AGordon
@annetteg.bsky.social
That London bus found its way through the fog.
TV producer/director & novelist, historical fiction.
Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize shortlisted 2014 & Longlisted 2020,
Mslexia Novel Award 2019 Longlisted,
Comedy Women in Print shortlisted 2020.
TV producer/director & novelist, historical fiction.
Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize shortlisted 2014 & Longlisted 2020,
Mslexia Novel Award 2019 Longlisted,
Comedy Women in Print shortlisted 2020.
Happening on Monday!
If you're into antiques, country houses not open to the public and history this is the series for you.
Angus Ashworth: Yorkshire Heritage Hero
I was edit producer on it.
Watch the joy that is programme 1, Newburgh Priory on Monday 24th November 9pm - Really, (Discovery)
Angus Ashworth: Yorkshire Heritage Hero
I was edit producer on it.
Watch the joy that is programme 1, Newburgh Priory on Monday 24th November 9pm - Really, (Discovery)
November 22, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Happening on Monday!
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If you're into antiques, country houses not open to the public and history this is the series for you.
Angus Ashworth: Yorkshire Heritage Hero
I was edit producer on it.
Watch the joy that is programme 1, Newburgh Priory on Monday 24th November 9pm - Really, (Discovery)
Angus Ashworth: Yorkshire Heritage Hero
I was edit producer on it.
Watch the joy that is programme 1, Newburgh Priory on Monday 24th November 9pm - Really, (Discovery)
November 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
If you're into antiques, country houses not open to the public and history this is the series for you.
Angus Ashworth: Yorkshire Heritage Hero
I was edit producer on it.
Watch the joy that is programme 1, Newburgh Priory on Monday 24th November 9pm - Really, (Discovery)
Angus Ashworth: Yorkshire Heritage Hero
I was edit producer on it.
Watch the joy that is programme 1, Newburgh Priory on Monday 24th November 9pm - Really, (Discovery)
If you're into antiques, country houses not open to the public and history this is the series for you.
Angus Ashworth: Yorkshire Heritage Hero
I was edit producer on it.
Watch the joy that is programme 1, Newburgh Priory on Monday 24th November 9pm - Really, (Discovery)
Angus Ashworth: Yorkshire Heritage Hero
I was edit producer on it.
Watch the joy that is programme 1, Newburgh Priory on Monday 24th November 9pm - Really, (Discovery)
November 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
If you're into antiques, country houses not open to the public and history this is the series for you.
Angus Ashworth: Yorkshire Heritage Hero
I was edit producer on it.
Watch the joy that is programme 1, Newburgh Priory on Monday 24th November 9pm - Really, (Discovery)
Angus Ashworth: Yorkshire Heritage Hero
I was edit producer on it.
Watch the joy that is programme 1, Newburgh Priory on Monday 24th November 9pm - Really, (Discovery)
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This is so beautiful: a Ukrainian soldier sent his wife sunflowers from the fields of Donbas — after coming back from the zero line.
Photos: _kononchuk_annie_ threads.
Photos: _kononchuk_annie_ threads.
November 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This is so beautiful: a Ukrainian soldier sent his wife sunflowers from the fields of Donbas — after coming back from the zero line.
Photos: _kononchuk_annie_ threads.
Photos: _kononchuk_annie_ threads.
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ANGELA LANSBURY - born 100yrs ago today - told how her daughter fell under the spell of a Hollywood deadbeat who’d pick her up from school & get her to steal money & food from her parents. Worried, Lansbury moved the entire family to Ireland.
The ‘deadbeat’ was Charles Manson.
The ‘deadbeat’ was Charles Manson.
October 16, 2025 at 10:30 AM
ANGELA LANSBURY - born 100yrs ago today - told how her daughter fell under the spell of a Hollywood deadbeat who’d pick her up from school & get her to steal money & food from her parents. Worried, Lansbury moved the entire family to Ireland.
