It’s happening. Directed by Garth Davis who made an amazing film called Lion. Script by the supremely talented Nick Payne and Laura Wade. Blueprint Pictures and Studio Canal at the helm. The library is coming to life in 2027. More info at Deadline.
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MORE TOUR DATES ADDED
EUROPE and NORTH AMERICA tour dates for May and June 2026: GERMANY UK AMERICA CANADA
LISTEN TO AN EXCERPT OF JAMES NORTON READING THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN
THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN IS OUT IN AMERICA ON 26TH MAY 2026
Here’s the beautiful American cover. Pre-order links and tour dates are here.
THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN IS COMING!
A magical, time-travelling love story, from the world of The Midnight Library is out on 26th May 2026. When your life flashes before your eyes, where would you stop?No one can change the past, but the Midnight Train can take you there.The chance to re-live the moments that meant most.To […]
I had the absolute privilege of a lifetime being invited onto Desert Island Discs. But narrowing a life down to eight pieces of music is my NIGHTMARE. I missed out so many. I needed it to be 800 tracks. All I can tell you is that if I’d have had 4 more there would have been Hounds of Love by Kate Bush and Landslide by Fleetwood Mac and Swim Good by Frank Ocean and Coles Corner by Richard Hawley. But I went for the most specific to me and my childhood and adulthood.
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2 days ago
Met so many wonderful people in Romania! Land of forests, mountains, castles, folk tales, philosophers, bodybuilders, vampires, kindness, cakes and super passionate readers. Thanks to @nod_festival for inviting me.
3 days ago
Desert Island Discs out now chatting to Lauren about my eight tracks.
4 days ago
Depression tried to grab my ankles this week but I said fuck you mate I don’t care you have tried it too many times you said I would be dead at 25 and I am double that and I have a book to write and it is going to be the best I have ever written and then I went for a walk in the low glowing sun on this beautiful planet and I told depression I am rock hard and ocean soft I can breathe underwater and can survive hell by sitting there on a stone because you taught me how so walk alongside me I don’t care just walk you are the one that made me strong thanks for that you made the light brighter through your contrast keep going come at me I love you I love you truly and deeply and so I smashed the glass in the old contorted bell jar and the world derealised and realised again and I broke free and saw clearly
1 week ago
Dickens wrote literary masterpieces that were also sentimental potboilers published weekly in magazines. Shakespeare wrote existential romantasy. The Brontës wrote psychologically groundbreaking Dark Romance. Now we have a total class system of books, which is useful in an overcrowded bookshop, but not useful from a creativity point of view. And is often vertically ordered rather than horizontally equal. Seen so much snobbery around emerging genres recently. Snobbery is narrow minded. Especially at a fragile time when so many demographics are feeling books aren’t for them. Everyone is a reader and everything is a book. Let it all in. I never knew my class because my mum was adopted and my dad was posh and my town was working class and I think that has helped me feel like I never fit in. So that, in turn, helps me write like I don’t belong. And that is what books are for. To give our minds a home. Let that home be as wide and welcoming as possible.
2 weeks ago
THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY
