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An interesting experiment. Will paying €5 tourist fee cause day trippers either to not come or to stay overnight? I am unconvinced.

BBC News - Watch: 'We'll just have to pay' - mixed reaction to Venice tourist fee trial
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The 6 spellbinding novels that make up the 2024 #WomensPrize for Fiction shortlist capture between their pages the enormous breadth of the human experience.

Congratulations to all the authors!
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Happy birthday, Sir.
P.S. I like your earring

Talking fave Persephone Books with Anne Sebba and Emily Rhodes tomorrow 5:30pm at the Persephone Festival in Bath. The groundbreaking The Home-Maker, the eye-opening The Far Cry, and my personal choice Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day. Join us!

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Am trying to work out a new character's back story and realised all the good ones have been used! Thanks a lot, fellow authors!

Delighted Winchester Cathedral broderers are making a long-lost cushion design honouring Jane Austen, Florence Nightingale & Charlotte Yonge. Louisa Pesel and Violet Speedwell would be pleased... Winchester Cathedral

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Boat scene in episode 3 of #Ripley : even knowing it was coming, I had to be peeled off the wall afterwards. The sound effects, the boat as lethal attacker, the endless struggle. Still shaken hours later.

Salute to Richard at Kentish Town Library, who sorted out my expired library card, gave me a new pin no, looked up a book I wanted, signed it out and date stamped it. Calm, funny, capable, proactive: everything a librarian should be. Feel free to salute your fave librarian here!

This is both heartbreaking & maddening.
The creative industries account for more than £100bn to UK economy, 15.9% of all UK service exports.; there is more production space here than anywhere in world outside of Hollywood. RT if agree!
#supportthearts theguardian.com/education/2024…

'Our country does not provide the education & upbringing that allow its citizens an interior life. For the creative class to point fingers at the large, breasty men adrift in tortilla-chip-laden water is to gather a sour harvest of low-hanging fruit.'

Join us on June 7 for an evening with novelist & Fine Cell Work Patron Tracy Chevalier at the Sheffield Museums Millennium Gallery.

For more info & to book, see:
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True immortality is not publishing a book or two but being an answer on a quiz show...

7th June I'm discussing the therapy of stitching at Sheffield Millennium Gallery in conjunction with the excellent Fine Cell Work charity and an exhibition about handmaking. Do come! Sheffield Museums
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This book is just...wow. Keep an eye out for it!

Looking forward to this! I have a pile of Persephone books by my sofa too. It's Sat 20th April at 5:30pm in Bath.
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Doing some prep for my event ⁦Persephone Books⁩ festival, Bath with ⁦Tracy Chevalier⁩ ⁦Emily Rhodes⁩ discussing favourite Persephones I found a letter from the wonderful Emma Smith author of the Far Cry whom I got to know in her final years. Do come & listen

Any twitterati here who used to follow me on FB and want to again? My author page got hacked and I'm starting from scratch, reader by reader. Here's the link:

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