The ‘deadbeat’ was Charles Manson.
The ‘deadbeat’ was Charles Manson.
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21 August 1920 | A German Jewish woman, Susi Kreutzberger, was born in Katowice. She lived in Berlin.
In February 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
In February 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
August 21, 2025 at 8:11 AM
21 August 1920 | A German Jewish woman, Susi Kreutzberger, was born in Katowice. She lived in Berlin.
In February 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
In February 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
I should have known better than to attempt it again... but here is why this time it's really over.
open.substack.com/pub/annetteg...
open.substack.com/pub/annetteg...
Here is why I will never do another writers' workshop
Now, I do fully accept that other people, a lot of other people, gain an enormous amount out of writer’s workshops.
open.substack.com
July 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I should have known better than to attempt it again... but here is why this time it's really over.
open.substack.com/pub/annetteg...
open.substack.com/pub/annetteg...
Darcy and Elizabeth appear to be completely incompatible.
Is it possible they can every tie the knot?
This is how everything conspires against them, particularly their own personalities.
A Year of Jane Austen
Part 2 of Pride & Prejudice
open.substack.com/pub/eastondr...
Is it possible they can every tie the knot?
This is how everything conspires against them, particularly their own personalities.
A Year of Jane Austen
Part 2 of Pride & Prejudice
open.substack.com/pub/eastondr...
Pride & Prejudice, analysis, part 2 of 3
“Nothing is more deceitful,’ said Darcy, ‘than the appearance of humility.
open.substack.com
June 3, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Darcy and Elizabeth appear to be completely incompatible.
Is it possible they can every tie the knot?
This is how everything conspires against them, particularly their own personalities.
A Year of Jane Austen
Part 2 of Pride & Prejudice
open.substack.com/pub/eastondr...
Is it possible they can every tie the knot?
This is how everything conspires against them, particularly their own personalities.
A Year of Jane Austen
Part 2 of Pride & Prejudice
open.substack.com/pub/eastondr...
Pride & Prejudice, analysis, part 2 of 3
“Nothing is more deceitful,’ said Darcy, ‘than the appearance of humility.
open.substack.com
June 1, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Darcy and Elizabeth appear to be completely incompatible.
Is it possible they can every tie the knot?
This is how everything conspires against them, particularly their own personalities.
A Year of Jane Austen
Part 2 of Pride & Prejudice
open.substack.com/pub/eastondr...
Is it possible they can every tie the knot?
This is how everything conspires against them, particularly their own personalities.
A Year of Jane Austen
Part 2 of Pride & Prejudice
open.substack.com/pub/eastondr...
Darcy and Elizabeth appear to be completely incompatible.
Is it possible they can every tie the knot?
This is how everything conspires against them, particularly their own personalities.
A Year of Jane Austen
Part 2 of Pride & Prejudice
open.substack.com/pub/eastondr...
Is it possible they can every tie the knot?
This is how everything conspires against them, particularly their own personalities.
A Year of Jane Austen
Part 2 of Pride & Prejudice
open.substack.com/pub/eastondr...
Pride & Prejudice, analysis, part 2 of 3
“Nothing is more deceitful,’ said Darcy, ‘than the appearance of humility.
open.substack.com
June 1, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Darcy and Elizabeth appear to be completely incompatible.
Is it possible they can every tie the knot?
This is how everything conspires against them, particularly their own personalities.
A Year of Jane Austen
Part 2 of Pride & Prejudice
open.substack.com/pub/eastondr...
Is it possible they can every tie the knot?
This is how everything conspires against them, particularly their own personalities.
A Year of Jane Austen
Part 2 of Pride & Prejudice
open.substack.com/pub/eastondr...
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I fucking love Stevie Nicks for this
May 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I fucking love Stevie Nicks for this
A Year of Jane Austen!
Get your bonnet into a book, make sure it's written by Jane Austen, and in case you're wondering about some of the words she uses see below 👇
eastondrive.substack.com/p/janes-word...
