A very happy paperback publication day to Catherine Taylor and #TheStirrings . With rave reviews, an honest, unforgettable voice and a poignant depiction of growing up, this is one to move to the top of your reading pile.

Happy publication to Téa Obreht whose bewitchingly magical novel 'The Morningside' is published by W&N today! Come and see Téa Obreht talking to Sarah Perry and Shahidha Bari at Hay Festival on 26 May: hayfestival.com/p-21731-tea-ob…

The Morningside by Téa Obreht review – life in exile theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

The other reason you might have heard of Clarke is his arrest in Madrid in 1941. He was at the time 'dressed, down to a brassiere, as a woman'. This was a huge intelligence scandal: Clarke's head was full of British secrets. Churchill was consulted.

If you've heard of Dudley Clarke, it's probably from Dominic West's highly enjoyable portrayal of him in SAS: Rogue Heroes. Clarke was friends with David Stirling, and helped him set up the SAS, giving it the name of a fake unit he'd already invented.

My new book, The Illusionist, is out on April 25. It's the *true* story of Dudley Clarke, an extremely unusual British Army officer who spent World War 2 running military deception on a scale no one imagined possible. A scale, indeed, that no one quite grasped even at the time.

Hello #London ! I just heard they’ve added some extra tickets for tonight so do come along to ⁦New Wimbledon Theatre⁩ ⁦Wimbledon BookFest⁩ if you’d like to escape the rain and hear about the #7Wonders of the #ancient world! X

Your kindness can kill a bumblebee 💔

📢 Please share! Bumblebee queens are starting to emerge from hibernation. British weather isn’t always ideal and people with the best intentions can cause more harm good. Let’s change that.

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I am more proud of my friend Alexander Larman than I can say. If you’ve just been watching the Duke of Windsor doc, you can imagine what writing THREE books from inside his head might take out of someone. Fun interview via subscription (it’s free) on alexchurchill.co.uk and on…

ICYMI, huge thanks Alexander Larman for writing for #ExpressFeatures on his new book, Power and Glory, out now via W&N and the third in his royal trilogy... on the speech that never was. Fascinating stuff.

I wrote about the long, often curious history of royal ailments for TIME - time.com/6958485/kate-m…

Hello #London ! Look forward to seeing you to celebrate #wonder #history #archaeology #myth together next week! X

I reviewed Téa Obreht's new novel THE MORNINGSIDE for New York Times Books. Thanks to Dave Kim for the assignment and edits!

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Tea is the first client whose work I ever sold, with her incredible The Tiger’s Wife. Her new one, The Morningside, just got a rave! nytimes.com/2024/03/18/boo…

Our event with Bettany Hughes💙 is on Saturday, and we already have so many questions! How were the pyramids built? Were the Hanging Gardens of Babylon real? Who commissioned the Lighthouse of Alexandria? Join us to find out and for what promises to be a memorable evening!

Spring is here, sort of, and so is the paperback of my book 🎭Masquerade: The Lives of Noel Coward🎭 - out today.

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Morning! I’ll be talking about my adventures to track down the #7Wonders of the #ancient world, all in aid of grants for #museums and #galleries this March 7th! First #SevenWonders talk!!! Come along here… artscapades.org/tickets/wonders

' A must-read for fans of a cinema classic'

The Blues Brothers by Daniel de Visé Orion Publishing White Rabbit Books Grove Atlantic is included in Martin Chilton's #BookRecommendations for March

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New arrival heralding the end of the winter blues ⁦White Rabbit Books⁩ … This book is on a mission from God. Also, allow me a publisher’s moment: 👀 at those endpapers 🔥

.W&N triumphs in 14-way auction for Andrew Holgate (@aholgate)'s first book.

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