The audiobook of my new book ‘Gay Shame’ is available now! Read by me. Hear my new teeth in all their glory.

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Feet have been liberated. This feels momentous. ☀️

My interview with Hilary Cass interview: “I have still been surprised at the lack of curiosity among some professionals in this area to understand the change in the population, and the lack of adherence to normal clinical practice. I wasn’t expecting that” newstatesman.com/ns-interview/2…

I am very happy that Jayne Anne Phillips’s brilliance has been recognised, and very proud to have published #NightWatch @fleetreads #Pulitzer thebookseller.com/news/jayne-ann…

New episode alert! Frankie is delighted to welcome Helen S Fields back on the show to discuss her new book, Profile K, the evolution of profiling technology and the makings of a murderer.

Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. linktr.ee/readandburiedp…

Sometimes this writing thing is worth it after all… thank you Carla and Faro Editorial for bringing my book to Brazil ❤️

For anyone who missed the BBC Woman's Hour special on women's views on porn, it's now in a handy pod format! Have a listen while tidying your bedroom, cooking the tea, baking me cakes... bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0h…

I hate to break it to the misanthropes on here but a lot of women really do manage both, one after another, and then get and stay happily married

Life is long and has seasons, can everyone just unclench a bit

I am beyond delighted that the legendary writer Jayne Anne Phillips has won a Pulitzer for her latest novel, #NightWatch , which I acquired and published @fleetreads. Becoming her UK publisher was a dream come true, and this win is fantastic news. Congratulations Jayne Anne Phillips!

20. Definitely old.

Today's column explores why some issues - like assisted dying, gender self-ID & surrogacy - defy alignment along a left-right spectrum, & why it's dangerous to pretend otherwise.

Sometimes our take on human nature trumps our political allegiances. Good

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'The arts are not tech companies. They do not need to move quite so fast...They don’t need to get down with the kids. And, especially, they don’t need to pander to online culture. They are feeding a beast that will one day eat them'. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Victoria Smith’s (Victoria Smith’s) ‘Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women’ is really a book for our time. Her discussion about outsourcing woman hating to women is valuable for analyzing the phenomenon from right to left. Paradoxically obvious and overlooked, woman hating…

Hahaha, just realised that I missed being advised to share more positive content yesterday... sharing this about my writing life, which happens to have been published today in The Sunday Times, should in no way be interpreted as me doing as I'm told😉
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Lovely to see Unfair Play shortlisted - 🎉 It was great to work on it with Sharron Davies MBE - we put in some serious hours on the back of decades of never accepting injustice of the kind she and generations of women have endured … 🙏 to /2 sportsbookawards.com/news/2024-shor…

Whilst I heartily agree... 🙄 🤭

Delighted that UNFAIR PLAY by the mighty Sharron Davies MBE & StateOfSwimming.com has been shortlisted for the The Charles Tyrwhitt Sports Book Awards!

Swift Press Hardman & Swainson

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Zeekill: From teenage cyber-thug to Europe’s most wanted. Julius Kivimäki's imprisonment for blackmailing therapy patients brings to an end an 11-year cyber-crime spree that started when he rose to prominence in a network of anarchic teen hacking gangs. bbc.com/news/articles/…

This from JK Rowling on planning and knowing your characters is great advice: you can tell when writers know their characters inside out (though it shouldn’t all be on the page). They should feel like real people, with real histories.

I’m giving a public talk on ‘the secret body’, May 9th friendsofimperial.org.uk/events/secret-…