Doctors speak of their struggle to treat people injured by gunshots as security forces appear to be crushing dissent

Happening on Monday!

If you're into antiques, country houses not open to the public and history this is the series for you. Angus Ashworth: Yorkshire Heritage Hero I was edit producer on it. Watch the joy that is programme 1, Newburgh Priory on Monday 24th November 9pm - Really, (Discovery)

If you're into antiques, country houses not open to the public and history this is the series for you. Angus Ashworth: Yorkshire Heritage Hero I was edit producer on it. Watch the joy that is programme 1, Newburgh Priory on Monday 24th November 9pm - Really, (Discovery)

This is so beautiful: a Ukrainian soldier sent his wife sunflowers from the fields of Donbas — after coming back from the zero line. Photos: _kononchuk_annie_ threads.

Good! About time she had an apology. So many bullies in the world www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

Yeah, Autumn!

ANGELA LANSBURY - born 100yrs ago today - told how her daughter fell under the spell of a Hollywood deadbeat who’d pick her up from school & get her to steal money & food from her parents. Worried, Lansbury moved the entire family to Ireland. The ‘deadbeat’ was Charles Manson.

21 August 1920 | A German Jewish woman, Susi Kreutzberger, was born in Katowice. She lived in Berlin. In February 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.

I should have known better than to attempt it again... but here is why this time it's really over. open.substack.com/pub/annetteg...

Darcy and Elizabeth appear to be completely incompatible. Is it possible they can every tie the knot? This is how everything conspires against them, particularly their own personalities. A Year of Jane Austen Part 2 of Pride & Prejudice open.substack.com/pub/eastondr...

Darcy and Elizabeth appear to be completely incompatible. Is it possible they can every tie the knot? This is how everything conspires against them, particularly their own personalities. A Year of Jane Austen Part 2 of Pride & Prejudice open.substack.com/pub/eastondr...

I fucking love Stevie Nicks for this

A Year of Jane Austen! Get your bonnet into a book, make sure it's written by Jane Austen, and in case you're wondering about some of the words she uses see below 👇 eastondrive.substack.com/p/janes-word...

On AI audiobooks and Amazon's latest attempt to make the world worse: open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/t...

According to The Times www.thetimes.com/culture/book... open.substack.com/pub/eastondr...

So here it is the Jane Austen novel everyone knows about Pride & Prejudice. My analysis on Substack: A Year of Jane Austen. It's only part 1 & an in depth assesment because there's absolutely no need to pander to the short attention spans! Subscribe! eastondrive.substack.com/p/pride-and-...

It's the big one! The one everyone's heard of. The one most people love. The one that gets discussed most. Pride & Prejudice

“You just feel everything with Trump is about payback.” Tina Brown recalls how she watched Donald Trump turn from "a salmon colour to raging magenta" when he was roasted by Barack Obama in 2011 – and how that moment shaped his hatred for 'liberal media' articles.globalplayer.com/2GXq2LWZETiP...

Yes. Go for it! We need a rebalancing

Submissions are open! Please send your novel, novella, short story collection or memoir to CONDUIT BOOKS via our website below. Subs close May 31st 2025. Looking forward to reading. Please RT to spread the word. www.conduitbooks.co.uk

It's my decade long held opinion that many on the Brexit right are not really voting about migrants or EU membership or any of the other crap they purport to be about. They're voting against other people's joy.

Old Fox had been out since dawn with a stout willow basket gathering ingredients for his teas, tinctures & syrups, his wines, liniments & poultices. Elderflower, cow parsley, sweet woodruff, hawthorn, mallow, goose-grass & thundering great nettles full green of iron-spit-cure.

What Willoughby said to Elinor that wasn't in the movie! Sense & Sensibility, analysis, part 3 of 3 open.substack.com/pub/eastondr...

There are a lot of books I really don't want to read. Romantasy. Science Fiction. Fantasy. Domestic Noir Victorian Gothic. Up-lit. Life is too short and getting shorter.

