Little piece in the Times on the Book Club today
The team’s absolutely amazing, and it’s quite a bonkers set of things we do / they have to work on… so always very gratifying when ppl are into it
Books are the future, read all about it 📚
📸 @orjenise
Titan of letters or tourist-trail waxwork? Our director Andrew Biswell @IrwellEdition and Three Graves novelist @Sean__Gregory reveal all about Anthony Burgess to @aboutmcr. https://t.co/cRXcj8NFkb
This is the end of the argument.
Ironically, it is the absurd GB News having to endure this masterclass in simply articulated, balanced, fact-based, expertise.
If you believe any other version of events, good luck tying your shoelaces this morning.
@bertsbooks 'Three Graves' by Sean Gregory.
Excellent fictional (but how much?) journey into the life, works, and mind of Anthony (our-Jackie) Burgess. A fascinating portrayal of a flawed, but still very human, genius.
First footage of the PM at controls of a Typhoon last week.
In a speech this morning he'll compare the flight to
to his leadership of the Tory party:
"I hauled the joystick right the way back and we did a loop the loop..."
No treading gently from Russell T Davies at the South Bank Sky Arts Awards, on accepting the award for Best TV Drama for ‘It’s A Sin.’
He railed against the government’s plan to privatise @Channel4.
A friend just messaged to say my poem ‘mid-air’ may have sparked a conversation about line-breaks in free verse and whether they’re deliberate/ important? I welcome this because I’m a line-break geek,I could bore a stranger at a bus-stop for hours :) Here’s my very subjective 🧵
It really is extraordinary, to have seen someone throw away so much for so little. Imagine what you could do to help the country with all that power - a massive majority, the ability to do almost anything if you put the work in. Pissed it away.