Nicholas Royle
Writer. Latest: Paris Fantastique from @confingopublishing.bsky.social
Also runs @nightjarpress.bsky.social nightjarpress.weebly.com
- Andrew Windsor to star in remake of Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451 in Cyril Cusack role.
- I’ve finished my new book-about-books. These can go in the recycling.
- Thanks to @wjdavies.bsky.social & @review31.bsky.social for this great review of four recent @nightjarpress.bsky.social publications by @rlsummerling.bsky.social @bookishleels.bsky.social @ggaffa.bsky.social & Joe Stretch
- I spent some time with last year's Nightjar Press chapbooks and ended up writing about creepy birds and the contemporary gothic. Review 31 kindly took it on. Free to read here: review31.co.uk/essay/view/1... @review31.bsky.social @nightjarpress.bsky.social
- Reposted by Nicholas RoyleAbsent or present? Gothic or uncanny? Fantastic or fantastique? My @thetls.bsky.social review of Paris Fantastique by Nicholas Royle www.the-tls.com/literature/f...
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- CAR salesman OsCAR received CAR-T therapy for aggressive leukaemia & is doing well 🚙🩵 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- My story about Michael Haneke’s films and @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social originally published in Paris Fantastique @confingopublishing.bsky.social is now online at Barcelona Review www.barcelonareview.com/114/e_nr.html
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- The term ‘aga saga’ caused Joanna Trollope ‘some irritation’, so @theguardian.com subs put it in obituary standfirst
- Lisa Tuttle has made my day. My week, in fact. Actually, probably my month @confingopublishing.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
- Thanks @newstatesman1913.bsky.social for celebrating & supporting the rich culture of the short story in the UK today by publishing a story by… Anton Chekhov.
- 2025 & 2026 Booker Prize judging panels. Can we look forward to novelists & short story writers being invited to join judging panels for Golden Globes & Mercury Prize?
- Reposted by Nicholas RoyleThank you to Jonathan Coe (The Proof of My Innocence) for selecting Paris Fantastique by Nicholas Royle for the Observer’s ‘Writers recommend: the best books of 2025’ feature: observer.co.uk/culture/books/article/writers-recommend-the-best-books-of-2025
- I wonder if Avanti West Coast’s delay repay portal crashes on a day like today under sheer weight of traffic, or if they take it down in the hope that a good percentage of today’s frustrated passengers will forget to claim tomorrow.
- Tears flowing in Storm Claudia-tossed Manchester, not for @iancritchley.bsky.social’s choosing Colette de Curzon’s @nightjarpress.bsky.social story in his Personal Anthology hosted by @jonathangibbs.bsky.social, nor for his kind words about me & The Cast, but for *his* story about his twin brother.
- I’m doing ‘cosy Friday’ at @notquitelight.bsky.social Creative Weekend, 21 Nov. Tkts still available notquitelight.com/nql-creative...
- Reposted by Nicholas RoyleNew Episode! Listen to @nicholasroyle.bsky.social talk about his latest short story collection “Paris Fantastique” (@confingopublishing.bsky.social), his passion for second-hand books and much more! Listen here: www.spreaker.com/episode/like...
- I chatted to @smallgoodpodcast.bsky.social about short stories www.spreaker.com/episode/like...
- Sighting at Islington cafe of @serpents-tail.bsky.social edition of The Course of the Heart @mjohnharrison.bsky.social
- It was twenty years ago today. I can’t remember how it happened.
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- Lovely review of Best British Short Stories 2025 up at @manchesterreview.bsky.social @saltpublishing.com www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=13063
- Remarkable essay in the form of marker posts, a haunting record of a walk through landscape, encountering nature, human activity & industrial archeology & recording evidence of personal endurance & the menace of nationalism & reflecting grief for a lost friend.
- Whenever I come across child-killers’ literature in book exchanges, I take it away – and recycle it.
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- On a TGV, running a slight delay, which could affect my connection. SNCF have emailed me, saying they’ve booked me on the next one should that be the case. Just sitting here, watching the French countryside fly past, trying to imagine that happening in the UK.
