.Marian Keyes steps into the spotlight for a laugh-out-loud evening discussing old flames, midlife crises, and falling back in love with yourself with co-host of the Graham Norton Book Club Alex Clark.

#ILFD2024
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Tonight!!! I’m quickly making a Martini trolley!

Men really are the bitter end, part 4,387, but also Cambridge railway station is not a terminus

Celebrating Ireland's Booker Winners
23 April: Paul Lynch & Belinda McKeon

I'm delighted to curate this new NLI series on contemporary Irish literature, focusing on particular authors & books that have made a significant impact on Irish culture.

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“It is sad to think that intelligent people could devote themselves to this topic with earnest furrowings of the brow, but that’s what discourse about royals comes to: a compulsion to comment, a discourse empty of content, mouthed rather than spoken.” lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v35/…

My very excellent mother-in-law, smiling despite still waiting for a cup of tea, a cake and a game of cards 🌷

#PavilionTheatre A quick heads-up if you were thinking of attending this gig on March 26th. Tix are flying now so book soon to avoid disappointment. Should be fab. Mighty novel if you haven't read it yet.

Pavilion Theatre presents
Paul Lynch - 2023 The Booker Prizes Winner in conversation with Alex Clark 26th March. Booking link below

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Very much looking forward to delivering the Tanner lecture at Cambridge tomorrow. It's on: 'Intimations of Apocalypse: Catastrophist and Gradualist Imaginings of the Planetary Future.' The in person event is sold out, but zoom registration is open to all:
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A few days in the UK for my lovely 93-year-old Auntie Patsy’s funeral. Flying back to Dublin tomorrow morning. What are my chances? #StormIsha

#ThroughHerEyes
Happy Nollaig na mBan!
What a happy coincidence that writer Maeve Brennan's birthday also falls on 6 Jan. This morning, she is being honoured at her childhood home with the unveiling of a plaque. Big thanks to Sinéad Gleeson, one of her
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Just now realising this means I can’t dive face first into the Rioja. Or MAYBE I CAN

Made a giant sausage roll (with a hint of Wellington-style Parma ham and mushroom duxelle casing)

I properly and unironically love this

For the day that’s in it, the hack’s revenge on her family. Happy Christmas, all.

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Entranced by ⁦Nigella Lawson⁩

How isn’t the headline “a snog is not just for Christmas” ffs

As if we don’t all have this tattooed on our forearms just in case

Benjamin Myers Alex Clark Rob Palk Same with the Nobel announcement – 'we've been ignoring or haven't heard of this book/writer, so the prize is losing relevance.' Camouflaging their embarrassment.

A good test is to see if they've covered the writer any time before the announcement.