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PUBLICATION DAY!
I am delighted to announce that Gothic Precarity: Fear and Anxiety in Twenty-First-Century Fiction is published today!
Writing this book has been a journey into the shadows—into the ways fear and uncertainty shape our culture, our literature, and our sense of ourselves in the twenty-first century.
The Gothic has always been a literature of unease, but today it feels especially urgent. From climate crisis to political instability, we live in precarious times, and fiction often gives voice to those anxieties when we struggle to name them ourselves. My hope is that this book shows how contemporary writers continue to deploy the Gothic mode to capture the fragility, dread, and resilience of our moment.
This project wouldn’t exist without the support of friends, colleagues, and mentors who encouraged me when the task felt overwhelming, and of course without the writers whose work I’ve had the privilege of exploring.
So today isn’t just about a book—it’s about conversation, community, and the stories we tell to make sense of our fears. I hope this work is well received and that it adds to a much needed debate.
#Gothic #precarity #neoliberalism #fear @UniWalesPress
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I am delighted to announce that Gothic Precarity: Fear and Anxiety in Twenty-First-Century Fiction is published today!
Writing this book has been a journey into the shadows—into the ways fear and uncertainty shape our culture, our literature, and our sense of ourselves in the twenty-first century.
The Gothic has always been a literature of unease, but today it feels especially urgent. From climate crisis to political instability, we live in precarious times, and fiction often gives voice to those anxieties when we struggle to name them ourselves. My hope is that this book shows how contemporary writers continue to deploy the Gothic mode to capture the fragility, dread, and resilience of our moment.
This project wouldn’t exist without the support of friends, colleagues, and mentors who encouraged me when the task felt overwhelming, and of course without the writers whose work I’ve had the privilege of exploring.
So today isn’t just about a book—it’s about conversation, community, and the stories we tell to make sense of our fears. I hope this work is well received and that it adds to a much needed debate.
#Gothic #precarity #neoliberalism #fear @UniWalesPress
uwp.co.uk/book/gothic-pr…
amzn.eu/d/diwAjG1
waterstones.com/book/gothic-pr…
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Patrick Stewart was, like many of the greatest British artists of the 20th Century, a working class boy who became a world-class artist thanks to a public arts education made possible by Post War social democracy. He never forgot it.
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Travelled through 30 years to interview Patrick Stewart four times. He was born in a lost world in which a working class boy from a mining village could join one of many am dram clubs &win a scholarship to drama school with backing from his council. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
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Dad's Army - Getting The Bird (27th October 1972). A moment of Croft/Perry pathos.
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Love this! What a great event it was ❤️
Well the sharpie pens have been packed away for now and the preorder autographs have all been sent following Arcadia 2026.
With thanks to the lovely Ryan Croughan lets revisit some of the highlights.
Thanks to all of those who made the day such a wonderful day.
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Doctor Who Weekly - Fantastic First Issue (cover date 17th October 1979)
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An open letter from @KadiatuKM about the closure of the Departmemt of Music at Nottingham University, whose professors taught two of the Kanneh-Mason children.
Please read and sign the @_CFTA petition campaignforthearts.org/news/kadiatu-k…
Please read and sign the @_CFTA petition campaignforthearts.org/news/kadiatu-k…
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Very moved by this @arcolatheatre drama of Hannah Arendt’s internment at Camp Gurs during WW2; and just as much by an unexpected invitation to join the cast for Kiddush and challah in the bar afterwards. arcolatheatre.com/event/the-bana…
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"I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas With A Dalek"
Shall we have one more event this year?
How about December?
Who or what could this be?
Find out tomorrow at 7pm uk time!
Shall we have one more event this year?
How about December?
Who or what could this be?
Find out tomorrow at 7pm uk time!
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Some clips from today’s episode; full of nonsense, ramblings and waffle. Books, biscuits, the reading crisis and the Year Of Reading. What could go wrong?
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Happy Rainy Friday! Join us @BBCRadio3 for Spitfire Prelude & Fugue to start, Vaughan Williams’ Sea 🌊 Symphony. Francaix’s Ode to Gastronomy is in the Playlister & Friday Groove features some 1974 Coke Porter. Join us! Don’t forget your ☂️
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The Dark Sky Festival brings dancers, dreamers and stargazers to Cornwall’s coast…✨
But a killer is hiding in the crowd.
#TheMermaidsCry by @K_RhodesWriter is OUT NOW!🧜♀️💜
ORDER NOW!
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But a killer is hiding in the crowd.
#TheMermaidsCry by @K_RhodesWriter is OUT NOW!🧜♀️💜
ORDER NOW!
🔗geni.us/HEy6X
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And… The Last Death of the Year paperback tour - coming to a library or theatre near you!!
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Part Six (15th October 1979).
"Toby Esterhase masquerades as a Circus traitor in order to keep Polyakov in business. My hat Toby, a dangerous job like that deserves a whole chestful of medals".
"Toby Esterhase masquerades as a Circus traitor in order to keep Polyakov in business. My hat Toby, a dangerous job like that deserves a whole chestful of medals".
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We congratulate Anne Carson, winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. Carson is a contributing editor at Granta and a regular writer for the magazine. In celebration, we have lifted the paywall on all her contributions to our pages.
granta.com/contributor/an…
granta.com/contributor/an…
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Exciting news!!!
My new novel, WE ARE THE DEAD, is out in April 2027. The first beheading in the Tower of London in nearly three hundred years...
Available to preorder now!
My new novel, WE ARE THE DEAD, is out in April 2027. The first beheading in the Tower of London in nearly three hundred years...
Available to preorder now!
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Smiley's People (4th October 1982). Alec Guinness and Beryl Reid both won BAFTAs for their performances in Smiley's People.
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Watch Ian Richardson’s Bill Haydon. While Michael Aldridge seethes, and Terence Rigby coughs, and Michael Jayston plays, Ian Richardson rises above it all with bored disdain. I could watch this scene over and over again.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Part Four (1st October 1979).
"I pay you honest money and you stab me in the back. I consider that extremely poor reward for keeping you alive - against the entreaties of my advisors, I may tell you."
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