Oh yes --- it's that time of the year. @thetimes summer reading recommendations.... Enjoy

Today’s @thetimes column is about @KateClanchy1 and other authors whose careers were destroyed irrevocably bullies. Many thanks to @Gillian_Philip @RooneyRachel @suladoyle @SimonFanshawe and others who talked to me on & off the record https://t.co/LpQj8JqcaS

NYC election by largest ethnic group, by precinct: Asian - 54% Harris, 48% Mamdani (6pt difference) Hispanic - 69% Harris, 59% Mamdani (11pt) White - 62% Harris, 44% Mamdani (19pt) Black - 87% Harris, 64% Mamdani (23pt)

The Baillie Gifford Prize 2025... Here's what our judges had to say about our winner ⬇️ #BGPrize2025 @RobbieTimes @LucyHH @pratinavanil @PParkerWriting @InayaFolarin @orionbooks @wnbooks

On Tues Helen Garner won the @BGPrize and today she won an even greater prize, the top slot in @thetimes birthday column

And here's the book that deprinced Andrew

Welcome to Happylands — Andrew Michael Hurley’s spookiest novel yet | ✍️James Walton

Here's my full length review of Virginia Giuffre's memoir for the paper today, with thoughts about publishers' (and readers') duty of care when it comes to trauma narratives

Two doses of me in the Times today. For comment: what the free speech standup warriors forgot when they went to the Riyadh Comedy Festival

And for books: Eli Sharabi's extraordinary, shattering and essential memoir of his 491 days as a Hamas hostage

Apologies for publishing self praise, but when I saw this piece by India Knight in today's @thetimes, I thought I might burst with happiness. I'm currently stuck axle-deep in that familiar landscape, the Bog of Writing Despair, so it was particularly welcome.

“An action-packed tale of imperial British braggadocio, bravery and blundering on a grand scale.” A splendid Times review of Mavericks by ⁦@justinmarozzi⁩, a fine writer and historian… This 1918 British operation was an imperial Mission: Impossible https://t.co/zZuOBTzY9n

Amazing - Philip Larkin reviews Tennyson's collected poems. Reprinted in the New Statesman https://t.co/XYmaaFytik

Back in March, I spoke to @RobbieTimes for this brilliant feature, which we'll be performing live at @cheltfestivals Literature Festival next week! Can't wait! Tuesday 14th Oct, 2.30pm https://t.co/Ox2YSgeiiH

"He is almost a parody of a Nobel winner. His novels are dark and gloomy, favour atmosphere over plot and are written in long sentences that make up even longer paragraphs. Krasznahorkai: sounds like a sneeze, reads like Henry James having a fever dream" https://t.co/7o97SNorY5

Very pleased by this very kind review of #TheRevolutionists from @simonmontefiore in the Times. https://t.co/KshaRAeLLl

My review of The Revolutionists @burke_jason - hostages and hijacking - from Baader-Meinhof to Carlos the Jackal, from Red Army Faction and PFLP to Japanese Red Army and Islamic Jihad, from Dawsons Field to Opec and Entebbe and Beirut - how the Seventies became a decade of

A bleak but necessary account from @matthewsyed. How predictably futile and pointless was the prime minister’s plea for restraint in these demonstrations https://t.co/ycrjxyHTTH

Brink’s-Mat, the Greek tragedy — plus the best crime fiction of 2025 so far

As #Tolkien became professor of Anglo-Saxon in Oxford century ago, the city’s Morris Motors became Britain’s biggest car maker. There's a certain inevitability he would flourish a poison pen on the topic. I review THE BOVADIUM FRAGMENTS in today's Times.

A few thoughts the morning after the fast. I awake like many Jews all over the world with a strangely sorry feeling. Why is this Day of Atonement not like others? Then I remember. This, Yom Kippur, is not one that the Jews of Britain will ever forget. As we were fasting