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My wonderful daughter Dr Lily Dunn reading my biography of Mary Shelley, written at night when I was young & Lily was a toddler (& pub by W&N, Lily's publisher) has just asked me to buy her Mary's novella 'Matilda' for Christmas. The pleasure when circles overlap. #booktwt

Why does James Baldwin matter so much now? A round-up of recently published books on Baldwin, including Douglas Field's 'Walking in the dark', in the latest issue of the The Spectator: spectator.co.uk/article/why-do… #JamesBaldwin

So proud of my mum

Calling memoir writers! Excited about this new course I am leading. It is an intensive and intimate, for those of you writing #memoir and wanting to get it ready for submission. A combo of teaching & workshopping with guest visits londonlitlab.co.uk/course/memoir-…

Here is my list of 2024’s most riveting podcasts: 1) Jessi Gold MD MS & Sulman Aziz Mirza, MD? | TheKicksShrink on MHP’s own mental health: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/psy… 2) Nick Taber - troubled teen industry: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/bac… 3) Dr Lily Dunn - cults & narcissistic dads: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ind… 1/

Thank you Francesca Main for sending me the proof copy of Breasts - it is on my to read pile this Christmas. I am intrigued.

So well deserved. Children of the Cult is one of Peter Bradshaw's best documentaries of 2024.

Thank you Sofka Zinovieff for an early glance at your next novel! I was such a big fan of Putney and can't wait to get stuck into reading this one. Happy New Year to you.

I've had amazing applications for my intensive 3-month #memoir Bootcamp starting in March, and I would love to hear from you if you're interested. An intimate group of writers passionate about memoir, who want to get ready for submission #amwriting londonlitlab.co.uk/course/memoir-…

Calling poets! You'll love this workshop with the brilliant Caleb Parkin, former Bristol City Poet. It's an interactive collaborative workshop that will be lots of fun. It's online on 8th Feb, and £20 to join. Please spread the word to your poet friends. londonlitlab.co.uk/course/poetry-…

Are you writing a novel, but find yourself unsure how to shape the story? Or have you written your way through part of a novel, but found the plot going off on tangent? LondonLitLab is running How to Plot a Page Turner, one of our most popular courses. Here's some tips

It’s good to see my cheeky face centre stage at Charing Cross Waterstones nearly three years after Sins of My Father was first published. So much stock passes through bookshops and I am very grateful this little tyke has stuck around. #amwriting #writingcommunity

Bhagwan's phrase "To be human is to be sexual" applied explicitly also to children and young people. "A girl is never more sexually alive than at the age of fourteen," the master said' An excellent investigative piece about Osho and sexual abuse of minors. sueddeutsche.de/projekte/artik…

A few places left on this course... grab them quick

Tortoise Media, asked if I'd be on Daily Sensemaker discussing whether it's okay to publish Joan Didion's diaries posthumously. I'm not an expert, but I do have an opinion on the difference between a diary and a memoir, and you can listen to it here tortoisemedia.com/listen/daily-s…

My next book, INTO BEING: will be published by Manchester University Press in October and I can now share the cover - it is part memoir, part teaching manual for those of you who love writing. It is one of the only books in the UK to focus on the craft of #memoir. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179258/

Absolutely thrilled for Bluemoose Books who have won Small Press of the Year #BritishBookAwards (North England.) 🎉🎉🎉🎉 They will be publishing my novel 'The Orange Notebooks' in May 2025. Very happy to join their brilliant group of writers! CONGRATULATIONS!

So pleased to have a book coming out with MUP this year, and that they used the image of the cover of INTO BEING on their catalogue

If you're writing #memoir, or thinking of doing that, take note of Dr Lily Dunn's next book, forthcoming in October! #newbooks #WritingCommunity

Writers, poets, essayists. There are a few places left on my online Writing Using Visual, Musical and Drama Technique 26/04 2-4pm GMT (9-11 EST) with the brilliant LondonLitLab. Me and the lovely Dr Lily Dunn talk about it here: londonlitlab.substack.com/p/what-can-we-…