Category: Books
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Working Assumptions
Really enjoying this book by Julia Hobsbawm. She’s been generous in her support for my work, and the work we do at work, and this is a very well written and clear bit of writing setting out the future of work landscape. It’s also really lovely to see an acknowledgements page like this: With the…
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Drunk ex-Pastors
I sent them a free book.I’m not even sure they read it.They got the title wrong a bunch of times.They admitted that they doubted anyone in their audience would know who I was.The podcast description fails to mention anything about it.This was some serious professional operation! But, honestly, it was a blast to chat about…
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Benny and the Blue Whale
Great fun to go hear Mr Gum creator Andy Stanton talk about his new book, Benny and the Blue Whale this week. Andy is a very talented children’s writer – but so much more too, and his deep dive into language and how he used ChatGPT to create a very extraordinary story about a whale…
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God-like in The Guardian
Really thrilled to have been commissioned by The Guardian to write a piece on the book – which they published today. It explores the AI Transparency Statement that the book begins with – something that I felt I had to write as a declaration, as so many people were asking me if I’d used generative AI to write the…
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‘We are beyond crisis; we are in a state of distress’
It’s exactly a year since I finally left teaching. It’s coming up for two years since my debut novel – MIDDLE CLASS – was published (get a copy here). And it’s no surprise to see the headlines about the mental health crisis in schools. This is where the novel takes you: inside a London school,…
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Somerset House launch
Thanks to everyone who came out to Somerset House for the launch event there last Tuesday! Really fantastic evening, with lovely friends from my writing group there, plus loads of people from around the creative arts at Somerset House and my work at the Institute for the Future of Work. Roped my two into doing…