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Mick Harper
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In: London
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One day we'll all be toast, as Dame Nellie Melba said.
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Mick Harper
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In: London
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Nice work if you can get it.
Translator Jennifer Croft joined Tokarczuck on the podium to accept a half share of the £50,000 Man Booker International Prize |
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Mick Harper
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In: London
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You can tell how hard a man works by the state of his mouse mat.
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Boreades
In: finity and beyond
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Wile E. Coyote wrote: | I was always confident that a new improved version of MH would arrive. |
I'm hoping for one too.
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Mick Harper
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In: London
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As a matter of fact it is arriving on 1st August. I cannot mention its name as it will be picked up by Google and I am waiting its first mention having sent out review copies. So far, so nil. And no, none of you is getting a free copy, you will just have to purchase it (from Amazon for £9.95) on the 1st of August. I will know if one of you does since that will make it c. the 23,000 best selling book on Amazon that day. Hence I will know if none of you does. And that will make me very cross indeed. All day.
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Mick Harper
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In: London
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I have just been out for a coffee with an old friend who had half an hour between engagements. After the usual pleasantries we settled down to geriatric one-upmanship. I said casually that Will Self had read one of my books. "I went to see the Stones at Twickenham," he replied. I sensed danger but blundered in anyway. "You and seventy-five thousand others." "My daughter is friends with the Jagger children so we went backstage."
I appeal to the panel: Will Self or Mick Jagger?
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Mick Harper
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In: London
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My last hero is gone.
@DrJaninaRamirez Jun 1
A heads up to anyone at or near @hayfestival ... I’ve signed copies of my new book & it’s available to buy a full MONTH before official release. If it’s good enough for Stewart Lee (who diligently queued up with his family to get a copy today!!! it’s good enough for you!! |
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Hatty
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In: Berkshire
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It's a children's book. Though adults are prone to use their children as a cover story. One person announced he was buying the book on the basis of the author's tweets on England v Columbia.
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Mick Harper
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In: London
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No, I'm sorry. The thought of Stuart Lee lining up was just too much. He's royalty.
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Mick Harper
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In: London
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Guardian's Crime of the Week
The person preparing the script for the forthcoming BBC version of Jane Austen's unfinished novel Sanditon is ... a man.
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Mick Harper
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In: London
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As an experiment, during the heatwave, I am at my desk stripped to the waist. I have immediately started writing like Ernest Hemingway!
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Mick Harper
Site Admin
In: London
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So that's out. I can't help noticing that the media has got very excited about how the heatwave is affecting the whole of the northern hemisphere and is so unprecedented it must be global warming. Call me old fashioned but if it is, we really ought to have had at least twenty such unprecedented events by now. But I don't recall any. But I do recall that we have had the longest run of lousy summers in this man's man's memory.
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Mick Harper
Site Admin
In: London
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This is not to be taken as evidence of my personal hostility to the reality of global warming.
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Mick Harper
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In: London
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This is not to be taken as evidence of my personal support for the reality of global warming.
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Mick Harper
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In: London
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Salford Uni's Dr Dan Lomas writes in this month's History Today on Britain, Iran and the not-so-secret 1953 coup (unless you live in the UK). Cheers to Kate Wiles, and go and buy this top mag full of fascinating pieces. |
This features in The Unreliable History which was sent to Kate in the hope of getting another Twitterstorm. She hasn't obliged, perhaps this is why. My version was insufficiently revisionist possibly. Insufficiently important probably. Sob. I'm so minor.
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