Sitting playing holiday scrabble and it just sort of happened......@zoe_grunewald Chris Bryant ALASTAIR CAMPBELL Matt Chorley

Historic first Rachel Reeves The Labour Party When women break glass ceilings we all win whatever side of the political divide 👏🏽

Wes Streeting: “I have just spoken over the phone with the BMA junior doctors committee, and I can announce that talks to end their industrial action will begin next week.”

Jack Elsom It feels like a 14-year house party that got out of control, and now mum and dad are back and all feels good in the world

If this boat parade doesn’t culminate in Celine Dion coming down the Seine in a replica of the Titanic belting out My Heart Will Go On, then Paris will have missed a huge trick (and I’ll be pissed off).

Just finished Literature for the People, by Sarah Harkness about the Macmillan brothers and how they established a great publishing house. A fascinating read, reflecting so much of Victorian literary and social life - highly recommended!

Congratulations to Sarah Harkness! Literature for the People, Sarah's compelling biography of the Macmillan brothers, has been longlisted in the Research Book of the Year category of the Saltire Society Literature Awards 2024! Read more here: buff.ly/3Tzik4P

🎉Huge congratulations to Sarah Harkness on 'Literature for the People' being longlisted by @saltirebook for Scotland’s National Book Awards in the Research category! 📚✨ Proudly published by Pan Macmillan

Look at this! The best bargain price ever for the hardback, or you can pre-order the paperback now, or listen to me read it on Audible, a 5* rating!

What better way to celebrate Alexander Macmillan's birthday than to buy his biography, currently nearly 40% off on Amazon Deal: Literature for the People: How The Pioneering Macmillan Brothers Built a Publishing Powerhouse amzn.eu/d/0nTygao or pre-order the paperback!

I reviewed Literature for the People by Sarah Harkness here: the-tls.co.uk/lives/biograph…

'Their ascent began almost by accident, when Daniel was apprenticed aged ten to an Irvine bookseller and bookbinder.' Joe Moran (Joe Moran) on the irresistible rise of the Macmillan brothers the-tls.co.uk/lives/biograph…

This week, I was so happy to write about two of my favourite poems, and poets. I only wish I could share with Louis MacNeice as well! Roger Mcgough open.substack.com/pub/harkness/p…

It's been a bumper year for Mansfield College, University of Oxford alumni books! We have a selection of our most recent acquisitions on display on the library landing, including those from Chris Bryant Torsten Bell Sue Unerman Sarah Harkness & Dr Janet Lees Do browse and borrow as usual!

This is great description of the ideal bookshop by Joe Moran in The TLS - and I’m pleased to say that Cambridge University Press Bookshop is still going strong! #ChooseBookshops

So thrilled to be on this list! Congratulations to all the other authors. And a huge thank you to Pan Macmillan for such a bright, brilliant cover! SaltireBookAwards Cambridge University Press Bookshop

Rescued from a Bulgarian slave market, young Florence trekked across Africa with Samuel Baker in search of the source of the Nile. Brave enough to face lions and warlords, but not to admit they weren't married! harkness.substack.com/p/lady-baker-a…

Can't wait to see these shortlists on 30 October, and keeping my fingers crossed that Literature for the People makes it through on the Research Shortlist!

The last of my dahlias #GardensHour