Writer, dawdler, escaped eroticist, liberal, lifelong barmaid - still listening. Editor Perspective, former editrice The Erotic Review.
Joined May 2014
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Jun 4
I was enchanted by the new "Marilyn Monroe: a Portrait" show at the @NPGLondon somehow they conjure freshness and joy from what could easily feel over familiar. The range of photography is SUBLIME. Here's my review for @Telegraph
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May 24
Yes, I am a living parody of myself, but someone has to write about the HUGE scandal troubling the Vatican of late – transpires the "Hot Priest" calendar is a great hot mess of a fraud.
May 24
'There’s an exquisite contradiction involved in the notion of a steamy man of God – until his fraudulent identity is revealed' I Writes Rowan Pelling
Read @RowanPelling's full article below 🔗
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May 7
Anyone near Althorp this weekend? I'm at the @AlthorpLitFest where I'll be in conversation with @AnnaWhitelock on her history of James I, The Sun Rising, @annesebba discussing The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz, the BBC's Frank Gardner taking thrillers, William Sieghart dispensing wisdom from his Poetry Pharmacy, and Keeley Hazell on her memoir Everyone's Seen My Tits. Something for everyone.
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May 7
Do you know about zombie ant fungus and mind-controlled ants? Do you want to see a radical new performance blending neuroscience, mycology, sound and behaviour. My brilliant friend Bridget Nicholls, founder of Pestival, conservationist and sage of all things insect and bat related, has produced the world's first science-musical-insect-fungi extravaganza. It's at the Royal Institute this Sat/Sun. Brilliant panels afterwards. I'm going. Book here rigb.org/whats-on/zombie-ant…
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May 5
I wish that the TV series Room 101 could be revived so I could put egregiously slow walkers straight into it, along with people who block the fast lane on escalators. I really vented while writing this one. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05…
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May 2
It's sadly true that many reviewers don't even make the sketchiest attempt to analyse literary technique. @AlexClark3 on top form here, as usual.
May 1
very occasionally, a fiction reviewer will actually do some literary criticism, as the great @AlexClark3 does here excellently
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Apr 30
I've signed this. Have you? Get your blooming name on it pronto if not.
Apr 30
We're nearly there 96,353 and counting. Do your thing internet.
As for that vacuous act of futility that is govt's response?
The Sewage Campaign Network has asked for a right to reply, we want to be able to write to the very same people govt did shredding their nonsense response.
Sign now, sign today.
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Apr 29
Horrific news about the stabbings in Golders Green, on top of a wave of other antisemitic crimes. Shameful and terrifying that so many Jewish friends have to live in fear of both their own and their family's safety. How we come back from all the mindless hatred currently abroad in the world, I don't know.
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Apr 29
I just don't understand why more legal protection needs to be given to cohabiting couples when those who dislike marriage can enter into civil partnerships. Job done, tick.
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Apr 27
Fiercely battling on behalf of the sacred right to have a small tipple during a very long working day. But then I am a hack...
Are MPs who drink in Parliament really out of touch with the public?
Our politicians shouldn’t be rigid puritans, writes @RowanPelling 👇
buff.ly/3VrSk0c
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Apr 27
Just written this on the whole Westminster "to drink, or not to drink" question. As the daughter of publicans and a committed pleasure seeker, you won't be surprised by my conclusions: unherd.com/newsroom/why-shou…
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Apr 27
Great piece by @AmandaPCraig on the sad fact it's not inevitable you fall in love with your baby at once. If the birth has been traumatic it can take weeks or months to establish that bond. Like all too many women, I had a similar experience with my firstborn. So thankful that, eventually, love flowed in abundance.
Apr 26
If you read one thing today, this hugely powerful and deeply affecting piece about motherhood by @AmandaPCraig should be it. theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…
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Apr 26
Fascinating to see people divide over hot topic: whether MPs should drink in parliament. Obv, no one favours boorish drunks, but I'm always going to favour the "swift pint" Cavaliers against the abstemious Puritans. Not just because my parents ran a pub for 34 years, with locals talking politics at the bar.
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Apr 24
Excellent review of @AmandaPCraig's new novel High & Low (involving several key characters who Craig fans will remember from A Vicious Circle).
Apr 23
“Deliciously entertaining and thoroughly moreish State of the Nation novel”. Delighted and honoured by this wonderful first review in the Jewish chronicle of High & Low - out 7 May - RT please thejc.com/life/books/high-an…
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Apr 23
Wonderful topical novel (a snapshot of modern London) from @AmandaPCraig particularly pleasing for fans of her first work A Vicious Circle – as a number of the same characters appear.
Apr 23
My wonderful publisher @Abacus/LittleBrown has made this reel about High & Low, out 7 May - with huge thanks to many generous fellow authors of distinction.
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Apr 22
This piece on dating cracked me up - brilliant writing from the ever excellent Sophie Heawood, courtesy of @The_Fence_Mag
Apr 22
Here's Sophie Heawood's first column, in which she recalls a memorable encounter with a younger man.
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Apr 18
A "summer of sex" is exactly what I'd prescribe to the nation, especially from Niblett & Gallop who (as I write here) "sound like purveyors of equine-themed aphrodisiacs from a Jilly Cooper novel". telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04…
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Apr 17
Exuberant book launch for Prof @wmarybeard and Talking Classics last night at the @Bloomberg Mithraeum. Thrilled to catch sight of @Bobby_Seagull in the classics-loving crowd. Here we are mobbing Mary.
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