I'm excited to say that BOOKLIST has named Hang on St Christopher as an Editor's Choice Best Book of 2025! & look I'm not trendy or cool but I do try to write interesting f novels (you know of any other thrillers that open at a poetry reading that has NOTHING to do w the plot?)

I've been reading about this bookshop in Mayfair that charges you a thousand quid to curate you a list of good books while steering you clear of all the crap. You don't have to pay them any money, all you have to do is follow me on Instagram instead:

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suppose I'll be thinking about the Roman Empire for the next few weeks hopefully this book will solve the mystery of 1) Germanicus's death 2) why Caligula was called "Little Boot" when everybody knows the Romans didn't wear boots they wore f sandals

I know I tweeted about this only a few weeks ago but it's worth tweeting again if only to mention the surprising Boris Johnson cameo that comes in at the end. If you like WG Sebald or Richard Rhodes or you're a fan of Flanagan's fiction I think you'll like this 👍

if you dont know who Garth Marenghi is, he's an inspirational British horror writer who drops wisdom like, "I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards." he also works for the Scottish Tourist Board:

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you've got to admire @MrHolness & @RichardAyoade who have written a sucession of actual fake books, in character, to support their fictional characters Garth Marenghi & Harauld Hughes this is taking the literary joke way too far which is the best way to take literary jokes 👍

it looks like Muldoon pronounces sheugh to rhyme with bath round my way it's somewhere between bath and lough... I explain all below and BTW if you've read the latest Sean Duffy novel the sheugh that saves their arses in Co Lough is bigger and deeper than this one

one punpacked stanza from Paul Muldoon's famous long poem The More A Man Has... a sheugh, ofc, is an Irish ditch beauty of bath is a type of apple the milkmaid story is from La Fontaine beastlings, is Muldoon's jokey version of beestings, the colostrum (first milk of a cow)

I like this 👇 https://t.co/rAUCvSfgos but you'd think in just one of these articles about CS Lewis this week in all the papers someone somewhere cd mention the fact that he's not English, he's Irish from Belfast, and that kinda explains a lot...

no spoilers of any kind from me in case you haven't caught up but just to say Celebrity Traitors UK so good to the v end complete series on now on BBC iPlayer...

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A few years ago, interviewing Martin Amis, I asked him what he was reading "Pale Fire" he said. "What? Again?" I said, cos he'd already written a LOT about it. "Every year," he said. Pale Fire might be the heavyweight champ of the unreliable narrator novel & it is v funny 👇👍

What's the greatest thing to come out of Coventry? Philip Larkin? Lady Godiva? The Specials? Me hitching to London on a Saturday morning? No, the answer, ofc, is the E-Type Jaguar if you got that answer you'll probably like this: https://t.co/oSw9x27N5d

"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end - but the fools first." the great Robert Louis Stevenson turns 175 next week Kidnapped (his best book) is such a banger, if you haven't read it, boy are you in for a treat...

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So I loved @RealGDT’s Frankenstein and it’s a 👍 from me. One caveat: I saw it at an enthusiastic packed Paris Theatre full of blokes who look like me (ruggedly handsome nerds). We’re all clearly Kool Aid cultists - normal people might possibly find it slow/didactic/confusing…

the All Souls exam has been described as the hardest exam in the world 150 people sit it & 2 pass to get an All Souls fellowship: there's a general paper (below from 2024) & a specialist one there used to be an infamous 1 word essay question too I sat it in 1993 & did not pass

another wee update to the work in progress: https://t.co/vRlJlhLXPP when you give your stories a Tom Waits title part of the fun of that is making sure the story actually ties into the title; which I've managed to do in the current update 🙂

I don't know if it's still the case now but in the Belfast of my youth the poetry section in every bookshop in the city was huge & poets, writers, songwriters etc. were treated w enormous respect in ancient Irish Brehon law the hostage price for a poet was the same as for a king

tonight's beer is a Chimay tonight's book is... well, tonight's book is game 7 of the World Series (definitely a War and Peace this one)

as a kid growing up N Ireland I'd never seen baseball & knew nothing about it this 👇 brilliant scene was my 1st "experience" of baseball when Jack begs nurse Ratched to let the patients watch the WS, she refuses & he imagines a WS between the Dodgers & Yankees (Koufax v Mantle)

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My fav bit of Frankenstein is, ofc, when they go to N Ireland. What, you don't remember that bit? When Victor gets shipwrecked on the Antrim coast and imprisoned probably at Bishop's St. Gaol in Derry? Why N Ireland? Cos Mary Shelley's granny was from Donegal...