Thank you, Martin, so glad you enjoyed it

Happy International Women's Day. In celebration, I give you a novel about two brave women battling to improve life in East Yorkshire between the Wars. open.substack.com/pub/harkness... #IWD

Packing for a long holiday. Silly to take books, yes, when I have a Kindle? I'll just take that. But suppose I lose the charger or it stops working…better pack a couple of books just in case… #booksky

Paperback publication day! #Booksky #victorianstudies

Happy paperback publication day to me! I'm delighted to be spending it in Cambridge, where so much began for the Macmillan Brothers, and to be talking about it tonight at the very shop, 1 Trinity Street! Maybe I will see you there? Have you ordered your copy yet?

I'm setting off for Cambridge this week, going to spend a couple of days in some archives for my new project, then off to the University Press bookshop on Thursday evening to talk about Literature for the People! A few seats left? Where are you, Cambridge #booksky People?

'Their rags-to-riches ascent (within just two generations, they’d be able to claim a prime minister as one of their own) is brought to life with appropriate narrative flair and an appreciation for their shared curiosity as well as their galvanising moral purpose.' The Observer

Very much enjoying Sarah Harkness's Literature for the People. Incredible to think of the roster of authors that Macmillans published, including Huxley, Kingsley, Lewis Carroll, J.R. Green, Henry Sidgwick, E.A. Freeman. And all kinds of fascinating insights into aspects of Victorian culture.

Doesn't it look beautiful! Out in paperback next month #booksky

#booksky Anyone else know the books of Norman Collins? Well worth a look. open.substack.com/pub/harkness...

The paperback is out in just four weeks...have you ordered yours yet? coles-books.co.uk/literature-f...

Did someone mention breakfast in bed? Don't mind if I do!

Who remembers Laurel's Kitchen? Anyone still cooking from it? open.substack.com/pub/harkness...

Do come!

love seeing only women on the Christmas Special of #UniversityChallenge 😃👏🏼👏🏼

like I understand where you're coming from here but they very much did cancel jesus.

Gorgeous skies above Bournemouth beach today

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚 20/20

This middle-class middle-aged woman thinks you should all get behind us a heck of a lot more.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚 19/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚 18/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚 17/20

I can't pretend that the Budapest Times is my usual weekend read, but I'm so delighted to have been shown this really excellent review! www.budapesttimes.hu/books/brothe...

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚 16/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚 15/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚 14/20

I write on Substack and my current project involves a really interesting group of women mostly linked by marriage to the Labour Government under Harold Wilson. This week I'm looking at Mary Wilson open.substack.com/pub/harkness...

Picked this off my book shelf for a re-read. I'd forgotten how good it is!

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚 13/20

What a Black Friday Week bargain! Would make a perfect Christmas present for your history-loving mother, your friend in the publishing industry, that relative who likes to boast about his Scottish Ancestry...anyone who loves Victorian London!

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚 12/20

The perfect solution to Storm Bert!

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚 11/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚 10/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚 9/20

SCI-FI GIVEAWAY! I'm Rex, I'm new here, I write funny, feelgood, found-family SF. Here's my first Bluesky #giveway - a paperback copy of Indie Ink Award-winner Orphan Planet + signed bookplate, bookmark & pin badge. To be in the draw, like, follow & share by 18.00 GMT Friday 22 Nov - let's go! 💙📚🪐

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚 8/20

How lovely to be wanted!

Lovely to spot this on the Persephone Books website. It comes from a longer piece which compared Mrs Miniver with Josephine Tey's mystery novel, The Franchise Affair. Here's a link to the article open.substack.com/pub/harkness...

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚 7/20

If (as is claimed) only 700 farms a year will be caught in this, it can’t be beyond our national ability to sift out the genuine family farms being passed to the next generation (exempt) from the grifters and tax avoiders (non-exempt).

There are farms round us in the Cotswolds that made no money at all which changed hands for multimillion simply because someone wanted to shoot pheasants on the land.

Taking full advantage of the power of Bluesky to promote the fact that I am a freelance journalist and suggest someone might like to commission me! I do lots of writing, talking head stuff, I present a radio show and I do commercial work. So lots to choose from. Get in touch www.zoegrunewald.com

Found in Elizabeth Jenkins' memoirs...how does one write for self-glorification???

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚 6/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚 5/20