A Deadly Game Stefan Zweig's last novella, 'Chess'

Stefan Zweig’s last, chilling novella – and notes from our kitchen table. cjschuler.substack.com/publish/post...

A new book on urban nature reviewed, and the ancient fear – and allure – of wolves: cjschuler.substack.com/p/wild-about...

The Way of the World A Grimm moral for every occasion

Grimm tales for grim times, and some grimly topical Weimar cabaret:
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Snowbound A chilly Britain on the cusp of change

Check out my latest post on Substack: cjschuler.substack.com/p/snowbound

A Man Out of Time Mark Bowles's brilliant rant against the inanities of the modern world

Notes in the Margin says goodbye to 2025 with an erudite, scathing and scatological rant against the inanities of modern life: cjschuler.substack.com/publish/post...

Tom Stoppard: A Tribute | The Authors’ Club Since 1891 On the last weekend of November, I was saddened to learn that the playwright Tom Stoppard had died, aged 88.

'These days, the figures who have loomed large in our cultural lives seem to be disappearing one by one.' My tribute to the late Tom Stoppard: www.authorsclub.co.uk/tom-stoppard...

Check out the latest Substack form Notes in the Margin: fungi, foxes and fearless love —cjschuler.substack.com/p/the-weird-and-wonderfu...

Check out my latest post on Notes in the Margin: Troilus and Cressida at Shakespeare’s Globe, an anniversary special offer, and more from our kitchen table: cjschuler.substack.com/p/lovers-at-...

A Lost Hero of the Authors' Club The soldier, archaeologist and crime novelist Stanley Casson

Check out my latest post on Substack: a lost hero of the @AuthorsClub, and a portal to another Oxford - cjschuler.substack.com/p/a-lost-her...

Latest Substack: A nature classic from 1900 - cjschuler.substack.com/p/blue-remem...

Thomas Hardy Revisited New insights into old reads

Latest Substack – back to the classics cjschuler.substack.com/p/thomas-har...

The Empire that Refused to Die The myth of a thousand-year decline

The Empire that Refused to Die
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Some thoughts on writers and exile: open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...

Across Germany from West to East A journey through history, culture and politics

I'm back from Germany, and on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...

Britain’s biggest beetle takes to the air It’s time to watch out for the spectacular, endangered stag beetle

It's #StagBeetle time again! open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...

When Europe Went Star-Crazy An engaging account of a time when alchemy, astrology and science went hand in hand

Check out my latest post on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...

Victorian nature notes, the shifting baseline, and more…open.substack.com/pub/cjschuler/p/when-sky...

Brilliant interview with Cath Harries @CMHarries, the photographer of Sheldrake's #DoorsOfLondon, on the ‘Country Life’ podcast. Do give it a listen.

A free post on Sybille Bedford's 'A Legacy' and, for paid subscribers, some thoughts on anti-intellectualism in politics then and now: open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...

Sex and drugs and right-wing rule Writers and artists in a collapsing world

I wrote about Isherwood a few weeks ago, and he flits through the pages of another book I’ve read recently, Love in a Time of Hate… open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...

Once you first notice them, you start seeing them everywhere…open.substack.com/pub/cjschuler/p/its-not-...

Thanks so much to The Authors' Club and @schulercj.bsky.social for inviting @househistorian.bsky.social and I along to The National Liberal Club last week to chat about 'Doors of London'!

Evening Talk on Doors - News from Sheldrake Press An evening talk on doors was held at the historic Authors’ Club in London, presented by the editor and authors of ‘Doors of London’.

Judging books by their covers? Try judging buildings by their doors! Follow @cathlondon.bsky.social, @househistorian.bsky.social and their editor @schulercj.bsky.social as they lead a virtual tour of hidden architectural gems.

#authorsclub #thenationalliberalclub #architecture

bit.ly/DoorTalk

Petition: Ban driven grouse shooting Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery (Wild Justice) believe that driven grouse shooting is bad for people, the environment and wildlife. People; we think grouse shooting is economically insignifi...

49,000 signatures for banning driven grouse shooting - thank you for your strong support. Plz sign & share petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Looking forward to 50,000 soon.

Just received my PLR statement for 2023-4. Not a vast sum of money, but pleasing to know that Along the Amber Route was borrowed from public libraries 190 times that year.
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My latest Substack, on a classic of Victorian nature writing: open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...

See more of London's elegance in 'Doors of London' by Cath Harries and Melanie Backe-Hansen. 🚪🖤✨ bit.ly/DoorsofLondon #doorsoflondon #londonarchitecture
#aestheticlondon

For a first time author like Cath Harries, nothing compares to the feeling of seeing your name up in lights for the first time.

Spot your book, sign it and smile! #doorsoflondon

📚 BOOKSPOTTING 📚

Walking into Foyles on Charing Cross Road, what is the first thing you see? 'Doors of London' by Cath Harries and Melanie Backe-Hansen. This is Cath's friend Emma saying, 'Hey! Look!'

Simon Armitage reinvents a folk tale: cjschuler.substack.com