Get your bonnet into a book, make sure it's written by Jane Austen, and in case you're wondering about some of the words she uses see below 👇
eastondrive.substack.com/p/janes-word...
Jane's words: essay
Most of us dreaded the essay we had to write and to modern readers this word is likely to summon memories of school or university, particularly in relation to Jane Austen.
eastondrive.substack.com
May 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
A Year of Jane Austen!
Get your bonnet into a book, make sure it's written by Jane Austen, and in case you're wondering about some of the words she uses see below 👇
eastondrive.substack.com/p/janes-word...
Get your bonnet into a book, make sure it's written by Jane Austen, and in case you're wondering about some of the words she uses see below 👇
eastondrive.substack.com/p/janes-word...
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On AI audiobooks and Amazon's latest attempt to make the world worse:
open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/t...
open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/t...
That's audiobooks ruined then
Amazon's quest to destroy humanity proceeds. Audible have announced plans to use AI to 'narrate' audiobooks. That's going to wreck a vital - and fun - part of publishing
open.substack.com
May 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
On AI audiobooks and Amazon's latest attempt to make the world worse:
open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/t...
open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/t...
So here it is the Jane Austen novel everyone knows about Pride & Prejudice.
My analysis on Substack: A Year of Jane Austen.
It's only part 1 & an in depth assesment because there's absolutely no need to pander to the short attention spans!
Subscribe!
eastondrive.substack.com/p/pride-and-...
My analysis on Substack: A Year of Jane Austen.
It's only part 1 & an in depth assesment because there's absolutely no need to pander to the short attention spans!
Subscribe!
eastondrive.substack.com/p/pride-and-...
Pride & Prejudice, analysis, part 1 of 3
What a superb opening chapter this novel has.
eastondrive.substack.com
May 13, 2025 at 10:43 AM
So here it is the Jane Austen novel everyone knows about Pride & Prejudice.
My analysis on Substack: A Year of Jane Austen.
It's only part 1 & an in depth assesment because there's absolutely no need to pander to the short attention spans!
Subscribe!
eastondrive.substack.com/p/pride-and-...
My analysis on Substack: A Year of Jane Austen.
It's only part 1 & an in depth assesment because there's absolutely no need to pander to the short attention spans!
Subscribe!
eastondrive.substack.com/p/pride-and-...
It's the big one!
The one everyone's heard of. The one most people love. The one that gets discussed most.
Pride & Prejudice
The one everyone's heard of. The one most people love. The one that gets discussed most.
Pride & Prejudice
May 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
It's the big one!
The one everyone's heard of. The one most people love. The one that gets discussed most.
Pride & Prejudice
The one everyone's heard of. The one most people love. The one that gets discussed most.
Pride & Prejudice
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“You just feel everything with Trump is about payback.”
Tina Brown recalls how she watched Donald Trump turn from "a salmon colour to raging magenta" when he was roasted by Barack Obama in 2011 – and how that moment shaped his hatred for 'liberal media'
articles.globalplayer.com/2GXq2LWZETiP...
Tina Brown recalls how she watched Donald Trump turn from "a salmon colour to raging magenta" when he was roasted by Barack Obama in 2011 – and how that moment shaped his hatred for 'liberal media'
articles.globalplayer.com/2GXq2LWZETiP...
Tina Brown: Journalism ‘titan’ on the ‘dark’ world of Donald Trump and his hate for the press
Tina Brown, who became the editor of Tatler magazine at 25, tells The News Agents about the evolution of journalism during her 50-year career and how the negative impact of Donald Trump and social med...
articles.globalplayer.com
May 9, 2025 at 12:58 PM
“You just feel everything with Trump is about payback.”
Tina Brown recalls how she watched Donald Trump turn from "a salmon colour to raging magenta" when he was roasted by Barack Obama in 2011 – and how that moment shaped his hatred for 'liberal media'
articles.globalplayer.com/2GXq2LWZETiP...
