Beautiful little documentary made by the late, great Michel Ciment. Someone should really write a novel about the relationship between these two.

Come on, then. Who will be the first member of the Reform-leaning commentariat - maybe even F*r*ge himself - to tell us yet again how this sort of thing is nothing more than the hardworking, silent majority expressing their legitimate concerns. We're waiting.

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Kazuo Ishiguro called it 'insightful and moving'. Bob Mortimer said it was 'shit'. (Checks notes.) Sorry, 'shit-hot'. He definitely added 'hot'. Anyway, until midnight today you can download MR WILDER AND ME to your Kindle for less than a pound. amzn.to/3AidEcz

Three and a half hours left!

I preview November's new fiction in today's The Bookseller. Highlights include The Proof of My Innocence by Jonathan Coe Viking Books UK.

🔥 !! The new Jonathan Coe is superb! All the 🌟 from The Bookseller & rightly so. Out November 7 #NowReading #ReadON

I was lucky enough to receive a proof copy of Jonathan Coe's forthcoming novel. Madly entertaining, with some of my favourite ever Coe jokes, and an amazing mix of politics, cosy crime, dark academia, autofiction, Friends, Below Deck (!), B.S. Johnson and much more. Dazzling!

Download the "Mr. Wilder and Me" audiobook today and save 50%! Discount ends 09/03 Jonathan Coe audiobooks.com/promotions/pro…

Lots of brilliant books on this list including Jonathan Coe's The Proof of My Innocence (7 Nov), a delightfully funny political murder mystery set within those weird few weeks when Liz Truss was PM. theguardian.com/books/article/…

Damn I can't wait to get my hands on Jonathan Coe's new novel 'The Proof of My Innocence' - because the man's a comic genius / national treasure... and just the preview of it in this Guardian piece 👇🏼 (too long to cut and paste) made me laugh out loud... theguardian.com/books/article/…

Thank you, Nussaibah!

Thank you to Luke Harding for these generous words.

Sitting between The Rotters’ Club and Middle England in the Benjamin Trotter sequence, THE CLOSED CIRCLE was my attempt to look at the Blair years and the debates surrounding the Iraq war. You can buy it digitally - today only - for less than a pound. amzn.to/4ex0Ca8

Great article by Ella Creamer about the dreadful Birmingham library situation and the heroic efforts of Brum Library Zine to address it. theguardian.com/books/2024/sep…