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The Obsessive Diary

The diary of a literary obsessive

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3:42

Blue Dot

The Obsessive Diary ·

2026/04/14

Easter was B at the farm for a fortnight and me coming and going for the first week but for the second, a whole week together, was a gentle delight. Just me and them doesn’t happen often what with friends and them being at uni and so I’m impelled to write, to mention it, our time together cohesive and easy, a dance of meals and backgammon, walks and conversations about how we would make this world function with equity. That is where B and I meet, academically but also with our hearts. A basic living

69:23

In conversation with Fiona Melrose

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2026/04/13

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53:38

In conversation with creator of AskMyStack, Luke Deasy

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2026/04/10

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6:46

A love letter to the farm

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2026/04/08

Dear Lodge Farm,You and I have been through a lot together. When I came here you were three hundred years old and I was twenty-five. Or maybe, in the way of multiple incarnations, we were both ancient in brick and flesh skins. You were tumble down and damp, cramped with linoleum and carpet, avocado green bathrooms and alarms, wisteria tore at your hair. An alleyway of cobbles and moss ran along your back, stones shouldered the hill from crushing you and all your rooms seemed underwater, under earth,

63:46

In conversation with Angie Browne

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2026/04/01

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6:23

Happy Birthday to me

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2026/03/30

It’s my birthday. Fifty-five today and I feel like I’m exactly where I’m supposed to be which has got to be the best birthday present of all. Birthday presence. I’ll take that. Normally I cry on my birthday but I get the feeling this time I won’t. I moved into the new flat a week or so ago and then was high-tailing it to France after only a night here. M and I flew back on Wednesday and went west first to hers and then Chaggers to see S and doggles and her incredible show. What it is to have such

69:01

In conversation with Marc Typo

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2026/03/28

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6:42

All Belongs

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2026/03/25

In my favourite place in the world, life is pain au chocolate writ large by morons with bombs and the floured hands of boulangère who rise before dawn. The Magdelane card I pulled was Gaia, all belongs, and black smoke clouds Middle Eastern skies and the scent of baking drifts upon Mediterranean air. The jasmine is out. The jays have multiplied. We hear chaffinches and collared doves. Yesterday a buzzard lifted off from low oaks to rise carefully above the burnt woods; the blackened trunks now

63:34

In conversation with Patrick Gale

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2026/03/19

Due to a slight tech situation, the end of our conversation was cut off. But never fear! We jumped on zoom, and here it is: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit eleanoranstruther.substack.com/subscribe

5:52

Chapter One

The Obsessive Diary ·

2026/03/18

First thing’s first:I will be LIVE in conversation with (First and Last Woofter), the one and only Patrick Gale, Thursday 3pm UK. It’s his first foray into Substack, his maiden interview here, and being a lifelong devotee of both the man and his work I’m slightly beside myself that it should be me who gets to hold the stage. For those who know his work already, come with your questions. For those who’ve yet to discover one of England’s finest novelists, where have you been? He’s our very own Anne

7:30

Art is Activism

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2026/03/12

“Books are radical technology” said Louisa Joyner on the Main Stage yesterday and although London Book Fair can sometimes feel like the slick debut from an Enfant Terrible; overly wordy and as pleased with itself as all hell, I’m with Louisa. Reading is an act of protest and rebellion and books are the latest and oldest in the fight.The watchword at every talk seemed to be libraries, especially on the PEN stage which was less doused in entry-point, evergreen and content viewing habits than the

63:15

Presenting: The Hybrid Toolkit

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2026/03/09

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0:37

The Hybrid Publishing Toolkit

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2026/03/09

Morning all,Just a quick head’s up for all those thinking of going the Hybrid route.In line with London Book Fair happening all week (and yes, I’ll be there, might even do a bit of LIVE streaming…), my Substack LIVE guest today will be Stephanie Buck, creator of The Hybrid Publishing Toolkit. Join us with your questions and pens at the ready 6pm tonight (GMT) plus listen out for the special discount offer for orders before 31st March.Subscribe now, and keep your eyes on Notes for the live link

1:50

Live with Eleanor Anstruther

The Obsessive Diary ·

2026/03/07

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73:38

In conversation with Essie Fox

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2026/03/06

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9:22

Electric Wuthering

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2026/03/05

It was a train ride to Gladstone Library which began with a complicated shifting of luggage and repacking awkwardly in the back of my car in an echoey London NCP where always something is dribbling over the concrete floor and wafts of urine meet the sense that a car chase or attack is imminent. They are look-over-your-shoulder scary, city carparks, especially the ones underground. From there, suitcase artfully repacked leaving pinstripe trousers and gold boots and taking my heavy blanket (we’d been

2:57

Stress calls

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2026/02/27

I’ll be honest with you. I’m pre-pub stressed. Alisa Kennedy Jones and I jumped on a zoom last night and I said, “I’m apologising in advance for how annoying I’m going to be between now and book launch.” She’s busting a gut to get everything happening at the right time and in the right order and I’m trying really hard to trust in god and tie up my camel. Tying up my camel, I’m good at. Trusting in god, not so much. I was chatting with PG earlier this week who also has a book coming out and he said

6:57

Yoot

The Obsessive Diary ·

2026/02/20

So he’s been arrested. I might have been the last person in the UK to hear this, my day being spent well away from ticker-tape streaming breaking news and anything resembling The State of Things bar the small and flighty references made by me and P as we walked in the woods, marvelling at moss. I’ll start at the beginning. It’s reading week and the farm has been peopled by a herd of Yoot, friends of B arriving by train and bus and car. In the run up I did a lot of shopping, three goes at the

48:39

Live with Eleanor Anstruther & London Writers' Salon

The Obsessive Diary ·

2026/02/18

Thank you Angie Browne, Billy Bumbo, Lindsey Trout Hughes, Isabel Peralta, Kristin Austin, and many others for tuning into my live video with London Writers' Salon! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit eleanoranstruther.substack.com/subscribe

65:17

Who By Fire - in conversation with Mary Tabor

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2026/02/13

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