'Now it has been replaced by a timber frame, brick-clad, perfectly insulated new home. But it is still the wooden house that informs my own internal architecture.' Sam Johnson-Schlee on homes and living. Read here: thelondonmagazine.org/article/essay-…

When they moved in to their rebuilt house I read some lines from her novel Rhine Journey to my grandmother and she said “I was prophetic”… This Summer Rhine Journey will be re-published by DauntBooksPublishing and McNally Editions

Beautiful essay by Sam Johnson-Schlee for The London Magazine, on his grandparents' rebuilt house and what it symbolises, and his grandmother Ann Schlee's uncannily prophetic line from her novel, RHINE JOURNEY, which we're reissuing next month! thelondonmagazine.org/article/essay-…

Sam Johnson-Schlee DauntBooksPublishing McNally Editions Oh, I really love this. It reminds me of this all-time favourite piece by Jenny Diski lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v14/…

‘The novel is an explosive device. And it is a shock to realise that your grandmother is a bomb maker.’ Sam Johnson-Schlee on first reading Ann Schlee's quietly devastating Rhine Journey, reissued this summer by DauntBooksPublishing & McNally Editions

Starmer at midday marching into downing street at the head of 5000 armed revolutionaries: “I have a mandate for change, and that change is the seizure and redistribution of all private property” 🤞🚩🤞🚩🤞🚩🤞

love to share a book with McNally Editions - this time around, it's the beautiful, headily evocative (& Booker shortlisted!) RHINE JOURNEY by Ann Schlee, with a foreword by, nbd, Lauren Groff:

This map was surveyed 52-55 and published in 57. It doesn't show the Coryton oil refinery completed in 1953. Does anyone know if it likely to have been left out for a reason (national security?) or because of a quirk of the survey?

Great to see this review of Living Rooms in Home Cultures from Laura Galluzzo. doi.org/10.1080/174063…

Joining us to discuss Ann Schlee’s Booker-Prize nominated 1980 historical novel Rhine Journey are Sam Johnson-Schlee and Lucy Scholes: lostladiesoflit.com/podcast/201-an…

Gosh it’s been a parade of outstanding podcast episodes the past few days! Can’t keep up! Adding to my queue the new ‘Lost Ladies of Lit’ ep on Rhine Journey with Lucy Scholes and Sam Johnson-Schlee 😍

It was a real treat to appear on this podcast to speak about my grandmother’s book Rhine Journey. It is a perfect book about a tense family holiday for you to read on your tense family holiday. And it is re-published this week by DauntBooksPublishing and McNally Editions.

My pick of summer reading (though it's probably still too damp in the UK to relax on a picnic rug) featuring the incandescent RHINE JOURNEY by Ann Schlee. DauntBooksPublishing McNally Editions Sam Johnson-Schlee Lucy Scholes open.substack.com/pub/akennedysm…

Is there such a thing as a recruitment company that helps academics escape academia… erm… asking for a friend

Out today!

New Backlisted Podcast! Summer Reading special 2024, featuring books by Sally Rooney, Ursula Parrott, Ann Schlee, Caroline Crampton, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ and David Nicholls, with John Mitchinson nickybirch and me. backlisted.fm/episodes/218-s…

nationalise universities and make them free to attend

UH OH the Hillary index is going off the chart!

My piece in FT Weekend Magazine