This was my Jolabokaflod gift. Read it yesterday. Wow, quite the story!!

It’s readers like this who make writing books so special. It still amazes me to see how many lives have been touched by The Five.

Give this man a knighthood immediately

Matilda

🚨 The UK government just published a breakdown of the responses to its consultation on AI & copyright: - 95% of respondents want AI companies to pay for their training data (made up of 88% saying strengthen copyright law, & 7% saying leave it as is) 🧵 1/2

He gave us 'you can't handle the truth', 'I'll have what she's having', 'My name is Inigo Montoya (etc)' AND 'it goes up to 11'. How many other directors can claim that? A terrible loss.

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of chatting with @laurasrobinson.bsky.social about her marvellous new book, The art of a lie, which is one of the books of the year. It's a wonderful interview and well worth a listen www.besomerset.com/post/art-of-...

Top contemporary fiction: Nino Haratischwili’s The lack of light Top spy thriller: A spy at war by @aspyalone.bsky.social Top historical: Art of a lie by @laurasrobinson.bsky.social Top laughs: Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis Top crime: The inheritance by Trisha Sakhlecha

Absolutely thrilled to be BOOK OF THE YEAR in Woman and Home magazine 💚💚💚

That’s the thing about life. Sometimes you’re a young Nigella Lawson playing croquet; other times, you just end up inexplicably carrying a sedan chair.

Absolutely thrilled to be BOOK OF THE YEAR in Woman and Home magazine 💚💚💚

Love this paragraph in this Times article all about the brilliant people @dauntbooks.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

I’m on the Radio 2 Book Club with Sara Cox, for the Christmas special! If you’re after some books for those tricky relatives, or just yourself, have a listen. #booksky www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Do not ask why this just came up in a professional conversation, which it did, but my all-time favourite chart on Wikipedia is the line of succession of Sugababes. It's like a 17th century schism.

As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.

Lovely that THE ART OF A LIE is featured in the Telegraph's best books of 2025 💚

My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages.

Lovely that THE ART OF A LIE is featured in the Telegraph's best books of 2025 💚

Looks like she died by falling into a giant Viennetta.

every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours

Seems like this car's been on this hill forever.

Imagine if you met someone irl who kept talking like people do on here, throwing under the bus, kept the receipts, lives rent-free etc, you'd quite rightly punch them in the face

It was probably that Benedict Cumberbatch

You don't get this level of excitement in my local Tesco.

Lovely to see THE ART OF A LIE featured on @waterstones.bsky.social Best Books of 2025 list 💚 www.waterstones.com/blog/the-bes...

Sunday nights have been shit ever since Lovejoy stopped.

I love that readers are seeking out the paintings I wrote into the Two Roberts. It gives me joy! This video is a lovely review and includes a spontaneous field trip to the National Gallery to see some Sunflowers....the very ones Bobby and Robert fall in love with www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HQ8...

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

I finished reading Art of the Lie this morning. I am stunned, as I was repeatedly throughout the book. Completely drained. No shocked gasps left in me. Thank you-an amazing book. I’m sure I’ll recover soon.

I’ve been looking forward to reading @laurasrobinson.bsky.social’s The Art of a Lie and the twists and turns don’t stop; in fact, they just come hurtling at you like being mown down by a horse drawn carriage running pell mell. Astonishing story and research so far! A must read🍍

V late to this (it’s a weekend, family stuff, etc) but..I agree with Ben. Both Katie Lam’s interview about deporting people with legal status (and the way STimes treated it) & the Christian Calgie business are disturbing egs of forgetting that ‘normal on X these days’ is very much not normal

The brighter side of social media. And yes, it's hard to believe, but that was five years ago.

THE WITCHING HOUR is out today with @littlebrownbooks.bsky.social 🕰️📖 In this collection of original haunted tales, thirteen bestselling authors, including @laurasrobinson.bsky.social, bring the old superstition of the witching hour to new and vivid life. www.waterstones.com/book/the-wit...

Bargain alert! Preorder THE ART OF A LIE paperback now!!!

I still find it mind-blowing to be reviewed in the New York Times. So lovely to see! 💚🍦🍍 nytimes.com/2025/09/27/b...

This deserves *way* more attention than it’s getting Reform’s former Wales leader admits he received corrupt payments in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.

I love this story both for itself and for the idea that at some point Dustin Hoffman must have heard it and felt a way about it.

I had the joy of acquiring this book as a publisher and did the first bunch of edits. It's unbelievably fun, the absolutely best of historical fiction while being about as accessible as it gets. Just go and buy it! Also Tony is the nicest man in the world.

Hello Scotland!!! Can’t wait for my event @bloodyscotland.bsky.social this afternoon 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🩸🗡️

My lovely dad’s book, THE HOUSE OF WOLF, is out today. Buy it, it’s brilliant and enormous fun 💙🐺

My lovely dad’s book, THE HOUSE OF WOLF, is out today. Buy it, it’s brilliant and enormous fun 💙🐺

I don't really care that they refused to mourn left-wing and liberal figures when they died, I'm not taking my moral cues from them, that's the whole point

ENRAGED by the newfound knowledge that The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) has an average rating of 6.4/10 on IMDb, who are the people who disliked it, were they all born without a soul, or capacity for joy

trump booked himself a remote cabin with no devices and is going to have a proper go at middlemarch

Re-reading Jane Austen at the moment, and it's one of those 'it feels daft to say that Jane Austen was a terrific novelist' things.

I love The Art of a Lie by @laurasrobinson.bsky.social. It's an amazingly plotted historical fiction with a devious plot. I couldn't put it down. My review was first posted on Bookreporter.com. #booksky #historicalfiction #bookreview

A lovely review of THE ART OF A LIE in Culturefly "If you love a slice of clever, witty and twisty historical fiction, then read this book. You won’t regret it." culturefly.co.uk/book-review-...

(I assume this will lead to some shouting in my general direction but I think you can't both say "we need more people in positions of power to leave Twitter and come to Bluesky" and "it's fine and good when people with power get on here and get yelled at non-stop", you've got to pick one!)