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17 Sep 2025
Signing 1,300 copies for the wonderful @GoldsboroBooks 'The Matchbox Girl' @BloomsburyBooks is out from 6 November. It tells the story of the real Dr Asperger and what happened to the Curative Education Ward at the Vienna Children's Hospital when the Nazis annexed the city.
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Read shortlisted author Rachel Seiffert’s fascinating account of how she researched Once The Deed Is Done and how it was inspired by real people and records.
Full interview via the link: walterscottprize.co.uk/short…
@ViragoBooks #HistoricalFiction #Shortlist #WalterScottPrize
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Jun 3
Reminder: event at Leeds Central Library this Sat 6 June at 13.00. The art of the short story with me and @nicholasroyle and @NaomiBooth #shortstory #litfic Hope to see you there.
libraries.leeds.gov.uk/event…
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Next to catch the spotlight in our Walter Scott Prize shortlist Tasters series is ONCE THE DEED IS DONE by RACHEL SEIFFERT 📚Find out more via the link 🔗walterscottprize.co.uk/abbot… #HistoricalFiction #Booksky #BookRecommendations #Shortlist #WalterScottPrize #BookClub #BookFestival
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Meet our shortlistee for the #WalterScottPrize, Graeme Macrae Burnet 📚 Find out more via the link: walterscottprize.co.uk/short… 🔗
@GMacraeBurnet @BirlinnBooks
#HistoricalFiction #Books #BookRecommendations #BookClub
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May 25
Thank you so much!
For outstanding #historicalfiction, look no further than @JollyAlice's The Matchbox Girl and Rachel Seiffert's Once The Deed Is Done. The two novels are on the shortlist of the @waltscottprize. Here is my review of both. valeriavescina.com/2026/05/2… @BloomsburyBooks @virago #histfic
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May 20
Gotta hand it to Granta, they actually found a way to make this worse
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May 20
Will be speaking about #shortstoy Leeds Central Library on Sat 6 June 1-3 pm. With @NaomiBooth and Nicholas Royle, event chaired by Stu Hennigan. Tickets below. Hope to see you there.
ticketsource.com/leedslibrar…
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May 12
Carole Tonkinson was one of my chief persecutors in Macmillan. She advocated for my book to be pulped on moral grounds. But look who she was signing up. How publishers go mad. link 👇
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May 11
I am reading this right now and am thoroughly captivated! Original, funny with particularly strong women characters ......
Kicking off our Walter Scott Prize Shortlist Tasters series is THE PRETENDER by JO HARKIN. Find out more via the link: walterscottprize.co.uk/abbot…
#HistoricalFiction #BookTok
#BookRecommendations #Shortlist #WalterScottPrize #Books #BookClub
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May 6
Reminder: Tomorrow in the Painswick Centre 7.30. #stroud #cotswolds #Gloucestershire#stroud #cotswolds
firstthursdaypainswick.co.uk…
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Apr 27
Survival of the shameless.
Apr 27
What happened to Registrar who oversaw the financial catastrophe engulfing Nottingham University?
He got job in Legal Consultancy at Shakespeare Martineau
SM represent many Universities in tribunals & courts
Eg Bury St Edmunds Tribunal, 1-28 June 2026
shma.co.uk/our-thoughts/shak…
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The Borders Book Festival has launched its official 2026 programme!
We will announce the winner of the Walter Scott Prize at the Book Festival and also have our two Young Walter Scott Prize winners set to receive their awards there 📚
bordersbookfestival.org/
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Apr 22
Will be speaking about my novel 'The Matchbox Girl' @bloomsbury books with Lucy Mangan (author of Bookish) @SwindonLitFest on Saturday 9th May. Also teaching! Link here. @waltscottprize
trafalgartickets.com/swindon…
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Apr 21
Strikes at Cambridge University over pay
Vice Chancellor is the most highly paid in UK, the 'Golden Fifty' have seen seen huge increases in pay
Everyone else had real term pay cuts
No excuse as Cambridge Uni has more resources than many countries 😉
cambridge-news.co.uk/news/ca…
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Apr 16
Treats galore for historical fiction fans on the Walter Scott Prize 2026 shortlist #books #historicalfiction #bookreviews #walterscottprize @waltscottprize whatcathyreadnext.co.uk/2026… via @Cathy_A_J
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Apr 16
Sally will be accompanied by award winning actress Elisabeth Gray who will perform uniquely dramatised extracts from Sally’s novel. Free to book, reserve your spot now. eventbrite.co.uk/e/sally-bay…
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Apr 16
Very pleased that my novel 'The Matchbox Girl' @BloomsburyBooks is on the shortlist for the £25,000 @waltscottprize for historical fiction.
Announcing the Shortlist for the #WalterScottPrize 2026 from Abbotsford, home of Sir Walter Scott and the Prize.
walterscottprize.co.uk/abbot…
@BordersBookFest @AbbotsfordScott #bordersbookfestival #Shortlist #HistoricalFiction #Bookstagram
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Announcing the Shortlist for the #WalterScottPrize 2026 from Abbotsford, home of Sir Walter Scott and the Prize.
walterscottprize.co.uk/abbot…
@BordersBookFest @AbbotsfordScott #bordersbookfestival #Shortlist #HistoricalFiction #Bookstagram
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Apr 7
Will be talking about my novel 'The Matchbox Girl' @painswickFTP on 7th May 7.30-9.30. Novel is about Dr Asperger, the story of the first #autism diagnosis and the rise of fascism in 1930s Vienna. @BloomsburyBooks @waltscottprize
firstthursdaypainswick.co.uk…
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Mar 31
Sheffield Hallam University need £26.6m cost savings
It bet big on London with satellite campus in Brent's Cross -- now enormous & costly white elephant
Another vanity project, another (just departed) VC driven by hubris
Jobs are being cut in Sheffield
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce84…
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