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INTERVIEW ON HOXTON RADIO ABOUT BREAK-UPS AND LIDOS

Published on April 20, 2016June 7, 2022 by loreleimathiasLeave a comment

I recently had a serendipitous encounter at my local lido with a friendly stranger. He was stood loitering by the swim-suit dryer, recording the sound of it on his phone. Like you do. We got chatting. I quickly unleashed my lido geekery on him (when I’m not writing novels, I’m a nutcase about outdoor swimming and lidos)… and before I knew it, I’d agreed to co-host on his show all about London Fields Lido, on Hoxton.FM.

It was insane amounts of fun. I’m going back on again this Saturday (23rd April), at 3pm to talk all about Break Up Club and its mega-therapeutic sound-track. We’re after recommendations – if you’ve got a song that’s saved your broken-hearted ass – let me know and we might play it.

‘Til then, here’s a handy link to listen to my goofy radio debut here:

If you don’t have two hours spare and you fancy dipping your toe in to some of it, here’s what we chat about and when…

Break Up Club and my novels: 10 mins 33 to 11

My next book after Break Up Club, and Lidos and their history, and : 12 mins & 46 mins

Peckham Rye Lido and Thames Baths: 15 mins

Darren Hayman, London Fields Lido and Thames Baths: 33- 36 mins

Brockwell Lido: 50 mins and 1 min 50

The Salad Spinner: 52 mins

Lido love, and literature and swimming: 1 min 8- 11

Lucy Blakstad and her film Lido:1 min 11, and 1 min 50

Heavy Petting: 1 min 16

Book Review: Reader, I Dumped Him by Lorelei Mathias

Published on January 16, 2016February 27, 2016 by loreleimathiasLeave a comment

Thank you so much Holly! Holly, Bella, Olivia and Harry say a wopping Thank you for your kind words!!!x

Bookaholic Confessions

Reader, I dumped him... A love story about break-ups

Reader, I Dumped Him by Lorelei Mathias
Release Date: 4th February 2016
Publisher: Maze
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This story is a celebration of the people that bring you back to life when your world closes in: your mates.

Relationships come and go, but the Break-up Club membership never truly expires.

Holly Braithwaite and loveable loser Lawrence have been together for five years. But the obvious cracks in their relationship can no longer be ignored and Holly soon finds herself saying ‘it’s not you, it’s me.’

In the shock aftermath of their break up, Holly finds unlikely companions in Olivia, Harry and Bella. Together, they form the Break-up Club, as they support each other through their mutual melancholy and find ways to love, laugh and function as human beings again.

Break-up Club meets every Sunday. Each week, as the comedy and drama unfolds, they discover a new BUC ‘rule’. And, one…

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Goodbye Sherlock, Hello Shard

Published on July 22, 2015November 20, 2015 by loreleimathiasLeave a comment

I’ve just been for a run along the beach in my lunch hour. No, we haven’t moved to LA. Just to the South Bank, to AMV’s lovely new beach-side offices.*

AMV BBDO moved house last month, from where they’ve lived in Marylebone, NW1 for fifteen years, to a shiny new place in SE1 with a swanksville terrace. Here is the swanksville view from the terrace.

Because we’re lucky enough to be working here, we were lucky enough to move with them. It’s a brilliantly creative new area to work in. Sometimes, down by the Tate Modern there is even a man with a typewriter, bashing out literature while you wait, which is always nice.

*You might say the phrase ‘beach-side’ is a bit of an over-claim. Not so, if the amazing architects Octopi get their way and the Blackfriars Baths open at the end of 2016… unnamed (2)