Susannah Herbert

Word-lover, walker. Manager Duff Cooper Prize, board member MPT mag & Knowledge Schools Foundation. Former dir. of Forward Arts Foundation. Views mine own.

[Susannah Herbert @susannahherbert]

@EmmaHarding01 @BBCRadio4 @elliotlevey_ @damienmolony Terrific production. Loved everything about it. Bravo @EmmaHarding01

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@jk_rowling @shabanahfazal oh ffs

[Susannah Herbert @susannahherbert]

@lucymirandaward @shabanahfazal @cambridgeunion Hurrah. Courageous & brilliant like her ma @lucymirandaward

[The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize @DuffCooperPrize]

UK publishers! Nominate yr best non-fiction of 2026 for the 71st Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize so our eminent judges - led by @artemis_cooper (below, with latest winner @TimPBouverie ) - can choose what to call in. The form is here: send it in soon 🍾📚🍾https://t.co/SqHFKkvvaf

[Jonathan Ford @Grepsul]

One for discerning book lovers everywhere. Volumes signed by Giorghiu-Dej, Honecker, Brezhnev, etc

[Susannah Herbert @susannahherbert]

Top investigation into the phenomenon that is #DaleVince by @Grepsul

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

If there is one thing you need to know about Dale Vince, the renewable energy entrepreneur, it’s that he takes a very dim view of both capitalism and wealth accumulation.

Now, The Telegraph takes an in-depth look at the finances of the Ecotricity boss and Labour donor ⬇️
https://t.co/d9qx8hxE8J

📸: Jack Kenyon

[Jonathan Ford @Grepsul]

My latest Business Adventure is on Kodak, the powerhouse that invented mass market photography and flourished for a century. Then in 1975, a young engineer created a fatal product, the digital camera.
https://t.co/qZAktcuWbz

[Susannah Herbert @susannahherbert]

@cusackandrew Masterpiece (& winner of @DuffCooperPrize)

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@LissaKEvans I give it as a present, often. Any views on her other books?

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@MForstater @hullfair I howled

[Susannah Herbert @susannahherbert]

Graceful, witty & sobering speech at the 70th anniversary @PolRoger @DuffCooperPrize from the historian Tim Bouverie. I wish I had been there, but this little film makes me feel I was...(to be enjoyed with a glass of 🍾)

[The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize @DuffCooperPrize]

"We need more history, not less..." 2026 winner Tim Bouverie speaks at the award ceremony last night where he won this year's prize for Allies At War @NewCollegeOx @PolRogerEpernay @HeywoodHill @TimPBouverie

[Susannah Herbert @susannahherbert]

@RooneyRachel I treasure Hey Girl. It's a book I read & re-read, as does the daughter.

[The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize @DuffCooperPrize]

Congratulations to 'brilliant young historian' @TimBouverie on winning the 70th #DuffCooperPrize for the fast-paced, wide-ranging & resonant Allies At War: The Politics of Defeating Hitler. https://t.co/MWf07c0JHm @PolRogerEpernay @NewCollegeOx

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Keith the Apocalypse Bringer is a three-year-old Anglo-Nubian goat in a field in Devon.

Keith should not be underestimated.

Keith has been systematically dismantling the ecosystem since approximately 7am, when he ate a bramble. This is significant because bramble is an invasive scrub species that outcompetes wildflowers, reduces biodiversity, and creates dense monoculture thicket that nothing else can use.

Keith ate it. Keith does this every day. Keith does not charge for this service.

8:15am - Keith ate a thistle. Thistles are also considered invasive scrub in managed pasture. Goldfinches eat thistle seeds, but Keith's grazing will ensure the pasture remains open enough for the ground-nesting birds that can't use dense scrub. Keith has not attended a conservation workshop. Keith arrived at this conclusion by being a goat.

9:00am - Keith dismantled a section of hedge. This was less helpful. Keith does not have a perfect record.

10:30am - Keith escaped the field. He was in the road for eleven minutes. He ate a neighbour's rose. This is not being counted in Keith's environmental impact assessment.

11:00am - Keith was returned to the field. Keith regarded the farmer with the specific expression of an animal that does not recognise the concept of property.

12:00pm - Keith ate more bramble. His digestive system: four stomachs, a rumen full of specialised microorganisms, the ability to extract nutrition from lignified plant matter that would defeat any other animal on this field, is converting scrub vegetation into milk with a fat content of approximately 4.5%. The milk will become cheese. The cheese will be sold at the farm shop. The farm shop is four miles away. The cheese food miles are: four.

3:00pm - Keith produced manure. The manure will grow the grass. The grass will grow the bramble. The bramble will be eaten by Keith.

This system has no inputs.

It has been running since goats were domesticated approximately ten thousand years ago.

Keith is not aware he is saving the planet.

Keith is thinking about whether the fence on the north side has a weak point.

It does. Keith found it at 4:45pm.

Keith got out again.

[Susannah Herbert @susannahherbert]

Read @MsPollyClark

[Polly Clark @MsPollyClark]

Anatomy of a Vanishing Review

https://t.co/pWLBxbap0x

[Susannah Herbert @susannahherbert]

Wolves, War, Gossip, Young Victorian Poets & the Fab Four. Your non-fic reading sorted. Thanks to @DuffCooperPrize judge @aholgate my former cellmate at @thetimes (Sunday) for illuminating round-up 📚🍾

[The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize @DuffCooperPrize]

"...written with rigour, originality & narrative drive" Terrific round-up of the best non-fiction reads of the last year on @five_books by @PolRogerEpernay #DuffCooperPrize judge @aholgate https://t.co/bqkWzG19H1

[The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize @DuffCooperPrize]

All five great nonfiction titles shortlisted for @DuffCooperPrize are on sale via @bookshop_org_UK, which supports indy bookstores. 📚📚📚https://t.co/gtYF4VTYIY

[The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize @DuffCooperPrize]

Our judges highly recommend A Scandal in Königsberg by @Clarkstopher and congratulate its publisher
@AllenLaneBooks on its shortlisting for the 70th
@DuffCooperPrize https://t.co/Je4o4e7zk5

[The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize @DuffCooperPrize]

Shout out for @mrianleslie & the shortlisting of his captivating take on the relationship that powered the #Beatles John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs @FaberBooks https://t.co/rsRxeigHmn

[The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize @DuffCooperPrize]

And three cheers for wilderness, as explored by #AdamWeymouth in his tremendous Lone Wolf: Walking the Faultlines of Europe @HutchHeinemann @CWAgencyUK https://t.co/zmqZb8RIrO