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Peter Fiennes

@pfiennes.bsky.social
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New book, out in May 2026! 'En Route: A Journey Round France in the Company of Great Writers'. Author of 'Oak and Ash and Thorn', 'Footnotes' and 'A Thing of Beauty'. #books #nature #climate oneworld-publications.com/contributor/peter-fiennes

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Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There’s a lovely review of ‘En Route’ in the @wsj.com - and I’m very happy and grateful! Out now in the US with @pegasus-books.bsky.social www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
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‘En Route’ Review: In Search of Literary France
Jean-Paul Sartre wrote his first novel in the foggy climes of coastal Normandy. The contrast of town and country gave Guy de Maupassant targets for satire.
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Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is fun! As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods, they kill us for their fucking sport.
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Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I like to share this from time to time. youtube.com/watch?v=tHPt...
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Oak and Ash and Thorn
YouTube video by Peter Fiennes
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Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'll be at the fabulous Budleigh Salterton Book Festival on Saturday 26th September! @budlitfest.bsky.social budlitfest.org.uk/event/peter-...
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Peter Fiennes: A Journey Round France In The Company Of Great Writers | Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival
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Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is tomorrow! Peter Fiennes: Literary Travelogues at Theatre at the Tabard, London. www.ticketsource.com/chiswickbook...
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Peter Fiennes: Literary Travelogues at Theatre at the Tabard
Tickets are now available for Peter Fiennes: Literary Travelogues at Theatre at the Tabard, London on Sat 12 Sep 2026. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Ten questions answered for the excellent Literary Listings London. literarylistingslondon.substack.com/p/10-questio...
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10 Questions with Peter Fiennes
‘The best advice I’ve received? ‘Stop researching, start writing’ and ‘make it personal’’
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Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It does! The author was Jenny Landreth
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Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Found it! But long out of print, alas. Oak and Ash and Thorn is still eagerly available… And @thestreettree.bsky.social is full of London tree books!
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Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Book now! Lobsters, absinthe and the mystery and magic of place. Tickets are now available for Peter Fiennes: Literary Travelogues at Theatre at the Tabard, London. www.ticketsource.com/chiswickbook...
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Peter Fiennes: Literary Travelogues at Theatre at the Tabard
Tickets are now available for Peter Fiennes: Literary Travelogues at Theatre at the Tabard, London on Sat 12 Sep 2026. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!
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Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Yeah, who’s the mug now, eh?
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Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is not, at the moment, strictly true.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
One in the eye for the Daily Mail, Reform politicians and other liars and disinformation spreaders, who have spouted drivel about rewilding causing UK wildfires www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show
National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding
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Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Chiswick - next month! Hope to see you there. www.ticketsource.com/chiswickbook...
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Peter Fiennes: Literary Travelogues at Theatre at the Tabard
Tickets are now available for Peter Fiennes: Literary Travelogues at Theatre at the Tabard, London on Sat 12 Sep 2026. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!
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Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Good thread!
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Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
What a joy to read this!
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Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Thank you! That’s so kind - and so very good to hear.
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Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
A thrilling review of ‘En Route’ by Rosemary Goring in the Herald. ‘One of the most entertaining books published this summer’. Thank you!
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Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Go!!!
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 08/08/2026
Climate denial is getting louder. Reality is getting harder to ignore. When parks are brown, rivers are shrinking and firefighters are battling blazes across the globe, governments must accelerate climate action, not slow it down.
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This burning summer is the proof: the voices of climate denial aren’t just delusional, they’re deadly | Sadiq Khan
Look at our blazing forests and parched cities. Green policies aren’t a ‘luxury’, and we can’t burn more oil and gas. People need the truth, says London mayor Sadiq Khan
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Piece I just wrote for Current Affairs. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...
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The Massive Climate Lie That Will Destroy Human Civilization
Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperat...
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Half the country officially in drought - the 3rd in 5 years. Fires raging across Europe. Battles being fought over AI data centres, New episode of *When Nature Becomes A Security Threat*,my podcast series for @therestpolitics.bsky.social, out now. It couldn’t be more timely. Pls do give a listen
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Data Centres vs. Drinking Water: What Matters To Us Most?
Podcast Episode · The Rest Is Politics · 30 July · 16min
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Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I dropped into the lovely @claphambooks.bsky.social. They are selling ‘lots’ of copies of ‘En Route’ - and now have three signed copies. I forgot to take a photo - but here’s one from 2 months ago.
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Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Now Jenrick’s MOTHER’s involved? Where will it all end?
