Thoroughly enjoyed reading The Best of Intentions by @cscottbooks.bsky.social this month.
Sharing my 5⭐️ review today www.instagram.com/p/DMvhemYgta...

Great to spot this here. Thank you again, Karen. ❤️x

Thanks for sharing this, Anne. Fascinating. My grandad was keeping a secret diary in Fukuoka camp too. As you've done, I'd like transcribe it and share it online. These men, and their stories, are too often forgotten. ❤️

Black and white photo workers attempt to recover bodies from collapsed building. Merseyside Police/ National Museums Liverpool.

On VE Day I think about Doreen Yarwood who, as a 7-year-old, was pulled with her mother from the wreckage of a school basement shelter in which 166 were killed. A German parachute mine collapsed the shelter in Durning Road, Liverpool, on the night of 29 November 1940. 1/4

Thinking about my grandad – and other #FEPOW - this morning. In Ube-Sanyo Fukuoka camp, Japan, he wouldn’t hear that #WW2 was over until 20/08/45. At the start of May he was listing fantasy foods (being Lancastrian, it was mostly pies.) #VEDay80 #VEDay

Happened upon this Pathé film... The commentary is pure Cholmondley-Warner. #WW2 #gardening
www.britishpathe.com/asset/55750

Liverpool Echo, 27 December 1938, @BNArchive #WW2 #roses #LigneMaginot #MaginotLine
www.roseraiebarth.com/fr/rosiers-a...
(I might have to order one).

From the Daily Express, 22 November 1938, @BNArchive #WW2 #roses #LigneMaginot #MaginotLine

😃👍Interesting you say that... there are links between the two books! The house in WICHA was based on one in Clappersgate, Ambleside, but the one in the new book was (in part) inspired by Levens Hall, nr Kendal.

I’m thrilled to be able to share the cover of my next novel. I love this image and hope you do too. #TheBestofIntentions will be out in June and you can pre-order it now. Please support your local bookshop, if you can.🙏 @simonschusteruk.bsky.social #coverreveal #historicalfiction #histfic #amwriting

Just seen my new cover for the first time… Yay!!! 🍾 Can’t wait to share it. #thebestofintentions #amwriting #histfic #historicalfiction

Late to the party (as usual), but I finished watching #AlmasNotNormal last night. This series has made me belly laugh and sob. I loved it so much. Fabulous! 💗 @bbciplayer

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❤️ So very kind of you. x

A cautionary tale from my publisher. Avoid a family implosion this #Christmas and buy them a book. It’s still not too late. #BuyBooks #GiveBooks (👏@simonschusterUK) 🎄

“How He Came to Life One Day”: Photographs of Snowmen (1854–1950) More than forty images of the ephemeral snowman, frozen eternally in the photograph.

“How He Came to Life One Day”: Photographs of Snowmen (1854–1950) publicdomainreview.org/collection/p... #photography @publicdomainrev.bsky.social

The Color of Memory: Albert Kahn’s Archives of the Planet By the time of Albert Kahn’s death in 1940, the French banker and philanthropist had amassed a collection of more than 72,000 autochrome photographs. Grace Linden explores the Archives de la Planète —...

The Color of Memory: Albert Kahn’s Archives of the Planet
publicdomainreview.org/essay/albert... #photography #autochrome

If you have any interest in history and particularly World War 1, please follow @greatwarhuts.bsky.social and enjoy the Hutvent calendar daily in the lead up to Christmas.

Thank you! 🥰

And so starts the last week of checking page proofs. Nearly there… #thebestofintentions #amwriting

(Okay, 2nd of December... it's acceptable to dress the shop window now, isn't it?)
Give books this #Christmas. Here are some examples. 😉 And please support your local bookshop.🎄

An IMPORTANT MESSAGE from my publisher. (Nice one, @simonschusteruk.bsky.social 👍) #buybooks #theyrebetterthaneverythingelse 🎄

👍 Sure do! 😀

The Box of Delights 40th anniversary airing confirmed by BBC Four The wolves are running again this Christmas.

Nice one, @BBCFour. 👍 (But FORTY years? Seriously?) #thewolvesarerunning www.radiotimes.com/tv/fantasy/b...

Likewise! 👍😁 (Don't forget the oven-bottom muffins!)

International Poetry of the First World War Ranging far beyond the traditional canon, this ground-breaking anthology casts a vivid new light on poetic responses to the First World War. Bringing together p…

Want to read more about those who lived during the #FWW, in all their complexity & diversity? INTERNATIONAL POETRY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR. 😊 Discount codes: UK (GLR 9XUUK), Canada (GLR 9XUCA), rest of Americas (GLR 9XUUS), Australia/NZealand (GLR 9XUAU) www.bloomsbury.com/us/internati...

A letter written by Frank Heap to the family of George Foot who had been killed on the first day of the battle of Cambrai.

107 years ago, my great-grandfather's tank, D51 'Deborah' was destroyed at Cambrai. To him fell the awful task of writing to the families of the men he commanded. The most eloquent tribute I can offer today . "All finer fellows than I shall ever be." #cambrai #cambraiday

‘The Ruins of Ypres’ by W. L. Wyllie. Watercolour of bi-planes over #Ypres, dated 1915, in original annotated frame. (He lost two of his sons during #WW1 - Robert, at Ypres, and Bill. His eldest son, Harold, served with the #RoyalFlyingCorps.) Coming up for #auction with @GWauction @thesaleroom.

And you! Thanks for the nudge. 😃