Chris Chibnall

Magazine letter: It seems that shops stock seasonal products earlier and earlier each year. Today I saw a birthday card, but my birthday isn't until October. Utterly ridiculous. Rich B, Kidlington

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Five Minutes With Ringo Starr for The Atlantic Never meet your idols, they say.

Photography Substack is so good and so revealing. I love this account of photographing Ringo Starr for the Atlantic by Dina Litovsky (which the brilliant Alice Zoo, the photographer who shot my Bluesky avatar, linked to on her newsletter).

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Cartoon drawing of Nietzsche hoovering and thinking "God I hate this thing". Caption reads Nietzsche abhors a vacuum.

Nietzsche abhors a vacuum

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The Leftovers. That was good.

Each Peach Pear Plum! ('I spy Tom Thumb') Funny Bones! ('This is how the story begins...') Peepo! ('He sees the shadows moving on the bedroom wall, And the Sun at the Window and his teddy and his ball'). Classic after classic.
Farewell Allen Ahlberg, who truly knew how to write for children.

The sunset view from West Bexington looking west along the Jurassic Coast, at 8:41pm on 31 July 2025

Amazon review of Pride and Prejudice, left by carlton p morgan on 30 July 2010: "Just a bunch of people going to each other's houses"

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

Cave Cinema returns for Agatha Christie Festival 2025 Christie films return to Kents Cavern for a unique underground cinema experience

The very popular Cave Cinema returns for the Festival!!
Watch some classic Christie adaptations in the location that inspired Hampsley Cavern in The Man in the Brown Suit

#KentsCavern

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Their chemistry was unreal

From Elif Shafak, on Substack:

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love to see some Wallis Island appreciation, quietly one of the best of the year imo

Enjoyed/enjoying (in no particular order):
* Sports Team: Boys These Days
* Wet Leg: moisturizer
* Bon Iver: SABLE, fABLE
* Self Esteem: A Complicated Woman
* Superman
* The Ballad of Wallis Island
* Intermezzo

Kate Bush album cover The Kick Inside. Kate is floating on a kite past an enormous eye.

A scene from Pinocchio, Jimimy Cricket holds an umbrella and floats past the enormous eye of a whale.

Went to a lecture on Kate Bush in film, where this was pointed out.

Thanks for buying it and hope you enjoy it!

Death At The White Hart by Chris Chibnall | Waterstones Buy Death At The White Hart by Chris Chibnall from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

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👀 Paperback cover reveal! Death at the White Hart out in paperback on September 25th! And QUICK! You can get 25% OFF in the big @waterstones pre-order sale until Thursday night! 🦌🍻📚

It's a fantastic album, give it a listen.

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Calling ALL #PLAYWRIGHTS, #SCREENWRITERS and their friends Support Playwrights is holding a SUMMER SOCIAL at Soho Theatre Walthamstow.

Thurs 24th July 7pm-11pm.

Come alone or come with friends. ALL WELCOME.

#SupportPlaywrightsSummerSocial

I’m thrilled you enjoyed it - thanks for buying, reading and posting! And yes, currently writing Book 2…

Jeremy Vine, in the library at the Old Swan Hotel in Harrogate, pretending to pinch a copy of Death at the White Hart from the author. It was Jeremy’s idea, who wouldn’t go along with it.

Not the standard interview photo.

The Radio 2 Book Club - Lee Child, Kate Mosse, Abir Mukherjee and more join Jeremy Vine for a crime fiction special - BBC Sounds Agatha Christie nut Jeremy Vine visits the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival.

Among fabulous company in this edition of Radio 2’s Book Club, talking to Jeremy Vine about Death at the White Hart, recorded in Harrogate at #TheakstonsCrime. 📚💙

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Clearer? 😁

Harrogate dispatch from @thejeremyvine.bsky.social - full interview on Radio 2 Book Club coming tomorrow…

I have no idea what is happening here but it is the best thing I’ve seen today!

I remember! Thanks for coming over - lovely to meet you too!

Comic strip by Stephen Collins, it begins with a nighttime city scene. In the next few panels, a mysterious figure, giant in the moonlight, walks towards us through the skyline. His feet echo "boom, boom" in the empty night. A large title panel declares this character's name: THE TW*T COLLECTOR. He stands, giant, unseen in the empty city night, wearing a big pointy hat on his head, and a sort of long smock. He is carrying a large sack in his hand. Slowly, he raises his arm, his arm extends, freakishly long, longer still, through the open window of a tower block. It reaches inside someone's home, and slowly withdraws, now clutching a protesting, terrified man. The man's wife comes to the window to watch his departure. slowly, the giant raises the little man and inspectes him in his hand. After a pause, the man says "b-but I'm not a tw*t!" There is another pause, after which his wife, calmly from off screen, says "you are a tw*t, dear". The Tw*t Collector summarily throws the man in his bag, which we now see is full of screaming people and is labelled TW*TS, then stomps off into the distance, through the moonlit city.

Sometimes, I long for him

A large orange sign for Harrogate at the Theakston’s Crime Writing Festival, lit up at night, beneath the trees.

The pub sign for The Drinking Detective

Panel chaired by Simon Mayo in the main tent at the festival

A packed tent awaits the start of the festival with the Thursday night awards

I love @harrogatefestivals.bsky.social #TheakstonsCrime

Perfect setting, fantastic panels (always packed to the rafters, even at 10am!), joyous positive vibes throughout, super-engaged readers and a bar tent where everyone mingles together and you can chat to anyone. What a blast.