Alex Peake-Tomkinson

Feature writer and book critic @spectator @theTLS etc. | Event chair | Arsenal fan| Instagram: @alexpeaketom

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Books are back in @EveningStandard and I’m delighted to have chosen five to look out for 📚 ❤️.

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@TaliFraser @spectator Congratulations Tali, that's great news! 🎉🎉🎉

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@ahmpreston Belated birthday pressie!

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@Georgia_Edkins Oh my goodness, late to this, congratulations 🥂 X

[Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman]

That last paragraph is, well

[Prospect @prospect_uk]

Love, as Rilke wrote, is “the work for which all other work is but preparation.” Psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz’s ‘Love’s Labour’ examines how he and his patients do that work. @AlexPeakeTom reviews the new book.
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@_neilarmstrong Oh do you think? I guess that's true. I went... so I guess I am officially old now.

[Black Media Hub ✊🏿 @BlackMediaHub]

Denzel Washington with a young John David Washington, 1990.

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@emilylawford @prospect_uk @NewStatesman Congratulations Emily!

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@EmilyPrescott30 Lovely piece Emily!

[Nostos @NostosLit]

― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

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Delighted to have the lead fiction review @ftweekend this weekend, not least because it’s been illustrated by @heathergatley! The review is of Amy Bloom’s new novel, I’ll Be Right Here, which I didn’t find easy to disentangle. Thank you to @mariacrawford74 for the commission.

[FT Weekend @ftweekend]

I’ll Be Right Here — Amy Bloom’s era-spanning saga of alternative family https://t.co/PuBbmeSzGe

[The Spectator @spectator]

As a content moderator of the internet, thirty-something Girlie is accustomed to stomach-churning videos. But how will she fare in the VR theme park sector?

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@joshsm_th @thebookseller Of course 💫💫💫

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There are still a few tickets 🎟️ left for my talk with @SusieBoyt about the incredible Loved and Missed this Thursday https://t.co/LXpaGQz1s0

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Even as a Kathy Burke super fan, I didn’t realise this was happening until her editor told me last night — delighted that her memoir is imminent!

[Kath 💙🙀🇪🇺✊🏾 @KathyBurke]

I’m writing a little memoir, kids called, A Mind Of My Own.
Eeek! Due to be available at the end of October. The link will lead to presales, signed copies etc. Suppose I’d best get on with it! ♥️📚 #AMindOfMyOwn https://t.co/DrXk5U63K3

[Susie Boyt @SusieBoyt]

The characters from Loved and Missed stay with me so I wrote more about them for the new Granta.
https://t.co/kDEeM83OQA

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@judecook_ How exciting — congratulations Jude 🍾 🍾 🍾!

[Viking Books UK @VikingBooksUK]

We’re so excited to reveal the cover for Dead and Alive by Zadie Smith.

The celebrated author of White Teeth delivers a fiercely intelligent and searching collection of essays covering culture in all its forms!

Pre-order the signed edition: https://t.co/CaJtJGoBKS

[The Spectator @spectator]

When misguided well-wishers suggest to Edelstein, post-mastectomy, that she might now have ‘the breasts of her dreams’, she wants to reply that those had always been her own.

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Back here to exhort you to read Jean Hannah Edelstein's brilliant memoir, Breasts: A Relatively Brief Relationship @Phoenix_Bks, which I've reviewed for the current issue of @spectator. It's only 99 pages long and so worth your time.

[The Spectator @spectator]

When misguided well-wishers suggest to Edelstein, post-mastectomy, that she might now have ‘the breasts of her dreams’, she wants to reply that those had always been her own.

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