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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
I’m nailing my colours to the mast as a Kathy Burke super fan. This isn’t why but she’s the only person outside my own family that I’ve heard of using the coalman (Mr Lockey!) on Essex Road in Islington. I also went to the sam
✨I reviewed Ann Packer’s Some Bright Nowhere for the current issue @ft_weekend. In the same section is @boycottrosie on Barbara Wansborough’s memoir of family trauma and grief, Wild Things. Reading Packer’s novel is the longest time
The concept of chosen family will always be fascinating to me, even if Madeleine Gray’s second novel wasn’t quite what I expected. I’ve reviewed it for the current issue of @spectatorlife and also enjoyed @lamowens’ vivid asse
Happy to be in the still new look @the.tls writing about Mary Ann Kenny’s account of her psychotic breakdown, The Episode. It wasn’t an easy read and it didn’t help that I read it last year when I had a Covid fever but I do commend
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Merry Marrakesh Christmas 🇲🇦🎄
This week (on Remembrance Day, in fact) in 1968, my mum arrived at Southampton docks with her family to live in England forever. She had never left Apartheid-era South Africa until she had to — @canoncollinstrust paid for her boat fare and that

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