
Simon Parkin
@simonparkin
non-fiction writer // cw @newyorker // fellow @royalhistsoc // @myperfectcnsle // THE FORBIDDEN GARDEN OF LENINGRAD - late 2024 (@sceptrebooks/ @scribnerbooks).
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Simon Parkin has won the 2025 Literary Award of Excellence in History from the Chicago Botanic Garden for THE FORBIDDEN GARDEN! 🌿📚 A remarkable blend of history and storytelling, this award-winning work is a must-read. Discover it here 👉 bit.ly/3QDyvc8

Very excited to be leading/hosting this “in conversation” with The Orwell Prize finalists Mishal Husain and Simon Parkin at Foyles Charing Cross Thursday 19th June, 19.00 - book ticket here 👇🏽. foyles.co.uk/events/orwell-…


Very much looking forward to this, including hearing the stories in Simon Parkin book: when I went to St Petersburg for the first time in the 90s there were many people alive who had lived through the 900 day WW2 siege

On the day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Elena Lobova was in her flat in Kyiv city centre, preparing to host an online global game jam. When she realised the noises she could hear outside were explosions, she faced a tough choice: flee the city, or stay and run the event:


Robbie Singh feared it was a prank when, in 2018, a friend texted to say Epic Games was closing Paragon, the game on which he'd built a career as a streamer. Singh refused to let it die. With no experience, he founded Omeda Studios and built Predecessor:


From Sylvia Plath’s afterlife to memoirs by Martin Amis and Geoff Dyer, Simon Parkin’s expansive reading list, sparked by his Orwell Prize-shortlisted The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad, dives into the murky, moving challenge of making sense of the past. 🔗 Link below!


Thank you. Looking forward to talking about it alongside Simon Parkin in runup to The Orwell Prize - some of our fellow Political Writing shortlisted books below






A joy to speak to author, food critic, and broadcaster Jimi Famurewa for My Perfect Console Podcast - Jimi speaks about playing Metal Gear Solid with his cousins, why Pro Eve was always the superior game to FIFA, and his new and brilliant food memoir, Picky.

I spoke to Kat Abughazaleh, journalist, influencer and candidate for Congress, about her path into politics, why she thinks we should view politics as a job, not a lifestyle, and the time her brother ruined Christmas after she beat him at Smash Bros: bit.ly/4kUqFuy


Tune into our latest episode to find out what Hit Points by Nathan Brown, former @EDGEonline editor, consultant, and creator of the Hit Points newsletter, picked for his perfect console. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/0vhqju…

