Strong Words Magazine

On today’s @TRETalkRadio Book Show from 3pm uk time is Ed Needham, editor of @StrongWordsMag with some new book reviews #books #bookreviews #lovereading

In the 1st hour of the #TREBookshow, with @radiohannah from 20.00CET - bestseller lists from @AmazonUK and #TheSundayTimes, Ed Needham, editor of @StrongWordsMag, Lucy Apps, and Radu Herklots #TuneIn on tre.radio or @TRERadioApp

Out this week and highly recommended – the courageous and under-applauded commitment of lifeboat folk. From the Strong Words Sunday Book Club newsletter – join at the website for FREE

New Strong Words available to subscribers tomorrow. Includes great new book by Philippe Auclair on the meticulous construction of Kylian Mbappé's sporting trajectory. If you're ready to subscribe, please go the website IMMEDIATELY

An interesting attempt at a cure for ugliness by the great designer and inventor of shocking pink, Elsa Schiaparelli (the grandmother here), as reported by the Times at the weekend

Coming up in the second hour of the #TREBookshow, with @radiohannah from 15.00CET - Ed Needham, editor of @StrongWordsMag, @PCDinanAuthor, and @itslinhere #TuneIn on tre.radio or @TRERadioApp

This is out today, #WarningSigns by Tracy Sierra, exquisite creepiness in a ski lodge sealed off by avalanche, inspired by some of the outrageous entitled behaviour of some of her friends' rich fathers growing up in Colorado

Just spoke to @MalcolmKempt about his excellent Arctic murder thriller #AGiftBeforeDying. If you like your crime cold and dark, this should meet your needs nicely

Out in paperback now, Tony Quinn's brilliant Keegan biography, featuring this detail of the impact the player had on how England's footballers dressed when overseas...

Spotted in the BRILLIANT Look What You Made Me Do, by John Lanchester, coming March 12. Woman joined book club because no one was recommending interesting books any more. Love, that's what Strong Words is for!

The Death of Trotsky, coming Feb 26 by #JoshIreland. A superb and dramatic telling of the assassination. Even when expecting to be murdered at any moment, Trotsky still managed an excellent joke...

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The new Strong Words, the first to debut on the new digital platform, is out on Feb 2, and looks like this. Subscribe at the Strong Words website.

Would you like to sleep like an elite designer? Here's how a bed was made the Valentino way (from his Times obit)

An interesting piece in Airmail News about the Louvre, comparing it to North Korea. Strong Words is also a totalitarian paradise, with one supreme leader sacrificing every hour of the day to the greatness of the project. Which country does your company most resemble?

New York Times still unable to get giant brain around test cricket (headline after Day 2 of Sydney Test, Australia yet to complete first innings. May well eventually defeat England. But not yet.)

Why, every year on new year's eve, is it news that people around the world have been celebrating as midnight strikes where they are? Midnight not striking or people forgetting to celebrate is news, but something I could have predicted a year ago is not.

...Elizabeth McCracken's book A Long Game: How to Write Fiction (Jonathan Cape, £14.99), also out on Jan 1. Because compared to what comes after, writing the book is a stroll. Happy new year to everyone, but especially writers and authors, whatever shape your project is in.

Posting this on December 30, so just 48 hours to go before many of you open the laptop to start on that novel you promised to write in 2026. By way of encouragement, here's some advice from...

Fancy yourself as handy at puzzles? Then allow Stephen Sondheim to make you feel very small (from The New Yorker).