Charlie Campbell @CCampbell_Agent Twitter profile

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

3 years

Two years of marriage today!

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

8 years

I'm pleased Team GB has medalled so many times today that it's now fourthing in the table, one away from podiuming in overall standings.

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4 years

Four years ago today ⁦ @RosamundUrwin ⁩ & I got this little puppy from ⁦ @DogsTrust ⁩. Ros promised me she’d be small & I could easily take her to the office. She has outgrown both beds & I work from home.

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Charlie Campbell

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3 years

This wonderful little boy turned one this week. And here is my current favourite picture of him. #eyebrows

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

7 years

The theme of the party was La La Land. We were the only ones to come as Laa-Laa.

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

3 years

Michael Holding’s Why We Kneel, How We Rise is published later this month & is an immense achievement & powerful read. So proud of Mikey, ⁦ @ed_hawkins ⁩, ⁦ @EverSoBookish ⁩, ⁦ @IanPlayfair ⁩ & all at ⁦ @simonschusterUK ⁩

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

8 years

Very excited that my book Herding Cats is out today. Everything I've learnt from playing cricket badly in 1 volume.

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

4 years

Delighted to see my 2017 book on amateur cricket captaincy included in the backdrop of a piece on what cricket was like 21 years ago.

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

5 years

Thrilled that @RosamundUrwin has won news journalist of year at @WBWAwards . Her Operation Yellowhammer scoop for @thesundaytimes with @cazjwheeler was one of most important stories of year.

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

8 years

Looking forward to this government suggesting museums list all foreign art they have on their walls & then insist that they get rid of it.

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

3 years

Copies just in of ⁦ @hanavideen ⁩’s The Wordhord, out next month from ⁦ @ProfileBooks ⁩. A beautiful book, filled with fascinating Old English words, like gafol-fisc - I’m just sad it’s no longer possible to pay one’s tax in fish.

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

4 years

I have written a hard-hitting piece about cricket tea for the Spectator.

The traditional cricket tea is under threat

Cricket is not renowned for embracing change. The introduction of the middle stump, overarm bowling and Kevin Pietersen were all greeted with great suspicion. But now the biggest change of the lot is...

www.spectator.co.uk

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

6 years

@DickKingSmith Here is mine. A Westie in the West Highlands.

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

3 years

Thrilled to be teaming up with @SamEdenborough who joins @EverSoBookish , @juliasreading , @natgalustian & @DeadSpy at our renamed agency, Greyhound Literary.

BookBrunch

@BookBrunch

3 years

. @SamEdenborough teams up with Charlie Campbell ( @ccampbell_agent ) - Charlie Campbell Literary Agents has been renamed Greyhound Literary Agents with Edenborough as co-owner (£)

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

1 year

Chris Smyth

@Smyth_Chris

1 year

Peak Matt Hancock anecdote from Helen MacNamara in spring 2020. She asked how he was coping: "He reassured me that he was ‘loving responsibility’ and to demonstrate this took up a batsman's stance outside the Cabinet Room, and said, ‘they bowl them at me, I knock them away’”.

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Charlie Campbell

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8 years

Slightly ashamed of Britain's book thieves, who mostly steal Peppa Pig. In Toronto Murakami is most stolen author.

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

3 years

We have a new website at @CCLAgents & are open for submissions once again. Thrilled that @natgalustian has joined us, bringing her wonderful list of authors.

Welcome to Greyhound Literary

Our agents have decades of experience between them gained across the publishing industry and exciting, varied client lists which include bestselling and…

greyhoundliterary.co.uk

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

8 years

This remains my favourite firework display, in Oban, when the whole lot went off in 30 seconds.

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

3 years

Such a great piece by ⁦ @TulipSiddiq ⁩ on the struggle to get Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe home

I watched up close as ministers’ ignorance and incompetence kept Nazanin in Iran | Tulip Siddiq

Her local MP reveals the obstacles put in the way of the six-year campaign to free her

www.theguardian.com

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

5 years

So proud of @RosamundUrwin who has been shortlisted three times for Press Awards - Scoop, Specialist Reporter & News Reporter of Year.

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

5 years

I saw no large groups when running with my dog in Brockwell Park yesterday. Everyone observing social distancing. Saw one person sitting on grass, reading a book. It’s a large park. 3000 people in a day is not excessive. This is the wrong decision.

