Who was Dorcas Turton? Read my blog 'A woman of five and twenty' with an excerpt from The Bookseller's Wife. Ebook out now! #booklovers #bookworms #HistoricalFiction #Georgianera jane-davis.co.uk/2024/03/13/a...

Today's the day I release The Bookseller's Wife into the wild to fend for herself. See what advance readers had to say about her. #HistoricalFiction #booklovers goodreads.com/book/show/20...

Georgian frontage, Elder Street, Spitalfields.

‘To write, or read, or think, or inquire/ Would cloud our beauty, and exhaust our time.’ Read my blog about the education of daughters in the 18th Century, with an excerpt from The Bookseller's Wife. jane-davis.co.uk/2024/02/28/a... #historicalfiction #booklovers #bookworms #bibliophiles

Dr Samuel Johnson's writing table and chair. #booklovers #bookworms

Glorious Georgian architecture in London. #TheBooksellersWife

I don't care if it has a Not for Resale stripe, it's always quite a moment when you hold a copy of your book in your a hands for the first time. #booklovers #historical fiction

Remember this? 4 years ago. #parklife

Two excellent uses of blue and gold. #booklovers #bookworms

Available for Pre-Order Now! If you'd like to among the first to get your hands on a copy of The Bookseller's Wife (eBook), you can pre-order now and it will be delivered to you on 13 March. #booklovers #NewRelease #historical fiction #based on a true story books2read.com/thebooksellerswife

Planted in the age of Shakespeare, Carshalton's 400 year old 'miracle tree', has survived several arson assaults, one of which sent flames half way up a hollow area inside, thus its hobbit door. It has been recognised as one of London’s twenty greatest specimens. #carshalton #tree #trees #parklife

Happy Valentine's Day!

Chambermaids on caffeine.

At the launch of the new writing opportunity for new writers from the Black Country and West Midlands backed by the BBC with Lenny Henry & Tim Davie - al details here www.bbc.co.uk/writers/oppo...

Required reading for those of you who watched the two episodes of Bagpuss and the Oliver Postgate documentary shown on Channel 4 last night. Who says time travel isn't real? #booklovers #bookworms #childhood

Another find from clearing out my oddments drawer. A photo from my joint leaving do with Rob Lloyd. I was 18 and thought that shiny blue dress was the height of sophistication. In my defence, it was 1986.

I'd like to introduce you to one of my favourite trees, the Indian wing-nut at Beddington Park. #parklife

Snowdrops, two ways. I love seeing everything come back to life. #parklife.

Nothing beats the satisfaction of peeling a satsuma all in one go.

'Auntie Jane is going to babysit but can she do it sencerbly?' Probably not. Taken from the classic, Auntie Jane lives down a Lane. #godchildren

I am starting Active Align treatment soon and so decided to go out for a big boozy lunch. We ate so much Thai food that there was no room for pud, so we paid a visit to Bayley and Sage and bought these babies to bring home. Oh my word, the Cannoli are amazing!

All the essential coffee-making equipment because there is a writer in the house. #amwriting

Wonderful Highgate cemetery.

Coming soon! The Bookseller's Wife. #HistoricalFiction #booklovers #bookworms

Cormorant, Regent's Canal, London.

The tulip staircase, The Queen's House, Greenwich. #lovelondon

Kensal Green Cemetery.

RAF Bomber Command Memorial, Green Park. #lovelondon

84 Charing Cross Road. #booksellers #bookshops

Pelicans in Pelican Park!

Who is the ghost who knocks three times in the middle of the night? #guestbooks

Mark Gatiss in The Motive and the Cue. Such a beautiful performance.

More window shopping. (Actually we did step inside Choosing Keeping in 21 Tower Street so admire the hand-made paper at £60 a sheet.) #lovelondon

It would be rude to walk up Charing Cross Road without taking in a bookshop or two. #bookshop #bookshops #lovelondon

Georgian shopfront in Dean Street, Georgian buildings is Meard Street.

135 Shaftesbury Avenue. Currently in use as a cinema, the Saville Theatre was leased by Brian Epstein. Before managing the Beatles, Epstein had trained at RADA. The Saville promoted new works by writers, occasionally falling foul of censorship laws by staging plays with 'obscene' content or nudity.

Maison Bertaux's, Soho. This is London's oldest patisserie, founded in 1871 Monsieur Bertaux, a Communard fleeing Paris, arrived with an armful of recipes. Famous customers have included Virginia Wolf and Karl Marx. I used it a setting in my novel, My Counterfeit Self. #lovelondon

The Lamb and Flag: The alleyway beside the pub was the scene of an attack on the poet John Dryden in 1679 by thugs hired by John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, with whom he had a long-standing conflict. #LiteraryLondon

Tom Davis, bookseller, there at the meeting of Dr Samuel Johnson and James Boswell. Dad would have dined out on this #literary connection.

Look up, look up! Not a bad day's blue plaque spotting in #London. #heritage #blueplaque

Heron alert. #parklife

A winter's day in Beddington Park. #parklife

All whiskers and claws.

Off out to celebrate 25 years of not being married today.

Swans in the sleet. #parklife

So cold, even the swans are having second thoughts. #parklife

Unimpressed tree, Edinburgh Botanical Gardens. #treelovers

'Madam, we have a delivery for you.' Holy crap, did I really order ALL of them? When I say that I have books in stock, I mean that I have books in stock. #booklovers #bookworms

Jam Bookshop. Because why wouldn't you? You can take even your dog. #booklovers #bookworms #bookish

When you go to Foyles, it is only polite to visit the cafe. So that the cake doesn't feel neglected. #bookshops #bookishlove