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Alex Peake-Tomkinson

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High excitement in my house that Susie Boyt has written an extra slice of her WONDERFUL 2021 novel Loved & Missed @viragopress . ‘All Being Well’ is published in the new edition of @granta_magazine, entitled ‘Dead Friends’
I loved writing about @jhedelstein brilliant memoir Breasts: A Relatively Brief Relationship for @spectatorlife this week. I would love to see this book reach a wide readership, even if I couldn’t get a copy of the Spectator in my bit of East L
A small thing but a happy thing, I’ve made my debut in @prospect_magazine’s culture newsletter, out on Thursdays, which I’ve long admired! I’ve written about @anna.whitwham’s powerful new memoir Soft Tissue Damage (@roug
I’m very late posting this but February work reads were a lot! I couldn’t even locate all of them for their close up — I think @minnasalami_’s Can Feminism Be African? was swiped by my mum for starters. I’ve read quite a
The toughest gig, if I’m honest! A few weeks ago, I chaired the main stage on the opening day of London Book Fair. This involved making “opening remarks” about the book industry, then chairing James Daunt and Hachette CEO David Shel
Chapel Market has changed! Let’s say I’m not wholly a fan of the gentrification of Islington, where I grew up and can no way afford to live now, to say nothing of the alarming disparity in wealth visible there every day. It’s a ver
@dauntbooks festival is one of the best gigs and I was delighted to discuss an INCREDIBLE book for them this year: @harkaway’s Karla’s Song @vikingbooksuk. Honestly, buy it for everyone you know! Even if they barely know who George Smiley
Serotonin levels frankly doubled after chairing brilliant @elizabethlovatt and @roisinrose at @pagesofhackney last night! THANK YOU FOR CALLING THE LESBIAN LINE is out now and Roisin’s novel A LINE YOU HAVE TRACED will be published in April. Th
I seem to be the only reviewer who didn’t love the new Anne Tyler. I like a quiet book but for me this was just too inconsequential. I’ve reviewed it for the current issue of @spectator1828.

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