I had SO much fun with #jamesbond sequel novelist #charliehigson recording Audible’s #TheSpyWho… pod on #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville, Britain’s first female agent of WW2, & the subject of my book #TheSpyWhoLoved.
Available now on @wonderymedia.bsky.social & wherever you get your pods :)
Lovely sunny London with my mum.
Thank you kind stranger for stopping to take the pic!
‘Under credited and out of sight,’ I was delighted to review #NatalieLivingstone ‘s revelatory new book #TheNurembergWomen, for the Spectator, on the unsung witnesses of & participants in the Nuremberg trials…
‘Under credited and out of sight,’ I was delighted to review #NatalieLivingstone ‘s revelatory new book #TheNurembergWomen, for the Spectator, on the unsung witnesses of & participants in the Nuremberg trials…
For those interested in more, Jebb’s full story is told in my award-winning book #TheWomanWhoSavedTheChildren
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Fascinating piece about the founder of Save the Children. #histbookchat
I loved writing this piece about one of the most influential but least appreciated women in British history!
Hey, fantastic. Thanks @jackelhai.bsky.social , I’m delighted you enjoyed the read. What a story!!
My mum, looking rightly proud of her crimson amaryllis. At 95, she still has green fingers 🌿
My mum, looking rightly proud of her crimson amaryllis. At 95, she still has green fingers 🌿
Behind the scenes at beautiful #ButtonHouse!
Wonderful to join the authors at #WestHorsleyPlace annual #HistoryDay today, all #Ghosts banished by the sunshine… I think!
Sharing the stage with John Macabe, I spoke mainly abt #AgentZo
Behind the scenes at beautiful #ButtonHouse!
Wonderful to join the authors at #WestHorsleyPlace annual #HistoryDay today, all #Ghosts banished by the sunshine… I think!
Sharing the stage with John Macabe, I spoke mainly abt #AgentZo
Perfect to bump into Candy Adkins, daughte of #2WW #ATA pilot #JackieMoggridge at a CambridgeArtsTheatre showing of #spitfiregirls this eve!
The programme Candy is holding up is a riff on the famous wartime #PicturePost cover that showed her mum.
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Her story is told very powerfully in Marianna Bukowski ‘s film #PortraitOfASoldier, & more recently in Michał Wójcik’s Polish-language biography Błyskawica (Lightning).
Huge congratulations to inspirational #WW2 resistance soldier #WandaTraczykStawskiej on her 99th birthday!
Wanda was just 17 when she served courageously in the #WarsawUprising, under the codename Pączek (Donut) against the brutal Nazi German occupiers.
📸 c. Marek Szczepa
I’m over the moon to learn that my history of my remarkable, sometimes scandalous, local independent library #TheLibraryBook, has been #HighlyCommended by the national local history awards :)
What lovely Easter news!
Happy Easter all…
here’s our cake of the season 🐇🐥🥚🌼
I’m over the moon to learn that my history of my remarkable, sometimes scandalous, local independent library #TheLibraryBook, has been #HighlyCommended by the national local history awards :)
What lovely Easter news!
And you Ciarán!
Just out of HMP Thameside where I was talking abt my books for the library grp.
Great turnout & really interesting Qs…
This is such a good project; I was delighted to support it.
Thanks to Neil the librarian, & all the guys who came along, turned the slides, asked Qs & showed me their own writing.
Thank you, I think (hope) it was good for all of us :)
Just out of HMP Thameside where I was talking abt my books for the library grp.
Great turnout & really interesting Qs…
This is such a good project; I was delighted to support it.
Thanks to Neil the librarian, & all the guys who came along, turned the slides, asked Qs & showed me their own writing.
Sadly not… how beautiful that must be.
Farewell #Glasgow, a city that knows how to do a brooding #necropolis.
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Up in #Glasgow to see the university with my youngest tomorrow… wonderful to see #AgentZo in @waterstonesglasgow - now all signed :)
Thanks for the offer of a coffee: #friendliestcity !
Argh, missed the little fella!
I’m delighted to have contributed to #Spymasters, the new series on @skyarts.bsky.social starting on Tuesday, 31 March 2026 at 9 pm… although in fact my contribution is only in episode 4, on Tuesday 21 April!
