New post: Jonathan Coe, Italo Calvino & Afghan women writers – cjschuler.substack.com/p/a-savage-s...
A Savage Satire
What a Carve Up!, by Jonathan Coe
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C.J. Schüler
@schulercj.bsky.social
Writer, editor, nature reserve volunteer, Herne Hillbilly. Author, The Wood That Built London, Along the Amber Route (shortlisted @StanfordsTravel Award 2021). Published @SandstonePress. Represented @CullandCoAgency
Stefan Zweig’s last, chilling novella – and notes from our kitchen table. cjschuler.substack.com/publish/post...
A Deadly Game
Stefan Zweig's last novella, 'Chess'
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A new book on urban nature reviewed, and the ancient fear – and allure – of wolves: cjschuler.substack.com/p/wild-about...
Grimm tales for grim times, and some grimly topical Weimar cabaret: cjschuler.substack.com/p/the-way-of...
The Way of the World
A Grimm moral for every occasion
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Check out my latest post on Substack: cjschuler.substack.com/p/snowbound
Snowbound
A chilly Britain on the cusp of change
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Notes in the Margin says goodbye to 2025 with an erudite, scathing and scatological rant against the inanities of modern life: cjschuler.substack.com/publish/post...
A Man Out of Time
Mark Bowles's brilliant rant against the inanities of the modern world
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'These days, the figures who have loomed large in our cultural lives seem to be disappearing one by one.' My tribute to the late Tom Stoppard: www.authorsclub.co.uk/tom-stoppard...
Tom Stoppard: A Tribute | The Authors’ Club Since 1891
On the last weekend of November, I was saddened to learn that the playwright Tom Stoppard had died, aged 88.
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Check out the latest Substack form Notes in the Margin: fungi, foxes and fearless love —https://cjschuler.substack.com/p/the-weird-and-wonderful-world-of
Check out my latest post on Notes in the Margin: Troilus and Cressida at Shakespeare’s Globe, an anniversary special offer, and more from our kitchen table: cjschuler.substack.com/p/lovers-at-...
Check out my latest post on Substack: a lost hero of the @AuthorsClub, and a portal to another Oxford - cjschuler.substack.com/p/a-lost-her...
A Lost Hero of the Authors' Club
The soldier, archaeologist and crime novelist Stanley Casson
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Latest Substack – back to the classics cjschuler.substack.com/p/thomas-har...
Thomas Hardy Revisited
New insights into old reads
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Victorian nature notes, the shifting baseline, and more…https://open.substack.com/pub/cjschuler/p/when-skylarks-sang-in-sydenham?r=3n9wg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Brilliant interview with Cath Harries @CMHarries, the photographer of Sheldrake's #DoorsOfLondon, on the ‘Country Life’ podcast. Do give it a listen.
Sheldrake Press@sheldrakepress.bsky.social · last yr.🔍SPOTLIGHT🔎 ‘The way people portray themselves is through their doors,’ says Cath Harries. In an interview with ‘Country Life’, the author of ‘Doors of London’ talks about her 15-year project to find and photograph London’s most extraordinary doors. Listen on bit.ly/DoorsPodcast VP #london
A free post on Sybille Bedford's 'A Legacy' and, for paid subscribers, some thoughts on anti-intellectualism in politics then and now: open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...
I wrote about Isherwood a few weeks ago, and he flits through the pages of another book I’ve read recently, Love in a Time of Hate… open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...
Sex and drugs and right-wing rule
Writers and artists in a collapsing world
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Once you first notice them, you start seeing them everywhere…https://open.substack.com/pub/cjschuler/p/its-not-what-it-looks-like?r=3n9wg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Thanks so much to The Authors' Club and @schulercj.bsky.social for inviting @househistorian.bsky.social and I along to The National Liberal Club last week to chat about 'Doors of London'!
Judging books by their covers? Try judging buildings by their doors! Follow @cathlondon.bsky.social, @househistorian.bsky.social and their editor @schulercj.bsky.social as they lead a virtual tour of hidden architectural gems. #authorsclub #thenationalliberalclub #architecture bit.ly/DoorTalk
Evening Talk on Doors - News from Sheldrake Press
An evening talk on doors was held at the historic Authors’ Club in London, presented by the editor and authors of ‘Doors of London’.
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49,000 signatures for banning driven grouse shooting - thank you for your strong support. Plz sign & share petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... Looking forward to 50,000 soon.
Petition: Ban driven grouse shooting
Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery (Wild Justice) believe that driven grouse shooting is bad for people, the environment and wildlife. People; we think grouse shooting is economically insignifi...
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Just received my PLR statement for 2023-4. Not a vast sum of money, but pleasing to know that Along the Amber Route was borrowed from public libraries 190 times that year. www.amazon.co.uk/Along-Amber-...
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