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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

11 months

worst message i’ve ever received in my life

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Laura Hackett

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3 years

was sad about christmas being over but then came into the office and found all these books to open :)

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Laura Hackett

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2 years

criminally poor understanding of the metre of a limerick here from Iain Duncan Smith

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2 years

best email ever

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Laura Hackett

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3 years

went to the waterstones hardback sale today and ended up buying 1 hardback and 5 paperbacks, I am the very fool they based the sales strategy on

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

3 years

Over the moon to be joining the team!

Andrew Holgate

@aholgate

3 years

I am beyond thrilled to introduce the Sunday Times's new Assistant Books Editor........ Laura Hackett, on @HackettLaura Say hello, and remember the name!....

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

2 years

Really excited both to step up and to work with Johanna!

Johanna Thomas-Corr

@JohannaTC

2 years

And I'm delighted that I’ll be editing the section with the talented @HackettLaura , who is now promoted to deputy literary editor. We hope to produce the most spirited, the most interesting, and the most authoritative books section - and to have fun along the way! 3/3

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

1 year

As the Booker longlist features more Irish authors than ever, I wrote about why Ireland is punching above its weight when it comes to literature - and what Britain might be doing wrong

The secrets behind Ireland’s Booker dominance

The release of the Booker Prize longlist always provokes a fierce discussion on the state of modern literature. There’s always a theme and always a row. The th

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

2 years

My take on the sanitising of Roald Dahl - and why all the nastiness is part of the joy of his stories

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

2 years

I also trekked down to Exeter yesterday to speak to people about @PenguinUKBooks ' brand new ~books vending machine~ and had so much fun

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

2 years

did a rat write this email

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

1 year

. @sgoldsbrough1 and I picked our favourite campus novels - from Donna Tartt to Philip Larkin

10 cult books that capture the drama of university life

From The Secret History to Brideshead Revisited, these novels depict the joy and misery of the campus years. Bringing together the shared wisdom of the Times and Sunday Times books desks, we’ve...

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

2 years

with 13 books to go, I have now reached the panic stage of my annual reading goal

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

3 years

It was such a joy to interview @KennedyLoulou - and her new novel Trespasses is a marvel, so go read it now !!

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

2 years

loving the support from the readers on this one !!

The Times and The Sunday Times

@thetimes

2 years

Does knowing that 14 per cent of my dates were walks on Hampstead Heath and that the men’s average height was 6ft 1in bring me any closer to my perfect match? Probably not | ✍️ @HackettLaura

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

4 years

My piece on the wonderful, transformative Ghost in the Throat by @DoireannNiG @TrampPress is in this month’s @Lit_Review !

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

2 years

I'll always have a soft spot for Wilfred Owen, and his war poems are more important than ever today - young people should all have the opportunity to study them in school

I’m young and female — and I love the poetry of Wilfred Owen

Remember the summer of 2018? When that killer combination of a heatwave and England’s success in the football World Cup had everyone firmly planted in their nea

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

2 years

The sequel to The Boy in Striped Pyjamas should never have been written. It also makes no sense. My review:

All the Broken Places by John Boyne review — an absurd novel

John Boyne’s sequel to The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is just as problematic

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

1 year

my take on the wren, the wren - and why its exclusion from the booker longlist is a miscarriage of literary justice

The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright review — her best novel in years

This tale of a famous writer and his neglected family is Enright’s best in years

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

2 years

just a few of the books we’ll be reviewing in the sunday times this weekend!! everything from horrible husbands to dropping LSD with tech titans…

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

5 years

These words, by @sallyrooney , are worth rereading in light of recent events in NI. Full article here:

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

2 years

my first event and no one heckled!! plus had a brill time talking to two writers I admire so much - @JanCarson7280 and @KennedyLoulou

Johanna Thomas-Corr

@JohannaTC

2 years

Such an enjoyable @CheltLitFest event with two of Northern Ireland’s leading writers, Louise Kennedy and Jan Carson. @HackettLaura drew out a really wide-ranging conversation.

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

5 years

what i think i look like in sub fusc vs what i actually look like

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

2 years

the tidiest books cupboard you ever did see

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

3 years

My first review for the Sunday Times is in today’s paper!

Times Books

@TheTimesBooks

3 years

The debut novel from Irish Times critic Sarah Gilmartin ( @sarahgbooks ) is less Sally Rooney, more Anne Enright, says @HackettLaura

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

2 years

at this point it’s sort of nice to be included

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

1 year

Have spent the past week hooked by the lives and thought of these four philosophers - and am now a paid-up Simone Weil fangirl

The Visionaries by Wolfram Eilenberger review — four philosopher queens

The wild lives and brilliant minds of four (very different) female philosophers who defied Hitler and defined an era

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

2 years

my sister is complaining that my holiday reading constitutes a “barricade” between our beds

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

2 years

who at william collins penned this fantastic hen joke ??

