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📚City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age, Doomsday Men, Einstein, Metaphor & Materiality. Now writing about cities, detectives and crime. https://linktr.ee/pd_smith
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Here are my two Guardian paperback picks for March! My Battle of Hastings, by Xiaolu Guo & The Voices of Nature, by Nicolas Mathevon. Links to the reviews below. Enjoy! 🧵 #nonfiction #books📚

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The edgeworthia is beautiful in the sun this year. Amazing scent too…

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Here are my two Guardian paperback picks for February! The City of Today is a Dying Thing, by Des Fitzgerald & The Chapter, by Nicholas Dames. Links to the reviews below. Enjoy! 🧵 #nonfiction #books 📚

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Very much enjoyed @desfitzgerald.bsky.social’s The City of Today is a Dying Thing too, a witty and wise journey through urban arcadias

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Here are my two Guardian paperback picks for February! The City of Today is a Dying Thing, by Des Fitzgerald & The Chapter, by Nicholas Dames. Links to the reviews below. Enjoy! 🧵 #nonfiction #books 📚

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Here are my two Guardian paperback picks for January! More, by Molly Roden Winter & The Light of Asia, by Christopher Harding. Links to the reviews below. Enjoy! 🧵 #nonfiction #books📚

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Ah, David Lynch. They don’t make them like that anymore.

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Here are my two Guardian paperback picks for January! More, by Molly Roden Winter & The Light of Asia, by Christopher Harding. Links to the reviews below. Enjoy! 🧵 #nonfiction #books📚

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Happy Christmas all! 🎄🎄🎄🙂

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Fritz Lang makes himself a drink at the bar of his flat in Berlin, 1932. Photo by Martin Munkacsi.

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Times are changing and my new novel published next month will be the first of my books to contain this text on the copyright page.

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"On the day the war started, the weapons were fully in place. We were ready to launch the forces into the sea and air and, in theory, carry out a nuclear strike.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Jewry Street, Aldgate 1909 Chris Scott

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"Alfred Schnitzel" is a new transcription software delight this morning

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137 years ago today, Sherlock Holmes burst onto the scene changing crime fiction forever! Happy anniversary Mr Holmes!

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'The Greenhouse and the Garden', Eric Ravilious, 1932

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It's paperback time @guardian.extwitter.link and here are a couple of my favourites for November & December. Happy reading! 🧵 #nonfiction #books📚 www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

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It's paperback time @guardian.extwitter.link and here are a couple of my favourites for November & December. Happy reading! 🧵 #nonfiction #books📚 www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

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Left: Actor Stephen Rea Right: Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, 1531-55 Never seen in the same room

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“Happiness is infectious." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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From Prague, we caught the train to Vienna, one of my favourite cities - walkable but with excellent public transport, beautiful buildings, and of course great coffee houses and cakes... More photos of both Prague and Vienna on Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/pdsmi...

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Hello autumn my old friend

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A few days in Prague, which is a beautiful and friendly city, but crowded with people like me: tourists. Some pictures of a few things that caught my eye. More on Instagram...

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From Prague, we caught the train to Vienna, one of my favourite cities - walkable but with excellent public transport, beautiful buildings, and of course great coffee houses and cakes... More photos of both Prague and Vienna on Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/pdsmi...

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A few days in Prague, which is a beautiful and friendly city, but crowded with people like me: tourists. Some pictures of a few things that caught my eye. More on Instagram...

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It's paperback time at the Guardian and here are a couple of my favourites for October. Happy reading! 🧵 #nonfiction #books📚 www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

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