Tina Brown recalls how she watched Donald Trump turn from "a salmon colour to raging magenta" when he was roasted by Barack Obama in 2011 – and how that moment shaped his hatred for 'liberal media'
articles.globalplayer.com/2GXq2LWZETiP...
Yes. Go for it!
We need a rebalancing
We need a rebalancing
Thank you Ella Creamer for this balanced and considered piece in today's @theguardian.com exploring the representation of men and women in publishing (& @conduitbooks.bsky.social). www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Do we really need more male novelists?
There may not be obvious successors to the likes of Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie among today’s hotshot young writers. But is a new publisher dedicated to ‘overlooked’ male voices necessary?
www.theguardian.com
May 9, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Yes. Go for it!
We need a rebalancing
We need a rebalancing
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Submissions are open! Please send your novel, novella, short story collection or memoir to CONDUIT BOOKS via our website below. Subs close May 31st 2025. Looking forward to reading. Please RT to spread the word. www.conduitbooks.co.uk
May 1, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Submissions are open! Please send your novel, novella, short story collection or memoir to CONDUIT BOOKS via our website below. Subs close May 31st 2025. Looking forward to reading. Please RT to spread the word. www.conduitbooks.co.uk
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It's my decade long held opinion that many on the Brexit right are not really voting about migrants or EU membership or any of the other crap they purport to be about.
They're voting against other people's joy.
They're voting against other people's joy.
An important lesson I learned in 2016 was when delivering Remain leaflets in a well to do cul de sac.
The residents I met were unspeakable rude. Baby boomers complaining even though they had sod all to complain about.
The bedrock of Reform.
The residents I met were unspeakable rude. Baby boomers complaining even though they had sod all to complain about.
The bedrock of Reform.
May 3, 2025 at 10:29 AM
It's my decade long held opinion that many on the Brexit right are not really voting about migrants or EU membership or any of the other crap they purport to be about.
They're voting against other people's joy.
They're voting against other people's joy.
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Old Fox had been out since dawn with a stout willow basket gathering ingredients for his teas, tinctures & syrups, his wines, liniments & poultices. Elderflower, cow parsley, sweet woodruff, hawthorn, mallow, goose-grass & thundering great nettles full green of iron-spit-cure.
April 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Old Fox had been out since dawn with a stout willow basket gathering ingredients for his teas, tinctures & syrups, his wines, liniments & poultices. Elderflower, cow parsley, sweet woodruff, hawthorn, mallow, goose-grass & thundering great nettles full green of iron-spit-cure.
What Willoughby said to Elinor that wasn't in the movie!
Sense & Sensibility, analysis, part 3 of 3 open.substack.com/pub/eastondr...
Sense & Sensibility, analysis, part 3 of 3 open.substack.com/pub/eastondr...
Sense & Sensibility, analysis, part 3 of 3
Don't apologise, don't explain. Except Willougby does!
open.substack.com
April 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
What Willoughby said to Elinor that wasn't in the movie!
Sense & Sensibility, analysis, part 3 of 3 open.substack.com/pub/eastondr...
Sense & Sensibility, analysis, part 3 of 3 open.substack.com/pub/eastondr...
There are a lot of books I really don't want to read.
Romantasy.
Science Fiction. Fantasy. Domestic Noir
Victorian Gothic. Up-lit.
Life is too short and getting shorter.
Romantasy.
Science Fiction. Fantasy. Domestic Noir
Victorian Gothic. Up-lit.
Life is too short and getting shorter.
April 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
There are a lot of books I really don't want to read.
Romantasy.
Science Fiction. Fantasy. Domestic Noir
Victorian Gothic. Up-lit.
Life is too short and getting shorter.
Romantasy.
Science Fiction. Fantasy. Domestic Noir
Victorian Gothic. Up-lit.
Life is too short and getting shorter.