Three exciting new voices, Kirsty Logan, Jen Stout and ✨Lentil Pentil✨ join Rodge Glass to discuss their unique approaches to biographical writing and the art of capturing real life on paper.

Join us in person or watch online, at boswellbookfestival.co.uk 📚

Katya is doing amazing work protecting journalists in Ukraine. I’ve seen the difference 2402 Foundation makes on the ground here. Literally saving lives. Please support if you can.

Since 22nd March, Russia has destroyed Kharkiv’s energy generation capacity. Plunged into darkness, its civilians are feeling a new kind of fear, writes Jen Stout

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Today is “Clean Thursday” in Ukraine, the last Thursday before Easter. 🇺🇦tradition - trying to take candles enlightened from the church all the way back home. “Clean Thursday”, 1887 by Mykola Pymonenko. I’ve seen this today near my home, tradition is alive 💔

Second attack on Kharkiv today. Russia's employing a new tactic, dropping gliding bombs like the UMPB D-30SN in residential areas in broad daylight to instill fear and terrify residents. At least one woman killed

A nice shout-out for Night Train to Odesa by alan rusbridger on Media Confidential. 'It's a book about a different kind of journalism, not going in to grab the story and get out - she's got a more discursive way of travelling and exploring the country.'

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🇺🇦 Read the fantastic review and then book your ticket to hear Jen Stout talk about Night Train to Odesa. ⤵️

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'The heart of Night Train to Odesa lies in those times when she finds herself singing folk music or dancing in an underpass. Its defiance, vitality and perseverance are powerful antidotes to the cruelty of Putin’s imperialism.'
Lovely review in Big Issue
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'It is sad, moving and yet also encouraging because Stout writes admirably, with intelligence, sympathy and understanding. It is a celebration of love, courage and care for others; hers is a world in which kindness holds it own.'
Allan Massie's review:
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It's World Press Freedom Day. Our latest video looks at why, by a number of measures, press freedom is in decline. More BBC coverage of press freedom here: bbc.co.uk/news/topics/c1…

Vovan, the central figure in our BBC film 'Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods' has been killed alongside 5 comrades in a Russian tank attack. A kind, genuine soul who cared deeply for his men. Rarely seen without a smile. He leaves behind a wife & two sons. Rest in peace Vovan.

There are now signed copies of Night Train to Odesa in Waterstones Piccadilly.
By amazing chance, Natasha, a Kharkiv friend who features in the book, is in London today - so here we are together!
Thanks to Nata at Waterstones for such a warm welcome. Another great Ukrainian!

Jen Stout's Night Train to Odesa tells the stories of those affected by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, giving a vivid sense of life across the cities of Odesa, Kharkiv, Kyiv, and Dnipro. 🇺🇦

Dani Garavelli reviews Jen Stout’s new book, out today.
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'It is [her] openness to the beauty that survives amid the dereliction, & the joy that survives amid the despair, that makes her book so extraordinary.' Here's a wee review I wrote of Jen Stout 's remarkable Night Train to Odesa, which is published today. bigissue.com/culture/books/…

🔊Podcast: “This is about fascism right now” - my @newbooksnetwork interview with Jen Stout about 'Night Train to Odesa' Polygon Books. Russian bombing campaign on Kharkiv 'is almost reminiscent of the really bad days of the early invasion of March 22'👉bit.ly/3y3ItAQ

Very hard to choose but it's always Gellhorn really. Charlotte Wrigley, who knows me well, bought me at least one of these...

Review:
‘Warmth and determination’ – Jen’s masterful reports from inside Ukraine now available as a book
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Shetland News Jen Stout birlinnbooks Polygon Books

A chilling shock of a poem by Oksana Maksymchuk