Join Kathy Lette, queen of wit-lit, in conversation w/comedian Ronni Ancona, discussing her wickedly subversive new novel, The Revenge Club
Arts Ed, Chiswick Fri 12 Sep
Expect razor-sharp one-liners & outrageous anecdotes & the kind literary feminism that bites back! 👄📚
Tickets bit.ly/4kBhajU
10.07.2025 16:26 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Janey Lee Grace
From Wham to Woo: A Life on the Mic
Sat 13 Sept @chiswickbookfest.bsky.social
@janeyleegrace.bsky.social will be joined by #JanetEllis and will share her colourful behind-the-scenes tales in this fun blast through the 80’s & 90’s music & radio world.
Tickets & Info bit.ly/4eLOSln
13.07.2025 12:06 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
📚 Tickets are on sale for the 17th Chiswick Book Festival Sep 10–15! Brochures available at throughout Chiswick incl @waterstones Chiswick
Events are selling fast - book now: chiswickbookfestival.net/tickets.
Join us for a week of stories, talks & community! #ChiswickBookFestival #BookFest2025
17.07.2025 20:32 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Yes happy belated birthday Anton!
12.08.2025 17:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A very Happy Birthday @antondubeke.tv!
We are so excited Anton will be joining us at our Festival Sat 13 Sept discussing the latest instalment of the Forsyth Family series and his book📘, Monte Carlo, with former BBC Correspondent Rebecca Jones.
Buy your tickets now here bit.ly/4f1ALsb
20.07.2025 21:48 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Our latest newsletter incl:
📚 History highlights at the 2025 Chiswick Book Festival
📚This year’s speakers include: Memoirs/Biography
& so much more news!
Read full newsletter here: bit.ly/3GRwf34
Sign up to our newsletter now & be the first to know: www.chiswickbookfestival.net/join-our-mai...
30.07.2025 15:22 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
*Workshop*
The Four Questions Every Writer Must Answer to Craft a Bestselling Novel: Rose Sandy
Join publisher & author Rose Sandy as she reveals the four questions every writer must answer to craft a bestselling novel.
Sat 13 Sept @artsed.bsky.social
Book: www.chiswickbookfestival.net/tickets.
06.08.2025 16:18 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Delighted journalist & author @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social whose latest book, The Traitors Circle (published Thurs 11 Sep), will be at our Festival Sat 13 Sep at the Chiswick Cinema.
He talks to Julian Worricker about the remarkable true story of betrayal and courage.
Tickets: bit.ly/45eqkyh
12.08.2025 17:07 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Latest newsletter:
Celebrating 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth
Speakers:
-Marking 80th anniversary of the end of WW II
-Politics & current affairs speakers: Jeremy Hunt, Alan Johnson, Gabriel Pogrund & Patrick Maguire
-Children's Festival tkts selling fast!
Full newsletter
bit.ly/4keXthJ
27.06.2025 07:55 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Our tickets go on sale Friday. Our opening night event, ‘Jane Austen: Fact and Fiction’ is Thurs 11 Sep @ Chiswick House feat best-selling author Gill Hornby in conversation w/director & cast members of hit BBC dramatisation of her novel ‘Miss Austen’.
Tickets www.chiswickbookfestival.net/tickets/
30.06.2025 07:22 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Nope. Not me.
15.05.2025 19:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
You two are very special women. We loved having you with us on Saturday and hope it won’t be the last.
02.12.2024 22:13 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Lovely welcome @standrewsbookfest.bsky.social yesterday. Thanks to the organisers, volunteers and specially to @theothersambaker.bsky.social for a brilliant interview.
01.12.2024 08:04 — 👍 22 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 1
Taking the sleeper north overnight from my event in London after the @standrewsbookfest.bsky.social felt enticing exotic. I’ve done it before, but not since Covid etc. I was almost expecting Poirot to knock at my cabin door! 😂
02.12.2024 17:08 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A bottle of advocaat with a chicken on the label. In a drinks cabinet with other bottles of alcohol.
I declare Christmas* open! Ditto also this bottle. Who wants a Snowball?
*this will help me with the exhaustingness of Christmas and my edits.
02.12.2024 19:36 — 👍 100 🔁 3 💬 15 📌 1
Starter Pack for independent bookshops some of who also run lots of local events
go.bsky.app/DopYboe
02.12.2024 18:56 — 👍 434 🔁 120 💬 48 📌 5
Our #PackedLunchPostit flashback to 2019 continues. Today, it's Winnie the Pooh's turn...
