Placet!

Six of my ebooks available for only 99p each! ... amazon.co.uk/stores/page/B6… #Amazon

Hundreds and hundreds of Dreyfus cases, and unlike him, some never lived to experience their vindication

Death Valley

Controversial opinion I know but I actually think Napoleon is a much less clunky biopic than Oppenheimer, and certainly a lot less pretentious

All of them paying roughly twice the rate that he is!

Keeley Hawes to Star in an Adaptation of the Novel Miss Austen pbs.org/wgbh/masterpie…

Absurdly difficult! (What was the name of the river in Cicero’s home town? What name was scratched out on a document in the Verres trial??) I could only answer three! So congratulations to the contestant who scored five. 👏

Wouldn’t like to try this myself

Here’s a little trailer for my new novel, PRECIPICE, set in 1914 and 1915, and due to be published next year. It can be pre-ordered now…

If you happen to be in West Berkshire on 1st December… Thanks to ⁦Sebastian Faulks⁩ for doing this to help raise money for ⁦St Mary’s church ⁦Kintbury Berkshire⁩ ⁦KintburyVillage⁩ 🙏

As Home Secretary says, this govt

'has allowed people to come to our society and live parallel lives..in society but not of it. And in extreme cases to pursue lives aimed at undermining the stability & security of society. We are living with the consequence of that failure.'

Congratulations to the wonderful Sally Muir sally muir whose Lady Di sheep jumper, discovered in the attic after 33 years, was just sold by Sotheby's for $1,143,000!

The priorities are supposed to be education, education, education, not Education Secretary, Education Secretary, Education Secretary, Education Secretary, Education Secretary, Education Secretary

Harold Wilson reflects on going up against Harold Macmillan in the House of Commons.

The elder Harold, looking on, seems glad his Labour successor has understood his tactics so well.

Oh yeah, sure, the privilege committee report was actually good for Johnson. Reminds me of Alan Bennett’s contrarian historian who argued the Japanese were caught napping at Pearl Harbor

She was a wonderful editor, cared passionately about her authors, and was a great friend and protector when I didn’t publish anything for 5 years. She also persuaded Douglas Adams to write novels & bought the U.K. rights to Thomas Harris before he was famous. RIP dearest Sue.