Simon Wroe spoke to Sara Cox about his new novel Ghost Month for the BBC Radio 2 Book Club - listen here 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Simon Wroe
@simonwroe.bsky.social
Writer of chefs, revolutionaries, and ghosts. GHOST MONTH out now in spectral forms (audio/ebook) & coming to the physical realm Aug 27. Order here: https://linktr.ee/ghostmonth
📣 OCTOBER EVENTS! 📣 Tues 6th Oct: Can’t Get You Out of My Head - In Search of Kylie with Michael Cragg (at Manchester Central Library) Tues 13th Oct: Ghost Month - Simon Wroe in conversation with Susan Barker Thurs 22nd Oct: The Christmas Carol Killer book launch with Chris Frost #BookSky 🎫👇🏻
Second day at Wigtown Book Fest! Feeling so lucky to be chatting with all these incredible people. The most moving event with @writercatherine.bsky.social, fascinating conversation on literary translation with Daniel Hahn & fabulous chat with @simonwroe.bsky.social about his new novel, Ghost Month.
Ghost Month by @simonwroe.bsky.social is a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick! Hear more about Simon's new novel from 55.45 here 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Jo Whiley - Radio 2 Book Club recommendations! - BBC Sounds
Jo chats to Joe Haddow from the Radio 2 Book Club about what you should be reading!
bbc.co.uk
'Perhaps you've already noticed little things, strange details. A shadow not attached to anything. A face in a window which might be a trick of the light. They come at dusk. Today.' Ghost Month by @simonwroe.bsky.social is out now in hardback, ebook and audio. linktr.ee/ghostmonth
'I wanted it to feel like a thriller, a satire of contemporary London life, while still having these gothic flourishes and something slightly otherworldly.' Simon Wroe discusses his new novel Ghost Month, publishing 27 August, with Cold Magazine 👇 thecoldmagazine.co.uk/simon-wroes-...
Why Simon Wroe’s Ghost Month is the ultimate modern London novel
Explore Simon Wroe's Ghost Month, where grief and memory intertwine with the return of spirits in contemporary London.
thecoldmagazine.co.uk
Extremely honoured that BBC Radio 2 have chosen Ghost Month for their book club #hotghoulsummer
Faber Books@faberbooks.bsky.social · 3mo agoGhost Month by Simon Wroe is a BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick this summer ✨ ‘Poignant, thought-provoking and very funny’ Joanna Cannon ️ ‘Darkly comic and deeply felt’ Grace Flahive Ghost Month is out in hardback on 27 August and you can read now in ebook and audio.
Amazing story about how Starbucks launched a "Tank" marketing campaign in South Korea on the anniversary of a massacre by the military.... including a slogan referencing the beating to death of a student. AI did it. Emails were signed off unread by managers www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
How a Starbucks marketing stunt spiralled into mass boycotts in South Korea
A botched tumbler promotion on the anniversary of a pro-democracy massacre unleashed a boycott, police investigation and political firestorm
theguardian.com
‘I wasn’t expecting that!’: Joel Meyerowitz and the art of surprise – in pictures
‘I wasn’t expecting that!’: Joel Meyerowitz and the art of surprise – in pictures
It could be the puff of steam from a manhole or a horse wandering into view – whatever the ‘moment’, the iconic US photographer has always had a camera in hand to capture it
theguardian.com
This strange story is well worth your time. Have a coffee and sit down with it www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
The Incredible Story of the Cartel Olympics
A Mexican athlete said he was kidnapped and forced to compete for his life in a tournament of gangs. But was he actually playing a different game?
theatlantic.com
THREAD: Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section.
Delighted to present the final cover for my novel GHOST MONTH, coming in May on audiobook and ebook, and out in August in this princely purple hardback 👀
Faber Books@faberbooks.bsky.social · 7mo agoGhost Month is coming. Some tips to prepare yourself for September 👇 www.faber.co.uk/journal/how-...
Proofs for my new novel, GHOST MONTH, are in and shimmering… Out with @faberbooks.bsky.social later this year!
I had to look up Lizardman's Constant: the 4% of people who will tell a pollster lizard people are taking over the world, ie the minimum answer you will get for even the most absurd question.
Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social · 9mo ago"Do you think it would be a good idea or a bad idea for the U.S. to use military force to take possession of Greenland from Denmark?" Good idea: 4% Bad idea: 71% (Ipsos) 4%. He did it. He finally hit Lizardman's Constant.
participants from Benin's Vodun Day Festival, celebrated every January 10th.
One Source of Bad Information, by Robert Bly (quoted in Wild Things: A Geography of Grief by Barbara Wansbrough)
Penniless and homeless, Raynor and Moth Winn found fame with their story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. The Salt Path became a global bestseller and was adapted into a major film. But we can reveal it wasn’t the whole truth. @chloehadj.bsky.social Read more:
The real Salt Path: how the couple behind a bestseller le...
Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal it was far from the truth
observer.co.uk
Wonderful read
Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat@rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 2y agoRIP Gene Hackman One of the best to ever do it. I thought I’d honour his very serious, smart & focused approach to the craft of acting by sharing this tremendously insightful interview with him about his process. A one of a kind. www.filmcomment.com/article/inte...
"The moral of Niemöller’s poem, then, isn’t really 'speak up even if you aren’t in danger.' It’s 'speak up, even when the Nazis threaten marginalized groups that you yourself despise.' Fascists do take advantage of indifference and apathy to some degree. But they also build on widespread prejudice."
Victor Ray@victorerikray.bsky.social · 2y agoThis is a fascinating, disturbing, and complicated piece from @nberlat.bsky.social. Martin Niemöller Was an Antisemite www.everythingishorrible.net/p/martin-nie...
Trump now worse than a global killer disease, not yet as bad as Hitler's tanks rolling into France and the Low Countries. More as we get it.
Joe Weisenthal@weisenthal.bsky.social · 2y ago11th worst three-day performance of all time.
In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
theatlantic.com
My mother wrote a lovely obit of David Lynch in this week’s Economist www.economist.com/obituary/202...
David Lynch mesmerised filmgoers with mystery, beauty and horror
America’s strangest and most surreal film-maker died on January 16th, aged 78
economist.com