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5 years

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Laura Hackett

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3 years

In my first ever comment piece. I've written about Kenneth Branagh's wonderful Belfast, and why young people (like me) are still leaving NI today

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

2 years

I've reviewed a fiction and non-fiction book together in today's Sunday Times, and written about Northern Ireland 25 years on from the Good Friday Agreement

How to fix the Good Friday agreement and create lasting peace

A manifesto to fix Northern Ireland ignores the vital issue — it takes a novelist to uncover the real cause of its troubles

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

4 years

Delighted to have my first academic article published, looking at pregnancy and attempts to avoid it in Anna Burns’ novels! Thanks so much to @dsm_houston and @darling_orlaith for being brill editors

Alluvium Journal

@AlluviumJournal

4 years

‘At war with her body’: the threat of pregnancy in the novels of Anna Burns, by Laura Hackett

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

2 years

I did not enjoy Ottessa Moshfegh's new book

Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh: how to make rape, cannibalism and incest boring

Struggling through Ottessa Moshfegh’s Lapvona (three times — that’s how much I searched for a redeeming feature) left me wishing that no one would ever write, r

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

3 years

I reviewed Losing It, which sets out how we get sex education wrong in our schools and how to fix it

Times Books

@TheTimesBooks

3 years

We might learn about how to avoid pregnancy and STIs at school, but we don’t learn enough about consent or pleasure - that is stopping young people from having healthy sex lives, says Vice journalist @sophiasgaler

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

5 years

I have finally completed my collection of the Oxford Shakespeare so @OUPAcademic this is a direct order not to commission a new edition in my lifetime I beg

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

6 years

Can’t get over this - so delighted and shocked ❤️❤️

BBC Radio 4 Today

@BBCr4today

6 years

Winner of Student Critic of the Year: @HackettLaura . Congratulations!

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

1 year

remind me never to complain about my job

Milly Reid

@Millsreid11

1 year

One of those delicious days reminding me how amazing working in publishing is! Catchup with @HackettLaura & ended our meeting with a delicious icecream personally made by Ed Gamble outside of Sunday Times office. His book #Glutton is hilarious & out Oct @EdGambleComedy 🍦 🍩 🍝

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

5 years

very very cool to be in the irish times today !!

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

5 years

There were 3 pidgeons flying around the exam hall but still completed it mate !!!

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

3 years

It's been a busy week... I have three articles in today's Sunday Times! All below...

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

3 years

Thousands of books and perhaps as many emails later - the Times and Sunday Times best books of the year list is here!

Times Books

@TheTimesBooks

3 years

It’s here! The Times and Sunday Times’s definitive list of the best books of 2021 (just in time for Christmas)

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

5 years

My piece on recent Irish literature and its relationship with the body, in which I had the opportunity to write about some of my favourite stories 💕

Lucy Writers' Platform

@LucyWriters

5 years

For women in Northern Ireland and a post-Repeal Republic telling stories which speak from the body and its traumas remains a powerful tool, argues Laura Hackett ( @HackettLaura ) when considering work by Sally Rooney, Lucy Caldwell, Sinéad Gleeson & others.

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

1 year

this is a straight transcription of every date i’ve ever been on tbh

The Fence Magazine

@The_Fence_Mag

1 year

Here's the first outing for our highly original interview format, '146 Questions', in which we speak to @daRealAkinfenwa

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

2 years

the weather is so miserable that @JakeHelm_ has a fake fire lit in the office

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

5 years

Oh, and other news! I got a first!!! I'll be hanging around Oxford writing about pregnancy for another year!!

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

3 years

I'll be on @TimesRadio tonight with @ayeshahazarika recommending some great reads for the new year, including books from @JanCarson7280 and @AbigailBergstrm - tune in at 6.45!

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

2 years

loved writing this piece on the new generation of indie booksellers - and the secrets to their success - for @TheSTStyle

Inside’s the UK’s coolest new bookshops

We’re a younger generation of booksellers — you’ll find us at showcases sitting with a bottle of wine,” says Aimée Madill, 34, owner of Phlox Books in Leyton, e

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

5 years

My review of Darran Anderson's ( @Oniropolis ) moving and brilliant Inventory via @OxonianReview

Go138: Klaim Voucher Menarik dari Pragmatic Wild West Gold Megaways!

