🖤The Quickening is out in e-book, audio-book and hardback today!! 🖤 amazon.co.uk/Untitled-ebook…

Thank you Daunt Books Hodder & Stoughton and United Agents Books 💗💗💗

The subversive and completely brilliant new novel from Talulah Riley is out today! Happy publication day to #TheQuickening fal.cn/3pIt2

Match your mocktail to your book… on Saturdays we read and drink pink! Talulah Riley Hodder & Stoughton Caleño

Have loved being in Canterbury. Book-in-hand Marlowe, with a couple of days to rehearse. Playing a fallen spirit. Fun. Review: The Wire star Dominic West plays Doctor Faustus at Canterbury's Malthouse Theatre kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/new…

Wow, thank you, Michael. That’s so cool: I *love* the poster xx

The best books to read in 2022, from Ottessa Moshfegh to Gabrielle Zevin | The Independent independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…

🔪 The Quickening 🔪 is out now in paperback. Good stocking filler for the misandrist in your life. dailymail.co.uk/home/books/art…

Talulah Riley I'm still a fan of my ad. For anyone you know who might have "chemical castration" in their browser history. :p

An inimitable force ❤️

I had no money growing up. My dad was a labourer and my mum did everything to make ends meet. Men worked hard. Women worked miracles. But education was free. As was the local library. I knew books were my passport to a better life. #SupportLibraries

🥹 I want the books, series, & movie franchise of this big ancient horror protecting this child.

This is real and true. The most imminent threat facing the existence of humanity is AGI. All political activists should be focussed on global AI regulation. Otherwise we all die #shutitdown Shut It Down | Time time.com/6266923/ai-eli…

Japan's Osaka University researchers have used AI to decode subjects’ brain activity to create images of what they are seeing aje.io/wbohpb

Everyone should read Max’s article. Most people I speak to suffer from combo of normalcy + survivorship bias when discussing AI; lots of “oh, but jacquard looms/printing press/automation/internet etc. etc.” I keep being told that history is cyclical by people working to a

The ‘godfather’ of AI Geoffrey Hinton warns it’s not inconceivable AI could lead to the extinction of the human race. AI researcher & expert Connor Leahy Connor Leahy fears it’s worse than that: “It’s quite likely, unfortunately.” “We do not know how to control these things.”

Very happy to share that after two years of dating, Thomas Brodie Sangster and I are engaged!

"I’ve never fell off a big chimney. You only fall off one of them once." #OnThisDay 1979: Extraordinary steeplejack Fred Dibnah was introduced to the nation.

Perception check

If you're writing a book set in rural Scotland and all your characters go by their given names, I hate to break it to ya, but you're doing your readers a disservice. Here's some examples of real people all from one village around 1900-1930: 🧵 #OldWeirdScotland