C.J. Schüler
@schulercj.bsky.social
Writer, editor, nature reserve volunteer, Herne Hillbilly. Author, The Wood That Built London, Along the Amber Route (shortlisted @StanfordsTravel Award 2021). Published @SandstonePress. Represented @CullandCoAgency
New post: Jonathan Coe, Italo Calvino & Afghan women writers – cjschuler.substack.com/p/a-savage-s...
A Savage Satire
What a Carve Up!, by Jonathan Coe
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August 27, 2026 at 2:56 PM
New post: Jonathan Coe, Italo Calvino & Afghan women writers – cjschuler.substack.com/p/a-savage-s...
New Substack post: A London Odyssey, and diasporic sagas… cjschuler.substack.com/p/a-london-o...
July 27, 2026 at 6:41 PM
New Substack post: A London Odyssey, and diasporic sagas… cjschuler.substack.com/p/a-london-o...
Check out my latest Substack for some classic European short fiction: cjschuler.substack.com
June 20, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Check out my latest Substack for some classic European short fiction: cjschuler.substack.com
Check out my latest post on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...?
Is This the World's Oldest Computer?
The Antikythera mechanism: an ancient astronomical calculator
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April 27, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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Stefan Zweig’s last, chilling novella – and notes from our kitchen table. cjschuler.substack.com/publish/post...
A Deadly Game
Stefan Zweig's last novella, 'Chess'
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April 9, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Stefan Zweig’s last, chilling novella – and notes from our kitchen table. cjschuler.substack.com/publish/post...
A new book on urban nature reviewed, and the ancient fear – and allure – of wolves: cjschuler.substack.com/p/wild-about...
March 13, 2026 at 1:45 PM
A new book on urban nature reviewed, and the ancient fear – and allure – of wolves: cjschuler.substack.com/p/wild-about...
Grimm tales for grim times, and some grimly topical Weimar cabaret:
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The Way of the World
A Grimm moral for every occasion
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February 26, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Grimm tales for grim times, and some grimly topical Weimar cabaret:
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Check out my latest post on Substack: cjschuler.substack.com/p/snowbound
Snowbound
A chilly Britain on the cusp of change
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February 12, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Check out my latest post on Substack: cjschuler.substack.com/p/snowbound
Notes in the Margin says goodbye to 2025 with an erudite, scathing and scatological rant against the inanities of modern life: cjschuler.substack.com/publish/post...
A Man Out of Time
Mark Bowles's brilliant rant against the inanities of the modern world
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December 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Notes in the Margin says goodbye to 2025 with an erudite, scathing and scatological rant against the inanities of modern life: cjschuler.substack.com/publish/post...
'These days, the figures who have loomed large in our cultural lives seem to be disappearing one by one.' My tribute to the late Tom Stoppard: www.authorsclub.co.uk/tom-stoppard...
Tom Stoppard: A Tribute | The Authors’ Club Since 1891
On the last weekend of November, I was saddened to learn that the playwright Tom Stoppard had died, aged 88.
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December 16, 2025 at 9:40 PM
'These days, the figures who have loomed large in our cultural lives seem to be disappearing one by one.' My tribute to the late Tom Stoppard: www.authorsclub.co.uk/tom-stoppard...
Check out the latest Substack form Notes in the Margin: fungi, foxes and fearless love —https://cjschuler.substack.com/p/the-weird-and-wonderful-world-of
November 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Check out the latest Substack form Notes in the Margin: fungi, foxes and fearless love —https://cjschuler.substack.com/p/the-weird-and-wonderful-world-of
Check out my latest post on Notes in the Margin: Troilus and Cressida at Shakespeare’s Globe, an anniversary special offer, and more from our kitchen table: cjschuler.substack.com/p/lovers-at-...
October 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Check out my latest post on Notes in the Margin: Troilus and Cressida at Shakespeare’s Globe, an anniversary special offer, and more from our kitchen table: cjschuler.substack.com/p/lovers-at-...
Check out my latest post on Substack: a lost hero of the @AuthorsClub, and a portal to another Oxford - cjschuler.substack.com/p/a-lost-her...
A Lost Hero of the Authors' Club
The soldier, archaeologist and crime novelist Stanley Casson
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September 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Check out my latest post on Substack: a lost hero of the @AuthorsClub, and a portal to another Oxford - cjschuler.substack.com/p/a-lost-her...
Latest Substack: A nature classic from 1900 - cjschuler.substack.com/p/blue-remem...
September 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Latest Substack: A nature classic from 1900 - cjschuler.substack.com/p/blue-remem...
Latest Substack – back to the classics cjschuler.substack.com/p/thomas-har...
Thomas Hardy Revisited
New insights into old reads
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August 29, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Latest Substack – back to the classics cjschuler.substack.com/p/thomas-har...
The Empire that Refused to Die
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The Empire that Refused to Die
The myth of a thousand-year decline
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August 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The Empire that Refused to Die
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Some thoughts on writers and exile: open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...
July 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Some thoughts on writers and exile: open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...
I'm back from Germany, and on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...
Across Germany from West to East
A journey through history, culture and politics
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June 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I'm back from Germany, and on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...
It's #StagBeetle time again! open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...
Britain’s biggest beetle takes to the air
It’s time to watch out for the spectacular, endangered stag beetle
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May 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
It's #StagBeetle time again! open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...
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When Europe Went Star-Crazy
An engaging account of a time when alchemy, astrology and science went hand in hand
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April 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Victorian nature notes, the shifting baseline, and more…https://open.substack.com/pub/cjschuler/p/when-skylarks-sang-in-sydenham?r=3n9wg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
April 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Victorian nature notes, the shifting baseline, and more…https://open.substack.com/pub/cjschuler/p/when-skylarks-sang-in-sydenham?r=3n9wg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Brilliant interview with Cath Harries @CMHarries, the photographer of Sheldrake's #DoorsOfLondon, on the ‘Country Life’ podcast. Do give it a listen.
🔍SPOTLIGHT🔎
‘The way people portray themselves is through their doors,’ says Cath Harries. In an interview with ‘Country Life’, the author of ‘Doors of London’ talks about her 15-year project to find and photograph London’s most extraordinary doors.
Listen on bit.ly/DoorsPodcast
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‘The way people portray themselves is through their doors,’ says Cath Harries. In an interview with ‘Country Life’, the author of ‘Doors of London’ talks about her 15-year project to find and photograph London’s most extraordinary doors.
Listen on bit.ly/DoorsPodcast
VP
#london
March 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Brilliant interview with Cath Harries @CMHarries, the photographer of Sheldrake's #DoorsOfLondon, on the ‘Country Life’ podcast. Do give it a listen.
A free post on Sybille Bedford's 'A Legacy' and, for paid subscribers, some thoughts on anti-intellectualism in politics then and now: open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...
March 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
A free post on Sybille Bedford's 'A Legacy' and, for paid subscribers, some thoughts on anti-intellectualism in politics then and now: open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...
I wrote about Isherwood a few weeks ago, and he flits through the pages of another book I’ve read recently, Love in a Time of Hate… open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...
Sex and drugs and right-wing rule
Writers and artists in a collapsing world
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March 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I wrote about Isherwood a few weeks ago, and he flits through the pages of another book I’ve read recently, Love in a Time of Hate… open.substack.com/pub/cjschule...
Once you first notice them, you start seeing them everywhere…https://open.substack.com/pub/cjschuler/p/its-not-what-it-looks-like?r=3n9wg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
February 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Once you first notice them, you start seeing them everywhere…https://open.substack.com/pub/cjschuler/p/its-not-what-it-looks-like?r=3n9wg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true