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Caroline Crampton

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Caroline Crampton is the author of A Body Made of Glass and the creator of the Shedunnit podcast

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156 from 25 Nov 2017 to 14 Oct 2026
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2026 30

  1. Shedunnit
  2. While Being A Rather Chaotic Person
  3. It's Useful To Remember That We Don't Hate Everything
  4. The Only Truly Universal Writing Advice
  5. It Has Indeed Been A While
  6. I Guess You Can Also Just Enjoy Them Digitally
  7. What I Read In February 2026
  8. The View From RSS
  9. How To Stop Waiting For Life To Start
  10. Reading Georgette Heyer: Powder and Patch
  11. You Decide To Do The Funniest Thing Possible
  12. A Body Made of Glass: Spanish Edition
  13. Reading Georgette Heyer: An Infamous Army
  14. The Late Mrs Willoughby by Claudia Gray
  15. The Problem With Trying To Make Something New Look "Old"
  16. How Much It Really Costs To Do Nice Things
  17. Reading Georgette Heyer: Regency Buck
  18. What I Read in January 2026
  19. Life Is Full Of Such Disappointments
  20. The Invisible Exoskeleton
  21. It Used To Be A Religious Sacrament!
  22. Reading Georgette Heyer: Devil's Cub
  23. Maybe I Need To Accept That I Simply Hate The Archers
  24. Review for The Observer: In Love With Love by Ella Risbridger
  25. Reading Georgette Heyer: These Old Shades
  26. A Gentleman's Offer by Emma Orchard
  27. Then I Stopped Being Able To Close The Wardrobe Door
  28. Reading Georgette Heyer: The Black Moth
  29. Reading Without Limits Or Expectations
  30. The Wonder of Wool by Justine Lee and Jess Morency

2025 70

  1. Jandy Mac Comes Back by Elsie J. Oxenham
  2. Wickham, Wimsey, Westmacott: What I Read in October, November and December 2025
  3. Someone Who Has Become Very Curmudgeonly In Recent Years
  4. If You Are Also Fed Up Of Reading Protein Propaganda
  5. Summer, Station, Scene: What I Read in September 2025
  6. When The Writing Is Very Good That Doesn't Matter
  7. Win The Right To Supply The President With Baguettes
  8. Santa, Sorcery, Skara: What I Read in August 2025
  9. Optimising Yourself Should Not Be A Leisure Activity!
  10. I'm Having A Really Nice Time Reading All The Footnotes
  11. Lady C: The Long Sensational Life of Lady Chatterley’s Lover
  12. There's Never Been A Better Time To Become An Etsy Witch
  13. Beat, Bomb, Bookshop: What I Read in July 2025
  14. Bonedust, Botanist, Bookshop: What I Read in June 2025
  15. Wallace, Wychford, Wimsey: What I Read in May 2025
  16. Let's Read About The Lutanist
  17. To Orkney and Back Again
  18. "What You Might Need To Be Relentless"
  19. I Would Like Everyone To Applaud My Restraint
  20. A Body Made of Glass: Polish Edition
  21. “Single Largest Self-Promotion Operation In Wikipedia’s History”
  22. Little Lithuania
  23. Even If You Found It Very Annoying In The Mid 2000s
  24. The Duchess's Sequence of Ideas
  25. A Retired Michigan Police Dog Is Now Helping Track Deadly Bacteria In Bees
  26. Nine Regrets
  27. The Organ Episode
  28. Dicing An Onion The Mathematically Optimal Way
  29. The Absurd Opposite Of A URL Shortener
  30. Elementary Is A Masterclass In Sherlock Holmes Adaptation
  31. Why Preserve Flash?
  32. Sub/Title
  33. The Creator Economy Is A Race To The Bottom For Human Dignity
  34. Cleaning A Disaster House When You're Stupid
  35. Neither Well-Written Nor Revelatory Nor Particularly Original
  36. Cracking A Family Member's Password
  37. How Would Jane Austen Define An “Accomplished Woman” Today?
  38. The Venetian Nobility
  39. What Do Tweens Really Want?
  40. There Is Some Peace In Just Printing Things Out
  41. I'm Sometimes More Impressed By Normality
  42. Finding The Nostalgia Genuinely Painful Rather Than Heartwarming
  43. Our Brains Have Not Yet Evolved A Way Of Dealing With It
  44. Audio, Arthur, Astronaut: What I Read in April 2025
  45. I'm Done With Social Media
  46. When Done Cheaply, The Paint Comes Off On Your Hands
  47. Rooney, Regency, Raffles: What I Read in March 2025
  48. The Logical Endpoint Of That Trajectory Is Not Good
  49. We're On The Way To Mordor But We Have A Synthesiser
  50. People Don't Even Know About The Private Jet Incident
  51. The Soundtrack To All Of My Emotional Solo Bus Journeys
  52. Trying To Achieve Peak Cultural Saturation
  53. I Can't Escape The Feeling That We're All Just Working For Free
  54. This Is For The Hardcore Procrastinators Only
  55. From The Point Of View Of A Typeface
  56. All Hail Zeus, I Suppose
  57. I Hope They Never Grew Out Of Their Pedantry
  58. Those Who Like The Grooves Of Your Mind
  59. Bowen, Bennet, Butler: What I Read in February 2025
  60. As A Committed Grudge-Holder...
  61. Singing To Me About Mustard And Jack Sparrow
  62. Advice That Is Both Aspirational And Practical
  63. Harlem, Heyer, Henry: What I Read in January 2025
  64. Reaching The 'It's Always Grey And I Hate It' Stage
  65. You Don’t Have To Be Their Audience
  66. Reading A Lot, But Differently
  67. We Should Let This Marinate A Bit Longer
  68. It Seems To Produce Moderately Rational Results
  69. When I Need To Be Reminded That There Is More
  70. It Probably Shouldn't Be All I Have In My Head

