Very proud to meet Mikhail Voskresensky, the most famous Russian pianist and a man of principle. When Putin invaded Ukraine, Voskresenky (who was 86 at the time) was so outraged that he spoke out against the war and had to abandon his entire life, home, wealth, friends and family…

My book tour for The Demon of Unrest starts on Tuesday, April 30, with an event in Lewes, Del., the first of nearly 30 stops nationwide. My plan is to post images from the road--the good, the bad, the very odd--both here and on my Insta account, erikxlarson. Stay tuned.

A beautiful review of 📚 #TheIncarcerations Business Standard. 'My all-time favourite is an academic who can write movingly without losing the rigour. Scholar-storyteller Alpa Shah has that rare quality.' 🙏Vipul Mudgal & Business Standard for covering BK-16.
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Delighted to be at book launch of the moment for Tim Shipman's No Way Out - jam-packed with politicians, political movers & shakers. Fab cocktails. Genius speech from Arabella Pike. Plus great to see bookish friends incl Shane Shane - Spybrary Podcast Host & Charles Cumming. (And you, Harry!)

#Educated on sea. Happy paperback publication Suzanne. Loving this new package.

Happy happy publication day Shippers. Go buy this book people. It is awesome.

Happy publication day to Suzanne Heywood - WAVEWALKER is out in paperback today! ⛵🌊

The international best-selling true story of a young girl's fight for freedom and education.

Happy publication day Simon.

This is coming in July. Heartbreaking memoir of brothers, maths genius and a three decades long search for justice. ‘A requiem for a loved one and a lament for all the brilliant people the world was robbed of simply because they were gay’ says ⁦Gareth Russell⁩ ⁦

These books for spring keep on blooming 🌿More here from ⁦Cathy Newman⁩ ⁦Michiko Kakutani⁩ ⁦Alpa Shah⁩ ⁦Christopher Hadley⁩ ⁦Gareth Russell⁩ ⁦Tom Burgis⁩ ⁦Tom Baldwin⁩ ⁦Dr Paula Byrne Author FRSA⁩ ⁦Rebecca Smith⁩ Matthew Lockwood Steve J

Theresa May’s legacy of chaos - great review by ⁦Andrew Marr⁩ in the New Statesman of Tim ⁦Tim Shipman⁩ Shipman’s daunting-but authoritative-sounding 3rd part (of 4) of his history of #Brexit , & how & why a good deal became impossible newstatesman.com/culture/books/…

No Way Out, Vol 3 in the Brexit quartet, is out on Thurs. Andrew Marr says: 'If you are interested in politics, you have to be interested in this'. Of its proud author he writes: 'What the Roman empire was for Gibbon, Brexit is for the man universally known as Shippers.'…

I reviewed the meticulous and merciless No Way Out for the Financial Times — Tim Shipman on Brexit, Theresa May and the death of a premiership ft.com/content/d3ea67…

Ten years since my love/hate letter to this economic 'eruption'. The lines have all continued in straight lines in that time. The lines of feeling, as well as those of money. #india #newdelhi #capital #narendramodi

Books for Spring ⁦Tim Shipman⁩ ⁦Saul David⁩ ⁦Suzanne Heywood⁩ ⁦Patrick Grant⁩ ⁦Charles Spencer⁩ ⁦Kat Hill⁩ ⁦Alexander Christie-Miller⁩ ⁦Erik Larson⁩ ⁦Daniel Finkelstein⁩ ⁦Jonny Steinberg⁩ Peter Marshall Max Hastings Anne Somerset

Bowled over by wonderful ***** lead review of SKY WARRIORS in today’s Telegraph Books by James Holland

Six days to publication of SKY WARRIORS. Here's something to whet the appetite

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V Happy News! I will join University of Oxford as Statutory Professor in Social Anthropology, Fellow of All Souls College this summer. In my heart, not really leaving the fab LSE Anthropology LSE but extending kinship. @OxfordAnthro🙏for this warm welcome👇
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BIG NEWS for Alpa Shah Prof of Social Anthropology University of Oxford and Fellow of All Soul's. Huge congratulations and so deserved. anthro.ox.ac.uk/article/alpa-s…