I am featured on Ribbons, a public sculpture celebrating many women of Leeds, which has been shortlisted for a Public Statues & Sculpture Association Marsh Award. Only five works out of 70 were selected. You can vote for your choice (by 5 October 2025) . pssauk.org/2025-pssa-ma...

Today is Book Club Day UK, to celebrate the power of shared reading and to encourage those not in a book club to join one! See why they are a brilliant place for readers to come together and build stronger, more connected communities. @readingagency bookclubhub.co.uk/news/join-in...

On Sunday October 19th I will be at the #festivalofcrime in Sedbergh, talking to Veronica Bird at 10am. @SedberghBooktwn #sedbergh #veronicabird #brackerleyprisonseries #sixmotivesformurder #deathinthedales

"Assistant community curator Patrick Bourne said Leeds was home to many talented writers" BBC News - Midsomer Murders wine on display in Leeds literary exhibition - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Quite of a few of my books are only £2.99 on Kindle at the moment but Death at the Seaside has been selected for a Kindle Monthly Deal in August and will be on sale for 99p. #kindlemonthlydeal #kateshackleton #kindlebooks www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Seasid...

Independent bookshop week starts today, there are lots of fantastic independent bookshops around the country you can enjoy today and all year round. #independentbookshopweek #independentbookshop @booksaremybag

Veronica Bird shared her experiences of working in prisons with me when I was writing "A Murder Inside" bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… One of the first female governors of a men's prison in the UK has spoken about her experiences as part of a year-long celebration of remarkable women

"Much of the important writing being done today and so many of the best-loved stories come from ordinary working people" #newwritingnorth #thebee #workingclasswriters BBC News - Magazine to boost working class writing launched in Newcastle - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Happy World Book Night! Today the @readingagency is joining people up and down the country in celebrating reading. In the UK 1 in 2 adults don't regularly read. The Reading Agency want to encourage more people read and to take part in  #ReadingHour this evening from 7-8pm.

Happy world book day. "This annual celebration of authors, illustrators, books and the joy of reading provides a fantastic opportunity to focus on reading for pleasure and embedding a habit of reading that brings a wide range of benefits" National Literacy Trust.

My latest newsletter has just gone out with information on my next book: "I should be delivering another Kate Shackleton book to my agent very soon. The year is 1932. Kate will be at the centre of the action". To receive future newsletters, sign up here frances-brody.com/index.html

Just one more sleep until the start of Wakefield Rhubarb Festival when the city turns pink with all things culinary. If you have the chance why not visit over the weekend. You might be very pleasantly surprised.

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Unpublished authors, enter the Emerging Author Dagger! Your crime novel opening plus a synopsis (3,000 words max). The deadline is 28 February 2025, 6.00pm. You could win £500, plus winning and shortlisted entries are forwarded to agents and publishers! Details at: https://buff.ly/40cQGxW

Published and Unpublished authors are invited to enter the Margery Allingham Short Mystery Competition. With a £500 cash prize, what do you have to lose? Deadline: 6.00pm February 28, 2025. Details here: https://buff.ly/4gN0sfG

Bradford Industrial Museum is the place to go to see the Jowett cars my character Kate Shackleton drives. Kate started off with a 1913 model which her assistant Jim Sykes then drove, and Kate later had a Jowett Short-Two. @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social #MyCarWasAJowett #jowettcars #bradford

Yorkshire has bucked the trend, with two new businesses opening in the past year and Leeds-based The Little Bookshop's Skipton branch celebrating its first anniversary BBC News - 'It's as much about community as selling books' www.bbc.com/news/article...