Well, have we? I definitely detect celebrity fatigue as the basics become very expensive for most of us. The escapism of celeb watching is beginning to pall. Also 'Gremlins' is a great & under-rated movie open.substack.com/pub/annetteg...

Don't apologise, don't explain. Except Willoughby does both. The final part of my analysis of Sense & Sensibility. open.substack.com/pub/eastondr...

Here's a question - annettegordon.substack.com/p/have-we-fa...

Here's a question - annettegordon.substack.com/p/have-we-fa...

Here's your Good Friday brain teaser. Who did it best? open.substack.com/pub/annetteg...

A Year of Jane Austen my latest post on substack now free to everyone open.substack.com/pub/eastondr...

15 April 1945, 11th Armoured Division of British Army entered Bergen-Belsen concentration camp+found 55,000 surviving prisoners. Directed by Sam Mendes, story of 2 soldier-cameramen, Sgt Mike Lewis+Sgt Bill Lawrie, who witnessed the liberation of Belsen At #BBCIplayer 👇🏻 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

We've reached the stage where even 'deep concern' is gone, while russia's genocide of Ukrainians escalates by the day. What a dark time to live in.

The latest from Substack A Year of Jane Austen Jane's words: Candid eastondrive.substack.com/p/janes-word...

My Sunday recommended Substack read, necessary words for all Austen aficionados: ⬇️

My strawberries have woken up for Spring & are wasting no time!

My weekend read - no not Jane Austen today - but this which is wonderful. The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue

Which are you? Someone with lots of sense or someone who's all sensibility? Jane Austen did more than write rom-coms she had questions she wanted answered. Part 1 of my analysis of Sense & Sensibility open.substack.com/pub/eastondr...

Not all my articles on A Year of Jane Austen are long, some are quick reads like this one, posted today open.substack.com/pub/eastondr...

I started my Substack: A Year of Jane Austen 2 months ago. Since then I've had a wonderful response & loads of people reading it. I'm doing a deep dive into each of her books from a writer's pov, looking at what she's saying & how. Please retweet! eastondrive.substack.com/p/sense-and-...

😢 Zelensky: 3-year-old Timofiy, unfortunately, died today in the hospital. 7-year-old Radyslav. Arina, who will also be 7 forever. 9-year-old German. 15-year-old Danylo. 15-year-old Nikita. 15-year-old Alina. Konstantin, who will be 16 forever. Nikita is 17 years old. Kryvyi Rih.

Moscow killed Mike Yohansen in 1937 and banned his books. I never expected Washington to try to kill my translation of his best novel in 2025. Read @katetsurkan.bsky.social's latest for @kyivindependent.com on Trump's attack on Ukrainian literature in translation. kyivindependent.com/publishing-h...

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My interview with Johanna Thomas-Corr is in @thetimes.com today :) www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

How F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, published one hundred years ago in April 1925, foretold Trump’s America. www.ft.com/content/dd6f...

Dear @ronanhession.bsky.social @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social @elainefeeney.bsky.social @matthewpb.bsky.social @lizetkruyff.bsky.social Please Retweet my post below. I need all the help I can get & it's quite hard for writers to get anyone to do that.

I started my Substack: A Year of Jane Austen 2 months ago. Since then I've had a wonderful response & loads of people reading it. I'm doing a deep dive into each of her books from a writer's pov, looking at what she's saying & how. Please retweet! eastondrive.substack.com/p/sense-and-...

Happy Publication day! Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.bsky.social Totally agree about identity politics - “There’s so much shit in the world. Entertain me, make me laugh and cry. But please don’t preach to me because I can’t bear it.” www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

“Washington Square is a work of great genius” - Rebecca West To showcase this gem of a book, we commissioned the internationally acclaimed best-selling writer Colm Tóibín to pen a new introduction to a brand new edition. Out now, at manderleypress.com! #booksky #newbook #colmtoibin #henryjames