Daftar jadi member VIP untuk klaim voucher menarik dalam permainan Pragmatic. Pelayanan 24/7 tanpa tunda-tunda tercepat dan tertepat hanya di GO138.

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

2 years

Scouring the bookshelves at home and my mother just recommended a novel supposedly called “Somebody is OK” Gold star if you can guess which book she’s referring to

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

6 years

So excited to have been shortlisted for Student Critic of the Year by @BBCr4today 🎉

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

3 years

filippo bernardini today

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

5 years

Finally back home and sitting down to write a piece for @LucyWriters on these fantastic books - it feels like being back among old friends

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

9 months

just some of the books we’re reviewing in @TheTimesBooks this weekend - with bonus @RobbieTimes bottom

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

11 months

biggest career achievement to date: getting Pippa in the books newsletter

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

1 year

was reading martin amis in public and a man attempted to chat me up, unfortunately he saw “amis” and asked if i was reading a french book felt like a strange ode to the spirit of charles highway

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

8 years

Menstrual cycles should have an off button for exams bc this is defo discrimination

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

11 months

the pile of tottering tomes that became my roundup of this year’s best books about literature… read the full list below

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

2 years

was already drafting a pitch to the travel desk when I realised

Faber Books

@FaberBooks

2 years

🚨BREAKING NEWS 🚨 Faber is opening its very own hotel. Book now for check-in on 4 May. Find out more here:

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

2 years

some hidden gems in this list from literary legend @aholgate

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@TheTimesBooks

2 years

These 23 books are all ones I could look you in the eye and recommend you read, says our departing literary editor @aholgate

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

1 year

just back from a fortnight in the lake district which was not nearly as eventful as this brilliantly bonkers novel

Sanderson’s Isle by James Clarke review — how much is too much?

A riotous, outlandish tour of the counterculture in late Sixties London

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

1 year

For the ST Magazine, I spoke to PSNI officers living in fear after the force’s disastrous data breach in August - they told me that trust in senior management has been eroding for much longer

Who would be a police officer in Northern Ireland?

The country’s ‘blue lights’ cops check for bombs under their family cars and never sit with their backs to a door. Now a calamitous data breach has made life even more perilous, they tell Laura...

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

8 months

Just a few of the books we’re reviewing this weekend across the Times and Sunday Times books pages 📚📚

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

5 years

pleASE someone release the recipe for the killing eve pasta it haunts my dreams

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

2 years

I adored Amy Key's raw, honest, beauuuuutifully written memoir about being single

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

2 years

The Line of Beauty

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

1 year

good vibes only at @tomowolade ’s packed book launch last night

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

11 months

my literature roundup in the sunday times today and online here —>

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

2 years

also in this piece: how much I love @michaelmagee__ 's Close to Home, which I think is the best novel of 2023 so far

How to fix the Good Friday agreement and create lasting peace

A manifesto to fix Northern Ireland ignores the vital issue — it takes a novelist to uncover the real cause of its troubles

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

2 years

guess the species of our newest flatmate by my inbox

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

4 years

my sister is currently second in the world at candy crush what have you done during lockdown

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

5 years

It was wonderful to talk to the lovely Sinéad Gleeson - her words are essential reading in the wake of Northern Ireland's new abortion and equal marriage legislation

Lucy Writers' Platform

@LucyWriters

5 years

Laura Hackett ( @HackettLaura ) talks to acclaimed writer Sinéad Gleeson ( @sineadgleeson ) about uplifting the literary voices & stories of Irish women, art as a means to communicate pain & the role of storytelling during 2018’s historic referendum. Read here:

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

8 years

Idk what's darker rn, my extra-strong tea, the bags under my eyes or my future 👍🏼

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

3 years

I'm back again tonight on @TimesRadio chatting to @portilloandhen about the @TheTimesBooks books of the year extravaganza! Tune in at 7.30 to hear about some of my favourite picks from the critics - but I can't promise to get through all 338...

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

2 years

Andrew has been such a joy to work for, and aside from this being a huge loss for books, I will miss seeing him every day !!