Lambeth Council

@lambeth_council

5 years

Despite clear advice, over 3000 people spent today in Brockwell Park, many of them sunbathing or in large groups. This is unacceptable. Unfortunately, the actions of a minority now means that, following police advice, Brockwell Park will be closed tomorrow. #StayHome

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

3 years

A brilliant scoop by any standards, all the more impressive when on maternity leave. Very proud of @RosamundUrwin

Rosamund Urwin

@RosamundUrwin

3 years

For tomorrow’s @thesundaytimes , I interviewed Martin Bashir. This is the first time he has spoken since the sunday times broke the story that he had shown Earl Spencer fake bank statements last October.

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

3 years

First official day of @GreyhoundLitAg . So delighted to be working with @SamEdenborough & continuing to work with @EverSoBookish , @natgalustian & @juliasreading & our brilliant clients.

Welcome to Greyhound Literary

Our agents have decades of experience between them gained across the publishing industry and exciting, varied client lists which include bestselling and…

greyhoundliterary.co.uk

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

2 years

The LRB notices rarely disappoint & this one is a classic. My favourite was 'Nihilist seeks nothing'.

Joanna Hardy-Susskind

@Joanna__Hardy

2 years

My favourite Sunday hobby is reading the notices in the London Review of Books and, hoo boy, what on EARTH is going on here:

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Charlie Campbell

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3 years

Rewatching Succession before season 3 begins. Further evidence of Tom’s villainy can be seen in his verbing. He asks Greg ‘Can you latte me?’

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

7 years

Is there a more impressive and likeable sportsman than Moeen Ali? Not in my book.

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Charlie Campbell

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6 years

‘Is it shouting time?’ asks a small boy on the march.

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

3 years

Indebted to my six-month-old son for getting me up for this 5am walk and view

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

8 years

The Olympics commentary has inspired my verbing but my girlfriend is threatening to reboyfriend if I don't stop talking of podiuming & worse

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

3 years

Impressed with my one-year-old son who took my phone this afternoon. When eventually I got it back, the rightmove app was open on four-bedroom houses for sale nearby.

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

2 years

Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman published tomorrow by @canongatebooks . It has been hailed as 'mesmerising' & 'witty' by Telegraph & can be seen here at @BFI bookshop with its proud agent, @natgalustian .

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

1 year

Thrilled to be published in @Soc_of_Authors 's magazine on the joys of playing cricket with @AuthorsCC . If you've been published & would like to play for us, do get in touch. authorscc @gmail .com

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

4 years

'Of this generation, perhaps only Root and Ben Stokes have given England fans more joy, played more match-defining hands.' Great piece on Moeen Ali by @Ben_Wisden

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

4 years

Verbing (medalling, podiuming...) was bad enough. But is nouning worse?

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

4 years

‘So what made you join the Navy?’ ‘Well, I wanted to serve my country and defend its fish.’

Channel 4 News

@Channel4News

4 years

Four armed Royal Navy gunboats have been put on standby to guard British waters from EU trawlers – if there’s no deal on fishing rights by the end of the year.

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

6 years

The paperback of my book, Herding Cats: The Art of Amateur Cricket Captaincy, is out today, published by @BloomsburySport . Here is the first thing I wrote about playing cricket badly.

The art of (amateur) cricket captaincy

The Sunday morning skipper has to remember a few simple principles: cobble together 11 players, make sure they’re well matched to their opposition and try to ensure they have not consumed class-A...

www.theguardian.com

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

1 year

This is investigative journalism at its best, by @RosamundUrwin , @char_wace & @pmorganbentley . Do go & buy a copy of today's @thetimes . Those who comment on it without reading the detail just illustrate how difficult it is for these women to be heard.

Russell Brand accused of rape, sexual assaults and abuse

Four women, including one who was just 16, make allegations after an investigation by The Sunday Times, The Times and Channel 4 Dispatches

www.thetimes.com

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

11 years

I would like to hear more from this reader of the Argus, who foresees a catastrophic war between mankind & goats. http://t.co/ZDu7NQzqIW

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

8 years

New Private Eye says it best. 'Turkeys vote for Christmas'

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

3 years

Parrots in Richmond Park!

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Charlie Campbell

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8 years

A typically entertaining piece by @Inkyfool on rules of English we don't know that we know.

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

5 years

Very very happy about this news. The writing life is rarely an easy one so for this to happen to @sophiabennett for her 11th book is especially wonderful.

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

2 years

Next week Fairfield Books publish The Legend of Sparkhill, the first children's book by Moeen Ali and @tjaldred . Announcement here: And you can preorder here:

The Legend of Sparkhill – Moeen Ali

The story of an ordinary Birmingham schoolkid in modern Britain by England all-rounder Moeen Ali and Tanya Aldred.

www.thenightwatchman.net

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

4 years

We found an injured ginger cat in our garden today & took it to the Medivet in White Hart Lane (Barnes, SW14). No microchip or collar but he has clearly been cared for. Please get in touch if you recognise him. (He's friendlier than this photo suggests.)

