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Writer for readers of all ages. Voracious reader. Watcher of far too much tv and partial to a box set. Knitter. Pbk of #DangerousWomen appeared in 2022
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Very thrilled to introduce Hope Adams, who is my alter ego.
London, 1841. The Rajah sails for Australia. Aboard: 180 women convicted of petty crimes.
They have only each other. Until the murder.
Based on a true story, we can't wait for Hope Adams'
#DangerousWomen
. Be the first to read on Netgalley:
@adelegeras
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These few paragraphs appear on page 40…. Last page of
@thetimes
before Business News. It ought to be on every front page.
#Barbarism
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I was the *only* person visiting the John Sargent show who saw it alongside Ellen Terry’s great granddaughter, the artist Helen Craig! Felt very honoured! The crystal pendant Helen is wearing belonged to Ellen Terry!
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Which means that half the nation would mind very much indeed. Me included. This kind of reasoning is mad… quite a lot of people don’t read books. Shall we close libraries?
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Brewster, my lovely grand-dog, died today. He loved my garden and I’m glad he got to spend many very pleasant hours in it since January. He had the happiest of lives….
#muchmissed
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Me at 18. Not 20, alas but next best thing. Took my glasses off to be photographed of course!
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Devastated by the news of Jill Paton Walsh’s death. She was a dear friend of mine and was here at my house for lunch two weeks ago, with her beloved new husband. May she rest in peace. A fine writer and a wonderful person.
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Just for info, I don’t fly and have twice travelled to Lake Como in a day by train via Zurich. Leave Cambridge at sparrow fart. Eurostar to Paris. Reach Como San Giovanni about 8.00 pm. Fabulous trip. Take a Kindle!
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Huge news!
@PersephoneBooks
is moving to Bath! A fresh lease of life in a beautiful place.... tho will be much missed by Londoners. I will find excuses to visit the new shop! Good luck to all who work for this brilliant publisher!
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Every primary school needs a library, says Jacqueline Wilson and I couldn’t agree more!
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After 75 years of extreme short sight, I am typing this (and reading) with no glasses. It feels like a miracle. Too little praise is given to absolutely transformative cataract operations and those who perform them. Had my second yesterday and can see a rose growing 60’ away…
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Anne Fine(who lives in Co.Durham) just phoned. She told me my first Corona joke: Corona will only come to Durham if it can’t get into Oxford or Cambridge. 😄
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This gives me *such* pleasure! EJH is indeed a genius and the Cazalet Chronicles is a flat out copper-bottomed masterpiece! From yesterday’s
@thetimes
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A friend has sent me this photo of myself in 1966! Behind my left shoulder is a very young John Sergeant!!
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Hearing about vaccination going on in Salisbury Cathedral, with organ music in the background. What a brilliant use of the building. Hope other cathedrals follow suit.
@TimesRadio
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My lovely vaccinator! Everything brilliantly arranged and working like clockwork. Hats off to
@NHSuk
in Cambridge! Now waiting 15 mins before going home!
#ClayFarmMedicalCentre
.
#Pfizer
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Hurray for
@AnthonyHorowitz
and Meg Rosoff shouting about the dearth of school (and public) libraries leading quite naturally to children reading less for pleasure. Every school needs a library run by a LIBRARIAN, not an overworked teacher!
#startyoung
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Just booked in for a vaccination tomorrow at 9.30! Very grateful to
@NHSuk
and excited! I’m going to make myself a Celebratory Inauguration/Vaccination Crumpet with lashings of butter!
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Year11/13 who are sad, here’s a comforting truth. What you learned for exams STAYS WITH YOU! My head is packed with what I was examined on in 1960/62. An exam is *only* that. You get to keep and use the knowledge forever. I’m 76 and could write an essay on Twelfth Night now.
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@Thayer
Aged 76. Have a novel coming out next year with new agent and under my pseudonym. Like a Renaissance.
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Sad news this morning. Raymond Briggs has died, aged 88. A real giant of the children’s books world. His work abides.
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Very sad to read of the death of one of the very best of novelists. ASByatt has died at the age of 87. Time for a reread….may her memory be for a blessing.
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Judith Kerr has died. Her memory is a blessing and may it continue to be so. Part of so many childhoods. Her books abide.
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That’s more like it! So glad to be back to normal short self! Especially pleased with the colour...
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That’s what friends are for! The multi-talented
@sally_prue
has Klimt-ified me! She’s made me younger and slimmer as well as surrounding me with properly glittery GOLD! I am flattered and chuffed! It’s called
#AdeleBookbuyer
. ❤️
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All who love Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell novels should also read CJSansom’s outstanding series of detective stories starring Matthew Shardlake:a lawyer whose boss is Thomas Cromwell. First in the series is called
#Dissolution
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Front cover, embossed and glittering; back endpapers showing the real Rajah Quilt; front endpaper showing the ship at sea. Keats was quite right! “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” Most grateful to
@MichaelJBooks
for publishing
#DangerousWomen
so perfectly !
