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I think she’s massively underrated on this side of the Atlantic.
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Loves: reading, writing, tea, trees, being a dad (order may vary). Loves less: some of the other stuff. My debut novel, Slings and Arrows, comes out on the 28th March. 📚💙
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I think she’s massively underrated on this side of the Atlantic.
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Independence Day of The Jackal.
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I tend to rhyme it with punt, but I’ll certainly bear that in mind, thank you.
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Yes but i think Fitzgerald was a better meteorologist.
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Utterly wonderful. Without doubt in my top 10 favourite books. ❤️
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This next. 💙📚
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Genius! Always my favourite bit of the DT.
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I wouldn’t tell anyone I was an astrologer but there would be signs.
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True. But by the same token pure vote share would not give the leftist alliance a majority in France either.
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Labour without the Greens or the Lib Dems is already a leftist majority.
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Attal resigns. Any thoughts on who will be French PM tomorrow night?
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Oh yes, the manoeuvring over the next few days or so will be fascinating. And Macron a bit of a lame duck in some form of cohabitation with a PM from outside his own party in all probability.
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Believing in the seasons is so woke.
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Thank you 😊
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Not from what the press are saying here in France. RN win, (bad enough) but quite a way from majority thankfully.
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Done 👍🏻
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It sounds fantastic Naomi, good luck with it. I’m looking forward to listening.
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Brilliant, thanks for posting.
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A Tale of Two Kitties. 🐈⬛ 🐈
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Same. I can’t concentrate on the Murray doubles.
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We organized our family holiday around the General Election, and arrived home this afternoon. No way were we going to miss the fun tonight. 😊
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This is not your standard light beach read. It’s a book about love, about grief, and making sense of the past. It is wonderful. I loved it. 💙📚
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Morning.
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It took them long enough.
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Sending hugs 🤗
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Morning. Bougainvillea, Sardinia.
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Keep on sitting down, the rest will work itself out.
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Wonderful, thank you David.
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I sat here for a while today.
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A great selection, thank you. I look forward to reading those I’ve not come across before.
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Not sure how I missed it first time around (or in the 30 years since) but I thoroughly enjoyed @jonathancoe.bsky.social’s What a Carve Up! A wonderful satire of Thatcher’s Britain that felt like it could easily have been written with the current weasly mob in mind. Plus ça change. Banville next. 💙📚
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🤣
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Taylor would not need Travis to bash up Farage, she’d be quite capable of doing it herself.
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You are having a good day - and playing this has made it even better.
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Sympathies. In France we have Lipton Yellow as like a methadone to the real thing, that’ll almost get you through the day - hope you have similiar 🤞
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I thought it was an Antipodean thing, (especially prevalent amongst sports stars) they start every reply to a question with either ‘listen’ or ‘look’.
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I reread Brideshead a year or two ago. It’s still brilliant. I haven’t read the Hartley - should I put it on my TBR pile?
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The photo was on his bedside table for 20 years or so. It’s been on mine for the last 11. Thank you for your comment 💙
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My old man and me, Mablethorpe, 1980/81.
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My dad loved this too ❤️
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Good book 📖
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Same 😔
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It’s drown here!
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He is not *beloved* by anybody. His followers are in thrall to his wealth and assumed power. The rest of us can’t stand the sight of him.
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Fantastic article, thanks John. Delighted to see Carol Shields in there and ordered the McGahern. I know he is almost entirely absent from the novel, but for influence on his son’s character how about Stevens’ father in Remains of the Day?
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True 👍🏻.
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Would this have been better if it was a turkey placing a bet on the date for Christmas?
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Wonderful 😊
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@jonathancoe.bsky.social wrote this 30 years ago!! And I’ve been kidding myself that my novel might at least have sold more than a handful of copies if only I’d written it sooner! I don’t know if I should feel more depressed or less.
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Just keep showing up with your pen in your hand. I’m doing exactly the same right now (and typing this as a distraction) 🤦.
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