We would like to be beside the see on this sunny Wednesday, so we're taking you there instead with a short story by @laurenroarcher. "Out of Water" crowcrosskeys.com/2022/04/20/out…

R.I.P Willy De Houelle (FR), just four years old, killed at The Grand National Meeting today. This takes the death-toll of this cruel ‘festival’ up to 66 horses killed since 2000. 💔

Hello––my book Underland has been adapted into a feature film & the world premiere is Tribeca in June. It's taken 4.5 years––& the team have created something truly astonishing. A documentary that's groundbreaking in form, voice & tone. I hope you might get to see it one day. In

A few hours rambling around Hampshire’s hill-forts, chalk streams and riotous blossom trees 🌸 before cooling my boots over lunch & a cheeky 1/2 🍺 at the thatched loveliness that is the Crook & Shears, Upper Clatford.

I’m going! I’m finally booked in for a #songwriting course! Moniack Mhor in September with Boo Hewerdine Yvonne Lyon & John Hegley. Can’t wait 🤩 🎶 moniackmhor.org.uk/courses/2536-s…

Sure sex is great but have you ever shown how the text's material circumstances are manifest at the level of its form

It’s been an unforgettable afternoon of cut-out theatre fun for all ages. The wisdom gained is that the mistakes and fluffs are the bits that make the show most enjoyable 🎭

My son, age 13, taking a stance against his school’s ridiculous ‘no shorts’ policy #proud

Bank Holiday Sunday breakfast in the sunshine ☀️

#otd 1846 the first copies of Poems By Currer, Ellis And Acton Bell arrived at Haworth Parsonage. It was the first book by Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte, the first step to literary immortality.

Been wandering around on the island most of today. Many total strangers all around me. Nothing to report - all good 👍

Out next week: the Shelleys’ History of a Six Weeks’ Tour (1817) for the first time in paperback with notes. Also includes an introduction, appendices, maps… just received my editor copies! Ed. by CjDuffy & myself for Oxford Classics. 📚

#Gothic #Literature people: please recommend contemporary (post 2000 if poss?) short stories - Gothic, not horror. Extra points for urban UK settings!!

Loving the insouciant expression of this angel playing the lute, carved from linden wood more than 500 years ago (Bode-Museum, Berlin) (photo: Daderot)

Streaming Northern Exposure, my fave ever tv show, & watching with such immersion. Just now realising why One Hundred Years of Solitude felt so much like ‘home’ when I first read it aged 21 after years of watching this show. Cicely, Alaska, twinned with Macondo, Colombia.

Excited to announce that my next book 'A Beginner's Guide to Directing Theatre' is to be published earlier than thought ... on the 26th June. Thank you Methuen Drama #directing #theatre #book #research #text #drama amzn.eu/d/6dcRO7k bloomsbury.com/uk/beginners-g…

THIS DAY in 1954, Alan Turing took his own life. Helped to win WWII. Saved 100s of 1000s of lives. Created the first Electronic Computer. A True Genius of his time. Driven to desperate measures by a Society that didn't understand a different sexuality.

Are you joining us in Edinburgh or online for 'Unquiet Shores', a conference organised by Danse Macabre and the Haunted Shores Network? I'll be live tweeting this week! We're beginning with a dinner with those arriving in Edinburgh this evening - DM me if you want details!