She was embarrassed to have a cat called Gustavo. Then someone came in with a dog called Guinness and someone else collected flea treatment for a pet called Inglebert. #london #pets

Here's a lovely #London sketch by Julie Hamill - onlondon.co.uk/julie-hamill-t…. #soup #shopping #brentcross

I have a cat walking on my keyboard, a man at my front door trying to sell me fish and a neighbourhood rooster crowing all day long. Did Hemingway have this problem?

Latest sketch. The dandiest dandelions: onlondon.co.uk/john-vane-hack… #Hackney #London #E5

Latest effort: onlondon.co.uk/john-vane-bark… A starting point, perhaps, for something more. #londonfiction

Here's what I wrote about After Leaving Mr Mackenzie by Jean Rhys: onlondon.co.uk/john-vane-lond… #LondonFiction #OxfordStreet #GoldersGreen #Bloomsbury #NottingHill . Book bought from Pages of Hackney Justine Simons OBE The London Magazine

I'm going to pick up the dropped threads of what I fondly imagine will be my next novel. As things stand, some of it will be set around here.

'Julia was thinking she might try to pawn something and that she had forgotten where the pawnshops were. There was one in a side street near Leicester Square - Rupert Street, wasn't it? Silver things in the window. But what had she to pawn that would fetch even a few shillings?'

I think the next piece of #londonfiction I shall read will be a novel by Jean Rhys.

Squint a bit and you'll detect a link to my latest appreciation of a piece of #LondonFiction I had never read before: johnvane.substack.com/p/london-ficti….

Pretty positive review of #Frightgeist in Hackney Citizen. That's three good ones out of three. There should be more of this type of thing. Standard Culture #londonmayor The London Magazine Brick Lane Bookshop Set in #BrickLane #Brixton #Uxbridge #Vauxhall Maryon Park #Greenwich and more.

Two more copies ordered by Pages of Hackney. Exultation. Details here: pagesofhackney.co.uk/webshop/produc… #Frightgeist

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Writing a #Frightgeist press release. It's about time.

No, I didn't eat any pancakes. I sold three more books though. #Frightgeist .

Latest #LondonFiction book review: The Black Locomotive open.substack.com/pub/johnvane/p… Pages of Hackney

Encouraged by response to my first attempt to get #Frightgeist reviewed, I believe I am leaning towards making a second such attempt. #londonfiction

I placed a copy of #Frightgeist in my neighbourhood Little Free Library. The next day it had gone. #result