PD Smith
@pdsmith.bsky.social
📚City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age, Doomsday Men, Einstein, Metaphor & Materiality.
Now writing about cities, detectives and crime.
https://linktr.ee/pd_smith
Now writing about cities, detectives and crime.
https://linktr.ee/pd_smith
Brilliant talk this evening at Winchester College by @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social about his new book The Invention of British Art. Fascinating!
November 14, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Brilliant talk this evening at Winchester College by @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social about his new book The Invention of British Art. Fascinating!
The last rose of the year from the garden…
October 23, 2025 at 9:19 AM
The last rose of the year from the garden…
A great year for sweet corn - today’s lunch fresh from the garden. Delicious!
August 16, 2025 at 1:11 PM
A great year for sweet corn - today’s lunch fresh from the garden. Delicious!
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Here are my two Guardian paperback picks for August!
The Green Ages by Annette Kehnel & Ootlin by Jenni Fagan.
Links to the reviews below. Enjoy! 🧵
#nonfiction #books📚
The Green Ages by Annette Kehnel & Ootlin by Jenni Fagan.
Links to the reviews below. Enjoy! 🧵
#nonfiction #books📚
August 7, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Here are my two Guardian paperback picks for August!
The Green Ages by Annette Kehnel & Ootlin by Jenni Fagan.
Links to the reviews below. Enjoy! 🧵
#nonfiction #books📚
The Green Ages by Annette Kehnel & Ootlin by Jenni Fagan.
Links to the reviews below. Enjoy! 🧵
#nonfiction #books📚
Here are my two Guardian paperback picks for August!
The Green Ages by Annette Kehnel & Ootlin by Jenni Fagan.
Links to the reviews below. Enjoy! 🧵
#nonfiction #books📚
The Green Ages by Annette Kehnel & Ootlin by Jenni Fagan.
Links to the reviews below. Enjoy! 🧵
#nonfiction #books📚
August 7, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Here are my two Guardian paperback picks for August!
The Green Ages by Annette Kehnel & Ootlin by Jenni Fagan.
Links to the reviews below. Enjoy! 🧵
#nonfiction #books📚
The Green Ages by Annette Kehnel & Ootlin by Jenni Fagan.
Links to the reviews below. Enjoy! 🧵
#nonfiction #books📚
Fresh from the garden this morning
August 5, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Fresh from the garden this morning
Nice haul of French beans from the garden today.
August 2, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Nice haul of French beans from the garden today.
Loved the Hiroshige: Artist of the Open Road exhibition at the British Museum. Worth seeing!
www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/...
www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/...
July 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Loved the Hiroshige: Artist of the Open Road exhibition at the British Museum. Worth seeing!
www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/...
www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/...
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Jacobsen’s deeply researched book is a minute-by-minute account of how nuclear war could happen today. As gripping as any thriller, she shows the horrific reality of nuclear war and the threat it poses to the very survival of human life on our planet.
www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
This month’s best paperbacks: Deborah Levy, David Nicholls and more
Looking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some fantastic new paperbacks, from a Booker-shortlisted novel to a groundbreaking history of a continent
www.theguardian.com
July 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Jacobsen’s deeply researched book is a minute-by-minute account of how nuclear war could happen today. As gripping as any thriller, she shows the horrific reality of nuclear war and the threat it poses to the very survival of human life on our planet.
www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
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‘The English civilian population is the least hysterical in the world. They can take an awful pounding and still keep on planting lobelias.’
Raymond Chandler, in a letter written during the Battle of Britain.
Raymond Chandler, in a letter written during the Battle of Britain.
July 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
‘The English civilian population is the least hysterical in the world. They can take an awful pounding and still keep on planting lobelias.’
Raymond Chandler, in a letter written during the Battle of Britain.
Raymond Chandler, in a letter written during the Battle of Britain.
‘The English civilian population is the least hysterical in the world. They can take an awful pounding and still keep on planting lobelias.’
Raymond Chandler, in a letter written during the Battle of Britain.
Raymond Chandler, in a letter written during the Battle of Britain.
July 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
‘The English civilian population is the least hysterical in the world. They can take an awful pounding and still keep on planting lobelias.’
Raymond Chandler, in a letter written during the Battle of Britain.
Raymond Chandler, in a letter written during the Battle of Britain.
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Here are my two Guardian paperback picks for July!
Nuclear War, by Annie Jacobsen & Into the Clear Blue Sky, by Rob Jackson. Both published by @penguinukbooks.bsky.social.
Links to the reviews below. Enjoy! 🧵
#nonfiction #books📚
Nuclear War, by Annie Jacobsen & Into the Clear Blue Sky, by Rob Jackson. Both published by @penguinukbooks.bsky.social.
Links to the reviews below. Enjoy! 🧵
#nonfiction #books📚
July 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Here are my two Guardian paperback picks for July!
Nuclear War, by Annie Jacobsen & Into the Clear Blue Sky, by Rob Jackson. Both published by @penguinukbooks.bsky.social.
Links to the reviews below. Enjoy! 🧵
#nonfiction #books📚
Nuclear War, by Annie Jacobsen & Into the Clear Blue Sky, by Rob Jackson. Both published by @penguinukbooks.bsky.social.
Links to the reviews below. Enjoy! 🧵
#nonfiction #books📚
Here are my two Guardian paperback picks for July!
Nuclear War, by Annie Jacobsen & Into the Clear Blue Sky, by Rob Jackson. Both published by @penguinukbooks.bsky.social.
Links to the reviews below. Enjoy! 🧵
#nonfiction #books📚
Nuclear War, by Annie Jacobsen & Into the Clear Blue Sky, by Rob Jackson. Both published by @penguinukbooks.bsky.social.
