
Mathew Lyons
@mathewjlyons
Writer, historian, FRHistS. Recent: @HistoryToday, @EngelsbergIdeas, @spectator, @FoxedQuarterly. Books: The Favourite, Impossible Journeys, There & Back Again
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'You might call the book an epic act of noticing' #TheMissingThread Spectator Culture

Sam Leith’s guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is Geoff Dyer, who’s talking about his memoir, Homework. Geoff, in this new book, bids fair to be the Proust of Airfix models and prog rock. Listen here 👇 Sam Leith 🐝 spectator.co.uk/podcast/geoff-…

Britain’s self-styled ‘Thief-Taker General’ was not all he seemed. On 24 May 1725 Jonathan Wild was finally brought to justice. ✍️ Mathew Lyons explains buff.ly/WCmblh0

Britain’s self-styled ‘Thief-Taker General’ was not all he seemed. On 24 May 1725 Jonathan Wild was finally brought to justice. ✍️ Mathew Lyons tells the story buff.ly/WCmblh0






If I had a favorite publisher, it would be Hurst Hurst Publishers such an endlessly diverse and highly interesting list




New on the writer’s bookshelf: eight questions about writers, books, and reading with the great tiffany jenkins open.substack.com/pub/mathewlyon…



