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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 26/08/2026

As I was saying … just looking for an excuse

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 06/08/2026

Cambridge OCR set text for English Literature and Language A Level from this September. Hoorah for Common People!

List of books including Kit de Waal’s Common People, an anthology of working class memoir

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 20/01/2026

New Substack post. kitdewaal.substack.com/p/own-it

Link to a substack post called 'Own it' On not being afraid to say what you really, really, want.'

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 19/01/2026

I'm editing a new novel. I've been sitting at my computer for 3 hours now and I've watched 5 episodes of This is Your Life. Muhammed Ali, Richard Beckinsale, Les Dawson, Susan George and someone I don't know. Send help.

Photograph of Eamon Andrews, presenter with a big red book with This is Your Life written in gold on the front.

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 17/01/2026

2016, ten years ago I hadn’t been published yet but I was in The Guardian as one of that summer’s coming debuts.

Photo of de Waal in pink shirt in newspaper with the caption that the debut novel didn’t need much research

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 16/01/2026

Gregory Peck has the best eyebrows. Not available for further comment.

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 03/01/2026

It’s January 3rd. What a start.

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 26/12/2025

I’m going to Malta to write for a week at the end of January. Any suggestions of where to stay or avoid? Sea view would be great. Cheers. The photo below is of the harbour at Stord in Norway for context

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 15/12/2025

Job here at Bristol Refugee Festival Link here via IG www.instagram.com/bristolrefug...

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 22/10/2025

Black Bag with Michael Fassbender, Cate Blanchet, Pierce Brosnan and host of other good names. Fifteen minutes in and I’m not getting it. Don’t want to read any reviews because they usually spoil it or influence my enjoyment but it feels very, very bad. Although there are some nice outfits ….

Poster for the film Black Bag showing main and secondary stars with fingerprint as background

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 15/10/2025

How Does It Feel, D’Angelo? It feels very shit, my man. RIP.

Photo of R & B star D’Angelo looking mighty fine

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 03/10/2025

I'll be at Birmingham Literature Festival on 11th October with some great names, brilliant writing workshops, events for children and much more. Come if you can! Link here www.birminghamliteraturefestival.org

Photo of Birmingham Literature Festival audience, young people, middle aged people and older people sitting in seats listening to an event.

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 03/10/2025

My new novel is only 99p on Kindle, today only. That's half a coffee where I come from.

A picture of the book The Best of Everything with a note that it's 99 p on Kindle today only

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 02/10/2025

The Climate Fiction Prize celebrates the most inspiring novels tackling the climate crisis. I will be one of this judges this year and would love to read your work. The £10,000 prize is awarded annually to a single novel. Submissions now open. Link here climatefictionprize.co.uk Please share :)

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 27/09/2025

Bookbanks, the brilliant charity putting books into food banks is recruiting for a North-West Regional Lead forging new partnerships with food banks and authors, publishers, booksellers and the book industry. Details in link here : static1.squarespace.com/static/6525a... www.bookbanks.co.uk

Photo of sign saying free books and friendly chat

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 23/09/2025

The Royal Society for Blind Children (RSBC) urgent appealing to children’s authors, writers and publishers to donate stories to its new bedtime stories app. The charity relies on stories in the public domain but are running out of books. Anyone willing to donate should contact media@rsbc.org.

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 23/09/2025

London Writers Award now open, great prizes, lovely people and different categories. Also details available in different formats. Details in link below. Please share :) www.spreadtheword.org.uk

Picture of diverse cast of writers meeting together at a literary event

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 05/09/2025

I was just wondering when Mark Ruffalo is going to ring and ask me out. It’s been, like, fifteen years now, Mark.

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 24/08/2025

Words To Live By Number 264

There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go - Tennessee Williams

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 19/08/2025

Because I can’t sleep I decided to rate the top 3 post-war thrillers that were also excellent films. Both criteria must be satisfied. 1. Marathon Man 2. The Spy Who Came In From The Cold 3. The Day of the Jackal Honourable mention for The Odessa File. Any dissenters?

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 17/08/2025

Words To Live By Number 241 RIP Terence Stamp

Unless I try, I’m never really going to be at ease with myself

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 17/08/2025

I love the Moth Prize, lovely people and high quality writing. The Nature Writing Prize is open for a poem or story celebrating the natural world. Cash prize and best of all, a week at the Moth Retreat. Details in link. Please share :) www.themothmagazine.com/a1-page.asp?...

Bare stairs in lovely old building, white stair case and picture on the wall at a writers retreat in Ireland

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 14/08/2025

Name a TV Show you’re positive no else remembers. This featuring Pussy Drag-a-Chair (I did a very careful search ….)

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 14/08/2025

Words To Live By Number 241

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 13/08/2025

Dead Ink Books launches Outsider Classics republishing forgotten masterpieces and once-censored provocations to open the debate about the canon - who gets to create it, who gets excluded from it – and show that it is a malleable and changeable thing. @deadinkbooks.bsky.social Brilliant.

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 11/08/2025

Summer pud, hazy son, lovely day :)

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 09/08/2025

Looking west across the Bay of Biscay from Biarritz. Got lucky with the bird.

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 09/08/2025

Words To Live By Number 278

What cannot be said will be wept - Sappho

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 05/08/2025

I think we’ve got to the point where we start looking for Sarah Connor.

Photo of Sarah Connor character from the film Terminator

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 27/07/2025

What athlete’s expression will stay with you for the rest of your life?

Picture of Rafa Badal & Riger Federer crying

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 21/07/2025

Character.AI, is a generative AI chatbot that allows users to "talk" online with book characters. One author of a book character that is popular on the site said she had given 'no permission, whatsoever. None.” What next?

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 20/07/2025

As Bookbanks new Ambassador I’d like to spread the word about this brilliant charity giving books with food at food banks. Please share and support if you’re able :) www.bookbanks.co.uk

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 17/07/2025

I’m sitting in my car while the shopping overheats. It’s very calm and quiet and with the windows open, there’s a nice breeze. I’m too comfortable to move. Inside the house work awaits. I’m going to take this perfect little break and send you all a picture of a Biarritz sunset. You’re welcome.

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 11/07/2025

The face I’m submitting to Bluesky for verification.

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 11/07/2025

My first proper post on Substack. All about judging The Women's Prize this year.

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 09/07/2025

Ah, Jane Gardam has died. If you’ve yet to discover Old Filth, her best known novel, strongly recommend the audiobook. Free from your library or try @listeningbooks.bsky.social

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 07/07/2025

Words To Live By Number 225

There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 03/07/2025

Coffee in the garden. Morning all :)

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 01/07/2025

Words To Live By Number 223

If you nerve deny you, go above your nerve. Emily Dickinson

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 29/06/2025

Words To Live By Number 223

Never cut what you can untie - Robert Frost

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 27/06/2025

You know when you see the video of the python eating the antelope and you think what the actual fuck? Well I just had the 5 course Chef’s Menu at a top joint in Biarritz. Thing is they bought the 7 course menu. And I ate it. All.

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 27/06/2025

This is where I am. New book in the making. Thousand words a day if I can. They don’t have to be good words.

Sticky note on wood that says ‘Just make it exist first. You can make it good later.’

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 27/06/2025

Knitters of Bluesky, check out these beauties. Would it be hard to make them, do you think? #knitting #yarn #craft

Pair of knitted soft slippers in a cream yarn, patterns at the front and sides. Quite artisan and intricate

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 26/06/2025

Sunset with a sliver of moon. Red sky at night in south west France.

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