
Alex Diggins
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https://alex-diggins.com/ 05-11-2017 18:51:46
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"I'm making a pledge. From January, we will review a new children's book every week." Absolutely blown away to see Ben Lawrence in The Telegraph committing to #CoverKidsBooks every week, citing Frank Cottrell-Boyce's BBC Radio 4 Today plea for coverage. THANK YOU!!! telegraph.co.uk/books/children…



Uncomfortable with blowing my own trumpet...but ta-ta-tat-ta-ta! 'Magnificent…no dry and prosaic history, but a work of imagination..deeply literary..an absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year' 🙏 Harry Sidebottom The Telegraph


I went graveyard strolling with Jonathan Stroud to chat about life, death and #lockwoodandco. It was a splendid Friday afternoon. telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/…


Fancy a spot of ghost-hunting in Kensal Green Cemetery? 💀⚔️ #LockwoodandCo Netflix UK & Ireland Complete Fiction Pictures bit.ly/3RajlxF


For Telegraph Film, I wrote about the darkness of Hitchcock's favourite Hitchcock, Shadow of a Doubt (1943). telegraph.co.uk/films/0/why-si…


“a coming-out novel in the truest sense. [Don’s] loss of virginity … is described with muscular, slippery immediacy. Most giddying are the passages that evoke the slow-mo slide of [his] professional collapse.” TIEPOLO BLUE The Critic 🙏 Alex Diggins thecritic.co.uk/issues/februar…

And episode 5 of The Rabbit Hole Detectives podcast - with Richard Coles Prof Cat Jarman FSA💀 and me - is out today, wherever you get your podcasts. Cat on saunas is not to be missed. Richard, as ever, is ridiculously well informed. This is our weekly antidote to grim news….






Earlier this year, I went to the Andaman islands for The Telegraph to investigate the fate of some of the world's last isolated tribes – what I found was shocking. Thanks to Survival International & many others for their help. telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/0…