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

6 years

Ronaldo seems to be going to the same barber as Kim Jong-un

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

3 years

My favourite cricketer of all time. Wish he'd lead a rebel tour to Pakistan to fulfil the promises @ECB failed to keep.

ESPNcricinfo

@ESPNcricinfo

3 years

BREAKING: England allrounder Moeen Ali is set to announce his immediate retirement from Test cricket

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Charlie Campbell

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7 years

Does anyone want to commission me to write a piece proclaiming the death of the cricket book so I can promote my own?

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

4 years

Today's verb crime is to inbox. As in, 'I will inbox @holland_tom & @blackpooltower to share this horror with them'. Worst of all, it's in the dictionary.

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

4 years

Very grateful for everything I learnt from the peerless @JuliaKingsford while we worked together & am now looking forward to the next chapter.

The Bookseller

@thebookseller

4 years

. @JuliaKingsford and @CCampbell_Agent announce they're set to go their separate ways after seven years of The Kingsford Campbell Agency. See more here:

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1 year

Delighted that @hanavideen has a beautiful new book out later this year. The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary will be published by @ProfileBooks this autumn.

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

5 years

Very sad to hear about Sonny Mehta. He published best & biggest books, was one of only 3 editors in chief in @AAKnopf ’s history, and great champion of writers. He was also an incredibly kind man who took interest in others, as this lovely tribute shows.

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

4 years

@patrick_kidd @holland_tom I like this line too. 'a great deal of what makes Tom Holland Tom Holland comes from how he moves, rather than the lines he delivers.'

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

7 years

Both Trump & Putin love terrible martial arts films. The American leader favours Jean Claude Van Damme, the Russian Steven Seagal.

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

5 years

The week of my wedding, I was stopped by a very nice woman who asked me where I got my suit. She thought her grandfather would love it. I think I'll wear something else on Saturday.

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

8 years

New issue of @AllOutCricket has an extract from Herding Cats as well as these Ten Commandments of Sunday cricket.

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

8 years

'I think she might be crying' AA Gill writes about his nurse. She won't be alone. What a fabulous writer & man he was. Brilliant last piece.

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

2 years

@AdamRutherford How about a spot the dog poo in autumn challenge?

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

4 years

Gripped by the rugby

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

7 years

Just found this fabulous photo of Boris Karloff playing in charity baseball game in 1940 as Frankenstein's Monster. He preferred cricket.

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

4 years

Canine joy!

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

3 years

So thrilled that The Windsor Knot has now sold 100,000 copies in UK. This series by @sophiabennett is an utter joy & brilliantly published by @BenWillisUK & @ZaffreBooks .

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

3 years

Such an excellent article by @GeorgeDobell1 on Azeem Rafiq & how this will hopefully be a watershed for cricket.

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

4 years

So thrilled that @holland_tom 's benefit year has already raised over £22k to help homeless, through @PassageCharity , @18_keys & @AMARLondon . Still time to support it here, before his charity walk tomorrow:

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

2 years

Thrilled that the great Dotti Irving is joining us at ⁦ @GreyhoundLitAg ⁩ as an agent.

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

4 years

This is genuinely disgraceful.

Jo Maugham

@JolyonMaugham

4 years

Leaked Government documents reveal special procurement channels for ‘VIPs’ and Cabinet contacts - and opportunities for 35-45% profit margins for insiders. #goodlawproject

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5 years

Would anyone like to write a children’s book featuring all characters from all John Lewis Xmas ads? I’m sure @jlandpartners & @aandeddb would be relaxed about copyright.

John Lewis’s Christmas dragon advert fires up plagiarism row

A red-headed girl befriends a dragon and then helps him win over their fellow villagers.This is not, however, the new John Lewis Christmas ad but the plot of Franklin’s Flying Bookshop, a children’s...

www.thetimes.com

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

7 years

It’s only January but someone has awarded herself the dog of the year prize.

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

3 years

Just a month till publication of @hanavideen 's The Wordhord, a beautiful book about Old English, packed with the words that haven't changed at all over 1000 years (like word) & those (like gafol-fisc & neorxnawang) that have.

The Wordhord - Profile Books

profilebooks.com

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

5 years

@Jacob_Rees_Mogg Watch on after the game & try to learn something from the interview with Kane Williamson and his class, grace & innate decency. That is leadership, not populist posturing about Europe.

