A Stanger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad Ghaith is the WINNER of The Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year Award 🏆👏
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As the winner of the Stanfords Travel Book of the Year is announced, Shafik Meghji recommends The Best Travel Writing of 2024. Fab round up. fivebooks.com/best-books/the… via Five Books

So excited to tuck into these 12 hugely varied works on the dylanthomprize #longlist . What a joy and honour to be asked to join the panel and so looking forward to discussions with Namita Gokhale Jon Gower Seán Hewitt Tice Cin

So looking forward to this and my sincere apologies to those who bought tickets for appearances at Cheltenham and Wimbledon in the last couple of weeks. The 'day job' intervened! There are dates and tkt info for future events in the link in bio. Cheers. Hodder & Stoughton

Off we go and as strongly as the gales in #Budleigh today! 💨

We welcome Julia Wheeler Suzanne Heywood Dr Kate Strasdin #Duncanminshull Robert Goddard Sathnam Sanghera Kate Mosse ALASTAIR CAMPBELL Sarah Gristwood Dr Leah Broad #alicefarnham . Can't wait!

Andre Sólo – How to Thrive as a Highly Sensitive Person howtoacademy.com/podcasts/andre…

Loving the warmth, insights and deep reading-writing chat The Mountain Words Literary Festival #colorado . And the skies… Brooke Harless MacMillan Kate Manning Arvin Ram Rachel Monroe Rebecca Makkai Caroline Bleeke Phil Kirsten Johanna Allen Phil Coleman

Wild start to The Mountain Words Literary Festival #colorado . Lots of Mark Twain and Poe - luckily also some George Orwell. Phew.

Such a delight to be in conversation with you Peter Brathwaite. And thank you for singing for us as well. Let’s make a plan to do it again soon please. Stratford Literary Festival

Let’s also talk #Coronation robes and #PennyMordaunt ’s costume

Tickets on sale today for #CheltSciFest . So much variety -- Space, Maths, Psychology, Mushrooms, Chemistry, Trees, AI, Dogs, Physics, Game Theory. I CANNOT WAIT... CheltSciFest Cheltenham Festivals

Journeys on land and in life - amazing story, evocative writing. Huge congrats Silvia Vasquez-Lavado and thanks Stanfords

Thanks as well to jaipurlitfest Lyndy Cooke Hay Festival for linking us up. Love #litfests #bookpeople . prajwalparajuly

So enjoyed talking to Swansea University dylanthomprize module students. What an amazingly creative course: reading, discussing the long list, choosing their shortlist, helping on the award. Thanks Elaine Canning Dr Sarah Gamble. And I haven’t changed a bit since first term, right…

Fantastic line up of events Faversham Literary Festival - always great audiences, such a warm community vibe and a wonderful mix of authors and subjects. Do check it out #Kent 👇

Please watch my recent episode of Vera on Sunday - fantastic cast and crew. Thank you.

What an honest, generous and insightful conversation. Thank you for being so wonderfully supportive of one another as you told such difficult and important stories.

Wonderful conversation with ⁦Julia Wheeler⁩ Professor Lucy Easthope⁩ and ⁦barkha dutt⁩ about disaster, personal stories, memorial and trauma.

SO looking forward to this conversation and having a glimpse behind the scenes of so many of the clever and kind characters I love.

Russia - Revolution and Civil War: past, present and future intertwined brilliantly by Anthony Beevor, S Sebag Montefiore and Luke Harding. Key take aways: ‘History is complicated,’ ‘History is never tidy.’ #JaipurLiteratureFestival2023