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I reckon Hugh Grant should have got an Oscar for
#Paddington2
. The sequence as the credits roll is ACE!
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I have a delivery coming from
@sainsburys
next Wednesday. Feel as though I’ve won a Gold Medal!
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Yes!
#LoveBBCFour
I may be slightly worked up about this but losing
#BBC4
would be like the Vikings sacking the monastery of Lindisfarne in 793.
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I see that the Shardlake books are coming soon to Disney +. I may have to subscribe! The series of books by CJ Sansom are among my favourites.
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It’s been about 65 years and I STILL can’t get over Laurie marrying Amy. Just awful!
#LittleWomen
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While looking for something in a messy file, I found a sonnet I wrote 22 years ago about the Bayeux Tapestry.
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This is riveting listening and viewing.
@afneil
doing his thing very well indeed.
“How closely do you have to look at that to realise it is anti-Semitic?”
@afneil
asks
@Richardburgon
The presenter told viewers
#bbcdp
had to decide whether to show the image on-air
“I think it clearly is anti-Semitic” says the Labour MP
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Sad news from
@thebookseller
1: Fewer children than ever are being read aloud to. Parents, it’s VERY VERY important to do this. I realise time is very short, but it’s SO good for them. As good as broccoli!
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New cop Shane in
#BlueLights
has something of young Kenneth Branagh about him. Many congratulations to everyone involved. It’s as good as ever.. I’m moving seamlessly to Episode 2. But saving more episodes for tomorrow!
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It’s the 75th anniversary of
#TheRedShoes
. This was the first film I ever saw when I was almost 5 and it made a massive impression on me. I have, eg, always longed for red hair and have filled my novels with red-headed heroines.
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What a brilliant cartoon!
What a relief we won’t have to pay attention to this oaf any more.
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Here’s a photo of my idea of Hell. I’m sitting indoors in a coolish room with a sleeping dog on the sofa. You wouldn’t get me on to this beach, not even for ready money. Nothing to do with pandemics!
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Sad , sad news.
I've just seen among all the other bad news for the arts in Birmingham that the council is closing 25 out of 36 libraries - genuine cultural vandalism. Libraries are one of the few community resources left in the UK: they offer incalculable support and value.
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I’m completely prepared to be proved wrong, but if I’d created the Perfect Thing that is
#FawltyTowers
I don’t think I’d try to write a sequel or revive it in any way… we shall see!
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RIP Milan Kundera and RIP Brewster … “Dogs are our link to Paradise.”
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I’m on a bus to Saffron Walden to have my hair cut and coloured. I’m beyond excited!😀
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Today marks 8 weeks since I went into lockdown. Missing certain things but basically fine. Easier for writers, this way of life. Very grateful for all technology : tv, podcasts, Zoom, etc and knitting. And newspapers! And gorgeous weather. And books....
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Anyone who has missed the Queen speaking about her life and sharing her home movies has missed something very beautiful and moving. I can’t recommend strongly enough that you watch on IPlayer. I’m glad to have bought Jubilee souvenirs! 👑👏👏💐
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After getting an
@PersephoneBooks
parcel, here’s a lovely piece in
@thetimes
about its founder Nicola Beauman.
By Susie Goldsborough.
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On a train. Five 15 or so year old boys in the bay next to mine are just having a *quiet * chat about mainly football and they’re being totally civilised and lovely in every way. 😀 Gladdens the heart.
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Any who rail against possible Govt legislation re over 70s should consider this: if loose in the population, more of them will catch Covid-19 and put huge strain on NHS. I for one am perfectly happy to be “sheltered.” I think the language is important.
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Wow! I just LOVE
#Strike
. Cormoran and Robin are ace and so is the skinny cop...fabulous telly. And if you’ve not read the books, you should! They’re even better👍❤️
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I’ve walked an hour a day for 56 days. Haven’t missed once. Will try and keep this up even when lockdown is lifted! It’s no hardship..
#Grantchester
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My new grandpuppy!
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Listening to
@Bobby_Seagull
on
@timesradio
is inspiring. One thing stands out. His dad took him to the library for fun every Saturday. A good friend (she knows who she is!) reckons home schooling during pandemic should have been READING. Nothing else. READ!
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Basically, the more
@TheRestHistory
the better! In answer to their question about how long episodes should be! Longer, multiple episodes on one subject, more frequent….bring it on! Absolutely in awe of tireless work from both
@holland_tom
and
@dcsandbrook
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All articles bemoaning the lack of Big Literary Beasts these days have failed to take account of MANY formidable women writers. I give you Anne Tyler
@LizStrout
and Kate Atkinson for starters. There are lots more….
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Prince Philip was my very first pin-up. I’ve been dazzled by him since the Coronation and am sad thinking of what the Queen must be feeling. May his memory be for a blessing.
