Good afternoon #Venice !

This is amazing news! I had no idea a movie was being made! One of my favourite novels of the last few years. I’m still haunted and disturbed by it. I wonder if I’ll be able to watch it…. #Starveacre

Just preordered!

The new Shardlake series starts today on Disney+, but it’s not the only place you can see the series' hero.

Matthew Shardlake has his name inscribed on the outside of our museum, courtesy of C.J. Sansom, a long-time supporter of the Mary Rose Museum, whose name also appears.

Turner, anticipant Rothko

Just published! My article ‘John van Collema: a Dutch India goods merchant in London’ in ‘Close Encounters’ RKD Studies. If you’re interested in porcelain, retailing or Anglo-Dutch networks, this one’s for you.
Best of all, it’s Open Access!

close-encounters.rkdstudies.nl/9-john-van-col…

A new Charles Palliser novel is an occasion for rejoicing!

Matthew Parris in today’s Times.

Ahem, ahem, ahem…

bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

'Seven Brussels Sprouts.' (1955)
Delicately painted with meticulous detail, Eliot Hodgkin captures the crisp waxy green beauty of a vegetable that in the year this work was painted was too often boiled to oblivion.

📣 Status update 📣
Our summer title - The House in Cornwall by Noel Streatfeild, introduced by the amazing LucyMangan - is being bound in this blue cloth at the printers right now, so books will be with us very soon. Thanks for all your pre-orders - we are so grateful!

Gustav Mahler aged 5.
He had no idea of the seismic and indelible impact his life was going to have on the cultural world.

Fabulous! Congratulations!

The art of writing picture books for very young readers is explored in my new blog, featuring an interview with Caryl Hart. Caryl Hart, Children’s Author jackiemorris Nicola Davies Tamsin Rosewell Jo Tregenza President Elect UKLA SFHEA FCCT Teach Primary @WritingEM@thebookseller Early Learning HQ
berliedoherty.com/writing-pictur…

Cannot wait!

Painting at Bedtime.
Gwen John.
Gwen John.

In my opinion this is one of the great self-portraits. Gwen John was a Welsh artist and is noted for her psychologically revealing portraits, particularly of women. This was painted in about 1900 and shows a resolute, confident woman.

Twilight in the Surrey Hills: watercolour from 2023

Charlotte Brontë | English novelist and poet born #OTD in 1816

Her novel, Jane Eyre, was published in 1847. She is the eldest of the the three Brontë sisters whose novels became classics of English literature.

Embroidered Casket, interior fitted with miniature garden, English, 1660-1685

(Victoria & Albert Museum, London)

Eucalyptus vase. René Lalique. 1925.
Image: Christie's

Fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Maslin stitched this extremely fine sampler, full of vibrant animals and flowers, in 1787. She was taught by a woman also named Elizabeth in Eastrington, Yorkshire. Elizabeth Maslin was from the area, marrying George Smith in the village in 1795