Andrew Duff

Author of Sikkim: Requiem for a Himalayan Kingdom, published by @BirlinnBooks (UK) and @PenguinIndia (India), May 2015. Web:

[Andrew Duff @_andyduff]

This is a genuinely wonderful book - not just for cricket fans either - poetic insights into the nature of hero-worship, the dynamics of friendship, and what it means to play (and enjoy playing) team sports.

And beautifully edited.

Highly recommend!

[Nicholas Hogg @nicholas_hogg]

Published today!

'A splendid collection' Ian McMillan

'Catching the Light holds enough within it to stand as a generational book: buy this volume of cricket poetry.' @WisdenCricket Book of the Month

Available now @FairfieldBooks_

[School Library Association @uksla]

🎉 We are thrilled to share that the SLA has been granted £500,000 by the Charlotte Aitken Trust to launch our new Reading Reboot programme. The programme will deliver social book clubs in 100 secondary schools across three years. Find out more: https://t.co/Nszl3gMVgm

[Andrew Duff @_andyduff]

@RobbieTimes @thetimes Loving this - really good - far better than most similar lists 👏

[Andrew Duff @_andyduff]

A beautiful work from Tim Norris - form meets function to create a bird shelter https://t.co/PCX3UKYWEB

[James Rebanks @herdyshepherd1]

Boy and pigs

[James Rebanks @herdyshepherd1]

This nature recovery craic isn’t that hard once you start... quite modest changes have brilliant effects

And a lot of it is just about sensible landscape/farm design

[Andrew Duff @_andyduff]

@JohnJCrace A man born for the social media age - getting just enough information to think that he’s right, but not enough to know that he’s wrong.

[James Hogg @JamesAHogg2]

This sketch makes my laugh like a drain but because of a characteristic as opposed to a punchline. That's what makes it so clever, I suppose. We quote it ad nauseum in our house.

All together now:

What, forty, forty five years??

[James Rebanks @herdyshepherd1]

I want to vomit every time I hear someone from our goverment saying we are going to be world leaders in AI.

What a crock of dangerous BS.

What about being world leaders in looking after our landscapes and nature, looking after our people, looking after our health and our diet?

[Andrew Duff @_andyduff]

@herdyshepherd1 @FaberBooks Interesting that the title in US was “… and the regeneration of England” - less wistful

[Andrew Duff @_andyduff]

@herdyshepherd1 @FaberBooks This is brilliant - superb bit of Auden voice at start too https://t.co/d44NZQOX81

[The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize @DuffCooperPrize]

@4thEstateBooks @JHUPress @uniofeastanglia @RoyalHistSoc @LucyHH @histassoc @OxUniPress @OUPHistory @LibAllSouls @FaberBooks @WBTWKeswick @BiographersThe @TheLondonLib @campdenlitfest Congratulations!
Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War between Science & Religion
Michael Taylor @M_H_Taylor (The Bodley Head @TheBodleyHead @vintagebooks)
is shortlisted for The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize 2025

[Andrew Duff @_andyduff]

@RevRichardColes Of course the AIers will tell you put one of them in there and they’d know it ALL 😂 #humanfolly

[Andrew Duff @_andyduff]

Agree very funny from @arusbridger - there will be a lot of pricking neo-pomposity required in next 4 years HT @JackMartin__

[alan rusbridger @arusbridger]

Mark Z and Joe Rogan talked for nearly 3 hours about masculinity and shooting pigs. There are shorter Wagner operas. But there is much to digest. My column https://t.co/abj826p8wB

[Andrew Duff @_andyduff]

@peterfrankopan

[Agnes Callard @AgnesCallard]

I wrote about a book I call, The Man Without Philosophy. You know it by a different name.
https://t.co/WXAnUnvqQO

[Jonathan Ford @Grepsul]

Ofwat today unveiled the biggest water price rises since privatisation, when bills rose to fix an underfunded system and meet new enviro standards. So why do we face another crash price-rise three decades later? In this @Telegraph piece, I explain why.
https://t.co/cn5lKxlirD

[Andrew Duff @_andyduff]

Seriously good magazine with the added benefit of not taking itself seriously - best value subscription out there - you will not regret.

[The Fence Magazine @The_Fence_Mag]

We're currently on 1,702 new subscribers for the year. Help us summit Mount Sub:

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[𝐓𝐫𝐨𝐲 𝐓𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐝 MBE @Towno10]

Delighted to present @jonawils with the Writer of the Year @WeAreTheFSA Awards last Monday 👏🏽