It was a good birthday. #paperbag instagram.com/p/CpOBLH7uV0K/…

Slightly late birthday dinner. Gordon Ramsay’s coq au vin followed by sponge cake. Cooked by most excellent child. instagram.com/p/Cpbe0rIOv5P/…

Who thought that putting on a book festival just after the tax deadline was a good idea, who, who

If you want to see the (more or less) complete line-up of authors for the 2023 Unbound Book Festival, you can go and look here: unboundbookfestival.com/authors2023 It's a pretty staggering line-up. Come and be bookish with us in April!

Will someone please help me understand the point of this U2 album?

I mean, I haven't one song remotely as good as the original. It's like I'm listening to a pretentious cover band. #U2

Twitter is quite a fun place this morning.

I love digital media but sometimes you just can’t beat old-fashioned paper and ink. instagram.com/p/CqddKEPOPI-/…

Apparently it's International Be Kind to Lawyers Day today, so there's that.

Don't miss this!

One of my favorite moments (among many!) at this year's Unbound Book Festival was moderating the #amazonsucks discussion with @MisterCaine and being able to call on (I think) every questioner by name. #community #becauselocal

If you missed this great conversation at the Unbound Book Festival - well, now you can listen to it, thanks to the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast!

Another great talk from Unbound Book Festival, courtesy of Fiction/Non/Fiction!

What an utter shitshow. So many lies. #trump

Won't lie, watching right wing twitter melt down over Kevin McCarthy is quite fun.

Today I am (a) slow-roasting a six pound slab of pork belly for seven hours and (b) interviewing Ari Shapiro. Grateful that my life hasn't quite turned out as I'd imagined. #bookseller #porkbelly

Two incredibly shitty Supreme Court decisions and now Alan Arkin. I am going back to bed.

Welp. The new book is off to my editor this morning.

It's not been a great week for the legal profession (see: indictments) but this article restores the balance somewhat. It's a bit of a heavy read in places but worth the slog. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

I am spending Sunday morning in Skylark Bookshop while #puppyyoga is going on among the books and I can't help feeling that somewhere along the way I must have managed to do something right.