Fast-flowing Thames at Barnes Bridge, London, just after five pm

Thames looking upstream near Barnes Bridge, London, just after 3:30 pm today. (I couldn’t see the plane when I was taking the photo.)

Thank Tregolls Lodge Book Group for a very enjoyable event today. They asked me about my novels incl. Foxy-T, Shackleton’s Man Goes South (plus being writer in residence at the Science Museum) AND The Fountain in the Forest! Seriously, we could have talked for hours. Oh, we did! Thanks, all 🙏

The number 419 on The Terrace in Barnes, London, 6:40 pm today

How to claim #PensionCredit#BBC#Moneybox’s#PaulLewis: “pensioners can call 0800 99 1234 and a helpful DWP person will fill it in over the phone. Most questions can be ignored.” Please pass this on if you feel able to. Thank you.

Thames In London at 7:30 pm today, on a what has been a rather grey, equinoctial evening — #autumnequinox

👉🏼Chesterton writes: “I do not of course mean that we should turn all our detective-dramas into costume-plays. I only mean that if we did so now and then, for a change, we should find some new liberties as well as some new limitations.” Lost GK Chesterton essay www.theguardian.com/books/2024/s...

Lost GK Chesterton essay about detective stories published for first time

Unpublished essay linked to author’s membership of ‘secret society of mystery writers’ to be printed in Strand Magazine

Authors report 'worst ever delays' with advances and royalties as some forced to survive on loans — www.thebookseller.com/news/authors...

Authors report 'worst ever delays' with advances and royalties as some forced to survive on loans — survey

Over half of respondents to The Bookseller’s survey on advances and royalties revealed problems with some describing decade-long delays due to “financial terrorism”, with some reporting a reliance on ...

👋Morning, all — shadow selfie on the Thames foreshore in SW London ;)

👋Morning, all — shadow selfie on the Thames foreshore in SW London ;)