Marigold Atkey

Jilly Cooper 1937-2025

Eli is the brilliant person who set up the rolling #hungerstrikeforgaza that I am part of (and that anyone can join! You can just do 24hrs, you don't have to do 48. You don't have to be a writer, or in publishing!!). This is such a great piece by her:

What a list to be on! Very happy about this. @grantabooks.bsky.social
@jasonarthur.bsky.social

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Israeli President Herzog signed an artillery shell before it was fired into Gaza

He’s been named in the ICJ order which found Palestinians at “imminent risk” of genocide

Today Starmer is rolling out the red carpet for him - instead he should be arrested for war crimes

Quite apart from Tice going out to defend Farage's shady house purhcase and making things ten times worse, for the guy who says he will be the next UK Chancellor of the Exchequer to end on: "I'm not a tax expert - you're asking the wrong guy," is objectively hilarious. ~AA

It honestly might be my favourite Elisa Shua Dusapin? So elegant, melancholic and layered:

Anuradha Roy's CALLED BY THE HILLS: A HOME IN THE HIMALAYA is out in January. Sophy Roberts is also a fan, writing: 'Elegant, witty, literary and humane. This is a portrait of a place that will touch your soul.’

THE BEST!!!

nice combo of incredibly smart but also super engaging (I love her but I do find her voice a bit distractingly odd, though... oh god I hope she doesn't search her name and see this I LOVE YOU KATHERINE, promise)

100%!!

he's brushing up his cv as I type

He must be SO CHARMING in the room OR has an absolutely killer agent, how else does he host every other show

hahah but it is the LAW that EVERY R4 JOB must go to him???

are we all placing bets on Amol Rajan getting the Bragg job then

publisher is my name, ops, royalties, and screaming into the void is my game

who would have thought that so much of my life would be spreadsheets eh

whoops meant to quote: the New Yorker captured this v charmingly too www.newyorker.com/culture/podc...

Escape the News with the British Podcast “In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg” “In Our Time” feels aligned with the eternal rather than the temporal, and is therefore escapist without being junk.

I loved how the New Yorker captured this too: www.newyorker.com/culture/podc...

bawling along with Winner Takes It All as I bash through royalty hell, I'm fine, this is fine

it's SPINSTER TIME!! Anita Brookner is our queen, sorry, I don't make the rules, but my god she keeps killer company:

SPINSTER HIVE!! Theeese arrre a few of my faaavourite writerrrrs (I re-read Peacock Spring just the other week)

I've listened to the romcom ep of This American Life more than a few times, it's a real comfort listen, and his story makes me cry EACH TIME. Don't even get me started on the joy of the hamster story, just heaven.

bafflingly bad. WHO enjoys them??? I will only risk it for Simon Rich.

You don’t say.

In the articles I have read in the mainstream press Jon Boyne has been giving space to share his feelings, his human response to this, which is exactly as it should be.

But the 14 authors, and one judge are not afforded the same space. /8

In an article about authors opting out of a literary prize, you have included a statement from only one of those authors. On the other hand, you have chosen to include the words of two other major gender critical voices, neither of whom were in any way affiliated with the prize. 2/

BBC apologises over Thought for the Day ‘xenophobia’ claim against Jenrick Corporation says Krish Kandiah’s criticism of senior Tory not appropriate for faith-based radio segment

absolutely with @krishk.com and Lord Dubs - Robert Jenrick *was* being xenophobic. Current @teamlabouruk.bsky.social continue to find new ways to disappoint, anger and depress us www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...

Dead Ink Books launches Outsider Classics republishing forgotten masterpieces and once-censored provocations to open the debate about the canon - who gets to create it, who gets excluded from it – and show that it is a malleable and changeable thing. @deadinkbooks.bsky.social

Brilliant.

this will be SO GOOOOD - Tamás's 'Strangers', with the wonderful Makina, was brilliant: