New issue is out. Contains my long feature about my old home, Newmarket – plus mentions of my beloved retired racehorse, After The Show
Radio interview with Eric Metaxas
Such a pleasure to talk to Eric Metaxas about the Mitfords…
http://www.metaxastalk.com/
Can’t wait to chat for longer at the end of March, when I visit his studio in NYC
Starred review for Life in a Cold Climate in Shelf Awareness
Thank you for this gorgeous review
Wall Street Journal reviews Life in a Cold Climate
Thank you WSJ for this lovely review
‘Most Notorious’ podcast episode
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1922-murder-percy-thompson-execution-edith-thompson/id1055044256?i=1000461489088
This is me talking about the 1922 Thompson-Bywaters case, subject of my book A Tale of Two Murders (US title of Rex v Edith Thompson). Erik Rivenes hosts this fascinating and very popular podcast.
The pub at Christmas…
The i has a lovely long extract from my book The Last Landlady… my memories of Christmas and the New Year at my grandmother’s pub. Riotous, is what I chiefly remember.
Thank you SO much for this fabulous coverage.
Surprise compliment
Sentence of the year award goes to Lara Thompson in @TheTLS “They were articulate vagabonds, good- humoured yet with an edge of social danger, gallant Cnuts in the face of the millennial tide.” https://t.co/erEgFTgakW
— Irish Literary Society (@IrishLitSoc) December 12, 2019
New York Times Book Review on Life in a Cold Climate
Thank you to the NYT for this wonderful coverage
Life in a Cold Climate in the US: my Nancy Mitford biography reviewed by Publishers’ Weekly
https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781643133034
A petition worth signing… pet theft
https://www.change.org/p/make-pet-theft-a-specific-crime-in-uk-law/u/25090582?cs_tk=Alp9uzgTuh0-H-w1h10AAXicyyvNyQEABF8BvLBj5k0BN0JUpEiCSS5IHNk%3D&utm_campaign=34afd7c1fd4d4be5b7baad900ee0141e&utm_medium=email&utm_source=petition_update&utm_term=cs