This just arrived!! Squirrel the sheep (see my profile) my ❤️. Check out www.caenhillcc.org.uk and @caenhillcc.bsky.social
Sue Wright
@suewright.bsky.social
Family, animals, books, swimming, goddesses, genealogy.
Are you in Cornwall next week? I am! I’ll be at Waterstones Truro on the night of Monday the 10th discussing Story of a Murder. Please come along!
After a great day with grandsons Freddie & Jack at Margam Country Park. I had a great welcome back from Squirrel and farmily
I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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This book is absolutely miraculous. Delighted to say we have an event at Foyles on the 13th August with @amykey.bsky.social @regretteruane.bsky.social Alice Vincent and Megan Hunter- also 🤞🏼, we shall be recieving a phone call from Joan Barfoot during the event! www.foyles.co.uk/events/unear...
Unearthing a Classic: The Rediscovery of Gaining Ground
Alice Vincent, Amy Key, Megan Hunter and Rose Ruane explore the rediscovery of 'Gaining Ground' half a century after its initial release
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The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.Gaining Ground by Joan Barfoot review – Anne Enright celebrates a landmark feminist novel
Throwback to this chat about Penelope, ‘The Odyssey’s Perfect Wife’ with the Classical Wisdom Weekly podcast… m.youtube.com/watch?v=1SAQ...
Penelope and The Odyssey - With Natalie Haynes
YouTube video by Classical Wisdom
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We’re raising money for the Friends of Greece and Rome! That’s you lot, right…? Come along for a special evening at the British Museum this Monday! 🏛️🎤 www.britishmuseum.org/events/eveni...
An evening with Natalie Haynes
Join bestselling writer and broadcaster Natalie Haynes as she reads from her most recent book, 'No Friend to This House'.
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Samantha, I really hope you enjoy it! Let me know who you’d play in the movie… and Zendaya, if you’d like a copy too, just let me know where to send it! Thanks for the thoughtful choice, Jack ❤️🐍 youtube.com/shorts/dz2gQ...
I bought books for Zendaya and Samantha Morton
YouTube video by Jack Edwards
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Live anywhere near Mansfield? Make sure you visit Mansfield Museum from this Saturday. That’s the opening of my exhibition: The Wonderful World of the Ladybird artists. Sneak preview today. It’s looking grand ☺️ Free entry
Is anyone else hankering for a new novel by #KatherineHeiny ? I need some of her characters
A WEEK TODAY! ⏰ Series 12 of Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics! Ep 1 is The Science of Alexandria, with two brilliantly scholarly & brilliantly funny guests: professors Islam Issa & Adam Rutherford. BBC Radio 4, 9am, Thurs 30th July. Subscribe on BBC Sounds: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
This will be fab. Wish I could go. The rock star goddess 🤩 on home ground!
Natalie Haynes@nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 2w agoStalls sold out - balcony seating now available! Tomorrow night at The Old Rep in Birmingham! I’ll be talking about My Life in Books, Sathnam Sanghera will look at George Michael’s cultural legacy, and there’ll be poetry from Vignesh Venkataramaiah. www.hayfestival.com/p-25644-hay-...
Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social Stands Up for the Classics: Odysseus: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... And for Penelope's version of the events: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics, Series 8, Homer: The Odyssey
Natalie retells Homer's epic story of homecoming, adventure and passion.
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Coronation Street - written by Susan Pleat (19th July 1972). Minnie is upset to learn that Ena has barred her from placing a bet.
We need a national quiet day where everyone just shuts up for 24 hours
Excited for this in the autumn! A musical treat… (Don’t worry I won’t be singing) www.brittensinfonia.com/events/britt...
Ancient Greek Meze with mezzo Helen Charlston and stand-up classicist Natalie Haynes - Britten Sinfonia
Music from three centuries inspired by ancient Greek mythology, interspersed with brilliantly insightful and witty commentary from the acclaimed classicist, author, broadcaster and “reformed comedian”...
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“Many and misty are people's notions of the East End and each is but the distorted shadow of a minor feature”: novelist Arthur Morrison, 1891. Explore the shadows with me on my 2-hour ‘East End in Fact & Fiction’ talk, Monday 10am, Mary Ward Centre, Stratford www.marywardcentre.ac.uk/course-detai...
TUES 21 JULY, 7.30PM On my 2-hour evening walk ‘The Black Death and the Bodysnatchers: From St Paul's Cathedral to Charterhouse Priory’ we'll stop off at locations to consider two very dark periods of history. Meet in front of St Paul’s at 7.30pm. No need to book. £20 on the day
What great timing! Fans of I, Claudius definitely want to tune in to the new series of Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics, Thursdays at 9am from 30th July… 👀 #IfYouKnowYouKnow
Tom Pullin@tom-pullin.bsky.social · 3w agoDon't touch the figs... I, Claudius is being repeated on BBC Four from Weds 29 July.
It’s nearly breakfast time with donkey George, time to wake up
I'm apparently... inews.co.uk/opinion/boom... ...arguing with Julie Burchill... inews.co.uk/opinion/boom... ...in the iPaper today.
Kate explains why we have kittens, as with most of our animals there is a story
Great to get featured on German RTL TV. More to come. Well done team Kara, Casey, Caroline Le Bourgeois & Lorna Carroll @carolineartist.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DaxrtSR...
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This coming Sunday I’ll be talking about Charles Booth’s Poverty Maps (1889-1903) as part of Stanfords’ ‘Mapping Lost London’ mini-festival, at the Guinness Vaults, Mercer St, Covent Garden. 3pm, £12.50. (Should be cool) Tickets: londonmonthofthedead.com/tickets.html
Penelope: weaponised by men as the gold standard for wives since BCE. I hopped inside her marriage to Odysseus in a series of letters in my Women’s Prize shortlisted book, A Thousand Ships (2019). Here’s just the beginning… #TheOdyssey #AThousandShips #Penelope
Can’t tell you how excited many Canadians were about the result of the Belgium v US match 🤷♀️
