‘You’ve got to be open to the wonder and fight to protect our wild spaces so that that wonder is not lost. So it doesn’t only exist on the page.’

Isobel Dixon on ‘Bede’s Sparrow’ from A Whistling of Birds (@NineArchesPress)

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#ACEsupported #poetry

Available NOW in all fine bookshops,, on Kindle and on Audible. Please grab it…and pass it on! 🙏🏾

Delighted by Testament's fine tribute to hedge-laying The Food Programme BBC Radio 4! Researching my prose book, 'Village', I found my great-grandfather's 4th prize for 'plashing'. Testament merits a 1st!
://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001wq36?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

Over on the blog Bridget Walsh talks about researching #The Innocents. wwwshotsmagcouk.blogspot.com/2024/04/resear… #HappyPubDay Gallic Books Nicolette Praça

Everything has to stop now whilst I read this! TYSM Hodder Fiction Will Dean 🩷
Incidentally, I was reading quotes on the back & I thought ‘that’s SO TRUE I wonder who said that?’

WELL GUESS WHAT IT WAS ME 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

#TheChamber June 2024

Happy publication day to Leeanne and her brilliant debut, SPARKS OF BRIGHT MATTER ✨✨

‘Is it a roman à clef? I don’t know, but it’s very colourful.’ Delighted to see TIEPOLO BLUE among Margaret Drabble’s Best Books for ⁦The Week⁩ – in magisterial company with Doris Lessing and Wordsworth

White Tulips by Charles Rennie Mackintosh c. 1920 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). Glebe Place, Chelsea.

Never not moved & inspired & heezed up by our local writing community, who, like tonight, bring their whole selves, real stories, challenges and successes to our house every month 💜

(next one: 8 May)

THE INNOCENTS by Bridget Walsh is published today in audio by Bolinda audio! 🎧🎭

The second in the exciting #VarietyPalaceMystery series sees Minnie and Albert reunited once more, and investigating a series of seemingly random and unconnected deaths…

amazon.co.uk/Innocents-Vari…

SPARKS OF BRIGHT MATTER by Leeanne O’Donnell is out today!🌟🌟🌟

When apprentice Peter Woulfe loses a mysterious illustrated book, he sets off a game of cat and mouse across the grimy underworld of Georgian London that could have deadly consequences…

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/sparks…

Publication in the UK today! Thanks to every single one of you who’s supported me along the way. Really hope you enjoy reading what Minnie and Albert get up to next!

Yes. My favourite film this year so far. Truly perfect and life-affirming. #PerfectDays

THE WARTIME BOOK CLUB by Kate Thompson is now available in the US and Canada!📚✨

Published by Read Forever Pub, it is a love letter to the power of books and brings to life the remarkable, untold story of an island at war.

barnesandnoble.com/w/the-wartime-…

‘Captivating’ – Emma Styles author 🦎🌊🪸☀️🦘

THE INNOCENTS, the hotly anticipated follow-up to Bridget Walsh’s debut THE TUMBLING GIRL, follows Minnie & Albert on a new crime-solving quest in the world of a Victorian music hall. Out now in the UK from Gallic Books: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-in…

A gripping, insightful and important work of history from the ever-brilliant Justice Malala, THE PLOT TO SAVE SOUTH AFRICA is out in UK paperback today - ahead of the 30th anniversary of South Africa's first democratic elections later this month.
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April 16th come see us at Trafalgar Square, pick up a copy of one (or more, or all) of these fabulous historical novels, and join us for a good old-fashioned chinwag with the authors!
Bonnier Books UK
HarperNorth
Eriu
Hutchinson Heinemann

It’s paperback publication day for Natasha Carthew’s #NeroBookAwards shortlisted UNDERCURRENT! Published by Coronet, it follows Natasha as she tries to make sense of an upbringing shaped by political neglect & a life defined by the beauty of nature.
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/underc…

Did the art work for local chocolatier, Honest Chocolate for their Eid range - salted almond in milk chocolate and it’s available at their store in Cape Town. All proceeds go to Gift of the Givers

Tonight!