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I can’t pretend that I think the world needed my take on the ins and outs of Rachel Cusk apparently writing a novel about Natalie Portman but it nonetheless exists! Thank you to @prospect_magazine for asking me to write the piece and brilliant
It was my honour to interview the incredible Siri Hustvedt about Ghost Stories, her memoir of her life with Paul Auster and also now, her life as a widow. As @louisecc.reads said to me a while ago, she just has a really great brain. She also bore out
I genuinely missed my tube stop when I first read @clairemegpowell’s All In @chattobooks back in February and ended up in Bromley by Bow. You don’t have to do that but do read it — it’s even better than her first book, At the
I was so happy to chair @clairemegpowell and Camilla Barnes this evening @bricklanebookshop, where I was a bookseller nearly two decades ago. Discussing their novels, All In @chattobooks and The Usual Desire to Kill @scribneruk, was a great opportuni
I seem to be on a roll reviewing novels that aren’t quite for me, sadly! This time it’s Claire Fuller’s Hunger and Thirst, which I’ve covered for @ft_weekend. I’ll be interested to read other reviews when they start appe
Looking and feeling not unlike a proud parent after chairing three cracking debut novelists @brightonfestival! L-R @jon.e.doyle, author of Communion, @poorsasquatch, author of May We Feed the King and @mcintheworld, author of Belgrave Road. Thank you
I’ve reviewed Boyhood by David Keenan for this week’s edition of @spectatorlife, alongside @emilyrhodeswriter on a reissue of a creepy Caroline Blackwood novel and the inimitable Lynn Barber on a biography of the Rolling Stones. I didn&rs
Happy publication day to Gwendoline Riley, whose seventh novel, The Palm House is out today. Riley is the first author I interviewed, 20 years ago, when I emailed her publicist and then promptly bought a tape recorder and a ticket to Manchester after
Booker-longlisted Yvvette Edwards was a new author to me but I was very glad to review her latest novel Good Good Loving for the current issue of @spectator1828, alongside Artemis Cooper on a new biography of Jan Morris. Bernardine Evaristo and Dian

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