My new substack is beginning to look very real! The Book Cellar is a project where I review books and pair them with wines to match 🍷📚✨ So if you too are a oeno/bibliophile then why not check it out 👉 thebookcellar.substack.com or give it a follow at The Book Cellar

Horrendous child poverty stats this week, complete breakdown of public services including the NHS which is on life support, homelessness soaring and climate catastrophe threatening our very existence But make sure you email your MP about an embroidered flag on a football shirt

For today's book-wine pairing on The Book Cellar, we have the brilliant In Memoriam by Alice Winn matched with my favourite wine of all time: Chateau de Durfort's Cellier Des Demoiselles, Corbières. Read on for reviews and recs 📚🍷👉 open.substack.com/pub/thebookcel… #BookTwitter

A new post about an old book because it's coming to our screens very soon. I loved this book. It's a bonkers thriller and so fast-paced but with a love story that keeps the absurdity from spiraling out of control. Pair with Barolo for boldness and fun. thebookcellar.substack.com/p/dark-matter-…

BOOKS! Here are some books I've read, I'm reading, or am excited about reading. Context - I'm on deadline, and I've suddenly got *really* into Middlemarch. I'm at the dramatic double will bit.

How did brand strategy get reduced to brand positioning by so many people? It causes no end of pain - a neglect of other vital and interdependent fundamentals, and an over-obsession with positioning as the only tool deployed.

Celebrating my new fractional career with a glass of Sancerre and an evening with a good book.

Also the latest post is now live on The Book Cellar. thebookcellar.substack.com/p/against-the-…

Advance warning: I'll be closing for submissions on Sunday the 21st April. Am hoping to re-open at the start of June!

Here's Tom Gilbey's Just Giving page justgiving.com/page/tom-gilbe…

Hats off to Tom Gilbey, this is British eccentricity at its finest! A tremendous vinous achievement. Cheers! London Marathon runner completes wine tasting at every mile thetimes.co.uk/article/e80263…

I love Tom Gilbey’s story. It’s absolutely my favourite to come out of the marathon 👏👏👏

hi yes not a biggie at all but going forward could you please put me on cc for “once in a lifetime celestial light show” type memos? Seems like I got missed off that list. Thanks! Thanks so much!!!!! No don’t worry it hasn’t ruined my weekend *at all*!!!

👀👀👀👀 any lights out tonight?

🌻🌺Fresh Water For Flowers by @valerieperrin_ is an extraordinary read. A love story. A grief story. A mystery. A romance. A poetic exploration of human resilience but so lightly told. A ‘bittersweet dream of a book’. thebookcellar.substack.com/p/a-book-that-… Europa Editions

Fairytales are the dictionary of the imagination - and Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver reminds us of the power of retellings, reimaginings, resettings. Read more on The Book Cellar ❄️✨ thebookcellar.substack.com/p/fairytales-a…

At the start of the year, I began a project in which I pair the books I'm reading with the wines I'm learning about. Weathering by Ruth Allen was one of the first and one that will stick with me for a very long time. Read more 👉thebookcellar.substack.com/p/against-the-… Penguin Books UK

What a weird and wonderful book. Here are my thoughts on Alasdair Gray's Poor Things, paired with Waterkloof Wines' totally delicious 'Circumstance'. 🍷📚 Another tasty pairing from The Book Cellar thebookcellar.substack.com/p/poor-things-… Bloomsbury Books UK

Yesterday, on #WorldObesityDay, we were delighted to hold a parliamentary event highlighting the discrepancy in weight management services across England and the urgent need for equitable access to support. Tackling obesity requires coordinated action, it's time for change.