness and disability.
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