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Simon wrote in praise of the 19th century enduring Mutual Societies for Idler magazine in the March/April 2025 edition, mentioning amongst others The Wine Society and The Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society. You can purchase copies of the Idler from these stockists: https://www.idler.co.uk/idler-stockists/ Here’s the essay: Mutual Friends What would you do if you found a fewContinue reading “Mutual Friends”

Simon Petherick was commissioned by London charity London Plus to research and write a report on the role of the volunteer and community sector during lockdown in London. The report, Tales of Covid, has just been published by London Plus, and you can read it here: https://londonplus.org/case-studies/tales-of-covid. Simon: “It was a genuine privilege to beContinue reading “Tales of Covid”

I wrote a post for The Ghostwriters Agency, of which I’m proud to be a member: https://www.theghostwritersagency.com/news/6yvtc2qmx3ke9y06pg1w4o9lwncgqb

Why is it that certain readers somehow feel let down when they discover that a novel they have enjoyed has in fact been written by a ghostwriter, or sometimes even a team of ghostwriters? We don’t seem to worry so much when it comes to filmscripts, in fact we assume that our favourite films areContinue reading “Fairy tales”

As well as running his own ghostwriting website, Simon Petherick is also a member of the new ghostwriting agency, The Ghostwriters’ Agency: http://www.theghostwritersagency.com. Set up and run by bestselling ghostwriters Teena Lyons and Shannon Kyle, the agency has a number of ghostwriters on its books, including Simon, who are able to respond to requests fromContinue reading “New ghostwriting podcast”

Simon reviewed the 1983 book Pandæmonium by Humphrey Jennings in the May/June 2023 issue of Idler magazine. You can read the review here. Idler magazine is available from a host of good shops, as listed here: https://www.idler.co.uk/idler-stockists/

Simon has recorded an online course for Idler magazine to encourage more people to consider trying to write their own life story. You can access the course here: https://www.idler.co.uk/course/how-to-write-your-life-story-with-simon-petherick/ The services of a ghostwriter will always be needed: by people who don’t feel able to tackle the task themselves, by the publishing industry which needsContinue reading “How To Write Your Life Story”

Simon Petherick was interviewed by Michael Portillo on GB News on Sunday 20th November 2022 on the craft and business of ghostwriting: You can also watch the ten-minute interview here on Youtube: https://youtu.be/a9xZ81IZWgs You can read more about the process of ghostwriting here: https://ghostwriter.works/the-ghostwriting-process/

Simon had an essay published in The Guardian in October 2022: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/oct/25/my-doomed-stand-margaret-thatcher-war-truth-central-office-information

Simon Petherick has a new essay in Issue 84 of Idler Magazine. You can buy Idler magazine from these stockists — https://www.idler.co.uk/idler-stockists/ — or read the article here: ‘I am from the lamasery of Shangri-La.’ These first words spoken by Chang, the High Lama’s functionary, in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by James Hilton, introduced the worldContinue reading “In Search of Shangri-La”