Alex Peake-Tomkinson

Books are back in @EveningStandard and I’m delighted to have chosen five to look out for 📚 ❤️.

@TaliFraser @spectator Congratulations Tali, that's great news! 🎉🎉🎉

🚨NEW … from me! I’m over the moon to be joining the @spectator as commissioning editor and writer-at-large from the end of June A full circle moment after their CV-blind internship launched my career aged 19 — thrilled to be heading back to work with an incredible team! ✍🏼

@ahmpreston Belated birthday pressie!

Beautiful first review of A Stranger in Corfu by ⁦@adamlebor⁩ in the ⁦@FT⁩. So chuffed with this! ft.com/content/b78ece…

@Georgia_Edkins Oh my goodness, late to this, congratulations 🥂 X

Delighted to have been made Deputy News Editor at The Mail on Sunday in London! For all story pitches please do pop me an email, which is in my bio...! 🎉

That last paragraph is, well

Love, as Rilke wrote, is “the work for which all other work is but preparation.” Psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz’s ‘Love’s Labour’ examines how he and his patients do that work. @AlexPeakeTom reviews the new book. prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/71421/…

@_neilarmstrong Oh do you think? I guess that's true. I went... so I guess I am officially old now.

Sobering to think that maybe most of the audience for #RiotWomen won't understand the 'Greenham Common' reference.

Denzel Washington with a young John David Washington, 1990.

@emilylawford @prospect_uk @NewStatesman Congratulations Emily!

Job news: after nearly five wonderful years at @prospect_uk, I’m thrilled to be joining the @newstatesman on Monday as online editor. Can’t wait to start!

@EmilyPrescott30 Lovely piece Emily!

Lee Miller’s son Antony on feeling love for his “volatile” mother for the first time ahead of a new Tate Britain exhibition featuring her life’s work thetimes.com/article/photog…

― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

Delighted to have the lead fiction review @ftweekend this weekend, not least because it’s been illustrated by @heathergatley! The review is of Amy Bloom’s new novel, I’ll Be Right Here, which I didn’t find easy to disentangle. Thank you to @mariacrawford74 for the commission.

As a content moderator of the internet, thirty-something Girlie is accustomed to stomach-churning videos. But how will she fare in the VR theme park sector? ✍️ Alex Peake-Tomkinson spectator.co.uk/article/pity-t…

@joshsm_th @thebookseller Of course 💫💫💫

Rise and shine 🌞 Thank you, @thebookseller! An honour to be on this list with fantastic colleagues.

There are still a few tickets 🎟️ left for my talk with @SusieBoyt about the incredible Loved and Missed this Thursday eventbrite.co.uk/e/loved-and-mi…

Even as a Kathy Burke super fan, I didn’t realise this was happening until her editor told me last night — delighted that her memoir is imminent!

The characters from Loved and Missed stay with me so I wrote more about them for the new Granta. granta.com/all-being-well/

@judecook_ How exciting — congratulations Jude 🍾 🍾 🍾!

*Exciting news alert!* So I've started a small press called CONDUIT BOOKS, publishing literary fiction and memoir, focussing (initially) on male authors. You can find us at @conduitbooks on Bluesky & Instagram. Submissions open 1st -31st May. conduitbooks.co.uk

We’re so excited to reveal the cover for Dead and Alive by Zadie Smith. The celebrated author of White Teeth delivers a fiercely intelligent and searching collection of essays covering culture in all its forms! Pre-order the signed edition: bit.ly/4cB7ByZ

When misguided well-wishers suggest to Edelstein, post-mastectomy, that she might now have ‘the breasts of her dreams’, she wants to reply that those had always been her own. ✍️ Alex Peake-Tomkinson buff.ly/c24Oyfn

Back here to exhort you to read Jean Hannah Edelstein's brilliant memoir, Breasts: A Relatively Brief Relationship @Phoenix_Bks, which I've reviewed for the current issue of @spectator. It's only 99 pages long and so worth your time.