London comes to life in this major new book by Cath Harries and Melanie Backe-Hansen. To know more about the book, see sheldrakepress.co.uk/product/doors-… #doorsoflondon #architecture #historicallondon

My latest Substack, on a classic of Victorian nature writing: open.substack.com/pub/cjschuler/…

Petition: Ban driven grouse shooting petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7000…

Once you first notice them, you start seeing them everywhere…open.substack.com/pub/cjschuler/…

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I wrote about Isherwood a few weeks ago, and he flits through the pages of another book I’ve read recently, Love in a Time of Hate…open.substack.com/pub/cjschuler/…

A free post on Sybille Bedford's 'A Legacy' and, for paid subscribers, some thoughts on anti-intellectualism in politics then and now: open.substack.com/pub/cjschuler/…

We should rename the Assisted Dying Bill Harold’s Law after the trail-blazing work of Dr Shipman

Brilliant interview with Cath Harries Cath Harries, the photographer of Sheldrake's #DoorsOfLondon

Victorian nature notes, the shifting baserline, and more…open.substack.com/pub/cjschuler/…

Check out my latest post on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/cjschuler/…

It's #StagBeetle time again! open.substack.com/pub/cjschuler/…

Glorious Exploits, written by Ferdia Lennon, has won the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award. Novelist Tracy Chevalier presented Lennon’s publisher with £2,500 at a reception at the National Liberal Club in London on 21st May 👇 thebookseller.com/news/authors-c…

The Authors’ Club is pleased to announce that the 2025 Best First Novel Award has been awarded to Ferdia Lennon’s Glorious Exploits by this year's guest adjudicator, Tracy Chevalier - mailchi.mp/46a519856e99/a…

🎺NEWS FLASH🎺 Your front door is the focus of your façade, the face you show to the world. Here are just three examples from our new book ‘Doors of London’. It is published in the USA today. bit.ly/DoorsUSA #doorsoflondon #househistories

My latest book #DoorsofLondon - with photographer Cath Harries - is out now in the US! 😀👇 Sheldrake Press #books #history #London

An appalling decision. How can so many MPs be so wilfully naive about human nature? Don't they realise how many people, fed up caring for a sick relative or desperate to get their hands on an inheritance, don't think, 'I wish the old git would hurry up and snuff it'?

Providing silent carriages on trains is doing things the wrong way around. All the carriages should be complete silence carriages bar one, which can be used by noisy twats. They can have a party or whatever. The rest of the world wants to read in absolute silence.

I'm back on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/cjschuler/…

Some thoughts on writers and exile: open.substack.com/pub/cjschuler/…