I am posting this excellent interview by Andrew Billen in today's Times about Kate Clanchy's monstering You joined in a witch-hunt that brought a writer far more gifted than yourselves close to suicide. Think about that. www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

My daughter Leon Craig on the literary history of haunted country houses that helped inspire ger first novel, The Decadence. x.com/leon_c_c/sta...

Cambridge students launch single-sex Society for Women genderblog.net/cambridge-st... Cambridge has descended into madness. Sharing this for current or former alumnae.

Poster for my daughter Leon Craig’s book tour and her novel The Decadence ( Sceptre), a Gothic comedy horror novel about a group of spoilt Millennials who break lockdown to party in a haunted country house. Fabs of Saltburn, Sarah Waters and Donna Tartt may enjoy…

@ericawgnr.bsky.social hello dear E, have you read the new Pullman? Am enchanted.

Delighted to post the jacket of my new novel High & Low ( out May 2026) with a @Waterstones preorder code for 25% off OCTOBER25 - worth having! It’s my grittiest yet. a State of the Nation novel and a thriller about a street of shops ( including a Literary cafe) under siege from a riot.

What a grim day. Whoever destroys a single life destroys a whole world.

@sceptrebooks.bsky.social I am rooting for Andrew Miller’s The Land in Winter to win the Booker 2025. Beautiful, grown-up portrait of two marriages. Best novel for years.

So proud of my daughter Leon Craig, whose debut novel The Decadence was published this week by Sceptre. Six friends go on illegal break during lockdown to take drugs in a haunted country house… shades of The Decameron, The Secret History and Saltburn ensue. ( It’s also funny.)

Here are my picks of Best Children's Books for 2-12 in the New Statesman - do share! www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...