02.12.2024 07:27 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Today's flashback to my advent #PackedLunchPostit notes from 2019 features Garfield...
03.12.2024 07:21 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
As ever, Stella Duffy says it right. Her words. @stellduffy.bsky.social
03.12.2024 08:02 — 👍 107 🔁 20 💬 4 📌 1
Amazing to be part of the very first @standrewsbookfest.bsky.social talking about Homelands and my dear friend Henry Wuga with his daughter and my father in the room. Special.
30.11.2024 17:54 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Vintage photo of four women gossiping, one of whom has her head poking out of window. Looks very British, very northern, all the women are dressed as though they are working class, one has a headscarf, another has a pinafore.
Funny
30.11.2024 18:08 — 👍 147 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 1
What a great new festival this is - thank you @standrewsbookfest.bsky.social for a hugely interesting, engaging informative day
30.11.2024 18:59 — 👍 24 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Congratulations @jenstout.bsky.social on winning the Saltire First Book Awards! Can't wait for your event at the Festival on Saturday at 5pm.
Tickets www.ticketsource.co.uk/standrewsboo...
29.11.2024 09:27 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Yes, to suspire is to utter a deep sigh. It’s all about breath, as are ‘inspire’ (to breathe life into an idea/person), ‘expire’ (breathe out), ‘perspire’ (to breathe through), ‘conspire’ (to breathe together), and ‘spirit’, because the ancients believed the spirit was breathed into the body.
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and you know what that means? That's right! It’s time for your favorite festive tradition: THE FOUR DRAWS OF CHRISTMAS! 🎉🎨
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29.11.2024 19:01 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
@jenstout.bsky.social thrilled that you won the Saltire First Book Award last night in conjunction with @thescotsmanpaper.bsky.social. See you at @standrewsbookfest.bsky.social on Saturday at 5pm with @gavinesler.bsky.social
29.11.2024 09:22 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
If the good Lord spares me, Jo!
29.11.2024 08:59 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
@chriscarsewilson.bsky.social so good to see you last night!!!
29.11.2024 08:11 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Tomorrow I’ll be back in London for the @standrewsbookfest.bsky.social . It’d be lovely to see you. St Columbia’s Church Knightsbridge 4.00pm.
29.11.2024 07:27 — 👍 20 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Senior Publicity Manager @michaeljbooks.bsky.social, dog enthusiast, modern girl • no it's not spelled like the country • views my own • she/her
(Hon) FRSL. Broadcaster/event chair
Books/geo-politics bio.site/GeorginaGodwin
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Wellcome to the Universe. It includes all of space, and all the matter and energy that space contains.Earth and the Moon are part of the universe, as are the other planets and their many dozens of moons.
Avid reader of crime/thrillers & historical fiction, collect signed first editions. Book blogger and reviewer: amwbooksreviews@wordpress.com
London Review Bookshop. 20,000 titles on two floors in Bloomsbury, plus the best events in town
14 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL
Award winning indie publisher of new and classic writing on place, nature and culture + The Clearing our online journal.
Based in West Dorset
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Words and smiles. BBC Sounds Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Also, Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social
Writer & critic 🏳️🌈 He/Him. Novel The Old Haunts shortlisted for McKitterick Prize & Shortlisted for Saltire First Book Award 2024
allanradcliffe.co.uk https://linktr.ee/allanradcliffe
Eats and writes for The Financial Times. Piano for the JR Sextet; chairs Kitchen Cabinet for R4. Doesn’t accept comps. jay.rayner@ft.com
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I present programs on TV and Radio, write history books and present a podcast called Empire with William Dalrymple. NOT IN THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT!
Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca
and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
SPOILT CREATURES (2024) @tinderpress • Observer 10 Best New Novelists • 🏳️🌈 • Rep'd by 📚 @ce_seymour 🎥 @emilyhaywardw
Writing in The Times Thursday and Saturday, talking on Times Radio Monday-Thursday. Also, other things. Latest novel, Rabbits, found here: https://amzn.eu/d/hUQTsSW
In the culture wars, I want to be the bit on Christmas Day where they all knocked it on the head for a bit and played football.
Historian. Coffee drinker
Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Paul Chambers. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com
A cook who writes.
Observer columnist. Author. Gardener.
Books: The Kitchen Diaries,
The Christmas Chronicles, A Cook’s Book,
A Thousand Feasts.
Instagram.com/nigelslater