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George as in The Famous Five. Books, nice dinners, flowers, cats and rage against the state of things. Picador person but all views ...
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Everything is - of course - awful but I personally have had a jolly nice evening at The Book Society summer party. Publishing is in many ways bonkers but you do get to talk to interesting clever funny people about books - and much else besides. thebooksociety.org.uk

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And write about her so brilliantly, too. 'Outstanding' said The Guardian, so it's not just biased-editor speak. #ArtistsSiblingsVisionaries

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Quite

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V happy to see my Johns' book given lead review in The Times yesterday

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V excited to be giving my first talk about Gwen and Augustus John at Derby Book Festival tomorrow, 12.30. If anyone's in the vicinity, do come!

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Biggish day tomorrow so of course I'm sitting here shouting at the news ...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Quite. Met him, briefly, once. Was not charmed.

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Editing a book about the Holocaust, as I've done one way or another several times over 40 years as a non-fiction editor. And every single time, the petty cruelties and the vast numbers of those who suffered and/or died take my breath away.

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As so often of late, I've seen the news and really wish I hadn't. Abhorrent speech from Starmer who has almost certainly squandered the majority with which they were elected and on which I felt a tiny glimmer of hope, long since quashed alas.

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