Charles Harris

Play Me! cover and reviewer quote - 5 stars "Action, fast, funny and full of heart. From the very first chapter Play Me! had me hooked."

Nominated for two awards, an Amazon best-seller and on special Christmas offer - usually £9.99/$9.99 - you can get PLAY ME! for only £1.99/$1.99 this week viewbook.at/playmeoffer

Top 10 comedy novels to give your friends (or yourself) this Christmas : This year I feel we need a bit of cheering up - so here are my top 10 comedy novels. All of them would make great gifts.

Top 10 comedy novels to give your friends (or yourself) this Christmas charles-harris.co.uk/2025/12/top-...

Glad it went well. A book well worth reading

Charles Harris will be talking about his new comedy-crime novel, Play Me! finalist for the Page Turner Awards 2025 and an Amazon Bestseller. Free Entry | Book Signing + Meet the Author Monday 26 January 2026 | 6pm West Hampstead Library

Charles Harris will be talking about his new comedy-crime novel, Play Me! finalist for the Page Turner Awards 2025 and an Amazon Bestseller. Free Entry | Book Signing + Meet the Author
Monday 26 January 2026 | 6pm
West Hampstead Library

REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE. 180,000 Green Party Members Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

🎯ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY🎯

The Green Party has passed 180,000 members!

That's enough to fill Ally Pally 18 times - and we're not getting any littler 😉

All across the country, thousands of people are joining to build a positive movement of hope.

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Andrey Kurkov Tim Judah

Andrey Kurkov

Andrey Kurkov book signing

Three years on fire cover

Andrey Kurkov in conversation with Tim Judah. Three Years on Fire. Daunt Books Notting Hill 6.30pm. Sold Out. Superb

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We're seeking committee members for #CILIP's new Intellectual Freedom Committee. The Committee will work towards everyone's right to read, think, and speak freely, and lead discussions on issues of censorship and access to information. Join us: https://ow.ly/k3I250XwXKR. Apply now!

Ancient wolves on remote Baltic Sea island reveal link to prehistoric humans Scientists have found wolf remains, thousands of years old, on a small, isolated island in the Baltic Sea—a place where the animals could only have been brought by humans.

Another example of what we call "hunter- gatherers" being much more: rather landscape and #biodiversity managers

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3D image of Play Me! print edition

Play Me! #44 in Amazon Bestsellers Political Humour -
Jules B.
5.0 out of 5 stars "A great fun read. Charles is the Hampstead Carl #Hiaasen" mybook.to/playmeamazon

The Daily Mail buying the Telegraph is like a psychiatric hospital building an extension wing for the really hopeless cases.

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Ex-Labour MP defects to Greens as he says Starmer’s party has ‘left millions behind’ In a statement, Lloyd Russell-Moyle took aim at the direction of the Labour Party saying it has ‘left behind millions of people who want hope’

Welcome Lloyd!!

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Play Me! - Offer extended : Play Me! is a heavy-metal comedy crime novel. If stories of fish out of water strike a chord with you, you’ll love this rollicking tale...

I've been offering some special gifts to go with my award-nominated new crime thriller 'Play Me!' - offer ends midnight tonight.

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#offers #comedycrime #novel

True - but I've also seen too many seasons stretched to 6 or 8 episodes when the material would work better at 3 or 4

Ah, those dastardly Chins!

“They went for pensioners, they went for the disabled, and now they’re going for people fleeing war and conflict. I am furious — this government should hang their heads in shame.”

Zack Polanski on Labour’s new immigration reforms on Newsnight.

Members, what are you doing this time tomorrow?

We hope you'll be joining us for our pre-AGM online social.

Whilst we can’t promise drinks and nibbles, we’ll make every effort to ensure you meet new people and have meaningful conversations with fellow members, SoA staff, and Committee members.

A political party that stand up for humanity - whatever next!

Libraries are fast becoming one of our most precious resources

With neonicotinoid pesticide ban, France’s birds make a tentative recovery - study Analysis shows small hike in populations of insect-eating species after 2018 ruling, but full recovery may take decades

#GoodNews

With #biodiversity in freefall on this #PoisonedPlanet, with #pesticides a big chunk of the problem, a ban on neonics is a step.in the right direction

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Here's the cover for the audiobook version of my novel out Dec 9, narrated by Liam Gerrard & Sarah Durham. A little different from the print cover. #booksky @bolindaoriginals.bsky.social @srlpublishing.bsky.social #TheCandidatesHusband #politicalfiction #debutnovels

It's almost too easy!

Tesco suspends fish farm after claims lice-infested salmon left in pen Bakkafrost Scotland says a "very small" number of fish were in a site that had been declared fallow.

#FactoryFarming - indefensible on land or at sea

#AnimalWelfare #AMR #FoodWaste
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Send us your feedback! Deadline Monday 17 November, logo of Green Libraries Week at the top all green background

🌱Did you take part in #GreenLibraries Week this year? We'd love to hear how your week went. Your feedback will support and influence our future planning.
📅Deadline Monday 17 November https://ow.ly/UJI750XrF99

A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences. They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...

Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

Someone asked if I was ready for the fall, and it actually took me a moment to realize that they meant autumn, not the complete collapse of democracy.

MONTREAL! TONIGHT!

Kenilworth Park Hill, Warwick BY-ELECTION WIN GRN: 40.8% CON: 23.8% REM: 18.1% LDM: 13.9% LAB: 3.3% Green HOLD REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE. Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

🎉 Green WIN! 🎉

💚 Congratulations to Alison Firth of Warwick District Green Party on being elected in Kenilworth Park Hill ward!

Treetop tutorials: Orangutans learn how to build their beds by peering at others and a lot of practice Warwick primatologists, in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute, have shown that young orangutans develop their nighttime nest-building skills via observational social learning—by closely watch...

Unsurprisingly, just like human animals.

"Night nests are intricate sleeping platforms often built as high as 20 meters in the tree canopy and including comfort elements such as pillows, blankets, mattresses (linings) and roofs to protect from adverse weather"

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Tomorrow, our 2026 Society of Authors' Awards open for submissions.

If you were in any doubt as to why these awards are so important, our Board member Helen Epega @thevenusbushfires.bsky.social explains.

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