Journalist.
Writer.

Journalist and author who writes about travel for the Daily Mail and about arts and science for everyone else.

Features

Port Magazine, January 2023

Young Casanova

The Spectator, December 2022

The unluckiest Tube stop

The Critic, December 2022

See it, say it, haunted

Port Magazine, August 2022

The real monster

Travel

Daily Mail, December 2022

Thwack! Thwack!

Daily Mail, June 2022

Carry on campervanning

Daily Mail, May 2022

Europe’s cheapest beach

Daily Mail, April 2022

Antalya adventure

Book Reviews

Cover designs for The Rachel Papers. . . Any favou

Cover designs for The Rachel Papers.
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Any favourites? Any least favourites?
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I’m still struggling with the concept of the book being “scandalously witty” as it says on one of the covers. What does that really mean?
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#martinamis #therachelpapers #dexterfletcher #80smovies #englishnovel #comicnovel #bookstagram #bookdesign

Reading the early pages of Casanova’s incredibly

Reading the early pages of Casanova’s incredibly long memoirs, you’re struck by how inept he was. In Corfu in the Venetian army in his late teens he spent a year chasing the wife of a colleague without any striking success. Still you can’t fault him for effort. For a blow by blow account of the highs and lows and even lowers of Casanova’s Corfu time, see the latest Feature on my website at thomaswhodgkinson.com. Okay, if I’m honest he did come up with a couple of tricks that were kind of ingenious…
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#casanova #corfu #pua #thegame #neilstrauss #howtodoit #hownottodoit #giacomocasanova #bottoms #erótica

When discussing their planned adaptation of Len De

When discussing their planned adaptation of Len Deighton’s thriller The Ipcress File, Michael Caine and producer Harry Saltzman were searching around for a name for the hero (who was never named in the book). They agreed it should be the most boring name they could think of. “What about Harry?” Caine suggested, then looked quickly at Saltzman, realising his mistake. “Don’t worry,” Saltzman chuckled. “My real name is Herschel.” Then Caine suggested “Palmer” as a surname, “Because I used to know a boy named Palmer at school and he really was the most boring boy I ever knew.” So the hero of The Ipcress File became Harry Palmer—and bloody good the film is too, all stylised arty exaggerated camera angles and deadpan Michael Caine humour. Arguably better than any Bond film and well worth seeking out.
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#michaelcaine #jamesbond #theipcressfile #harrypalmer #lendeighton #britishfilms

Not every language has the phrase “an heir and a

Not every language has the phrase “an heir and a spare”, so Prince Harry’s memoir has had to go out under different titles abroad. Particularly like the Brazilian take…
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Reminds me of how the film Jaws went out in France under the title The Teeth of the Sea (swipe for poster image).
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#princeharry #spare #jaws #dukeofsussex #royals

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