So glad you enjoyed it!

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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If you watch one thing today, please watch this. Our only hope is to retain our humanity, our kindness, our gentleness no matter how many battles we have been through. Crucial words from Susan Pollack OBE

What a great window ⁦Waterstones Richmond⁩ congratulations ⁦Anthony Horowitz⁩

Completely agree! She was outspoken in a positive way and a trailblazer in her work as one of the first female TV reporters in the 1950's as well as author of the brilliant L Shaped Room.

Hella Pick obituary. A life of sadness and triumph, I feel privileged to have known her. theguardian.com/media/2024/apr…

So excited for this. Such brilliant books to get back into!

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

Brava! If there was ever outstanding proof that #nonfiction is far from a male preserve, it is here

But what a one!

Never taken for granted. Thank you for getting this out , even in this year of difficulties. An important recognition for all authors.

I ought to be restrained about this, but I can’t! Thank you SO MUCH for recognising women’s writing about life, history, ideas, eyes, minds, hearts and art Women's Prize PEW Literary Chatto&Windus Patrick Walsh

Josette Molland an artist who joined the French Resistance, survived Ravensbruck, brutal interrogation and torture, has died aged 100 but left vivid paintings of camp life.

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Robert Badinter, the man responsible for abolishing the death penalty who lost many of his own family in Nazi death camps, has died. A life defending others right to life.

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What we're reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in February - The Guardian thanks to Women's Prize - goo.gl/alerts/9LnE8C #GoogleAlerts

Nicola Trahan obituary, a teenage recruit to SOE dropped into wartime France by Parachute who worked with the Wrestler circuit and received her wings only in 2017.

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First time in Tasmania! ADFAS Lecture February 26 Les Parisiennes - Anne Sebba - Events in Tasmania - goo.gl/alerts/kcDwPr #GoogleAlerts

Alexei Navalny’s moral courage should shame us all. Yes, impossible not to think about this man and realise how rare is courage like his.

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Desperately sad about this loss to the world.

Alexei Navalny who died today in the worst of the worst of Siberian prisons.