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Peter Hoskin

@pghoskin

Books & Culture Editor for @prospect_uk. Games critic (and occasional films and books) for @DailyMailUK

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I’ve been off social media recently because… y’know. But must return to say what a joy it’s been being a judge for #BGPrize2024. So many rewarding reading hours – and a few meetings in the company of my dauntingly brilliant fellow judges – have brought us to the longlist today:

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Oliver has totally obliterated my weekend – in a good way! – with this recommendation in today’s edition of the Prospect Culture newsletter —>

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Hear from two of our judges, Peter Hoskin and Chitra Ramaswamy, as they go through the #BGPrize2024 longlistĀ on the #ReadSmartĀ podcast with Georgina Godwin: open.spotify.com/episode/3QKHGl… #podcastĀ #nonfiction

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ā€œIf he weren’t such a bastard and a threat, you’d have to marvel at Trump’s ability to turn adversity into opportunity. Actually, you can marvel anyway.ā€ Peter Hoskin on the man who emerges from Meridith McGraw’s TRUMP IN EXILE: prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/67971/…

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Looking to speak to people under 50 living in unconventional accommodation situations due to the housing crisis e.g sharing a room, shipping container, tiny home, unusual building etc. It's for sensitive feature in Guardian Sat Mag. DM or email [email protected]

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Looking forward to announcing—eek!—the Baillie Gifford Prize shortlist this evening, and discussing world-changing books with Johanna Thomas-Corr and Toby Mundy. It’s already sold out, so there’s no hope for the ticketless. But I’m sure there’ll be some way of catching up. cheltenhamfestivals.org/events/the-boo…

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The wait is over… presenting the #BGPrize2024 shortlist. Read more here: thebailliegiffordprize.co.uk/inside-the-cov… #nonfiction #bookrecommendations Isabel Hilton @newsbrook Alison Flood Peter Hoskin Tomiwa Owolade

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I enjoyed my chat with Johanna Thomas-Corr and Toby Mundy last week – and enjoyed writing it up, too. Click below for my thoughts on self-help books and the other non-fiction literature we ignore.

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If you want to understand how Trump got here today, might I recommend Meridith McGraw’s TRUMP IN EXILE, which I reviewed here: prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/67971/…

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Looking for something to do on a cold November evening? Why not head to the Prospect offices to enjoy a glass of wine and hear Lionel Barber talk about his brilliant biography of Masayoshi Son, GAMBLING MAN, with… er… me? 26 Nov. Tickets here. eventbrite.co.uk/e/lionel-barbe…

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šŸ—“ļø Join us to hear Lionel Barber discuss his new book ā€˜Gambling Man’, the biography of one of the world’s least known but most consequential investors. He speaks to our Books and Culture Editor, Peter Hoskin: eventbrite.co.uk/e/lionel-barbe…

šŸ—“ļø Join us to hear <a href="/lionelbarber/">Lionel Barber</a> discuss his new book ā€˜Gambling Man’, the biography of one of the world’s least known but most consequential investors.

He speaks to our Books and Culture Editor, <a href="/pghoskin/">Peter Hoskin</a>:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/lionel-barbe…
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Today's the day! Join us at 9:25pm GMT on YouTube and FacebookLive to find out who the #BGPrize2024 winner is: youtube.com/watch?v=qZR88w…  #nonfiction #bookprize #bookrecommendations

Today's the day! Join us at 9:25pm GMT on YouTube and FacebookLive to find out who the #BGPrize2024 winner is: youtube.com/watch?v=qZR88w…  #nonfiction #bookprize #bookrecommendations
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Jack is irritatingly clever, wise, funny. But not so irritating that I haven’t signed up to his new newsletter. You should too.

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Being a #BGPrize2024 judge was one of the most enjoyable, most rewarding things I've ever done. I hope the new batch have just as good a time. But I also hate them all a little – out of jealousy and because they've supplanted the best-ever judging panel.

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This was indeed an enjoyable conversation! Not least because Leor Zmigrod's THE IDEOLOGICAL BRAIN – about the amazing neuroscience of our beliefs – is surely one of the books of the year.

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They don't do star ratings in the New Scientist, but if they did, I'd have awarded ā­ļøā­ļøā­ļøā­ļøā­ļø to tiffany jenkins's history of the rise and fall of privacy, STRANGERS AND INTIMATES. Read my review in the latest issue: newscientist.com/article/mg2663…