I love this story both for itself and for the idea that at some point Dustin Hoffman must have heard it and felt a way about it.

I had the joy of acquiring this book as a publisher and did the first bunch of edits. It's unbelievably fun, the absolutely best of historical fiction while being about as accessible as it gets. Just go and buy it! Also Tony is the nicest man in the world.

Hello Scotland!!! Can’t wait for my event @bloodyscotland.bsky.social this afternoon 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🩸🗡️

My lovely dad’s book, THE HOUSE OF WOLF, is out today. Buy it, it’s brilliant and enormous fun 💙🐺

My lovely dad’s book, THE HOUSE OF WOLF, is out today. Buy it, it’s brilliant and enormous fun 💙🐺

I don't really care that they refused to mourn left-wing and liberal figures when they died, I'm not taking my moral cues from them, that's the whole point

ENRAGED by the newfound knowledge that The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) has an average rating of 6.4/10 on IMDb, who are the people who disliked it, were they all born without a soul, or capacity for joy

trump booked himself a remote cabin with no devices and is going to have a proper go at middlemarch

Re-reading Jane Austen at the moment, and it's one of those 'it feels daft to say that Jane Austen was a terrific novelist' things.

I love The Art of a Lie by @laurasrobinson.bsky.social. It's an amazingly plotted historical fiction with a devious plot. I couldn't put it down. My review was first posted on Bookreporter.com. #booksky #historicalfiction #bookreview

A lovely review of THE ART OF A LIE in Culturefly "If you love a slice of clever, witty and twisty historical fiction, then read this book. You won’t regret it." culturefly.co.uk/book-review-...

(I assume this will lead to some shouting in my general direction but I think you can't both say "we need more people in positions of power to leave Twitter and come to Bluesky" and "it's fine and good when people with power get on here and get yelled at non-stop", you've got to pick one!)

Last night I finished The Art of a Lie by @laurasrobinson.bsky.social - highly recommend, reminded me of Robert Harris and even Graham Greene, maybe her best yet.

With the lovely nieces who now tower over me 😂

Can’t believe my wonderful dad is 79!!! So lovely to be with him to celebrate 🥂🥳💕

As parents, we're supposed to remember the first time we did stuff with our kids, but the last time is equally as significant, if not more. This poem is from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023), my second full collection...

It's just struck me that there's something unassumingly lovely about the phrase "A clear sky and a gentle breeze." Say it aloud. The slow spondee of "clear sky" feels like a clear sky, and the slightly faster cretic of "gentle breeze" feels like a gentle breeze.

A rare 18th-century survivor of piecemeal efforts to reconstruct the Palace of Westminster in neo-classical guise. This is 6-7 Old Palace Yard, once the home of the Clerk of Parliaments, there was even a tunnel joining it to the Jewel Tower beyond. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ol...

I'm planning my next novel, which I've been thinking about on and off for over four years. Couldn't make it work for ages. But I have the plot now and it really hangs together. My fingers are itching to start writing it!

pigeons gather in scores

I took a flight in 2004 which was delayed before takeoff. At the front of the plane was a child of maybe 4 or 5 who had a voice that carried much further than their mother hoped it would. To this day the phrase "Mummy, is Jerry our daddy now?" will send me and my wife into fits of laughter.

The biggest and worst thing to happen in politics over the past decade is the mainstream right losing its mind. Actual reasonable centre right conservatives are like giant pandas. We’re going to have to breed them in captivity

Love the use of pearls on the cover!

THE ART OF A LIE is out in the US today!!! It's a tale of murder, trickery, love, betrayal & Georgian London's first 'iced cream' parlour. Plus Hannah & William, my two favourite characters of any of my books. Look at that beautiful embossed cover 💚👀 amazon.com/Art-Lie-Nove...

‘I don’t understand why people pay good money to be told lies.’ ‘There’s comfort in a lie,’ I said. ‘You know that.’ #sundaysentence #theartofalie @simonbooks.bsky.social #netgalley #laurashepherdrobinson

I'm going in.... @laurasrobinson.bsky.social

has Usher ever read The Fall of the House of Usher or do you think he is too scared

Just spent a lovely hour recording an interview for the @booksoftheyear.bsky.social podcast with Simon Mayo and Matt Williams, talking all about THE ART OF A LIE 💚🍍🍦

Thrilled that THE ART OF A LIE is in Amazon US’s ‘Best Books for August’ list www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&no...

#FridayReads - disgustingly good! Historical crime fiction of the highest order 📚

Today is the 41st anniversary of peat cutter Andy Mould picking “what looked like a piece of wood off the elevator at the peat-shredding mill” in Cheshire where he worked, and chucking it at “his workmate Eddie Slack ... as it hit the ground, peat fell away to reveal a human foot”

A lovely review of THE ART OF A LIE in the Minnesota Star Tribune 💚 www.startribune.com/review-two-s...

always terrifying when no one is there to bless you and you're just racking up unblessed sneezes

Lovely to see THE ART OF A LIE included here, alongside a lot of brilliant historical fiction. www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

Stepping stones at Bolton Abbey. I fell in.

Great news!!! @waterstones.bsky.social are running a summer promotion offering 25% off a select list of upcoming books and mine is one of them!!! www.waterstones.com/book/the-hou...

This is really excellent on our understandings of - and the reality of - intergenerational inequality.

I simply maintain a vast scriptorium in Northumberland where hundreds of novices and lay brothers record all of my wisdom, texts, receipts and passwords on vellum

Seriously, just keep going, friends. Make stuff you love.

First book purchase arrived today from @foxlanebooks.bsky.social Beautiful attention to detail in packaging from Kirstie. Will definitely become rpt. customer. ❤️ my signed independent bookshop edition of "The Art of a Lie" by @laurasrobinson.bsky.social Big fan of her other work to date.

Look at this absolute beauty of a book. 😍 📚 🫶 🍍 I adore all of @laurasrobinson.bsky.social’s books, and I’m looking forward to reading this. Check out the gorgeous edging design! 🍍🍍🍍🍍🍍🍍🍍 #booksky

Two lovely reviews of THE ART OF A LIE in the FT and the Daily Mail 📗🍍🍦

Finally 🍍 The wait felt interminable :) #TheArtOfALie #amreading #BookSky @laurasrobinson.bsky.social @goldsborobooks.bsky.social

The Art of a Lie is a firm favourite at Rossiter Books Look at this gorgeous sprayed edge edition. They are signed as well! @laurasrobinson.bsky.social @panmacmillan.bsky.social

If you loved an author’s book, tell them! They will completely ignore it because they’re fixated forever on the anonymous person who once gave them two stars on goodreads but it’s probably good for your karma

I’m so late to the party, but after LOVING White City, I treated myself to Vine Street as a post book-tour read. @dominicnolan.bsky.social is a phenomenal talent. Historical crime fiction at its classiest. Grit and glamour, politics and heart. If you haven’t read him yet then RUN to the shops

I feel like a big way in which the internet is fucking us up is it allows almost everyone to find a community which will accept or even reinforce whatever views they hold. Often that's good! Acceptance is good! But it does mean people are less likely to know when they're just fucking weird.