Obviously, because the stage adaptation is premiering in Birmingham tonight, I wrote for Prospect about one of my favourite films, the heartbreakingly sad Withnail and I. message.prospect-magazine.co.uk/q/1f6zNh7rmPT0…

A revelatory account of the post-war exploits of the House of Windsor

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I wrote about the late Paul Auster for The Spectator World - thespectator.com/book-and-art/r…

For this month’s issue of Prospect, I reviewed Charles Spencer’s A Very Private School, and reflected on my own deeply miserable experiences at prep school in the Nineties. prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/books/…

Taking New York cabs in the rain while listening to The National is one of the greatest aesthetic pleasures of life.

Time for new books! Check out what's new for today's #PubDay :

👑 POWER AND GLORY by Alexander Larman
💙 THE IDEA OF YOU by Robinne Lee
🏜 WHERE COYOTES HOWL by Sandra Dallas
🏖️EVERY TIME I GO ON VACATION, SOMEONE DIES by Catherine Mack
🔎 MURDLE: VOLUME 3 by G. T. Karber

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I have been riveted by all three volumes of Larman’s trilogy

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US publication day for Power and Glory today and I've got a packed week of commitments and events in New York to promote it. But for those in the UK, you're not being forgotten about - when I return, I'm doing an event at the excellent @dulwichlitfest dulwichfestival.co.uk/event/power-an…

Dreadful timing that the excellent CJ Sansom has died the same week that the adaptation of his Shardlake books launches on TV.

As someone who knows for a fact that the ‘Anthony Blunt knew the Duke of Windsor’s dark secrets’ story is inaccurate, this thread by Blunt’s biographer seems on the money.

‘It is hard not to breathe a patriotic sigh of relief.’

✍️ Alexander Larman on the King’s health

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I'm very amused that in the latest 'Liam Neeson shoots everyone' picture, In The Land of Saints and Sinners, his respectable cover-up job is....an antiquarian bookdealer.

I wrote for Telegraph Film about the grim cinematic ritual called ‘the chemistry test’ and what went right - and wrong: telegraph.co.uk/films/0/the-st…

Delighted to write about Belushi and Aykroyd, courtesy of obliging Alexander Larman and Lee Brackstone thespectator.com/book-and-art/w…

I hope, if there's a second series, that he returns.

Two centuries after Byron's death, a reminder that I wrote a book about him, Byron's Women, of which the Observer said 'we are offered an outline of Byron’s person, arguably more accurate, compelling and candid than any portrait focused on him and his poetry could be.'

It’s a real shame that Power and Glory’s already taken, as that would have been a cracking title for Liz Truss’s autobiography.

It was an unmitigated pleasure to write about my favourite men-on-a-mission films for Telegraph Film. telegraph.co.uk/films/0/the-gr…

Michael Douglas is truly excellent in Apple TV's new series Franklin. If only the rest of it lived up to his lead performance, I lamented for The Spectator World thespectator.com/book-and-art/f…

Wholly deserved