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Delighted to say that "Failed State" has met the key benchmark of selling more hardback copies than Liz Truss's memoir.

submitted 106 days ago • 55 comments

Please allow me to introduce myself: I am a journalist (The Guardian, The Times, Radio Times and others), I am an author (a memoir called Greetings from Bury Park, and a non fiction book They), I am a screenwriter (Blinded by the Light), I teach at UCL and I am writing my first stage play. Hello!

submitted 105 days ago • 184 comments

Do yourself a favor and read this from Fox News contributor Ben Domenech. I’d like to report a murder

submitted 104 days ago • 1349 comments

The Onion has bought a bankrupt Infowars with help from the Sandy Hook families. Please let this be the new logo:

submitted 104 days ago • 692 comments

Some good news from Texas. #Texas #bookbans #freedomtoread @txfreedomread.bsky.social @freadomfighters.bsky.social

submitted 106 days ago • 58 comments

Cicero was a very wise man

submitted 105 days ago • 513 comments

My new book, The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad, is out today. It tells the story of the botanists who worked at the world's first seed bank during the 900-day siege––and how they were faced with a terrible decision: eat the fruits of their research to survive, or protect the collection for science.

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