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⏱️This is tomorrow and it will be absolutely brilliant so do snap up a ticket while there are still a few left! 🤩

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Insightful and masterful, Garth Greenwell’s latest novel Small Rain invites us to reconsider where we put emphasis, how we think about attachment, and how best to live when pain is unavoidable. My review Psychology Today #Pain #Polarization #MedTwitter psychologytoday.com/us/blog/side-e…

A wonderful poem by a brilliant young poet. (Cc Jackie Kay 🥹❤️)

'A significant achievement, at once piercingly perceptive and melancholic.' From the review of MY GOOD BRIGHT WOLF by Sarah Moss in the new edition of The TLS the-tls.co.uk/lives/autobiog…

Tune in on Sunday afternoon for the last ever Open Book, featuring Kamila Shamsie, Sara Collins and Ted Hodgkinson talking to me and @johnypitts about their most memorable books of the last 25 years BBC Radio 4 BBC Sounds

I LOVED Alan Hollinghurst’s #OurEvenings—so moving, funny, insightful. So beautifully written. Can’t recommend enough

Join us for Gothic tales of grand cemeteries and hidden stories of molly houses with bestselling authors Elizabeth Macneal and AJ West #AlwaysTogether. Discover how The Burial Plot was partially inspired by Strawberry Hill House & Garden! 📍Twickenham Library 🗓️Sat 16 Nov 🕰️2pm 🏷️£4.50 wtr.to/ac2Vn

Philly, I’m counting on you to reach out to your family, friends, neighbors – everyone in your life – and help them make a plan to vote. Let’s elect Kamala Harris and Tim Walz and keep this country moving forward. IWillVote.com

This is hugely welcome and bigger than it looks: UK going after Russia's disinformation machine globally 💥

We're looking forward to welcoming Douglas Stuart to to BBC World Book Club on 12 November to talk about his Booker Prize winning Shuggie Bain with Harriett Gilbert and readers from around the world. Send YOUR q's for Douglas via DM or [email protected]'t delay!

We cannot wait! We are obssessed with Alan's books and #OurEvenings is particularly *chefs kiss* #alanhollinghurst #mlf2024

Hauntingly truthful novel skewers the cruelties of the British elite heraldscotland.com/politics/24684… Rosemary Goring reviews Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst

OUR EVENINGS - Blackwell’s Book of the Year 2024 (Fiction category) ✨

My advice, for what it’s worth: try not to be distracted by the faintly discourteous, the mildly incompetent, the harmlessly obnoxious. Roll with the delayed trains, dropped litter and misused apostrophes. Save your powder for the truly malevolent creatures now stalking the land.

'I was blown away by this huge-hearted, masterful novel... Magnificently peopled & full of genuinely funny asides & observations, I'd wager it's impossible not to love this accomplished, warm & witty adult debut.' Garrett Carr's #TheBoyFromTheSea Book of the Month The Bookseller

Weds 13 Nov Kings Place, two contemporary greats: Douglas Stuart in conv with Jackie Kay. As part of Jackie's 'Scotland Unwrapped' series, she'll be talking to Douglas about his incredible novels Shuggie Bain & Young Mungo. A rare opp not to be missed😍kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/words…

With apologies to Nat King Cole (and Irving Gordon), this is called ‘Unelectable’.

I'm sure that many of us can't stomach staying on here to be traffic pigs for Tr*ump-enabling horror M*sk any more... Please please let's carry on the book-related, kind, interesting & civilised conversation elsewhere if at all possible: I'm on insta & Threads camilla_elworthy