Links to the reviews below. Enjoy! 🧵
#nonfiction #books📚
July 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Here are my two Guardian paperback picks for July!
Nuclear War, by Annie Jacobsen & Into the Clear Blue Sky, by Rob Jackson. Both published by @penguinukbooks.bsky.social.
Links to the reviews below. Enjoy! 🧵
#nonfiction #books📚
Nuclear War, by Annie Jacobsen & Into the Clear Blue Sky, by Rob Jackson. Both published by @penguinukbooks.bsky.social.
Links to the reviews below. Enjoy! 🧵
#nonfiction #books📚
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Historian of medicine, Helen King, tells the story of women’s bodies using four body parts. She draws on a lifetime of research on the subject & its implications for women. The result is a remarkably rich scientific & cultural survey. @profilebooks.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
This month’s best paperbacks: Hanif Kureishi, Alexei Navalny and more
Looking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some brilliant new paperbacks, from moving memoirs to sequels of beloved novels
www.theguardian.com
June 11, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Historian of medicine, Helen King, tells the story of women’s bodies using four body parts. She draws on a lifetime of research on the subject & its implications for women. The result is a remarkably rich scientific & cultural survey. @profilebooks.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
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Just back from a visit to Paris, which is as beautiful and as good for the soul as ever. I’ve posted a few photographic impressions of its streets, buildings, art, people and parks on my Flickr page
www.flickr.com/photos/pdsmi...
www.flickr.com/photos/pdsmi...
June 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Just back from a visit to Paris, which is as beautiful and as good for the soul as ever. I’ve posted a few photographic impressions of its streets, buildings, art, people and parks on my Flickr page
www.flickr.com/photos/pdsmi...
www.flickr.com/photos/pdsmi...
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Here are my two Guardian paperback picks for June!
Goodbye Globalization, by Elizabeth Braw & Immaculate Forms, by Helen King.
Links to the reviews below. Enjoy! 🧵
#nonfiction #books📚
Goodbye Globalization, by Elizabeth Braw & Immaculate Forms, by Helen King.
Links to the reviews below. Enjoy! 🧵
#nonfiction #books📚
June 11, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Here are my two Guardian paperback picks for June!
Goodbye Globalization, by Elizabeth Braw & Immaculate Forms, by Helen King.
Links to the reviews below. Enjoy! 🧵
#nonfiction #books📚
Goodbye Globalization, by Elizabeth Braw & Immaculate Forms, by Helen King.
Links to the reviews below. Enjoy! 🧵
#nonfiction #books📚
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Delighted to see Goodbye Globalization (now out in paperback) featured as one of @theguardian.com's paperback recommendations this month!
And what an insightful review by @pdsmith.bsky.social.
And what an insightful review by @pdsmith.bsky.social.
Braw’s timely study charts the rise of globalisation from the optimism of the late 1980s to the current realism. A pacy & human story, it weaves economics and history into a compelling geopolitical narrative of the last three decades. @yalebooks.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
This month’s best paperbacks: Hanif Kureishi, Alexei Navalny and more
Looking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some brilliant new paperbacks, from moving memoirs to sequels of beloved novels
www.theguardian.com
June 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Delighted to see Goodbye Globalization (now out in paperback) featured as one of @theguardian.com's paperback recommendations this month!
And what an insightful review by @pdsmith.bsky.social.
And what an insightful review by @pdsmith.bsky.social.
Here are my two Guardian paperback picks for June!
Goodbye Globalization, by Elizabeth Braw & Immaculate Forms, by Helen King.
Links to the reviews below. Enjoy! 🧵
#nonfiction #books📚
Goodbye Globalization, by Elizabeth Braw & Immaculate Forms, by Helen King.
Links to the reviews below. Enjoy! 🧵
#nonfiction #books📚
June 11, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Here are my two Guardian paperback picks for June!
Goodbye Globalization, by Elizabeth Braw & Immaculate Forms, by Helen King.
Links to the reviews below. Enjoy! 🧵
#nonfiction #books📚
Goodbye Globalization, by Elizabeth Braw & Immaculate Forms, by Helen King.
Links to the reviews below. Enjoy! 🧵
#nonfiction #books📚
Just back from a visit to Paris, which is as beautiful and as good for the soul as ever. I’ve posted a few photographic impressions of its streets, buildings, art, people and parks on my Flickr page
www.flickr.com/photos/pdsmi...
www.flickr.com/photos/pdsmi...
June 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Just back from a visit to Paris, which is as beautiful and as good for the soul as ever. I’ve posted a few photographic impressions of its streets, buildings, art, people and parks on my Flickr page
www.flickr.com/photos/pdsmi...
www.flickr.com/photos/pdsmi...
The Golden Sun. Shop sign from 18th-century Paris, in the Carnavalet Museum
June 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The Golden Sun. Shop sign from 18th-century Paris, in the Carnavalet Museum
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The king is dead.
His The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris from 2001 is a nice little volume about rambling around that city.
www.theguardian.com/books/2015/f...
His The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris from 2001 is a nice little volume about rambling around that city.
www.theguardian.com/books/2015/f...
June 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The king is dead.
His The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris from 2001 is a nice little volume about rambling around that city.
www.theguardian.com/books/2015/f...
His The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris from 2001 is a nice little volume about rambling around that city.
www.theguardian.com/books/2015/f...
People-watching in the Orangerie Museum, Paris, the other day…
June 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
People-watching in the Orangerie Museum, Paris, the other day…
Notre-Dame today. Busy but beautiful…
June 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Notre-Dame today. Busy but beautiful…