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Robbie Millen

@RobbieTimes

Literary Editor of The Times/Sunday Times. Judge @BGPrize https://xitter.twitterapi.xyz/t.co/dXVbjAx9EH

Joined May 2012
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M John Harrison on the Booker: ‘I’ll keep going until Mr Alzheimer calls’ thetimes.com/culture/books/a…
M John Harrison on the Booker: ‘I’ll keep going until Mr Alzheimer calls’

M John Harrison on the Booker: ‘I’ll keep going until Mr Alzheimer calls’

The 81-year-old author on his love of weird fiction, his literary hero JG Ballard and why his work is like Marmite — ‘you either love it or hate it’

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Tony Kent@TonyKent_WritesNov 9
Just picked up yesterday’s Culture from @thetimes Sunday edition and found THIS in the books section!! I’ve already posted the online version but had then totally forgotten it would be in there. So that made my day after a very cold morning on a rugby touch line!
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Our verdict on the 2026 Booker winner — enthralling and exasperating thetimes.com/culture/books/a…
Our verdict on the 2026 Booker winner — enthralling and exasperating

Our verdict on the 2026 Booker winner — enthralling and exasperating

M John Harrison’s unusual and perplexing novel The End of Everything has won Britain’s leading fiction prize

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What a delightful man Jonathan Coe is (and the new novel is a cracker) Jonathan Coe: ‘We’ve got to write about the failure of ideas on the left’ thetimes.com/article/5af5e9a…
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John le Carré’s son — why I’m writing a new George Smiley thriller thetimes.com/culture/books/a…
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Tony Kent@TonyKent_WritesNov 5
A great publication day present for #TheOdessaAssassin: finding it recommended amongst the four best new thrillers for November by @thetimes thetimes.com/culture/books/a…
Four new thrillers to read this November

Four new thrillers to read this November

Louise Candlish’s latest nosy narrator. Plus, David Baldacci’s new novel, and a posthumous sequel to The Odessa File

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The battle of the century — the day Alexander the Great became a legend thetimes.com/culture/books/a…
The battle of the century — the day Alexander the Great became a legend

The battle of the century — the day Alexander the Great became a legend

This week the ancient historian Edmund Richardson won Britain’s leading non-fiction award, the Baillie Gifford prize, for his excellent biography, Alexander: God, King, Man

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Matthew Sweet@DrMatthewSweetNov 4
A great pleasure to review @M_H_Taylor’s magnificent new book on the Illuminati and their weird and vigorous afterlife in conspiracy culture - from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to GB News. @thetimes thetimes.com/culture/books/a…
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John Maier
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My review, from a few months ago, of Russell Brand's dreadful book about his rather convenient religious conversion. @thetimes "Brand has swallowed a dictionary, and it is not coming out again via his mouth"
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I reviewed Russell Brand’s new book about finding god for the corrupt mainstream media. @RobbieTimes Link below!
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Josh Glancy@joshglancyNov 8
So what *has* actually gone wrong with British politics? I reviewed Laura Kuenssberg's new book for @thetimes thetimes.com/culture/books/a…
What’s wrong with British politics, according to Laura Kuenssberg

What’s wrong with British politics, according to Laura Kuenssberg

In Pay Attention, the BBC journalist chronicles the madness of the last decade in Westminster

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Josh Glancy@joshglancyNov 8
Straight in at Number 2 on The Sunday Times (paperback) bestseller list for @trussliz
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Alanis Morissette comes out as pansexual trib.al/FHl8hvh
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Patrick Kidd@patrick_kiddNov 5
Edmund Richardson’s excellent biography of Alexander the Great has won the Baillie Gifford Prize. I reviewed it in May for @RobbieTimes. He fought hard and partied hard and had the most expensive hangover in history. Alexander, that is, not Robbie thetimes.com/article/ee6593d…
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Baillie Gifford Prize@BGPrizeNov 4
🏆 The moment we’ve all been waiting for… Edmund Richardson has won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2026 with Alexander: God, King, Man.✨ Huge congratulations to Edmund and @BloomsburyBooks, and to all shortlisted authors for an extraordinary year of non-fiction.
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On William the conqueror and the invasion of England in 1688. My latest for @thetimes: thetimes.com/culture/books/a…
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James Hogg
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Happy Halloween, kiddies! Don't have nightmares.
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Sarah Ditum@sarahditumOct 29
I went to the midnight launch of the new Sarah J Maas to discover why women love romantasy. It’s not just fairy porn! (And a big thank you to the Maas fandom for being so welcoming and generous to an outsider - they were lovely.) thetimes.com/article/a325ae7…
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Will Lloyd
@Will___lloydOct 29
Outstanding and at times oddly moving @patrickkmaguire review of the "garlicky" new Lizz Truss book thetimes.com/culture/books/a…
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Kim Ghattas
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I'm beyond thrilled with this amazing review in @thetimes Thanks to @justinmarozzi for his thoughtful and thorough take and recognising the hard work that went into this! : "Stunningly well researched"
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"Stunningly well researched. Mayhem, murk and cynicism inhabit every page." Fantastic to see this review in @thetimes today for @KimGhattas's new book THE BEST KIND OF AMERICAN. Out now. bit.ly/4siPu8K
How Beirut became a playground for spooks and terrorists

How Beirut became a playground for spooks and terrorists

The Best Kind of American by the journalist Kim Ghattas is a savage account of kidnappings, massacres, assassinations and serial US policy blunders

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In Ladies’ Man, Laurence Leamer asks what drove President Kennedy to conduct affairs with everyone from his secretary to an alleged Nazi spy thetimes.com/culture/books/a…
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