Chloë Ashby
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Chloë Ashby
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Author of FAMILY FRIENDS (coming 2026), SECOND SELF and WET PAINT. Words on art, books and culture in the Times, Guardian, Spectator, TLS et al.
Winning online comment:
June 7, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Very happy to have the lead book review in today’s @thetimes.com

On Judith Mackrell’s lively joint biography of Gwen and Augustus John.

www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
June 7, 2025 at 7:22 AM
another day, another press release
June 3, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Those light switches, plug sockets, door handles in action:
April 29, 2025 at 8:56 AM
SECOND SELF but make it French 🇫🇷 My author copies of REPENTIRS have arrived, a week ahead of publication day (13th March) and on World Book Day! Translated by Anouk Neuhoff and published by Alice Déon and the dream team at La Table Ronde ❤️
March 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Manet (my other main man) was born on this day in 1832
January 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Who needs a baby sensory class when you have a gallery packed with psychedelic lights, zippy optical patterns and twitchy sculptures? My review of Electric Dreams at Tate Modern is in today’s Times. See pic of the mini critic www.thetimes.com/culture/art/...
November 27, 2024 at 8:29 AM
The SECOND SELF paperback (dinkier, squashier, cheaper) will be on shelves in April! Thanks to the readers, bloggers, reviewers, booksellers who have championed this book so far 🍑

‘Magnificent’ The i Paper

‘Tender and acutely observed’ Mail on Sunday

‘Thoughtful’ TLS

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February 22, 2024 at 2:11 PM
Sheila Heti on the book-writing process | 🤗😒😃🤩🫠
January 12, 2024 at 8:16 AM
Don’t you just love it when your book makes it into the window 🧡
November 28, 2023 at 3:07 PM
I loved chatting with Constance Debré, the French lawyer turned novelist and author of Love Me Tender, for Port Magazine. We talked about law, autofiction, family justice, and the benefits of not having a boring bourgeois upbringing. Beautiful photographs by Kalpesh Lathigra
November 28, 2023 at 8:10 AM
I’ll be in Paris on Friday talking all things PEINTURE FRAÎCHE at Libralire 🍊 come say hey!
November 13, 2023 at 6:25 PM