Notable women authors for #InternationalWomensDay? Here's a selection from my bedside table, mostly borrowed from Staffordshire Libraries...

If you need any freelance arts writing doing, I can guarantee to follow your brief and submit ahead of deadline. Recently commissioned by BBC Music Magazine, Engelsberg Ideas, The Critic, Limelight, Opera Holland Park, London Symphony Orchestra, @RoyalOperaHouse, ABAO Bilbao Opera

What a great idea Kinver Library Staffordshire Libraries

Highly recommended reading. Prepare to be challenged!

Beatrix Potter's local postbox when she lived at Hill Top, Near Sawrey #PostboxSaturday Fascinating National Trust visit this week.

Lovely browse in Fred's Bookshop in Ambleside on holiday last week to spend National Book Tokens. Suspect I may need to go back to the #LakeDistrict Tom Chesshyre Helen Rebanks

Thoroughly enjoying this Tom Chesshyre! Well played with the post-hike 'après-scree' in the Buttermere pub 👏

We're launching our popular Kinver Calendar competition! Please help us make the 2025 edition better than ever by getting out and about in our beautiful surroundings and submit your best shots via this link: kinvercommunitylibrary.co.uk/calendar-compe… Staffordshire Libraries @NTKinver Kinver High School

Another giveaway! Simply RT to win a signed copy of Rainbowsaurus. I’ll choose a winner by the end of this week.

In #Rosscarbery, West Cork, the yellow building's no longer a library but they still have a Post Office #PostBoxSaturday 🇨🇮

A rare hexagonal Penfold from about 1870 in Skibereen and a lamp box in Glandore, West Cork, for #PostboxSaturday 🇨🇮

Great to see Maxine Kwok and the London Symphony Orchestra on BBC Breakfast. Enjoy giving it a go tonight!

My husband's on an Air War Europe history tour and spotted this special postbox dedicated to #Dambusters Wing Commander Guy Gibson and Squadron Leader James Warwick at their burial place in Steenbergen, Netherlands. #PostboxSaturday

Bravo CBSO, fabulous prom tonight 🎶🔔👏👋

GIVEAWAY! RT to enter. To celebrate today’s publication of BIRD BATH, I’m giving away a copy on X.

Brilliant work from my very determined little great-nephew!

If you love #Venice and especially #Murano, do yourself a favour and read Tracy_Chevalier's #TheGlassmaker. Her best yet, I reckon, in this wonderful setting and with such mastery of an imaginative and challenging time frame. It was a wrench to say addio to Orsola! 👏

As I add the finishing touches to my next book, I'm very pleased to say that Script Haven in Worcester has copies of my first one (published, it's hard to believe, in 2010!) in stock at £7.99. All profits to my great nephew's physio fund. justgiving.com/fundraising/oa…

Here's a Friday funny for you @Linguist1980 😁

Milestone concert for us tonight, with support from Wyre Forest Young Voices, featuring music by Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Britten and Chilcott 🎶 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Tickets at kidderminsterchoralsociety.co.uk or on the door. #125years