Thrilled to see #TheBlackbirdsofStGiles as a Kindle Daily Deal!
You can delve into the secrets and the story of London’s hidden black Georgian community for just 99p
If you take your morning history sharp, strong and gritty - sweetened with love, family and hope this is for you!
#Giveaway for US readers 🇺🇸📣
Just one more day to enter the #Goodreads #Giveaway for one of 10 gorgeous hardback copies of #TheBlackbirdsofStGiles
Published in the US by Kensington Books
Enter here:
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Why you should enter here
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Writing as #LilaCain me & @Marciathewriter #MarciaHutchinson are delighted that #TheBlackbirdsofStGiles our gritty historical novel featuring London’s black Georgians is a #goodreads #giveaway
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@KensingtonBooks
Thrilled to be taking #TheBlackbirdsofStGiles to @NairnFest in September! Join me and @Marciathewriter when we discuss our ‘outsider history’ novel with the brilliant @seanlusk1 on Friday Sept 5th
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Many thanks to Angela Cobbinah whose brilliant review /feature on #TheBlackbirdsofStGiles is the lead story in this week’s review section of London’s superb independent newspaper The Camden New Journal
@camdennewjournal.bsky.social
We’re preening our feathers 🐦⬛💚🐦⬛
@mhut25.bsky.social
📣BARGAIN ALERT 📣
If you love stirring historical fiction,
#TheBlackbirdsofStGiles is an AMAZING 99p kindle deal today
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Love, loyalty, betrayal & hope in the little-known black community of Georgian London.
Join Daniel & Pearl as they battle for true freedom
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US reader #GIVEAWAY🇺🇸 📣
Our fabulous US publisher Kensington Books has teamed up with Goodreads to offer
100 pre-pub copies of our historical novel #TheBlackbirdsofStGiles set in the little-known black community of 18thC London
#Freedom #Enslavement #Hope
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🎉 #GIVEAWAY 🎉 (UK only 🇬🇧)
Find me & @marxia1 over on Instagram as @LilaCainBooks where we’re running a #giveaway to celebrate one month of our birds in flight!
#TheBlackbirdsofStGiles
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Times Historical book of the month for Feb
In the beautiful box:
⭐️ Signed book
⭐️ Rum chocs
⭐️ Bonus US proof
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US reader 🇺🇸 Goodreads #GIVEAWAY alert 📣📣
Until 9/3/25 you can WIN a copy of the BEAUTIFUL US version of #TheBlackbirdsofStGiles
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Follow siblings Daniel & Pearl from enslavement on a sugar plantation to Georgian London.
Just 100 pre copies available
Swoop now!
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We’ve often been asked about co-writing #TheBlackbirdsofStGiles and how the process worked. We answered those question in this piece for #WritingMagazine
Spoiler… wine was involved
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Lovely to see #TheBlackbirdsofStGiles written by me and @mhut25.bsky.social reviewed in Woman’s Weekly!
‘Captivating’ and ‘genuinely heart-stirring’
Thank you @zoeannewest.bsky.social
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*NEW BLOG POST*
The Blackbirds of St Giles by Lila Cain
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Check out my review of #TheBlackbirdsOfStGiles A powerful, immersive tale of resilience and the fight for freedom—one of the best I’ve read this year. My thanks to @annerandomthings.bsky.social @simonandschuster.bsky.social 1/2
Spotted in the wild, in The Whitby Bookshop, #TheBlackbirdsOfStGiles by Marcia Hutchinson and @kateagriffin.bsky.social writing as #LilaCain.
Absolutely THRILLED to see #TheBlackbirdsofStGiles which I co-wrote (as Lila Cain) with @Marciathewriter as @thetimes PICK OF THE MONTH in today’s historical fiction round up. Huge thanks to Nick Rennison for his generous review
We are wagging our tail feathers
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As always, coordinated ribbon from @bertsbooks.bsky.social can’t wait to start reading this. Pre-ordered ages ago! #TheBlackbirdsofStGiles @kateagriffin.bsky.social
A wonderful review of #TheBlackbirdsofStGiles
They’re flocking to our cause 😉
Thank you so much ‘whatyoutolkeinabout’
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Lovely to meet you today and hear about your brilliant book(s) with @bibliotreaures.bsky.social #TheBlackbirdsofStGiles
Picture of Emma,Emma and Marcia at a book signing.
Marcia Hutchinson talking about new book coauthored with kate Griffin under pen name Lilia Cain
Lovely day meeting @bibliotreaures.bsky.social and Marcia Hutchinson. Marcia is coauthor of #TheBlackbirdsofStGiles and it sounds amazing! @patersonjoseph.bsky.social you have to help bring this to screen!
On the train to Manchester to meet @emmavardy2.bsky.social and go to the #TheBlackbirdsofStGiles event
#BookSky
Book Tour Review The Black Birds of St Giles by Lila Cain
Introduction I was given a copy to review by Random Things Book Tours. My review is honest and freely given. #LilaCain #TheBlackBirdsOfStGiles #RandomThingsBookTourd #RandomTTours #BookTourReview #BookReview #FreeReview #AdPR #Gifted Blurb…
Congratulations to @KateAGriffin 🐦⬛& @Marciathewriter 🐦⬛on #PublicationDay🐦⬛
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a Dickensian style story from the OOV of black Londoners in the Georgian era. 🩷🐦⬛🩷 (all pics borrowed)
Happiest of publication days to this wonderful immersive novel. I loved it. Get your paws on a copy asap. It’s stunning outside as well as in.
#TheBlackbirdsOfStGiles #LilaCain @simonandschuster.bsky.social
And they’re flying! It’s publication day for #TheBlackbirdsofStGiles by me & @Marciathewriter as #LilaCain. We are so proud of our sweeping historical novel set in the diabolical rookery of St Giles - the dark heart of Georgian London. Can love, the bonds of family & hope triumph?
Find out today
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Image shows two authors standing by a staircase at their book launch at Hatchards Piccadilly
Image shows Kate Griffin, Marcia Hutchinson authors and Paterson Joseph author & actor
Wonderful evening at Hatchards Piccadilly to celebrate the launch of #TheBlackbirdsOfStGiles by #LilaCain aka
@kateagriffin.bsky.social @mhut25.bsky.social
A surprise guest appearance and reading by @patersonjoseph.bsky.social and a catch up with lots of lovely writing folk
Rich in character, plot & adventure, #TheBlackbirdsofStGiles by #LilaCain immerses the reader in a vivid, explosive recreation of 1780s London, a place of danger and oppression, but also of friendship and love. This novel pulses with excitement & emotional power www.visitlincoln.com/event/an-eve...
Great interview with Robert Elms at BBC Radio London today
#TheBlackbirdsOfStGiles look out for it on BBC Sounds
Listen out for me & @Marciathewriter on Robert Elms’s BBC London radio show later today. Around midday we’ll be chatting about our new book #TheBlackbirdsofStGiles (out next Thursday) & why it represents a dark, disturbing & gritty side to London’s history
With one week to go before the publication of our sweeping historical novel #TheBlackbirdsofStGiles Marcia and I (writing as Lila Cain) hope you might be interested to find out about it’s setting, the St Giles rookery, one of London’s most notorious slums:
www.historiamag.com/st-giles-roo...
