This is fine thing indeed from @jfkane.bsky.social a must for Penelope Fitzgerald fans and any shambolic fond of cocktails and adventure who dreams of an unexpected bequest. Why it hasn't been UK published yet is a mystery. amzn.eu/d/0hrO50CL

It's the great Nick Hornby's birthday today, so no better time to trot out this classic list of his from his archives. And check out the sale on all his books in our store!

This is genius and will scare the crap out of you. Only 136 pages. Not much to say about the Beckhams.

Crazy that Lissa Evans has been kicked off here. We don't all have to agree with each other. I barely agree with myself.

25 years late to the party but flap me the Gilmore Girls is good

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As is traditional on October 31st, I present my greatest ever Halloween costume triumph: Watson as Cardinal Woofsley.

Calling this my Tiny Desk Concert.

Bloody hell Alien ep4 is good. Ardash Gourav and Babou Ceesay should be under house arrest.

A great list. This is a particular fave.

Delighted to be at the launch of 'The Ends' by @tomshakespeare.bsky.social - a sequel to 'The Ha-Ha' and featuring the same blissful & artful mix of wit, plot and social comedy - but this time set in the far, far North....(rather than near Norwich). He did a good speech, too!

I wonder how it worked out for Luke and Ivy

This is going to be absolutely massive www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Harry Hill on his early childhood memories. Prepare to shed a tear. Interview starts 6'30. Not safe for public transport, I had to get off the tube. open.spotify.com/episode/0Q1T...

Well if this isn’t the most incredible review of #StoryofaMurder in @thespectator1828.bsky.social! For some of you, it may be behind a paywall, but take my word for it. www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

The underground car park at Sainsbury's Nine Elms has been adopted as a skate park by about 400 kids and it is glorious.

I sincerely hope no one thinks I consider my own youth as a paradise, but the differences between then and now are worth pointing out.

He looks like a man called Gustav with shellshock from WW1 who has been mute since Verdun but whose family get him into the town square in 1921 to eat melons and watch boule, his only happiness.

Do you think he got changed in the motorway services on the way down?