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Do you know what I’m a big fan of? EXCESSIVE FORMALITY IN POP SONGS. If you’re Erasure singing “oh baby, refrain from breaking my heart” or Diana Ross chirping “respectfully, I say to thee: I’m aware that you’re cheating”, then I’m simply all ears 💛

I’m coveting Wallace & Gromit’s entire cheese-centric library 📚

Very unfair that Sam Mendes can make 4 films about each member of the Beatles, and yet I can’t make just one film about the time Kate Bush did a photoshoot with a stuffed crocodile in a car park 😤

7 of my works were stolen in the LibGen heist, including 4 books that took half my lifetime to write. Books are like trees: they take time & energy to grow. Logging without permission or payment destroys cultural ecosystems. Today I stand with fellow writers in angry protest.

Pulp - More (2025)

.Sceptre Books has triumphed in a four-way auction for Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark, James Bailey’s biography of Muriel Spark. Sceptre will publish the book in April 2026, to mark the 20th anniversary of Spark’s death 👇 thebookseller.com/rights/sceptre…

.Sceptre Books has won a four-way auction for Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark, a new biography by James Bailey (James) bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article-d… (£)

If you don't love Muriel Spark then we can't be friends...

ICYMI: Sceptre Books has triumphed in a four-way auction for Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark, James Bailey’s biography of Muriel Spark. Sceptre will publish the book in April 2026, to mark the 20th anniversary of Spark’s death 👇 thebookseller.com/rights/sceptre…

Well it’s about time! Well done, James!!!

CALLING ALL MURIEL SPARK LOVERS The very best news, so well deserved James 🎉🎉🎉

We are completely delighted for TLC friend Dr James Bailey on the forthcoming publication of his biography of Muriel Spark. This promises to be a sparkling, exciting book. Fans of Muriel Spark, take note!

Marking the death of Edmund White by sharing this photo of my secondhand copy of A Boy’s Own Story, which the previous owner has thoughtfully annotated (something tells me White would have approved)

The new Reading Well for families booklist is here! Expert-approved and co-produced with families and health partners, these books support parents and carers through pregnancy and early years. 👉 Explore the list: bit.ly/reading-well-f… #ReadingWell

I love this so much: Brian Wilson hearing Ronnie Spector’s cover of ‘Don’t Worry Baby’ 💜

Spotted in the wilds of Waterstones Piccadilly, London And Other Stories (thanks James 🍩 🍩 🍩) If it's seething Greek heat, sweaty tents and misaligned stars you're after, WHAT YOU COULD HAVE WON might be your summer read.