Things to enjoy in the latest Private Eye podcast: 1) Righteous fury about Jeffrey Archer 2) Macqueen tartan tie 3) Gratuitous appearance of not one but TWO of my books on camera (and neither of them is the one I've got out now)

This has to be the most depressingly desultory attempt at a Halloween window display in existence. I kept out.

My mum was furious about the very concept of restaurant critics. "They go out, and they get given their dinner, they should just be grateful."

I’m keeping some good company…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review for Hobbe’s Folly: “Adam Macqueen has built his novel like the folly at its heart: plain on the outside, airtight on the inside, and holding something you must never let out. Two timelines, one cold room, and an ending that pays off every clue it planted.”

I contained Archer in one chapter of the book. At one point Johnson featured in *every single section*.

I recorded the Eye podcast today with Ian. If you liked this, you might want to listen this week…

So I recorded the Eye podcast today with Ian. If you liked this, you might want to listen this week…

A cake would do it.

Feel quite strongly I deserve some sort of workplace award for getting an Einstürzende Neubauten joke into the current Private Eye.

Are they trying to fat-shame the tiger here, or have they used this because they were unable to say how much its house was worth?

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Of course there are other online booksellers - gigantic ones, even - but some things are just too horrific even to think about. Don’t have nightmares.

Get your copy in time for Halloween - but be sure to hurry past any windowless buildings you pass on the way to the bookshop without looking too closely, because you never know what might be locked away in there...

Here’s what Jake Arnott - whose own terrifying ghostbstory Netherwood is out now - said when he read it.

Hobbe’s Folly is the result. And it’s in bookshops now.