Meet bestselling authors Nicola Cassidy, Jennifer Ryan and Sheila O'Flanagan 📚The Honeymoon Affair😊 in #Dublin on 2 October. Historia Live is back with another free event for #histfic lovers. They'll be talking to Hazel Gaynor about war in fiction. More details and tickets at bit.ly/HistoriaLiveDu…

Twitter friends, please forgive me. I’m going to be a bore this month, because my new book The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective launches on Sept 24th. 🎺 📢 Watch this space for trailers, giveaways, & signed copies. Bowled over by the kind reception already.

Writers! I'm doing some commissioning for paywall articles on Strong Women and I'd love to receive your pitches. The fee is £180 a piece and I'm looking for a mix of fascinating first-person pieces and reports across the worlds of health and wellbeing.

Thread on the real size of things 🧵 1. Titanic compared to a modern cruise ship

NEW: A Michigan court has just denied RFK Jr’s request to have his name removed from the ballot, since he previously accepted the nomination of the Natural Law Party. Story. meidasnews.com/news/mi-court-…

Twelve dead. Ten female. One pregnant woman. Six children. Isn't this tragedy enough to shut up the "fighting age men" bullshit from the far right? theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…

.Nadia Bilbassy Charters ناديا البلبيسي: Yesterday Netanyahu showed a map with no West Bank…is this normal Miller: I’m not gonna comment Nadia: I’m just saying is that normal for you Miller: I’m not gonna comment Nothing to say about Israel’s PM promoting the idea of annexing the entire West Bank?

✍️ 'Those who question the universality of the Baby Box are potentially opening the door to a slippery slope' Assa Samake-Roman (Assa Samaké-Roman @assasr.bsky.social) discusses her love for the Baby Box - and why it matters more than you might think thenational.scot/politics/24561…

Yes, exactly. Brilliant question. Also, if King Alfred was so great, how come my breakfast is cold?

"the allegations were only exposed by chance when he was caught filming up women’s skirts in a supermarket." Consider the dangerous men we could stop, if police took upskirting, stalking and indecent exposure seriously. Wayne Couzens, for one. theguardian.com/world/article/…

This clip of Donald Trump admitting he lost the 2020 election should be shared until every Jan 6th inmate sees it. Imagine going to jail for Trump over a lie when he always knew the truth.

“John Swinney has announced the resources required for Creative Scotland to continue the work of its Open Fund have now been made available.” thenational.scot/news/24563035.…

Today, through torrential rain, I completed my Gothic pilgrimage to the Villa Diodati: the place where both ‘Frankenstein’ and ‘The Vampyre’ were conceived, during a writing challenge in the year without a summer. 🖤

Unbelievably misogynist headline in The Telegraph. It’s not revenge, it’s justice and none of those men were taking ‘orders’.

Spare a thought for Lubov Chernukhin, the wife of Russian's former deputy finance minister, who gave a whopping £70,000 to Priti Patel's leadership campaign... only to see her knocked out in the first round of voting...

📚🎉 Happy publication day to Rodge Glass for 'Joshua In The Sky: A Blood Memoir', which is published by Taproot Press. If you want to know more about it then I recently spoke to Rodge for the Alistair Braidwood podcast 👇👇👇

US playwright donates £1m to save home of Shakespeare’s daughter dlvr.it/TCrstj

So, Le Figaro has announced Michel Barnier is French PM now. This is big news, not just for France but for brexit britain and Ireland too! A quick 🧵on why. lefigaro.fr/politique/le-l… 1/7

Donald Trump still thinks he's running against Biden. Hannity is practically speechless. Trump is burnt toast.