What did Hilary Mantel make of When Harry Met Sally? All the questions you’ve never asked answered 👇👇 thetimes.co.uk/article/465ea9…

I profiled Mr Fitzcarraldo. Best enjoyed in Hackney with a well thumbed Sartre under your arm thetimes.co.uk/article/07d269…

Pleasingly, Audrey Magee has just been handed £10k by the mysterious InWords award. I think The Colony was quietly one of the best novels of 2022, it lingers with you... all that superbly grumpy dialogue, violent ocean and subtle depth of feeling thetimes.co.uk/article/the-co…

came into an inheritance, might start with Paddington

I interviewed ex laureate Andrew Motion, who thinks all poetry is about death: "to use a word that has unfortunately been poisoned, death trumps love" thetimes.co.uk/article/andrew…

Why Beckham has really ruined the Nineties for me thetimes.co.uk/article/i-alwa…

Reviewed Women in Revolt! at the Tate. Go soon and eat the vegan chocolate baby while she's still moist thetimes.co.uk/article/ebb2fe…

Had a ball at Ezra Collective last night. Make more bands THIS FUN thetimes.co.uk/article/ezra-c…

We must bow to Claire Keegan, master miniaturist, crafter of breathtaking beauty, lord of all she surveys thetimes.co.uk/article/antarc…

Ezra Collective review — Mercury winners make jazz at its most joyful ★★★★☆ "This was jazz at its most joyful — welcome to the party" | ✍️ Susie Goldsbrough thetimes.co.uk/article/ezra-c…

First time, obsessed (all I seem to want to read about at the moment is trench warfare). The drama is all in the conversations between Rivers and the patients: the intensity, the fierce, conflicted morality, the sudden switches of mood. . . it's almost courtroom drama

The Return of the Soldier is a gorgeous, obliterating novella about the aftermath of war and the impossibility of carrying on as you were before. Rebecca West wrote it aged 24, ffs thetimes.co.uk/article/990366…

SOME MEGALOMANIAC NEWS. The Times & Sunday Times books desks have been merged. I'm now literary editor for both titles; Johanna Thomas-Corr is our mighty chief literary critic; Susie Goldsbrough & Laura Hackett are my firebreathing deputies. Woof. Go Team Times Books!

I went north thetimes.co.uk/article/b3ae64…

£10K GIVE AWAY!! Just write us a nice memoir

🎁 Still shopping for last-minute gifts? Robbie Millen and Johanna Thomas-Corr take Luke Jones through their top books of 2023 on today's :studio_microphone: #StoriesOfOurTimes And there may be a few surprises... ⬇️ podfollow.com/1501716010/epi…

Poetry! It's nice! Read it! at Christmas thetimes.co.uk/article/4ed779…

Nothing says Christmas likes a sex spread. John Maier and I in today's Times, fearlessly striding in the footsteps of Ethan Croft's campaign to bring back the Back Sex Award

Can you tell Colleen Hoover from Jilly Cooper? How many Pauls made the Booker list? Try our extremely vibey literary quiz 👇👇🔥thetimes.co.uk/article/take-t…

I read Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy (for our final rereading of 2023). Spoiler: it's a masterpiece thetimes.co.uk/article/155613…