Author inc.Diary of an Accidental Witch series with @HonorCargillM
Joined November 2014
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Perdita Cargill retweeted
Jun 5
Interviewer: Before we start, let me just say how much I loved your book.
Male author: Thanks.
Female author: Well that’s very kind but I’m not sure I deserve the praise. It takes a village, and I have a great editor, plus my partner lets me brainstorm. And you know, this one might just be a fluke. I’m not sure it’s all that good to be honest.
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Perdita Cargill retweeted
May 18
Should you ever be accused of being untidy, show them this photo of the offices of the New York Review of Books.
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Perdita Cargill retweeted
May 8
In 1935, Penguin sent 21-year-old designer Edward Young to London Zoo.
His sketches became one of publishing’s most enduring marks
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Apr 13
RT @zzzzaaaacccchhh: A sitcom about Thomas Pynchon winning a $600,000 literary prize and then gradually losing his mind as the prize commit…
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Edith Wharton is under appreciated. Criminally so.
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Perdita Cargill retweeted
Mar 26
Happy Publication Day to the first book in the Will Shakespeare Mysteries: The Stinky Stolen Toenails by Kaz Penney and Sammy Elgie! 🎉📚
A fast-paced, fun, and fantastically illustrated trip to Shakespearean England.
Out now!
#WillShakespeareMysteries #AndersenPress
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Perdita Cargill retweeted
Mar 25
The Adventures of Portly the Otter: Untold Tales from The Wind in the Willows is published tomorrow and The Telegraph is reviewing it… I got tearful at the headline. I love Kenneth Grahame’s story with my whole being and do so want to do it justice. 🦦
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Perdita Cargill retweeted
Applications are now open for our 2026–2028 OxLAT programme, which offers free tuition in Latin language and literature from scratch through to GCSE examination.
If you are in Year 8 or 9 at a nearby state school which does not teach Latin, but you are interested in learning the language of the Romans, apply to study it here with us!
Full details and applications forms are available at classics.ox.ac.uk/outreach
***APPLICATION DEADLINE: Friday 15th May 2026***
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Mar 22
Never calling him Oliver Cromwell again (Tess of the d’Urbevilles).
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Perdita Cargill retweeted
Mar 15
There's still time to enter a story for this great award. Anyone aged 14-18. A story up to 1000 words. Pass on the info. Get writing.
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"I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past."
Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941
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Perdita Cargill retweeted
Fans of the musical Six will adore this #YA #nonfiction #book about the 6️⃣ queens outside of Henry’s shadow: bookshop.org/a/102434/978146… #librarytwitter #booktwitter #librarian #librarians #bookrecommendation
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Mar 10
Re-read this recently (I was far too young when I first read it) and I loved it so much that when I mislaid my old copy forty pages before the end, I had to run out and buy another.
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This is shocking
As schools across the country celebrate World Book Day, our study last year found that 40% of Britons hadn't read a single book in the past 12 months - the median Briton had read 3 books in the preceding year
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