Maybe you would like to listen to my Slow Dance playlist -- open.spotify.com/playlist/3uPAb…

There are a couple of FREE tickets available for the @selbookfest event with Susan Allott, author of HOUSE ON RYE LANE! This take place TOMORROW evening reviewbookshop. Grab them here: tiny.cc/seltickets

Huge congratulations to @SillyAlexNorris, WINNER of the School Library Association (SLA) Information Book Award in the 13-16 Children’s Choice category with How to Love: A Guide to Feelings and Relationships for Everyone! 🏆🎉 #IBA24

'One of the wittiest and most entertaining historical crime novels of the year' #TheBellsOfWestminster is one of The Times and The Sunday Times' best historical fiction books of 2024 🔔 Congratulations, Leonora BELLS Nattrass! thetimes.com/culture/books/…

.Granta Books has snapped up Outside: Before and After the End of History by Lynsey Hanley 👇 thebookseller.com/rights/granta-…

Some excellent selections from some fine writers in Matt Nixson's fab books of the year feature spread in the Express, and I don't just say that because White City is one of the picks. "A hard-hitting novel with a very human heart." Cheers, Sir Ian 🍻

🚨 The Best Crime Novel of 2024 – The Times 1952 London: a heist gone wrong, two families broken, and the city’s underworld ablaze Dominic Nolan’s breathtaking novel is a must-read. Out now: brnw.ch/21wPjqW

The Daily Express books of the year feature from Matt Nixson continues in print tomorrow, and includes my picks - THE HORSE by Willy Vlautin and MOUTHING by Orla Mackey. Link in post below ⬇️

We all know our Gallic cousins have superior taste in crime fiction, and to prove the point Télérama have included VINE STREET in their best polars of the year. Je suis un grand nom, as if we didn't know.

🙏 Some fine writers here being exceptionally generous about White City, among other brilliant books from the past year.

Me, unapologetically comparing myself to Titian in a great chat with Paul Burke #planningisunderdrawing

Finally!

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There is an aggressor: Russia. There is a victim: Ukraine. We were right to help Ukraine and sanction Russia three years ago—and to keep doing so. By “we,” I mean the Americans, the Europeans, the Canadians, the Japanese, and many others. Thank you to

I am a racing fan but to not let viewers know about the fallen horses straight away, especially Broadway Boy is indefensible.

I defend racing because horses so clearly adored but: no nothing public has their day ruined by seeing that fall while media and horse lot hooray it up round Aintree: deeply unsettling. If I’m sickened why aren’t the horse-obsessed? ITV Racing #GrandNational

UPDATE: Broadway Boy walked on to the horse ambulance and will return to the stables for further assessment

Or you could just process their asylum case and then let them work?

This is unutterably depressing on every level. What a shitty grubby message for our head of state to be smugly sending out. Process asylum seekers and let them work legally. Who does this serve?