My newest blog post lays out the results of a BookBub featured deal that ran back in February:

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CASANOVA STREET PRE-ORDERS ARE LIVE!

Get yours here, only #99p and delivered to your Kindle on 27 April.

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Today’s bargain courtesy of Speke’s Volumes at Speke Hall . A mere three quid for this!

📚📢 Announcing the publication of my new novel THE BLIND FUGITIVE!
Published 350 years after the death of #JohnMilton , it tells the story of how the great republican poet narrowly survived at the Restoration. The #histfic sequel to The Image of the King. amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CTHPYHR5

Oooh just heard Dr Sophie Hay on the Today programme! It all sounds really exciting. #pompeii #AulusVerus
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Welcome to the black room in #Pompeii - it’s just been unearthed after being hidden for 2000 years - just one of the amazing new finds coming to light here. We’re live here this morning on BBC Breakfast BBC Radio 4 Today with Gabriel Zuchtriegel & Dr Sophie Hay 📷 Tony Jolliffe

ALSO stirring some interest now I think of it...

Free via #Kindleunlimited
#NEWBOOKS Paying in Blood
By Karen Haden

'An exciting, powerfully-written narrative.'
amazon.com/dp/B0CW6LKGK7/

#crimefiction #espionage #tudors

I’ve just finished this book - what a wonderful read, so lively, entertaining, and infused with a love of the subject. #Ovid #Latin #ancientRome
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If you like satirical songwriting and the late, great Jake Thackray, you might want to give this album a listen: youtu.be/XDDlB2xAgO0?fe…

There is a fascinating interview with historical fiction author Eleanor Swift-Hook Eleanor Swift-Hook on my blog today. Catch it here! valpenny.com/post/an-interv…

#KindleDeals #99p
The Ides,
By Peter Tonkin

'For fans of Steven Saylor and Conn Iggulden.'
amazon.co.uk/dp/B07BQWL9QN/

#histfic #espionage #juliuscaesar

“Cold darkness would follow, and it excited me a little, for reasons I still don’t know, maybe it was just the intrigue of what another season would bring or perhaps it was what actually lay in the darkness beyond.”

Open Evening - a fast paced early 2000's horror

Monday 15th April BBC2 9pm.

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Hard at work on Shadow of Poison & had planned not to tweet or post today as Poley and Phelippes go through the documents that cause the Cecils and their intelligencers to stop protecting Lopez and start working to ensure his destruction and execution. Then this popped up. Super!

Hey everyone, look at this cute plant I picked up yesterday during the eclipse!

Eid Mubarak to all my friends celebrating!

Tune in to BBC Radio 4's 'In Our Time' this Thursday 11th April at 09.00am UK time (or catch up later on BBC Sounds) to hear our very own Prof. James Robson talking about Lysistrata by Aristophanes.
#A229 #OUA229 #AncientGreek OU Arts & Social Sciences bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

When Elizabeth Buchan was unable to travel to research her new novel, Bonjour, Sophie, she fell back on memories of holidays in #Sussex 'to reproduce the quality of light, the feel of the marsh under foot.'
She writes about this at: bit.ly/HistoriaArmcha…
#writerslife

Becket: Warrior is currently on a #99p #kindle deal at the moment. The whole trilogy of novellas for less than a couple of pints.

Grab em cheap while you can.

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