Just finished "The Suspect" by Rob Rinder

@therestpolitics.bsky.social @rory-stewart.bsky.social sorry @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social Grace is 100% wrong about bantz. The reason for listening to TRIP is cos u don’t do it. On 13.11.21 Jo Ellison of FT wrote a piece about the problem with podcasts: it is the bantz. She is right #DontDoItEver

Just finished "Cabal" by Michael Dibdin

Just finished “Queer as Folklore” by @sachacoward.bsky.social

After so many months of rain and gloom, what a treat to be able to have lunch outside

Just finished "Death in the Arctic" by Tom Hindle

Just finished "Marriage Material" by Sathnam Sanghera

Just finished "A Trace of Hares" by Sarah Yarwood-Lovett

Just finished “The History and Pre-History of Hertford College, Oxford” by Christopher Tyerman

Just finished "The Lonely Skier" by Hammond Innes

@financialtimes.com “I don’t think anyone can understate the gravity of the situation,” Lyons told the BBC. “I think we could just be in the foothills here.” Oh dear, I think the PM’s former communications director means “overstate”. Choosing comms support like that no wonder the PM is in trouble 🙄

@newsagents.bsky.social It doesn’t necessarily change the conclusion but @maitlis.bsky.social worth remembering that, given the gay context, “the sisterhood” doesn’t necessarily refer to women

Just finished "A Cold Wind From Moscow” by Rory Clements

Just finished "The Clues in the Fjord" by Satu Rämö

Just finished "The Sunday Philosophy Club"

Just finished "Requiem in La Rossa" by Tom Benjamin

Just finished "Murder through the Mirror" by L.B. Hathaway

Just finished "Death of a Celebrity" by M.C. Beaton

Just finished "Babbitt" by Sinclair Lewis

Got a new toothbrush and it’s bossy and judgmental. I don’t need that; If I wanted that, there’s always social media

This is NOT FUNNY AT ALL (giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...).

Penhaligone

Just finished “The Saint-Fiacre Affair” by Georges Simenon

Just finished "My Name Is Nobody: From the bestselling author of The Scarlet Papers, a Times Thriller of the Year" by Matthew Richardson

The fact that in both 2019 and 2024, the winning party did so with a set of manifesto promises that could not be kept and dissolved upon contact with actual office is something that as an industry we should be much more bothered by than we are.

can't believe the BBC edited Donald Trump's posts to make it seem like he threatened violence against members of Congress

Just finished "A Most Curious Christmas" by Katherine Black

Just finished "Agatha Raisin in Down the Hatch" by M.C. Beaton

Just finished "The Enigma of Garlic" by Alexander McCall Smith

Just finished "The Cut Throat Trial" by the Secret Barrister

Just finished "Vendetta" by Michael Dibdin

Just finished "Murder at the Matterhorn” by T.A. Williams

Just finished "Dead Souls" by Ian Rankin

Just finished "The Girl of His Dreams" by Donna Leon

Just finished "Jericho's Dead" by William Hussey

Just finished "Dead Lions" by Mick Herron

Just finished "An Assassination on the Agenda" by T E Kinsey

Just finished "The Shipping News" by Annie Proulx

Not opening these doors up today, first day in months #EndOfSummer #EndOfDays

Why do Tories have a problem with economic migrants? They are only doing what Norman Tebbit told people to do when he said “get on your bike”

Just finished "MURDER ON THE TRAIN" by Faith Martin

Just finished "Venetian Gothic" by Philip Gwynne Jones

Just finished "A Generation of Vipers" by Sarah Yarwood-Lovett

A new variety?

Just finished “Pista Nera” by Antonio Manzini

@lewisgoodall.com @newsagents.bsky.social you bang on that the assessment now that the risk isn’t so severe means that the original assessment of severity must have been wrong but risks change over time and assessments may change as more info becomes available. This is reasonable

Just finished "Poison" by Charlot King

Just finished "The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici" by Christopher Hibbert

Just finished "The Rise: A Short Story" by Ian Rankin