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Book of the Year: Fiction (supported by Good Housekeeping UK) goes to Percival Everett for James (Pan Macmillan Mantle Books) ✒️ When crowning James the winner, our panel agreed that the story delivers “the message the world needs right now” #Nibbies #BritishBookAwards

Delighted with these reviews of my new book on land access. Last week the FT said that “a nuanced look at this white-hot debate and the often-unheard voices affected by it was overdue.” If you’d like a copy, hit up Waterstones: waterstones.com/book/uncommon-…

Thank you for having me. THE GREEN LADY is also here in this podcast I perform which responds to literary language music rhythm sound visual art & storytelling set upon the Isis surrounded by willow trees; a podcast for writers artists contemplatives: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-r…

My most ambitious book: a sweeping history of operatic culture & attitudes over ten decades. It tells the history of British opera companies large & small. It has a lot to say about the BBC, recording, education, subsidy, arts policies, British tastes, & the elitism stereotype.

🍃'A curious-minded and subtle intervention in the politics of the countryside' The Times and The Sunday Times The countryside is under increasing pressure and people, the science shows, need nature. But does nature need us? Discover UNCOMMON GROUND today.

First taste of the cover and colours of Ghost Stations, out in September from Charles Boyle. Essays on trains, stations, places, not-quite-places, centres and perpheries, imaginary poets and real artists, memory and forgetting. Ghost signs and missing letters.

“You have been gaslit by a medical system not wanting to admit harm” said one senior neurologist to me. And then a distressed administrator in a separate neurology department poured out all of that he had seen of the many harmed by vaccines coming into the neurology department.

Great news for comedy lovers 🎭 We've teamed up with The Rep for the world premiere of new documentary Serious About Comedy - to include a panel discussion featuring Prof Ewan Fernie from our Shakespeare Institute 🗓️ 2 June 📍 Rik Mayall Comedy Festival rikmayallcomedyfestival.com/events/serious…

That’s already funny, Ewan! Good start…. Congratulations.

Book at Lunchtime: Patrick McGuinness: Ghost Stations 28 May. We welcome Patrick as our last author in the Radcliffe Humanities Humanities Division University of Oxford Oxford Students St Anne's College Faculty of English torch.ox.ac.uk/event/book-at-…

My late mother Mildred Stein was a martial arts student in the 1950s & a badass in general. Here she is demonstrating one of her takedowns. She also read The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire -- full edition, unabridged-- every couple of years. Ohio girl. Lots to live up to.

20 years ago today, 3 years before he was slain by depression, David Foster Wallace delivered his unforgettable meditation on the meaning of life – perhaps the greatest commencement address of all time themarginalian.org/2012/09/12/thi…

What is the point of an inquiry that is scared of its own findings and amplifies the harm caused by failing to report in a timely manner?

A vivid portrait of how we hold places in mind and the people attached to those places. Thank you for an engaging talk Patrick McGuinness and to TORCH Oxford for hosting such warm open minded events for the public as well as the university community.

.Angela Rayner I'm 57 a University lecturer & single working class woman I live in a tiny 2 bed private rented house £800pcm takes 40% of my income. I've worked since I was 16 in a factory for 11 years then studied I did 'the right things' will I get a safe affordable home?

Last night I learned of yet another vaccine injury triggered by a booster - polymyalgia rheumatica; several research papers acknowledge this; the word rare now seems meaningless/merely political; to retain funding: tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

On to our Travelling Scholarships, which enable writers to keep in touch with their colleagues abroad. Established in 1944, the recipients are nominated by the assessors for the year. Five writers are each awarded £7,000 #SoAwards 🧵

⁦The Society of Authors⁩ Thank you for the generous travel scholarship prize ⁦Arabella Pike⁩ and for the v generous review below ⁦William Collins Books⁩

Thank you to ⁦The Society of Authors⁩ for the generous travel scholarship prize & the lovely review ⁦Arabella Pike⁩ ⁦William Collins Books⁩