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You haven’t lived till you’ve heard
@holland_tom
doing a Corsican accent!
In today’s podcast, Tom and Dominic discuss the rise of the YOUNG NAPOLEON, from his birth and upbringing in a politically tumultuous Corsica, to his time studying in a military academy in France, and his growing identification with the ideals of the French Revolution...
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Very good interview with
@CressidaCowell
in today’s
@times
by Alice Thomson. Surely a library in every primary school is the most basic of necessities? Proper universal literacy is a *huge* answer to all kinds of problems. Especially, now, “catching up.”
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Me in the summer of 1961, I think. 17 years old. On our verandah in Dar-es-Salaam. Follow the sea visible between the palm trees and you’ll soon arrive in Zanzibar. We could sometimes smell the cloves…
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Hard to disagree with
@j_amesmarriott
that this is right up there on the Top Experiences List!
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Beautiful flowers, biscuits and a bottle of Negroni! From my lovely publishers,
@MichaelJBooks
for Virtual Drinks later. Thanks so much to Jill,
@gabyyoung
@gracelong94
, Katie and all at MJ. DangerousWomen
#PublicationDay
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Merry Christmas and Happy 2024 to my followers. And big thanks to the journalists and radio presenters who’ve kept me informed, entertained and moved this year. I’m sure you know who you are!
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Deeply depressing and worrying report for
@lewis_goodall
about student life today. Required listening.
"We should split our rent with the rats."
Students at Manchester Uni are on rent strike, citing poor living conditions and extortionate prices.
@Lewis_Goodall
paid them a visit to see for himself.
Listen on
@GlobalPlayer
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I make no excuse for retweeting every single Ravilious I see!
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I did not know this!
And of course my occasional reminder that it's called My Fair Lady as that's how Eliza would pronounce Mayfair. The greatest and most understated phonetic pun in any movie title.
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No one ever believes me when I ask for the bacon in a bacon roll to be CRISPY!! I want every rasher practically incinerated! No white streaky bits!!
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A bit late to the party, but have discovered
#SchittsCreek
There are many series! It’s exactly what’s needed in these Covid-y times! Fabulous!
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Lovely
@ianarchiebeck
sitting in front of his own beautiful paintings. In the amazing Art Workers’ Guild. A real treat to see him/the paintings and especially to meet Emma Beck, who is Ian’s wife.
#pleasure
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I caved in, didn’t I? Have just watched
#TheDig
and it’s as beautiful as everyone has been saying. Intensely moving and every performance absolutely spot on. Special accolades to Lily James and Ken Stott. Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes...well. Superb!
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Souvenir of
#ChristmasUniversityChallenge
My name strip from the programme, now on top shelf in my study. Happy days!
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On Mothering Sunday, I'd like to express enormous gratitude for my two daughters, two sons- in- law, and four grandchildren. They're the tops!
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A happy Hanukkah to all. This Hanukkiyah was a gift from
@MayaGinat
and I look forward to lighting the candles…
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Loved
@neilhimself
scary story in
@dailytelegraph
Scared even tho I could see what was coming....ace!
http://t.co/yRHqAd4PO3
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Lovely lively crowd! Thanks,
@sophiehannahCB1
My mum,
@adelegeras
, addressing a huge crowd at
@swanwickwriters
- talking about her new book that’s coming out next year, and the ups and downs of her life as a writer! She was bloody brilliant! Also about her amazing agent
@Nelle_Andrew
.
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Went into my first (small,local) shop since March 12th. Face covering by
@BleuViola
very comfy. Word of warning for hearing aid wearers: careful when you take these off if the elastic is hooked over your ears! Can easily pull out aids!
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Big treats for Anita Brookner fans tonight on
@BBCFOUR4
#HotelduLac
at 10.00 followed by Anita B doing
#GreatPaintings
. She was an eminent art historian.
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Here’s
@VictoriaCoren
on the sheer pleasure of children’s books. “ Never pretend to me that you enjoyed War and Peace or Middlemarch more than The Castle of Adventure or Five Children and It.” I may not have chosen those two books but I do see what she means.
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Oh my goodness! Blast from the past! Look how young I was ,
A great way to end your degree course: a West End revue and a Parlophone cast recording. John Gould, Bob Scott, Adele Weston, David Wood – Four Degrees Over
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I started reading Agatha Christie when I was about 12. Read everything and can hardly remember anything beyond the fact that they were ace and I gobbled them up. Movies etc have reminded me of plots but need to reread after 65 years! Starting with this!
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Today
#HopeAdams
‘ historical mystery comes out in pbk.
I will be changing the photo at the top of my Twitter feed very soon!
@MichaelJBooks
@GabyYoung
@Nelle_Andrew
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So wonderful to be in a theatre! This is Wydham’s where in 45 mins
#Leopodtstradt
will begin! Had a ticket last March…. 😀👍
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Wonderful news! So proud!!
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