My book is 99p on Kindle at the moment, if that’s the kind of thing that feeds your cat. amzn.eu/d/875KsrE
Writer. Books called Saltwater Mansions, About a Son, Bed, Mobile Library and The Long Forgotten
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My book is 99p on Kindle at the moment, if that’s the kind of thing that feeds your cat. amzn.eu/d/875KsrE
Even I’m sometimes reluctant to watch or read things I recommend, but I watched this film, Hundreds of Beavers, last night and I thought it was great. www.hundredsofbeavers.com
Talking about my book at Canterbury Waterstones tonight if that's your bag. @waterstones.bsky.social www.waterstones.com/events/autho...
Hate to lower the tone but… en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_Cunt
Found some hardcore fawn in the woods.
I’ve written a bit of TV. It’s called Intruder and stars Alan Davies and Nikki Amuka-Bird. It’ll be on later in the year. www.televisual.com/news/5-revea...
I’ve written a bit of TV. It’s called Intruder and stars Alan Davies and Nikki Amuka-Bird. It’ll be on later in the year. www.televisual.com/news/5-revea...
I wrote one of these.
A little bucket hat.
What’s wrong babe? You’ve barely touched your Oasis live ‘25 Prosecco Supernova gourmet popcorn delicately infused with notes of apple and white blossom.
I appreciate you listening to it. Thank you.
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This evening I read 'Saltwater Mansions: The Woman Who Disappeared and Other Untold Stories' by David Whitehouse. While the mystery of the woman who vanished initially intrigues you, it's the other stories of other people's lives that engross you to the end. 📚 #BookSky #SkyBook
Cheers! I hope you enjoy it.
Set phasers to self-promote, but I really loved this review of my book.
At just under 200 pages, Saltwater Mansions is the perfect short holiday read. It’s a story about memory, the stories we tell, and a woman’s disappearance. 10/10. #Books #BookSky #NonFiction
I really loved this. Thank you.
My review anticapitalistmusings.com/2025/07/the-...
That’s a fantastic cover.
But think of the money you save.
The story that became Saltwater Mansions was told to David while he was in the chair at his local hairdressers. Once again, us follicly challenged authors looking for book ideas are at a distinct and unfair disadvantage. #oppressed
My book just got a nice big review in The Times. Best review of book they’ve ever published? Impossible to say, it’s behind a paywall. www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
This book arrived in Argyll today. Very much looking forward to it @dwhitehouse.bsky.social #books #nowreading #booksky
Ah great. I hope you like it. Thanks mate.
Cheers! Just to figure out what’s next now. Take care
Saltwater Mansions: The woman who disappeared and other untold stories is in Margate during the 2010s, unfolds against the backdrop of the town’s ongoing gentrification. It’s also a moving memoir of Whitehouse’s father and his working-class upbringing in the Midlands.
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Thank you Dominic. I’m very happy you enjoyed it.
An investigation into the missing occupant of a Margate flat turns into a rumination on the many ways people can disappear from places, and how places change and themselves effectively disappear, and how these things go hand in hand with the various movements of grief. Utterly superb, essential read
I really enjoyed Saltwater Mansions and made me think a lot about how where we are at (in life) and what we are experiencing or mourning impacts how we digest stories and life. Was not what I was expecting, and grateful for that. David is an incredible writer.
Thanks very much Jamie. I’m very happy you enjoyed it.
Tonight! Air conditioning!
Thank you. I didn’t read About A Son. But the guy who did was really good.
Nah, even 20 years ago I knew I’d have my own AI biography one day
A brilliant bit on an always brilliant Substack about my new book and its unexpected AI mutant spawn. Read and subscribe I say.
Oh wow. This is lovely to hear. Thank you!
This book is absolutely incredible. If you enjoyed Birding, then I think you will love this
I’ve just finished listening to this on Audible, narrated by the author. It’s a tremendous, touching, true tale (all the ‘t’s there…unplanned) very well told. (Ooops… another one). So very absorbing and thought provoking. I recommend that you give it a read or a listen.
Thank you! Was nervous about doing the audiobook so it’s nice to hear someone enjoyed it!
My new book, Saltwater Mansions, is out today. It’s about how I fell down a rabbit hole, the extraordinary people I fell down it with, and why we fell down it in the first place. Please buy it if you like. Link below. Thank you. geni.us/SaltwaterMan...
Good man. Thank you!
Out Thursday!
A lovely 5 star review of my book in The Telegraph.
Wrote this in The Observer about my book, my dad and other stuff. observer.co.uk/news/first-p...
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Now THIS is a very good book indeed. It's moving, gripping and unlike anything else you'll read this year. Basically it's your classic Whitehouse read.
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My new book is now a physical thing. They look really great. It’s a book about a woman who vanished, the people obsessed with finding her (including me), my dad, and the amazing stories in hidden lives. You can pre-order it here if you like please. geni.us/SaltwaterMan...
Saltwater Mansions, by me, is named one of the best new books to read in June in this nice article that also claims I wrote About A Boy, which I didn't, regrettably. inews.co.uk/culture/book...
My book is out in two weeks. The self-promotional push! It begins!
