@RobbieTimes

Literary Editor of The Times/Sunday Times. Judge @BGPrize https://xitter.cf/t.co/dXVbjAx9EH

Joined May 2012
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"Stunningly well researched. Mayhem, murk and cynicism inhabit every page." Fantastic to see this review in @thetimes today for @KimGhattas's new book THE BEST KIND OF AMERICAN. Out now. bit.ly/4siPu8K

How Beirut became a playground for spooks and terrorists

The Best Kind of American by the journalist Kim Ghattas is a savage account of kidnappings, massacres, assassinations and serial US policy blunders

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James Riding@jamesriding10Oct 23
Good to see some robust discussion in the comments of my latest book review for @thetimes about the risks of writing about unspeakable tragedies. Hopefully the review itself makes clear that I am very much in favour of authors tackling these subjects! thetimes.com/culture/books/a…

Should novelists write about tragedies they haven’t experienced?

In The Child, Fernando Aramburu examines the 1980 Ortuella gas explosion in a primary school that killed 50 children

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Honoured to have won Political Journalist of the Year — and my very own bust of Lord Salisbury — at the London Press Club Awards today. Congrats too to victorious colleagues @Gabriel_Pogrund and @larisamlbrown
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The author of Late in the Day talks about the creativity of motherhood, the decline of ‘bourgeois’ domestic fiction — and marrying her former teacher thetimes.com/culture/books/a…
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Ed West@edwestOct 18
Highly recommend people interested in France read Andrew Hussey
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In Fictional Selves, the star of Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet recalls his partnership with the great director, who was ‘like an eccentric older brother’ thetimes.com/culture/books/a…
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@ToniseniorOct 16
Exciting times! Stalin’s Apostles will be Book of the Week on Radio 4…. Starting on Monday @BBCRadio4 @DHAbooks @HodderNonFic @AspectsHistory @Times_Books
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Andrew Hankinson’s true crime book Felled explores the bizarre case of the two men jailed for cutting down the 150-year-old tree thetimes.com/culture/books/a…
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Pratinav Anil@pratinavanilOct 15
On the Hindenburg disaster - the sky’s Titanic - via Led Zeppelin and the Sopranos. My latest for @thetimes: thetimes.com/culture/books/a…

Inside the sky’s doomed Titanic — the Hindenburg disaster relived

Catherine Grace Katz’s Shadow Before the Flame is an expansive account of the last flight of the Zeppelin, an airship three times longer than a Boeing 747

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John Boyne
@JohnBoyneOct 14
I contributed to the DEAD, ALIVE AND UNDERRATED series in this weekend's @thetimes, where I reveal my favourite book by a dead writer, a living writer and the writer I think is most underrated. thetimes.com/culture/books/a…

John Boyne: ‘I love elegiac novels — frankly, the sadder the better’

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas author on LP Hartley’s great ‘tear-inducer’ and the Greek-Australian novel he wishes he had written

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The Undersea War by Elisabeth Braw reveals how China and Russia are sabotaging our deepsea cables – and how woefully unprepared we are to stop them thetimes.com/culture/books/a…
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Pratinav Anil@pratinavanilOct 10
Much enjoyed @dgjones’s rollicking history of castles from Troy to Disneyland, taking in (inter alia) Neuschwanstein and the supremely kitsch Strawberry Hill. My latest for @thetimes: thetimes.com/culture/books/a…
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In Great Powers, Jan Rüger shows how Britain and Germany once participated in a mutual cultural love-in — now both nations are united in being behind the times thetimes.com/culture/books/a…
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In his memoir One Helluva Ride the actor complains that he has been misrepresented as a womaniser … before detailing his many conquests thetimes.com/culture/books/a…
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'a rollicking gallop through five millennia of humankind’s efforts to wall societies in, taking in Bronze Age citadels... and even Disneyland' Great review of @dgjones' #Castles: A Fortified History of the World in @thetimes! Get your copy now @HoZ_Books thetimes.com/culture/books/a…
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A new biography, Holding Lightning by Emily Lordi, describes how the trailblazing pop star was brought down by drugs and troubled love thetimes.com/culture/books/a…
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William Cook@williamcooknewsOct 4
Thrilled to read this fab review of my "twisting, enjoyable debut thriller" #TheFifteenthMan in #TheSundayTimes @thetimes @ViperBooks 🇬🇧🇩🇪
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Tom Calver
@TomHCalverOct 4
For a while now I've been puzzled why Britain doesn't appear higher on international tax league tables. We know that Britain's income tax is predominantly paid by top earners, with the top 10% paying almost 60% of the bill. But is there more to it than that? 1/5
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The Man Who Was Private Widdle by Roger Lewis tells the tragicomic tale of Charles Hawtrey, who starred in 23 Carry On films and died in gin-soaked misery thetimes.com/culture/books/a…
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Yap! by Stephanie Howard-Smith tells the colourful story of lapdogs, from the chien who bit Napoleon in his marital bed, to Paris Hilton’s Insta-ready chihuahua thetimes.com/culture/books/a…
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