My parents gave me money for my birthday the other day, so I cld buy myself treats. Course I went to one of my fav places The Portobello Bookshop & treated myself to 2 books! Love Merryn Glover writing so no brainer to get her latest ‘The Hidden Fires’ & ‘Madam’ by Phoebe Wynne sounds brill!

The Final Season. #Succession premieres March 26 on @HBOMax.

Why is Boris Johnson still making headlines? Please let him die a simpering, quiet, political death.

Nothing I love better than a tense, creepy thriller set in Scotland. Check out my list of favorite Scottish-set thrillers for Shepherd.com 📚, featuring titles by Alice Feeney Phoebe Wynne Steph Merritt/S J Parris is not here Daniel Shand and #SKTremayne. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿😱 shepherd.com/best-books/sco…

The replies to this! 😅

#TalkingLocationWith... Phoebe Wynne tripfiction.com/talking-locati… Author of #TheRuins Set on the #CotedAzurFrance "Location is essential when you’re writing gothic fiction.." #tripfiction

Surely #Succession can only end with all four siblings losing everything thanks to their own haplessness - and then, only then, finally be set free. That’s how the Greek tragedy version would go 🎭

💙🌊🖤 THE RUINS and its most unexpected summer holiday is out there in paperback! 💙🌊🖤

The brilliant Victoria Chang:

Day three of being in hospital 🫠 but at least I have a book today to keep me company. Enjoying this one!

So excited to see Chloe Timms and Phoebe Wynne here on this list

@jennysaint Adiba Jaigirdar (updates) Amanda DeWitt Holly Black Claire Heywood Neil Gaiman áine deane Headline Books Hachette UK Alice Oseman Updates Karen M. McManus Updates Victoria/V.E. Schwab Freya Marske @HFKaner Rosie Hewlett Madam by Phoebe Wynne (26/?) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A brilliant dark academia mystery that has me guessing at every turn

Never stop speaking about this

thought i was being followed by someone but it was just sheep

There’s daggers in men’s smiles

“They were careless people, they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

The real hero of THE ILIAD is Priam, who goes on his knees to kiss the face of the man (Achilles) that killed his son and heir (Hector) in order to win his son’s body back - because THE ILIAD is fundamentally anti the horror of war.