Sam Leith 🐝
@questingvole
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@spectator lit ed. My new book The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading comes out in September: https://t.co/J4GM3ghUfi
Joined March 2009
Woohoo! Beautiful small book, much cheapness, please buy.
Paperback copies of The Haunted Wood by @questingvole have just arrived in the office!! . Out on 4h September!
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RT @DalrympleWill: Speaking to lovely Sam Leith @questingvole about The Golden Road.
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My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is the historian William Dalrymple, whose bestselling account of ancient India’s cultural and economic influence, The Golden Road, is newly out in paperback....
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RT @spectator: On today's Book Club podcast, historian Alice Loxton joins us to discuss her new book Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Y….
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RT @utterflea: On the @htTweets Books page today, reviews of 'Needle at the Bottom of the Sea;Classic Bengali Stories frm the Sundarbans' t….
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RT @GenevieveWGaunt: Put the hot coffee down!✍️ Here with my review of THE POSSESSION by Nobel Prize winner, Annie Ernaux. Written for The….
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RT @spectator: Sam Leith’s guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is Geoff Dyer, who’s talking about his memoir, Homework. Geoff, in this n….
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My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is Geoff Dyer, who’s talking about his memoir Homework, in which he describes growing up as an only child in suburban Cheltenham, and how the eleven-plus and...
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RT @bindelj: I was delighted to speak with @questingvole on @spectator Book Club podcast about my new book:.
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My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is the writer, activist and Spectator contributor Julie Bindel. In her new book Lesbians: Where Are We Now?, Julie asks why lesbian liberation seems – as she...
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RT @SpectatorEvents: 📚LAST CHANCE!📚. Don't miss out on The Book Club Live: An evening with Max Hastings, this Thursday 15 May!. @questingvo….
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RT @ithacarising: Legendary Sam Wanamaker described the modern Shakespeare’s Globe as "a cockpit for the human spirit." It certainly was fo….
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My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is Daniel Swift. Daniel’s new book, The Dream Factory: London’s First Playhouse and the Making of William Shakespeare, tells the fascinating story of a...
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RT @annesebba: Anne Sebba: The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz | The Spectator - a favourite hour in the publicity whirl thanks @questingvol….
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My guest on this week’s podcast is the historian Anne Sebba. In her new book The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival, Anne tells the story of how a ragtag group of women musicians...
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RT @PodcastBrowser: Podcast with Fara Dabhoiwala about his book What Is Free Speech? Discusses the origins of free speech as an idea, how t….
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Podcast with Fara Dabhoiwala about his What Is Free Speech? The History of a Dangerous Idea. Discusses the origins of free speech as an idea, how to think more deeply about free speech, and traces...
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RT @mrb_reads: "You Talkin' To Me?" by @questingvole is one of the best #rhetoric books of all time!.
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Discover the Best Rhetoric Books according to the internet (not just one random person's opinion).
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I'm chairing Max Hastings next month. Come along! Tickets at
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RT @PiersTorday: Lovely afternoon in spring Oxford talking all things fantasy and world building with the brilliant Anna James and @PariTho….
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My colleague Svitlana Morenets explains here with superb clarity and controlled rage just how badly Trump is trying to dick Ukraine
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Donald Trump’s latest scheme to exploit Ukraine is gaining momentum. Kyiv has been handed a rewritten, 58-page minerals deal, which obliges Ukraine to repay every cent of US military and humanitarian...
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RT @PiersTorday: Hugely looking forward to @oxfordlitfest next month when I shall be discussing all things fantastical in children's books….
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Piers Torday, Pari Thomson and Anna James Chaired by Sam Leith - Exploring Magical Worlds
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RT @doctorow: Even by Amazon standards, this is extraordinarily sleazy: starting March 28, each Amazon Echo device will cease processing au….
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RT @doctorow: It's true that capitalists by and large hate capitalism - given their druthers, entrepreneurs would like to attain a perch fr….
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RT @spectator: This week’s Book Club podcast features Michael Wolff, whose book All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America, tells the ins….
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RT @unherd: Homer, Shakespeare and Milton all composed for the ear rather than the eye. Listening to audiobooks, if it leads to reading, m….
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