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@CCampbell_Agent

2 years

Right in the mosh pit at the Hey Duggee live show.

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

7 years

Thankful not to be spending Christmas in the Redwood household.

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

3 years

This is such a good and sad thread

Radio Cricket formerly AltCricket

@RadioCricket

3 years

Anyone who has played club cricket will know that for every @AzeemRafiq30 , there are many others who don't make it. Here's a couple who stick out to me...

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6 years

The dedication in A Girl’s Guide to Personal Hygiene is sensational.

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

5 years

I love @chrisriddell50 more than ever.

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

4 years

So so happy for @anthony_mcgowan who has won this year’s Carnegie Medal for his brilliant & very moving book Lark. #CKG20

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

6 years

Our dog has noticed how people greet each other by smiling & here she is imitating us in an unnerving way.

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

3 years

In awe of @holland_tom , @James1940 & their companions as they walk towards Trafalgar Square. Please do support their charity fundraising, if you can.

Tom Holland

@holland_tom

3 years

The sun is starting to set over Toddington Lock, but we still have far to go to reach Trafalgar Square, where @homelesslondon will be giving us shelter for a few hours tonight. More on the specific charity we are raising money for here:

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6 years

Children’s book of the week in @ST_Culture is @anthony_mcgowan ’s Lark! ‘Funny, scatological, terrifying, heartwarming and heartbreaking.’

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@CCampbell_Agent

1 year

@toadmeister Toby, I preferred it when you questioned your own aptitude for journalism in How to Lose Friends & Alienate People rather than making unfounded aspersions about an outstanding investigation, simply for clicks from the extremities of the internet.

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

5 years

@bellamackie A character in Raymond Chandler’s Farewell My Lovely had a face like a collapsed lung.

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

6 years

The beautiful sight of @Hatchards ⁩ lit up at night.

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

6 years

Tomorrow is publication day for @bellamackie 's brilliant Jog On - about running, anxiety and much more. Her fitness diary for @BritishGQ gives a glimpse of just how great, honest and refreshing her debut is.

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@CCampbell_Agent

6 years

This is a fabulous round-up of the best children's books by @AmandaPCraig & she picks out @anthony_mcgowan 's Lark. 'As taut as Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, Lark rings with truth, humour, humanity and pathos. My hope is that it wins prizes.'

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@CCampbell_Agent

5 years

Thrilled to see @RosamundUrwin shortlisted for scoop of the year (for breaking Operation Yellowhammer story) in British Journalism Awards. Congratulations to her and to @cazjwheeler

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

2 years

TV idea: an Apprentice-style show in which viewers vote for Boris Johnson's next ethics tsar. Candidates could include Prince Andrew, Darius Guppy, the Major from Who Wants to be a Millionaire and Cat Bin Woman.

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

4 years

Delighted to see ⁦ @holland_tom ⁩’s fundraising efforts for ⁦ @PassageCharity ⁩ make the news.

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

8 years

Here is yesterday's brilliant piece by @RosamundUrwin about adopting dogs & our new puppy.

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

4 years

From now on 13th November should be known as the Day of Tantrums.

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@CCampbell_Agent

7 years

Whippets in the winter sunshine.

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8 years

First day of puppy school for this one.

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

3 years

The Times’ Meat Loaf obituary is a must-read. He fell out again & again with song writer Jim Steinberg. Bat Out of Hell, probably most commercially successful album of all time, was first conceived as Peter Pan tribute. Barrie estate refused permission.

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@CCampbell_Agent

5 years

Happy publication day to @anthony_mcgowan whose clever, funny & brilliant book, How to Teach Philosophy to Your Dog, is out today from @OneworldNews .

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@CCampbell_Agent

6 years

@RebeccaFront

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

4 years

So excited about Why We Kneel, How We Rise, by Michael Holding, which will undoubtedly be one of the books of 2021. @EverSoBookish

Simon & Schuster UK

@simonschusterUK

4 years

We're honoured to be publishing 'Why We Kneel, How We Rise' by Michael Holding, a vital book on racism and re-education, featuring leading Black sporting heroes from around the world. June 2021 can't come soon enough!

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@CCampbell_Agent

6 years

This quote sums up the current madness pretty well. 'Conservative MP James Gray, who plans to vote for the deal after rejecting it twice, said he was "absolutely furious".'

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Charlie Campbell

@CCampbell_Agent

6 years

David Sedaris: ‘I get a lot of books to blurb. I just got one, this essay collection by Rebecca Front, Impossible Things Before Breakfast. I opened it up and was completely captivated by it.’