Literary agent @GreyhoundLitAg & captain of @AuthorsCC. Books: Scapegoat: A History of Blaming Other People & Herding Cats: The Art of Amateur Cricket Captaincy
Join us on April 20 for an evening at The Jolly Gardeners pub for discussion on cricket and poetry, followed by the legendary Nightwatchman quiz
Book now: https://t.co/az6fXhSg3P
🎉 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
Hello! On March 8th I am talking on stage to the brilliant Owain Mulligan, whose book about his Iraq War tour is - somehow - completely hilarious. The whole thing is in aid of the wonderful charity War Child, and it will be FUN if you feel like coming along. Details here https://t.co/p80E3wvMP4
The first match in over 100 years tomorrow between Authors & Artists at Little Marlow. The latter are a couple of players short, if you’d like to play. 1pm
start. Here is the photo of the 1903 teams. What units…
BTW the incredibly funny, darkly brilliant new memoir I was so passionate about that I somewhat garbled my recommendation is The Accidental Soldier by Owain Mulligan - out this week and I quite literally LOVED it.
We are thrilled to announce that Ferdia Lennon’s Glorious Exploits is the winner of the 2024 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction!
Congratulations!
#BEWP2024@FigTreePenguin@BollingerUK
Tor will publish @max_doty’s ‘superbly fun take on the haunted house trope’, The House That Eats the Dead. Congratulations Max and to his brilliant agent @MariaBrannan_!
https://t.co/3OsBwd8gBz
EXCLUSIVE: Detectives investigating historical sex offence allegations against Russell Brand have passed a file to prosecutors. It follows a Sunday Times and Times investigation. He denies the allegations. By @DipeshGadher and me
https://t.co/YqvVxr7pZP
The time I most question my choice of profession is when I move house. Boxes & boxes of books. I have an untouched copy of Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy that has now accompanied me on three separate house moves. What is the most unread book on your shelves?
Just in time for spooky season! I'm thrilled that
@simonschusterUK
and
@SagaPressBooks
will be publishing @Bonnie_Quinn's terrifying, incredibly imaginative and very funny horror series How to Survive Camping. If LoTR didn't teach you not to follow the lights, this one's for you
this is such a good and basic point.
my prediction is no, they didn't, because a central tenet of resistance liberalism is to feel good about yourself while never inconveniencing yourself