John Henry Walsh

Writer, broadcaster, freelance hack, gourmand, bibliophile, fashion icon...

[John Henry Walsh @JohnHenryWalsh]

@RoystonVince @suzifeay @suzisbookbag Thanks so much, Vince. It was a dizzy-making time, when Amis, McEwan and Co made literature seem as cool and trendy as a Sony Walkman playing Talking Heads...

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Here's a piece I wrote about the late Martin Amis, https://t.co/OEfeANnCES together with a link to @suzifeay's podcast @suzisbookbag in which I can be found yarning on about my book Circus of Dreams and remembering the dazzling 1980s London literary scene

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Watching #GreatExpectations last night, the lengthy prologue seemed to be a way of explaining how Magwitch managed to swim ashore while his legs were supposedly clamped in irons, something that's puzzled Dickens scholars since 1860...

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@Thievesbook Thank you so much, Nicholas. You have totally made my day!

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Byron, Keats, Shelley -- who most embodies the spirit of Romanticism? Come to @AuthorsClub's celebration of the Young Romantics at 7pm on Friday, 7 Oct with @suzifeay, Keats biographer Lucasta Miller and me. Expect tears, passion, revolution etc. Free, but you need to book!

[Authors' Club @AuthorsClub]

Don't miss our Young Romantics Centenary Celebration on Fri 7 October with #LucastaMiller @suzifeay @JohnHenryWalsh https://t.co/zpaCAdeSrr @nlclondon

[John Henry Walsh @JohnHenryWalsh]

Byron, Keats, Shelley -- who most embodies the spirit of Romanticism? Come to @AuthorsClub's celebration of the Young Romantics at 7pm on Friday, 7 Oct with @suzifeay, Keats biographer Lucasta Miller and me. Expect tears, passion, revolution etc. Free, but you need to book!

[John Henry Walsh @JohnHenryWalsh]

@ClareScherer @nytimesbooks Thank you Clare! I seem to have made it across the Atlantic...

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Oh my sweet God. My memoir of the 1980s lit world, Circus of Dreams, is reviewed today in @nytimesbooks. They like it: "Walsh makes London seem like the place to have been. The stage was smaller; everything burned more brightly; more angels teemed on the head of a pin." Pinch me.

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@alexlarman @nytimesbooks @TheSpectator Thanks for the heads-up, Alex! I can't wait to read it.

[John Henry Walsh @JohnHenryWalsh]

Terrific to see John Carey's magisterial Faber Book of Reportage featuring on Sara Cox's TV books show #BetweenTheCovers this evening. And how surprised JC must have been to hear its picker #JoBrand say "It was compiled by a professor of history..."

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Here's a podcast I made with guest star Sally Emerson to introduce my book Circus of Dreams about 1980s literary London. It's on Break Out Culture with @edvaizey and @CMetcalfLondon. Lots of gossip, scandal, parties and good books. Give it a listen below https://t.co/Lst9x0kfqu

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@AmandaPCraig @NewStatesman @EricaWgnr Indeed it was amusing. @EricaWgnr says the book wd have appealed more to "the general serious reader" if the gossip and parties had been cut in favour of "further discussion of the ways in which the economic structures of publishing had changed". What a riot that would've been!

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@angieclark55 Hi Angela, Sorry, I'm not the JW who is co-author of 3 Crossbows, and cannot help you. You must get in touch with Mereo Books, who are the publishers.

[John Henry Walsh @JohnHenryWalsh]

Thank you Frank. You really should've been there!

[Frank Tallis @FrankTallis]

John Walsh's Circus of Dreams. Thoroughly enjoyable, gossipy memoir about the publishing world of the 1980s - and a little beyond. My first psychology book was 1990 - first novel, 1999. Walsh's book made me feel like I'd missed a really good party. Possibly the last good party!

[John Henry Walsh @JohnHenryWalsh]

Very much looking forward to appearing at #tunbridgewells #literaryfestival this Saturday and recalling the 1980s lit scene in my book Circus of Dreams. Lunch & talk starts 12.30, so check to see if any tickets left...

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@BootstrapCook I strongly recommend Goody Two-Shoes by Adam Ant. It starts with a drums-trumpets combo that's irresistible, whacks into a fabulous chorus, and climaxes with a bap-bap-bap-a-DAHdaa. It'll cheer you up, I guarantee.

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Will nobody ever tell Jeremy Paxman that, every time he says "With an average age of 21, let's meet the Oxford team", he's guilty of a dangling modifier and saying, in effect, "Let us -- with an average age of 21 -- meet the Oxford team"? #UniversityChallenge #pedantry

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Can I just say, before everyone else starts banging on about it, that the Pappardelle al Cinghiale at the Ida (@idarestaurant) in Queens Park is the most densely delicious Italian dish currently available in London?

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Happy 140th birthday to James Joyce and happy centennial to Ulysses, first published 100 years ago this day. I've just been to the butcher's for a pork kidney to celebrate, and look forward to an enjoyable stroll on the beach later on...