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  1. Remember: Book Prize, Journalism Prize and Blog Prize open for entries until 20th January. Enter at http://is.gd/4TgXt (please RT!)
  2. @burmavj is there an email address we can reach you on? We've just done a big event on Burma, and are planning some more next year...
  3. Thanks @thebookseller for adding us to your list! You can see the Book Trade list at http://is.gd/4Td7G
  4. @Edubeat thanks for the RT!
  5. Windless, misty, sun just visible, rather chilly. Many fungi in the woods, including one which at a certain sta.. http://bit.ly/2oLNRI
  6. For fiction fans RT @GillerPrize: LINDEN MACINTYRE WINS the GILLER! (@BBCEntsTeam article: http://is.gd/4SwoK)
  7. @AlbertoNardelli thank you!
  8. Very fine weather, as yesterday. Birds all singing almost as though it were spring. Notice that horse dung of s.. http://bit.ly/I4yxS
  9. I appear to be at King's Place for the Hugo Young lecture, to be given by David Cameron. Very swish. Young won a Special #Orwell Prize
  10. Very fine, sunny, still weather. Dug the first trench of the new patch, planted shallots (not quite enough to m.. http://bit.ly/43zWk5
  11. Jonathan Derbyshire reviews Peter Davison's new edition of Orwell's diaries: http://is.gd/4QJLX
  12. Sunny & still. Everything still seems very wet, but evidently there was no rain last night. Made up some mo.. http://bit.ly/2Ou9qX
  13. Dry, windy, sunny, not cold. Many goldfinches about. Took the remaining nettles, or most of them, out of the ne.. http://bit.ly/2X9L97
  14. Rather wet, too much so to do much out of doors: considerable rain this evening. Planted first row of currants .. http://bit.ly/2CKkwY
  15. We don't do a music prize, but if you want witty social-political comment & great tunes, @The_Holloways were superb on HollowayRd last night
  16. Evidently it rained very heavily during last night. Today windy, a few showers but most of the day sunny. Trans.. http://bit.ly/sONMr
  17. Just had our first Journalism Prize entry (they're usually right up to deadline). Books & Blogs in double figs! Enter at http://is.gd/4KXot
  18. And here's a link to aya theatre, who are staging a production of Burmese Days:http://is.gd/4NKC6
  19. Our Director, Jean Seaton, talks about Burmese Days in a UCL podcast: http://is.gd/4NKyl. Take a look at their digitisation of the archive
  20. Congrats to James Fergusson, whose A Million Bullets has won British Army Military Book of the Year. Watch him on Afgh at http://is.gd/4NH3e