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MASSIVE CRICKET ACTION, BE THERE...

A massive day of elite sport today - the nation holds its breath, high octane tension, so much has been leading up to this, etc, etc - as The Authors CC take on an XI selected by our beloved president, Sebastian Faulks

ENGLAND IS MINE reviewed in the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Spectator and the Observer ⚡️

Corfu in September! We have Sir Stephen Fry Sebastian Faulks David Olusoga Sarah Churchwell @eviewyld Dr Adam Rutherford and many more. We have temples, sun, sand, great beauty. We have cricket! Prolong your summer Corfu Literary Festival 💙

Huge cricket match today between the Authors & the Publishers. Will the writers find their score has been halved in the scorebook by murky high discount clauses? Or will literature prevail? Watch here from 2pm. youtube.com/live/xR3oWeEws…

Thrilled to see Pathum Nissanka batting so well. We toured Sri Lanka twice (2014/16) & met this diminutive batter with incredible technique. (We were asked if we could provide him with some kit too.) Wonderful to see him playing for Sri Lanka in all 3 formats a decade later.

What a game from Pathum Nissanka: 191 off 175 balls. #ENGvSL

I’m afraid they are all utterly, totally, irredeemably bonkers. And to think they were in Government! For 14 years!!

So, the final part of my quartet on the Italian campaign is out on Thursday. If anyone should want a signed and dedicated copy ⁦Coles Books⁩ is the place to go… ⁦WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk⁩ ⁦@ww2wtg⁩

My new book 'Cambridge - Time & Space' is now available! This special limited first edition has a foreword by Sebastian Faulks and additional photographs of Cambridge streets during the first days of lockdown. It is beautifully printed in full colour throughout with nearly 400

Great business idea. Foreign currency desk at airport. Client asks to change dollars to pounds. But you swap exchange rate! Pretend dollar worth MORE than £. Hand over few £. Pocket real rate yourself! Sorry mate. Someone already thought of that one.

Discovered a Brexit benefit! Friend had picked up 7 speeding fines in Italy. Brexit red tape made it impossible for Carabinieri to follow up! It’s taken nearly 5 years to see the upside but well worth the wait, no?

The five-star 'riveting' (The Telegraph) adaptation of Sebastian Faulks' Birdsong - Play by Rachel Wagstaff is now on tour. Catch this epic story of love and loss at a theatre near you: birdsongplay.com.

'In 2018, a new student at Downing College hurries past the library to take his place for the official matriculation photograph; whilst in 2020, due to social distancing, students receive picnic hampers in place of the traditional matriculation dinner' From my new book 'Cambridge

A Life-changing book

Confusion now hath made his masterpiece

Agree. Why could they not find her another job?

Don't miss this year's shortlisted authors in conversation with former winner of the award, the one and only Zadie Smith, on Monday 17th March at the Barbican Centre! 🎟️🎟️🎟️ For more information and tickets: barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/…

Just announced, the winner of the 2025 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, RURAL HOURS by Harriet Baker! 🎊 A mesmerising literary triple biography, find it here alongside the rest of this year’s incredible shortlist: waterstones.com/category/cultu… Young Writer Award

Excellent and important and wise and empathetic column from ⁦Hadley Freeman⁩ thetimes.co.uk/article/weve-f…