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THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN IS COMING!

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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 […]

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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Some terrible photos of an incredible trip to Spain. I love Spain. It is Spain for a reason. The food, the architecture, the people, the GIANT TOMATOES FROM SPACE, Madrid, Barcelona, Gaudi, Goya, the scent of jasmine and the sizzle of sofrito. I also got told I am funny ‘like Chandler Bing’. Five stars.
Some terrible photos of an incredible trip to Spain. I love Spain. It is Spain for a reason. The food, the architecture, the people, the GIANT TOMATOES FROM SPACE, Madrid, Barcelona, Gaudi, Goya, the scent of jasmine and the sizzle of sofrito. I also got told I am funny ‘like Chandler Bing’. Five stars.
Some terrible photos of an incredible trip to Spain. I love Spain. It is Spain for a reason. The food, the architecture, the people, the GIANT TOMATOES FROM SPACE, Madrid, Barcelona, Gaudi, Goya, the scent of jasmine and the sizzle of sofrito. I also got told I am funny ‘like Chandler Bing’. Five stars.
Some terrible photos of an incredible trip to Spain. I love Spain. It is Spain for a reason. The food, the architecture, the people, the GIANT TOMATOES FROM SPACE, Madrid, Barcelona, Gaudi, Goya, the scent of jasmine and the sizzle of sofrito. I also got told I am funny ‘like Chandler Bing’. Five stars.
Some terrible photos of an incredible trip to Spain. I love Spain. It is Spain for a reason. The food, the architecture, the people, the GIANT TOMATOES FROM SPACE, Madrid, Barcelona, Gaudi, Goya, the scent of jasmine and the sizzle of sofrito. I also got told I am funny ‘like Chandler Bing’. Five stars.
Some terrible photos of an incredible trip to Spain. I love Spain. It is Spain for a reason. The food, the architecture, the people, the GIANT TOMATOES FROM SPACE, Madrid, Barcelona, Gaudi, Goya, the scent of jasmine and the sizzle of sofrito. I also got told I am funny ‘like Chandler Bing’. Five stars.
Some terrible photos of an incredible trip to Spain. I love Spain. It is Spain for a reason. The food, the architecture, the people, the GIANT TOMATOES FROM SPACE, Madrid, Barcelona, Gaudi, Goya, the scent of jasmine and the sizzle of sofrito. I also got told I am funny ‘like Chandler Bing’. Five stars.
Some terrible photos of an incredible trip to Spain. I love Spain. It is Spain for a reason. The food, the architecture, the people, the GIANT TOMATOES FROM SPACE, Madrid, Barcelona, Gaudi, Goya, the scent of jasmine and the sizzle of sofrito. I also got told I am funny ‘like Chandler Bing’. Five stars.
Some terrible photos of an incredible trip to Spain. I love Spain. It is Spain for a reason. The food, the architecture, the people, the GIANT TOMATOES FROM SPACE, Madrid, Barcelona, Gaudi, Goya, the scent of jasmine and the sizzle of sofrito. I also got told I am funny ‘like Chandler Bing’. Five stars.
Some terrible photos of an incredible trip to Spain. I love Spain. It is Spain for a reason. The food, the architecture, the people, the GIANT TOMATOES FROM SPACE, Madrid, Barcelona, Gaudi, Goya, the scent of jasmine and the sizzle of sofrito. I also got told I am funny ‘like Chandler Bing’. Five stars.
Some terrible photos of an incredible trip to Spain. I love Spain. It is Spain for a reason. The food, the architecture, the people, the GIANT TOMATOES FROM SPACE, Madrid, Barcelona, Gaudi, Goya, the scent of jasmine and the sizzle of sofrito. I also got told I am funny ‘like Chandler Bing’. Five stars.
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Some terrible photos of an incredible trip to Spain. I love Spain. It is Spain for a reason. The food, the architecture, the people, the GIANT TOMATOES FROM SPACE, Madrid, Barcelona, Gaudi, Goya, the scent of jasmine and the sizzle of sofrito. I also got told I am funny ‘like Chandler Bing’. Five stars.
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Down with billionaire stadium owners crushing the ability of artists to speak about the things artists have always spoken about. And please, UK government, it is time to stop supplying fighter jet equipment made in Lancashire to the Israeli air force. My grandmother escaped the Holocaust. It is not antisemitism to recognise oppression. Free Palestine.
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Down with billionaire stadium owners crushing the ability of artists to speak about the things artists have always spoken about. And please, UK government, it is time to stop supplying fighter jet equipment made in Lancashire to the Israeli air force. My grandmother escaped the Holocaust. It is not antisemitism to recognise oppression. Free Palestine.
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Heathrow. Terminal 5. Wagamama. Awaiting double tofu firecracker curry. I am off to Spain. I am always in Spain but this time is different. Doing my first EVER events there. Barcelona tomorrow. Madrid. Wednesday. I am so excited. I see myself as a Spanish author who just happens to be English writing in English in England with an entirely English sensibility. But otherwise, you know, Spanish. And apparently The Midnight Train has sold more in two weeks than my last book did there in total. I hate airports though. I miss my family. When you are alone airports sometimes hold a sadness that hums like static. I am happy. I am sad. I am excited. No te preocupes, está todo bien. ¡Viva Espaňa!
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Heathrow. Terminal 5. Wagamama. Awaiting double tofu firecracker curry. I am off to Spain. I am always in Spain but this time is different. Doing my first EVER events there. Barcelona tomorrow. Madrid. Wednesday. I am so excited. I see myself as a Spanish author who just happens to be English writing in English in England with an entirely English sensibility. But otherwise, you know, Spanish. And apparently The Midnight Train has sold more in two weeks than my last book did there in total. I hate airports though. I miss my family. When you are alone airports sometimes hold a sadness that hums like static. I am happy. I am sad. I am excited. No te preocupes, está todo bien. ¡Viva Espaňa!
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Just donated to the @rnli as I have always admired them and they are losing support from weak-minded racists who don’t like them saving the lives of their fellow humans. What is this England you are proud of you silly boys, if it doesn’t include heroes saving lives?
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Just donated to the @rnli as I have always admired them and they are losing support from weak-minded racists who don’t like them saving the lives of their fellow humans. What is this England you are proud of you silly boys, if it doesn’t include heroes saving lives?
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