I recently discovered that I can get dandelion greens—satisfyingly and bitingly bitter— down the road at a farmer's market. They went into a dish with some casarecce, sausages, and Parmesan. #food #cooking 🍽️🍜

My local farmer's market has some great deals on fresh fruit, so naturally I took some time out recently to make strawberry shortcake. #food #cooking 🍽️🍜

Some recent cooking: puntarelle salad with anchovy dressing, and tagliatelle with smoked oysters and tomatoes. #food #cooking 🍽️🍜

Do you like scary movies? My latest newsletter reviews a novel inspired by them. Read about it and much more right here (and remember to subscribe): wsluk.substack.com/p/i-know-wha... 📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay

BACKROOMS, OBSESSION, and SCARY MOVIE should watch out: there's a new name in horror this summer. An homage to classic slasher films, E.L. Chen's SLASHER SUMMER examines the enduring influence of the genre's clichés. Read my review: buff.ly/Jo1vdYE 📚💙 #booksky #bookreview

It's a big summer for horror movies—here's a book inspired by them! Read about: • the metafictional thrills of E.L. Chen's SLASHER SUMMER • how to store Medieval saints • spicy, blood-red danishes! 📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay

Venetians, look away! From a ghost story in Venice to my garlicky riff on a local classic, my newsletter might shock the City of Canals. If you're unafraid, click here to read it (and subscribe): buff.ly/j9G14EP 📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay

Daisy Stephens' THE ISLAND OF THE LOST doesn't reinvent the ghost story, but it's a satisfyingly haunting chiller, with a few surprises in store. Click here for my full review: buff.ly/j9G14EP 📚💙 #booksky #bookreview

Venetians may want to look away from today's newsletter. It includes: • Daisy Stephens' ghostly debut novel THE ISLAND OF THE LOST • paintings that seem like sculptures • a springtime dish laced with wild garlic! 📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay

Spent Saturday networking at an event in the middle of a heat wave. Luckily, I had something to come home to: homemade lime sorbet infused with kaffir lime leaf. #food #cooking 🍽️🍜

As the proud owner of an enormous £3 punnet of blueberries, I decided to make a blueberry spoon cake...which used up, at most, half the punnet. #food #cooking 🍽️🍜

In my latest newsletter I examine what works (and doesn't) in an upcoming fantasy novel, unpick the beauty of Medieval embroidery, and reveal a spicy twist on spaghetti. Read it here: buff.ly/Y4vl4iT 📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay

Retelling the fairytale of Rapunzel, Andrea Eames' fantasy novel A TANGLED MAGIC has notable strengths—and flaws. How does the book stack up overall? Read my review to find out: buff.ly/Y4vl4iT 📚💙 #booksky #bookreview #fantasy

Spaghetti and fantasy are in today's newsletter, featuring: • the highs and lows of Andrea Eames' A TANGLED MAGIC • why Medieval priests loved English embroidery • pasta, assassin-style! 📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay

Chinese art, myth, and cooking inspire my latest newsletter. From the nostalgia of a fantasy novel set in Hong Kong to the ceramics of ancient China, it spans centuries of diaspora history. Click here for more: buff.ly/u7wnIPe 📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay

For those curious, the book I reviewed was Elizabeth Lim's fantasy novel FISHBONE CINDERELLA, a beautifully crafted story about Chinese heritage and 20th-century history. Read my review (and subscribe!) to explore the novel's multilingual world:

This book made me think of home. A multigenerational fantasy novel rooted in Chinese myth, Elizabeth Lim's FISHBONE CINDERELLA beautifully depicts Hong Kong's history and multilingual culture. Read my review: buff.ly/u7wnIPe 📚💙 #booksky #bookreview #China #HongKong

Great stories arise where languages meet. Read about: • the multicultural mysteries of Elizabeth Lim's FISHBONE CINDERELLA • where China's greatest porcelain comes from • why you should start dinner with pudding! 📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay

I've literally been spending this afternoon writing a review (out tomorrow) of an upcoming novel that I loved reading! I don't *just* write my book-review newsletter for the glorification of my massive ego, but because it feels great to do my part in boosting writers I genuinely enjoy.

I applaud the author of this article for working in the line "He came. He Sawe. He conquered."

Big fan of this deeply sinister image-caption combination (from a very appropriate tribute to Monty Python's late Terry Jones: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...)

A vaguely midcentury dinner: chicken Caesar salad and pineapple upside-down cake #food #cooking 🍽️🍜

Yee-haw! From Wild West politics and vegan recipes to George Saunders' books and the future of the romance genre, my newsletter tackles it all. All you have to do is click here: buff.ly/OiQ1FUa 📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay

Don't like romance novels? You might still learn something from Kirsty Greenwood's ROMANTIC HERO, which reveals intriguing things about modern publishing. Read my review to learn more: buff.ly/OiQ1FUa 📚💙 #booksky #bookreview

Saddle up, dear readers. Today's newsletter explores: • what Kirsty Greenwood's ROMANTIC HERO reveals about love and publishing • the politics of painting the Wild West • a spicy vegetarian dinner! 📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay

Love dogs, pets, and animals? You'll want to click below. Want to discover a Victorian artist's tragic and complex life? Surprisingly, you'll find that in my newsletter too. Read more right here: buff.ly/5myeAi4 📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay

Lucy Waverley's debut novel delves into the strange, tragic true story of Edwin Landseer, an accomplished painter who was declared insane a year before dying. Read my review: buff.ly/5myeAi4 📚💙 #booksky #bookreview

Step into a Victorian painter's head! Read about: • Edwin Landseer's tragic life in Lucy Waverley's NOBLE BEASTS • what animal paintings reveal about Victorian life • Earl Grey...in a bun! 📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay

Tired of talking about the Oscars? Discover a crabby comedy film fresh off its SXSW premiere, and the maritime art and seaside flavours that it inspired me to explore! To read all that, just click here: buff.ly/jZ5xYjS 🍽️🍜 📽️ #filmsky #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay

Feeling crabby? It hasn't won any Oscars, but this crustacean comedy will cheer you up. THE PERIL AT PINCER POINT, premiering at SXSW, is a silly seaside romp about ghostly pirates and the perils of filmmaking. Read my review: buff.ly/jZ5xYjS 📽️ #filmsky

This movie may not have any Oscars...but it's a damn good time! Read about: • THE PERIL AT PINCER POINT, a crustacean comedy film showing at SXSW • George Bellows' maritime art • sandwiches with a crabby twist 🍽️🍜 📽️ #filmsky #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay

Read about chicken and the Second World War in this week's newsletter! To discover a debut novel, subversive collages, and a triple-citrus chicken recipe, all you've got to do is click right here: buff.ly/Sjg28Sq 📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay

“Pay attention to your life and more will happen to you than laying eggs and having your head chopped off.” Acclaimed playwright Andrew Upton explores war and authoritarianism through a chicken's eyes in his debut novella KRANK FUSS. Read my review: buff.ly/Sjg28Sq 📚💙 #booksky #bookreview

Today's newsletter is about poultry and war! It features: • the chicken-centric social commentary of Andrew Upton's KRANK FUSS • Kurt Schwitter's subversive collages • a triple-citrus chicken dish! 📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay

It's Japanese fiction, art, and flavours...but not as you know them. To read about a Japanese classic, an underrated artist, and how to make a Japanese-Italian recipe, all you have to do is click right here: buff.ly/gtWDtRq 📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay #Japan

The Edo era was a ruthless age, and the upcoming translation of Shotaro Ikenami’s THE SAMURAI DETECTIVES offers a thoughtful, witty take on its glamour and grimness. Read my review: buff.ly/gtWDtRq 📚💙 #booksky #bookreview #Japan

Today's all about opposites! Click below to discover: • the thoughtful nostalgia of Shotaro Ikenami's THE SAMURAI DETECTIVES • an international twist on Japanese prints • focaccia with a furikake twist 📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay #Japan

Excited to read Saara El-Arifi's CLEOPATRA? You should be. Explore how it rewrites history in my review, and discover Egyptian art and the joys of aquafaba, all in my article: buff.ly/gz7UQyG 📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay #history #fantasy

Why is it called "Danish Ham" and not "Hamlet the Dane"?

Finally, an apartment that comes with a Bathroom Gollum.

Who controls the stories that history tells? Saara El-Arifi's CLEOPATRA reinvents the life of the last pharaoh, and asks bold questions about historical truth. Read my review: buff.ly/gz7UQyG 📚💙 #booksky #bookreview #fantasy #history

Walk like an Egyptian! Click to read about: • how Saara El-Arifi's CLEOPATRA rewrites history • the secrets of a pharaoh's tomb • a lighter-than-air appetiser 📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay

Spent a morning at the Barbican’s press preview of their upcoming exhibit Encounters: Giacometti x Lynda Benglis. #art

“Here’s to being fake nemeses.” It's a queer romance...with a surprising subtextual twist! Click here to learn what Amy Archer's rom-com NEMESIS MINE so thematically curious: buff.ly/gzaHxBT 📚💙 #booksky #bookreview #romance #romantasy #LGBT

For Valentine's I'm writing about a queer romance with a touch of villainy. Click to discover: • Amy Archer's rom-com NEMESIS MINE • how to win a Renaissance duel • a clafoutis with a dark heart 📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay #romance

As someone currently writing a review of a romance novel: Do I enjoy this genre? Yes. Do I like everything in it? No. Would I trade the worst romances I've read for something generated by AI? Not in a million years.

The thrilling tale of NEWT EVICTOR: in cinemas this year.

(Early) birthday dinner: seared flat iron steak with hash browns, roasted cherry tomatoes and a fried egg, and Basque cheesecake with fresh berries. #food #cooking 🍽️🍜

L: the heretic pharaoh Akhenaten worshipping the sun-god Aten (artisans of Amarna, c. 1346-1332 BC) R: cats worshipping a cat/sun head (@poorlycatdraw.bsky.social, 2026)

“Gods need worship, and mortals need stories.” Retellings of Greek myths need to be less accurate—just look at Jennifer Saint's THIS IMMORTAL HEART. Read my review to learn what works (and doesn't) about it: buff.ly/CyCCOza 📚💙 #booksky #bookreview #romance #mythology