Nina Stibbe Journalist Profile

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Celebrities reveal the strangest Christmas gifts they’ve received

Dec 4, 2024 | womanandhome.com | Nina Stibbe |Ella Taylor

Oh, you shouldn’t have. No really, you shouldn’t have…’ Finding out what presents your family and friends received is part of the fun of Christmas; the perfect, the dull and, best of all, the dismal fail. My ‘add-on’ gifts of food bag sealing clips, allegedly for the third year running, made me the butt of many jokes.
Litterary review

Oct 16, 2024 | islingtontribune.co.uk | Peter Gruner |Nina Stibbe

Nina StibbeINTERVIEWED by Review, author Nina Stibbe shines a not altogether flattering light on Camden – especially when it comes to litter. Nevertheless, her memoir, Went to London, Took the Dog, is a humorous and fascinating account of a year of her life when she was back in the borough after two decades’ absence. A diary of her times in London, the book is also a celebration of many of the things she loves about Camden, as well as a mid-life female friendships and resilience.
What Adrian Mole means to me - by David Nicholls and Nina Stibbe

Aug 17, 2024 | thetimes.com | David Nicholls |Nina Stibbe

We’ve had Mr Darcy, we’ve had Pierre Bezukhov, we’ve had Oliver Twist — and then, in 1982, a new literary hero graced our shelves: the incomparable Adrian Mole, then aged 13 ¾. The great thinker of Ashby-de-la-Zouche immediately charmed us all with his anxieties, his delusions, his debilitating crushes and his obsession with the size of his “thing”.
Nina Stibbe: I couldn’t finish Middlemarch

Jul 1, 2024 | thetimes.com | Nina Stibbe

I have just read Elizabeth Strout’s neglected debut novel Amy and Isabelle and was struck by her ability to build tension using nothing but the banal and brutal components of ordinary women’s lives. In it, the lonely single mother of a teenage daughter elaborately prepares for a social call from her boss and his wife by splitting a bunch of cheap tulips to spread about the house, decanting cream into an heirloom creamer and taking an afternoon nap to ensure freshness later.
Cambridge Edition December 2023 - Web

Dec 1, 2023 | online.bright-publishing.com | Phoebe Harper |Charlotte Griffiths |Nina Stibbe

YOUR MONTHLY FIX OF LOCAL LIFE DECEMBER 2023 £2,000+ WIN! GIVEAWAY INSIDE THIS ISSUE! Season’s Greetings DIVE INTO DECEMBER WITH FESTIVE FAMILY ACTIVITIES, CHRISTMAS CAROLLING, OUR INDIE GIFT GUIDE AND MUCH MORE! INTERIORS Top tips for tasteful tablescaping RECIPES Seasonal culinary favourites from local restaurants GREEN XMAS Your guide to a more eco-friendly celebration SIGN UP TO OUR DIGITAL ISSUE AT CAMBSEDITION.CO.UK WELCOME Farewell from me! W elcome to our final issue of the year,...
With her relationship on the rocks, author NINA STIBBE swapped the country for London. In the final extract from her quirkily endearing book, she plots a return to Cornwall | Daily Mail Online

Oct 23, 2023 | dailymail.co.uk | Nina Stibbe

Nina Stibbe is best known for the memoir that became the BBC series, Love, Nina. Here, in our final extract from her new book, she details what she dubs her ‘Grown Up Gap Year’ in London. At 60, with her two children Eva and Alfred both in their 20s, she has decided to take a break from her marriage and move in with novelist Deborah Moggach in Kentish Town. Four months in, she ventures home to Cornwall for Christmas . . . September 8, 2022I’m not settled in London. Nothing to do with the Queen dying.
Her marriage under strain, novelist NINA STIBBE left her home in Cornwall to lodge with Best Exotic Marigold Hotel author Deborah Moggach. Here, she shares her sharply funny... Diary of my gap year in London, aged 60 | Daily Mail Online

Oct 22, 2023 | dailymail.co.uk | Nina Stibbe

Twenty years after leaving London, author Nina Stibbe is back in town. Here, we share extracts from her new book Moved To London, Took The Dog, based on her diary — a long-awaited sequel to the laugh-out-loud bestseller Love Nina. March 26, 2022It's official: I'm going to have a year-long London 'sabbatical' from my Cornwall life (and marriage). Moving in at the end of April. March 27Woke at 2am last night with the full realisation I'm moving back to London — 20 years after moving away — aged 60.
Old Filth by Jane Gardam review - the lonely life of a child of empire

Jan 30, 2023 | thetimes.co.uk | Nina Stibbe

Sir Edward Feathers QC, “Old Filth”, first appeared in print in 2002 when Jane Gardam wrote a short story for The Oldie magazine about two elderly lawyers, sworn enemies at the Bar, reconciled when trapped by a Christmas snowstorm in rural Dorset. The piece was developed and published as a novel two years later.