I’m off to #Seoul for ten days. I have a long list (mostly gathered from #kdramas!) but, if you’ve been, what’s one thing I really shouldn’t miss? Food, sights, experiences, bookshops - I’m up for it all! #southkorea

Publishers, agents and booksellers are noting a trend towards "healing fiction", as UK authors lean into a genre which has so far been powered by Japanese and Korean literature in translation. 👉thebookseller.com/news/news/indu…

When you go into a bookshop do you prefer it if the booksellers just say hello and offer to help if you need it or if the bookseller starts to recommend things immediately and bring suggestions to you?

😂 im crying. If #nationalservice goes ahead... ‘What? We’ll fight them on the beaches. Sounds alright, I don’t mind the beach. What like the ocean beach?’ instagram.com/reel/C2pPwoQts… Jack Skipper

Me in Seoul featured a jaunt to the expats’ fav bookshop because I’m obsessed with the written word 🤩 You can’t really understand a place until you’ve explored its bookshops, right?

I’ve added a birth date ffs. Why am I being asked over and over and over?!

I get so easily bored or distracted these days but this has me gripped. A chokehold of the best kind. Way to go Layne Fargo!

Well this is disappointing #euro2024 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 More yellow cards than goals. No creativity or momentum. Foden offside. Slipping on pitch. Sigh.

The women would have this sorted by now. On that, men’s team play the women in a friendly. Have they ever? How do we make that happen? I would pay.

I could so have wasted that 94 minutes of my life pissing about on my phone instead.

When I’m asked about my type

I dream about being deserted. Sounds relaxing! Has to be different genres and long backlist so Shakespeare, John Le Carre and Nora Roberts. I wouldn’t be bored for months

I fold corners to bookmark and I’ll never stop because it reminds me how often I paused (less folds = incredible read)

The Pre-Raphaelite Pothole, Terrace Road, St.Leonards-on-sea Part of the 'Great Art, Great Potholes' series by SinkySnap

hey jude!

Cried at my desk today. Why are people like this? The overwhelm is so real.

A housing secretary who lived in social housing, an education secretary who was on free school meals, a science minister who left school without qualifications and then studied as a mature student; these are meaningful political hinterlands for these roles

My kingdom for a holiday