The land is flooded and crops are ruined! How can the king appease his overlord if he cannot pay the tribute he owes?

Great day at the Durham Miners Gala! Wonderful bands, stirring speeches! Exhausted, but happy!

www.facebook.com/share/19ZWyr... Silence for Gaza from 9.pm - 9.30pm each evening! A simple thing - but it might help!

When forced to live with the enemy, you may start to understand him better!

Delighted to be able to say I'll be returning to Tamworth this summer as part of the Castle's Athelstan 1100 week. My talk's at St Editha's, B79 7DA

Join us next Thursday! 🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊

I've been away, visiting my beloved Norfolk. Whilst there, I popped into Waterstones in Norwich and found one of my books 😊

Cutest sand dogs yesterday!

Love the sense of him rushing by!

A brief visit to Hull - glad to see Larkin making friends!

First rose!

Fridgyth the Herbwife first appeared in Wolfgirl!

A good memory!

Always look forward to lilac time! The scent of this is soothing in this strange, unsettling time!

A new version of my first book, which combines memories of the village I grew up in, with magic and cats!

I can't recommend this We Are Not Numbers enough - written by the young people of Gaza. Pre-order now - let's make it a bestseller 👇 bit.ly/4hiPzT2

Happy Easter!

Episode 3 of Writing for Life here! www.youtube.com/@Writing_for... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic0o... @terrytom.bsky.social

Who stole Fridgyth’s marigolds - and why?

They fixed the date of Easter at Hild’s monastery, but Fridgyth the Herbwife had other concerns and who stole her marigolds - and why?

Feeling like I ought to ring somebody up today! ⭐️

Will be there!

Marching through history – @elizabethstjohn.bsky.social on women as healers in the 17th century, hosted by @abelfrageauthor.bsky.social: www.annabelfrage.com/2025/03/20/m...

The UK’s continued military cooperation with Israel is truly unforgivable.

Available as an audiobook!

My image of The Water Cat!

A beautiful, leaping March hare - by Terry Shone!

I had so much fun today delivering a talk at Kendal Library about some of the murder stories in my new book. A lovely welcoming host team, all tickets sold and a lovely audience who laughed at my jokes, bought books, and stayed to chat 😊

A lovely image by my peace loving daughter! #PeaceinUkraine #FreePalestine #Saferoutes

Whitby stories!

Can I come in please!

#OTD Feast of Saint Mildburh, abbess of Wenlock. Her mother Domneva tricked a king into giving her more land than he'd bargained for. Mildburh was, according to legend, nearly the victim of a kidnapping but escaped across a river! mybook.to/WomeninPower mybook.to/TSOF

'... pressure to amend the UK’s copyright laws to make it easier for predominantly American tech companies to train their AI models on other people’s creative work without permission, acknowledgment or payment' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A prostitute, a spy, and a lady of the Tudor court - what could possibly go wrong? "Evocative and moving, the period is wonderfully and brutally drawn." #Review mybook.to/thewincheste... #HistoricalFiction #Tudors #Audible #Paperback #Kindle #KU #Booksky 💙📚

Found this image a while ago and I remember how perfectly it works for the characters in my second novel, so I added the text: mybook.to/AlvartheKing...

The many faces of Marián - The Forestwife! #Readingcommunity

Robin of Sherwood on the tellybox while I take a break How I *adored* it in the 80s - the woo-hoo mysticism, the Clannad soundtrack…& a young Michael Praed didn’t hurt 😏

More stories from our Industrial History! #readingcommunity

Stories from our Industrial History! #readerscommunity

Love the design by my clever daughter Rosie Maddocks!

I'm a guest on the blog of @cryssabazos.bsky.social today, talking about a chilling blinding and murder in Anglo-Saxon England and how it could have been an act of revenge... 'An Eye for an Eye': cryssabazos.com/2025/02/19/e...

The statues in Sheffield give much inspiration!