emily's drawing of an oasis for a card game we are making

over the course of my adult life there has been little innovation in the field of chocolate bar manufacture. this, just released, may be the best thing in the last 20 years - the divisive "mcvities gold bar" re-imagined kit kat chunky style. strongly recommended

finally made it to lunch at the river cafe. more informal than I expected - on the plus side, contrary to what I'd heard the prices are very reasonable

henry james's morning suit, the one he is wearing in the famous painting. afterwards owned by john betjeman who wore it for christmas dinner

it was a shih tzu

pleased to find "breathing space", which I would have imagined 20th century at the earliest, is in the Faerie Queene

power compotes, and absolute power compotes absolutely

embargo email just dropped! being in the know one day early's one of the real highlights of being a bookseller

I love this powerful and magical poem by David Morley in the new Poetry Review from ⁦The Poetry Society⁩. It’s such a good issue of the magazine, brimming with ideas and images and lines and phrases.

If you’re in England, for God’s sake look at the moon!

making a guy for the school bonfire night

gorgeous white stag in richmond park

really happy to have signed with Verso Books to write TOO CONVENIENT – essays on convenience culture, & why it stops us living, thinking, acting, even reading properly