Literary Editor of The Times/Sunday Times. Judge @BGPrize thetimes.com/culture/books
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Hilary Mantel’s exquisite description of Anita Brookner’s party technique (from the Brookner biog by Hermione Lee)
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A review of Max Hastings's tremendous new book about the end of the Second World War, for @thetimes.
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"Like the protagonist of Michel Houellebecq’s 2001 novel Platform, I have recently been the recipient — or should I say “survivor” — of a Thai massage..."
On the 25th anniversary of Michel Houellebecq's Platform in the @thetimes
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EXCLUSIVE: The former bodyguard of Ismail Haniyeh, leader of Hamas, was given asylum and citizenship in the UK — then “plotted” huge foiled terror attack targeting Jews in Europe last year
Mr X had legal anonymity for 100 years: Sunday Times quashed this
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This would have been a major, era defining news story, once.
UK gave citizenship to Hamas chief’s guard, then he ‘plotted terror’
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London Station is both wildly entertaining and lethally serious. @mccloskeybooks is the best spy thrillerist of our times and this is the best yet
David McCloskey: ‘We might want to stop calling it the special relationship’
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Oh, hello!
Yes, it's me for the Times(!) reviewing The Man Who Was Private Widdle by Roger Lewis, a biography of Carry On star Charles Hawtrey.
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There’s a bizarro manoeuvre where a writer will insist they’re not anti-porn — in fact, will be derisive of anyone who is anti-porn — then enumerate all the ways porn is terrible without conceding the point. And this book is a prime example:
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Thank you so much @polblonde @thetimes for selecting 'The Wicked Girls' as one of the top pics for September! I'm in amazing company here.
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Have to say, a review like this from Craig Brown feels like Christmas.
The mad life of Barbara Cartland, the Queen of Romance who hated women thetimes.com/culture/books/a…
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I read the new Jared Diamond and wasn't exactly impressed. My latest for @thetimes:
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In praise of reading.
I enjoyed @j_amesmarriott's bravura defence of books, theory, and print culture:
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On a brilliant new biography of Puyi, the last emperor of China, whose life it seems was rather less operatically Freudian than Bertolucci’s biopic would have us believe. My latest for @thetimes:
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Austria’s greatest achievement, the sardonic quip goes, is making the world think that Hitler was a German and Beethoven was an Austrian, when the reverse is true. My review of The City Without Jews: Life and Death in Nazi Vienna for @thetimes
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Thank you SO MUCH to @thetimes for featuring #TheLastTenant💚, the NEWEST book in @evaaegisdottir (t. by Victoria Cribb) in their list of the five best crime novels to read this September! We are so honored!
Read the full article below!👇️
🔗tinyurl.com/4cj9buj6
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I’ve written the lead book review for @thetimes today on @MorleyRA’s wonderful Church Crawling, a pootle round the secret lives and hidden stories of England’s churches, revealing the humanity at the heart of them
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The New Dark Ages, my book about the end of reading and what it means for our society is out now!
By purchasing it you can help to hold back the spread of the post-literate society (and by refusing to purchase it you will only confirm my thesis!)
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Bernie Gunther is a classic. Cant wait for the real drama series that does the brilliance of Kerr’s creation of Berlin Noir justice. @janethynne - quite right @robbietimes
Pleased that @RobbieTimes is re-reading Bernie Gunther!
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Bloody hell. I'm glad I'm not Micky Burn, who was Guy Burgess's lover, met Hitler, won an MC, had gay sex in Colditz, saved Audrey Hepburn's life, and ran a communist mussel farm. But he sure knocks a modern Times correspondent's life into a cocked hat.
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