Jack Birch

Do you think Sia is aware of Stephen Bunting? It’s not impossible.

Then it will be Christmas 2030 when I die. Halfway through reading The Mystery of Edwin Drood. The most poetic end of a reader.

Every year I read a Dickens book over Christmas, this time was Nicholas Nickleby - one of his best.

Just realised that I have only five left: Barnaby Rudge, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, Little Dorrit, and Our Mutual Friend.

“Gammon”. Nicholas Nickleby.

Christmas books 2024!🎄📚

NOW That's What I Call Bloomsbury! 🎧🎶

It’s official: you can now listen to Bloomsbury books on Spotify! Perfect for putting on those headphones on and ignoring the outside world...

I’ve been dipping in and out for a while now. Such a tricky book to approach.

🎉 Huge congratulations to Alan Murrin for winning newcomer of the year with The Coast Road at the An Post Irish Book Awards.

The Coast Road is a stunning novel about the consequences of daring to move against the tide within a small, closed community.

#APIBA #ReadersWanted #StoriesMakeUs

No, I haven’t but would very much like to. I’ll try to track it down.

Recently watched The Taming of the Shrew, not amazing, but led me to Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, a magnificent film.

Oh, amazing. I’ll save it for Christmas then.

I have Erotic Vagrancy on my Kindle, just waiting for a good time to read it.

First stack of books bought from Waterstones Streatham 📚

It was extraordinarily busy, which was great to see.

A walk in the park with Pongo 🍂