It’s here!! My first look at the US edition of No Friend to This House. I absolutely love her, thank you Harper 💚🐏🗡️ You can pre-order yours here: www.harpercollins.com/products/no-...

Strong Message here, on BBC Radio 4 today at 9:45! Me, Michael Gove and @aiannucci.bsky.social talk transparency. Listen to the longer version on BBC Sounds… www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I heard we’re into tortured love stories right now… 🪾 Don’t miss one of mythic proportions 👉 www.harpercollins.com/products/no-...

I’m delighted to be at North London Book Fest this year! They have so many exciting speakers to check out. You can join me at Alexandra Palace on April 26: www.alexandrapalace.com/whats-on/nat... 📚💜

A good, chewy one up tomorrow . Natalie and I discuss ‘Political Transparency’ with Michael Gove.

This was me off to record a new Strong Message Here today! To be broadcast on Thursday! 📻 @aiannucci.bsky.social

Proof that Hannibal’s elephants really did cross to Italy via Spain? Incredible! And another reason to go back to beautiful Cordoba… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The paperback is coming, UK readers! And isn’t she a beauty? 🐏 If you pre-order from Waterstones by Friday, you can get 25% off! Use the code FEB26. 📗 www.waterstones.com/book/no-frie... Publishing 18/06 ✨

🚨 Tickets for the final Broadcasting House recording of the series! Apply now and hopefully I will see you in March… 🎤 www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtour...

I’ll take a dozen

I’ve been given a tip-off that reading my books helps with today’s Independent cryptic crossword… 🏺⚡️ ✍️ puzzles.independent.co.uk/games/crypti...

My humble billet-doux

I said Go. Away. Eros at the Met Museum. Info card below.

Will you be #MyMythicValentine? Which will you send to your loved ones today? We’ve got something for everyone… 💚🗡️

Thank you so much for having me, and Medea, Bishop's Stortford College! What a lovely audience of classics fans. Next up I’ll be at Faversham Literary Festival 📚 Remaining tour dates & tickets here: nataliehaynes.com/tour/

Oh wow!! Can’t wait to see these next time I’m in Scotland 😮 media.nms.ac.uk/news/rare-ro...

Am I alone in thinking that Eos could perform a tremendous citizen’s arrest?

This hat has really earned its keep on this tour - I think it’s rained every day I’ve had a gig (and most of the ones in between, I know…). Anyway, here it is, keeping my glasses clean en route to Bishop's Stortford College for tonight’s gig!

Deleted scene from Taylor Swift’s The Fate of Ophelia video

Congratulations to Moulton School & Science College, nominated by Michelle Bowman, our January winner! A parcel will be on its way to you this week. I hope it helps with your schoolwide reading push 🩵📘

What a brilliant time last night! Thank you all for coming to Wolves Lit Fest 🔥 Your next chance to catch the show and have a book signed is this Thursday at Bishop's Stortford College: www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...

Coming atcha, Wolverhampton Literature Festival!

Philippa’s book comes out in May! It is perfect cosy crime - funny, eccentric and full of psychological insight. Pre-order from your favourite bookshop!

Edith and Arlene are forces of nature, and if they ran the departments of education and justice, we’d be in better shape, for sure. If you can donate something to their incredible project teaching Aristotle to students in prison, please do - the money will be so well spent. Thank you!

For some reason as I glance at the news headlines today, I am thinking of the Greek goddess of retribution, Nemesis. Bonus fact: sometimes she takes on the form of a goose (which is just another reason to be cautious around geese) 🪿

Your periodic reminder that you can start learning ancient Greek right now, free of charge!

Such hard work to do this show every couple of years, mostly cos I cannot stop giggling ALL THE WAY THROUGH.

Well, it is FUN to be back! I had the best evening at the Radio Theatre, recording the first couple of eps for the new series (with help from the brilliant and hysterical Islam Issa and @adamrutherford.bsky.social). And with help from you guys, the best audience in radio 🐝

Thanks for coming!

On my way to Broadcasting House! Let’s get series 12 started!

Not many tickets left for next week! Snap them up here: www.bishopsstortfordcollege.org/about-us/in-...

I had a great time talking about Helen of Troy with Evan on BBC Radio 4’s PM just now, and if you want to hear more about the Odyssey, here’s my 28-minute version! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

It's 99p on Kobo as well. www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...

‘So to mortal men, we are monsters. Because of our flight, our strength. They fear us, so they call us monsters’ Hear from gorgons, gods and mortals for just 99p on Kindle. 🐍 www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09VGZJ8R...

To learn more about the many versions of Helen of Troy / Helen of Sparta, ancient and modern, you can read Pandora’s Jar. Available at all good bookshops and libraries… 🦢 UK: www.panmacmillan.com/authors/nata... US: www.harpercollins.com/products/pan... #TheOdyssey #HelenOfTroy

On my way home! ✈️ We packed out the Whyte Recital Hall and I had such a great time. Thank you, Dublin & Classics Now!

“There is a sense that the woman shouldn’t get above herself, but if you try and squash somebody like Medea who isn’t small into a small space that is not necessarily going to help you out. I felt Medea’s rage as she tries to fit round Jason’s ego, but she can’t. He knows he is not her equal.”

Ha! Paging @nataliehaynes.bsky.social and her fans… Jason and the Argonauts (1963) is on Film4 at 2:50pm this afternoon and thereafter will be available to stream on the Channel 4 app for a bit. I was going to do some paperwork, but….

Thanks for coming!

Thanks for selling out tonight’s show, Dublin! I’m on my way to see you…

Tonight's Dublin event with Classics Now, now sold out! Thanks for showing up for the extended No Friend tour 💚 Catch me next at Bishop's Stortford College Festival of Literature. All tour dates here: nataliehaynes.com/tour/

Happy National Year of Reading, everyone! 📚✨ We are giving away an English language copy of one of my books for each month of 2026, to a school or college library who makes a request. If you’d also like a foreign language edition -

New pod up, on #BBCSounds and everywhere else. @nataliehaynes.bsky.social and I take a vigorous trot over Andy Burnham, Suella Braverman, and Donald Trump in Davos, as we try and answer Trump’s question: Are you a stupid person? #StrongMessageHere

Strong Message Here is on BBC Radio 4 at 9:45am! With the longer version available on BBC Sounds. Do politicians think we’re idiots? @aiannucci.bsky.social and I discuss… www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Greek mouse from 410-450 BCE 🤨

No Friend to This House is a best novel of 2026!! Thank you, Marie Claire! 🗡️📗 bit.ly/4rlrJvi

Does rain stop me from walking in to do Strong Message Here? It does not. @aiannucci.bsky.social

Dubliners! You have an amazing classics festival in your city, and just a couple of tickets left for my event… This Saturday I’m giving you Jason & the Argonauts, Euripides’ Medea, and more! www.classicsnow.ie

I absolutely love these possible Persephone and Demeter figures in the British Museum ❤️ So pleased to share them with you! Who’s seen both parts of Divine Fury on History Hit now?

I can't think what she means, can you? Meet some very clever women in No Friend to This House, published in the US & Canada on March 10. 🗡️ www.harpercollins.com/products/no-...