It reached you! I'm very glad. It comes with thanks for Sarantium,
Al-Rassan and everything since.
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It reached you! I'm very glad. It comes with thanks for Sarantium,
Al-Rassan and everything since.
Authors don't write headings!
Gorgeous!
Tealin is not me but the excellent Sarah Airriess, author of the comic book adaptation of The Worst Journey in the World, who has a quote from me in her bio.
Loved it too.
Apart from 1945, 1950, 1964, 1966, 1974, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2023.
Yep, this is me. Not on here very much, though.
... which those who are pinched from have done plenty of themselves. Proud to be found pinch-worthy.
Trout with almonds and herbs. Bakewell tart. And on and on and on. But you can't really exclude the ethnic cuisines or the fusion dishes that are such a large part of English cooking now.
Poached salmon with new potatoes. Veal and ham pie. Watercress soup. Pea and ham soup. Oysters. Steamed samphire. Fresh asparagus with melted butter. Sprouts and chestnuts. Roast pork with crackling. Baked apples. All the cheeses, all the eating apples, all the Herefordshire ciders.
Noted.
You know what you should read in February? NONESUCH by Francis Spufford. I got my mittens on an advance copy, and a more engaging, clever, entertaining, touching, sexy and downright divine book you never did see.
Give yourself a treat, you won't regret it.
www.amazon.co.uk/Nonesuch-end...
You have entered a Constable painting.
Herman Diaz's Trust, James Buchan's William Neilson series, and (cough) my forthcoming Nonesuch (Feb 2026 or March 2026 for the Scribner edition). Cough.
I will feel no surprise whatsoever if Trump or Vance turn up in front of a billboard saying "Don't worry, don't wonder".
It's Sarah Mulally, not Guli, but still very good news. (And we get to keep Guli in Chelmsford.)
No! No! She's my bishop, and I don't want to lose her. (The greater good, you say? Never heard of it.)
'An ancient system is awakening in the stones of London…'
Introducing Nonesuch the most magical Francis Spufford novel yet.
💫 Get ready for the historical fantasy of 2026. Coming in February 💫
A pleasure to give alt-hist pleasure where alt-hist pleasure was received: I loved the multiple worlds of Promised Land, and of course Hitler as horrible private eye.
Looking forward to this very much - but is there an ETA for "Judge of Worlds"? Holding my breath to see the last piece of Kithamar's narrative Swiss watch fitted into place.
Humour present and correct.
I have indeed already loved them - but I've still pre-ordered them, because I need to own them on paper, and have the three spines spell AUD on my bookshelves.
If you count alternative history as science fiction, then my Cahokia Jazz might work for you. Only set in 1922, though: canneries and streetcars instead of a spaceport.
A trilogy was called for, obviously!
And an enormous eeeeeeeeeee!! from me too.
@daralind.bsky.social [cough] "Nonesuch", March 2026, US; Feb 2026, UK.
Happy birthday!
If only it were also available in contagiously readable, expanded form as a book!
Ah, I knew him when he was young in London. Cricket was his game then - batting with a copy of a John Updike novel in his other hand...
The taffeta and pom-pom producers of the British Isles will miss them.
