"Stunningly well researched. Mayhem, murk and cynicism inhabit every page."
Fantastic to see this review in @thetimes today for @KimGhattas's new book THE BEST KIND OF AMERICAN.
Out now.
https://t.co/G38WOOjvUv
Good to see some robust discussion in the comments of my latest book review for @thetimes about the risks of writing about unspeakable tragedies. Hopefully the review itself makes clear that I am very much in favour of authors tackling these subjects!
https://t.co/sHnecGosNO
Honoured to have won Political Journalist of the Year — and my very own bust of Lord Salisbury — at the London Press Club Awards today. Congrats too to victorious colleagues @Gabriel_Pogrund and @larisamlbrown
The author of Late in the Day talks about the creativity of motherhood, the decline of ‘bourgeois’ domestic fiction — and marrying her former teacher https://t.co/kZpPZ4vx4T
In Fictional Selves, the star of Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet recalls his partnership with the great director, who was ‘like an eccentric older brother’ https://t.co/zpa2PYNA0N
Andrew Hankinson’s true crime book Felled explores the bizarre case of the two men jailed for cutting down the 150-year-old tree https://t.co/Lja9Mm4qn8
I contributed to the DEAD, ALIVE AND UNDERRATED series in this weekend's @thetimes, where I reveal my favourite book by a dead writer, a living writer and the writer I think is most underrated.
https://t.co/56zxmh69BK
The Undersea War by Elisabeth Braw reveals how China and Russia are sabotaging our deepsea cables – and how woefully unprepared we are to stop them https://t.co/OCzjeETuBs
Much enjoyed @dgjones’s rollicking history of castles from Troy to Disneyland, taking in (inter alia) Neuschwanstein and the supremely kitsch Strawberry Hill. My latest for @thetimes:
https://t.co/dH9ocmIoKD
In Great Powers, Jan Rüger shows how Britain and Germany once participated in a mutual cultural love-in — now both nations are united in being behind the times https://t.co/B3xLa3NHjZ
In his memoir One Helluva Ride the actor complains that he has been misrepresented as a womaniser … before detailing his many conquests https://t.co/ClLjk2wQpm
'a rollicking gallop through five millennia of humankind’s efforts to wall societies in, taking in Bronze Age citadels... and even Disneyland'
Great review of @dgjones' #Castles: A Fortified History of the World in @thetimes!
Get your copy now @HoZ_Books
https://t.co/ME7BuFfbY3
A new biography, Holding Lightning by Emily Lordi, describes how the trailblazing pop star was brought down by drugs and troubled love https://t.co/9BoLeKQRMC
For a while now I've been puzzled why Britain doesn't appear higher on international tax league tables.
We know that Britain's income tax is predominantly paid by top earners, with the top 10% paying almost 60% of the bill. But is there more to it than that?
1/5
The Man Who Was Private Widdle by Roger Lewis tells the tragicomic tale of Charles Hawtrey, who starred in 23 Carry On films and died in gin-soaked misery https://t.co/8U4nS3yzsm
Yap! by Stephanie Howard-Smith tells the colourful story of lapdogs, from the chien who bit Napoleon in his marital bed, to Paris Hilton’s Insta-ready chihuahua https://t.co/DwObKD3B4w