I don't have many followers here, but...any suggestions for who could repair the mechanism on this beautiful old pinball machine? It belonged to my godfather, who recently died, and it brought joy to so many children (inc. me), and we want to repair it as a tribute to him. It is in SE London. 🙏

@medhistoryman.bsky.social saw this and thought of your excellent-sounding project. Intrigued to know if the link between tobacco and palm reading was widely made.

At book events for BAD FRIEND, the cutest thing keeps happening. Pairs of women friends come up and buy a copy of the book to share and ask me to dedicate it to them both, and my heart is melting @faberbooks.bsky.social @smallcitybookshop.bsky.social 💓

And I'm even more happy because my brother just sent me this snap of BAD FRIEND as Pick of the Week in @theweek.com Thank you so much to all the wonderful historians and writers who gave it such generous recommendations and reviews, and to all of you who are buying it #friendship #theweek 😘

This Thursday I'll be talking about BAD FRIEND at the wonderful @smallcitybookshop.bsky.social in Bristol. I'm so excited because Bristol is one of my top-of-the-pops utter favourite cities in the UK. Please come and say hello. www.thesmallcitybookshop.co.uk/event-detail...

Been an exciting week for BAD FRIEND, since it was published last week in the UK

I'm doing an event tomorrow night at The Wanstead Tap E7, and have a handful of free tickets. If you'd like to come, DM me! Tiff x
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When crime strikes, the Cat signal will appear in the sky

'So many writers with fixes for the grips we need to get. No. Neither bother with reading like that. Both, by osmosis, staying well out of it, favouring wild worlds instead'. Eimear McBride on very cool form in her new book.

Very excited to be included in this month's books round-up in VOGUE, along with the brilliant @francesryan.bsky.social

These final weeks before publication are the strangest times of being an author. Part of you wants to protect the book you’ve been quietly loving into being for so long. And then there’s the part which knows you have to take a deep breath and hoof it out the door

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Husband and I are clearing out books (downsizing house move). We've put it off and put it off...it's so painful letting go of even the tiniest scraps of the history of our lives as readers and writers. But there are some moments of joy, like finding this

I'm in the bizarro land of making an index for my new book 'Bad Friend'. And it reminded me of one of my proudest writing accomplishments: the index for my book 'Schadenfreude'

Are they....shackles? #barbie

For all you out there still doing your Christmas shopping, this one's for you open.substack.com/pub/thefutur...

My friend gave me this for my birthday and I definitely exaggerated my scratchy throat into the flu so I could stay in bed and finish reading it. LOVED it!

Danced among the dinosaurs, at the Oxford Natural History Museum tonight

Need cheering up? I give you: home video of Tove Jansson from the Moomin Museum in Tampere, Finland #beautifulwierdos