This Japanese game show (Slippery Stairs) deserves a TV Award for Best Drama.
( 9 minutes of pure gripping anxiety!…)

The Japanese game show where contestants serve tea on a slanted floor.
I'm planning on taking part asap.

‘Boobs in bio’
‘Nudes in profile’
Thanks, but that’s
Not really my style
(Also, my tweet was about books)

The formidable Harriet Wistrich will be at #BathFest24 on 19th May speaking to fellow lawyer and author Anna Mazzola (is away)

Tickets here 👇

bathfestivals.org.uk/the-bath-festi…

And I am clearly going to have to use this as an opportunity to go to Romania...

Really delighted that The Book of Secrets, set in Rome, is going to be published by Giunti in Italy. Might have to speedily improve my Italian, however...

Absolutely adored Anna Mazzola (is away)’s #TheBookOfSecrets ! The world building and descriptive detail is utterly divine 😍

For anyone wondering what the hell a Grok is, it was a Martian word created by sci fi writer writer Robert A. Heinlein in 1961, then adopted as aprogramming term. The OED defines it as 'to empathize or communicate sympathetically'. I.e. the antithesis of what happens on Twitter.

Scientists at Princeton University are stoned and watching the Eras Tour, apparently.

Really looking forward to chairing this event in a couple of weeks with Anna Mazzola and Anne Corlett at Bath Festivals. There is so much going on at the festival. Book tickets here: bathfestivals.org.uk/the-bath-festi…

Voting for green and red seems to have gone well recently so please do more of it.

James Patterson's quote for HUNTED pales in comparison with this one.

Abir's brilliant thriller is out this week. Please order it now from your bookseller of choice. Remember to wee before starting it.

Thank you to @guernseylitfest for a weekend of creativity, history and sunshine.

Really enjoyed my crime event with Writer Jenny 🇮🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇬🇺🇦 Jo Durrant and loved meeting the writers at my hist fic workshop. Also I saw rabbits! And a vole! And Louis de Bernières! But not at the same time

Have I stumbled on a child’s play area in the woods, or a place or dark and peculiar ritual?

Lucky Frances Hardinge and I got a private tour of Hauteville, the house which Victor Hugo designed and lived in while in exile in Guernsey. Loved seeing the hidden storage places and the fold-down desks on which he wrote works such as Les Mis. House as autobiography.

Finally on my way to Guernsey! I’ll be on the Crime Fiction panel with Mary Horlock, Writer Jenny 🇮🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇬🇺🇦 and Jo Durrant on Sat and running a Historical Fiction workshop on Sunday. My first time at Guernsey Lit Fest and excited to see the island.

Best Magazine has named THE HOUSEHOLD by Stacey Halls is away and THE BOOK OF SECRETS by Anna Mazzola (is away) ‘historical hits’.

I knew John Harvey Kellogg (of cornflakes flame) had some odd views, but I did not realise he was a sphincter surgeon who believed in administering yoghurt from both ends to curb ‘sexual excess’. It’s put me off my coco pops to be honest.