Homosexual behaviour in animals is extremely common. Thinking that teaching reality about people to children will make them all go gay and humans go extinct is not normal.

Being gay is far more ‘normal’ than wearing a stupid hat indoors, which is considered very rude.

“A novel is the only place where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy. The reader and the writer make the book together. No other art can capture the essential inwardness of human life.” #PaulAster RT The Paris Review

Our first live Not Just the Tudors, recorded at Gloucester History Festival!
Prof Janina Ramirez

Publishers of one of THE great books, Norman Bryson’s Looking at the Overlooked, plus Richard Brilliant’s fascinating Portraits - and look here they are, open to YOU!

Very proud to one of many singing quotes on the cover of this startling, enthralling and beautifully written book!

5 yrs ago today was a shooting at my kid's college. For 15 excruciating minutes, I couldn't reach her, but I finally did. Others weren't so lucky.
This selfless young man Riley gave his life to stop the shooter and save his classmates.
I'll never stop honoring his memory.

Want to spend an unforgettable evening with two Booker Prize winners?

Join Fane and the RSL on Thursday 6 June, 7.30pm at Bloomsbury Theatre to see Marlon James and RSL President Bernardine Evaristo to mark the tenth anniversary of James’ book ‘A Brief History of Seven…

#Beltane is the Gaelic May Day festival marking the beginning of #summer
'Passage” (2007) by German installation artist Cornelia Konrads #womensart

'Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors' - Ian Penman Ian Penman #RSLOndaatjePrize 🏆 Fitzcarraldo Editions

‘The slimness of this book belies the immensity of its content. The world of European cinema, especially Fassbinder’s world seen through Ian Penman’s eyes, has transported me to a…

🔳 Paul Auster, R.I.P.

“As my friend George Oppen once said to me, about getting old, 'what a strange thing to happen to a little boy''

One of the great take outs from Beastly...animals can save us (& the planet we share with them), but now we need to save them! And we need to be so much more urgent in this quest.

Absolute inanity. It's insulting to young people to assume they can't cope with 'the old rules'. There seem to be plenty in the audience at the snooker who aren't filming it on their phones!

Bill Nighy standing outside my flat being still to listen to the spring birds on May Day morning is exactly what you’d want Bill Nighy to be doing right?

Here's a little film (8 mins) from The Beautiful Truth.
Beastly: 40,000 Years of Animals and Us youtu.be/JZSsNDGmpGI?si… via YouTube

Marking The Book-Makers at Goldsboro Books in beautiful Cecil Court

Goldsboro Books PEW Literary The Bodley Head

Thank you so much! It’s such an honour! I’m so grateful 😭💛

This book is up there with the best of Waugh and Wodehouse. The only people would had the neccssary biro to write like this.

uncannily perceptive, I dare say already sacrilegious account of the very weird and fumbling new Guadagnino film

Have been away a month, crossed the Tropic of Capricorn twice, swam with dolphins, been on Ipanema beach at dawn, explored a city built in 3 years, and worked hard.
And yet when I get back to Edinburgh, I'm in love again

Aidan Tulloch’s FT Weekend article about the UK’s only call centre for Lift Alarm calls is a delight, not least because he quickly discovers that not much happens there. As a result, you get to experience a writer working at their absolute best, finding poetry in the banal.