Albert Read

So proud of my son Nathaniel who has launched this - First Business Magazine Launched in Oxford theoxfordblue.co.uk/first-business…

I think that is the best advertisement I’ve ever seen.

Fascinating

What is the single funniest line Wodehouse ever wrote? No wrong answers, only joy.

Here it is! Available for pre-order, the UK & US edition of THE RENOIR GIRLS 📚 A true story of three sisters, who sat for Renoir in Belle Époque Paris; of a dynasty arriving in France to the tragedy of two world wars. Splendour, secrets and betrayal... amazon.co.uk/Renoir-Girls-C…

In need of a cost effective 2026 creativity reboot? Look no further… Special 99p offer from Kindle on The Imagination Muscle.. amzn.eu/d/52M3oPB

I recommend two v different books for 2026. James McDougall’s Worlds of Islam A Global History is brilliant indispensible and a rare book of balanced scholarship on Middle East. @CatherineOstler’s Renoir Girls is a superb elegaic decadent French family artistic history from Belle Epoque to Shoah

Thanks to @thetimes for this happy mention! THE RENOIR GIRLS is coming in April in the UK, July in the US … The 58 books to look out for in 2026 thetimes.com/article/4636db…

How three women wed to rulers in 19th-century Europe tried to steer their own fates... 👑👑👑wsj.com/arts-culture/b… via @WSJBooks @HelenRappaport

Here's what we're reading this week: The seeds of the war in Ukraine, women who made a splash, Joni Mitchell’s creative odyssey and more. wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

Thank you Michael Luca for the review of the US edition of The Imagination Muscle. Out on 2nd July.. wsj.com/arts-culture/b… via @WSJBooks @UnionSqandCo @barnesandnoble

We wait for a single UK business top commentator, who so condemned Mike Lynch, to clarify or even apologise or show some humility. When editors hunt in packs it is bad for all of us.

10 things I learned from The Imagination Muscleby Albert Read notepd.com/idea/10-things… #NotePD #Ideas #thenotepd via @thenotepd

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Rule 7: Acquire the art of patience Know that the imagination thrives sometimes by seemingly doing nothing. Let the unconscious do its work.

Leonardo da Vinci, born on this day, April 15th in 1542, gave us the following rules to stimulate the imaginative mind. Rule 1....