Finished this at the weekend, knee-deep in the blood of revolutionaries. I'm in awe at the power of Hilary Mantel's historical imagination
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Really enjoyed reviewing Ian Mortimer's new book Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter for
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This is an interesting piece about over-50s in the workplace: "In big Japanese corporations . .. when people reach late middle age they move out of the management mainstream into the slow lane, often part-time, and take a pay cut of about a third"
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You want popular fiction recommendations? We've got 'em! 's latest round-up includes Georgina Moore (aka ) In print in tomorrow's Times. . .
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My “Rereading” of The March of Folly by Barbara Tuchman — online and in this Saturday’s
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Well, I'll no doubt be reading this when it comes out: My Name is Barbra, Miss Streisand's memoir, is published in November
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has signed Kiley Reid's new novel, Come and Get It, scheduled to publish in January 2024 with a “major” marketing and publicity campaign.
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Positive first review of #avocadoanxiety today thetimes.co.uk/article/avocad I love how took as an opening how lucky we are to have access to such a wide variety of fruit & veg We do! But as I point out it does not without consequences No more so than the banana
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The Stadio Meazza, commonly known as San Siro, is a football stadium in Milan's San Siro district. Its walkways are spiral shaped and the motion of the walking people gives you the illusion of an automatic rotation
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Very happy to see that Freezing Order made it onto list of the best paperbacks for February 2023
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David Davis blames Britain's humiliatingly bad Brexit deal on "really crap" civil service negotiators. It's clear from this new book that the real blame lies with Britain's ignorant and dishonest politicians. My review of Inside the Deal by
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This is a v amusing review . . .
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Nice beaver: new book on animals in the Roman world reveals the many medicinal uses for the secretions of the toothy dam-builders, plus how sacred geese saved the city and why horses have a narcissus complex. Reviewed by me for @TheTimesBooks
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In tomorrow's @TheTimesBooks section
Tessa Hadley on Elizabeth Taylor
@jojomoyes interviewed
@ninastibbe on the genius of Jane Gardam's Old Filth @pamelaanderson's memoir (
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@Will___lloyd on Snakehead by @praddenkeefe () @loubgray's Avocado Anxiety
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This week's rereading column in is by the mighty Tessa Hadley. Here's why you should read A Wreath of Roses by Elizabeth Taylor . . .
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plus kids books, audiobook, a paperback roundup and doubtless something I've already forgotten about
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is v funny about animals in the Roman World
's River of the Gods
on 's Art of the Deal (Eurocrat-style)
on 's "giddily enjoyable" new novel
And we tip for the Booker
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In tomorrow's section
Tessa Hadley on Elizabeth Taylor
interviewed
on the genius of Jane Gardam's Old Filth 's memoir (👍)
on Snakehead by (👍) 's Avocado Anxiety
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"Men are my downfall. And I've tried all kinds."
Hard relate, Pammy.
She's written a book - all by herself - and it's pretty damn good, you guys.
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ps I do like this Stuart MacBride aphorism: “You catch more flies with honey than vinegar. But it’s much easier with shite.”
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Here we go, the February @TheTimesBooks crime round-up chosen by our resident hardman critic
@MrMarkSanderso1. Praise for @janeharperautho
@ellygriffiths @TomMeadAuthor and more . . .
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My encounter this week with the new paranoid sub-culture. Or how Oxford traffic calming is part of the New World Order. Me for online now - bit.ly/3WQe27O Hurry, while stocks last.
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Delighted to receive from their edition of Konstantin Paustovsky’s barnstorming memoir The Story of a Life, not just because it’s a great book, but because it quotes my review on the back. Yes, I can die happy now.
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We ask our authors - and you.
Name a history book which changed your thinking.
#historybooks #twitterstorians #historybooks
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Enjoyed this tale of guerrilla gardeners and a micro-dosing, bunker-building billionaire. Imagine if Iris Murdoch and Sally Rooney collaborated to write a thriller and you'll get a good sense of the book . . . (Out in March)
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Here we go, the February crime round-up chosen by our resident hardman critic
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I love how Times readers are imagining a romantic relationship between , my current deputy on the literary desk, with her predecessor . A v niche form of fan fiction but still it deserves a wider audience . . . thetimes.co.uk/article/are-we
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Always find it interesting how and why publishers change the jackets of novels. Hardback is the one on the left; sexier looking paperback on the right (more like the US version). Which is better?
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Hello publishing people, what paperbacks have you got coming out in February. Compiling February paperback round-up now. . .
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So in professional news that I’m embarrassingly thrilled about, I’ll be taking up residence in the Sunday Times Magazine’s opening column for the foreseeable. Week one: I’ve written down every bit of advice I’ve learned in a decade of being an adult.
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Is Dorothy Whipple “the Jane Austen of the 20th century”, as JB Priestley said?
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Very excited to be in the books pages of The Times today, reviewing Don Paterson’s memoir of growing up in Dundee.
Toy Fights: A Boyhood by Don Paterson
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Review in - ‘Architects of Terror’ by Paul Preston review — paranoia, conspiracy and antisemitism in Franco’s Spain
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‘Imagine if Amazon merged with Apple and Tesla, bought Reaper drones and went hog wild…’
Enjoy
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"With a destination as satisfying as Hemon gives us, we can allow the bumps along the road."
Me on Aleksandar Hemon's book-of-three-halves, THE WORLD AND ALL THAT IT HOLDS: it's "his best yet", but in places "wobbles under the weight of its ambition."
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Here is a link to the piece by Rachel Joyce in today’s about Dorothy Whipple’s novel #SomeoneAtADistance.
Hope can read!
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ps plus our weekly audiobook and children's book review. . .
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