Simon Thomas
Stuckinabook.com, Tea or Books? podcast
Books, cats, Jesus, Neighbours
- Once bumped into Ian Hislop in the Natural History Museum. My brother happened to be wearing a homemade t-shirt with Angus Deayton's face on it.
- Scientists need to study the link between flag-obsessives in local Facebook groups and people who have never knowingly used punctuation.
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- Nobody did it better. Catherine O'Hara is such a terrible loss.
- I was never going to leave behind a book with this dustjacket www.stuckinabook.com/turn-again-h...
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- Some thoughts on Children at the Gate by Lynne Reid Banks www.stuckinabook.com/children-at-...
- Top 10 Tuesday: authors I discovered in 2025 www.stuckinabook.com/top-ten-tues...
- A novel to fill you with hope - Douglas Bruton's extraordinary Hope Never Knew Horizon: www.stuckinabook.com/hope-never-k...
- Why I loved The Dutch House by Ann Patchett: www.stuckinabook.com/the-dutch-ho...
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- New ep: Our top 10 books of 2025! www.stuckinabook.com/146-our-top-...
- The Dutch House by Ann Patchett totally beguiled me. I started thinking it was fine... but she drew me in and I will be so sad to leave this world (in 60pp's time)
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- Some thoughts on Joan O'Donovan's 1959 novel The Visited (and why she should really have picked one genre) www.stuckinabook.com/the-visited-...
- I have literally never seen a Private Eye cover I found funny. When will I age into this demographic??
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- The books I bought over new year, and why... www.stuckinabook.com/the-books-i-...
- Feeling quite excited about my book group's list of reads for the year - skewing surprisingly modern for us! The Dutch House by Ann Patchett If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff Hagseed by Margaret Atwood Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri [1/2]
- Happy birthday, #StellaGibbons! I'm sure what you'd want for your 124th birthday present is me reposting my ranking of your novels: www.stuckinabook.com/unnecessary-...
- You were all absolutely right about On The Calculation of Volume www.stuckinabook.com/on-the-calcu...
- Light Sleeper by Bess Atwell is by some distance my most-listened album in 2025. Endlessly beautiful and interesting. open.spotify.com/album/4wmalP...
- The new #Taskmaster line-up is INCREDIBLE.
- How many books did I read? Male/female authors? Best, worst, and most confusing title? Strange things that happened in the books I read? You'll find it all in my 2025 reading stats! www.stuckinabook.com/2025-some-re...
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- Aaaand here are my 10 favourite books from 2025! www.stuckinabook.com/top-books-of...
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- My thoughts about a couple of wintery novellas by Susan Hill and Paul Gallico www.stuckinabook.com/two-wintery-...
- I am finishing Gyles Brandreth's new biography of A A Milne - and look at the acknowledgements, @thecaptivereader.bsky.social !!!
- In the first Dingle All The Way Awards, Lizzie and I look back over the highs and lows of #Emmerdale in 2025! From best performance to most ridiculous moment, here are the only soaps awards worth hearing... open.spotify.com/episode/0kJi...
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- My dad has put on Bob Dylan's Christmas album, and I don't think even AI could conjure up a voice less pleasant to listen to
- Latest Dingle All The Way ep, looking back fondly and not so fondly on the past weeks of #Emmerdale, now liiiiive open.spotify.com/episode/6xh1...
- How long before Walliams becomes a cherished figure by the far-right, one wonders...
- This book is the perfect Christmas read. Entertaining, lovely, and predictable enough that you can read in bursts between all the busyness of the season (or curl up in front of a fire and read in one sitting)
