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  • Kate Rhodes
  • Rachel Rhys
  • Keith Ridgway
  • Matt Ridley
  • Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • J.D. Robb
  • Peter Robinson
  • Jane Robinson
  • Marilynne Robinson
  • Monique Roffey
  • Barbara Rogan
  • Jane Rogers
  • Sally Rooney
  • Domenica De Rosa
  • JK Rowling
  • SJ Rozan
  • Adam Rutherford
  • Clare Sambrook
  • Marcus du Sautoy
  • Dorothy L Sayers
  • Leila Schneps
  • Kathryn Schulz
  • Aileen Schumacher
  • Manda Scott
  • Francesca Segal
  • Peter Seibel
  • Barbara Seranella
  • Mary Ann Shaffer
  • Kamila Shamsie
  • Anna Shechtman
  • Peng Shepherd
  • Laura Shepherd-Robinson
  • Carol Shields
  • Clay Shirky
  • Anita Shreve
  • Lionel Shriver
  • Guy Shrubsole
  • Nevil Shute
  • Jenny Siler
  • Nate Silver
  • Simon Singh
  • Philip Sington
  • Curtis Sittenfeld
  • Rebecca Skloot
  • Karin Slaughter
  • Mary Smale
  • Jane Smiley
  • Ali Smith
  • Robert Rowland Smith
  • Julie Smith

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3 Good Things for 6 November 2026

📕 Reading my own travel diary from 1992. (34 years ago! Time is the strangest thing.) (I thought I’d mislaid it over the years and was sad about that. I realised I still had it last year but it’s taken me a while to summon up the courage to actually read it.)

😬Realising I’ve simultaneously changed a lot and not changed at all.

🔍Based on a first name and one line description of a friendly person I met on a train in 1992 I managed to locate them on the internet today. They won’t remember me so I won’t contact them but I’m glad to see they look like they are still a nice guy. And the internet is still quite amazing even when it feels way past its best.

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