Novelist & biographer (Bruce Chatwin, Ian Fleming), Tasmaniac, latent fisherman & retriever lover, married to an Icelandic-Canadian, two tall sons.
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Finished copy of my new novel has arrived. Pub date 14 May. I began it in 2019 but was interrupted by Ian Fleming, since when events in the US have come to mimic the plot.
Why I write - further thoughts on AI and writing harryeyres.wordpress.com/202…
I remember the plunge in my chest when I arrived back with Sebastian Faulks (with whom I’d had lunch) at the London Daily News - and being told by a reporter: “You’ve been locked out, mate.” Maxwell had sacked the entire staff.
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"Everything we love is on the line" in the US election. I argue that President Trump has systematically undone the strategy that since the 19th century has made the US the world's leading country. He has eroded our sources of greatness.
So what's at stake isn't just affordability or data centers or the Iran war. It's America's future: nytimes.com/2026/10/24/opini…
Reading Dudley Carew’s Lancing diary on his best friend Evelyn Waugh at 17. (DC later married my grandmother). Great lines from EW (“who has discovered he is an agnostic”): “Religion and emotion help you to concentrate - that’s their value.”
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I covered the first intifada with @SarahHelm1 , the last time the IDF shooting Palestinians kids made the headlines. We witnessed brutality & injustice we will never forget
"How a U.K. Official’s Wife Set Off a Debate Over Free Speech and Palestinians" nytimes.com/2026/10/23/world…
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The writer’s self-inflicted martyrdom over Gaza pales beside the ayatollah’s 1989 fatwa and the violent threats to life thetimes.com/comment/columni…
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No one has written more brilliantly & courageously than Mark Danner who since 2016 has been tracking the T***p phenomenon closely. Brrrr!— what a cover for this book!
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Yet another ugly attack on yet another female reporter asking entirely legitimate questions. Second time this week. Lost count of number of times overall. Reporters need to defend their colleagues and then walk away. Trump yearns for the cameras. Take then away from him.
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My piece in the Big Issue about THE INDIGO HOURS: Writers Walk The Night @NottingHill Eds. How our nocturnal travels witness transformation – and always did..
“There is something otherworldly about night-walking. Something that makes you see the world differently.” Shane O’Mara.
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Germany's largest news magazine has a new title for Canadian PM @MarkJCarney
Der Spiegel cover calls Mark Carney "Der bessere Amerikaner," the better American, and the hope of the free world. 💯
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هذا كاتب جزائري يدعى حامد ياسين يجهش بالبكاء حزنا وألما، لأن لا أحد من القراء والمهتمين حضر توقيعه بعض كتبه..صورة مؤلمة جدا ...
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"America must reverse Trump’s moral squalor"
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A friend writes from Madagascar: "Last weekend two drunk Russian mercenaries driving a malagasy army vehicle collided with and killed a doctor and his family of 4 on their way to a wedding, with no official consequences...." 1/2
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We don't know this man, Doug Whitley, but he's definitely an American hero for writing this excellent letter-to-the-editor.
#ResistTrump
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I’m delighted to be doing this event on 13th November, telling the story of how Ukraine finally broke free of Russia’s baleful hold and how since 2014 it has been a willing to pay the highest price to keep its independence. Nearly sold out but do come! buytickets.at/foccal
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Extremely damning piece on Sally Rooney’s anti-free-speech crusade by George Packer theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