Recording my audiobook, cursing the genetics behind my fat tongue.
Thanks mate. Felt good to have Oggy in there.
A brilliant piece from @dwhitehouse.bsky.social in The Fence, featuring this gem ‘Who was Coventry City’s FA Cup-winning goalkeeper in 1987?’, ‘Steve Ogrizovic’, she’d respond, two words they’d receive at a cost of a pound with their underpants a hammock between their knees. @thefence.bsky.social
On September 11, 2001, @dwhitehouse.bsky.social was sexting hundreds of strangers.
I wrote this about what I was doing on 9/11 (helping hundreds of terrified men achieve orgasm while pretending to be a nurse). www.the-fence.com/hold-the-pho...
Stop what you're doing and read this truly astonishing piece from @dwhitehouse.bsky.social www.the-fence.com/hold-the-phone
"Having spent a good part of the last five years moving between higher education and second hand bookshops, I did what a character in a video game based on me would resort to as a special move – I took a book off the shelf and looked it up." open.substack.com/pub/precisei...
Hope it doesn’t disappoint!
Some great writers have said nice things about my new book, and you can pre-order it here please. geni.us/SaltwaterMan...
I've written a true story about how I spent 9/11 helping hundreds of terrified men to reach orgasm, in the new issue of The Fence.
I loved David Whitehouse, About a Son, so was desperate to get my hands on his latest, coming in June, Saltwater Mansions, and it is just as beautiful. David writes with such empathy, and insight into the human condition, I’d read his shopping list. @francescamain #booksky
👋 THANK YOU.
Really happy to see my book Saltwater Mansions on this knitted blanket of June’s best new non-fiction.
I’m very happy about this. There is a scenario where you do a page at a time each but feels like quite a big logistical ask.
Thanks very much for reading it. Really nice to hear. Let me know how you get on!
I love Dani Garavelli's writing and the things she writes about, so I am very happy about this. 👇
This is great. It interrogates our internet-fuelled need to solve mysteries while perversely trying to solve 1. It's also a testament to the way our untold stories - of grief, of love, of hope - shape our lives. Margate, with its decline/gentrification & Waste Land resonances, is the ideal setting.
Really happy to see my book Saltwater Mansions on this knitted blanket of June’s best new non-fiction.
My #nonfiction Titles Not to Miss for June in @thebookseller.com are by @iainmacgregor1.bsky.social @dwhitehouse.bsky.social Barbara Demick @gracespencegreen.bsky.social Jay Griffiths @itaob.bsky.social Pria Anand @jeremyathertonlin.bsky.social Krystal Evans
I fell down a rabbit hole, and then I wrote a book about it. It’s called Saltwater Mansions and it’s out in June. www.thebookseller.com/rights/phoen...
That’s my weekend made, @dwhitehouse.bsky.social
Oh boy. Hope you enjoy it!
Only just spotted this is incoming - About a Son was a remarkable book so this will be a must-read.
Thanks very much!
Loved giving the Gordon Burn Prize to Jenni Fagan’s brilliant book Ootlin last night. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Back in 2008 I wrote a short film called The Archivist, which was shot by Lol Crawley who won an Oscar last night for his cinematography on The Brutalist. I am in no way responsible for his success. vimeo.com/26729257
It's not bad.
This silent anti-AI album is the best thing Jamiroquai have made in ages.
I’m 43 and today my mum tells me that the midwife who delivered me was Larry Grayson’s sister. Shut that door etc.
My new book looks like this, I’m pleased to say.
I'll be wanging on about my favourite writer, Gordon Burn, at this on February 20th. £5? Absolute bargain if that's your bag. www.faber.co.uk/product/cele...
Excellent!
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I love the way @dwhitehouse.bsky.social takes a subject or idea for a book and then does something so creative and unexpected with it, and he's done it again here. I've been lucky enough to read Saltwater Mansions already and it is a brilliantly, beautifully written masterpiece. Man's a genius.
Deal
This is what my new book is all about.
Thanks mate
You were already on the list, I promise.
Thanks Dani. I’ll get one in the post to you (when they exist).
I’m so proud to be publishing this extraordinary new book. It’s like nothing I’ve read before. I can’t wait for readers to fall down the rabbit hole and meet the residents of Saltwater Mansions www.thebookseller.com/rights/phoen...
Thanks mate!
My new book looks like this, I’m pleased to say.
I fell down a rabbit hole, and then I wrote a book about it. It’s called Saltwater Mansions and it’s out in June. www.thebookseller.com/rights/phoen...
THE meme of 2025 for me.
I'm on a panel here at an evening celebrating the boundary-pushing work of Gordon Burn. 20th February. A snip at £5. Strong recommend. www.faber.co.uk/product/cele...
Extreme long shot, but does anyone know how to get hold of Martin Conway, son of Alan Conway, the man who impersonated Stanley Kubrick? Please.
Congratulations Jennie. Fantastic news. The number one I mean. Not the cheesecake, though that’s also impressive.
Big call for the BBC to make the graphics for each of the snooker players at the Masters look like they have explosive diarrhoea.
Hello mate