Thoroughly enjoyed reading The Best of Intentions by @cscottbooks.bsky.social this month. Sharing my 5⭐️ review today www.instagram.com/p/DMvhemYgta...

On VE Day I think about Doreen Yarwood who, as a 7-year-old, was pulled with her mother from the wreckage of a school basement shelter in which 166 were killed. A German parachute mine collapsed the shelter in Durning Road, Liverpool, on the night of 29 November 1940. 1/4

Thinking about my grandad – and other #FEPOW - this morning. In Ube-Sanyo Fukuoka camp, Japan, he wouldn’t hear that #WW2 was over until 20/08/45. At the start of May he was listing fantasy foods (being Lancastrian, it was mostly pies.) #VEDay80 #VEDay

Happened upon this Pathé film... The commentary is pure Cholmondley-Warner. #WW2 #gardening www.britishpathe.com/asset/55750

Liverpool Echo, 27 December 1938, @BNArchive #WW2 #roses #LigneMaginot #MaginotLine www.roseraiebarth.com/fr/rosiers-a... (I might have to order one).

From the Daily Express, 22 November 1938, @BNArchive #WW2 #roses #LigneMaginot #MaginotLine

I’m thrilled to be able to share the cover of my next novel. I love this image and hope you do too. #TheBestofIntentions will be out in June and you can pre-order it now. Please support your local bookshop, if you can.🙏 @simonschusteruk.bsky.social #coverreveal #historicalfiction #histfic #amwriting

Just seen my new cover for the first time… Yay!!! 🍾 Can’t wait to share it. #thebestofintentions #amwriting #histfic #historicalfiction

Late to the party (as usual), but I finished watching #AlmasNotNormal last night. This series has made me belly laugh and sob. I loved it so much. Fabulous! 💗 @bbciplayer

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A cautionary tale from my publisher. Avoid a family implosion this #Christmas and buy them a book. It’s still not too late. #BuyBooks #GiveBooks (👏@simonschusterUK) 🎄

“How He Came to Life One Day”: Photographs of Snowmen (1854–1950) publicdomainreview.org/collection/p... #photography @publicdomainrev.bsky.social

The Color of Memory: Albert Kahn’s Archives of the Planet publicdomainreview.org/essay/albert... #photography #autochrome

If you have any interest in history and particularly World War 1, please follow @greatwarhuts.bsky.social and enjoy the Hutvent calendar daily in the lead up to Christmas.

And so starts the last week of checking page proofs. Nearly there… #thebestofintentions #amwriting

(Okay, 2nd of December... it's acceptable to dress the shop window now, isn't it?) Give books this #Christmas. Here are some examples. 😉 And please support your local bookshop.🎄

An IMPORTANT MESSAGE from my publisher. (Nice one, @simonschusteruk.bsky.social 👍) #buybooks #theyrebetterthaneverythingelse 🎄

Nice one, @BBCFour. 👍 (But FORTY years? Seriously?) #thewolvesarerunning www.radiotimes.com/tv/fantasy/b...

Want to read more about those who lived during the #FWW, in all their complexity & diversity? INTERNATIONAL POETRY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR. 😊 Discount codes: UK (GLR 9XUUK), Canada (GLR 9XUCA), rest of Americas (GLR 9XUUS), Australia/NZealand (GLR 9XUAU) www.bloomsbury.com/us/internati...

107 years ago, my great-grandfather's tank, D51 'Deborah' was destroyed at Cambrai. To him fell the awful task of writing to the families of the men he commanded. The most eloquent tribute I can offer today . "All finer fellows than I shall ever be." #cambrai #cambraiday

‘The Ruins of Ypres’ by W. L. Wyllie. Watercolour of bi-planes over #Ypres, dated 1915, in original annotated frame. (He lost two of his sons during #WW1 - Robert, at Ypres, and Bill. His eldest son, Harold, served with the #RoyalFlyingCorps.) Coming up for #auction with @GWauction @thesaleroom.