Many congratulations to Jeff Young on winning the 2025 #TLSAckerleyPrize for his wonderful memoir ‘Wild Twin’. And thanks to all three shortlisted authors for writing such marvellous books and making last night’s prize event such a success. Please buy and read all three books.

Thank you Michelle! And how lovely to keep company with your spirited Fairfax Sisters Mich Kenney and the luminous Girl with a Pearl Earring

Thank you so much Lana Lana Ferguson Author . I've surprised myself - and had an absolute ball!

I'm in the drought-stricken SE and thought my garden had had its last hurrah - but no! I picked these this morning. Some roses are still going strong, lovely salvias of course, dahlias, astilbe & Russian sage - and ever-pretty-in-lime, alchemilla mollis. #gardening #Roses

#TheKingsMother, an incredibly gripping story of Lady Elfrida, England's first crowned Queen. The widowed Lady Elfrida has achieved the impossible in tenth-century England. She’s ensured her twelve-year-old son has become king books2read.com/TheKingsMother #TenthCentury #HistFic

“In secret pleasure, secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away, As friendless after eighteen years, As lone as on my natal day.” Emily Brontë, born 30 July 1818 #emilybronte #poem

If you can, do please retweet my Pinned Tweet. I have been a full-time professional writer for the past few decades and now live only off my earnings from novels. Writing income tends to operate on a feast or famine situation. Right now, the cupboard is bare! 😱

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How painfully true! Lord Byron perfectly skewering the truth, as he tends to do…

My wonderful daughter Dr Lily Dunn on a proof drop with publisher Manchester University Press for her next book 'Into Being: The Radical Craft of Memoir & its Power to Transform' (pub Oct) She teaches memoir & her own memoir 'The Sins of my Father' was a Guardian Book of the Year #booktwt

My #Regency flowering - thanks to brilliant Boldwood Books 6 yrs old today. They publish my books with such éclat I've had a ridiculous amount of fun! Latest is The Accidental Debutante (pub June) I'm filled with huge gratitude to all #readers #reviewers #bloggers #retweeters🙏

Linguistically inspired Jed Pumblechook theatricals go wild as Byron battles to keep the ancestral pile from "Count Centreparques" with his own "Ghost Tour" of "werewolves, vampires, shape-shifting bird men, bare-fronted hoodwinks, moon-rabbits - and such like..." If only!

Huge congratulations, Linda! Linda Sole Such a super cover too

Thank you so much Mich Kenney This is such a treat to read at Sunday breakfast. It’s made my day! And what a lovely photo! 🙏🏻❤️

Sundays when you're an old rescue whippet - well every day really! Just an old sofa for your use alone, with a nice bank of comfy cushions and a faux fur blanket. Mmmm... wake me up for supper #sunday #RescueDogs #whippet

Ever youthful Shelley born today but never to grow old...

Happy Publication Day to you! 🥂🍾

Just finished The Invention of Charlotte Brontë Graham Watson what a tour de force! Such scholarship & beautifully written, rich with feeling & insight with the momentum of a thriller. 2 literary giants, C Brontë & Mrs Gaskell, utterly unalike yet forever united - & seen anew

So looking forward to this book being out in the world!

Fabulous and hilarious - and so true to their characters too. Brilliant Jed Pumblechook has skewered our beloved Romantics again! I'd love to see it at the Edinburgh Fringe Edinburgh Festival Fringe The Cambridge Footlights OUDS