The most popular link last time was the Luytens Crypt, with this piece about culling your book collection second. I can feel myself becoming ever more algorithm-phobic. This is how I want everything recommended to me, these days.I found this audio serialisation of Hiroshima, 8.15: The Lost Memoir by Kiyoshi Tanimoto...

The most popular link last time was this invitation to a barbecue, with the 100 Jumps browser game second. Speaking of: these tips for neurodivergent people on how to cope with a heatwave make a lot of sense.Grim! The Seedy Sexual Underbelly of Travel Influencing.I genuinely gasped at several points reading this,...

The most popular link last time was this (now paywalled) Ask Molly column, with the Guardian review of my husband's new book, Lady C, second. As a barbecue hater, I enjoyed this.A Q&A with an interesting writer, who gives the only truly universal writing advice: "Don't try to match anyone else's routine; write...

The most popular link last time (quite a while ago now!) was this piece about how Facebook is absolutely cooked, with this one about the life-changing value of having a good coat second.Was 30 Rock actually a prophecy predicting what life would be like in 2026? Are we stuck in a never-ending season of Tina Fey's...

The most popular link last time was this colour-matching game, with Roxane Gay's essay about the menopause second. I definitely have iPod brain and I'm not ashamed of it. In fact, I recently bought a sort of iPod-dupe mp3 player and am having a lovely time listening to music I like again, rather than music Spotify...

February is the cruelest month, I've decided. It's too short, the weather is foul, and this time around, it brought me some additional health challenges that interfered with day-to-day existence. With everything else taking me a bit longer than usual, it was my time for reading that suffered. So, only five books...

The most popular link last time was the Amazon van on the Broomway, with this Ask Polly column second. One of the best things I've read about AI in a long while: A.I. Isn't People. Related: a while ago a frustrated friend venting to me about bad AI usage in her workplace said the phrase "it's not even actual AI,...

This is the 1959 Pan paperback edition of Powder and Patch. The novel was originally published by Mills & Boon in 1923 and then re-released by Heinemann in 1930.I've gone back in time: both fictionally, because this novel is once more set during the reign of George II in the 1750s, and biographically, because this...

The most popular link last time was the Wallace & Gromit font, with these twelve reasons February is awesome coming in second. Mona Eltahawy on being childfree by choice: "By refusing to give birth, I have birthed the version of myself that I always wanted to be."On "trench composting": you can just dig a...

The Spanish edition of my book A Body Made of Glass is published today by Barlin Libros, in a translation by Helena Vivancos Peñas. It has a new cover, designed by Isabel Mora:It's available to order directly from the publisher as well as via Casa del Libro and all other major booksellers in Spain.

This is the 1961 Pan paperback edition of An Infamous Army. The novel was originally published by Heinemann in 1937.I've had a marvellous time over the past couple of months reading the Alastair-Audley tetralogy: These Old Shades, Devil's Cub, Regency Buck and now An Infamous Army. It's taken me from 1926, when...