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Get #fridayfeeling tickets #scarborough book fest here:- ymcatheatre.uk/books Stacey Halls is away Immortal Egypt: Prof. Joann Fletcher David Nicholls HS Rory Clements Frank Gardner Polly Toynbee Helen Lederer Alan Johnson Books Patrick Grant Sophie Elmhirst Jackie Kay Jennie Godfrey (updates only) Glenda Young, Author

My book - Maurice and Maralyn - is cheap today! It’s the true story of two wildly different people, their particular love, their whole lives, with a shipwreck in the middle… I’m proud of it! And you can now own it for a smallish amount of cash Chatto&Windus Vintage Books

Properly love this piece by Samira Shackle: a gem of a person, and a story, but also such clear, affecting writing. The last paragraph! theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

Really surprised and happy to be on this! thank you The Orwell Prize

TRUE STORY of a whale, a shipwreck & high seas. Sophie Elmhirst at #scarborough #bookfestival Sun 9 June, 1pm, Queen St. Church. Tickets here - ticketsource.co.uk/ymcascarboroug… Full lineup booksbythebeach.co.uk Jessie Spivey scarborough.co.uk #maritime Sarah Tyson Yorkshire Fossil Festival

Publication day… The hope was always to get a novel of mine into strangers’ hands, to try to recreate for them the pop of recognition, that irrepressible YES MATE that I’ve benefited from as a reader. I’m grateful to everyone who’s given GOING HOME a nudge, a rec, a review. Tx

This week’s #bookoff is nautical by nature. Sophie Elmhirst and Susan Smillie join us to chat about their new books, sailing, the sea and escaping the humdrum of daily working life. *WARNING - listening to this might make you want to quit your job! pod.fo/e/244a27

🚨 Tell your friends! We are hiring journalists in FIVE cities this year: Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham, Liverpool and London. As reported in the Financial Times, we're looking to fill 11 roles by the end of 2024. Check out the job listings and please share. millmediaco.uk/2024/06/05/mil…

From a gleam in Jonathan Nunn’s eye to offering a paid mentorship in four years. Amazing work Vittles and Anna Jones vittlesmagazine.com/p/vittles-ment…

absurdly moving piece on the modern function of libraries, and the dedication of librarians theguardian.com/news/article/2…

Beautiful piece of work, this.

Who says there's no such thing as a bad idea? For the past week we've been asking dozens of journalists the worst pitch they ever sent. Their answers did not disappoint. the-fence.com/cooking-in-pri…

Thank you for making it! An entire education / crazy amounts of pleasure in this show.

On July 18th I’ll be talking with Bella at this event in Kentish Town. We’ll get into it about my 1st novel and the journalism, dead manuscripts and misc-y experience that led to it. If you’re a nonfic writer, tempted to hop the electric fence, come for words of encouragement. Tx

Spent a few days with some of the last dedicated court reporters in the country, CourtNewsUK at the Old Bailey, watching cases of cocaine smuggled in bananas and gang murders and wondering why so much of this stuff is never known. For The Guardian Long Read theguardian.com/news/article/2…

Issue 20 is here 🏙️ Fiction by Eva Wiseman, features from Camilla B-D, Clive Martin, John Phipps, Róisín Lanigan and Orlando Whitfield; dispatches by @jimmymacmusic, Margaret Mitchell & more; shorts via Andrew Hunter Murray and bertie & many more the-fence.com/shop

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If you've ever wondered about topiary, or if someone has ever made a tableau of Moby-Dick out of their hedge, or if there is a competition for topiarists run by a high-end ladder company, then this is the piece for you! For The New Yorker newyorker.com/news/letter-fr…

Amazed by this, and very, very grateful. Massive thanks to Nero Book Awards and everyone at Chatto&Windus

Still reeling from this, but thank you very, very much to all Nero Book Awards, Bill Bryson and the judges. And a big shout out to the other category winners Colin Barrett, Liz Hyder and Adam S. Leslie. Was an honour to be part of it all with you!