Anyone missed The Night Manager?
#johnlecarre
BBC & Amazon Recommission With Tom Hiddleston deadline.com/2024/04/the-ni…

Twitter (I know, I know) as a place for book recommendations is the true essence of what social media could be - informative, entertaining, uplifting, generous, joyful, empowering.
The rest - meh.
#books #recommendbooks

And don’t send it to a literary agent?

Goodbye #CurbYourEnthusiasm .
12 seasons of joyous offence, earth shattering etiquette foibles and the best comedy of (ill) manners on tv.
We will miss you!

The new book by Ben Macintyre is heart-stopping and Unputdownable telling of the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege. As ever, he gets access to the real story behind the SAS operation.
Out in September so preorder here Waterstones waterstones.com/book/the-siege…

#Ripley is beautifully shot and although it’s is slow it is to be savoured.

One thing slightly annoyed me - why don’t they just post a picture of Dickie Greenleaf in the papers? End of story. Seems odd to me. You?

In order to succeed, someone else need not fail.
The #CreativeIndustries are built on the idea that every new idea is a potential to succeed.
Our appetite for new ideas, new stories, new inspiration is limitless.
There is plenty of room for your story.
#MondayMotivation

Congrats to ⁦David Nicholls⁩ & ⁦Lisa Jewell⁩ for appearing in Sunday Times bestseller list for 2024 so far!
#oneday #NoneofthisisTrue #bestseller

It was 80 years ago today, on 7 April 1944, that Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler began their escape from Auschwitz to warn the world - one of the most heroic acts of the last century.

I told the story in my book, The Escape Artist, and talked about it here open.spotify.com/episode/1EzdBK…

A love letter to David Mitchell’s masterpiece Cloud Atlas on its 20th anniversary from Gabrielle Zevin, author of the wonderful Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow.

“I envy a reader who comes to this novel blank now, if such a person even exists”.

theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

This is horrendous and we completely support the statement by the producers of Romeo & Juliet and wish Francesca Amewudah-Rivers only joy playing the role of a lifetime in this great production.

whatsonstage.com/news/jamie-llo…

This is both heartbreaking & maddening.
The creative industries account for more than £100bn to UK economy, 15.9% of all UK service exports.; there is more production space here than anywhere in world outside of Hollywood. RT if agree!
#supportthearts theguardian.com/education/2024…

A #ProofGiveaway !
RT before noon tomorrow (Friday 5th) for a chance to win this exciting proof of ⁦Lisa Jewell⁩’s novel featuring #Marvel character, Jessica Jones. Out in UK in July.

People often say they have no time to read.
Yet the same people will often turn to poems, novels or stories in times of personal trauma, grief and distress.
Reading heals.
Recommending a book that changed your life may change someone else’s.
#books #powerofreading

The only thing criminal about homelessness is the fact we live in a society that tolerates it.

Don’t write because you can, write because you cannot not.

#WritingCommmunity #writerslife #writing

I’m usually averse to #Beatles covers, but this version of #Blackbird by #Beyonce is perfect. As if we have been waiting for this version to arise.

Happy spring cleaning over #Easter