2024 16

  1. Moon, Mice, Mystery: What I Read in December 2024
  2. Ben, Brat, Bruce: What I Read in November 2024
  3. The Background Nun Playing The Violin
  4. As An Unsuccessful Teenage Oboist...
  5. A New Chief Scorpion Wrangler Is Sought
  6. Secrets, Spies, Styles: What I Read in October 2024
  7. Difficult, Often Expensive, Sometimes Soul-Crushing
  8. Would You Like An Auto-Generated Compliment?
  9. A Pat Answer To The Inevitable Question
  10. My New Favourite Wellness Nonsense
  11. Crispin, Cazalet, California: What I Read in September 2024
  12. One Of My Most Toxic Traits
  13. The Months-Long Kafkaesque Ordeal
  14. I Do Not Think It Very Nice
  15. The Post-Book Blues
  16. Caroline's Day Off

2023 2

  1. what I know about getting books published
  2. this is me trying

2022 32

  1. the process of reading as unconscious as breathing
  2. working from home is great until it isn’t
  3. a list of small, inconsequential pleasures
  4. to go any distance across rough terrain
  5. the five podcasts I actually listen to
  6. when will we cry in public again?
  7. I feel a warm little glow of satisfaction
  8. because of all the words I deleted
  9. how do you have a minor illness during a pandemic?
  10. rummaging through all the paper
  11. a brain fizzing combination of accomplishment and virtue
  12. a thimbleful of cherry brandy for three shillings
  13. this will take a minute
  14. having a summer; I recommend it
  15. call the coastguard, I suppose
  16. what if not everything had to be maximised for profit?
  17. how to start writing a book
  18. there is no way to see your own art history
  19. my fingers race to keep up with the high hat
  20. apfelstrudel is definitely in my future
  21. lunch usually takes longer than I give it
  22. starboard is green, except when it isn't
  23. don't laugh at me
  24. a pen and paper is always as good
  25. I am my own unreliable narrator
  26. do you get paid for doing this?
  27. how to do nothing again
  28. what if you did less work?
  29. there has to be a better way to write
  30. the last day of the before
  31. I rushed home to share my topiary gossip
  32. the world acquires a soft focus it does not possess

2021 1

  1. A Body Made of Glass

2020 3

  1. this life is the best we've ever had
  2. things I am doing and things I am not doing
  3. very little has changed and yet so much

2019 1

  1. am i a writer?

2017 1

  1. The Way to the Sea