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Every old book is a new book if you haven't read it. #EmbraceTheClassics #classicliterature

@C4Countdown @Channel4 @KlassMyleene @ColinMurray @susie_dent @RachelRileyRR Marcel Proust didn't have a son. He was homosexual. It was his brother Robert who edited together his final volumes x

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@suzanneallan Well done, I don't think anyone noticed (even if it did sound as though you were broadcasting from a broom cupboard :) ). Bravo all for pulling through what must have been a difficult situation, and for getting it fixed so quickly.

Apologies to viewers - we had a power cut here at PQ overnight, so the 0630 bulletin was shorter than usual and coming from a different location. Engineers are working hard to get everything back to normal.

@janetsomerville How marvellous, J. So wish could have been there to share in your delight, but quite the haul from Fife :). Thrilled the book is in the wild now, and will be acquiring as soon as pennies are piled. Thanks again for reminding the world of Martha's indomitable and glorious spirit x

Including you, @RobAroundBooks. With a shout out to Fife!

@janetsomerville You've almost rendered me speechless, Janet. Quite the finest honour I'm sure, and yet so largely undeserved. I'm now doubly excited for publication day.

@RobAroundBooks You are in the acknowledgments!

Please pass the #Gellhorn word around, @lostingreatbook @Bodhihodi @RobAroundBooks @GroveBookshop @StaceyCornelius, to anyone you know who might be interested. The book publishes October 1st.

Dear folks, most important for me to pass on word of this, not only because a new book which focusses on the legend that is Martha Gellhorn is long overdue, but also because I know that Janet has poured heart and soul into this, and every ounce of ability.

@john_self @MumblinDeafRo @tinakover Great book, and EXACTLY the one that first got me into Montaigne. I've a lot to be grateful to her for. The Compagnon one looks interesting, Rónán.

@MumblinDeafRo @RobAroundBooks @tinakover I loved Sarah Bakewell’s How to Live: v approachable biography and discussion of his work.

@MumblinDeafRo @john_self Nice. I love how it's clearly well read.

@john_self @MumblinDeafRo Indeed. The pages are the onion skin-thin ones that Everyman's Library typically use for their books, so maybe not as hefty as the page totals would suggest. Certainly able to lug it around, with some little effort :). The Penguin's an absolute beaut though.

@RobAroundBooks @MumblinDeafRo That's a big boy all right - 1,376 pages according to Amazon!

@john_self @MumblinDeafRo Beautiful book, although I'm rather in love my Everyman's Library edition which is as hefty and perhaps even more so given it also contains letters, travel journals etc. Also, (butting in), nowt wrong with waxing lyrical about Montaigne, Rónán 🙂. He's a joy.

@MumblinDeafRo Also if you bring this edition (I have it and it's massive), you can bash any wild animals on the head with it.

@LynseyMay @Shakespeare_Co How exciting. And if there were anybody most suited for fitting among Shakespeare and Co's stacks... :)

Dream writing break achieved: off to Paris for a short stay in September thanks to the good folks at @Shakespeare_Co who’ve found a space for me among the stacks. They are magical and I am crazy grateful. Here’s my face when I last visited.

@AllThingsEla Absolutely no need to justify anything, especially to yourself. It's just nicer seeing your words and pictures popping up in my timeline. I know what it's like though trying to fit everything in, and sometimes even raising the enthusiasm.

@RobAroundBooks The other reason for my radio silence this year is that I'm writing on something and it's going forward so far, so I have prioritised spending any free moment doing that

NEW blog post | "Dreams of Summer" - feat. a whole lot of Polaroids, for those of you who love a bit of instant photography leaelm.com/dreams-of-summ…

@AggieHH And I think you captured it perfectly.

@AggieHH You're right, this DID make me smile ❤️#fabulousplace

@nickbarleyedin @WigtownBookFest @edbookfest Ha...no chance 🙂

@RobAroundBooks @WigtownBookFest @edbookfest Yeah, he outdid me on the style front!

Delighted to be at the French ambassador's residence last night to see @edbookfest's @nickbarleyedin became a chevalier (or knight) for services to French literature. Vive Sir Nick! (He's the one on the right!)

@Joannechocolat Splendid! One of my all-time Victorian heroes ❤️. Here's I at her graveside (Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh) 🙂.

Isabella Lucy Bird (1831 – 1904), was a nineteenth-century British explorer, writer, photographer, and naturalist, co-founder of the John Bishop Memorial hospital in Srinagar, and the first woman to be elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. #CelebratingWomen

@drnsheridan @MarDixon Re the bing of a typewriter: you'll be a big fan of the famous Jerry Lewis scene then? :) youtube.com/watch?v=EcDQr7…

*waits for @RobAroundBooks reaction*

@MarDixon I know what you mean. One has to be more considered when using a typewriter. It can help improve spelling though :)

@RobAroundBooks I started off with a typewriter and can still use one but my spelling would be hilarious.