I still can’t catch my breath after finding out that the fabulous @SOJseaside liked my work and described it as “cinematic in scope” - she has worked with some amazing authors, including Sarah Waters! Aaaaaah!!

I have been holding this news in for a few days now but I can finally shout it to the world….. I am the 2024 Stockholm Writers Festival Grand Prize Winner!! 🥇🎉🎉 I’m still in shock and am sure there’s been a mistake along the way somewhere..

I really did! Your writing is magnificent 💗

Fascinating evening @BookaBookshop listening to the super-talented @JessKiddHerself talk about her new novel, The Night Ship. Bliss!

Infants walking to the Daffodil Service yesterday, excited to perform for their families ❤️😊

📚Let’s do an Elizabeth’s Rival giveaway in light of last night’s episode of @WDYTYA_UK! To win & uncover the incredible story of @joshwiddicombe’s 12 x great-grandmother, simply follow, like & retweet. Winner announced Monday! Good luck! 📚 @OMaraBooks @watsonlittle

Intriguing image of an #earlymodern interior by Pieter Janssens Elinga, 1665-1670, coll. @staedelmuseum. Spot the wondrous play with the shadows of the chair. https://t.co/NXfKcwqc23

I love that my daughter is growing up to love reading (almost!) as much as me 😊 Here she is on World Book Day raving about her favourite author ⁦@sophyhenn⁩ and her favourite character Bad Nana 💕💕 #badnana #worldbookday

The practice of turning nonconforming individuals into non-persons has been used with great effectiveness for centuries, none more so than the punishment of excommunication by the Roman Catholic Church. #CancelCulture #HistoricallySpeaking @WSJ https://t.co/TjzvajET3H

#SaveSanditon Squad, we hear you and we’re doing what we can. Please could you retweet this to let us know how many of you there are so we can make a case for a new season? P.S. Don’t use multiple accounts or we’ll get in trouble

There were no awareness days for today so I thought I'd show another one of my favourites from the collection. This beautiful oil on panel painting is called 'Study of Delphiniums' by Caroline Emily Gray Hill. 1843-1924.

Welsh dragons and Liver birds: a gorgeous poster by Harry Hughes Williams for the Eisteddfod, Liverpool 1929. Imagine Welsh male voice choirs in Sefton Park! Can we do this again? @Oriel_Mon 🐉

A glorious day - blue skies and sunshine ☀️ And I’m trying to imagine myself in a bleak Victorian winter 😩😩 #writing #writersblock #amwriting

I can’t even remember how many years it’s been since my hair was long enough to put up!! I miss my bob 😩 #chopchop

Seriously, if you haven’t watched #Lykkeland / #StateOfHappiness with @Bart_Edwards on BBC4 yet, then you REALLY need to! Best thing I’ve watched in ages, bereft I have no more episodes to watch 😢

Hear ye! Tis time for #StuartsSaturday! 👑 *using TOYS, recreate a Stuart-era event* Here's mine: Charles II went to visit his mistress, Barbara Palmer, in her bedchamber...and found her with John Churchill...💥#KeepItStuart #SexyStuarts

I find this photograph of Dickensian London spellbinding. It was taken c.1865 - the year Abraham Lincoln was assassinated & Lewis Carroll's Alice made her first trip to Wonderland. Such a rumble-tumble of houses and histories, so many of our ancestors, it is quite magical 😍

The Central Board of Health show a complete disregard for hygiene during a feast-laden meeting about whether #London should be quarantined to stop the spread of #cholera - These men appointed despite "utter ignorance of the history of epidemic and contagious diseases". (1832)

Posher Colouring in: