Nora Ephron and her Heartburn vinaigrette walked so that Olivia Wilde and her “special salad dressing” could run

We're deeply honoured to be publishing #AMessageFromUkraine this November.

The only book officially authorised by President Volodymyr Zelensky.

A rallying call to support Ukraine and stand up for democracy, you can read all about it here: linktr.ee/amessagefromuk…

Logroll: Penguin Books UK (my publisher) have just reissued some of Josephine Tey’s golden-age crime novels and sent me a few. They are über-fun - smart, well-characterised and beautifully written. Recommended!

My life, 2003-2008

The Tett Offensive*
* Actually acceptable in certain circumstances

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Janet McTeer’s Phaedra AND a Richard Hawley/Chris Bush collab National Theatre?! 🙌 #MyCupOverfloweth

We’re surely only days away from Liz Truss’s government telling us to “inspire each other out of poverty”.

Armando Iannucci maybe you can send her some other ideas.

Tbh, if Liz Truss had been even *half* this “eloquent” on her local radio rounds this morning, she might have been deemed at least vaguely successful. Dismal.

Extreme ‘Quiet Bat People’ vibes.

Bill Nighy is to London what Fran Lebowitz is to New York.

If you haven’t at some point seen him walking around town, impeccably dressed, likely clutching a good book, then you are living in this city *all wrong*.

The latest Gen Z ‘hack’: doing with a pair of shoes or a handbag what previous generations could afford to do with literal houses

Hilary Mantel on our monarchy, past and present 👇
(With thanks to Robbie for the reminder of this absolutely zinging piece)

We are heartbroken at the death of our beloved author, Dame Hilary Mantel, and our thoughts are with her friends and family, especially her husband, Gerald. This is a devastating loss and we can only be grateful she left us with such a magnificent body of work.

Tasty pile of golden-age reissues from ⁦Penguin Books UK⁩. The Daughter of Time was a recurring topic back when I was doing ⁦dotun adebayo⁩’s 2am books phone-in on ⁦BBC Radio 5 Live⁩, so posting here with a “this book may cause sleeplessness” disclaimer…!