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Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I’m confused. Shouldn’t all new homes have insulation, heat pumps, solar panels etc? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Every new UK home should have air conditioning, say Liberal Democrats
Exclusive: Party says housing stock ‘woefully unprepared’ for extreme heat and new rules for builders must be set
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Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Happy birthday and well played!
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Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Will you be in Budleigh Salterton on the lovely Devon coast in September? I will! Hope to see you there... budlitfest.org.uk/event/peter-...
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Peter Fiennes: A Journey Round France In The Company Of Great Writers | Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival
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Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Thank you, Erin! I’m so glad you enjoyed it. What a lovely comment.
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Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
For all fellow tree lovers!
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Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Raising a glass to 'En Route', which was published by @pegasus-books.bsky.social YESTERDAY in the US. That's me holding the watered-down wine (aged five). And that's the beach in northern Brittany where Colette had a home and wrote the gorgeous and scandalous novel, 'Le Blé en herbe'.
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
“Here I am with my fellow firefighters, tackling this terrible fire. There must be a hundred of us. But wait, I’m just one firefighter. What difference can I make? GOOD LUCK, LADS, I’M OFF TO THE PUB.”
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Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I've been busying around so much I am very late to read and post Anita Roy's wonderful @theguardian.com Country Diary about David Nash's Ash Dome. If you missed it too, please follow this link... www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Country diary: For the beloved Ash Dome, death is not the end | Anita Roy
Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd: This living sculpture, planted in the 1970s ‘for the 21st century’, is fading fast. But heartbreak is not the only response
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Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
'En Route' is published in the US on 7th July by @pegasus-books.bsky.social. It's a looping, leisurely, sometimes fretful journey round France today - guided by the words and lives of some thrilling writers. www.pegasusbooks.com/books/en-rou...
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En Route
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Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
There are 9,000 people ahead of me - a greater number than the whole of Harold's army, apparently.
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Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
'the queue is paused'
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Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
You are dust in my hooves... I'm at 23,086
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 26/06/2026
Ever climbed into a car that's been baking in the sun and wondered why our biggest car parks don't have roofs? The Government was considering exactly that. It has now quietly parked the idea. Here's why it matters.
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As Britain bakes, ministers quietly park plans for solar carports
Ministers have quietly shelved plans that could have transformed Britain's biggest car parks into shaded power stations
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Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I hope you enjoy it. Let me know!
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Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Well that’s very kind of you, Tom. Congratulations on your new book, which I’m really looking forward to reading. Here’s mine. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/en-r...
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En Route: A Journey Round France in the Company of Great Writers
A Journey Round France in the Company of Great Writers
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Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Good news they've done this ... but 'Don't Look Up!'
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Reform UK councillors have introduced a motion to rescind King's Lynn and West Norfolk's climate emergency declaration and deprioritise decarbonisation efforts The council were going to vote on it on Thursday But the meeting has been postponed due to extreme heat
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It tells you everything you need to know about Kemi Badneoch and Nigel Farage that as London schools, hospitals and transport networks all buckle under extreme record-breaking temperatures, they gather with fossil fuel lobbyists, climate deniers and the far-right to demand an end to Net Zero
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As Extreme Heat Hits London, Fossil Fuel Interests and Global Far-Right Politicians Gather for a 'Glastonbury of Climate Science Deniers'
Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch are both scheduled to address the event, reports Max Colbert
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Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Monday 20th July, I'll be at the fabulous @toppingsbath.bsky.social in Bath! Beaches, cafés, Sartre, Edith Wharton, Colette, lobsters and mescaline, Katherine Mansfield and the perfect omelette. France through the eyes of amazing writers - and France today! www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/bath/...
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Peter Fiennes for En Route: A Journey Round France in the Company of Great Writers at Topping & Company Booksellers of Bath
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.
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GreyBruceInfo- Part Owner of Canada 🇨🇦 @brucegreyinfo.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
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Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
If youre in or near Buckingham this Friday, see you there! For tales of Sartre, lobsters, the perfect omelette, Colette and Katherine Mansfield, Maupassant, ethno-nationalism and pelicans! #france #books #bookfestivals bucklitfest.littleboxoffice.com/events/158826
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Event 2: Peter Fiennes: - En Route: The Ultimate Literary Tour of France
Join Peter Fiennes in the company of some of France’s greatest writers as he celebrates French literature, art, landscape, food and wine, and explores the identity of this sublime, mysterious an...
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Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Thank you! That’s very kind. And it (Sarr’s!) is a great book.
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Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
'Lifelines' is a brilliant book and a very worthy winner indeed!
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Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I’m so sorry to hear about Ruth’s ME. I do hope you manage to get to Hyères. Sending love x
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Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I imagine you know all about phenomenology - and don’t need my help…
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