My debut novel Trouble Was will be published by @BloomsburyBooks on July 2nd. It's set in 1976, has heat, danger, feral kids and filthy old houses. Writers who I admire hugely have said lovely things about it. I hope you enjoy it. amazon.co.uk/Trouble-Was-Cha…

Congratulations to Charlotte Edwardes for being awarded winner of Broadsheet Interviewer of the Year at the Press Awards 2026 @guardian

Over the moon to win broadsheet interviewer! @meropemills @ruthlewy @PressAwardsuk @GdnSaturday

The foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, is highly critical of Israel’s attacks on Lebanon in an insightful interview by @chedwardes (what Cooper says when probed on the legality of America’s attacks on Iran is among many striking remarks). This on Lebanon won’t make the government’s relationship with Israel any less fractious. “How does she feel when she hears Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich talk about razing the southern suburbs of Beirut, ‘like Khan Younis’ (which was flattened in Gaza). She says ‘that sort of language is shocking and unacceptable. And it’s worth remembering that it was this Labour government which sanctioned Smotrich alongside fellow minister [Itamar] Ben-Gvir for inciting violence. We must avoid this war expanding into Lebanon. That will see more civilians killed and families displaced.’ She says Hezbollah must cease attacks on Israel and addresses Netanyahu saying, ‘Israel must not expand this war to Lebanon.’” theguardian.com/politics/202…

“Israel must not expand this war to Lebanon” I was in the midst of an immersive profile of the foreign secretary Yvette Cooper as the US and Israel launched their bombing of Iran and Lebanon. Read it here: theguardian.com/politics/202…

Louis Theroux has made a great documentary for Netflix about the manosphere. Still, interviewing him was not what I expected ‘Would you like me to cry now?’: Louis Theroux on the manosphere, marriage and misunderstandings theguardian.com/tv-and-radio…

Congratulations to Charlotte Edwardes from @guardian for being awarded highly commended in Broadsheet Interviewer of the Year at The Press Awards 2025!

‘We can be violent to ourselves. Brutal’: Demi Moore on body image, reinvention and her most shocking role yet theguardian.com/film/2024/se…

Emma Corrin: smart, thoughtful and funny on change in young adulthood. And pretty blown away by the experience of starring in Deadpool & Wolverine theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…

I interviewed Keir Starmer for today’s ⁦@GdnSaturday⁩ theguardian.com/politics/art…

Keir Starmer to @chedwardes: “You asked me questions that I’ve never asked myself,” he says... “That may seem funny, [but] part of being Keir” – he sometimes talks about himself in the third person – “is just ploughing on. Knowing what I’m doing, knowing where I’ve got to go, without allowing myself time to stop and have a discussion with myself. I’ve just got this thing about keeping going.” theguardian.com/politics/art…

Just over a month until the Martha Mills Young Writers prize closes. Kids age 11-14 have the chance to win £200 and have their work read by the brilliant ⁦@PhilipPullman ⁩ londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/b…

Jeremy Clarkson chats to me about the farm in today’s @GdnSaturday theguardian.com/media/2024/a…

@chedwardes talks to Orlando Whitfield about Inigo Philbrick - the most successful art dealer of his generation, who is “accused of a fraud so gigantic and audacious it rocks the art world to its core.” @ProfileBooks @jay_layts @londonvoicebout @elliebury #podcasts #Banksy

Online now and in the Guardian mag on Saturday: ‘The money is not real – it’s a feckless level of wealth’: the inside story of the biggest art fraud in American history | Art | The Guardian theguardian.com/artanddesign…

Walking in step with Amy Winehouse ‘sucked me to a place I didn’t understand how to get back out of’. @chedwardes interviews artist and film director Sam Taylor-Johnson theguardian.com/culture/2024…