Roland Allen, author of 'The Notebook: a History'
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Roland Allen, author of 'The Notebook: a History'
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山人. 'The Notebook: a History of Thinking on Paper' is available everywhere. 'Book of the Year' pick by Waterstones, New Yorker, New Statesman, Spectator, Toronto Globe, Engelsberg Ideas, Lit Hub, Austin Kleon, Ryan Holiday, Stephen L. Carter...
Nice! Although.
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
In this instance I get the surname (esp as in East London you'd often not pronounce the /h/)but why not Matthew...?
November 8, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Fascinating!
November 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Thoughts and prayers!
November 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I would love to have pitched it "it's the Young Ones set in the world of Spooks"
November 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Mmmm, although her husband was a bit of a villain! The company behaved very badly...
November 3, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Because it's dialled down the helicopters and the Big Conspiracy Finishes and dialled up the 'flawed-characters-trapped-in-small-spaces-being-horrible-to-one-another' which is the good part.
November 2, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Should be wonderful! Irving's a brilliant speaker. Although good luck trying to moderate him...
October 30, 2025 at 10:22 AM
And blame Channel 4 circa 2000 for everyone suddenly using the word 'property' when previously they'd said 'house' or 'home'. A different mindset...
October 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
No but there should be... Digiperception? Digicognition?
October 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Completely! If a writer is blocked, it's because they aren't interested in what they have to say. Fine - don't write it, no great loss. There's too much great writing out there already from people who don't need token-occurrence-probability-calculators.
October 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Love that last sentence. Words to live by.
October 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Argh, AI slop art... 😥
October 20, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Ahhh!
October 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM