I can't have been more than ten when I opened a book of Sophocles in father's study and read this passage.
"Sir," I thought to myself, "I like the cut of your jib."

George Elliot’s prose has this bulldozer quality that drives forward slowly but with inexorable force and thoroughness

earliest available context, in the October 1987 edition of The Eastern Star

Announcement: my new book is BEAST MODE

The Broken Road, Patrick Leigh Fermor’s memoir of tramping across Bulgaria and Greece in 1933.

Friendships, betrayals. High school crushes. Long-delayed reunions. Superpowers.

And now it’s in paperback.

#superheroes
#fiction
#fightme

I have a real actual substack that has short focused takes on things, and then also explanations of why I have failed ot post on it.

CIA just gave me the CROOKED sequel
what am i bid

Hardcover reveal for Fight Me. Endpaper art by Actual Legend Bryan Hitch!

Preorder at www.penguin.co.uk/books/446205...