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Your resident bookcase analyst. On Substack: https://nitter.cf/t.co/Whq4G3X9Qw On Spotify: https://nitter.cf/t.co/WHTox59x8F On Apple: https://nitter.cf/t.co/DJZe8i3Ymq

Joined March 2024
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He's the co-founder of the @PilgrimTrust, one half of @boundercad and director @choralevensong. Now he's on #ShelfLife. @drguyhayward talks the books that inspire his walking including God Is An Octopus by @BenGoldsmith podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
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She has more than half a million followers on Instagram and a NYT bestseller to her name. This Shelf Life with Anna Kloots is an ode to how books can change your life! Listen here: tinyurl.com/y8syh6ph
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The #ShelfLife podcast analyses the bookshelves of people I find interesting. This podcast is about the reader... and when did reading matter most? When you were on the cusp of growing up. Next up, my 12-yr-old nephew Ewen - discussing @PhilipPullman podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
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I'm proud to be a judge on the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. Here is our shortlist: thetimes.com/article/0f53b45…
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Who says boys don't read? Here is 12-year-old Ewen, Shelf Lifer #6 and a reader in his glorious heyday, talking us through his books on Shelf Life: On Apple: tinyurl.com/497a35c8 On Spotify: tinyurl.com/26hvy4c9 On @Substack (why not?): tinyurl.com/nar6wpbu
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Our inaugural Shelf Life guest @tomowolade 🤎 who's always "in cahoots with common sense" - read his latest clever incisive column in the Times:
"The most successful movements for social justice operate by appealing to our basic moral and practical intuitions. They start from a place of understanding, not condescension." @tomowolade thetimes.com/article/6b2d35a…
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Next up for bookcase analysis: @andrew_mueller, the reporter and raconteur, comes on #ShelfLife Listen on Apple: tinyurl.com/2rub33rx Spotify: tinyurl.com/2s47bdz3 Or subscribe via Substack: tinyurl.com/34bpcy9a
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Subscribe and follow #ShelfLife on: Substack: shelflifeanalyst.substack.co… Spotify : shorturl.at/dhkBYOn Apple: shorturl.at/lyLMX to get the next episode in your inbox. Here's a stirring clip of foreign correspondent and rock critic @andrew_mueller who's up next
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Wishing a very happy publication day to @thenickbowling and his brilliant novel, The Garden 🥀 A luminous, spellbinding tale with an otherworldly twist, perfect for fans of Piranesi by Susanna Clarke and Claire Fuller's Unsettled Ground Out now 📚
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This is very good. On how easy it is for commentators to become cranks because they get addicted to hits and likes
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Poet @DemiAnter and novelist #PipFinkemeyer pick out their favourite books on their shelves that turn real life into art... And tell us how fact and fiction intermingle in their own work - exes beware. Apple: tinyurl.com/2k6f8pnu Spotify: tinyurl.com/4x2bpzwr
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Can't wait till Curtis Sittenfeld does Jill Biden 🤞
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Shelf Life will accept sponsorship from Baillie Gifford. Please DM.
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"You've got quite a lot of things about dead people on your shelf." The bookcase analyst visits @thenickbowling Listen to our #ShelfLife session: tinyurl.com/ycrjvja3 (Apple) tinyurl.com/428z7zzf (Spotify) @chickenhsebooks
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LISTEN. @_shelflife is a really fun and genuinely illuminating podcast. I’m on it this week. Tune in to hear me talk about dead people, Cormac McCarthy and primary school autofiction. At one point I shout the word “GILT” very loudly, really sorry about that.
On Shelf Life this week, author @thenickbowling talks Shirley Jackson, JRR Tolkien and Cormac McCarthy Listen: tinyurl.com/ycrjvja3 (on Apple) tinyurl.com/428z7zzf (on Spotify)
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