Out THIS very week! Order from your lovely local #bookshop and make an author (and yourself, I hope) ever so happy. #awomanofopinion #paperback #penguinbooks #HistoricalNovels

It's another week of some fantastic news - a very happy #DHHNewsRoundup day! Congratulations to our brilliant authors for all of their fab work✨ https://t.co/wcug6nfoPV

It's a bleak Friday when you've run out of historical books to read. Have a look at Historia's big feature on Christmas books to give or treat yourself to and get inspired! https://t.co/EeRz1NsAwy 12 well-loved authors suggest new books and classics

Huge congratulations to @seanlusk1 who has just won the Saltire Novel of the Year!

I am opening up my submissions! While officially on mat leave until 12/01/26, I am actively looking to build my client list steadily. My list will be open for subs Mon & Fri between 9am-10pm GMT. If you think your work fits what I’m looking for, I would LOVE to hear from you!

I am giving these away on Instagram. Search Instagram/DavidHHeadley and be in with a chance to get all four of these wonderful books.

A fantastic Readers' Day with @BhamLitFest celebrating our love of reading with writers Natalie Marlow, Sasha Butler, Marianne Cronin, @seanlusk1 & @IngridPersaud A joy to chat about reading & writing lives in a room of avid readers. Thank you to our authors & audience 📚

We are thrilled that A WOMAN OF OPINION has been shortlisted for the @SaltireBook Awards 2025! A huge congratulations @seanlusk1! 🎉

Here are the winning, highly commended and shortlisted authors and stories in the 2025 HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition. Follow this thread to see them all. Starting with the three shortlisted stories: 1/10 #HWADDSS25

@DunnettCentral @RobertsonImogen @ChrissySturt @naomikelsey_ @joedragovich The winner of the 2025 HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition: Final Score: Sean Lusk “A brilliantly-crafted and poignant story set in the wake of WWI.” The Dorothy Dunnett Society and Historia will both publish Sean’s story #HWADDSS25 7/10

📚✨ Confessions of a Book Collector is back this weekend! Season 5 features conversations with Kristin Hannah, Sebastian Faulks, Richard Armitage & Ragnar Jónasson — plus a reveal of our new subscription box + brilliant 2026 books. 🎧 Subscribe now & don’t miss the first

If I didn't have my hands full writing books, I would be applying for this... @DavidHHeadley is not only a v. nice man, but hugely knowledgeable about all aspects of the industry and, according to those who work for him, a genuinely wonderful boss. Get applying!

NOT TO BE MISSED! We can’t wait to welcome guest author Marcia Hutchinson to @LincBookFest for a very special conversation with me (🙏) about her critically acclaimed solo literary debut, The Mercy Step. Marcia was named among the best debut novelists of 2025 by the Observer for

✨ Big news ✨ Series 5 of Confessions of a Book Collector is almost here! 🎙️ This season, I’ll be joined by some incredible guests: 🫶Kristin Hannah – beloved internationally for The Nightingale and The Women 📚 Sebastian Faulks – author of modern classics including Birdsong

Huge congratulations to @seanlusk1 whose brilliant novel A Woman of Opinion has been longlisted for the 2025 #SaltireBookAwards! 🎉💙

What an amazing week @NairnFest So glad to be a part of it, and to hang out with the amazing @KateAGriffin @Marciathewriter @jubberstravels and the magic of @HouseofAutomata That's a wrap for 2025...now to plan 2026 :-)

We had a fabulous time talking about our novel #TheBlackbirdsofStGiles at The Nairn Arts Festival @NairnFest Thank you SO much to the organisers & especially to brilliant author (& interviewer) @seanlusk1 for making us feel so welcome. Nairn is a special place @Marciathewriter

Isn’t this poster for the 2025 @NairnFest beautiful? I’m so excited to be there with @Marciathewriter on Friday when we’ll be chatting to brilliant writer & ‘Nairnite’ @seanlusk1 about our historical novel #TheBlackbirdsofStGiles https://t.co/PMHja445l9

I absolutely adored this unputdownable book from #lucysteeds #theartist Recommended!

Join fellow book enthusiasts @BhamLitFest Readers' Day on Saturday 18th October. Hear from a great line-up, authors of these brilliant novels ⬇️ Details and tickets here https://t.co/42TSOH55Rt 📚 Get signed books on the day from our festival bookseller @vocebooks

Delighted to be in partnership with @BhamLitFest again to host our Readers Day on Saturday 18th October. Meet a great line-up of novelists: Marianne Cronin, Sasha Butler, Lottie Hazell, Natalie Marlow @seanlusk1 & @IngridPersaud Book your place now https://t.co/NngZSeAku4