Will Hammond

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My new book is out today! THE SECRET BODY. The cover has wonderful comments from Bill Bryson, @ProfBrianCox @theAliceRoberts @DoctorChrisVT and Venki Ramakrishnan. Please do check it out!

Here’s a finished copy of AK Benjamin’s astounding #TheCaseForLove, a neuropsychologist’s series of journeys into the Borgesian labyrinths of other minds. W/ Bartolomeo Passerotti’s stunning painting on the jacket. @TheBodleyHead⁩ ⁦@PenguinEditor⁩ ⁦@aidanoneilll⁩

Pleasure to speak in person to @officialnhaynes at @hayfestival about my book Go Big. She is ace, so were our 9 member audience and at least that number watching online 🙂

@cath_fletcher Richborough is great - I believe where Watling Street began...? castlesfortsbattles.co.uk/south_east/ric…

Looking for some travel advice. What are your favourite Roman sites in Britain, Twitter? Especially interested in places with a connection to roads/travel for my new book #RoadsToRome

First copy arrived - thanks @PenguinEditor

Fascinating episode of #StarttheWeek on mental illness, which moves beyond usual discussions in this area. @AndrewMarr9 talks to three brilliant women @lfoulkesy Suzanne O’Sullivan and Sally Holland bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

@Nay_Landell Hi Renée, I'm an editor at Vintage (deputy publishing director at Bodley Head, part of PenguinRandomHouse) and I'd love to have a look at what you're writing if you're up for sending me something?

@RoopeKaaronen It's an awesome topic. Check out this upcoming release by Merlin Sheldrake: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/566795/e…

I mangled my face surfing last week (13 stitches); but can still voyage .. .. deep in to the alien world of fungi. My guide is Merlin Sheldrake, who bewitches in @RobGMacfarlane ‘s Underland. “Entangled Life”: visible in May #explore #fungus #underground #mushroom

Historian Michael Taylor will be giving a fascinating free lunchtime talk at the BL today about the Conservative defence of slavery: bl.uk/events/summer-…

@ajblum @Eric_C_Wilder Hi Eric, it was designed by Suzanne Dean, art director at Vintage, and Lily Richards, picture researcher, using an image by artist Santeri Tuori

@Eric_C_Wilder I don’t know off-hand but that is a question @PenguinEditor can answer.

@Schafernaker I would love to send you a copy of a completely wonderful book, THE WEATHER MACHINE: HOW WE SEE INTO THE FUTURE, which we are publishing this month (amazon.co.uk/dp/1847923402/…) Would that be of interest?

@nikeshshukla Can I possibly send you a proof of HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST by Ibram X Kendi, winner of National Book Award, founder of the Antiracism Research and Policy Center? It's amazing and I'd love you to see it. (PS we last crossed paths at Write Now in Manchester...)

@AyoCaesar Can I send you a proof of HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST by Ibram X Kendi, winner of the National Book Award, founder of the Antiracism Research and Policy Center? I'm Ibram's UK publisher. It's an incredible, moving book. I'd love you to see it...

How Banning Abortion Will Transform America by Maria Bucur, et al @ProSyn prosyn.org/ZQGJPOx

@hammondweather Great. What would be a good address to send it to?

@PenguinEditor Hello Will - that’s kind. Thanks

@ruth_mottram Wonderful! What would be a good address to send it to?

Reading Robert Sapolsky's astonishingly ambitious and brilliant book about human behaviour - thanks @PenguinEditor