Author and essayist, smatterer & fumbler on hollow places, Roman roads and ways to the past. Agent @DGALitAgents Publisher @WmCollinsBooks
Joined April 2011
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16 Jan 2023
Uncomfortable with blowing my own trumpet...but ta-ta-tat-ta-ta! 'Magnificent…no dry and prosaic history, but a work of imagination..deeply literary..an absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year' 🙏 Harry Sidebottom @Telegraph
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30 Sep 2024
I'm looking forward to reading at Bishops Stortford Library on 3 October. I don't know anyone in that part of the country, yet. Tickets here:
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12 Sep 2024
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11 Sep 2024
Self, on dragons and Norman knights
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3 Sep 2024
Just a month to go until the wonderful Barkway Literary Festival returns. Grab your tickets now. I'll be talking about Romans, dragon slayers and ways to the past at 7pm.
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2 Sep 2024
The best exhibitions, festivals and theatre shows to get in your diary timeandleisure.co.uk/things-… Including this year's fab Clapham Book Festival. Tickets at payhip.com/claphambookfestiv…
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22 Aug 2024
An exciting day for me as 'Eerie East Anglia', the new book I've edited for @BL_Publishing 's 'Tales of the Weird Series', is published today. And it's already out there in the wild, with this lovely display in @NorwichStones. For more info see: shop.bl.uk/collections/briti…
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22 Aug 2024
'It was once said that you could trace the ancient roads the Romans used by looking for the cherry trees that grew beside them – presumably from cherry stones spat out by marching soldiers.' True or not, I love this from @BenTheEpicure 's new book.
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20 Aug 2024
I've just read a very enjoyable @LRB Diary by @tomlukejohnson Tattered mss., outlandish corbel stones, restless spirits and M.R.James.
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19 Aug 2024
I do enjoy writing and giving talks about my work and I try to make each one different - so as not to bore myself. My next talk and reading will be at the wonderful @Book_Nook_Shop next month. Details below. (I might weave in a few words about Hollow Places as well.)
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2 Aug 2024
Extraordinarily interesting & portentous discovery from Roman Wales, its early indications echoing John Reid’s 2023 revisionist interpretation of the military scale & endemic violence of the Roman presence in Scotland. theguardian.com/uk-news/arti…
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19 Jul 2024
View from the office this month. The Haute-Savoie works wonders for my spirits and the book in progress. Lots of reading, writing and hiking, and a little bit of missing the kids - it was our first summer getaway without one or more of them for 23 years.
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17 Jul 2024
'Enthralling' has an interesting history, and is high praise. Thank you Richard.
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16 Jul 2024
My review of @cath_fletcher 's The Roads to Rome is in the latest volume of Itinera. Read it here romanroads.org/itinera.html then be sure to order a copy of Catherine's book.
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6 Jul 2024
Thank you @kwilsonlee . You're very kind.
5 Jul 2024
@hadleywrites wrote a brilliant book about this tomb and its legend. harpercollins.co.uk/products…
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25 Jun 2024
If you've experienced the visual & verbal joys of hwaet! zine, you'll understand why I was honoured to be asked to contribute to the new Forests & Ancient Woodland issue. I hope you like my words; you'll definitely like diddumsdoodles' magical take on them hwaetzine.co.uk/product/zine…
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29 May 2024
New #Folklands is out! With Phil Catling we explore everything from nuclear bunkers to Alan Garner's Brisingaman via Susan Cooper's Dark is Rising. Expect dystopian futures, ancient barrows & darkening skies. The brilliant @RikRankin reads from ‘The Princess & The Goblin.' Enjoy!
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26 May 2024
Four days to go. Hope to see some of you there on Thursday. Tickets here hertfordshire.gov.uk/service…
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23 May 2024
I plucked up the courage to circulate & only embarrassed myself twice- when I told William Boyd he was @DalrympleWill (he didn't seem to mind) & when I interrupted @simon_schama to gush how important Dead Certainties had been to me as a young writer (he was lovely about it)
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23 May 2024
A wonderful party & a real pleasure to meet you all, swap stories and ideas & pick your brains. Thank you for making me an honorary member of last night's archaeologists' club.
23 May 2024
Amazing night at Hatchards Authors of the Year last night. Fantastic to finally meet @sarah_tarlow, @Jim_Leary & @hadleywrites! Who knew there’d be such an amazing archaeological presence?! And got to meet @wmarybeard!
And there were party bags.
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Christopher Hadley retweeted
24 Apr 2024
These books for spring keep on blooming 🌿More here from @cathynewman @michikokakutani @alpashah001 @hadleywrites @garethrussell1 @tomburgis @TomBaldwin66 @paulajaynebyrne @beckorio Matthew Lockwood Steve J
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