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Sam Leith

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@spectator lit ed. “Clock-white, still friendly to the earth.” bit.ly/TheHauntedWood

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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Now this, *this* is a declaration of bloody war. With the Spectator’s humble Book Club podcast as Greenland. I should never have encouraged that Sandbrook bloke.
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
FML. The dog, literally, ate my homework
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Ngl I preferred it when they were made with 100 per cent potatoes
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Just had the privilege to chair this guy at the launch event for The Rose Field. Man alive sometimes I love my job.
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
I now know the difference between a mitre and a bevel, and have made it up the stairs without once visiting A & E. Not the anticipated outcome but I’m now giving up writing and becoming a carpenter.
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
No way this doesn’t end badly for me
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Newspapers in “constantly looking to dig out stories” shock
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Paperbacks exist. Prepare for another burst of shameless self-promotion in the run-up to September’s launch
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
This seems a bit of an undersell. Surely: “For fans of Gary Shteyngart” would be the correct blurb for the new novel by Gary Shteyngart
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Subtitles need work
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
I just remembered what Trump’s social media avatar was reminding me of. Redpilled indeed.
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Late capitalism, I salute you
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Capitalism collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions on East Finchley high street. The first in an occasional series.
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
In Dublin for the literary festival, and I have no notes to offer on the water in the hotel. BRB just going to arise and go now.
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Astounding masculine energy in Musk’s retaliation here. They send one of your guys to the hospital, you send one of theirs to the morgue sort of thing
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
I wonder if this is Mick being a bit more barbed than the poster-makers here realise
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Monument Valley 4 is going to be amazing
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Okay I give up. I bought fig.1 and it won’t fit through fig.2. Any more practically minded people got suggestions?
Fig.1Fig.2
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I went back and looked up what I think. Seems we’re in rough agreement.
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
It's getting towards that time of year, and if I say so myself my book -- "a treasure-chest" (Times); "a joyous foray into the magic of children's fiction" (FT); "wonderful" (Guardian) -- makes a good Christmas present.... amzn.eu/d/hoGBnhK
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
…and picture, even
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
Hatchards!
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
I’m touring my new book about children’s literature over the next few weeks. Dates below. Please come along!
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 10/07/2024
It’s here
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 27/06/2024
Hell, yes. Mejadra for supper.
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 31/05/2024
Found on a Cornish beach. What the hell is this?
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 08/05/2024
Whoop, book post!
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 04/05/2024
Just put up this bathroom cabinet, and thinking of rebranding myself as a manliness influencer. Reading books is for cucks.
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 20/04/2024
Righteous Saturday night reading.
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 08/04/2024
Acute literary criticism
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 23/03/2024
Accidental toaster selfie with lemon meringue pie
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
Bound proofs! I’ve officially written a book.
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
[*pervert_saying_YESSSSSS.gif*]
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 13/02/2024
Browsing for dross to watch, and I hate to be the dead-metaphor police but who writes this shit? If you can afford Nicole Kidman to star, you can afford a better fifty-word puff than this. Hell, even I’d do you a fifty-word puff for £3k if you asked nicely.
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
Blad just arrived. Moderately excited.
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 21/01/2024
Made macarons with my ten-year-old at his insistence. My god they’re a faff
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 15/01/2024
50th birthday present knife and omg this may be my favourite object ever
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 23/12/2023
Blood sweated
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 09/12/2023
Selected bibliography
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
My kid’s handwriting book is poetry
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
My nine-year-old decided we had to cook fried chicken and crème brûlée. A lot of effort but it turned out pretty well.
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
Oh look here he is from when I saw him in (yikes) 2016. I got good and close.
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
Interesting piece. Quite loving the very low-key bracketing of John Steinbeck with Ken Follett too.
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