Roger G Smith

Debut novel 'Angels Rising and Descending', set in rural Suffolk 1859-60, completed at 84,000 words and waiting for an unknown angelic agent.

[Helen Young @helenireneyoung]

Oh my, oh my, looks like a good one Karen! 😘😘😘

[Roger G Smith @Smith45R]

@orukusaki Brilliant, Peter

[Roger G Smith @Smith45R]

Have just finished reading The Last Wife by @KJHAuthor. It's brilliant. Every page brings a new revelation as Marie fights to find her way in a world of lies and half-truths. Delighted that it's even better than Karen's bestseller The Perfect Girlfriend.

[Roger G Smith @Smith45R]

@RichardNSkinner @ELenckos @FaberAcademy @KayEngels Yes and it was an exhilarating week!

[Roger G Smith @Smith45R]

It was brilliant to be among so many sharp, contributive brains, all of them devoted to writing. Superbly led by Katherine Angel.

[Elisabeth Lenckos @ELenckos]

Our excellent ⁦@FaberAcademy⁩ “Writing Women” class with our brilliant tutor, ⁦@KayEngels⁩ who taught us more in a week than other teachers do in a year. Most of all, she inspires us to be bold!

[Roger G Smith @Smith45R]

@ELenckos I have two favourite places in Berlin. The botanic gardens took me a day to get round and I could have been there longer. The kulturbrauerei with its museum of life in East Germany is superb. Two places to eat: Mogg and Clarchens Ballhaus.

[Roger G Smith @Smith45R]

I know Turn End well and love it. Appeals to me as the original 'safe space'. For limited public opening see @TurnEndTrust

[Roger G Smith @Smith45R]

@RichardNSkinner Jack Nicholson made it for me

[Roger G Smith @Smith45R]

Not much sign of the 'painted lady invasion' in our Ipswich garden, but more of these gatekeepers (hedge browns) than ever before. They dote on marjoram.

[Roger G Smith @Smith45R]

Proud to have been among the crowdfunders for #BreakfastInBogota @helenireneyoung. Helen's novel has a great setting, strong characters, pace, romance, betrayal and at its heart an uprising in Colombia, 1948, little known in the UK but relevant today.

[Roger G Smith @Smith45R]

Heatwave reading arrived this morning. Congratulations, Helen. @helenireneyoung #BreakfastInBogota

[Roger G Smith @Smith45R]

Julie Umerle and Kathryn Thomas today at the Lee Krasner exhibition, the Barbican, bringing the paintings to life.

[Roger G Smith @Smith45R]

@Botanygeek As always, I enjoyed your Observer Magazine piece, 9 June. Would like to add a fourth principle: let plants have their way, encourage those that grow well and like your conditions.

[Roger G Smith @Smith45R]

Our family in 1961.
5 April Cat taken to vet with abscess on his foot.
6 April Cat home again, foot bandaged.
7 April Cat kept indoors because of foot.
8 April Cat such a nuisance he has been moved to greenhouse.
11 April Mum went to Hillingdon hospital because of cat bite.

[Roger G Smith @Smith45R]

Wonderful evening with the Berlin Philharmonic. Haitink conducting Bruckner 7

[Roger G Smith @Smith45R]

@Anna_Mazz Minority response: don't bother to watch. It's not worth it. Remember the opportunity cost of time.

[Roger G Smith @Smith45R]

I cannot believe that the American people support their administration's policies on Iran which impede the relief of Iran's catastrophic flooding. Apparently they do. Shame on them!

[Roger G Smith @Smith45R]

@KJHAuthor Congratulations, Karen.

[Roger G Smith @Smith45R]

One in a million on the People's Vote march. It's time the nice people won.

[Roger G Smith @Smith45R]

Countering the novel's 'drift towards inauthenticity' - Rachel Cusk at Waterstones after speaking at the UEA, Norwich last night. I was completely won over by her.