🍊'She's such a skilful storyteller who vividly dramatises our lives with wit, wisdom and compassion' Bernardine Evaristo

🍊'A brilliant piece of storytelling' Andrew O'Hagan

🍊'Goregous and generous' Lissa Evans

The Three Graces by Amanda Craig is out in paperback 2nd May.

‘Winehouse will be massive’: How the JC reported on the musician thejc.com/life-and-cultu… via The Jewish Chronicle See #BackToBlack ! A movie like a Greek tragedy, but with better music!

“One of the mysteries about the Scottish hate crime law is why it is needed at all.”

- Joan Smith

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Susan de Soissons Lucky you. Would love to hear more of these stories one day, Susan. Thrilled to see Virago Press reissuing 7 volumes too.

Lovely to hear Marian Keyes dulcet voice and delicious Irish wit on BBC Woman's Hour

'Ukraine is... running out of air defence missiles, plenty of which can be found in Western stockpiles... Zelensky says Ukraine needs 26 more Patriot batteries for a total air shield; his foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba has identified 100 in neighbouring EU countries.'
-Tortoise

Amanda Craig Keir Starmer I feel absolutely the same.
Come the election I cannot vote The Labour Party (despite being a lifelong Labour voter), because of their appalling stance on women’s rights.
I can’t vote for any other party, so I’ll be spoiling my ballot. For the very first time 😭

His and Hers reading/ rereading this w/e ⁦Vaseem Khan⁩

Here's a link to the EGM:
www2.societyofauthors.org/2024/03/27/egm… Members, please vote against no.3 - you can get a proxy vote if you can't attend 6/7
#authorsnotactivism Society of Authors

A constitutional oversight means the Society of Authors has to hold an EGM to vote on a pro-Palestine motion that it doesn't support and goes against its own remit as a non-political, non-partisan organisation that represents all 12000+ of its diverse members. 1/6

I cannot vote for ⁦Keir Starmer⁩ with these people in the party. They are a threat to the safety of women, children & gay people. I long for a change of Govt, yet all other parties have fallen for trans ideology telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/1…

Brilliant editorial from BMJ editor ⁦Kamran Abbasi⁩ on the Cass Review: An opportunity to unite behind evidence informed care in gender medicine bmj.com/content/385/bm…

Not surprised that Seema Misra isn’t accepting David Smith’s “apology” #PostOfficeScandal . To be both pregnant and innocent of a crime, wrongfully imprisoned and traumatised is utterly horrible.

1. The Biggest Idiot?
Many foolish politicians enabled the harm to vulnerable children which the Cass Review has now exposed. None did so with the enthusiasm of John Nicolson MP who went to court to back Mermaids, the child-harming charity that promoted puberty blockers.
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Clarence J. Boddicker Or you can support Eye Books by buying direct. UK postage is free
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Absolute, total, shameless lies. Your ex-CEO referred children to the Tavistock gender clinic. Mermaids has repeatedly claimed puberty blockers are reversible, sent out breast binders to girls as young as thirteen and insisted publicly that unless children are affirmed in their…

I toured with Dr Angelou during her last visit to the UK in 2005. I'll never forget the thousands of people hanging on every word, especially 'Phenomenal Woman', or indeed, singing in the car - always singing!

Here's to phenomenal women everywhere!

Sonia Sodha LBC Ben Kentish Like Thalidomide.

In the UK, the drug was licensed in 1958 and withdrawn in 1961. Of the approximately 2,000 babies born with defects, around half died within a few months and 466 survived to at least 2010.

It was a huge scandals (rightly), no matter how many were impacted.

But when will Susie Green formerly of Mermaids be charged

Ban on children’s puberty blockers to be enforced in private sector in England | NHS | The Guardian theguardian.com/society/2024/a…