Andrew Holgate

@aholgate

2 years

This is just to say that... I have decided to leave the Sunday Times as Literary Editor. I won't be going till mid October, and will have time to thank everyone who has made this job (23 years in the books dept, 14 as lit ed) such a joy. But I have things at home to do and...1/3

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Laura Hackett

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4 years

Excited to see my piece on John Heywood in this week’s TLS !! This biography literally made me cry over a lesser known Tudor playwright

The TLS

@TheTLS

4 years

'Walker argues that a simple song entitled ‘Be Merry, Friends’ works in the same way that ‘Always look on the bright side of life’ does in Monty Python’s Life of Brian' ( @HackettLaura )

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Laura Hackett

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2 years

begonia = collected

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2 years

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2 years

my mother has just given us a deadline of 8am on thursday to send her our christmas lists (via email, of course)

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

2 years

I spoke to James Acaster about social media, kinder comedy and oversharing on stage - and concluded that he’s just a really nice guy

James Acaster: why I quit social media

Rising star James Acaster is the face of kind comedy — he talks cancel culture and life after Twitter

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

5 years

Pick up a copy of the Irish Times on Saturday!! I’m in very good company 👀👀

Martin Doyle

@MartinDoyleIT

5 years

Laura Hackett on Reading Brendan Behan; Gerald Dawe on Thomas MacGreevy and the Rise of the Irish Avant-Garde; Helen Cullen on Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid; Paschal Donohoe on Narrative Economics by Robert J Shiller; John Self on The Other Name: by Jon Fosse, trans. Damion Searls

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Laura Hackett

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2 years

well well well

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@HackettLaura

2 years

with 13 books to go, I have now reached the panic stage of my annual reading goal

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5 years

as IF I won the Shakespeare Prize 😭😭😭

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Laura Hackett

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1 year

I spoke to @yomiadegoke , @CalebANelson and @kuangrf - and recommended some other great summer reads - for @TimesStyle

Holiday reads: the best books to buy for summer 2023

Our pick of the hottest new novels to start right now (or save for by the pool)

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Laura Hackett

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1 year

I'm afraid I did not enjoy the new Emma Cline book - vibes do not a novel make !!

The Guest by Emma Cline review: sex and the super-rich

Emma Cline was just 27 when she burst on to the literary scene with her debut novel, The Girls. An evocative imagining of a Manson-like cult in 1960s America, it became a huge bestseller, shifting...

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

4 years

STOP

Farrar,Straus&Giroux

@fsgbooks

4 years

A new Sally Rooney novel is on its way. 09.07.21 #BWWAY

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Laura Hackett

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5 years

Arranging breakfast in 2019 like

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Laura Hackett

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2 years

I wrote about the tantalising glimpse we've received into Hilary Mantel's final, unfinished novel, and how it made me rethink everything I thought I knew about Mr Darcy

Oh Mr Darcy, Hilary Mantel has dismantled my dreams

I have spent most of my life safe in the knowledge that Mr Darcy is my dream man. Ever since Matthew Macfadyen strode through the morning dew to win Lizzie’s heart in Pride and Prejudice in 2005, he...

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Laura Hackett

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6 years

don't know what I expected today to hold, but I sure didn't expect an offer for the Oxford MSt in English 1550-1700 !!!! very very excited and happy

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

5 years

Me: I love the scope offered by the Oxford English degree, I can study so many different topics and ideas Also me: *prepares essays on pregnancy and babies for every single exam paper*

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

1 year

Looking forward to speaking to @TomCrewe1 and Alice Winn about their brilliant debut novels at @Waterstones tonight - tickets still available!

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

4 years

my research methodology is literally just searching 'womb' in the shakespeare concordance

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

2 years

many thanks to @margatebookshop @maxminervas @AfroriBooks @rarebirdsbooks @BookBarUK @PhloxBooks and lots of others for speaking to me !

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Laura Hackett

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2 years

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Laura Hackett

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6 years

My sister is the feminist icon we need in 2019

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Laura Hackett

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3 years

Going up against @RobbieTimes , I picked my favourite memoirs and biographies from the year - including books from @lea_ypi , @RevRichardColes , @QianJulieWang and @lucykellaway

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

5 years

got asked last night “which ireland are you from” which ireland

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Laura Hackett

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6 years

Me: maybe Coleridge’s letters will shed some light on his theory of the imagination Coleridge:

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

5 years

My review of Mother Ship by @francescasegal for @TheTLS - a really moving account of life with very premature babies

One-woman girl gang | TLS

The beautiful normality of motherhood

www.the-tls.co.uk

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Laura Hackett

@HackettLaura

4 years

in the belief that the formatting of my cv is the problem, i have slimmed it down by making a website with all my writing on it - so if you fancy reading about mainly babies and ireland you can do so here:

Laura Hackett

Portfolio of work

laurahackettcouk.wordpress.com

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Laura Hackett

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5 years

returning to a shakespeare essay i wrote on the resurrection of characters across plays entitled 'He's in a Better Play Now' - a pun which i considered restrained and professional compared to my preferred option of 'Pushing Up Playsies'

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