Lovely to see Calista Flockhart sizzling in #FeudTrumanvtheSwans as Lee Radiziwill! Still gorgeous!

My #RBQ chum ⁦⁦Val McDermid⁩ came bearing gifts! Can’t wait to read this… and it looks so beautiful too! Will report! Big thanks,Val!

This is lovely!

FAO Stagecoach South East

How is a person supposed to manage a service like this? I was going to get then15.04 bus but no, have had to order a ⁦Panther Taxis⁩ instead. What’s happening to our buses@stagecoach

I remember it well!

It’s the end of the world as we know it… from my Times Diary column today

My article about that great and underrated American novelist Evan Connell (author of Mrs Bridge and Mr Bridge) is in The Spectator World, to celebrate Connell's otherwise-unmarked centenary.

If you haven't read Mrs Bridge - do. It's sublime.

thespectator.com/book-and-art/t…

Who wants a little behind the scenes on my new Medea novel? Join me for today’s video, translating Euripides’ play in the last episode of The Tortured Poets Archive 💔

#TSTTPD

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Beautiful even when drooping!

Future Me is going to be very happy when this book pops into my Kindle at the end of August!

This will be fascinating.
I knew the author briefly when she was about 18 months old or so… her mother and I were in the National Housewives Register (sic) together…. early 70s. Going to preorder!

Essie's Fox 'decadent' historical thriller goes to Orenda Books thebookseller.com/rights/essies-…
Fabulous news! One for the The Rest Is History chaps to read on holiday next year!

“But I have lived, and have not lived in vain...'

It is the 200th anniversary of the death of Lord Byron: author of the most readable long poem and the greatest letters in the English language.

Just finished watching #BlueLights series 2. Loved every minute. Hope series 3 is coming soon…

'The New Necklace,' (1910) the women in William Paxton’s finely detailed interiors helped define idealised female roles for upper-class American women at the turn of the 20thC - his career was greatly celebrated for the realistic intimacy portrayed in his work, a style that

Wonderful news! Well deserved!

Brilliant news! Congratulations!