Roger Luckhurst
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Lunch in the old school Italian they use now and then, completely unchanged, for Jackson Lamb’s meetings with spooks in Slow Horses.
Is the true sound of our times the poorly overdubbed snickering on cat videos?
They do everything to break down the academic staff of universities, but an evening class with spirited and witty students that goes well is still one of the best experiences on the planet
Recent journalism: ‘Gen Z: 83% More Spherical’; ‘Why do Gen Z Hate Shoes So Much?’; ‘Over Half Gen Z are in fact Moulded out of Bacon’
Publication day today for this, with short stories by Alison Moore, Wyl Menmuir, CD Rose and others — including my short story ‘You’!
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The Haunted Landscape 2025: Ghosts, Magic and Lore
22 November 2025 10 am - 5 pm
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@theprofrog.bsky.social : The Lost Landscape of London’s inner-city Dead
Vanished places of the dead.
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22 November 2025 10 am - 5 pm
@conwayhall.bsky.social and online
@theprofrog.bsky.social : The Lost Landscape of London’s inner-city Dead
Vanished places of the dead.
www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...
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I just told the guy in Foyles I was going to wait for the in-conversation/interview between Alan Titchmarsh and Thomas Pynchon to get my signed copy of the new novel. A micro-frown ensued.
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AI decides what research to fund; AI does the research; AI reads it; another AI assesses it for REF. Meanwhile the humans sod off to the beach or lie around in their pants watching Celebrity Traitors all day
Today’s gravestone: ‘The Kiss of Death’, Poblenou Cemetery, Barcelona
Weirdly, Visit Scotland are advising you to visit me: doing a talk for the lovely Toppings bookshop in St Andrews, 17th Oct. www.visitscotland.com/info/events/...
Roger Luckhurst on Graveyards, St Andrews – Literary
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At #LFF2025 ‘Becoming Human’ is a lovely contemplative exploration from Cambodia of the limbo/bardo between death and rebirth with wonderful sense of place and some admirably recalcitrant spirits. Fab debut film.
Just sent some early reader reaction to my Graveyards book
Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.
God,I’m terrible at properly annotating my photo files, so this is either a recent shot from the Mars rover or the audience assembling at Manchester Central for Kemi Badenoch’s speech
Accurate plot summary, at least, but does contain spoilers
Overheard in hipster caff: “He’s 45, but he’s still very active.”
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From the Caspian Sea to Burma, the Regency to U Boats; our history book picks for the month ahead. With new books from
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New History Books for October 2025 - Unseen Histories
Our picks of a range of vibrant new history books that will be released over the month ahead.
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Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
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October 2021, the time in Brompton Cemetery where I came across a pile of coffins and only slowly realised they were film props
Just back from my 2-3.30pm stint as French Prime Minister, most people not back from lunch so couldn’t get much done malheureusement
Mortsafes in Greyfriars, Edinburgh, designed to prevent bodysnatchers
Not sure about the brother — there was a great exhibition about the city in 1945 this summer, ranging from Jaspers coming back for the chancellorship to a snapshot of Marlene Dietrich on the castle battlements in army gear!
